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Adrian Stone

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Started 1 fund, 2 accelerators, 3 businesses, 40 angel investments, and 5 conversations. You can read a tweet in 6 seconds. #OKBoomer

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Captain Allen
Captain Allen@CptAllenHistory·
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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Yossi BenYakar
Yossi BenYakar@YossiBenYakar·
This was Gaza on October 7. Palestinians celebrating in the streets as terrorists dragged the bodies of murdered Israeli women. Remember this next time someone calls them “freedom fighters.”
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Adrian Stone@SmallTimeVC·
A version of this *may* be true in Vic & Qld (not NSW) …
hunter@hxxntrr

A debt collector just won a $10,000 judgment against a woman in Florida over a debt that legally died 3 years ago She didn't show up to court She didn't know she could 95% of people sued by debt collectors never respond. That's the entire business model Every state has a statute of limitations on debt. 3-10 years depending on where you live. After that clock expires, the debt is legally unenforceable. The collector can call. Can mail. Can beg But they CANNOT sue you and win Except they file anyway. Because they know you won't show up You get served with papers. You panic. Throw them in a drawer. Or they were mailed to your old address and you never see them. Either way you don't respond Default judgment. Granted. Now they can garnish your wages. Freeze your bank account. Lien your property On a debt they had ZERO legal right to collect The defense takes 5 minutes: show up. Tell the judge "this debt is past the statute of limitations in my state." Bring the dates. Case dismissed But there's a trap most people fall for: Collectors try to RESTART the clock on expired debt. In most states the statute resets if you: Make any payment. Even $1 Say "yes that's my account" on a recorded call Sign a written payment agreement "Just send $5 to show good faith." That $5 reactivates the entire balance. A debt that was legally dead is now fully enforceable for another 3-7 years They train their reps to get that $5 out of you The correct response when a collector calls about old debt: "I don't recognize this account. Provide written validation under FDCPA Section 809" Nothing else. Hang up Check your state's statute of limitations at your state AG's website. If it's expired: Send this certified mail: "This debt is time-barred under [state] statute of limitations. Any attempt to collect or sue is a violation of the FDCPA. Cease all contact immediately" If it's on your credit report past 7 years from the date of first delinquency: "This account exceeds the FCRA 7-year reporting period. Remove immediately" If a collector sues on expired debt, that itself is an FDCPA violation. You can counter-sue for $1,000 per violation plus attorney fees A woman had $23K in zombie debt. All past her state's statute. Collectors called every week for years We checked. Every account was expired. Sent cease letters. Disputed with the bureaus. All removed within 45 days. Zero dollars paid Score went from 588 to 691 95% of people sued over dead debt lose by default. The other 5% show up and win in 5 minutes Be the 5% (i fix credit in 30-90 days. zombie debt is dead debt wearing a costume. we take the mask off. link in bio)

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Troy Kirwin
Troy Kirwin@tkexpress11·
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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Adrian Stone@SmallTimeVC·
@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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Nick Levine
Nick Levine@status_effects·
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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Dave Rich
Dave Rich@daverich1·
George Orwell once wrote that "one of the marks of antisemitism is an ability to believe stories that could not possibly be true", and this site proves that to be the case every single day.
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Adrian Stone@SmallTimeVC·
Where’s Waldo? Country: +1pt State: +2pts Area: +3pts Landmark: +5pts WGAF: +all the points!
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Geoff Stooke
Geoff Stooke@GeoffStooke·
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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Scott Handsaker
Scott Handsaker@shandsaker·
@SmallTimeVC Country: USA — 1pt ✅ State: California — 2pts ✅ Area: Joshua Tree — 3pts ✅ Landmark: Joshua Tree National Park — 5pts ✅
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Adrian Stone@SmallTimeVC·
Opus 4.7 does not sympathise with my financial situation (re my free Supabase account)
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