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overhead in sf: hey i think that guy is listening to our conversation

@danprimack maps.app.goo.gl/GCpdRoqLiYtZDx…

Taking 15 year-old daughter to Paris next month. Any and all ideas for fun activities (not an art museum kid)...

@Valen10Francois @HansWerner85760 In Europe prevailing winds are West to East so factories were put downwind (East), where the workers lived

@HansWerner85760 There's something very daunting about thinking we are individuals with free will and then seeing pretty consistent examples of geographic conditioning

The map below is basically every electoral map of Paris since the French revolution. The east votes for the left, the west votes for the right. Legislative election 2022 Legislative election 2012 Legislative election 1951 Barricades during the commune

🚨𝘽𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙆𝙄𝙉𝙂: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled EU–INC, a new framework that lets you launch a company in 48 hours for under €100 Starting a company across the EU today = 27 legal systems, 60+ company structures 🤯 That might be about to change… The European Commission just introduced 𝗘𝗨 𝗜𝗻𝗰., a new optional corporate framework designed to make Europe actually function like one market. Here’s what stands out: → Set up a company in 48 hours → Cost: < €100 → Fully online, no minimum capital → One single framework across all EU countries → Easier share transfers & fundraising → EU-wide employee stock options (huge for talent) Especially the EU-wide stock option plans, taxed only when employees actually sell (instead of when granted) is huge. This makes it far easier for startups to attract and retain top talent, finally putting Europe closer to the US playbook. Source/More info: ec.europa.eu/commission/pre… In short: This is Europe trying to compete with the simplicity of a Delaware C-Corp 🇺🇸 And honestly… it’s long overdue. For years, European founders had 2 choices: 1. Stay local and deal with fragmentation 2. Move to the US to scale 𝗘𝗨 𝗜𝗻𝗰. is trying to remove that trade-off. If executed well, this could be one of the most important structural changes for European startups in decades. What do you think?

@WillManidis close second to: x.com/jacobrintamaki…

just peak Tyler, it doesn’t get better than this

@tallyxyz respect guys

Learned a crazy stat via the @riskybusiness podcast... that in Myanmar & Cambodia scam centers represent 30-60% of GDP...

The “right to disconnect” means the College members won’t find out about this until they get to work on Monday morning. Frankly, it’s concerning that von der Leyen herself is tweeting outside of working hours.

Anthropic should move to London. Or, at least, dual-list in London, with a significant presence here. Here's why: 1. Anthropic is spiritually British. Their philosopher-in-residence, Amanda Askell, is Scottish, and Jack Clark (cofounder) is English, as are many other staff. Askell would be further away from Elon Musk in London. 2. Unlike other US labs, Anthropic cares more about safety, risks and good regulation. Compared to the EU, Britain's AI regulation is more focused on safety (rather than "ethical AI") and growth-oriented. 3. It's not good for the world that all the frontier labs (excl. DeepMind, sort of) are US-based, and therefore subject to the whims and potential control of whoever is in the White House. If AGI happens, do you want Trump controlling it? 4. Britain desperately needs a stake in the post-AI economy. AI could replace much of our services sector could be at risk from AI. Our energy is too expensive for data centres or manufacturing. But we have talent, AI expertise (e.g. AISI) and global reach. The solution? Give British people a capital stake in frontier labs. 5. Anthropic wants to expand its AI for science work, where the UK is a global leader. As part of the Oxford-Cambridge growth corridor, HMG should co-fund the world's biggest AI for science campus near London, with Anthropic as the anchor funder & tenant. The UK government should do everything it can to get Anthropic to move. We are spending £500m on Sovereign AI, to support "national champions". Instead, the British state could be an early shareholder in a newly-London listed Anthropic.

Founder of @signalapp, @moxie Marlinspike on Telegram:   "Telegrams not a private messenger. There's nothing private about it. It's the opposite. It's a cloud messenger where every message you've ever sent or received is in plain text in a database that telegram the organization controls and has access to it" "It's like 'Russian oligarch starts unencrypted version of WhatsApp', a pixel for pixel clone of WhatsApp. That should be kind of a difficult brand to operate. And somehow, they've done a really amazing job of convincing the whole world that this is an encrypted messaging app and that the founder is some kind of Russian dissident, even though he goes there once a month, the whole team lives there, and their families are there." " What happened in France is they just chose not to respond to the subpoena. And so that's in violation of the law. And, he gets arrested in France, right? And everyone's like, oh, France, but I think the key point is they have the data, like they can respond to the subpoenas where as Signal, for instance, doesn't have access to the data and couldn't respond to that same request.  To me it's very obvious that Russia would've had a much less polite version of that conversation with Pavel Durov and the telegram team before this moment. "

@SFSanj @patrickc 🍷

@patrickc What happened in France!!

I gave OpenClaw an export of my Apple Health data and asked it for some interesting analysis of heart rate vs travel data. It figured out that it could approximate my location from workout GPS annotations plus time zone stamps from other logged datapoints and then produced a bunch of interesting charts.

In his book Outlive, Peter Attia shares that his 1 mo old son almost died & his wife begged him for 4 days to come to the hospital where she was alone, but he didn’t due to his “important work” in New York. Turns out that important work was meeting Jeffrey Epstein. Psychopath!

@nathanbenaich Qui ne saute pas n'est pas Moutet 🫡

moutet is a magician and alcaraz is not human

What I read in 2025 ernest.oppet.it/2026/01/04/wha…

Very interesting takes When will we see the first prompt injection for a robot to punch someone in the face? open.spotify.com/episode/0IZE32…

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"In the quarter ending Sept. 30, spending using stablecoin-linked Visa cards quadrupled from a year ago, Visa CEO Ryan Mclnerney said during the company’s earnings call last month. Visa has more than 130 stablecoin-linked card issuing programs in over 40 countries." theinformation.com/articles/visa-…

"This was India’s answer to the Shopify + Stripe stack. Discovery happened on Instagram. Demand validation happened on WhatsApp Status. Payment happened on UPI. Small businesses had discovered that consumer apps could be hacked into business tools. In this WhatsApp owns India’s communications layer." newsletter.theindianotes.com/p/whatsapp-own…

Railnet is launching as an open infra layer for onchain asset management. → @Kiln_finance standardizing institutional access to onchain return sources → Ethena selected as a launch partner alongside curated DeFi & RWA assets Sandbox rolling out by year end. Mainnet Q1 2026.

Institutional capital is moving onchain, but DeFi’s yield infrastructure remains fragmented. We’re partnering with @Kiln_finance to support Railnet: an open yield layer connecting asset managers, protocols and platforms through a shared standard for moving onchain capital.