
Adrian Stone
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Adrian Stone
@SmallTimeVC
Started 1 fund, 2 accelerators, 3 businesses, 40 angel investments, and 5 conversations. You can read a tweet in 6 seconds. #OKBoomer
Melbourne Katılım Mart 2014
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This day (April 21) in 1986, the U.S. government quietly decided to bury forever Yasser Arafat’s cold-blooded murder of two American diplomats rather than bring him to justice.
Thirteen years earlier, on March 1–2, 1973, Arafat’s PLO terrorist group Black September stormed a diplomatic reception at the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan. They took hostage U.S. Ambassador Cleo A. Noel Jr. and Chargé d’Affaires George Curtis Moore, along with a Belgian diplomat.
The terrorists demanded the release of Sirhan Sirhan (Robert Kennedy’s Palestinian assassin) and other jailed terrorists. President Nixon refused to negotiate.
Then came the orders from Arafat in his Beirut headquarters.
NSA intercepts (later confirmed by CIA reporting) captured Yasser Arafat personally approving and directing the operation from his Beirut headquarters.
Arafat’s top deputy, Abu Jihad, relayed the final command. At 9 p.m. on March 2, the terrorists marched the three diplomats into the basement and riddled them with Kalashnikov fire — shooting from the feet upward to maximize suffering.
Arafat then calmly radioed his killers: “Your mission has ended. Explain your just cause to the great Sudanese Arab masses and international opinion. We are with you on the same road.”
The eight terrorists surrendered the next day. Sudan tried and convicted them, but under PLO pressure, handed them back to Arafat. A farce - the killers were quietly released and then celebrated as heroes.
The U.S. had ironclad evidence — radio intercepts, intelligence cables, and internal PLO admissions — that Arafat personally ordered the murders. Yet, for political reasons, not a single U.S. administration ever pursued him.
In 1986, when 44 U.S. senators begged Attorney General Edwin Meese to indict Arafat, the Justice Department declined, relying on a technicality and dubiously claiming the evidence was somehow “insufficient.”
The real reason was diplomatic convenience. Arafat was being groomed as a “peace partner.” And this naiveté allowed the arch-terrorist Arafat to get away with mass murder over and over.
Arafat went on to hijack planes, order the Munich Olympic massacre, direct suicide bombings - and then he just started showing up at the White House in a uniform and kaffiyeh, shaking hands with presidents and pocketing billions in foreign aid money that was supposed to go to “his people.”
After his refusal of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital at Camp David in 2000 and Taba in 2001 (followed by his ordering the bloody Second Intifada), it became patently obvious Arafat never wanted peace. He wanted prestige, power, and cash. The “peace process” was just the costume he wore while continuing the war by other means.
The families of Cleo Noel and George Moore never got justice. The world moved on and called Arafat a statesman.
That is the appalling truth about the man the international community chose to treat as a legitimate leader and award a Nobel Peace Prize instead of holding him to account as the murdering terrorist he always was.

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If you read Colossus you would be scared
Very scared
Very very scared
Did I mention how scared you would be RN?
Very very very …
MERICA MEMED@Mericamemed
We're now just tamogotich for AI.
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TL;DR
Invest $10k in 50 startups, not $100k in 5
こぐにー|心理学@s_ss_123_
教授「コイン投げをしよう。裏表どちらがでる確率も50%、表が出たらあなたの資産が1.5倍になって、裏が出たらあなたの資産が0.6倍になる」 私「期待値は1.5✖️50%+0.6✖️50%で、1.05。 期待値が1を超えているんだから、やればやるほど儲かる魔法のギャンブルですね!」 彼女「ちょっとまって!それは、
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Saw Lioz last night in Vegas. He’s fabulous.
𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 - 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 - 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞⭐️❤️@NgocThach74
This is fabulous because he perfectly emulates every lame magician's facial expression. This is brilliant, absolutely brilliant.
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We're launching a new program @ NY Tech Week for global founders starting with Israel
June 1 - 7
we’re bringing 7-10 Israeli founders to NYC for a curated Tech Week experience
- up to $ 5K to cover travel cost
- small dinner with the a16z speedrun team
- access to executive buyers/customers at our AI Faire
- invite to VIP a16z events
- and more
meanwhile, there’s a bunch of other awesome Israeli focused and general Tech Week events that week to attend
if you’re an Israeli builder just beginning to think about starting a company and want to test your ideas with the US market:
apply below!

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@BrianRoemmele does this help to address the web contamination issue you recently wrote about?
Also, if successful at a GPT3 level (they say they ‘have a clear path’ to this) and if it can independently rediscover post-training cutoff technology - that’s 2x ‘if’, I know :) - what would that say about intelligence arising out of language, rather than what most would assume is the reverse?
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New work with @AlecRad and @DavidDuvenaud:
Have you ever dreamed of talking to someone from the past? Introducing talkie, a 13B model trained only on pre-1931 text.
Vintage models should help us to understand how LMs generalize (e.g., can we teach talkie to code?). Thread:
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@SmallTimeVC Not myself, but Claude was very familiar with it. 😅
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This ANZAC Day 2026, as I do every year, remembering my Great Grandfather Lt Ernest Stooke DCM No1 Australian Flying Corp (one of the first Australians in flight). Died aged 24. For King @RoyaFamily and Country. “For All We Have And Are” as Kipling said.
He left back in Melbourne a Wife and a Child (my Grandfather) who he would never know.
Lest we forget. #ANZACDay

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@SmallTimeVC Country: USA — 1pt ✅
State: California — 2pts ✅
Area: Joshua Tree — 3pts ✅
Landmark: Joshua Tree National Park — 5pts ✅
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