Troy O'Brien

@WayneWaldropW He used the words "fundamental monetary reform" and lived through it. That's a win, honestly.

Daily reminder that this man was in the Epstein files explicitly for not being corruptable.

@andyparkart Thanks for all you've done! You get a follow, just out of respect, sir. Best wishes!

Marvel Studios Visual Development: 2010–2026 End of an era. I was there at the start of a team that broke the mold. 16 years, 40+ films, and 15 films led as Director of Visual Development, I couldn’t be prouder of the history we made. My journey continues… #Marvel #AndyPark

@davidicke Professor Jiang is getting one helluva push these days. It's odd, that's certain.

When a China-based 'professor' who is not a professor comes out of nowhere and is suddenly everywhere promoted by all the usual suspects and with massive algorithmic support it is worth asking a lot of questions about why. x.com/EscanorReloade…

@Y2John84 You are what you do, not what you remember. True story.

If you know this, you had an awesome two weeks.

@MrBrum43 You're supposed to get up again, so....

I always found the Mandela effect fascinating but could never 100% buy into any of the theory’s. Until today. The band that sang “I get knocked down, but I get up again’ Spell the name for me?

@16bitnostalgia Jet Moto, 1 and 3.

What is it?

@kfriz43 @NotKennyRogers People not realizing how other people live, makes how we all live worse.

@NotKennyRogers I always thought it was funny that a “Christmas bonus” was central to the story. Who gets Christmas bonuses anymore? Was that ever really a thing? And why did Clark count on receiving a bonus as if it’s a part of his salary? Wouldn’t it be considered extra?

On this day in 1989, a food chemist from Illinois named Clark Wilhelm Griswold put down a $7,500 deposit for installation of an in-ground swimming pool while assuming his upcoming Christmas bonus would cover the rest.

@satyanadella It would be great if by "doing our part" some of us didnt need to starve to death or be lost to poverty. Those in control of the system are responsible for its outcomes. Think bigger, and better of the rest of us. People of vision would find an answer. Peace, and good will.

I’ve been thinking a lot about what the net benefit of the AI platform wave is. The real question is how to empower every company out there to get more out of this platform shift and build their own AI native capabilities and enterprise value (vs inadvertently just transfer their unique value to the tech sector!!). Bill famously said a platform is when the economic value of everybody that uses it exceeds the value of the company that creates it. That’s the essence of the positive-sum future. Even in our somewhat zero-sum mindset industry, we can create partnerships that create value for all parties involved. Our partnership with OpenAI is a great example. Our investment helped them scale; their research accelerated our own innovation. That’s what healthy platforms and partners do—they catalyze and compound progress. There’s no better proof than what we announced just this week. The world’s first AI superfactory was co-designed with OpenAI and informed by three generations of AI supercomputers we built for frontier model training and inference. It was also a result of working closely with Nvidia and getting better at the full stack optimization from model architecture to micro-architecture of the chip and everything between three companies! We also did the work to bring AMD into the fleet doing inference of GPT models, which enabled them to get up to speed on their own software stack for AI. And now all this infrastructure will scale to support every startup to enterprise doing their own training to inference. You can see the same dynamic in coding. Thanks to AI, the category itself has expanded and may ultimately become one of the largest software categories. I don’t ever recall any analyst ever asking me about how much revenue Visual Studio makes! But now everyone is excited about AI coding tools. This is another aspect of positive sum, when the category itself is redefined and the pie becomes 10x what it was! With GitHub Copilot we compete for our share and with GitHub and Agent HQ we also provide a platform for others. Of course, the real test of this era won’t be when another tech company breaks a valuation record. It will be when the overall economy and society themselves reach new heights. When a pharma company uses AI in silico to bring a new therapy to market in one year instead of twelve. When a manufacturer uses AI to redesign a supply chain overnight. When a teacher personalizes lessons for every student. When a farmer predicts and prevents crop failure. That’s when we’ll know the system is working. Let us move beyond zero-sum thinking and the winner-take-all hype and focus instead on building broad capabilities that harness the power of this technology to achieve local success in each firm, which then leads to broad economic growth and societal benefits. And every firm needs to make sure they have control of their own destiny and sovereignty vs just a press release with a Tech/AI company or worse leak all their value through what may seem like a partnership, except it's extractive in terms of value exchange in the long run. We know that the Internet wave had tremendous positive sum impact in the world, and yet we also had some sectors that got hollowed out like local media. This time around we have the opportunity to ensure broad diffusion of this tech with choice and control that is distributed to ensure positive sum outcomes across the board. At the end of the day, this new technological wave gives us the opportunity to dream bigger and set higher ambitions for what we can collectively achieve. Each of us will need to play our part!

@elonmusk If you were fighting for what is good in this world, it would be glaringly obvious. Fighting to make what's good in this world belong to you and your friends, that perverts the message Sam relays here. You are either inept or misguided. Good day, sir.

@elonmusk Hyperbole, however, remains safe.

Italy is disappearing

@strike_dr Most crematories close the plastic bag they put cremated remains into with a zip tie. No plastic would survive the cremation process, so there is no real possibility they were zip ties used to hold the deceased prior to. Still, odd finding piles, without any documentation.

Remember how I’ve been talking about the mass graves they have of workers ICE has kidnapped and subsequently murdered?

@JeremiahDJohns Oil

Can anybody explain why we're going to war with Venezuela? Serious question. They are *not* the main source of smuggled drugs. That's Mexico, China, Colombia. "Maduro is bad" no shit, so are dozens of other dictators. Is it just so Pete Hegseth can feel like a big tough guy?

@gunsnrosesgirl3 I embalm people. Something like this would be helpful sometimes. R&D for the living. Hmu

An accidental discovery that can save lives

“The legal system, the financial system, they’re all based on winner-take-all.” “That’s not a good society. That’s not good…” What do you call that? Socialism? “I call it common sense.” — George Lucas x.com/Todd_Spence/st…

@elonmusk That none of you tech people have developed an AI that just calculates stuff for us called "Math-You" is beyond me. #royalties

Grok

@elonmusk @satyanadella You won't ever be able to buy real influence. Real integrity. Only the pale shadow of it. #sad4u

What’s going on here, @satyanadella?

@DerekNeverFails Actual anarchists

@AndrewYang This 100%

It makes me sad how Americans are being manipulated into hating each other.

@e_galv Forced, self-fulfilling prophecy designed to erode hope and train us to accept negative results? Or a natural predictive process by enlightened minds, erecting warning signs we have chosen to ignore? Perhaps a bit of both.

Do you ever wonder why almost all sci-fi films/shows depict the future as dystopian?

@MARCUSAARONLIA1 Latent antisocial insecurity, learned via social engineering, forces this into the collective psyche. What we are doing to this world and the people on it is horrifying already. Non-invasive, mutually agreed upon, cohabitation with intelligent systems is the only way forward 🤷

Ngl why do people assume when the robot or ai gets sentient it somehow automatically makes it evil for no reason?