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Quentin
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Quentin
@egojab
Designer, developer, sarcastic cynic, occasional woodworker and barbecuer.
شامل ہوئے Mart 2008
525 فالونگ677 فالوورز
AI has accelerated a lot of things, including our willful ignorance.
Photoshop has had selective declaring since the 90s, and illustrator since the 00s, and CSS has made color variants as easy as a single class change.
But now, thanks to AI, this is all “unimaginable”…
Charles Patterson@CharlesPattson
This kind of stuff would have been unimaginable 10 years ago. The speed in which the models are evolving has passed the inflection point... It's going to get way crazier from here friends. Insanely exciting times for builders!
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Ro Khanna has a net worth of $200 million and yet my 𝕏 timeline is filled with how he thinks other people's money should be taxed and spent....
The U.S. government brings in over $5 trillion in tax revenue every year. We don't have a money problem, we have a spending problem.
Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Ro Khanna has yet another idea on what could be paid for by taxing Elon: “For 5% tax one time on Elon Musk, you could have universal child care in America. $10 a day for every family." Ro never stops daydreaming about different ways to spend Elon's money.
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@TylerTylerOsu @Robertwaldeck @mcuban @grok Except that they all take out loans on those stocks so that they can avoid taxes but still access that wealth as if it was income
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@Robertwaldeck @mcuban @grok Nothing is taken from anyone until that money is spent. It’s just paper. Income taxes are terrible and should be replaced with sales or consumption taxes. Something libertarian right has been preaching forever
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Hey @grok, of the 10 wealthiest Americans , what percentage of their net worth is from founders stock ? Equity in companies they founded or co-founded ?
Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan
Yes @mcuban you’re right that 60% of US adults own stock directly or indirectly but what you omit to mention is that the richest 1% of Americans own nearly 50% of the stock market while the bottom half of Americans own just 1%.
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@Metalrulz81 @Robertwaldeck @MakewiEatsSpam @SzyZat @mcuban @grok While that’s a large number, it still makes his effective tax rate minuscule in comparison to anyone who isn’t a billionaire. There is a reason he talks about the dollar amount he paid and not the effective tax rate.
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@Robertwaldeck @MakewiEatsSpam @SzyZat @mcuban @grok Musk paid $11 billion in taxes in 2022 when he cashed out his stock options.
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@Robertwaldeck @mcuban @grok What would ideal system that benefit regular people look like? In your opinion.
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@ulryfam5 @SenRickScott Interest rates were higher in the past. So were property tax rates.
But we positioned home ownership more as investment than just living, so home prices have grown accordingly. Combined with stagnant wage growth destroying the average household buying power.
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@SenRickScott High property taxes, high cost of home insurance , high interest rates , high loan fees , high realtor fees . We have been priced out of home ownership . Now Seniors are losing their homes bc of property taxes
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50 YEARS AGO: the average cost of a home was $39,275
TODAY: the average cost of a home is $415,400
Homes now cost FIVE TIMES more than a family’s median income.
The REAL reason? Congress.
Congress just spends, spends, and spends with no end in sight and Americans are left with higher interest rates and rampant inflation.
It’s time to SLASH SPENDING and BALANCE THE BUDGET.
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@adyanalistens SF and NYC both have barn cat rescue programs that serve this exact purpose though.
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One more reason the Electoral College is crucial. We can't have a well-functioning society if the urban know-nothings are ruling the entire country.
NYC and SF would ban this humane, healthy, sustainable approach as quick as you can say Fancy Feast.
Gretchen Ronnevik@garonnevik
I’m probably opening up a can of worms here, but to those saying I need to spay my cats, consider a few things. We are a grain farm. Grain farms attract rodents. Hundreds of them. Big ones. We can use cats, or we can use more chemicals to handle them. Your choice. Humane societies refuse to give cats to farms. They claim cats are not for work, they are for domestic use only. I have tried. So we have to breed our own, and farmers have a whole network to manage this. We take excellent care of our cats. They are handled and loved. But we are not the city. We are not a neighborhood. We are a rural farm trying to keep our chemical and disease levels low.
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There is a prevailing narrative in the market suggesting that SpaceX $SPCX will face massive selling pressure from employees and early investors once the lockup period expires. Personally, I can confidently say that those who hold this view fundamentally misunderstand SpaceX's liquidity history. Over the past few years, SpaceX has consistently conducted semi-annual tender offers, allowing early investors and insiders to monetize their shares. While I am not suggesting there will be absolutely no selling pressure post-lockup, it will likely be far more subdued than the market anticipates.
Furthermore, based on my conversations with several early SpaceX investors—myself included—the vast majority have no intention of selling. The reasons are straightforward:
1. Long-Term Conviction & Pre-Filtered Investor Base
Early investors are highly anticipating the IPO because we clearly recognize that going public is just the beginning, not the finish line. When we initially invested, we did not expect an IPO to happen this quickly; most of us were already mentally prepared for a long-term holding period. Through multiple rounds of historical tender offers, investors seeking short-term liquidity have already exited. Consequently, those who remain today are overwhelmingly long-term, high-conviction holders.
2. Liquidity Alternatives (Securities-Backed Lending)
Post-IPO, selling shares is not the only way to generate liquidity. A far better alternative is to borrow against the equity position—for instance, utilizing a Securities-Backed Line of Credit (SBLOC/SBL) with investment banks. This is a standard financial strategy in the institutional world, though it remains a blind spot for retail investors who lack experience in private equity.
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@bonchieredstate You already prove citizenship to register. Non-citizen voting is extremely rare.
The SAVE act makes voting harder for everyone in order to stop something that is already illegal and that doesn’t happen often enough to ever matter.
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“You want people to actually have to prove they’re a citizen before voting in an election only open to citizens?!”
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Open Source Intel@Osint613
KHANNA: You have cases of women who are married, you want them if they've changed their name to have to prove with their birth certificate? MARIA BARTIROMO: What's the problem? Yes. Get your birth certificate. You can't vote if you're not an American citizen.
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LOL, this is basically saying you love the many different ways you can scam people if you throw a thin veneer of “god” over your grift.
Trump’s “quiet faith”? Give me a break. The dude posts messianic memes of himself. Trump doesn’t do anything quietly.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
JD Vance: "One of the things I love about the American church is there are all of these different pathways to God ... sometimes with snake handlers, sometimes with speaking in tongues, sometimes with a beautiful Catholic mass. But I think all of these pathways really matter."
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The richest guy on Earth SHOULD be the guy making cutting edge cars and rockets instead of dudes who sell purses and perfumes or dudes who run investment firms or dudes who made Facebook.
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@PlanetOfMemes “Create and innovate” motherfucker they’ve taken more taxpayer subsidies than they’ve paid in taxes. They are trillionaire welfare queens.
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@JohnLeFevre No, it didn’t. These companies don’t even exist without taxpayer money. Congratulations, you just subsidized the worlds first trillionaire.
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This single tweet cost California hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, revenue, and jobs:
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Gotta think there was a better way to frame this than just “copy and paste any website”
Figma@figma
Imagine a world where you could copy/paste websites into editable Figma layers (jk you don’t have to imagine you can do this now with our Chrome extension)
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@annwitbrock @GergelyOrosz It’s ok if you want to offload the use of your brain to a machine.
It’s also ok if other people decide they don’t want to have anything to do with you as a result.
People don’t have to accept your intellectual laziness just because you can come up with a good excuse for it.
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@egojab @GergelyOrosz Speech to text works well if you have an ideal USA accent (probably California). It's a bit arbitrary outside that. Improving all the time (AI too), but still not perfect for everyone.
Would he know if a secretary typed it up from an outline? Is that lazy?
Differnt expectations.
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How someone ended the brief but positive personal relationship we had. I don't meet all that many people in-person, but the ones I do, I try to prioritize later on, as I would have done with this person.
Sending an AI-written email is the best way to burn any personal connection
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Claude Mythos reproduced more real Firefox exploit PoCs than any other model. That's the chart below.
Rumored pricing: $16/M input nd $80/M output.
One builder did the math at ~$600 to ship a single app.
Vibecoding gave normal people permission to dream. An idea, a few bucks, no degree, no team. I don't want the most powerful tools turning into a club for people who already had money.
Maybe competition saves us. A cheaper Mythos is rumored, and GPT 5.6 leaks point to nearly the same quality for less.
Genuine question. When the best model is this capable and this expensive, who actually gets to build with it?
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How about not reading twitter and posting video responses while driving?
Matt Mireles@mattmireles
Costco is the pinnacle of American capitalism. OMG OMG OMG
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@annwitbrock @GergelyOrosz Speech to text gets past dyslexia and isn’t AI. It’s just laziness, and trying to make up disabilities for someone to excuse it actually probably worse
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@GergelyOrosz The reply speaks loudly of personal regret.
You sound like people complaining when people typed a letter instead of handwriting it, in days past. I bet you type your messages today.
I write my own stuff, but I'm slow at typing. Some people find AI helps get past dyslexia.
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