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My latest project is an obsession with the Zimmermann telegram. A story you may never have heard. Of hidden heroes who saved our world from itself. Against all the odds. Welcome to Crossed Wires. Episode 1 is here. open.spotify.com/episode/1NGoKt…

@hunvreus @badlogicgames @levelsio @mattpocockuk well it starts by not posting what you just posted

AI + X is a dangerous combination. It's slowly draining me. Every morning I wake up to a full day's worth of updates from the West: - @badlogicgames hacked a robot in a few hours. - @levelsio made a cool $14k this month just from X. - @mattpocockuk hit 100k stars on GitHub with his repo of skills. - Some dude raised $30M for a spamming company..? It never ends. I kick off my day. Poof! It's 2:00 PM now and I'm juggling 6 different threads on Codex. Refactoring, researching, expanding, ... Everything is so much easier now that I can't stop myself. I try to wrap up. It’s 9:00 PM and I’m still “coding”, adding one more thing because “it won’t take long”. It used to be 1 month crunch, rest for a week or two. Now it's nonstop. Is that just me? How the fuck do I stop?

@Rainmaker1973 Focus on your health. Leave the platform and touch grass. Because at the end of the day, these are the only things that truly matter.

I praised to the laurels @NousResearch's Hermes Agent in the days after its proper public launch. It is currently and entirely without competition. Its team comprises legends. Even with OSS models, the Hermes harness is powerful beyond the comprehension of six-months-ago-me.

@JamesMac_Fit NO screen time until they go to school. There are many better ways to foster agency and curiosity.

Dads... I need your advice. As a young dad myself, I’m genuinely worried about my son growing up addicted to screens, phones, games, etc. It feels like EVERYTHING is designed to grab their attention these days. So I want to ask: - How do you actually manage screen time in your house? - What’s worked for you? - What’s failed? Would appreciate real answers from people who’ve been there 🤝

@denisyurchak Hotel Estherea. It is STUPENDOUS. Inexpensive. Go.

Planning an Amsterdam trip with gf Airbnbs are mostly banned so you get subpar and expensive hotels (min 200€ per night for 2 stars, and under 20 variants left for the whole city at this price) The Netherlands has an extremely high airport tax, so no low-costers as well Flight prices from other cities in Europe start at 300€ So a weekend trip now costs 500€ min Thanks to leftist policies, you need to be a millionaire in Europe to afford life here

I wish @louistheroux had covered the Enhanced Games in his Manosphere doc.

@Jackkk I think Steven Bartlett also uses an umbrella when he goes into bars to stop alcohol fumes getting into his mouth

Bryan Johnson reveals why he uses an umbrella even when it’s not raining and UV levels are low “90% of physical skin aging is from the sun, so this is a UV umbrella protecting me”

@michaelzixizhou @ycombinator @zfellows Would you like a hand explaining your product? I just checked out the homepage and my head exploded.

I got into @ycombinator S26! The past 6 months have felt like 2 years: - Turned down 7-figure new grad offers at top companies - Bootstrapped until my bank account hit zero - Pivoted 5 times, and did door-to-door sales for a couple of months - Joined @zfellows and flew out to SF last month - Cancelled my return flight to Toronto - Had wonderful neighbours I'd just met crowd-fund my apartment deposit - Got the call from @aroraharshita33 6 hours after my YC interview ...all without telling my mom. Codag is the crystallization of everything I picked up across infrastructure, systems, and platform engineering. Our thesis is that within two years, agents will be the primary consumer of logs, and soon the primary producer of them. Today's observability stack and dashboards were built for humans to look at. Agents are a different reader entirely, and the infrastructure for understanding systems at scale has to be rebuilt for them. That is what we're building. We start with log compression: turning millions of lines into a compact, cited capsule an agent can actually read, so it stops drowning and starts debugging. I cannot believe I get to work on this full time - I wake up every day looking forward to building more. To everyone who made it real: @carterkev, @cory, @aroraharshita33, @amiklas, @nemild for taking the bet, the neighbours who backed a stranger with a laptop, and the countless friends that support me. Thank you. We just published an open source CLI and algorithm for log compression, fully free at codag.ai. If your agent debugs production, I'd love for you to try it, or just to talk. Got a lot more coming soon, and most of it will be open source. Now I should probably call my mom 😰

@bbbrezenski Dear Mr Modi. Focus first on high-risk areas (coastal regions, Indo-Gangetic plains, urban slums) and vulnerable groups. Ahmedabad's HAP showed lives saved through multi-sectoral action. National scaling with better humid-heat integration is key. Please get a move on.

Eai, quem disposto a ir pra Índia nos próximos dias? 🇮🇳🥵 Boa parte do país terá sensação térmica acima de 50°C, alguns pontos chegando nos 55°C. Pensa na loucura.🫠 Detalhe, essa região que atingirá a sensação de 55°C, significa também que vai atingir 33°C do bulbo úmido. Lembra do que eu sempre falo sobre o bulbo úmido letal? Acima de 35°C do bulbo úmido, quando a umidade está saturada e a temperatura do ar acima de 35°C temos o BULBO ÚMIDO LETAL. Nesse nível NENHUM ser humano resiste por mais de 2 horas, idosos e bebês cerca de 30 minutos para entrar em colapso térmico. A Índia é um grande exemplo de uma nação a beira de uma catástrofe, e estamos falando do país mais populoso do mundo, quase 1.5 bilhão de pessoas. Com o aumento na média da temperatura mundial em 3°C até 2050, essa região irá atingir o bulbo úmido letal várias vezes, significa que teremos migração de milhões de pessoas nas próximas décadas, isso só falando da Índia. Esse é o caos que muitos analistas geopolíticos não estão incluindo nas suas análises sobre a mudança na ordem global. Eu incluo porque é o fator principal, estamos falando em colapso civilizatório global, isso conta muitos mais do que as loucuras dos EUA em desespero pelo seu declínio hegemônico. Os países precisam correr para conseguir fazer adaptações climáticas profundas, com o atual modelo de governança assimétrico e imperialista, não está sobrando dinheiro para as nações investirem nem na transição energética para reduzir a velocidade em que o planeta aquece. É uma loucura ver isso e saber que um país está tentando sabotar a sobrevivência de várias nações e a estabilidade internacional. Insanidade pura.

@Rainmaker1973 @elonmusk Maybe @nikitabier and his team will create a comprehensive guide to how X needs source attribution so there's zero confusion or ambiguity. It seems pretty clear to me - but I'm ridiculously clever.

@DmytroKrasun if you think building in public offers unique value then create a private community. You don't need to necessarily charge for it. But X is full of dicks and you're more likely to be harmed than helped by your generosity.

Building in public is brutal now. Even if you try to share lessons while hiding some information, it doesn’t work. Somebody went to Ahrefs and found the page I was posting about. But I like being open and transparent. It fits my character. I don’t need to play games or constantly think about what I should or shouldn’t post. Maybe I should just give up and go back to fully building in public again. I don’t know. What are moats now?

you could argue the overall score is artifically inflated because of Josh's sausage fingers.

One of the little-known hacks to a huge valuation is to focus on exceptional customer service. trustpilot.com/review/polsia.…

.@ElevenLabs sustained success is entirely contingent on whether it clones the voice of S.A.R.A.H ai bot. youtu.be/GYAXxESBXgI?si…

Tim Vine spending five minutes to throw a Bic pen behind his ear is why we're all wasting our time trying to make money on X. youtube.com/watch?v=GYAXxE…

The best account on YouTube is Letters Live. It's a long-running sleeper hit. Some of the most remarkable orators sharing some of history's greatest thinking. Watch every video. @LettersLive/videos" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@LettersLive/v…

@DavidOndrej1 Dude record a YT vid showing us how it’s done!

> learn how to use tmux > trust me

@sehranhasanli If you need a career coaching call ping me. I do this stuff well all the time. And I’m zero cost because I care. adplist.org/mentors/dave-t…

Life update: I was part of the May 20 meta layoffs. I was a SWE on multimodal AI working w image/video ads. Oh well. Looking for what's next! 0-to-1 AI work, agents, LLM apps, multimodal systems in prod. have done both SWE and eng mgmt for ~10 years. If I sound like someone you need, DMs open

@ukboomers @itsafrogslife Prefer how it looked before. Yano, the colourful, not-soulless one on the left.

You should see what our David has done with his latest buy to let. A tired old 1930s detached. He's modernised the lot. New plastic windows, properly insulated. The original front garden was a maintenance nightmare so he's tarmacked it over. Parking for four cars now. He's painted the brickwork a smart grey. Tenants love it. The neighbours aren't happy but they should see it on a sunny day. A sight for sore eyes. Some people just have vision. 🇬🇧

@davidpattersonx How did you find this one?

You can buy this 3,000 sq ft, ten-room château in France for $665,000. Then wait a few years, and you will be able to have humanoid robots do all the work. And it will be only a 15-minute flight to Lyon with your own personal eVTOL. There are thousands of castles and châteaux for under one million dollars across Europe. Europeans can't afford them, they can't afford to staff and maintain them, and they are too far from major cities. eVTOLs will reduce a two-hour drive to 15 minutes, and inexpensive humanoid robots will restore, maintain, and staff the house. Listing link in the replies. What are you waiting for?