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Sebastian D. P. Hidalgo

Sebastian D. P. Hidalgo

@TheSebasHidalgo

Helping DefenseTech teams take market share like it’s hostile territory | Co-founder @Durindal_US

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Sebastian D. P. Hidalgo
Sebastian D. P. Hidalgo@TheSebasHidalgo·
The era of MEDDPICC, BANT, and Sandler is over. They’re nothing but the rotting effigies of a world that doesn’t exist anymore. All because of one thing: they ignored the existence of the Threat Layer. And that small detail makes all the difference, because if you’re in the business of dealing with humans but don’t know how humans operate, you’re destined to fail.
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LUIS
LUIS@luisomor·
Wearing gloves at the gym is insanely gay Your hands should be looking like this after spamming hundreds of pullups every week
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Sebastian D. P. Hidalgo
Sebastian D. P. Hidalgo@TheSebasHidalgo·
@michaelmiraflor When people can’t dress, they love claiming they either don’t are or are representing some sort of counter-culture
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Michael J. Miraflor
Michael J. Miraflor@michaelmiraflor·
Silicon Valley folk were/are not unfashionable “on purpose” as an anti-signal. They are unfashionable because they were/are unfashionable.
Josh Constine 📶🔥@JoshConstine

Being unfashionable on purpose was silicon valley’s way to signal “we’re focused on building, not looks or status” But now AI does the building, will that change? When it’s all about recruiting, GTM, and raising, could looking hot signal charisma and appeal to talent/capital?

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Torrey Dawley
Torrey Dawley@torreydawley·
Imagine thinking you only have two options as a business owner: - Be Apple - Run paid ads JFC. If you've ever wasted your time trying to help an addict, you'll know exactly how it feels trying to convince the Volume Junkies™ that there are far superior ways to building massive customer loyalty. Total waste of time.
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Sebastian D. P. Hidalgo
Sebastian D. P. Hidalgo@TheSebasHidalgo·
@torreydawley It’s like when I hear “cold email works!” Yes, it does. At a 3% reply rate and a 0.5% (at best) email-to-client ratio. My question always becomes: If you were in line for a roller coaster and they told you people come out without injuries 3% of the time, would you jump on? 🤣
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Torrey Dawley
Torrey Dawley@torreydawley·
"But paid marketing works!" Yeah, lying works too. Digging a ditch with a spoon "works." Wearing sackcloth clothing "works." Perpetually breaking even "works." "Works" is the dumbest reason to justify doing something. Two minutes of sincere examination makes it obvious.
Torrey Dawley@torreydawley

I’ll always celebrate when folks like Bill share this message. I’ve spread it for over 20 years to all my clients across several industries. Most already got it, because they were smart and understood how humans work. A few took a bit of pushing, but mostly because of the nonstop onslaught of bottom-feeding advertisers and gimmick-peddlers was tough to ignore. I’ve said this over 1,000 times in different ways: The people whose first impulse is to treat humans like objects to acquire through mass-volume tactics are always the least creative, worst to work with, and care least about their customers.

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Sebastian D. P. Hidalgo
Sebastian D. P. Hidalgo@TheSebasHidalgo·
Notice how all accounts with an NFT pfp in 2026 have devoted themselves to fearmongering and clickbait. “Most people have never heard of Palantir” “People don’t know In-Q-Tel exists” Palantir is on the news daily. In-Q-Tel literally has a Wikipedia page. Anyway remind me, how much are your NFTs worth today?
Bark@barkmeta

Let me explain what just happened 👇 The Pentagon just handed its entire AI system to a single private company for $10 billion. Americans did not vote for this. The company is called Palantir. Most people have never heard of them. That’s not an accident. Palantir was funded by the CIA’s venture capital arm. From the beginning. Their first investor was In-Q-Tel.. the CIA’s private investment fund that most people don’t even know exists. They were built by the intelligence community. For the intelligence community. Now they run the AI inside the Pentagon. Their founder is Peter Thiel. Bilderberg member. Was on the board of Facebook from the very beginning. Connected to every intelligence circle that exists. This is the same man who publicly wrote “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” He now controls the AI powering the largest military on earth. Now think about what Palantir actually built its reputation on.. Not weapons. Not defense systems. Surveillance. Tracking. Predicting human behavior before it happens. That’s their product. That’s what $10 billion just bought. And they named the company after the palantir from Lord of the Rings.. the seeing stones that let you watch anyone anywhere at any time. They always tell you what it is. CIA funded. Intelligence connected. Surveillance built. Named after an all-seeing eye. Now running the AI inside the US military. With virtually zero oversight. Funded with your money. And nobody is asking a single question about it. Pay attention…

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Sebastian D. P. Hidalgo
Sebastian D. P. Hidalgo@TheSebasHidalgo·
@barkmeta “Most people don’t know In-Q-Tel exists” My guy, there’s literally a Wikipedia page about them. If people prefer to scroll ragebait videos rather than actually leverage the device that would allow them to access the world’s knowledge, that’s on them.
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Bark
Bark@barkmeta·
Let me explain what just happened 👇 The Pentagon just handed its entire AI system to a single private company for $10 billion. Americans did not vote for this. The company is called Palantir. Most people have never heard of them. That’s not an accident. Palantir was funded by the CIA’s venture capital arm. From the beginning. Their first investor was In-Q-Tel.. the CIA’s private investment fund that most people don’t even know exists. They were built by the intelligence community. For the intelligence community. Now they run the AI inside the Pentagon. Their founder is Peter Thiel. Bilderberg member. Was on the board of Facebook from the very beginning. Connected to every intelligence circle that exists. This is the same man who publicly wrote “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” He now controls the AI powering the largest military on earth. Now think about what Palantir actually built its reputation on.. Not weapons. Not defense systems. Surveillance. Tracking. Predicting human behavior before it happens. That’s their product. That’s what $10 billion just bought. And they named the company after the palantir from Lord of the Rings.. the seeing stones that let you watch anyone anywhere at any time. They always tell you what it is. CIA funded. Intelligence connected. Surveillance built. Named after an all-seeing eye. Now running the AI inside the US military. With virtually zero oversight. Funded with your money. And nobody is asking a single question about it. Pay attention…
NewsWire@NewsWire_US

PENTAGON TO ADOPT PALANTIR AI AS CORE MILITARY SYSTEM: REUTERS

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nachos2d
nachos2d@NACHOS2D_·
Hollywood got cooked. AI Seedance 2.0 just dropped a Hancock vs Homelander in a matter of days $1,000,000-level quality.
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Jeremy
Jeremy@JeremyD513·
The real reason @TheSebasHidalgo quit hostage negotiation. He knew AI was coming
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George Ten
George Ten@GrammarHippy·
I wanna write a long-form on: “How to build a business from scratch with nothing but a laptop and $50. • With zero audience • Without being an expert • Without showing your face.” I’ve taught more than 250 people how to do this so far with a staggering success rate. Will write it today if we get 250 replies below. Otherwise - Monday.
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Sebastian D. P. Hidalgo
Sebastian D. P. Hidalgo@TheSebasHidalgo·
The biggest eye opener for me was realizing that black pillers and pessimists are just deeply scared people who use fear as the coping mechanism to justify not committing to any progress except on the few things they believe they have control over. Which gives me a lot of compassion for them. But you can understand someone and still walk away from them for your own good. Misery is an infectious disease.
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Torrey Dawley
Torrey Dawley@torreydawley·
Black pilled people can’t be trusted. They never have skin in the game. If they did, they’d short everything. They’d be in a bunker instead of on social media. I recall a guy in my hometown who used to leave printed “the end is near, societal collapse is coming” propaganda everywhere he went. He drilled on weekends with a “militia” group who liked to play army and fantasize about how fiat currency was collapsing any day now. He literally claimed every single week for years that “It’s all happening this week.” Still had a saving account. Still planted a garden. Still took his cat to the vet for checkups. At a certain point, you have to get good at pattern recognition. There’s a certain percentage of people who have claimed the sky will fall since the dawn of man. Just because some of them have large social media accounts these days doesn’t mean they should be trusted.
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Sebastian D. P. Hidalgo
Sebastian D. P. Hidalgo@TheSebasHidalgo·
@GrammarHippy Smart play. If there’s someone that has mastered the art of getting attention out of survival, it’s trad media
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George Ten
George Ten@GrammarHippy·
Brilliant. Follow Glenn for more brilliancy.
Glenn@glennwrites1

@GrammarHippy Copy and paste all the headlines from today's Daily Mail and ask it to give me headline ideas based on the headlines with 100+ comments. My rationale is that tabloids have worked on headlines like the cure for cancer. They've done the work. We can piggy back.

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Dustin
Dustin@r0ck3t23·
Palmer Luckey just dismantled the moral argument against autonomous weapons in three sentences. The choice is not between weapons and no weapons. It is between dumb weapons and smart weapons. And if technology can reduce civilian deaths, refusing to use it is the moral failure. Luckey: “I don’t see the moral high ground in making, for example, an anti-vehicle landmine that can’t tell the difference between a Russian tank and a school bus full of kids.” When you refuse to deploy a system that can distinguish between a combatant and a civilian, you are not protecting humanity. You are choosing collateral damage. Keeping algorithms out of the kill chain doesn’t save lives. It costs them. But Luckey didn’t stop at the capability argument. He went straight to the accountability question. Luckey: “If I’m deploying those landmines in a place where they’re able to make a mistake, and they make a mistake, a person needs to be held accountable. And you say, did you use them appropriately? Did you trade the risks appropriately? Does this actually make sense?” The architecture of the kill chain changes. The liability does not. Autonomous systems don’t absorb responsibility. They accelerate execution. The human who authorized the deployment still owns the outcome. Every outcome. The operators who dominate the modern battlefield will scale autonomous capability aggressively while maintaining absolute human ownership over the decision to deploy it. That is the line. And it never moves. And here’s the part that makes this existential. If you demand a human in the loop for every single physical execution, you are engineering your own vulnerability. Luckey: “The answer is not to say that you cannot have an autonomous air defense system, because if you do that, all someone has to do is they break communications or break your command and control… and now your enemy can pummel you without stopping.” When the command link is jammed, the analog system goes blind. The autonomous system continues to execute. If your infrastructure cannot operate independently the microsecond the network is severed, you are not being cautious. You are being defenseless. Your adversary doesn’t need to destroy the weapon. They just need to cut the wire. The debate was never about whether machines should be trusted with life and death. It was about whether humans can afford the cost of insisting on doing it alone. They can’t.
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Sebastian D. P. Hidalgo
Sebastian D. P. Hidalgo@TheSebasHidalgo·
@Garrath_R Bad wine. “Made with organic grapes” is marketing speak for “made with random grapes from different vineyards. I would even doubt it’s from Spain. You want the wines that on the label say DOC, DOP, or DOCG
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Garrath Robinson
Garrath Robinson@Garrath_R·
Trying a new Cab tonight. G-11 from Valencia Spain. Probably going to be rich with tannins but let’s see what we get.
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Gaurab Chakrabarti
Gaurab Chakrabarti@Gaurab·
We spent $15,000 on billboards targeting one person: the guy controlling all the chemical spend at a saltwater disposal company in Texas. We mapped his commute and bought every billboard between his house and the oil field. When we finally called, he said "I see your billboards everywhere." That landed us our first oil field contract. At the time our entire operation was a $10,000 reactor built from PVC pipes from Home Depot, turning corn sugar into industrial chemicals. People keep trying to throw it away. It still works. That leaking reactor started a multibillion-dollar company. @ycombinator visited our plant in Houston. The original PVC reactor is still on the floor next to the Bioforge.
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