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On this day in 1919, a Black teenager drifted across an invisible line in Lake Michigan. White beachgoers stoned him until he drowned. He was 17. His name was Eugene Williams. The "line" was the unofficial boundary between the white and Black sections of a Chicago beach. A line drawn on WATER. Police arrived. Black witnesses pointed out the man who had thrown the stones. The officer refused to arrest him and arrested a Black man from the crowd instead. That refusal lit Chicago on fire. Thirteen days of white mobs raiding Black neighborhoods, and Black veterans fighting back: 38 dead, 537 injured, roughly 1,000 Black families burned out of their homes. It began because a child couldn't see a border that existed only in white minds. This is why we have documented 150 crimes against Black people that remain unanswered for savvypurchase.samcart.com/products/150-c…

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Daisaku Ikeda saw dialogue as a path to peace and understanding. For more quotes: daisakuikeda.org/sub/quotations… #Dialogue #PeaceThroughDialogue #DaisakuIkedaQuotes #WordsOfWisdom

Trump Appears Completely Passed Out at Lindsey Graham’s Funeral The president kept his eyes shut for an extended stretch as the service continued around him. This did not look like a quick blink or moment of reflection, he appeared fully asleep.

I'm genuinely surprised most people still struggle to generate great AI images. Here's the complete AI image generation guide you'll wish you had from day one. --- 1. Learn what AI image generation is and how it creates images from prompts, photos, sketches, or references. --- 2. Understand the five main workflows: Text to Image, Image to Image, Editing, Inpainting, and Outpainting. --- 3. Use style transfer to transform images into anime, watercolor, oil painting, 3D, and more. --- 4. Focus on the universal prompt formula instead of writing random prompts. --- 5. Always define a clear subject before adding extra details. --- 6. Describe the action, environment, composition, and lighting for better results. --- 7. Choose the right camera angle, mood, colors, and visual style. --- 8. Specify image quality and aspect ratio for your intended platform. --- 9. Use AI to create photorealistic images, illustrations, logos, posters, comics, and UI designs. --- 10. Generate product mockups, marketing creatives, and social media graphics in minutes. --- 11. Pick the correct aspect ratio for posts, reels, YouTube, presentations, or photography. --- 12. Experiment with styles like cinematic, anime, pixel art, cyberpunk, minimalist, and sketch. --- 13. Keep prompts simple, specific, and easy for the AI to understand. --- 14. Improve results by describing lighting, camera settings, composition, and mood. --- 15. Avoid vague prompts, conflicting styles, overloaded instructions, and missing details. --- 16. Edit existing images by replacing objects, removing backgrounds, changing outfits, or improving lighting. --- 17. Create consistent characters, branded visuals, and professional product photography. --- 18. Follow a structured workflow from idea to prompt, generation, review, editing, upscaling, export, and publishing. --- 19. Save your best prompts, iterate often, and experiment with different AI models. --- 20. Follow ethical guidelines by respecting copyright, avoiding deceptive content, and using AI responsibly. --- To learn more, check the infographic.

This is huge: Governor Josh Shapiro just announced he is suing the Trump Administration for withholding millions of dollars intended for public safety projects in order to hold the American people hostage and rewrite our election laws.

BREAKING: Senator Raphael Warnock just announced that when Democrats retake power, he will push for investigations into the leaders in the Republican Party who pushed states across the nation to eliminate Black representation in Congress.

I made a 16-page PDF to get you Claude-certified. The certificates are official by Anthropic & free... And the playbook is free too, at how-to-ai.guide. Here's what's inside: The Claude Certification Playbook. → 3 official certificates & the order to take them in. → Step from creating an account to downloading. → The fake detector (yes, people sell fake ones). → The LinkedIn format to showcase the certificates. → The copy-paste announcement post on LinkedIn. → What you can honestly say about it in interviews. The certificates take 6 hours. Getting the playbook takes 2 minutes: 1. Go to how-to-ai.guide. Subscribe for free. 2. Open the welcome email in your inbox. 3. Tap the Notion library link inside. 4. Download "The Claude Certification Playbook." 5. Start with page 4 (the fake detector). Know someone job hunting? Send them this post. It's the favor.

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BREAKING: Cindy McCain, the wife of John McCain, just endorsed and announced she is raising money for Democrat Katie Hobbs for Governor in Arizona. This is huge.

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You're still stuck at Level 1 of Claude. Here are the 6 levels above you (one tip each): Quick recap. Level 1 is one sentence in a prompt: End every prompt with "Ask me questions first." Claude interviews YOU. You click the answers. The output gets 10x more personal. Level 2 → Talk. Don't type. You type 60 words a minute. You speak 150. Download Wispr .ai (free). Hold the key. Talk. Your prompts get longer, richer & take half the time. Level 3 → Leave the chat. Get the Claude app → open the "Cowork" tab. Drop in a messy doc, old proposal, numbers. Then: "Build a spreadsheet to do [X]. Ask me what you need first." 3 minutes later: a real Excel file. Level 4 → Connect your apps. Left sidebar → Customize → Connectors. Connect Gmail, Calendar, your notetaker (Granola). Then test it: "Prep me for tomorrow using my emails, calendar, and meeting notes." Level 5 → Teach it once. Use it forever. Type /skill-creator and prompt: "Teach Claude to build spreadsheets exactly the way I like them. Ask me questions first." Answer its questions. Click "Save skill." Now /[Skill name] works in every future chat. Level 6 → Master the models. Use the new Claude Fable 5 for quick 2 prompts. Switch to Opus 4.8, Effort High, for the heavy work. The wrong model wastes the exact same prompt. Level 7 → Vibecode. Open the Code. Turn on "Bypass permissions." (It's the scary button. All it means is: go, I trust you.) Then: "Build a page where people book a 30-min call with me. Ask me questions first." 4 mins later, it works. You built software. In English. Every single level runs on "Ask me questions first." So I made my personal Claude skill library public - the exact skills I use every day. → Subscribe at how-to-ai.guide. → You will receive an email with the library link. → Download the relevant skills as per your use case. → Go to Claude Customize → Skills → Upload.

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BREAKING: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has introduced legislation that would bar Supreme Court justices from accepting lavish gifts from billionaires and other wealthy benefactors.

Fable 5. Opus 4.8. Sonnet 5. Haiku 4.5. How to pick the right Claude model (every time): Step 1: Does your task require a complex answer? ☑️ No: use Haiku 4.5 or Sonnet 5. ☑️ Yes: use Opus 4.8 or Fable 5. Step 2: If your task is quick: → Need maximum speed & minimal tokens? ☑️ Yes: Haiku 4.5 (lightweight, token-saver). Chat without files. Turn on web search. Plan in Chat, build in Cowork. Prompt example: "I want [desired result] with [constraints]. Ask me questions using AskUserQuestion before you start." ☑️ No: Sonnet 5 (fast, everyday model). Perfect for simple tasks. Connect your apps with Connectors: Slack, Google Drive, Notion, Figma, Granola, Gamma + 50 more. Prompt example: "You are a [role]. [Task] this [input]. Keep it under [length]. Tone: [casual/formal]. No preamble - just the output." Step 3: Is this your hardest, most ambitious work? (multi-step reasoning, agents, long-thinking tasks) ☑️ No: Opus 4.8 (deep-work model). Use Cowork. Put Effort on High. Always. Use Skills in Projects (like /linkedin or /excel-style). Prompt example: "/[skill] topic: [topic]. DO NOT start yet. Ask me clarifying questions (use AskUserQuestion) so we can refine the approach step by step." After Cowork: → Download your file. → Or convert it into a Claude Skill. → Start a fresh session to save tokens. ☑️ Yes: Fable 5 (the smartest model by Claude). Deep research. Analytical decisions. Prompt example: "Here is my goal: [goal]. Here are my constraints: [constraints]. Think through the tradeoffs before answering, propose 2–3 approaches, and recommend one with your reasoning." Too long to write yourself? I built a skill for that: /fable-prompter. Type a messy prompt → get a Fable-worthy prompt. It's free in my Skill library, with +26 Claude Skills. 1. Sign up with your best email at how-to-ai.guide. 2. Find the welcome email in your inbox named "Don't lose access to your AI library." 3. Click on the library link. 4. Open the "Claude Skills" folder. Download it all. 5. Upload to Claude → Settings → Skills. ⚠️ But careful with Fable 5: ☑ It costs extra (pay-per-use after July 12th). ☑ Only ~10% of tasks actually need it. ☑ Use it 1-2 turns for strategy, then switch to Opus. ☑ Long conversations = expensive. Claude re-reads the whole thread every turn. When Opus gets stuck, escalate to Fable. Everything else, route down the tree. ♻️ Repost this, so your team stops burning tokens.

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Anthropic built Fable-5 too smart to waste away. You have only 3 days to use it (while it's still free). On July 13, 𝗙𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲-𝟱 leaves your Claude plan. After that, every single message becomes a bill: → 1 quick question = $0.15. → 19 long turns = $6. → 40 turns = $14 (I tested it, on top of a $100 plan). → Why? Claude re-reads the entire chat every time. So use these 3 days like the top 0.1% will: SPEND DIFFERENT: → Fable-5 for hard goals only. 1–2 turns max. → New task = new chat. Non-negotiable. → Watch your money: Settings → Usage. PROMPT DIFFERENT: → "I need [task] for [goal]. Ask me questions first." → It interviews you BEFORE working. → 1 great prompt > 20 lazy ones. Literally, in dollars. SWITCH DIFFERENT: → Fable-5 defines the strategy ($1,000/h lawyer). → Opus 4.8 (High) executes it (intern, free in plan). → Never pay the lawyer to draft emails. KEEP DIFFERENT (almost nobody does this): → End your best Fable-5 chat with one final ask: → "Write my CLAUDE .md - standing instructions every future chat obeys." → After July 13, Opus runs those files daily. Free. Fable-5 is on loan. Everything it writes for you is yours to keep. ---- Bonus: I built a skill that writes Fable-5's prompts. You type 9 words, it gives you the finished prompt. Download it in just 4 steps: 1. Go to how-to-ai.guide. 2. Open the welcome email in your inbox. 3. Click the link to go to my Claude Skill Library. 4. Search "fable prompt" skill to download. 5. Go to Claude → Settings → Skills → click "+" 6. Upload the file. Toggle it on. 7. Type /fable-prompt + your idea in any chat. Done. ♻️ Repost so nobody on your team wakes up to a surprise Claude bill.

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JUST IN: Less than 24 hours after RFK Jr. became health secretary, his team reportedly ordered the CDC to take down an ad campaign promoting flu vaccines. That same day, the CDC reported flu-related illness had killed 68 children that season, including 11 that week, and 16,000 people overall. Public health decisions have consequences. Protecting children should never be political.

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Governor Wes Moore just announced that he is calling for a special session to redistrict Maryland to make more Democratic seats in Congress. This is amazing.

The Supreme Court's decision in the TPS case proves the Supreme Court *is* racist. They don't merely affirm Trump's racism, they endorse it. And while that's not "news" for anyone paying attention, it's still outrageous. Me in @thenation thenation.com/article/societ…