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44ron@44ron44·
This was a case study in virality
NICOLE SUMMER HSING@NicoleSHsing

I am excited to announce that Arcarae has $2.5M in funding and I am finally hiring. Arcarae’s mission is to help humanity remember and unlock the power each individual holds within themself so they can bring into reality their unique, authentic expression of self without fear or compromise. Our research endeavors are designed to support this mission via computationally modeling higher-order cognition and subjective internal world models. Specifically, we are building the computational models of the other side of intelligence that everyone has neglected:  Intuition. Our evolution is anchored in our current product, an immersive universe for self-discovery, and MIRROR, our AI research implementing cognitive inner-monologue in LLMs, reducing sycophancy by 21% on avg. & up to 156% vs. SOTA models. This marks Arcarae’s transition from a solo endeavor into a full-fledged consumer product and AI research company. I am seeking three very specific people to join me on this mission and help scale Arcarae to its next phase. I am hiring one researcher, one marketer, and one engineer as my founding team. These are far from normal roles; the application and hiring process even reflects this. If you think you are one of these three people, please apply right away. There is much to be done <3 And with that being said, Welcome to the era of Arcarae. And as always, I am excited for what’s to come <3

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Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes·
This 14 second clip got over 13k+ likes in under 48 hours “You ever think that maybe food is so expensive because, I don't know, 42 million people get it for free?” Really think about this
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Micki way@mickitiki·
Exactly 💥🔥🇺🇸👊
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44ron@44ron44·
@EricLDaugh You cuck, he's fluffing you before he drops The Great Depression 2: No Oil For You
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Eric Daugherty
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh·
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump posts footage of New York City in 1929 Trump is reminiscing about an America that isn't flooded with 3rd world savages and destroyed by modern leftist policies 🇺🇸 FULL MAGA!
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44ron@44ron44·
@Seanfrank @amooooooooooood that says more about you than anything you could contribute to an *intelligent* discussion about the impact of technology on civilization. Not this ooh rah goon to America cope.
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Sean Frank
Sean Frank@Seanfrank·
"america is bad" literally invent every technical breakthrough in every industry since forever
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44ron@44ron44·
yeah, not like, the BANKING CRISIS you absolute moron. or WMDS. REMEMBER THOSE? OH NO? PERHAPS PEOPLE WHO CONTRIBUTE TO GDP AND COMMUNITIES DESERVE TO BE TREATED LIKE HUMANS? YOU ARE DEHUMANIZING PEOPLE who MAY HAVE committed a CIVIL INFRACTION while BILLIONS OF DOLLARS are SENT TO ISRAEL to DESTROY OUR INTERNATIONAL CREDIBILITY, but you're mad that we're making sure people who do the jobs nobody wants, have food to eat and are able to CONTRIBUTE TO THE ECONOMY? you are mind-bogglingly dumb for a guy who is a 'former nuclear scientist.'
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Matt Van Swol
Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol·
Illegals are voting. Illegals are getting free food. Illegals are getting free childcare. Illegals are getting free education. Illegals are getting free tax credits. Illegals are getting free healthcare. Illegals are getting free housing assistance. Illegals are getting free legal representation. Illegals are getting free mental health services. Illegals are getting free college tuition in over a dozen states. It is the most insane scam ever perpetrated on the American people.
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44ron@44ron44·
@BetterCallMedhi You are fucking spot on with this take. We have pissed away the future and for what? Like actually, what did this accomplish?
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Mehdi (e/λ)@BetterCallMedhi·
point 3 is the one that should terrify every founder and VC reading this, the Gulf states were quietly becoming the biggest non-US source of tech capital on earth, Abu Dhabi & Saudi sovereign wealth were pouring billions into AI chips and infrastructure, this war just gave them every reason to pivot that capital toward China which was already rolling out the red carpet, so the west just simultaneously destroyed its energy supply chain AND its emerging capital pipeline in a single strategic move, I wrote about this exact dynamic tonight in a thread on the talent and capital migration east, the funding crash and the brain drain are the same phenomenon seen from 2 different angles point 5 is where it gets really interesting though, China controls roughly 80% of global solar panel manufacturing, dominates battery supply chains through CATL and BYD, is building nuclear plants at 10 per year & now has C2C and power to X at scale, so the country that the west tried to contain through chip sanctions is about to become the only entity capable of solving the energy crisis that this war just created, the strategic irony is almost poetic bc the west just made itself more dependent on China in the exact moment it was trying to decouple
Balaji@balajis

I'm going to make some obvious points. (1) Blowing up all the oil infrastructure in the Middle East is an insane idea, and may well result in a global economic crash and humanitarian crisis unrivaled in the lives of those now living. We're talking about the price of everything everywhere rising, from food to gas, at a moment when inflation was already high. All of that will be laid at the feet of the authors of this war. (2) The antebellum status quo of Feb 27, 2026 was just not that bad, but we're unlikely to return to it. Expect indefinite, long-term, ongoing disruptions to everything out of the Middle East. (3) Also assume tech financing crashes for the indefinite future. The genius plan to get the Gulf states caught in the crossfire has incinerated much of the funding for LPs, for datacenters, and for IPOs. Anyone in tech who supported this war may soon learn the meaning of "force majeure" as funding gets yanked. (4) Many capital allocators will instead be allocating much further down Maslow's hierarchy of needs, towards useful basic things like food and energy. (5) It's fortunate that all those progressives yelled about the "climate crisis." Yes, their reasoning about timelines was wrong, and much of the money was wasted in graft, but the result was right: we all need energy independence from the Middle East, pronto. It's also fortunate that Elon and China autistically took climate seriously. Now they're going to need to ship a billion solar panels, electric vehicles, batteries, nuclear power plants, and the like to get everyone off oil, immediately. (6) It's not just an oil and gas problem, of course. It's also a fertilizer problem, and a chemical precursor problem. Maybe some new sources will come online at the new prices, but it takes time to dial stuff up, particularly at this scale, so shortages are almost a certainty. That said, China has actually scaled up coal-to-chemicals[a,c] (C2C), and there's also something more sci-fi called Power-to-X[b] which turns arbitrary power + water + air into hydrocarbons. But all of that will need to get accelerated. I have a background in chemical engineering so may start funding things in this area. (7) Ultimately, this war is going to result in tremendous blame for anyone associated with it. It's a no-win scenario to blow up this much infrastructure for so many people. Simply not worth it for whatever objective they thought they were going to attain. But unless you're actually in a position to stop the madness, the pragmatic thing to do is: scramble to mitigate the fallout to yourself, your business, and your people. [a]: reuters.com/business/energ… [b]: alfalaval.com/industries/ene… [c]: reuters.com/sustainability…

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Cathy Di@itsCathyDi·
the next 1 person unicorn isn’t in tech. it’s someone like this. in an industry that hasn’t even defined what an “agent” is yet.
Todd Saunders@toddsaunders

I know Silicon Valley startups don't want to hear this..... But the combination of someone in the trades with deep domain expertise and Claude Code will run circles around your generic software. I talked to Cory LaChance this morning, a mechanical engineer in industrial piping construction in Houston. He normally works with chemical plants and refineries, but now he also works with the terminal He reached out in a DM a few days ago and I was so fired up by his story, I asked him if we could record the conversation and share it. He built a full application that industrial contractors are using every day. It reads piping isometric drawings and automatically extracts every weld count, every material spec, every commodity code. Work that took 10 minutes per drawing now takes 60 seconds. It can do 100 drawings in five minutes, saving days of time. His co-workers are all mind blown, and when he talks to them, it's like they are speaking different languages. His fabrication shop uses it daily, and he built the entire thing in 8 weeks. During those 8 weeks he also had to learn everything about Claude Code, the terminal, VS Code, everything. My favorite quote from him was when he said, "I literally did this with zero outside help other than the AI. My favorite tools are screenshots, step by step instructions and asking Claude to explain things like I'm five." Every trades worker with deep expertise and a willingness to sit down with Claude Code for a few weekends is now a potential software founder. I can't wait to meet more people like Cory.

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44ron@44ron44·
@ZbynekDrab @JTLonsdale They targeted all our allies and bases in the region. It should be 100% apparent retaliation would happen, yet here we are, caught with our pants down, all because we didn’t stop Israel from starting this clusterfuck of a campaign.
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Zbynek Drab
Zbynek Drab@ZbynekDrab·
@JTLonsdale Worth noting the actor blowing up oil infrastructure across the Middle East is Iran, not the US It’s not America’s fault that the Iranian regime decided to attack multiple third countries in an apparent Samson option bid to blackmail the world with an energy crisis
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Joe Lonsdale
Joe Lonsdale@JTLonsdale·
Balaji is a bright guy but he fled the USA and has set his mind totally against our future success. He lives in a world where US is losing and China is winning. This is his fixation. It’s dangerous, and it’s wrong. And this war has embarrassed China, destroyed their 100 cargo planes of war materials and their military ally, and frustrates them. It’s fair to disagree about the attack. But saying that its architects are guilty of any downside is childlike nonsense. They should be proud of their work and their courage to take on this evil. If you’re against the war, do you get credit for the last two decades of literal mass torture and mass rape and repression by this regime, and its terror funding and death around the region? Do you get credit for “supporting” the billions it spends on social media bots and information operations to polarize the US against ourselves, and weaken the west? Do you also get credit for what would have been the next twenty years of that? Are you, Balaji, responsible for that side of it? No? But if you are for it, you get zero credit for fixing any of that, but blamed for ALL the possible downsides? Total BS. The mullahs holding the region hostage shouldn’t get your help to blame others for the damage they do. Geopolitics and war is complex and there are risks on all sides. There is risk in acting, and in not acting. I’m really glad we are taking advantage of the massive innovation and competence gap that exists at this moment, and finally eliminating so much evil. I hope for freedom for the Iranian people and know that the situation is hard and complex, but either way it is good to stop the bad guys and eliminate so many of the worst groups, who have done so much damage, from history. Nobody should get away with what those bastards did for so long; this was long overdue.
Balaji@balajis

I'm going to make some obvious points. (1) Blowing up all the oil infrastructure in the Middle East is an insane idea, and may well result in a global economic crash and humanitarian crisis unrivaled in the lives of those now living. We're talking about the price of everything everywhere rising, from food to gas, at a moment when inflation was already high. All of that will be laid at the feet of the authors of this war. (2) The antebellum status quo of Feb 27, 2026 was just not that bad, but we're unlikely to return to it. Expect indefinite, long-term, ongoing disruptions to everything out of the Middle East. (3) Also assume tech financing crashes for the indefinite future. The genius plan to get the Gulf states caught in the crossfire has incinerated much of the funding for LPs, for datacenters, and for IPOs. Anyone in tech who supported this war may soon learn the meaning of "force majeure" as funding gets yanked. (4) Many capital allocators will instead be allocating much further down Maslow's hierarchy of needs, towards useful basic things like food and energy. (5) It's fortunate that all those progressives yelled about the "climate crisis." Yes, their reasoning about timelines was wrong, and much of the money was wasted in graft, but the result was right: we all need energy independence from the Middle East, pronto. It's also fortunate that Elon and China autistically took climate seriously. Now they're going to need to ship a billion solar panels, electric vehicles, batteries, nuclear power plants, and the like to get everyone off oil, immediately. (6) It's not just an oil and gas problem, of course. It's also a fertilizer problem, and a chemical precursor problem. Maybe some new sources will come online at the new prices, but it takes time to dial stuff up, particularly at this scale, so shortages are almost a certainty. That said, China has actually scaled up coal-to-chemicals[a,c] (C2C), and there's also something more sci-fi called Power-to-X[b] which turns arbitrary power + water + air into hydrocarbons. But all of that will need to get accelerated. I have a background in chemical engineering so may start funding things in this area. (7) Ultimately, this war is going to result in tremendous blame for anyone associated with it. It's a no-win scenario to blow up this much infrastructure for so many people. Simply not worth it for whatever objective they thought they were going to attain. But unless you're actually in a position to stop the madness, the pragmatic thing to do is: scramble to mitigate the fallout to yourself, your business, and your people. [a]: reuters.com/business/energ… [b]: alfalaval.com/industries/ene… [c]: reuters.com/sustainability…

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Robert J Salvador@RobertJSalvador·
@JTLonsdale @BitcoinPierre I like Balaji & IMO he’s one of the best thinkers out there. But he’s consistently wrong on military takes with China and the US. 2 years ago he put out an in depth article saying our military is 10x less prepared and theirs is 10x more prepared. It was the exact opposite.
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44ron@44ron44·
We just lost the Middle East, unilaterally crippled every single one of our allies globally, and evaporated a hundred years of diplomacy in a week. If that’s winning, we are winning so hard. We’re gonna win so much that we’ll regret how much winning we’re gonna experience for the rest of our lives.
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Tamarisk ⚔️@thetamarisktree·
@balajis I disagree with the “no-win” argument, given the increasingly lopsided geopolitical and economical strategic advantage that US oil and gas represents. Very few people seem to be stopping to consider that maybe, just maybe, the US is winning this conflict in more spheres than one
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Balaji@balajis·
I'm going to make some obvious points. (1) Blowing up all the oil infrastructure in the Middle East is an insane idea, and may well result in a global economic crash and humanitarian crisis unrivaled in the lives of those now living. We're talking about the price of everything everywhere rising, from food to gas, at a moment when inflation was already high. All of that will be laid at the feet of the authors of this war. (2) The antebellum status quo of Feb 27, 2026 was just not that bad, but we're unlikely to return to it. Expect indefinite, long-term, ongoing disruptions to everything out of the Middle East. (3) Also assume tech financing crashes for the indefinite future. The genius plan to get the Gulf states caught in the crossfire has incinerated much of the funding for LPs, for datacenters, and for IPOs. Anyone in tech who supported this war may soon learn the meaning of "force majeure" as funding gets yanked. (4) Many capital allocators will instead be allocating much further down Maslow's hierarchy of needs, towards useful basic things like food and energy. (5) It's fortunate that all those progressives yelled about the "climate crisis." Yes, their reasoning about timelines was wrong, and much of the money was wasted in graft, but the result was right: we all need energy independence from the Middle East, pronto. It's also fortunate that Elon and China autistically took climate seriously. Now they're going to need to ship a billion solar panels, electric vehicles, batteries, nuclear power plants, and the like to get everyone off oil, immediately. (6) It's not just an oil and gas problem, of course. It's also a fertilizer problem, and a chemical precursor problem. Maybe some new sources will come online at the new prices, but it takes time to dial stuff up, particularly at this scale, so shortages are almost a certainty. That said, China has actually scaled up coal-to-chemicals[a,c] (C2C), and there's also something more sci-fi called Power-to-X[b] which turns arbitrary power + water + air into hydrocarbons. But all of that will need to get accelerated. I have a background in chemical engineering so may start funding things in this area. (7) Ultimately, this war is going to result in tremendous blame for anyone associated with it. It's a no-win scenario to blow up this much infrastructure for so many people. Simply not worth it for whatever objective they thought they were going to attain. But unless you're actually in a position to stop the madness, the pragmatic thing to do is: scramble to mitigate the fallout to yourself, your business, and your people. [a]: reuters.com/business/energ… [b]: alfalaval.com/industries/ene… [c]: reuters.com/sustainability…
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44ron@44ron44·
@starks_arq @tether awesome, an ai music video for a stablecoin company. I am moved to tears.
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Amir D@starks_arq·
“Tethered Together Forever” - The Humans We made the first official song + music video for @tether Watch it.
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44ron@44ron44·
@henloitsjoyce It sucks to say but you need to keep your head on a swivel and carry some mace or something. These problems are gonna become more apparent as the economy worsens.
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joyce
joyce@henloitsjoyce·
cant even ride the caltrain safely anymore :( a guy got into the seat next to me, i didnt take notice, then the stench hit me i realised he might have broke out of the hospital, he still had his hospital wristbands on. and he kept pouring powder from a tube into his hands and sniffing hard then sneezing it all over then he tipped over to my side and his hand grabbed onto my seat narrowly missing my thigh didnt know what button to press or who to call, everyone around just watched on and this man was clearly not okay what is going on
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M.A. Rothman
M.A. Rothman@MichaelARothman·
𝗛𝗔𝗟𝗙 𝗢𝗙 𝗗𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗚𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗩𝗢𝗟𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗘𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗬 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗡 𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗜𝗗 Stephen Miller just described something that should make every American taxpayer's blood boil. ICE asked a group of detained illegal immigrants whether they were receiving Medicaid. Half of them raised their hands and volunteered the information. These weren't people hiding anything. These were illegal aliens openly confirming they were enrolled in a program funded by American taxpayers — a program that is supposed to serve American citizens. The ones who said they didn't have Medicaid were asked how they pay their medical bills. The answer: they go to hospitals, receive free care, and the bill goes to the taxpayers. Either way — enrolled in Medicaid or walking into emergency rooms — 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗱𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀. Miller's framing is precise: Democrats built this system deliberately. Not carelessly. Not accidentally. 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆. A pipeline that funnels hundreds of billions — and ultimately trillions — of American taxpayer dollars to people who entered the country illegally, as a mechanism to build a permanent dependent population that would one day be converted to voters. Tom Homan told us the plan. Bessent just showed us the Minnesota money trail going to Somalia. And now Miller is showing us the healthcare piece of the same machine. Think about what this means for the working American. You pay your premiums. You pay your deductibles. You fight with insurance companies over coverage. And the person who crossed the border illegally last year is on Medicaid — paid for by you — or walks into a hospital and gets the same care you pay thousands for, completely free, billed to you. This is not a side effect of a broken system. This is the system working exactly as Democrats designed it. The deportations aren't just about border security. They're about dismantling a financial architecture that has been looting the American taxpayer for decades. And every illegal removed is one less drain on a system that was never meant to serve them.
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Wall Street Apes
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes·
My jaw dropped listening to this Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller says ICE asked the illegals they’ve detained if they were receiving Medicaid. HALF SAID THEY HAD BEEN SIGNED UP The illegals that don’t have it say they just go to hospitals and it’s always 100% free “What we found since President Trump came into office is that the Democrats have set up a system to funnel hundreds of billions and ultimately trillions of dollars to migrants that are in our country, oftentimes from places like Somalia. So as an example, ICE recently asked a group of illegal immigrants that were in detention, whether or not they were receiving Medicaid. Half of them raised their hands and volunteered that they were on Medicaid. Just volunteered that these aren't the ones who are hiding it They also ask legal aliens how they pay their medical bills, and they said that if they don't have Medicaid, they go to hospitals, they get free care there, and they bill it to the taxpayers. So they aren't paying for any of their own healthcare in this country. — We've seen this over and over and over again.“ Democrats need to go to prison
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44ron
44ron@44ron44·
@WhiteHouse @SecWar Just need a small cash infusion of 200 BILLION DOLLARS No. GIVE ME HEALTHCARE AND APOLOGIZE FOR THIS CLUSTERFUCK OF A HUNDRED YEARS OF AMERICAN DIPLOMACY DOWN THE DRAIN. you guys aren’t gonna ‘just trust me bro’ out of this one
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The White House
The White House@WhiteHouse·
"This media here—not all of it, but much of it—wants you to think, just 19 days into this conflict, that we are somehow spinning toward an endless abyss, or a 'forever war'... NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH." - @SecWar 🇺🇸
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Kevin Liu
Kevin Liu@kevskgs·
how do we solve the imagination chasm for agents? > taking legacy paradigms and finding where automation can be applied in novel ways. to visualize this, we flipped the script on traditional npcs and created a minecraft agent that mines, crafts, and knows pvp pigs beware …
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