Nicolas Rowe

@thmindustriesre @stockxsucks it's nice on vacation but at least for me, the rest of my day has to be built around going to the beach. also the sand is hot as hell and there's a significant walk to actually get to the beach.

@stockxsucks Why do I feel like 98% of people do not go to the beach when living in Miami?

Miami hate is just cope. this on a Saturday is better than any day drinking in nyc or Chicago

@facelessfarms @Kalshi @cluely @instinct_inc the next step after you aren't paid by a vendor is getting a lawyer, this X post isn't helping your case

I got robbed by .@kalshi and ex-@cluely team for $100k Here's exactly what happened with receipts I ended up doing marketing for them via .@instinct_inc and the goal was simple: Post content on faceless pages, get paid per view at the agreed RPM. Listen to the guidelines and create the content So I went to work and delivered over 180 million views (majority coming from very viral videos) At the agreed rate of the campaign, that's over $100,000 owed Then the ghosting started .@elamri wouldn’t respond to my DMS for days after i told him about the payout Then suddenly mass rejections start coming through Videos that had been live for weeks generating millions of views, content that was performing exactly as intended, all rejected The reason (according to the kalshi marketing team): “We don’t approve gooner content” What were they referring to though? My video of one of the top 20 sportswomen in the world was deemed as “NSFW” by them and therefore not approved DESPITE the video having 5M+ views and directly promoting them I have 20+ screenshots of conversations of them trying to explain why and Dris refusing to pay me Dris’ own words: "they ideally just want sports content / memes (which was later direction)" Read that again. "LATER DIRECTION" ASIDE from not paying me for my content and calling it “gooner content” They're literally admitting the direction came after I'd already delivered After the views were already counted. After they realized how much they'd owe me Videos with female athletes apparently don't count as sports to them I asked Dris directly "so by this logic female sports doesn't exist?" His response: “tried mentioning this earlier will try to see if sent" It's been 4 weeks of ghosting now I’ve not been paid anything after generating 200M views I've tried handling this privately but it’s genuinely getting to a point Everyone I mentioned is at fault here because I've been ignored, ghosted, and had 100 excuses made on why I couldn't get paid To the Instinct and the Kalshi team: you know what you owe. It’s VERY scummy of you to think you can get away not paying marketers what you owe them Will never be doing business with these guys again

This is still one of the best pieces of advice I have ever read. It's a great way to think about any goal you have, regardless of whether you are a startup founder or not.

"He who can destroy a thing has the real control of it" - Paul Atreides in Dune

Why are all these people going to Havana? Wouldn’t it be better to use the space / weight for aid?

@USA_Polling I don’t think this is a fair analysis, of course there was massive job growth as the pandemic winded down and restrictions were lifted globally. The post-Covid recovery overseen by the Biden administration was an extraordinary time for the American economy.

Almost like Democrats are better at the economy or something

@DrRemilio “preserving European culture” and it’s a maid cafe

Japan literally does a better job at preserving European culture and heritage than Europeans

I do not agree with AOC on many issues, but she is absolutely correct here. Gambling is an incredibly harmful vice. If these are really “prediction markets” and not online casinos, they should have no problem limiting their user base to accredited investors.

@BasedBiohacker this is how paul must have felt when he drank the water of life.

kid takes 5 grams of modafinil in an attempt suicide... does not die. bet this kid felt like Genghis Khan and could see the 4th dimension for a brief window of time there. i wonder what happened to him after. must be the backstory of one of the greats.

@amasad Is the issue here that people are building and using apps on their phones via Replit, thereby bypassing the app store?

Important to note that Replit has been on the App Store for 4 years and core functionality is exactly the same: You type (or generate) code, we compile on the server, and open a webview. Never have been in violation of any guidelines, which Apple eventually acknowledged.

@dvaldesnyc Why are all these people going to Havana? Wouldn’t it be better to use the space / weight for aid?

Our charter flight with thousands of pounds of aid gets ready to depart Miami to Havana. Beautiful solidarity con el pueblo Cubano!

@protosphinx Never use your own money when you could use other people's money

brother you are the funding you have all the funds

@QUSAY_NOOR_ You can tell a lot of these guys are not used to this kind of boredom after 13 years of civil war

Ahmed al-Sharaa: The first session of the People’s Assembly of #Syria was delayed because we preferred to wait until elections in the recently liberated areas were completed. The people have great hopes that the Assembly will serve as their voice in conveying their concerns. Among our priorities is ending the issue of displacement camps and enabling people to return to their villages and towns destroyed by the former regime. We have developed a plan and allocated significant funding to rehabilitate infrastructure in destroyed villages and towns, particularly in rural Idlib, #Aleppo, northern Hama, northern Latakia, as well as parts of Eastern Ghouta, #Daraa, and Deir ez-Zor. A fund of no less than $3 billion will be allocated to support infrastructure, financed through government spending rather than aid or loans. A special allocation will also be designated for the eastern regions Deir ez-Zor, Al-Hasakah, and #Raqqah, with a focus on services such as hospitals, schools, roads, and other essential infrastructure. Efforts will also continue to improve infrastructure and services in other cities. The 2026 state budget has been approved at approximately $10.5 billion, nearly five times larger than the 2024 budget. We expect the GDP this year to reach between $60 and $65 billion, returning to levels seen in 2010, which will positively reflect on public services. Recently liberated areas have restored many resources to the state, which will support the #Syrian economy in the energy, food, and water sectors. Around 40% of this year’s budget will be allocated to services such as health and education. We have approved a minimum wage, following recommendations from the Ministry of Finance and taking poverty rates into consideration. We have also approved a 50% increase in salaries and wages for all public sector employees, with additional targeted increases for doctors, engineers, and specialized institutions such as inspection bodies.

"Hot Products" and it's just graphite in different shapes, love this company haha

@3lfares insane lmao

This u?

Adjusted for inflation, roughly $785K at a $3.8M valuation.

@bchesky @lottsnomad Adjusted for inflation, roughly $785K at a $3.8M valuation.

After YC, Airbnb raised $615k at a $3M post-money valuation. We were the highest valuation in our batch.

@Justine_Brooke Venezuela is above the Equator.

AOC was a bartender until 2018. Now she jets around the globe on taxpayer dime to lecture us about those Venezuelans below the Equator.

@BovrilG Why did you include the UK?

I can finally restrict my posts to the First World

@trygraptor A big dog needs a big leash

cool that in every version he gets a ridiculously large collar