
sean o'malley
348 posts



For decades, society has sold us a specific formula for success: High IQ + Perfect Test Scores + Specialized Knowledge = A Secure Future. We hire the “smartest” people. We obsess over grades. We treat intelligence as a scarce, gold-standard resource. But @JensenHuangcon is telling us that the era is over. I agree "taste" will be scarce. medium.com/activated-thin…

Scoop: Anthropic has told investors it is displeased by the prevalence of SPVs floating around. It told one of its largest investors to use its own capital and not an SPV, as it did in a previous funding round. businessinsider.com/anthropic-more…

Fully Autonomous cargo truck, without an interior driving in China.

Marc Andreessen: if you're the parents of a smart kid where I grew up [rural Wisconsin] and you think you're going to get them into a top university in this country, you're fooling yourself... What level of untapped talent exists in this country that a combination of DEI and immigration have basically cut out of the loop for the last 50 years? Marc: Nobody wants to talk about, but I've started to talk about the intersection of DEI and immigration that has really warped our perceptions on high skilled immigration over the last 50 years. You look at the foreign enrollment rates at the top universities, which went from 2 or 3 or 4 percent 50 years ago or whatever to 27% or 30% or 50%... Joe: Columbia's over half. Marc: 70% or whatever it is. And so there's been this massive transformation in who gets educated. And then there's been this massive transformation of who gets admitted through affirmative action, as we now know it, DEI. This goes straight to the political divide in the country, which is, if you're parents of a kid where I grew up [rural Wisconsin] and you've got a smart kid and you think you're going to get them into, you know, a top university in this country, like you're fooling yourself. There is this really fundamental question which is, what level of untapped talent exists in this country that a combination of DEI and immigration have basically cut out of the loop for the last 50 years? And how long can we have this story to everybody in the Midwest and in the South that says, sorry, because of historical oppression, your kids are SOL.


The SEC made a serious mistake going after Brad & Chris personally – and now, they’ve capitulated, dismissing all charges against our executives. This is not a settlement. This is a surrender by the SEC.

Ripple Labs CEO Brad Garlinghouse says that a federal court's decision means that its crypto token XRP “is not a security,” giving the digital-payments company more freedom to pursue various business opportunities trib.al/SjiawoB

Really important development in container shipping instant quoting today. @BluexTrade has helped Yang Ming Line build a digital quoting and booking tool, similar to what it did for Evergreen Line a year ago. joc.com/technology/fre… @JOC_Updates









