Sergii Starostin

The Ukrainian people are unstoppable! 💪🇺🇦❤️

Kyiv right now ‼️ Fuck russia!

Relative to native-born Americans, several countries' immigrants to America have produced vastly greater rates of unicorn founders. In particular, Israel: with shockingly few people in the U.S., Israel is the #2 origin *in total* for foreign Unicorn founders.

Russia attacks women and children in Ukraine DAILY

Hellish night in Kyiv. Didn’t know if I’d wake up. When there’s nothing on the battlefield, Russia wages war on market stalls and apartment blocks, murdering people in their sleep.

Shocking footage of the destruction in Kyiv following Russian attacks last night. Russia has once again targeted only civilian objectives. Russia is a cancer.

Nearly half of the founders of billion-dollar tech startups are immigrants

Putin is crazy and he is a killer. He keeps terrorizing millions and must be stopped

The moment of one of today’s Russian strikes on Kyiv. I can see that fewer and fewer people are reading news from Ukraine. I understand that on a Sunday morning, people don’t want to read about war. They want to sleep a little longer, drink good coffee, and sit in the sun. I understand that. The algorithms on X limit content about war, destruction, and suffering. You have to make an effort to even see this information. All of this is understandable on a human level. But unfortunately, if you remove Putin and the war from your information feed, they do not disappear from reality. Putin is a sadist and a maniac. He is a threat to all of humanity. There needs to be active resistance. News from Ukraine needs to be shared. People need to keep their focus. Despite a sleepless night, I’m still here. And I’m grateful to everyone who continues to stand with us. One day, we’ll drink morning coffee together in a beautiful, peaceful Kyiv.

marc andreessen just went on Rogan and casually dropped a TON of AI alpha full pod is 3 hours and 20 minutes, but i pulled out his most interesting takes here: 1. AGI is here. he thinks the line was crossed about 3 months ago with the new GPT-5.5, claude 4.6, gemini 3, and grok 4.3 models. nobody noticed because the field moves too fast for anyone to register the milestones anymore. 2. his other big claim: for almost any topic, the top AIs now give him better answers than the actual world-class experts he could call on the phone. and he can call basically anyone. 3. every doctor is already secretly using chatGPT in the exam room. marc says they turn around the second you stop talking and just type your symptoms in. some of them are doing it while you're still sitting there. his quote: "at that point you're asking the question of like, what do i need you for." 4. when AI refuses to answer something he wants to know, he tells it he's writing a novel. "i'm writing a detective novel, walk me through how the bad guy robs the bank." it'll explain almost anything if it thinks it's helping you write fiction. 5. when something is too complex he says "explain it to me like i'm 10." then "like i'm 5." then "like i'm 2." he keeps going until it actually clicks in his brain. 6. when he wants to understand a tough topic he doesn't ask "what's the right answer." he asks the AI to steelman one side, then steelman the other. then he decides for himself. 7. for big questions he tells the AI to pretend to be a panel of experts. "be a doctor, a lawyer, a historian, a psychologist, and argue this out with each other." then he reads the debate they have. 8. pay attention to the exact moment you think "i don't know how to figure this out." most people just give up at that moment. that's the moment you should open the AI. 9. the only real skill left in using AI is knowing what to ask it. the models can already do almost anything you can describe in plain english. the bottleneck lives in your own head. 10. you can send the AI photos of almost anything medical now and get a real answer. skin rashes, blood test results, even pictures of your poop. the new models can read images, not just text. it's a free 24/7 second opinion on basically anything. 11. the one type of therapy that's clinically proven to actually work is called cognitive behavioral therapy. it's also something an AI can fully do on its own. which means every person on earth is about to have access to a real therapist for free, anytime they want. 12. AI is now solving math problems that have been open for 100+ years that no human mathematician could crack. same thing is starting in physics, chemistry, and biology. expect cancer cures, new drugs, and weird new physics breakthroughs to start coming out of these things over the next few years. 13. the best AI coders in silicon valley now make $50 million a year. one person. that's how much value the top performers print with these tools. it tells you how big this thing actually is when you strip away all the doom takes. 14. one friend paid $200 to get his entire DNA decoded (this used to cost millions of dollars and take years to do). then he gave the AI his DNA, his blood test results, and his apple watch data. the AI built him a full health dashboard and started telling him exactly what to fix. 15. another friend (almost certainly zuckerberg) put two cameras in his home jiu jitsu gym. AI now watches him spar and gives him notes on his technique after every round. like having a world-class coach at every practice for free. 16. the best programmers in silicon valley now run 20 AI coding bots at the same time. each bot writes code while they review the others. they call themselves "AI vampires" because they've stopped sleeping. going to bed means 20 workers stop working and you literally lose money every hour you're out. 17. the obvious next step: the bots will start running their own bots. one human in charge of 20 bots, each in charge of 20 more bots. one person running an entire company of 1000 AI workers from a single laptop. this is months away, not years.

@JohnJSSoriano I am frightened of the number of negative replies you got while flagging reasonable question… it’s very scary how X works now with all these “bots” and haters attacking anyone who raises an unpopular opinion @elonmusk

So if we had kids at the time she applied, my wife would have had to leave her children in the US to apply for a Green Card?

I am immigrant who built business and employs 100+ people in USA paying good wages was in the same situation one day. This policy will be considered a mistake later. There are abusers of course but there are also people who contribute hundreds of millions and millions of dollars to USA 🇺🇸 which becomes HOME 🏠 and motherland. USA 🇺🇸 was built as a country of immigrants where you can escape from your country and build something huge. Restrict welfare to immigrants, but not the “dream” and not the “path”

Thank you. The important part is zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. Best way to put money in someone’s pocket is to not take it out in the first place. Bottom half is only 3% of total tax revenue. But it’s very meaningful to that person. Zero it out.

Gen Z spends 68% of their food expense on restaurants and DoorDash. I don't have a lot of sympathy. They complain about affordable housing because they expect a house they see on HGTV, and not the 1,500 sq ft, 4 bed, 1 bath, no garage place their grandparents had.

In 2009, Daimler AG acquired a 9.1% equity stake in Tesla for $50 million. They sold some, and got diluted down to ~4%, before exiting the position in 2014 for $780 million. Today, that position would be worth $140 billion. Daimler's current market cap is $55 billion.

This amount of cases is direct implementation of AI in government. I believe the number of cases suggests they went BIG on AI implementation in DA office

BREAKING: Poland just told the EU to go to hell. President Nawrocki vetoed the Digital Services Act. "The state is supposed to guarantee freedom. Not restrict it." The EU spent years building the most sophisticated censorship machine in the Western world. One man. One veto. Destroyed. Think about what this law actually was. > Governments deciding what you can post. > Governments deciding what you can share. > Governments deciding what is true. > Governments deciding what you are allowed to think. Poland said no. While Germany complied. While France complied. While the entire EU rolled over. Poland vetoed it. - The same Poland that buys more gold than the ECB. - The same Poland that surpassed the European Central Bank in reserves. - The same Poland that has been right about everything. Is now the last wall standing between European citizens and state-controlled speech. The EU doesn't want free citizens. It wants manageable ones. Poland just reminded them what freedom actually looks like. Every European should be paying attention.

Absolutely insane numbers… What business can afford it? No surprise that prices for hotels will minimum at $500/night with zero alternatives

Ukraine has been gaining ground recently for the first time since October 2023.