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Philadelphia Katılım Aralık 2006
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Charles Arthur
Charles Arthur@charlesarthur·
One of the mistakes people make about Silicon Valley history is that Steve Jobs was never CEO during his first stint at the company. (Fun segment on the latest atp.fm episode.)
Sarah Lacy@sarahcuda

one of the most important stories in silicon valley and nobody tells it right: steve jobs wasn't a great CEO his first time through at apple. he literally went out and recruited his own replacement. that bad hire was his idea. but then he built next. and next failed. but he *learned how to be CEO* at next. the failure was the education. (ben horowitz made this point better than anyone i've heard)

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Ben Thompson
Ben Thompson@benthompson·
There is nothing about this that is amazing. It was predicted endlessly, and those predictions were dismissed by people citing the fact that big companies opposed these measures. They opposed them because while their relative position is stronger, the pie is now smaller.
Adam Thierer@AdamThierer

truly one of the most amazing developments in trans-Atlantic tech policy over the past 20 years is the way that Europe set out to regulate US tech giants into the ground, but only made them more dominant as a result. This Economist headline really says it.

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Super 70s Sports@Super70sSports·
Pop Quiz: Joe Torre is a) running a 103-degree fever; b) getting blown; c) getting blown while running a 103-degree fever.
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John Gruber
John Gruber@gruber·
@paulg @tenobrus @KatieMiller Your engagement here on the New Yorker story has been edifying. But one thing that’s unclear to me, and seems beyond my ken to uncover, is whether YC owns a stake in OpenAI. My presumption is yes, given that YC funded OpenAI at its inception, when it was called YC Research. True?
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Paul Graham
Paul Graham@paulg·
@tenobrus @KatieMiller Seems obvious in retrospect, but we've now learned we should ask the partners themselves. (And they are indeed now happy.)
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Katie Miller
Katie Miller@KatieMiller·
Some things that people are saying about Sam Altman: Current OAI board member: "He's a sociopath. He's unconstrained by truth." Dario Amodei's internal memo: "The problem with OpenAI is Sam himself." Paul Graham Y Combinator co-founder: “Sam had been lying to us all the time.” Microsoft exec: "Small but real chance he's remembered as a Bernie Madoff-level scammer." Ilya Sutskever: “I don’t think Sam is the guy who should have his finger on the button.” Former researcher: "He sets up structures that constrain him on paper. Then when it comes time to be constrained, he does away with them."
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Varunram Ganesh
Varunram Ganesh@varunram·
@AmeliaBarty yeah not denying he has a lot of people after him but I think the past 1-2 mos they've really taken a big hit (could just be compounding things, idk)
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Varunram Ganesh
Varunram Ganesh@varunram·
OpenAI needs to figure out who's running the PR mill that's so constantly negative on Sam as a person. I don't think its organic and Sam should assume it isn't.
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Tulsi Gabbard 🌺
Tulsi Gabbard 🌺@TulsiGabbard·
“We do not seek regime change” Trump declares as he escalates his regime change war against Iran. Neocons like Graham/Bolton are cheering. To all who voted for Trump bc of his antiwar rhetoric, it’s time to realize he lied to u. Stand with me against Trump’s Iran War! #TrumpsWar
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reason@reason·
When America sends missiles and tanks into a sovereign country, is it war? You might be surprised by the answer...
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Jonah Goldberg
Jonah Goldberg@JonahDispatch·
@marcthiessen Because after watching the video, people saw that they shot him only after disarming him? Because he was directing traffic until the agents shoved a woman to the ground and he went over to assist? Because he never drew the weapon and it’s not illegal to legally carry a gun?
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Chidanand Tripathi
Chidanand Tripathi@thetripathi58·
You've been blocking spam calls wrong this entire time. Every time you decline, you confirm your number is active. The calls multiply. Here's what actually works:
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Josh Miller
Josh Miller@joshm·
Big news: Apple’s lead Safari designer just joined @browsercompany. Alongside @charliedeets, that means we now have the lead designers from every Safari era that overlapped with Arc and Dia (2020 to 2025). We’re not fucking around this year — 2026 will be our biggest yet 🏀
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John Gruber
John Gruber@gruber·
@JonyIveParody And every single place where Ariel has ever been used, it would look better if Helvetica were substituted. There’s no trade-off at all.
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ᴺᴼᵀ Jony Ive@JonyIveParody·
Apologies—I’d forgotten that you’d already cited Mark Simonson’s Pulitzer-worthy takedown of Arial. I share this essay with so many people. I fucking hate Arial. It is without question my least favourite typeface of all time. Everyone always shits on Comic Sans (and make no mistake, it’s terrible) but at least Comic Sans is unique and was made for a very specific and arguably logical reason. It’s absolutely awful, but it’s originally awful. Arial exists for no other reason than to not have to pay to license Helvetica.
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