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Wes Smithe
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I was in the theater with friends and was telling them: "We've got that slow motion effect in Max Payne!" And we'd already trademarked "bullet time" for the game.
After we release the game in 2001, Warner Bros. threatened to sue us for using "bullet time", but we were easily able to prove to them that we had the trademark first. So they backed all the way down :)
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
Imagine sitting in a theater in 1999 and witnessing this for the very first time.
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A group of starfish better be called a galaxy
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@tao_lin @girlnostradamus Would have been funny if the first book was called About Near-Death Experiences
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@girlnostradamus Life After Life (1975)
Children Who Remember Previous Lives (1987)
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homeboy you're the one sellling public market investors on short-term space datacenters
Elon Musk@elonmusk
He takes scamming to a whole new level
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Formed in 1989, Dread Zeppelin was an American rock band that famously performed Led Zeppelin songs reimagined in a reggae style, fronted by a Las Vegas-era Elvis Presley impersonator named Tortelvis.
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@joshpuckett Yes. I'd add that I use AI for writing in general too, but only to refine my train of thought, always reviewing to ensure it is in line with how I think/write. Like a lot of things, great outputs are a result of great inputs...not hard to spot laziness or automation upfront
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I'm pondering why I have such a violent, offensive reaction to AI writing or replies that are sent to me, yet I love and use it for many other things like writing coding.
I think it has something to do with the fact that when I read something from one of you, I assume that you thought about it and wrote it yourself. And so then I am thoughtful in reading it, and crafting my own reply. When I write, it's really just manifesting a lot more thinking that I've done in an attempt to distill it into words.
When I come across (with sadly increasing frequency) things that are clearly AI slop, it feels like a betrayal of trust or complete disregard for my time and thought.
At the same time, I use AI regularly to create code for me (and by extension others) and I don't have nearly the same reaction at all. I wonder if it's in part because with coding, there's a long history of using and creating templates or frameworks that are in effect already shortcuts. But I think the bigger reason is just I'm not asking or suggesting that anyone read it, nor representing it as mine.
Anyone else feeling this way?
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A lot of women reach out to me asking how I'm going to "do it all" now that I'm having a baby.
My honest answer: I'm not.
I wanted to write this because so many moms tell me they feel like they're failing because they don't have it all at once and it really breaks my heart.
The last twelve years of my life went into building my business and building myself into the leader I am. I'm proud of that. I don't expect myself to put in the same effort over the next ten. Could I? Sure - I could hire every nanny and every service money can buy and keep running at the same pace. I just don't WANT to.
I really want to actually raise my kids and build a family, so I will be making a tradeoff.
It is a fact, not opinion, that you can’t have it all at the same time.
Why: MATH. Depth takes time, and time is finite.
At some point we all have to decide - of the things that matter to me - WHICH MATTERS MORE…NOW.
And then we make a trade.
When you have finite resources, you need to decide where you allocate them against unlimited options. Determining that something is important, but less important TO ME, RIGHT NOW, is not setting. It’s making a decision based on priorities.
Everyone has the ability to make these choices, they're just hard because you feel like you're telling yourself, and everyone who looks at you, that something is not important because you're not prioritizing it. That’s untrue. You’re just saying it's not AS important TO ME, RIGHT NOW.
We work so hard to create optionality in our lives. But having optionality - in and of itself - is not valuable.
Options are only valuable when exercised. And when you exercise those options, you need to walk through one door, which by definition (sometimes), means you cannot walk through another.
We make a commitment by eliminating options. And all the best parts of life sit on the other side of eliminating options and going all in.
When you get married, you eliminate the option of other partners.
When you have kids, you eliminate the option of not having kids.
When you buy a house on the beach, you eliminate the option of having a house on a mountaintop. It doesn't mean you don’t like mountain tops. You just decided that this was more important to you now.
Some decisions are reversible. Others aren't.
To me, right now, I want to have a child and I want to be a present mother. It’s not the choice that everyone will make, or should make - do whatever you want. This is the choice that I’m making. For me. Right now.
And I want every woman who reaches out to me asking what I'm going to know. Because I think the willingness to make a trade prevents you from settling. Because without making a conscious choice, a trade off will be made no matter what - but it won't be based on what we deemed most important, but by what the world around us deemed most convenient. And that might not be what we want most.
This has been pulling on me for some time now and I didn't get a chance to sit down and write it.
TLDR: I will not have it all. I will have what I want most at that time. And that’s perfectly fine with me. I hope you do the same - whatever that is for you.
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Mark is Mega - Frat Brat Loser
What a failure: imagine all that wealth, billions achieved, knowing you are a complete fraud, Farming and monetizing its users data for 3’decades +, betrayed society on a level of scale not seen before, betraying America and probably committing treason.
Worst he could have fixed it! he knew, he has known for a long time —- he could have fixed it at any point —- that means he is evil!!!!
You and your firm are vampires, and you are evil.
New York Post@nypost
Meta says it's facing $1.4T in penalties in teen mental health case - a sum equal to tech giant's valuation trib.al/ErF1SrX
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Here's video of Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway just a couple weeks ago defending Graham Platner and saying that Platner's past should not matter at all.
They defended the nazi tattoo, the obscene posts, the sexting, all of it.
Swisher (a self-proclaimed strong feminist) said that Platner reminded him of Bill Clinton because Clinton made some mistakes but was a good President.
Galloway (a Jew) gave Platner a "hall pass" for his nazi tattoo.
The only thing that matters to the Left is power. When you see them outraged about anything, remember they truly do not care. It is all performative.
These two frauds have both accused Elon Musk of making nazi gestures. Galloway once said he couldn't drive a Tesla anymore because a joke Musk made could be interpreted as homophobic.
Two terrible people.
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Everything a child learns from age 4 to 15. 1,144 concepts. 1,948 connections vizualized across Math, Science, English and History. We built this dynamic curriculum for @withmarbleapp.
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Framer charges API rates for AI credits.
Your $20 chatgpt plan already gives you ~$700/mo of subsidized tokens.
Why burn credits when you're already paying for cheaper ones?
Building a plugin to connect openai/cursor straight to @framer agents.
Drop a 🔥 if you want it!
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@Altimor @emilkowalski Lotus Notes for going back in time to visit hell
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That’s why I also like small apps that do one thing well.
Cleanshot for screenshots.
Eagle for inspiration.
Obsidian for notes.
Things for to-dos.
Cron for calendar.
Emil Kowalski@emilkowalski
The reason why my personal site has just one font size, monchrome colors, and looks “boring” is simply because I don’t consider myself a great designer. By using as little variation as possible, I limit the amount of design mistakes I can make, and instead, I try to make the content itself (hopefully) interesting. I know a few tricks to not make my work look like shit, but it’s far from the skills of a designer working at Linear for example. To expand on that, from what I’ve seen, most “design engineers” excel at either design or code, not both. I never believed I can be exceptional at both, and I haven’t seen many people that are really, really great at both. To me, trying to be great at both is like 2-in-1 shampoo conditioner, it never really works as well as two separate products designed specifically to do one thing well. That’s why I made open source projects like Sonner and Vaul, that require some design sense, but these are far from sharing design kits for example. And again, there are exceptions, but you shouldn’t expect all design engineers to design and build absolutely amazing things on their own. I think most design engineers (including me) are just engineers that care about design, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are good at designing (and vice versa). To me, the title design engineer is misleading in that it’s more of a description of where one’s interests overlap instead of actually indicating high skill in both disciplines.
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**No, this is not true.**
The claim misrepresents two separate things:
- **Strategic Bitcoin Reserve** (est. March 2025 via EO): Holds forfeited BTC. No new announcement today, and no broad "buy a lot" program active yet.
- **Trump Accounts** (new child investment accounts): These opened for contributions around July 4. They are limited to low-cost **S&P 500 index funds/ETFs** — no Bitcoin or crypto allowed.
The images are unrelated stock photos. This looks like hype/misinfo.
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Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?
Because we gave them that L in 1776.
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