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@HellenicVibes L + Fails to account for the infinitude of human preferences which are often inexplicable to others + ratio
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@0thernet it’s the repeated sniffs that really increase immersion for me
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*Slavoj Zizek sniffs loudly* Ah yes, yes, the ABG. The Asian Baby Girl. Sniff This is, you see, this is a perfect case study in what Lacan would call, you know, the sliding of the signifier. Yes? Sniff
Because what is happening, what is happening here is fascinating. The fob, the fresh off the boat, she arrives in Cupertino, in Palo Alto, and she encounters this term, ABG, and she does not know, you see, she does not know the genealogy. She treats the signifier as, how do you say, a flat-pack from IKEA. Some assembly required. Sniff
And what is the criteria, what is the criteria now? You drink the boba, ABG. You play the League of Legends, you say "hi" to a stranger at the Whole Foods, ABG, ABG, ABG. Sniff In this way, you see, every Asian American woman who is not actively crying over a textbook becomes, ontologically, an ABG. The category devours itself. It is, how do you say, the Hegelian bad infinity of the H1B imagination.
Sniff But here, here is where it becomes interesting, you see. Sniff The ABG AI CMO. Sniff This is a new object. A fantasy object. Because the original ABG, she did not care about your seed round. She did not care about your transformer architecture. She was, you see, sublimely indifferent to your cap table. Sniff
But the new one, the fob ABG, ah (Sniff) she is the perfect aspirational-honeypot, yes? She must be intelligent enough to discuss, you know, the mixture of experts, but also hot enough that the YC partner forgets to ask about retention. She is, you see, the Lacanian "objet petit a" of the Sequoia partner. Sniff
And this, this is why the SF mid, and we must use this term clinically, with love (Sniff) the SF mid sees in the ABG not a person but a portal. A portal out of the dimly lit WeWork of her own facticity. She organizes the meetup. She buys the gold hoops on Amazon. Sniff "Look, I am ABG now." No. Sniff No, my dear. You are performing ABG for an audience that is also performing ABG, in a recursive loop of mutual misrecognition. It is, you see, it is ABGs all the way down. Sniff
Zhu Su@zhusu
I think abg has taken on a different meaning among fobs in the bay area for a couple main reasons. Fobs are unaware of the etymology and poorly educated on the aesthetics. What they’ve done is broken down the term piecewise: e.g. asking themselves, am I asian? Am I baby? Am I girl? Secondly, fobs think possibly all Asian American women can become abgs. They think going to the beach without an umbrella makes them an abg, or drinking boba, or playing LoL. Being social as opposed to studying, is abg. Listening to English music is abg. Saying hi to strangers is abg. Using instagram is abg. The idea of the abg ai cmo, however, is actually a novelty. It is at its core a fob, almost aspirationally-honeypot, identity. She has to be smart enough to be in ai, yet hot enough to use her looks to do marketing. This is why sf mids aspire to be considered abgs, and why groups of them are creating abg meetups.
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@MartinShkreli @EHpops So is he not a distant relative of the Nepali royal family like some were implying?
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Chirayu is 100% Nepali. Parents came to America, Worked hard as doctors. Unfortunately, had a reckless temper. An incel who never had a girlfriend. Smoked a lot of weed, referred to himself as a n*gga. Hung out with the wrong crowd. Never fit into the rich kid high school.
Martin Shkreli@MartinShkreli
Chirayu Rana was expelled from high school for pulling a knife on a classmate. He also had a brawl with the school's football coach, and was known rob/mug in the Virginia area.
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@seanilling @jessesingal you’re telling me you’re just going off of eye test in the year of our lord 2026? just chucking long 2 pointers?
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@NostalgiaGalaxy “press any key to continue”
at least use the right Xbox screen image rather than the PC version
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It’s 2004 and you’re about to play one of the greatest halo games.
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@davidycli “where was this argument when PE/VC 5x'd their allocation against other asset classes over the last 25 years?”
Guess which LPs are now forced sellers to generate liquidity?
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traditional biotech VCs are dramatically underweighting the structural threat AI poses to their business model
recently spoke w a US institutional LP - even top tier biotech VC return profiles are not competitive with what AI funds are now producing
when an LP can put capital into an AI fund returning 5-10x+ net and the biotech fund is grinding out 2-3x on a good vintage, who do you think is going to get the capital?
case in point: the largest bio venture fund raised in last 2+ years has been Sofinnova at $1.2b and Frazier at $1.3b; today Sequioa raised a $7bn AI focused opportunities fund; Thrive raised a $10bn fund a few months ago largely focused on AI
most biotech GPs I talk to are treating AI as "yet another wave" in technology and most are pessimistic about near term AI impact in drug discovery;
yes - better binder design is not remotely close to developing clinically impactful drugs; however, I'd encourage these GPs to look more broadly - the competition is no longer SaaS startups getting to $100M in ARR in 8 years; AI native startups are getting there in 8 quarters
"but don't LPs want diversification?" — where was this argument when PE/VC 5x'd their allocation against other asset classes over the last 25 years? same thing is happening now, except with AI. intra asset class diversification is a misnomer. the real diversification is VC vs other asset classes, not biotech VC vs AI VC
a lot of biotech VCs raised funds in 2021 and 2022 when times were good. many of those GPs will need to go back out in 26, 27, 28.
it's going to be a rude awakening when that AI wave they expected to crest has not, and if AI IPOs ie OpenAI, Anthropic, actually IPO - watch out - LPs will be asking why this capital shouldn't just go into the asset class that are printing
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@ColbyBadhwar multi hour meetings are retarded and prevent actual work
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Feinberg has brought Wall St work hours to the Pentagon.
Lara Seligman@laraseligman
On Wall Street, Steve Feinberg had a well-oiled sales pitch for investors thinking of betting billions on his corporate turnarounds. Now the Pentagon’s No. 2 official, the former private-equity boss faces the biggest sell of his career: persuading Congress to bless the Trump administration’s $1.5 trillion military budget. wsj.com/politics/natio…
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@cmsinclair @DerekEvans20 lmfao lose their respect over what? diggs was a locker room leader last season and cheated on cardi b every other month
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@zck Jade dial is going to go triple platinum in Asia…shocked they hadn’t already done it
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The new 2026 Rolex releases are some of the ugliest watches I've ever seen
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@GlobalWatchClub why did you add a meaningless bar chart at the bottom 😂
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Regarding Russini’s future: what matters in the short term is that she told her employer it was platonic. The Athletic put out a statement in her defense, but not has doubts. If she can’t produce photos of the girls’ trip — which would no way be absent of photos — she will not survive lying to a New York Times’ entity.
And if she’s out at The Athletic, her career is as an insider is essentially over. She can probably get a job with Le Batard — who is such a cringing, wounded animal — but no major outlet will take her.
Bobby Burack@burackbobby_
I've been out of the loop this week. Struggling. But I wanted to make a few notes on the Russini-Vrabel story I gathered this morning: -- Russini has a lot of friends in the industry. And yet, not a single one is defending her publicly or privately. -- Vrabel looks just as bad. However, he's arguably the best coach in the NFL. Any potential repercussions he faces will likely be personal, not professional. -- The number of people enjoying this story underscores how out for blood this industry is. People rejoice in the downfall of their contemporaries. -- Russini looks terrible, but the other insiders aren't much better. The majority of them blur the lines with sources as well. Insiders are not journalists. I'm not sure if anyone is a sports journalist anymore. -- I don't think The Athletic will fire her, but she could have a hard time re-signing or finding a new job. -- Granted, IF she lied in her statement that The Athletic shared, she should be fired. And probably would be, if proven.
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@tenobrus So why didn’t this dynamic play out during the GFC, when things were much more dire? All we got where Occupy Wall Street larpers
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looks like Sam Darnold invited Josh Allen and C. Kirk to his wedding
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@marvinvonhagen @Fraser “We will never change this on your behalf. In this mode, we also do not train on user data.
You can view our security compliance report at trust.delve.co/interaction”
Your security is audited by a fraudulent company? Was curious to try Poke but 🚩
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we're a dense team of 10 jane street engineers, ioi medalists, and sunshine enjoyers down in palo alto.
user numbers up >1,000% since partnering with @fraser
still early, dm me something exceptional you've done if u wanna join!
Arfur Rock@ArfurRock
Poke is OpenClaw for normies. First AI product I've seen successfully scale on iMessage. Closed an unannounced $10M round at $300M from Spark in Q1. Congrats!
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@allgarbled bad take but it’s true that most “fine dining” these days is mediocre in quality
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My probably stupid opinion is that food kinda tops out at how good it can get and these places mostly get you marginal improvements. Really really fancy food is not actually that much better and it’s more like a social performance, the vibe, the ambiance, a certain refinement etc
Elena@VirtualElena
sure NYT I believe that a “restaurant gap relationship” is not only a real thing but that a phenomenon that has only emerged in the past 5-10 years wrought by opportunistic opentable scrapers, private dining clubs, credit card points, concierge services, and nyc’s increasingly competitive restaurant scene is in fact “the ultimate test of compatibility”
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@MikeIsaac Eh you have a pretty short memory then. One of the lead bankers literally worked as an Uber driver to win the ipo mandate
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