Kenneth Ballenegger

Gave my AI agent email access this week. Spent more time thinking about what it shouldn't be able to do than what it can. Wrote up the architecture — zero trust, cryptographic approval gates, and why the UX of the approval flow is part of the security design. gist.github.com/kballenegger/0…

@RazvenHK @grok what does the full article say

Hasan "Hong Kong should be under One Country, One System because I was mildly inconvenienced crossing the border" Piker, everyone.

@datarade Wasn't familiar with vercel but certainly would pick them over competitors, CEO seems like my kinda guy

Like this post if you're switching off of Vercel because of Guillermo's political photo tweet and spend over $1000/mo on the platform.

The recorded testimony below is from a passenger on the IAG Vueling flight which makes clear that Vueling’s official statement about their purported reason for the removal of Jewish kids and the abusive detention of their counselor from their aircraft is false. The CEO of IAG (LSE: IAG LN) Luis Gallego is now hereby informed that his only subsidiary, a highly regulated European airline, has issued a false statement to cover up hateful acts by his employees. Mr. Gallego, the buck stops with you. Now is the time for you to act.

@datarade If you have a point to make, why not just say it instead of this vague implication that can't be argued with…

I believe Israel's days of glory are numbered. Not a good thing. Regime changes are always violent and lead to huge loss of life. Bibi horrifically mismanaged and betrayed his country. He's removed Israel's subversion and control of America's congress and brought what was once in the shadows to the forefront of discussion topics. World gonna have to get a lot more violent as the resets happen, lines will be shifted, supply shortages shall abound, and assassinations globally seem to be in season.

We've been putting Swarm though it's paces and the feedback so far is that "it's so fast it's giving me whiplash!" No more waiting a whole minute for renders. No more Discord prompting. This is 5 second renders. This is a whole new ballgame. This is Sogni Swarm. Are you ready?

@BrandonGoldman @shaig Why not RFK?

@shaig If you don’t like either major candidate, vote Libertarian to help them get 5% of the national vote. Helps break us out of the two party system

@businessbarista The one thing is always visible to others, but usually not too yourself. When is a superpower, it's just an innate ability, and seems banal to you.

I believe every great founder has that one thing. The one thing that feels effortless to them, but superhuman to everyone else. The one thing that stacks the deck in their favor to win in business. What is your one thing?

This painting is over 500 years old, but looks like it could have been made yesterday. It might seem like an acid trip - it's actually the greatest warning about sin ever painted... (thread) 🧵

@sulemanali @bgurley One of the biggest problem in this debate is that we use the same term for two very different kind of immigration.

@bgurley It's so difficult for great young talent to stay here, I see this all the time in SF They want to be here and make things happen but immigration makes it so hard for them!

Increase skilled immigration! By a lot.

@dieworkwear what's your take on bespoke shirts and suits from Hong Kong, Vietnam, and India. All are reported to get you a much better price for the same craftsmanship.

@haridigresses @CharlieKroll Hotel brands are marketed at developers and operators, not customers. The point of having many brands is to be able to offer non competitive offers to different operators.

@CharlieKroll Yes, a lot. Each of them has a different and very clear aesthetic (every hotel of a brand feels the exact same). If you named a Marriott brand a visual literally pops into my head. I like some way more than others.

Honestly curious - why do hotels have so many brands? Does anyone actually care about the differences between Marriott Courtyard, Springhill Suites, Fairfield, Fourpoints, Aloft?

@sfannan2 @sulemanali Aww, missed the thread the first time around, glad to see it resurface. These were the good old days!

@sulemanali so epic, thanks for the support!

Ran into @sfannan2 and reminded me of this moment!

@Culture_Crit I think Hong Kong deserves a mention

Towns and cities with the best views from above (thread): 1. Centuripe, Italy 🇮🇹

@haridigresses @MartinGTobias A fund I'm an LP in has that exact strategy (100 small checks) and has been my best performing fund investment.

AngelList analyzed this and identified that the best strategy at the very early stage is indexing by investing in every credible company. There’s been a weak correlation between my highest conviction checks and my outlier outcomes. And disagree that you can’t return a fund with a small check — if anything, if you wrote 100 checks you’re far more likely to hit a 100x fund returner than if you wrote 50 checks aiming to hit a 50x fund returner.

An angel friend of mine told me that last quarter he wrote 13 checks with an average check size of $25K and a post money valuation of $16M. That is a VERY hard way to make money. Too many small bets to move the needle. Build greater conviction and write a larger check earlier IMO.

Alright, a little too much noise lately… time to log off for a bit.

@edipyuksel @netanyahu @JoeBiden The difference is one was trying to kill the Jews and the other is trying to save the Jews from being killed…?

What is difference between German Nazis led by Hitler and Israeli Zionists or Zionazis led by @netanyahu and @joebiden? #genocide #Zionists

Is the right to run an assembly line creating terrorists, actively trained and brainwashed from birth to that goal, considered a human right? Should it be?

@paulg @Appyg99 Then I guess we can agree on the idea that rampant crime, misery, and social decay is a part of the culture of the far left. I really hope we haven't gotten to the point where far left culture has become generally part of American culture.

@kob @Appyg99 Sure they are. They're trying to change the far left end of American culture. And that's not an anomaly. The right and left extremes are where most of the brokenness tends to be.

When one decides to immigrate to a different country, it’s basically admitting that the country you’re immigrating to provides you with opportunities & values that you wouldn’t have in your home country. If you truly think your own values are superior & you find yourself defacing the local cultural symbols, I sincerely believe you should go back to your roots or whatever other country that you can completely blend into. The idiocy of trying to recreate a shit hole after immigrating away from it makes no sense.