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@GustavS Neat!

It’s finally rolling out! Meet SongDNA, a very cool feature that lets you literally see the ”DNA” of a song and nerd out completely on it, you can see who wrote it, composed it, produced, mastered and engineered it, who performed on it, who covered it, who sampled it etc etc and then traverse any of those paths through the rest of the catalog. You can spend hours figuring how many steps any song actually is from Rick Rubin!

@0xSeco BV 🙏🏼

8. If you want, reply “BV” and I’ll share the simple framework + the numbers (and what actually matters: salary rules, admin, and keeping it compliant). We’ll get you set up.

1. The Netherlands is about to tax unrealised gains with 36%. And the funniest part? The Dutch asked for it themselves.

@FrankSchuil Making my head spin

Just trying to figure out why this theoretically is a good idea. Anyone? What are the arguments in favor?

Another INSANE view of George Springer's go-ahead homer 😱

When art is made out of love - it wins. It's as simple as that :)

@resaang @cryptopunks @gondixyz How was the selling experience?

Sold my @cryptopunks overnight via @gondixyz. This punk was my longest onchain identity (2 years) — bought around $100k, rode it down to $50k, then back up to $200k+. After getting scammed a few weeks ago (didn’t share that here), I felt it was time to take some chips off the table. Grateful for everyone I’ve met in the punk community, I’ll be back in due time 😇💜👋🏻

@packyM Enjoyed this one. You could tell it flowed. Gotta be remarkable in this world.

I started writing this essay around 830pm last night, sitting on the couch watching the Robinhood presentation. It flowed more easily than anything I've written in a while. Just hit send when it was done. A lot of people assume the world will just descend into slop. For every action, though, there's an equal and opposite reaction. The easier it is to copy, the more valuable it is to be different. That Robinhood, Stripe, and Anduril, three of the most well-resourced and talented teams of this era, have gone full differentiation mode is a sign that sameness won't win. It's both costly and economically advantageous to stand out, and it's good for our soul. What these companies do, others will mimic. It's what we do. But I think the imitators will ape the essence -- the differentiation itself -- instead of the form. Competing to be the most different is how we escape the slop. The Great Differentiation is upon us.

@AlexShin @balajis Who in South Korea provides this service?

@balajis Other countries have comprehensive checkups like this. S. Korea its like $600. One stop shop. Every test available, CT scan, MRI, colonoscopy in a 3~4 hour window.

What's wrong with you? You don't know. You don't know if you're quietly sick. You don't know if there's a creeping time bomb in your body, one that might be detected and prevented by a simple test. But you're busy. You can't spend your time worrying about this stuff! Ideally you just want to get periodically scanned by a set of machines, have them determine what's wrong if anything, and then dispatch treatment accordingly. That's why @PeterAttiaMD and my friend @johnhering founded Biograph, and why I became one of the first investors. The product packages just about every useful biomedical test into a single battery, from blood work to EKGs, from CT scanning to whole body MRI. It integrates all these measurements in an app and tracks them across time, giving a comprehensive overview of known risks for cancer, heart health, metabolic disease, neurological issues, sleep disorders, and more besides. It schedules you for a recurring checkup every six months, and uses both basic baselining and advanced AI to determine whether your results are normal. And it goes live today.

What just happened? At 9:44 PM ET on a casual Friday night, president-elect Trump launched the biggest memecoin in history, $TRUMP. Since then, the coin is up 9,500% with $2.2 BILLION of volume traded in under 12 hours. What does this all mean? Let us explain. (a thread)

@punk4945 @eli_schein Nice piece

Fidenza #803 was added to my collection today. I’ve spent months now wanting to own a Microfidenza but hadn’t found the right deal until now thanks to @eli_schein ! P.S. My fiancee is really happy since she loves this collection

@petergyang Curious what this chart would look like if we pulled out the Mag 7

As much as I love Canada, it's sadly turned into a country where unskilled immigrants are coming in by the masses while skilled immigrants are brain-draining to the US. Trudeau needs to go.

@ncsh Time flies!

Five Years of Exploring the Adjacent ! @ncsh/five-years-of-exploring-the-adjacent-5d29b4b64961" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@ncsh/five-yea…

Proud to support this petition for a unified pan-European startup entity. Let’s unite Europe's startup ecosystems! eu-inc.org 🇪🇺 eu-inc.org

@0x1ee7 @pepecoins @getbasedai at what point are we supposed to unstake our pepecoin?

Extra digits for each one of these is sooner than you think $TAO @pepecoins @getbasedai

@9th @thecosmos Dig it

Infinite canvas is coming to @thecosmos...

@packyM @trycreate_co Congrats. Go team Create!

~* Proud investor / sibling *~ Dan & Sienna raised $5M to bring creatine to everyone who can benefit from it, which is pretty much everyone. When he told me he wanted to start a creatine business, I was confused. I get it now. Creatine and @trycreate_co are here to stay.

While not every conversation at @USV leads to an investment, every investment can be traced back to an initial conversation. With the help of @usvlibrarian we’re taking these conversations public sooner. We call it OH @ USV. This week’s OH’s are all about creating lasting AI memories, sports gambling, and investing counter-cyclically…🧵

@stevefsequoia @udiomusic Those people still bought the CD, listened the ad supported radio, paid for the Spotify subscription.

Today, we'd like to share some thoughts on AI and the future of music. In the past two years, AI has become a powerful tool for creative expression across many media—from text to images to film, and now music. At Udio, our mission is to empower artists of all kinds to create extraordinary music. In our young life as a company, we have sat in the studios of some of the world’s greatest musicians, workshopped lyrics with up-and-coming songwriters, and watched as millions of users created extraordinary new music, ranging from the funny to the profound. We have heard from a talented musician who, after losing the ability to use his hands, is now making music again. Producers have sampled AI-generated tracks to create hit songs, like ‘BBL Drizzy’, and everyday music-lovers have used the technology to express the gamut of human emotions from love to sorrow to joy. Groundbreaking technologies entail change and uncertainty. Let us offer some insight into how our technology works. Generative AI models, including our music model, learn from examples. Just as students listen to music and study scores, our model has ‘listened’ to and learned from a large collection of recorded music. The goal of model training is to develop an understanding of musical ideas—the basic building blocks of musical expression that are owned by no one. Our system is explicitly designed to create music reflecting new musical ideas. We are completely uninterested in reproducing content in our training set, and in fact, have implemented and continue to refine state-of-the-art filters to ensure our model does not reproduce copyrighted works or artists’ voices. We stand behind our technology and believe that generative AI will become a mainstay of modern society. Virtually every new technological development in music has initially been greeted with apprehension, but has ultimately proven to be a boon for artists, record companies, music publishers, technologists, and the public at large. Synthesizers, drum machines, digital recording technology, and the sound recording itself are all examples of once-controversial music creation tools that were feared in their early days. Yet each of these innovations ultimately expanded music as an art and as a business, leading to entirely new genres of music and billions of dollars in the pockets of artists, songwriters and the record labels and music publishers who profit from their creations. We know that many musicians—especially the next generation—are eager to use AI in their creative workflows. In the near future, artists will compose music alongside their fans, amateur musicians will create entirely new musical genres, and talented creators—regardless of means—will be able to scale the heights of the music industry. The future of music will see more creative expression than ever before. Let us use this watershed moment in technology to expand the circle of creators, empower artists, and celebrate human creativity.

@ncsh @adjacent @pawell @Forbes @TrueBridgeCP Boom!

Pretty unreal to make the Midas Seed List of the top 25 early stage investors globally <5 years after founding @Adjacent… forbes.com/lists/midas-se… Thankful for all the founders who took me on and special to share it with @pawell who gave me the start in VC!