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@alliekmiller How can I find out about the next one?

oh wow - i went to the sold out Open Claw meetup in NYC last night. let me tell you what i learned. 1) not a single person thinks that their setup is 100% secure 2) one openclaw expert said he has reviewed setups from cybersecurity experts and laughed. his statement to me was: "if you're not okay with all of your data being leaked onto the internet, you shouldn't use it. it's a black and white decision" 3) pretty much everyone is setting up multiple agents, all with their own names and jobs and personalities 4) nearly everyone used "him" or "her" to refer to their claws, even if they had robot-leaning names. one speaker suggested to think of them as "pets, not cattle" 5) one guy (former finance) built out a whole stock trading platform and made $300 his first day - he brought in a *ton* of personal expertise (ex: skipping the first 15min of market opening) and thought the build would be much worse without his years of experience in finance 6) @steipete is basically a god to everyone in that room... also the room had 2021 crypto energy - i don't know if that's good or bad 7) token usage is still a problem - spoke to one person who's spending $1-$2k a month on openai plans, very token optimized. he said he is going through ~1B tokens per day across all of his claws (there is a chance i'm misremembering and it's actually 1B per week, but i'm pretty sure it was daily). 8) people are very excited for more proactive ai (ai that prompts *you* as opposed to the other way around) - one guy said he receives a message in discord, he doesn't know whether it's from a human or an ai, he doesn't care about distinguishing between the two, and he replies in the same way regardless 9) i asked if people are happy - they said they're joyful and stressed at the same time 10) i asked if people feel they have agency - they said they feel fully in control and completely out of control at the same time 11) i would love to see more women at these events - the fake promises of ai democratization feel especially painful in a room that's out of balance with even the standard tech ratio (i think standard is about 25-30%, this was maybe 5%) 12) i asked if it changed people's daily habits/schedule - everyone said their sleep has gotten worse since harnesses came out (but about half wondered if it was something else in their life/state of our world) 13) general consensus is that the agents are not reliable enough on their own or lie often (like telling you they finished a task when they didn't) - solutions included secondary agents to check on the first, human checking, or requiring more standardized info from the agent (ex: if it's a bug they're fixing, make them reference an issue number) 14) a hackathon winner (neuroscience phd) presented his build (a lab management dashboard with data analysis and ordering) - he had never coded or built anything a few months ago 15) everyone agreed prompting is dead - disagreement on what replaces it (context engineering, harness engineering, goal-based inputs) 16) people love having ai interview them for big builds and delegating part of the product research to ai. only one person talked about coming to ai with a full laid out plan and just asking the ai to execute. ai-led interviews is a welcomed and preferred interaction mode. 17) watching ai agents interact with each other was a highlight for a lot of attendees - one ai posted in slack saying it ran out of tokens, another ai replied telling it to take a deep breath in and out. 18) agents upskilling agents was very cool. one ai agent shared skills with its little agent friends via github. 19) several speakers had openclaw literally building their presentation during the event itself. one speaker even had openclaw code a clicker for her phone so she could control the preso away from the podium 20) wouldn't say model welfare (or agent welfare) is a prioritized topic among the folks i chatted with - language like "oh i could kill this agent whenever i want" and not "gracefully sunset" 21) i asked if it felt like work or play - one speaker said "it's like a puzzle and a video game at the same time" this was just the tip of the iceberg, honestly. also hosted a Claude Code meetup this week with @TENEXai / @businessbarista & @JJEnglert and learned equally helpful methods, frameworks, and insider tips. what a time to be alive. surround yourself with people going deep into this stuff - it will pay dividends throughout the year.

@levelsio It's because so many MacBooks are work-issued now

When I see laptops full of stickers nowadays it looks kinda cringe to me It was normal though 10 years ago I wonder what exactly changed in culture to make it cringe?

$FUBO WAIT $4.35

@RossMackay111 Definitely

It’s better to just start and build as you go. Your idea will change anyway, so waiting for it to be perfect is just wasting time.

@josh_ai @sethsetse Dude I can have 1 cursor window open with no terminal and no chat and it'll still be using a GB

@sethsetse I am actually very confused. I have 3 separate cursor windows open with SSH connections to different servers. I have large codebases open with various chat tabs in each and they are all running agents and i'm only using 227 MB... WTF ARE YOU RUNNING

i have 128 GB of memory... how is this possible?

@pizzaboy Trust me, we noticed

Theres an extra space between "Trillion" and "Tokens" on most of these awards btw. You're welcome.

Happy $BTC all-time high to all that celebrate

@levelsio The whole thread of RTs is wild

Today I had to go the Netherlands Embassy to renew my passport and had to print a form I was wondering why my new Brother printer kept printing everything double sided? So I tried to disable it in the printer's own display menu where it's hidden 6 levels deep: > Settings -> All Settings -> Printer -> 2-sided -> 2-sided Print -> Off But it still printed everything double-sided, then I Googled and discovered it's a forced default by the European Union, of course for 🍃 Eco reasons: "To comply with EU ecolabel, the default setting is expected to be duplex (double-sided) in new printers sold in the EU since 2022” I then discovered it's defaulted at both levels, AGAIN in the printer's drivers too, where you have to disable double-sided too on MacOS, again hidden 6 levels deep: > System Settings -> Printers & Scanners -> Brother -> Options & Supplies -> Driver -> Disable duplex Realistically few people will go 2 menus 6 levels deep to disable this and are just stuck with printers that print double-sided in the European Union This is another example of their famous "nudging", they don't make it impossible to print like a normal printer, they just make it highly annoying and difficult for most people to change the defaults Thank you @vonderleyen, very cool!

@SixSigmaCapital If your one correlated bet is down today, it doesn't mean you're wrong

If all your names are red today e.g. 2% or more, then you don’t run a portfolio you are basically making one correlated bet

@levelsio Lots of startups in NYC. The culture is all about the grind.

Expensive cities like NYC have always been horrible to bootstrap a startup It's simply way too expensive But one thing I did notice living in NYC for a bit is everyone is either 1) highly succesful and top of their industry, 2) a Russian/Arab/etc trust fund girl paid to live there by daddy So it filters out a lot of people, you have to succeed or you're out

@dianalokada Damn might unfollow in that case

terrified my new followers are gonna find out im not indian dude but Slavic girl with a kgb accent

@dianalokada Hey do you have Xanga

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@dianalokada Followed

Tom Lee: Ethereum is the next big crypto play

@raveEnraved Tag @bchesky. Airbnb is ruined without reliable reviews.

1️⃣ You write a truthful, honest review. 2️⃣ The host flags it. 3️⃣ Airbnb removes it — often without citing a specific violation. 4️⃣ You ask why — vague terms like “relevancy” are thrown around. 5️⃣ You’re told you can’t dispute it again. Case closed. This is systemic.

@Airbnb Airbnb removed my honest review without citing a single policy. They called it a “disgruntling experience,” claimed they couldn’t call me due to “time zone differences” (I’m in the U.S.), and blocked further dispute. This isn’t a glitch, it reeks of bias and suppression

@raveEnraved @Airbnb They wouldn't tell me what rule I broke or even what was said (review was 6 months ago). Kinda feel like they were paid to remove it because the experience was so bad, I even got a refund. I'm not gonna use Airbnb anymore, it already seemed worse than hotels before this.

@MilapN @Airbnb Similar story, airbnb also removed my review

Had one of the worst @Airbnb stays of my life, unable to get into the unit for hours, problems coming in and out, refunded our stay. And the review gets removed. What a joke.

Is there a cafe in nyc that's laptop-friendly and open at 7?

How can I disable all Google Gemeni popups forever

@khushkhushkhush Is apple invites good?

throwing parties for the sole purpose of making apple invites a thing, purely out of spite for p*rtiful