Derek Myers

At the end of the day we're on a rock going through space, only alive because of a massive fireball in the sky.

@sama Just canceled ChatGPT. You suck sam.

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

@kylegawley No you pay $150/mo to replace a dozen $10 services. You wouldn’t stop at one. Thats the reality and the future risk priced in.

SaaS is dead. It's over. I just cancelled my $10/mo Calendly subscription and vibe coded my own. 5% scheduling accuracy and it only costs me $150/mo for 5 background workers.

@Starbucks can you stop doing marketing using iOS notifications? Spam leads me to disable them and it’s annoying. Turning notifications into email.

@Xeer DCA doesn't work on Ponzi schemes.

This guy been buying bitcoin $30 a day DCA and after 7 years, 10 months and 12 days, made it to 1 whole coin. Total spent $86,370 which now worth $68,692. What went wrong?

@bryan_johnson Isn’t the founder a scam artist too?

I’d cancel your AG1 subscription. They just completed a clinical trial and the results show no clinical benefit.  This has been obvious for years.  AG1 has no real product substance and is fundamentally an influencer heist.   Two simple alternatives (75% and 56% less $), outperform AG1 in randomized clinical trials. Two simple mono-ingredient alternatives that outperform AG1: 1. Chicory inulin 12 g daily ($20/mo) 2. Resistant starch 30 g daily for 12 weeks ($35/mo) AG1 is not worth $79/mo. AG1 study results (4-weeks, N=30): + No significant changes in blood biomarkers compared to placebo (CBC, CMP, lipids). + No statistically significant improvement in digestive quality-of-life scores (p = 0.058). + No significant metabolic or inflammatory biomarker benefits of any kind within the scope of what was measured in the trial. + Only small shifts in microbiome taxa but clinically irrelevant at this stage. + The intervention did not increase microbiome diversity compared to placebo. Alpha diversity was unchanged, and the taxa changes seen were only from pre- to post-analysis within each group. Between-group differences were limited, and the placebo actually showed similar or even potentially larger shifts. This means the observed changes fall within normal placebo-driven variability, not a real treatment effect. No global microbiota shifts were detected. Chicory inulin 12 g in constipation patients + 12 g of chicory inulin daily for 4 weeks (compared to maltodextrin placebo) + Global microbiota shifts: enrichment in butyrate-producing Bifidobacterium and Anaerostipes, and depletion of the pro-inflammatory Bilophila. +The effect was seen by comparing intervention vs placebo in a cross-over setting, a very rigorous type of clinical analysis in which each person serves as their own control, eliminating a lot of individual random noise. + The trial also met its primary objective by improving constipation symptoms in the targeted patient group. Resistant starch daily 30g for 12 weeks in older adults + Significant increase in Bifidobacterium in both middle-aged and elderly participants, with an increase in the beneficial microbiome byproduct butyrate, and reductions in Proteobacteria (including inflammatory Escherichia–Shigella) in the elderly. + Resistant starch also significantly reduced blood glucose, and produced greater reductions in blood insulin and insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) in the elderly group.

@luismbat Inspired by this? waitbutwhy.com/2015/12/the-ta…

A week ago I launched thelifecalendar.com to make it easier to track your life and year progress directly on your iPhone lock screen. I didn’t expect what happened next. Since then, 1M+ people have visited the site, and thousands have changed their iPhone lock screens to a life or year calendar. The lock screen is a surprisingly intimate space in someone’s life, so I feel incredibly lucky to have built something that lives there. One thing users kept asking for was a way to set a specific goal and count down to it. "I’m training for a marathon" "I have an important date coming up" We've just added that feature.If you’ve set goals for the new year, give it a try 🙂

@SofiaMarin5555 💰

pitch me your startup or app in 0 words.

Called and they said it’s an automatic process to mark items as picked up and that when they manually look later they will refund. This is literally insane and gaslighting customers. You need to rethink your process. I’m never using it again and will stick to HomeDepot.

@Lowes your online order system is ridiculous. I ordered at one location for pickup. One time was not in stock so the system changed that item to another location instead that isn’t close to me. Then I never picked it up and I just got an email that it was picked up.

@AliExpress_EN Hi I followed but can’t DM still. My order # is 8206756450504796

@imderek Hello friend, thank you for your feedback. Should you have any problems about payment, please kindly DM us and provide order number for further assistance. We couldn't contact you via DM because you haven't followed us. Thanks for understanding and we’re here to help

@AliExpress_EN Bought a $12 item using @PayPal and got charged a cash advance fee from @Chase -- what gives? Seems a lot of people are reporting similar issues from a miscategorization of purchases, please help!

@AliExpress_EN @PayPal @Chase @HelpAliExpress Do you have a plan on resolving this for affected customers?

@m_franceschetti Why the hell do you even need internet access for a bed? Absolute madness. Implement Matter support or localized direct connection.

The AWS outage has impacted some of our users since last night, disrupting their sleep. That is not the experience we want to provide and I want to apologize for it. We are taking two main actions: 1) We are restoring all the features as AWS comes back. All devices are currently working, with some experiencing data processing delays. 2) We are currently outage-proofing your Pod experience and we will be working tonight-24/7 until that is done. More updates soon.

@servermaniainc Looks like your site is down now too, what were you saying again?

Looks like the other cloud just had a rough day. We’ll be over here… still online. x.com/i/trending/198… #AmazonOutage #AmazonDown #ServerMania #Uptime #CloudHosting #Reliability

@tylerssullivan @DediOutlet Looks like they got evicted per this thread at WHT which is pretty wild - webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php…

@imderek @DediOutlet Hey Derek. I have been left just as much in the dark as everyone else. Sorry I’m not of any help!

@tylerssullivan yo what’s going on with @DediOutlet? I know your company uses their Kansas data center. Appreciate any info you can share.

@jaldbdisje11 @DediOutlet Did you ever get a response? I’m unable to access my server and can’t get any reply. Really disappointing. Been a customer for 2+ years. No chat or phone or discord support is really a learning experience for me.

@DediOutlet Is there something going on with the support team? I've had my site down for 5 days and no response to my ticket at all even just to acknowledge something. I'm unable to use the control panel to reboot my server.

@koconews I thought you are local to OKC news not world wide.

Rescuers run oxygen to survivors in Indonesia school building collapse that buried dozens | Click on the image to read the full story koco.com/article/indone…

@Benioff @elonmusk @Tesla Got the speed of a Walmart greeter. Jobs are safe!

Elon’s Tesla Optimus 🤖🔥 is here! Dawn of the physical Agentforce revolution, tackling human work for $200K–$500K. Productivity game-changer! Congrats @elonmusk, and thank you for always being so kind to me! 🚀 #Tesla #Optimus