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chronically online engineer

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The headline is $100 billion but the actual story is more interesting than that bezos isn't just throwing money at factories he co-founded a startup called Project Prometheus last year, raised $6.2 billion for it, and is now building a fund to buy manufacturing companies specifically so they become customers of Prometheus' AI > the fund targets chipmaking, defense, and aerospace companies > bezos personally flew to the middle east to pitch sovereign wealth funds > then flew to singapore to pitch more > the fund size matches softbank's vision fund, the largest VC fund ever raised > described in investor documents as a "manufacturing transformation vehicle" so the strategy is: build the AI → buy the factories → run the AI on the factories you own he's not betting on AI being adopted by manufacturing. he's removing the adoption problem entirely by owning both sides that's a different kind of play than anything OpenAI or Anthropic is running
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS

Jeff Bezos has begun the process of raising $100 billion for a new fund that would buy up manufacturing companies and then use AI to automate production.

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if you're a python developer this one actually matters astral built uv, ruff and ty, three open source tools that millions of python devs use daily for dependency management, linting, and type checking. all written in rust, dramatically faster than the older python-based alternatives openai just bought the whole team and dropped them into codex > codex already has 2M+ weekly active users > 3x user growth and 5x usage spike since january alone > openai's stated goal: move codex from "generates code" to "participates in your entire dev workflow" and here's the detail worth watching, openai promised to keep astral's tools open source after closing but a separate report noted that future codex models won't be open sourced so the tools stay open. the AI that runs on top of them doesn't. that's the tension python devs should be paying attention to
OpenAI Newsroom@OpenAINewsroom

We've reached an agreement to acquire Astral. After we close, OpenAI plans for @astral_sh to join our Codex team, with a continued focus on building great tools and advancing the shared mission of making developers more productive. openai.com/index/openai-t…

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tf bro building a chrome extension is so easy pic unrelated
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Piyush.dev
Piyush.dev@ZingadePiyush·
Introducing Motionwind ✨ A Babel plugin that turns Tailwind-like classes into Motion animations. Zero imports, zero runtime overhead. Works with Next.js, Vite, and React. No imports. No runtime. Just classes. Link:👇
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Dev Sharma@devsharmatwt·
@fardeentwt i thought someone hacked your twitter until i read the post
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kartik@notKartikk·
@fardeentwt It gets annoying very soon... using a framework makes it a lot better
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fardeen@fardeentwt·
nobody talks about how good life gets once you just decide to go for it anyway
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imagine you are prepared to accept a nuclear emergency but do not want to arrest Epstein’s friends
R A W S A L E R T S@rawsalerts

🚨#BREAKING: The World Health Organization is preparing for a potential nuclear emergency if the conflict involving Iran continues to escalate.

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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
That road is Route 1 in Iceland. A week driving it costs roughly $2,500 per person. Flights from the US run $500-600 round trip. Gas is $8-9 per gallon. A glacier hike is $125. A night in a decent hotel near Vatnajökull is $160-200. Total tab for two people to spend a week staring at that glacier instead of a monitor: somewhere around $7,000. The median American household earns that in about 18 working days. Sitting in a room. Staring at a screen. The people who actually drive that road on a random Tuesday in March fall into two categories: retirees who stared at screens for 40 years and saved enough to stop, or remote workers who figured out how to stare at a screen from Reykjavik instead of a cubicle in Ohio. Both paths run through the screen. The photo is real. The freedom it represents costs $7,000 and 10 days of PTO. The device you’re reading this complaint on is the same device that books the flight.
fardeen@fardeentwt

the world looks like this and we’re expected to sit in a room for 8 hours a day staring at a screen

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NEW VIDEO IS LIVE! Just published a new tutorial on building Adobe Express add-ons using Cursor + Adobe Express Developer MCP Server. This is the exact setup I use to build add-ons faster. youtu.be/2361QhkPWrk?si…
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the generation that took our phones away at dinner is now spending 22 hours a week on their devices doomscrolling facebook reels boomers 65+ now spend nearly twice as much time on youtube as they did two years ago. their most used apps are youtube and facebook. they're more likely to own tablets and smart TVs than people under 25 the tables have turned so hard that grandchildren are now the ones saying "can you put the phone down at dinner"
Polymarket@Polymarket

BREAKING: Study shows “doomscrolling” is growing amongst boomers, leaving grandchildren concerned.

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for some AI is here to take their jobs, for some it's life changing opportunity to escape the permanent underclass
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