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Robert Stephens
@rstephens
Founder, The Geek Squad. Services. Technology. Culture, Brands. 415-735-6987 Signal: Robert.01
Sonoma Mountain Beigetreten Mart 2007
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@stewartbrand Ordered. Congrats! I assume we should look for a @longnow launch event in December?
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Robert Stephens retweetet
The cover of the First Part of my MAINTENANCE book--in print and on Kindle in early December.
Available to pre-order. Link below.
Marvin Vista@marvinvista
Absolutely love this cover. Stunning work, @tamarawinter @stripepress @stewartbrand.
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@thattallguy @ShaneMac Predicting the future is easy. Predicting *when* is the trick.
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Brother. I barely trust myself.
Wait, maybe this is a solution to that ...
Shane Mac@ShaneMac
We are moving to a future where every single person will have an agent that makes purchases on our behalf. Then it will make decisions on our behalf. Then it will tell us what it thinks we should do. The only thing that matters is trust. What agent do you trust?
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The first time Yung Lean and Ernst Jünger have appeared in the same article? Don't bet against it. A pleasure to make a contribution to @kitwilsonwriter's brilliant series
Eclectic Letters@eclecticletters
Eclectic Letters #15 — Josiah Gogarty: Middle-class Swedish hip-hop, Glenn O'Brien on iconoclasm, Jünger's diaries, Casa Malaparte, port, and the "Dancing Queen" vapourwave remix. Link in next tweet! @josiahgogarty
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@remixeverything @slf_svrgn 2 yr check-in. You've got 4 yrs to go.
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For the record, I think @remixeverything is plain wrong on timing & capabilities of AGI (pattern matching history against expected future in this domain just doesn’t work - which is why “Singularity” is the word), but agree with his Not Guilty verdict on AI art.
Kirby Ferguson@remixeverything
“Our dream of technological progress has reached a nightmare conclusion.” Check out my latest, Artificial Creativity, a deep dive into AI art and the myth of human-level AI. Watch the full video: youtu.be/rswxcDyotXA
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Replace donotreply@ email addresses with pleasereply@ is probably the most obvious AI company to build...
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@ShaneMac He agrees:
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Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca
The imperfection of humans will then command a premium. The most desirable, valuable, and expensive clothes, shoes, cars, watches, jewelry, food, drink, music, art, exercise, teaching, training, etc etc are all provided by people, not machines.
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@pt I keep wondering, over the next decade or two, how do you see the passing of Boomers, their wealth, and houses? Who’s going to buy all of them?
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You can tell a political movement is really fighting cultural headwinds when they have to use the language the culture prefers (we will help you grow wealth buying houses) to argue for policies that are counter to that preference (add tons of supply).
Ironically, buying a house is a pretty bad idea right now AND prices are high bc supply is constrained, so there would be no better time to make the case against public policy that preferences home ownership.
The fact nobody is doing this tells you America will never have a public policy NOT designed to make houses get more expensive at any/all costs.
M. Nolan Gray 🥑@mnolangray
The US has two options in the next few decades: 1️⃣ Massively scale up condo, townhouse, and small-lot housing production; or 2️⃣ Stop being a homeownership society and watch the wealth gap skyrocket.
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@om @km @pt @paulbz I’m not sure I heard any of us predict the damage would be self-inflicted so I’m happy to meet at Benu and call it a draw. #SetTheDate
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@km @rstephens @pt @paulbz Here is Kelly Blue Book data for end of 2023/ coxautoinc.com/wp-content/upl…
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I think Tesla is the Netscape of EVs.
Early innovator, redefined what’s possible. But I think the traditional car makers are 1-2 model years away from leapfrogging them.
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Chris is the first call I’ll ever make when starting a new company.
Chris Howard@chrisfhoward
Today, I’m thrilled to announce the launch of my new firm, Ritual Capital, a $38M seed-stage venture firm investing collaborative $300k checks in exceptional founding teams building iconic, enduring companies. ritualcapital.com
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Robert Stephens retweetet
Also: the amazing Alex Cherian, just wrote to me to say he recognized 27 year old Hunter S. Thompson (with a cigarette holder) listening in and taking notes during Stephan Leonoudakis' speech. #sfhistory
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@RMac18 @molly0xFFF Please direct me to the GoFundMe for these Ex-X-employees. I want to sponsor some $$ as well an ensure beer for life for these fine folks.
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Robert Stephens retweetet
Twitter/X started an ad campaign to attract more advertisers and users to the platform, but it didn't vet the tweets that went into the ad.
One included tweet is about Musk blaming his company's problems "on the Jews." Incredible.
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Molly White@molly0xFFF
shoutout to whichever twitter employee snuck two tweets dunking on twitter and elon into their new ad
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