Alex Notov 🇺🇦

I am deeply proud we stood our ground on the two crucial red lines to not have our models be used for mass domestic surveillance of Americans and not for autonomous weapons. Being the first ever US company to be designated as a Supply Chain Risk is worth defending our principles.

I am excited to announce an advanced MCP unit I built at @AnthropicAI in partnership with @ben_burtenshaw at @huggingface . In Unit 3 you build an MCP server, which makes templated PRs and watches GitHub CI action results, posting Slack notifications about them.

@garyvee You forgot Claude ;)

gemeni, chatgpt, perplexity, runway, Veo 3, Grok 3, flux .. oh my .. what an era we are going into

@JPLindsley @joerogan @jordanbpeterson @jockowillink @ShawnRyan762 @benshapiro From someone who was born in Kharkiv and lived there for ten years,Thank You!

12/ Why doesn’t the world know about Kharkiv? @joerogan @jordanbpeterson @jockowillink @ShawnRyan762 @benshapiro—Kharkiv is a city of people demonstrating how to become resilient. You need to see it. If you love Kharkiv, share your story. Let’s make the world pay attention. And don't forget to watch the video in the first post, follow me for daily updates from Ukraine, and to share this thread! 🎯 🎬

1/ 🎥 I want to show you my favorite city in the world. It’s an insane place. I think it holds the secret to thriving no matter what hits you. ⤵️🧵

@paulg To put it differently he’s probably an order of magnitude better than the average NBA player, and the average NBA player is probably at least about two orders of magnitude better than the average human at basketball.

@paulg And there’s also that other thing… which is related to how great he is… he makes the league loads and loads of money, that no other average player can, let alone average human being.

Steph Curry makes 858 times the median US salary. Are we really supposed to believe he does that much better than the average person would in his place?

@sweatystartup @jason_howerton Didn’t realize the Vision Jet had auto land. TIL!

@jason_howerton My wife was very afraid. But she loves it now. The automatic landing feature if your pilot has a medical issue and the parachute is pretty awesome.

I own a 2023 Vision jet with 3 other partners. 350 mph. 4 adults + 2 kids + pilot. Drastically more affordable than a twin engine jet. $500 an hour fuel burn. It is available for charter in the Nashville, Atlanta, Charlotte, Chattanooga region. Get to NYC, Chicago, Houston, Miami and anywhere in between in less than 2 hours. Send me a DM if you’re interested.

@blader Siqi I wish Mira a great recovery and the best possible outcomes!

overwhelmed with gratitude for the 1000s of messages of love and support for mira. truly, thank you - it helps more than you know. mira is out of surgery and doing so well that she gets to go home today! we’ve bought a lot of time and are feeling hopeful.

Ukraine. Our land. Given by God. Kissed by the sun. Rocked by the winds. Tempered by fire. Defended by its sons and daughters. It cannot be mistaken for anything else. It can never be given away to anyone. Happy Independence Day of Ukraine!

@agustinavcid @JMilei Thank you for posting this! Is the full speech available somewhere? I couldn’t easily find it on YouTube.

@naftalibennett “In the name of Allah, the merciful, the compassionate” - the irony…

Hamas Charter

A fact that goes missed: In the Palestinian state in Gaza there was no Israeli “occupation” whatsoever. Not one inch. Not one Israeli soldier or civilian. In 2005 Israel officially left the entire Gaza Strip to the very last inch. We pulled out ALL Israelis and ALL IDF soldiers. We pulled back to the 1949 borders. At first, we applied no blockade or siege. We handed the keys over to the Palestinian authority. At that point they had an opportunity to turn Gaza into an amazing and beautiful state. A Singapore with beautiful beaches, hotels, tourism, business and culture. They chose otherwise. A majority of Palestinians voted Hamas whose explicit goal is to destroy Israel. Hamas won both in Gaza and in Judea and Samaria (aka “the West Bank”). They began shooting rockets from their new state into Israel. Tens of thousands of rockets killed children and citizens of Israel, ever since. THEY CHOSE DEATH FOR JEWS OVER LIFE FOR PALESTINIANS. Their goal has never been to live side-by-side Israel, but to destroy Israel. For the past 20 years Israelis hoped again and again that our neighbours seek happiness for their families and this will ultimately moderate them. We Israelis believe in the inherent goodness of humans. We were wrong. Dead wrong. This is the tough reality we’re facing. This is a battle between an ideology of life and one of death. We say “le-Haim” - to life. We say “Shalom” - peace. They say “itbach el yahud” - slaughter the Jews. This is our reality of 2023. Let me be clear: all Israelis, wall-to-wall are now united to bring total defeat to the terrorists agents of death. Life will prevail over death. Please don’t try to stop us, because we won’t until we win. Am Yisrael Chai🇮🇱

@0norpik @sweatystartup @0norpik if it were “slavery”, and I came in to pay $6/hour, wouldn’t the “slaves” continue to be forced to work for @sweatystartup? Isn’t Nick giving away his “secrets”, where someone might actually come along and offer higher wages? 🤔

@sweatystartup Sounds like exploitation and modern day slavery.

One of my business superpowers: I hire about 80% of my employees in Latin America and the Philippines for $5 per hour. They are exceptional workers, extremely competent and very affordable. It feels like I'm competing on easy mode against companies who only hire American's for $20/hr +. They are all recruited and hired through Shepherd. I was speaking to a friend a few weeks ago who hired 4 people through Shepherd 6 months ago. He said one of the hires is exceptional and will end up running his business someday. Proud moment for me since I've been beating this drum for a while now. Click the link in my bio if you want to learn more.

@blader @runwayco @Initialized @garrytan @Rippling It kind of sells itself “XLS ✈ RNW”. Congrats Siqi. The work continues!

Two bits of @runwayco news to share today: 1. We raised $27.5M led by @initialized. @garrytan will be joining our board. 2. We signed a partnership with @Rippling: Runway is now the only finance platform on the planet with a Rippling integration. Obligatory 🧵with more:

@profgalloway Regulate to get monopoly power. Classic.

We're falling for this (shit), again: --Altman, CEO of OpenAI calls for US to regulate artificial intelligence (BBC) May '23 --Zuckerberg, We need a more active role for governments and regulators Oct. '20 --Facebook COO Sandberg calls for government regulation (CNN) June '19

@blader And pretty soon we won’t know who’s writing the news stories.

the thing that LLMs and the media have in common is that they are both extremely good at sounding authoritative and are reliably wrong.

@SpeakerPelosi Excuse me? Since when is the justice system designed to have people prove their innocence. As an ostensible lawmaker, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

The Grand Jury has acted upon the facts and the law. No one is above the law, and everyone has the right to a trial to prove innocence. Hopefully, the former President will peacefully respect the system, which grants him that right.

@blader @sama You were talking about it way before it was mainstream cool. As usual.

gpt-3 was like 3 years ago and feels like everyone kind of slept on it until @sama build the simplest possible app shim in the form of a text box and now all of a sudden it’s a code red for faang. kind of wild.

@nonmayorpete I think they gave employees the option to sell shares though, did they not?

Update on OpenAI/Microsoft deal terms: Once $92 billion in profit plus $13 billion in initial investment are repaid [to Microsoft and once the other venture investors earn $150 billion, all of the equity reverts back to OpenAI

@blader +1. Since when is thinking about product market fit and getting through adverse situations to come out ahead *not* fun?

oh no the typical founder has to be a founder now

@WajahatAli TIL: it’s “disgraceful” to report on the truth, that had already been largely public knowledge anyway. And, that you’re a tool.

Matt Taibbi...what sad, disgraceful downfall. I swear, kids, he did good work back in the day. Should be a cautionary tale for everyone. Selling your soul for the richest white nationalist on Earth. Well, he'll eat well for the rest of his life I guess. But is it worth it?