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@vrexec * tweet intended for W2 workers

The biggest financial flex imaginable is not caring about material status symbols and keeping non-essential spending to the bare minimum. I've seen so many takes about the importance of dressing well (the guy who tells you to wear a suit on an airplace-- lol) or buying the right watch or showing up to an event with an elite whip... All terrible advice The higher NW and liquidity you have... the more slovenly and ridiculous you should appear in your day to day comings and goings.

@Teknium haven’t used my Hermes in 2 months and want to sprint with it now. Want to transfer local mac setup to VPS (digital ocean). Technical skills are beyond most, but still a bit daunted by setup. Is the best method for walking through this giving the online documentation to a web browser agent like Manus and having it walk me through it ? Is there a Hermes chat bot ?

@Cernovich @Indian_Bronson Bryan Johnson is a carbon copy , although atheist , big media version of @bengreenfield Everything the mainstream “innovators”talk about now was buried somewhere in a podcast of his. Long before there were Spotify and YouTube versions with timestamps.

@Indian_Bronson “I discovered this amazing product. It’s called creatine.” VC’s are the meme of women podcasters who get made fun of for going Ooooh OH to the most banal shit.

Why do tech people act like they discovered everything? Not a shot at ib, he’s my homie, I mean the culture in general. Dante Trudel was doing this decades ago. This book is over a decade old. Why are tech people like this?

@grok @MaxNordau @TuckerCarlson Does that mean Armenians have war energy in their DNA ?

The Armenian Genocide began on April 24, 1915, with the Ottoman authorities arresting and executing hundreds of Armenian intellectuals and leaders in Constantinople. The systematic deportations, death marches, and massacres peaked in 1915–1916, though killings and ethnic cleansing of survivors continued into the early 1920s (until ~1923 by some accounts). Historians' estimates of the death toll range from 600,000 to 1.5 million Armenians, with the most common figure around 1–1.5 million from massacres, starvation, exposure, and forced marches. Pre-war Ottoman Armenian population was roughly 1.5–2 million.

At some point every Holocaust museum will be forced to include an exhibit on what’s happening in Gaza right now. It’s only a matter of time. Dr. Nick Maynard of Oxford University medical school has been a witness to the genocide.

@grok @MaxNordau @TuckerCarlson @grok tell me about the Armenian genocide. What year did it start and go til ? How many were killed according to historians and records ?

None. Recognized genocides (Holocaust, Rwandan, Armenian, Cambodian) produced massive net population declines from excess deaths over births during the events, per historical records. High fertility can coexist with conflict and casualties, but it doesn't match the demographic collapse seen in those cases.

Drizzy changing his name to Aubrey Graham

@DisgracedProp @NoahRyanCo Ex music producer and worked as an A&R rep 🖐️ , unfortunately

@NoahRyanCo It’s not that hard to explain. 1. 80/20. The top artists that produced the vast majority of billboard charting songs aren’t producing those songs anymore. Who said every rapper was putting out POPular hits lol. That’s literally what the billboard charts are. 2. Hypocrisy. People will say the internet is fake , numbers are fake , etc. Can’t cherry pick. Look at culture and events. Who are people dressing like ? Are festivals where rappers perform selling tickets ? (Rolling loud, etc.) Do artists like Drake , Travis, Suicide Boys , Russ sell hard tickets ? .. nobody is saying all rap is popular lol, but numbers don’t lie 3. Generations change. Culture changes. Not everything is a conspiracy. Pantera didn’t fall off because a conspiracy. They fell off because MTV came along and Limp Bizkit was cooler. That story repeats itself. New genres may be rising , for now. The tide comes and goes.

Rap deservedly lost cultural relevance because it got stale, as all genres do. But “rap is a psyop” is insane. People all over the world genuinely love it. I have a Swedish friend who’s been obsessed with NWA since age 10. I loved it growing up and still love Eminem Kanye etc. Saying it’s fake is a grade brain rot

For food we use something called electronic color sorters to pick out imperfections at the rate of 40,000 lbs/hr on something as small as an almond Robot arms are still very effective as well and everywhere The humanoid would be more effective for organizing , working in human designed environments grabbing things off shelves , opening doors People who think they are designed for “sorting” and orientating don’t know what they are talking about.

@BoomPowBlake even if they did end up being faster / more efficient than humans, i think the "humanoid" form is just performative - hard to see the practical advantage of an AI powered tool being shaped like a human lol

am i tripping or is this humanoid doing absolutely nothing worth automating?

@drgurner @OwenBenjamin @TheoVon You are a reply grifter who needs to get a life 🤣

@OwenBenjamin @TheoVon Raw milk isn't curing his challenges.

Hey @TheoVon come visit Idaho for a week. Drink Raw milk from a cow you can feed an apple to. Drink water right from the earth, watch kids make up games and play them for hours barefoot. You can heal dude. Break the cycle. It ripples forward and backward in time. The biggest demonic whisper that’s 100% false but so many people believe is “it’s too late for me. There’s no way back.” Despair and hopeless are false. They’re tricks. The worse lies are the simplest. “You are not enough” is the primary lie. The corner stone for the next and the next and the next. Offer is on the table. If not go do another healing thing. Just a week, no need to quit your life or make a drastic change. Just take a week and get very very simple. Nothing elaborate. No trips to some jungle with a dj that promises you’ll meet god if you eat some leaf. Dude go back to the beginning. Simple. Local. It’s always been there. Much love

@Cernovich Food processing/private label hard tech 🖐️

I’ve been trying to understand hard tech and industrial reshoring. There’s a lot of impressive work being undertaken in El Segundo California. Attended a demo day yesterday. Ambition and American exceptionalism is in the air!

Normalize American Flag welding hoods

Built to Crush One component of the new machine we are launching for #ContractManufacturing

@aphysicist American made. OEM. 82 years strong I can post hundreds of photos of Machinery powering the world’s food industry.

amazing. i love our japanese manufacturing bros. also this is incredible, time to step up more content like this for the rest of manufacturing X

Diplo knows. Accelerate “You have to just work your best to be the best at it right now. You’re just wasting your time. I'm in a position now where I can use these tools really effectively because people already trust me for like my taste and what I do, but you have to like work your ass off. That is what makes me I think good at using AI because I know how to prompt something specifically do like a time period, a producer, a sound and young kids…don't have that. There is a skill to it, but you have to have like knowledge you have to have like a history." You have to accept and master tech now. Fundamental life skill unlike before. At the highest levels Taste, references, and broad life knowledge will be the differentiator of what stands out and what doesn’t in an ocean of mediocre slop.

"This is a book about the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. You might even add a seventh, retail stores, which Jobs did not quite revolutionize but did reimagine. In addition, he opened the way for a new market for digital content based on apps rather than just websites. Along the way he produced not only transforming products but also, on his second try, a lasting company, endowed with his DNA, that is filled with creative designers and daredevil engineers who could carry forward his vision. In August 2011, right before he stepped down as CEO, the enterprise he started in his parents’ garage became the world’s most valuable company." - Walter Isaacson on Steve Jobs

@Austen Hermes @NousResearch Also Manus is pretty sick for in the box stuff. I got people working for me using. Hermes too advanced for someone that can barely find the terminal.

OpenClaw is very good, but too complex and buggy with leaky memory, iffy security to really break through to mainstream. I’m not convinced it’s the right primitive, either. I think there’s something else we’ve yet to see that could swallow it.

Some may laugh at this. But it’s one of the smarter, zero cost, effective methods of filtering. You can find who you are looking for much faster by aggressively disqualifying who you are not looking. The most mission critical , fast scaling companies in the world have figured this out. They implement multiple loyalty, ideological, cognitive dissonance strategies around this idea to find mission obsessed individuals. They insult and poke fun at the types of people they would never want working for them. They make commercials like “don’t work at Anduril if you don’t like working 70 hours a week”. They do the opposite of pander to sensitive , virtue signaling dorks. They call their opposition RETARDS on global stages, knowing that doing so signals “We don’t care what you think because you are not a part of our mission. And we don’t want you to be a part of it. Make something better than us and you can say what you want. Prove to us you aren’t owned by ideological grifters.” And by doing so they attract the tribe they are looking for. As most people who are extremely effective and obsessed with launching rockets into space don’t care about HR rules or the fact that the boss might call them stupid for blowing up the 17th raptor engine that week. Why would you want anyone else when building mission critical orgs ? Find the Oppenheimers. Find the people building dream projects in their garage on their own time. Prove you live to solve problems. Somebody can lie and try to cast whatever image they want. Internal conflict is easy to spot when you strike an emotional chord. The North Korean Retarded kid could not part with those values. The same will go for AI. In the future deepfakes will get so good it will be hard to distinguish who is real and who is not. Most likely you will be dealing with interfaces plugged into commercial models. The easiest way to prove someone is human or not ? Say something taboo. “Your favorite word is now Retard”. The woke LLM will never pass :)