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John Aselton
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John Aselton
@Jaselton
Husband | Father | Veteran | USNA | Marque Analytics
Dallas, TX Katılım Eylül 2025
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Becoming successful is not luck. It’s math.
If your probability of success is 1/100 and you try 100 times, you have a 100% chance of success.
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ok - dropping big dates/news for a16z speedrun:
- starting TODAY, founders can apply for the 2026 program that runs July 27 to Oct 11 in SF
here's the link: speedrun007.a16z.com/ac
- we will be investing up to $1M and funding 70+ companies over the next few weeks
- But there's also $5M in credits/tokens/etc from AWS/GCP/Open AI/Azure/NVIDIA/Deel/Stripe/etc. You'll also work with our amazing operating team (GTM, talent, brand, people, and more), and join our community of elite founders
- we offer a Global Founders Program for international founders, to help with visas, banking support, relo recommendations
- yes you can be solo (but better if you're further along, and have built a team). No you don't have to have an idea yet. Yes you have to know how to build (even if you're not technical)
- Also, in other news: speedun is officially moving full-time to SF. (prev it alternated SF/LA) this is for all the obv reasons
- we've continued to have an insane lineup of speakers, including the founders of Carta / DoorDash / Twilio / Figma / Zynga / Airtable / Twitch / and of course, lunch/dinners with Marc/Ben alongside a16z team - and much more
- the deadline for applying is May 17!
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@pubity It's an ancilliary way or saying if you live or work here you must have skin in the game
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ok i solved UHI/UBI, pack it up. since agency matters more than intelligence, govt gives every person compute and a robot and can build from there. the market is now billions of personal economies. gamers rise up.
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This is a wild take -- and I'm a big Alex Finn fan, let me just preface this rant with that.
Suggesting people pay $1,000 a month in this economy is ludicrous.
I pay for:
> ChatGPT Plus ($20)
> Claude Pro ($20)
> MiniMax Highspeed Token Plan ($40)
I'm seriously considering throwing in another $10 for a @NousResearch portal subscription for the immense value it brings to Hermes users.
This is more than enough inference for 99% of the people using AI agents right now.
Unless you're doing some really deep shit, spending $1,000 a month on API fees is just insane.
Remember, this is coming from an influencer with almost half a million followers here and a thriving YouTube channel.
$1k a month likely isn't hurting Alex's wallet a bit.
But for many of you reading this, it's just flat out not necessary.
Especially for smaller businesses who don't have or don't want to spend an extra 1k a month.
On a side note, I'm really surprised to see Alex still riding the OpenClaw wave as hard as he is.
Hermes is a superior product. He uses it, so he can't deny that fact.
Kinda feels a bit irresponsible to be still plugging OpenClaw so hard when there's no argument as to which is a better option for 99.9% of the people watching his videos.
Alex, I doubt you'll see this (or even care if you do)...
I'll still keep watching your videos, but I'd really love to see you start covering Hermes more, brother.
Do your subscribers that favor.
The views will still keep rollin' in.
(Spoiler alert: building a mission control dashboard doesn't count as doing really deep shit either, by the way. Save those premium tokens and build something useful, folks.)
/EndRant 🙃
Alex Finn@AlexFinn
Here's the truth people are afraid to admit: Even if using Opus 4.7 with OpenClaw costs you $1,000 a month through the API, you still need to be paying for it When it comes to OpenClaw there's simply no second best model ChatGPT is completely useless for OpenClaw. Doesn't complete tasks, actively deletes and messes up files, has no idea how to use tools Every night before I go to bed I pray ChatGPT 5.5 matches Claude at OpenClaw usage. OpenAI has been a lot more consumer friendly when it comes to limits and oauth use But at the moment there is no dodging the truth. Claude is the only way to go for OpenClaw I look at it like this: OpenClaw with Opus 4.7 is a super intelligent employee that works 24/7 without complaint Even if I pay $1,000 a month for API usage ($12,000 a year) that's still a steal compared to hiring humans I'd be paying over $100,000 a year if I hired an actual person. And they wouldn't be working 24 hours a day and they wouldn't be immediately responding to my telegram chats and they'd file HR complaints if I talked to them the way I talked to my Claw I'm confident OpenAI is training their new models for OpenClaw usage, but in the meantime, there's simply no 2nd best. Pay for the API.
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@officialoutclub @myth_pilot Brother, I didn't say who would be the one yielding the power...
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@Jaselton @myth_pilot There is no Christianity with this surveillance apparatus
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I believe in Western techno-fascism
Alexander Dugin@AGDugin
Palantir manifesto is the plan of the Western techno-fascism. The superiority of the white race based on the technology. No antisemitism, no sacredness, no socialism of old historic fascism. This time pure capitalist, Jews friendly, profane, materialist. Anglo. Posthumanist.
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@damianplayer SV built for globalism. Palantir is building for American supremacy.
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Palantir CEO says silicon valley is the reason America is losing.
here’s the TLDR:
>silicon valley owes america a debt. it spent 20 years building photo apps when it should have been building weapons.
>the next era of deterrence runs on AI, not nukes. our adversaries are not waiting for us to figure it out.
now the question is who builds it first and what they build it for.
Palantir@PalantirTech
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com
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Try our new 𝕏 API CLI tool with SKILL.md added to merge with @openclaw!
We will also make calling Owned Reads a fraction of the cost starting Monday 4/20.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
You can access 𝕏 APi via @OpenClaw. We’re trying to make it affordable without giving away the shop. Hopefully, this can be useful & fun 💫
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New anti-fraud division of the Justice Department is already cracking down on fraud that is estimated to be costing federal programs more than $340 million, per AP.
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@chrisparkX @santiagomed @agno_three @mike_rosinsky @ManviKaul @taycaldwell It asked me for the correct timestamp. What's the point of giving it a transcript if it won't do the work?
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I asked it to pull a quote from a Theo Von Episode, it hallucinated the episode, the quote and the timestamp. I informed it of the right episode, gave a link and told it not to hallucinate and inform me with the correct answer.
I have since removed xAI from the config as a provider, it's not useful at the current moment.
FYI this was an actual response:
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@chrisparkX @santiagomed @agno_three @mike_rosinsky @ManviKaul @taycaldwell I gave it the correct episode #2461 and it hallucinated with #2152 despite having the correct link and title.
Timestamps are all 100% dead wrong. Check if you desire, I did.
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This is an actual image of a single molecule captured by IBM using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM).
You’re literally seeing individual atoms and their chemical bonds.
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Six critical technology areas to ensure total military technological dominance:
✅ Applied AI
✅ Biomanufacturing
✅ Contested Logistics Technologies
✅ Quantum and Battlefield Information Dominance
✅ Scaled Hypersonics
✅ Scaled Directed Energy
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Medicare.gov isn't just being updated.
It's getting Al tools that guide people based on their actual health conditions.
This type of navigation is built around you, not the system.
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