Michael Barnes, Ph.D. 🏡

Excited to partner with @healerofwallets to promote @VivaBenefits 24/7 telehealth product for $8/mo. for **any U.S. household - all dependents - month to month - no additional costs or copays - does not matter if you have / do not have insurance! instagram.com/reel/DPPs-CUDH…

@ryan_arimus @BlackLabelAdvsr @pitdesi Straight out of his secret playbook…

@BlackLabelAdvsr @pitdesi bro got caught, and now its a "joke" lol

Don't be lazy. Move to Texas. This home is just 15 minutes from me in Dallas and is $350,000 for 4,000 sf. So many of your problems would be solved by moving here. Yet you complain about the moving process. Trust me, California sucks. I lived in San Diego for 4.5 years. You could not pay me to move back.

@yaghsizian Looks nice 👌

If you actually want a 4,000 sf home in a city for <$400,000… Try Detroit, Michigan

@elonmusk Really? I thought you were pulling up the tent stakes in favor of humanoid robots 🤖 and AI? 🤔 💭 bbc.com/news/articles/…

Tesla will be #1 in more states over time

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Hi @brexHQ QQ: Why is the yield you claim on the Treasury Account 40 basis points higher than actual (3.7% vs. 3.3% APY), & even 15-20 bps higher than the direct fund (Dreyfus) @BNYglobal / @BNYWealth, which even if subsidized by an investment broker is 3.55% for the same 7-day period? Sources: brex.com/product/cash-m… dreyfus.com/products/mm/fu…

I agree. When we started we saw an industry (housing) with budgets in the $1-$2/door/mo. range, being pitched products in the $10-$12+ range‼️ We built our product and pricing to *actually meet the market demand. Also as a new entrant, we had to prove our value. Now we are seeing average deals grow from $1-$2/door/mo. to $4-$8+ because customers want to secure more value and even ensure our financial sustainability. 💘 However our efficiency at scale makes people wonder “how is that pricing possible?” (even at $4-$8/door) Since 2025 every deal has been structured to be net profitable in isolation, but we still over-invest to guarantee success. We fly out to meet key stakeholders and train regional team members. When partners fall short, we swoop in. “We will decide if we are successful; no one else has that power over us.” Early on we shared slides showing the material value of this over-investment. The result: we have met or exceeded 100% of our customer goals - primarily property performance outcomes - with 0 churn across dozens of U.S. markets coast to coast, since 2023 ‼️ 🎉 Alternative products do not even presume to commit to explicit property performance outcomes — they are not even in the same arena. And now the demand is upon us like a dam breaking — and I will post two more (contract) roles this morning to keep ahead of the wave 🌊

Profitability shouldn't always be the primary goal in the early stages. Sometimes, investing in growth, user experience, and brand reputation is more important than immediate profits. Play the long game. ✨

@sama Imagine the Super Bowl Ad @AnthropicAI / @claudeai could drop about this ethical fork in the woods 👀

Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.

@TheTrentHarvey @styngdn @sama

@styngdn @sama The climb is all there is.

Now if you would just remember to include the Xth BOA account I have into my #Platinum membership tier so it is not losing $16/mo. due to needless fees, I would consider it a 100% resounding success as a banking relationship 🙏

I just told a team member (half-serious) I would use the next 16min. to achieve the most critical 4-8 items on my to do list - & while doing so discovered @BankofAmerica kindly added the $88 in direct deposit my tired fingers forgot to add to a $1688 deposit. I was worried the entire payment would get held up or rejected... #Gratitude 🎉

@PeterOldani @ImSeanMcDonald @FurkanGozukara Including deductible is $11,832 before out of pocket costs. #Math For my family of 5 is well more than $20,000 per year.

@ImSeanMcDonald @FurkanGozukara $10k for the yr. My state is top 5 in health insurance costs

It is literally cheaper to fly to China, stay in a 5-star hotel, get an MRI, and fly back than it is to get a scan in the US with insurance. Let that sink in.

As an American 🇺🇸 citizen by birth from English-Scotts-Irish origins, I respectfully disagree … Furthermore I consider it my civic duty to call bs 💩 on your explicitly racist — and historically inaccurate — characterization of America. I will meet you anytime, anyplace to debate this, and I look forward to you helping prove me right. America’s appeal and “brand” globally drew interest from many cultures because of an emphasis on merit and access to economic opportunity irrespective of national, religious, or cultural origin. A company that does not discriminate in sourcing its labor will have a competitive advantage—including by recognizing how to serve and speak to the broadest possible demographic… So too will America [regain / maintain] a competitive advantage unless it slides back into a xenophobic and protectionist tendency that —ike sewage spilling into the Potomac — has surfaced time and again as a toxic wave ☣️ 🌊 throughout history. The truly empowered “Alpha” flavor of the human species is one who does not fear demographic changes, but adapts and leverages diversity as a superpower—embraces resilience vs. chasing a delusional “whitewashed” mischaracterization of reality. What’s more crucial—resilience in nature is key to survival—ironically it was an Irish 🇮🇪 agricultural monoculture that led to the over dependence on a genetically similar (and seemingly superior) “lumper” potato 🥔 that set Ireland up to be devastated by famine, due to the fragility caused by eliminating crop diversity, This event led to a wave of Irish immigrants into America who were unwelcome by some — but nevertheless persisted. In fact, “some assumed that the famine was divine judgement or that the Irish lacked moral character.” (Ironic; untrue) evolution.berkeley.edu/the-relevance-… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fam…

For a country to survive, there has to be a common culture. Nobody dies to defend a “multicultural economic zone”! American culture, with its English-Scotts-Irish origin, is great and worth fighting for. Some may not realize it, but that’s why people come here. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@hypertension57 @RepRaskin So you agree this treatment is inhumane and unacceptable and must stop?

@RepRaskin Hey Jamie raskin did it look like this Cuz this is under the Biden/ Harris administration

I just exercised my right as a Member of Congress to conduct an unannounced oversight visit of the ICE field facility in Baltimore. The staff I met with respected my right to visit, but what I saw was disgraceful. Kristi Noem has a budget of $75 billion she could use to ensure humane conditions, but we saw 60 men packed into a room shoulder-to-shoulder, 24-hours-a-day, with a single toilet in the room and no shower facilities. They sleep like sardines with aluminum foil blankets. Whether it’s for three days or seven days, nobody would want a member of their family warehoused there. The room set aside for dangerous criminals and violent offenders was empty. We’re demanding immediate answers and action.

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Congrats! 🎉

But then the real opportunity emerges. You have 0 liability exposure. All upside. When they drop the WWH 1.1 on AirBNB your army of AI agents 🤖 start grabbing dates where the nightly list price is less than your predicted rate —according to the algo. You start sub-letting to optimize returns. You bring @adinross the receipts. The owner bows before the optimizer. But this is just your v1. CeleBNB is born — as a collab. You take over management of the Stranger Things house. The Simpsons house. The Full House—house. Happy Gilmore’s Grandma’s House. Then… The White House, which you also restore inside to its original glory, to the delight of hardcore fans. Lincoln Bedroom Rates soar! 📈 You rest easy.

TIL I got outbid on a deal by streamer Adin Ross Over the weekend, @alipanju_ and I stumbled onto what felt like the perfect opportunity: the Breaking Bad house was for sale. Walter White's place, where fans have been throwing pizzas on the roof for years. The family had enough and listed it for $4M last year, but it didn't sell. Last week they dropped it to $400k. So we thought - what if we buy it, fix it up to look like the inside, add memorabilia and an RV out front for more space, and turn it into an Airbnb? We booked flights to Albuquerque, talked to an Airbnb consultant, dug into local STR regulations, built out a model and kept iterating on it as we learned more. We looked at comps like the Stranger Things house to figure out what kind of premium an iconic property can actually command. After all that work, we got comfortable around ~$900k. The price was going up throughout the weekend and then we found out that Adin Ross outbid us (with something north of $1M) and honestly, it makes sense. His audience gives him a built-in marketing channel and monetization layer... someone like him is the perfect buyer for this. The part that made us most nervous: Albuquerque has short-term rental ordinances, and the neighbors are notoriously exhausted by the fan traffic. If they successfully lobby the city to restrict rentals, your $1M asset becomes a $350K house in a modest neighborhood overnight. Still, the whole process was a blast, due diligence can be really fun sometimes!

@dr_balaclava @granthalloran @JaredSleeper I was going to say “join zoom calls” all day long but this is probably more accurate 🙃

@granthalloran @JaredSleeper Conduct meetings in person due to RTO 😂

Headcounts for assorted companies: Salesforce: 87,415 ServiceNow: 32,378 Workday: 23,234 Zoom: 12,743 Docusign: 8,403 OpenAI: 7,112 Okta: 7,064 UiPath: 5,096 Sprinklr: 4,368 Anthropic: 4,178 Yes, UiPath still has more employees than Anthropic. Infer from that what you will.

Garbage time? 🗑️ Maybe if Drake says “Maye I?” They’ll let him complete a pass downfield ?