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alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦
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alex 🏴☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦
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Journalist. @twistartups, @CaOptNews. Dad x3. He/Him. Black Lives Matter. I podcast and write. Hey!
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"Despite the woman’s release and proof of life-long citizenship, [sheriff's office spox] Cormier seemed to maintain, incorrectly, that she was deportable. 'If I’m not mistaken, she was already deported a time before,' he told The Lens. This is untrue."
thelensnola.org/2026/05/23/u-s…
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@nikitabier @Rainmaker1973 @ViralRushX Ok this is great fuck all these guys, but it’s also funny to give any kind of props to guys sticking watermarks on content ripped off other platforms
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I don’t like him or his company at all, but nothing I can disagree with here.
In fact, I ran into the same dilemma attempting to design something
Jawwwn@jawwwn_
.@PalmerLuckey: American companies don't actually have engineers anymore. "American companies have been hollowed out." "We're not teaching engineers how to be engineers anymore." "We're not teaching designers how to actually design things to be manufactured." "We're teaching them how to be high-level design shops that put together a design package, that gets sent to the real engineers in China—and they actually figure out how to do the work." "People are turning into architecture astronauts." "They pick components, and they put them in a nominal layout." "But the real work of—how am I actually going to put this together? How am I going to build a manufacturing line to make this? How am I going to need to figure out how to do the one, two, three, four, five different revisions of this board to pass radio emissions and interference standards? That's all done in China. So they are the real engineers." Via @HooverInst
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Pope Leo XIV called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war. apnews.com/article/pope-a…
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I hear from a near-dead legal AI company looking to get acquired every 3 weeks or so.
They all have one thing in common: they trained their own models rather than building on top of foundation models
And unfortunately those model assets are basically worthless
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Turning to the astute public opinion analysis of "Roman Helmet Guy" to reach the conclusion that the only available options are stark binary in which tech entrepreneurs must embrace braindead nativism or else be murdered.
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I didn't realize that Airbnb's stock is below its first-day closing price, even before adjusting for inflation.
Scott Stevenson@scottastevenson
The golden years of AirBNB were a temporary arbitrage on depreciation. There was a universe of beautiful well-maintained properties and hosts that had not been worn down by short term guests. And the AirBNB hosts didn’t properly estimate the cost of depreciation to maintain that standard, so costs were irrationally low That era fundamentally cant return, it was a temporary arbitrage opportunity There was once a supply of fairly pristine unused space and now there’s not If a space does manage to hit the 2014 standard, it must charge a lot more to fight depreciation And at that point a hotel is generally better
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Scooping up the world’s top talent to work at America’s companies, drive innovation, and make America the one of the wealthiest countries in the world is good, actually.
Mickey Kaus@kausmickey
"All told, a remarkable two-thirds of the Valley’s nearly 400,000 tech jobs are now held by those born abroad, according to a 2025 report from the think tank Joint Venture Silicon Valley." realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/…
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The dear leader works tirelessly for the people!
Jonah Goldberg@JonahDispatch
I kind of love these. They are so obviously intended for Trump’s consumption because he thinks it’s a big deal to work late on a Saturday. The idea that working until 9:30 on a weekend is unprecedented heroic sacrifice for a president is just so hilariously ignorant and lame.
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Bombshell reporting about a systemic culture of crypto and prediction market corruption at @CFTC
A few observations:
nytimes.com/2026/05/24/us/…
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“He just doesn’t like S.S.R.I.s."
Psychiatry has been shaken up by Robert F. Kennedy's push to curb Americans' use of antidepressants. I eavesdropped at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. Comments are open.
nytimes.com/2026/05/24/sci…
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It's even crueler than described. Say you marry your college sweetheart on a student visa, or girlfriend on a work visa. Maybe pregnant? Doesn't matter. You're forced to live apart or abroad for two years. If she is from 75 countries on Trump's arbitrary ban list, indefinitely.
Nick Davidov@Nick_Davidov
The biggest bullshit move by DHS in its history. So everyone on a O1 or H1B visa would have to stop working legally in the US, go back to their country and wait for years of backlog? This includes top scientists in our universities, founders of billion dollar companies (at least 3 just in our portfolio would be affected by the way). And if we look at individual countries it becomes even more bs. Indians would have to wait decades. Russians don’t have anywhere to go (there is no US embassy in Russia, hello?). This is the worst imaginable way to disrupt important work for the country and pretend you’re fighting some loophole.
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Most people don’t understand that the Indian bigco CEO phenomenon is mostly an immigration story. Indians are FAR more likely to be tied to employment visas than other nationalities, so they couldn’t easily start companies.
The 1990 Immigration Act created the modern H-1B/EB green card system. As Indian demand exploded, the 7% per-country cap turned into decades-long backlogs for Indians. Indian tech workers stayed tethered to sponsoring employers in a way Europeans, Russians, Taiwanese never had to. Founding a company means risking your status, resetting a green card path, or finding another workaround (now usually O-1 or EB-1).
European/ Russian /Taiwanese immigrants don’t face the same trap. Their countries don’t hit the 7% per-country cap, so demand stays under the limit. A German or Russian engineer on H-1B can get a green card in 1-2 years and leave to found a company. An Indian engineer doing the same job has to wait 20+ years.
The 1965-1989 Indian cohort was much smaller but not yet trapped by today’s H-1B lottery and India backlog machine. That’s why you see so many Indian founders from that era: Vinod Khosla (Sun Microsystems), Sanjay Mehrotra (SanDisk, before becoming CEO of Micron), Kanwal Rekhi (Excelan), Suhas Patil (Cirrus Logic), Desh Deshpande (Sycamore Networks), Pradeep Sindhu (Juniper Networks), etc.
My dad is a 1972 IIT grad who came to America for a PhD. Most of his IIT friends are successful entrepreneurs. My cousin took the same exact path (IIT>CMU) in the 1990s and most of his friends worked their way up corporate jobs because they needed employment sponsorship.
IMO this is bad for America. We took the highest-conviction risk-takers on earth, people who crossed an ocean and left their families behind, and forced them into the lowest-risk career path.
Fortunately this has been loosened in the 2010s with O-1 and EB-1A workarounds but it’s still much more challenging for Indian or Chinese founders.
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@Katie_Roof @julia_hornstein 2021 VC brain: “Take this public immediately at the most absurd valuation possible.”
2026 VC brain: “Perhaps we keep this private forever and gently harvest secondary liquidity in a dark room.”
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@rjchint Counting openclaw days was a Jason call; playing with codex for my own learning!
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@alex You stopped doing the daily countdowns of days since our lord openclaws release on twist.
Are we going to get a new bit with codex?
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well, codex is p cool
you can kinda treat it like the 'claw but it's polished
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