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If an app like Exposr can make $50k/mo just by showing people how healthy the food you are eating is..
then you should probably make one too.
the marketing videos are genius and are formatted like the news

Danny@DannyIsLearning
If an app like the SSME app can make $100k/mo just by giving people new wallpapers.. then you should probably build one too. the marketing videos are so simple but get millions of views each
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“I’m here for my money and my free house. It’s my dream.”
Notice the entitlement. MY money and MY free house.
So this is your reminder that mass immigration at this scale is impossible without heavy government funding.
They are not coming to the West to work.
They are coming for the subsidized lifestyle you pay for.
Their net contribution is not zero, it is negative.
This would never have happened at this level without a massive public trough funding it. Your tax dollars are the incentive.
You work hard, the government takes your money, and funnels it to them.
You are funding this reality. Take it up with your government.
They are the ones confiscating your earnings to incentivize mass immigration.
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@HedgieMarkets Uber exec at least had the balls to admit it publicly
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🦔Uber's COO Andrew Macdonald said on Saturday that the company is having a harder time justifying its AI spend. After CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga went viral in April for admitting Uber burned through its 2026 Claude Code budget in four months, senior engineering leaders concluded higher token usage was not translating into proportionally more useful product.
Macdonald said the link between AI consumption and shipped features is "not there yet." CEO Dara Khosrowshahi confirmed on the earnings call that Uber is slowing hiring to fund its AI spend. Duolingo also walked back its decision to include AI usage in performance reviews last month.
My Take
Uber is the first major enterprise where the C-suite has publicly admitted, on the record, that the AI productivity story is not closing for them. That matters because Uber is not a skeptic. The company went all-in on AI tooling, set internal targets, and burned through its annual research and development budget in four months trying to make it work. The conclusion from the people running the experiment is that tokens consumed and value shipped are not the same number, and management is finally noticing.
Duolingo's reversal lands in the same week for a reason. CEO Luis von Ahn said employees were asking whether they needed to use AI just to use AI, which is Goodhart's Law showing up in a performance review system. When usage becomes the metric, employees optimize for usage, not output. Microsoft canceled internal Claude Code licenses, Google AI Pro stripped credits from paid subscribers, and now Uber is admitting the ROI does not close at scale.
The narrative has shifted in the last 30 days from "AI productivity is here" to "AI productivity is harder to measure than we thought." The companies pushing tokenmaxxing internally are now the same companies signaling cost pressure externally. The IPO calendar for OpenAI and Anthropic is going to get a lot more complicated if the largest enterprise customers keep saying this out loud.
Hedgie🤗

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she has a masters in drama from Yale and “had no idea what the odyssey was”. not just “hadn’t read it” had never heard of it at all apparently. what a damning indictment of Yale.
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@DrewPavlou
Lupita Nyong'o: “I really had no idea what The Odyssey was” 😭
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@BullTheoryio We need the cost to come down anyway. It’s completely broken economics model for everyone except NVDA here
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27 VCs wanted to meet a founder who didn't exist
A UC Berkeley grad created a fake founder profile last summer. Stanford CS, ex-Palantir, building an AI infrastructure startup and four funds wanted a call….
There was no product… But VCs are signal hunters…
But all the signals VCs have relied on for years can all be manufactured now.
CMU researchers found 6 million suspected fake GitHub stars across 15,000 repositories.
You can buy 50,000 stars for $3,000. You can generate $10M ARR and a Stanford pedigree for less than a flight to SF.
Two years ago, $150K ARR was a good demo day number. Today the floor is $800K and most companies claim $1-2M.
But ARR isn't annual, recurring, or sometimes even revenue. Founders count pilots, one-time deals, and letters of intent because everyone else is doing it.
At Lobster Capital, we ask different questions now.
-- How was the number calculated?
-- What's the churn?
-- Who's paying and why?
We talk to customers directly when we can, not only to verify the founder's story but to understand what problem they're solving, do customers care and whether anyone would pay more for it.
ARR only tells you what happened once.. Unit economics tells you what happens next.

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🇺🇸 The CEO of BlackRock, Larry Fink, says ordinary people’s savings accounts and pension funds, worth trillions of dollars will be used to build data centers and power grids for AI
⛔️He says that people will be forced to invest in it
“Much of this will come from savings accounts and pension accounts.”‼️


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@Playerinthgame @DavidSacks Someone at GS about to get fired for speaking truth
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@DavidSacks CEO of GS has his ulterior motives and fiduciary duty to super rich stock holders to make such statements. At ground level, among college graduates, this is far from truth. AI is decimating job markets for young people. Promoting AI is fine. But don’t hide the true consequences

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@FacingNorthX @StevenEdginton 17 million is less than 1 year stock grant for some CEO
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@StevenEdginton $17 Million is too small a fine.
It shows that Trump isn't serious.
Indians, and their theft of significant parts of the American economy, are a bigger threat than Communism was during the Cold War.
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The American worker now faces a three-pronged attack. First, DEI policies discriminate against white employees in hiring and promotions. Second, corporations import cheap foreign labour through programs like H-1B visa. Third, when Americans cannot be replaced at home, their jobs are simply shipped abroad to countries like India.
Few companies embody all three trends more clearly than IBM. The tech giant recently agreed to pay $17 million to settle allegations from the U.S. government that it discriminated against employees on the basis of race and sex. Federal authorities alleged the company tied bonuses and hiring decisions to demographic targets and restricted certain opportunities on the basis of identity. At the same time, IBM has relied heavily on imported labour, receiving 32,725 H-1B visa approvals over the past decade according to USCIS data. And increasingly, the company’s future appears rooted outside the United States altogether: under Indian-born CEO Arvind Krishna, IBM now employs roughly a third of its 280,000 workers in India, a figure that may rival, or even surpass, its American headcount.

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@StevenEdginton India population is out of control. Just sending the top 0.1% of India replaced top 0.1% of US
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@jerseygirl007rn @SenJanetNguyen It’s our tax money that we paid 😂
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@SenJanetNguyen Yea, you freaking hate him but take the $$$
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@SenJanetNguyen its the Republicans fault in the first place you guys want deregulation you the right wingers are to blame for all this because you want less government interference
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NEW: California just secured a Presidential Emergency Declaration for the Garden Grove hazmat incident.
Working closely with local responders, the state has moved aggressively to protect residents in the impacted area.
This morning, @OCFireAuthority announced that the risk of a massive explosion has been mitigated. This new federal assistance will further bolster our resources to help resolve this situation.

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