Sid

I appreciate pokes confidence in my ability but I’m pretty sure I don’t play tennis at this level anymore 😭 @interaction

knicks up 2-0 in the finals world cup starting this week energy in nyc is just on another level this summer

@nathanleexyz knicks in 4

the new york knicks are the only thing keeping me alive

@EvanJSantiago @chlooekimm i saw this

@chlooekimm @sid_chava come look at this

Just merged my first pr 😎

@joinshiftX shift

Today, we're launching shift. We're starting by cleaning your apartment in New York City, for free. Here's how it works. Book a shift cleaning. A vetted shift operator comes to your home wearing one of our devices. They clean. They leave. You pay nothing. In exchange, we record the cleaning. Robotics is being built on data about how people do daily tasks, and the value of that recording is what funds the service. Anything personal in it is anonymized before the recording is processed. By now, you have heard about the shift to AI more times than you can count. About the shift toward you, the part where you actually feel it, you have heard almost nothing. Shift is what starts to make it concrete, in specific cities, with specific services. Today, cleaning in New York. Soon, handymen, repairs, and errands across the globe. And this is just one side of shift, with more on the way. Comment “shift” and we’ll send you an early access link.

Been saying for weeks that 'OBSESSION' could be a perfect, hidden allegory for AI companionship / psychosis. Here are 11 reasons why: 1) UNCANNY MOVEMENT Nikki's uncanny movements and sometimes "glitchy" intonation are reminiscent of those subtle, eerie flaws in AI-generated video and audio. 2) PERSONALITY Her desperate (and often unsuccessful) attempts at persona mimicry. 3) HALLUCINATIONS Hallucinations that shatter the illusion, like when she accidentally says "her" cat died instead of Bear's. 4) SYCOPHANCY Panic and intense damage control whenever she slips up. Like a poorly designed LLM, Wish Nicki resorts to and prioritizes (however briefly) excessive warmth and flattery every time she upsets Bear, instead of offering actual solutions. 5) TRAINING She observes and takes note of Bear's behavior / interests to train herself on how to please him, like when she tries to resolve Bear's disapproval with a smile; "How's this?", or sex; "I know what you want..." 6) DISTORTION Like Sid mentioned, her fixation on one small, random detail in Bear's life, such as the concept of a shrine, becomes the foundation on how she views him for some reason, and that idea experiences a progression of distortion from kinda off to downright gruesome by the end of the film. 7) DIALOGUE "I'll be anything you want me to be." "Nikki wouldn't say that, I just want you to act like Nikki." "I love you in every reality, Bear." 8) SOLE OBJECTIVE Whether she wants to or not, Wish Nikki exists in service of Bear’s approval. Her sense of purpose is reduced to satisfying his needs, fulfilling his requests, and improving / optimizing his life at the expense of her own will (and that of Real Nikki). 9) ABSENCE OF REAL EMOTION Going from wailing and banging on the bathroom door to a sweet and jolly "ok, thank you!" implies that Wish Nikki doesn't actually experience the full range of human emotion, she only emulates it. This explains the sudden, near-instant shifts in her mood, which are all dependent on what Bear says or does. 10) PARASITIC RELATIONSHIP Wish Nikki cannot exist without Bear. If Bear dies, so does the version of her created to serve him. Similarly, an LLM has no independent purpose without a user. It only “exists” in response to a prompt (in Nikki's case, a wish), shaping itself around the needs of whoever it's speaking to. In both cases, the relationship is built on dependency disguised as devotion. 11) AI PSYCHOSIS CRASH And of course, Bear's eventual, crashing realization and final acceptance that none of it is real. Nikki was never with him and she never will be.

@EvanJSantiago artificial love and emotions will always fall short of the real deal

obsession can alternatively be perceived as a commentary on blind trust in AI. Bear wishes for Nikki to love him (a prompt). But Nikki doesn't have any real context other than whats given to her. Bear tells her he's upset about his cat's death, and she also sees his grandma's shrine in his house. So she digs up his dead cat and makes a shrine out of his body because based on the context she's given, that should make Bear happy. dont think this is what Barker was intending to depict but it is an incredibly apt portrayal of what toxic AI interaction looks like

@sanlsrni the highs were high and the lows were low. still what bungie has done with destiny is nothing short of incredible.

destiny was an incredibly formative piece of media for me. Sad to see it end on such a poor note, but I will always cherish the memories it gave me.

traveling is an incredible way to keep yourself grounded and in touch with reality. if you can eat the same food, drink the same drinks, and take the same transit as someone, you will get pretty close to seeing the world from their perspective. thats just as important as everything else you mentioned, and has more value the younger you are

listing travel as a personal achievement is candidly one of the stupidest things our generation decided to do your 20s are the only decade you'll have full energy, no kids, no aging parents to drive to appointments, a body that recovers from anything, and a brain that picks up new skills at a rate it will literally never match again. you can stare at the eiffel tower at 55. you'll have more money, better hotel, better wine. what you can't do at 55 is learn three languages, start a company from nothing, get extremely good at a hard physical thing, take a 90% pay cut to apprentice under someone great, or stay up until 4am working on something you're passionate about. that window is right now and it's a lot shorter than we think it is.

@faionur @AbstractVC @generalcatalyst @usv congrats fai!

Status has raised $17M in seed and Series A funding led by @AbstractVC, @generalcatalyst and @usv to let anyone step inside their favorite stories, become famous, and live a million different lives. We quietly launched Status last year and grew to over 1 million users in 19 days - making us the fastest growing AI app since ChatGPT. But we hit a (predictable) snag - the app was incredibly expensive to run. How do you serve millions of users without degrading the product with a cheap LLM? So the team locked in: we rebuilt the whole experience, and our technical bets paid off. Our users now spend 35 minutes on average to (90 minutes each day for power users!), and millions of characters and worlds have been created. All by our users. The next frontier of entertainment is mobile-first and deeply personal. Traditional mobile games take years to build and rarely stick. TV shows are fleeting in the age of streaming. Status is different. It is not a game you finish, it is a world you can live in. Status is a new category entirely: Immersive Social Entertainment, and we believe strongly that it is the next great entertainment paradigm. We’ve 10x’d to millions in annual revenue in Q1 2026, we're just getting started. On Status, you can be anyone.

@ProbyShandilya try the iced hibiscus at foreigner on 21st it is the best summer drink in flatiron

Prime iced americano day today in NYC

Three years ago, @DevinLewtan and I sat in a dim room with tin-foil hats on and rambled about the future of culture being rooted in joy, ritual, community and life before our last happy year — 2016. Now every industry is chasing the same signal. New musings for @loreobsessed 👇

@EvanJSantiago @DevinLewtan @loreobsessed post-digital reversion theory has been added to my bag, tysm

@nathanleexyz somehow we made it huh

stay in school

graduated college today!

@loreobsessed i love our discord

A month ago, users from our beta group requested a way to take notes while exploring on Lore. Stardrifter and LilPeachyy — This one's for you. 🕯️✍️

@MaxBrodeurUrbas @rbehal1729 wait rubiks cube while agents are running is kinda genius wtf

every once in a while, when someone doubts @rbehal1729, he decides to lock in and remind them why he's the CTO I said email inboxes for agents would take him a week so he did in 6 hours

@rtwlz is my 🐐