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RT @TheAtlantic: "There is growing concern among Democrats that though voters might see Harris as younger and more vigorous than the incumb…

RT @Scotttaylorva: DEI is disastrous, racist, and dangerous policy that is a cancer to any organization.

RT @0xRizzler: Everything about e/acc gives me chills. Every time this video gives me chills. https://t.co/GmZTOeeYhL

RT @michaelbeer01: Voting for SBF this election 🫡 Free my guy he didn't do anything wrong 😤 https://t.co/ydIlAzr4BY

RT @lil_dill: Had a wonderful time chatting with @aaron_epstein @ycombinator about why small details (and microseconds!) matter, and the cr…

RT @LHSummers: Kudos to the @nytimes for publishing a long thoughtful article where the reporting questions its usual orthodoxy. The critiq…

RT @aaron_epstein: "The gravitational pull is to mediocrity." This quote from @lil_dill really stuck with me. It's true of design, but als…

TBH I think Vision Pro's are absolutely great devices especially for watching movies

RT @jesslivingston: Twenty-ish years ago, Cambridge, MA. ❤️ https://t.co/eG4pdhFj6S

RT @adampnathan: Tech has has brought billions of dollars and countless opportunities to San Francisco. It has also been the unfair subject…

RT @Suhail: https://t.co/RdMVm7ctmE

Full video https://t.co/uFdfPEFsyw

How do you know if a design is good enough to ship? https://t.co/s97QOslrzB

RT @bchesky: We’ve made 460 upgrades in the past 3 years. Today we’re launching 75 more 🔈 https://t.co/2khNdZNmqE

RT @RobertGreene: Think of it this way: There are two kinds of failure. The first comes from never trying out your ideas because you are a…

RT @Initialized: What do you wake up on a Monday morning obsessing over? For @Playground_AI founder @Suhail, it’s color grading in images…

RT @YayAreaNews: Small businesses are being looted in San Francisco daily, leaving families struggling to survive while felons walk free.…

RT @ycombinator: YC F24’s @EmberCopilotAI is a hyper-personalized medical clinic assistant that can handle scribing, intake, and prior auth…

RT @ilyasu: Exciting times at Flock! https://t.co/zUK5xwdDRU

RT @ycombinator: Stripe, Airbnb, and Lyft are a few of the most successful companies of the past decade. And they all have at least two thi…

How do you build a culture of design from the earliest days of your startup? https://t.co/rvdHKNdVJ1 https://t.co/gY4zEHhvvm

RT @koomen: Congrats to @kyleli626 and @AlexYHsia on launching Gait today! These two are reimagining what version control systems look lik…

RT @Karmedge: i created free perplexity for Instagram influencers try it https://t.co/nMmlGbf8K6 https://t.co/AMYRpwFZQm

RT @bettersoma: That’s @DeanPreston playbook shit. Fucking liar Preston.

RT @deanwball: o1 is an easy model to sleep on but I find myself using it more and more for actual stuff rather than just toying around. I…

"The overall ‘vibe’ of the company was more of a messianic cult than a normal software company. But importantly, it seemed that criticism was highly tolerated and welcomed – one person showed me an email chain where an entry-level software engineer was having an open, contentious

RT @RahimNathwani: "This summer, the Silver Giving Foundation, which focuses on public schools, paid for Ben Rosenfield, the former control…

“We need a PLAN in place for who's going to take Wayne's place as well as how this new plan will be executed. I think it's clear that @mattalexandersf would rather win the election than to do what is in the best interest of kids, which is focus on fully-resourced schools.” 9/

RT @amasad: “Get in loser. We’re learning to cook” https://t.co/UjDs1E2oxQ

RT @BasedBeffJezos: Reminder that technology is the most potent way to augment humanity and reduce suffering https://t.co/gM2aCfemSq

RT @otterbo54348271: Kudos to reporters at the SF standard for the thoroughness. I can say with confidence the city could get rid of cont…

RT @amasad: This is widely applicable https://t.co/bFPe2YVw1E

Asian Americans are always getting shafted in San Francisco Time to vote moderate, retake the school board and make our presence felt. It’s 25% of the SF voters. They spit in our face with their virtue signal racist policies.

RT @Twolfrecovery: Oops! San Francisco is gonna be forced by the courts to close the drug markets in the Tenderloin. More positive news!

RT @terronk: Sorry am I the only person who thinks it’s insane that taxpayer-funded nonprofits are allowed to spend money on political ads…

I just want what LKY did but for San Francisco This can be the greatest most prosperous city in the world https://t.co/54MfuJHi51

RT @kane: If you vote in San Francisco, there's a lot of petty drama and characters in local politics. The best way to figure out who your…

RT @bobmcgrewai: Great summary of what it's like to work at Palantir. @nabeelqu joined Palantir in mid-2015, right as I was leaving, and th…

RT @Overlap_Tech: Marc Andreessen: the thing startup founders misunderstand about 'risk' "I've always been a fan of what @arachleff taught…

RT @kane: Shocked to learn that supervisor @DeanPreston, who had a made up "news" website with invented fake journalists writing puff piece…

RT @AravSrinivas: Perplexity Finance: real time stock prices, deep dives into a company’s financials, comparing multiple companies, studyi…

RT @aaron_epstein: The best part about being a founder is you get to pick the people that you work with.

RT @kwindla: Conversational Voice and Video AI Hackathon Oct 19th-20th - in-person in SF and remote $20,000 in cash prizes for the best .…

RT @BrookeJenkinsSF: My office will do everything in our power to hold dangerous drug dealers accountable. Drug dealers should expect to be…

RT @kane: san francisco government spends an uncountably large amount of money on homeless nonprofits and commissions, generates a massive…

RT @rubenharris: 1/ Today, we announce @OutRivalAI, designed to transform how businesses connect with their customers through Conversationa…

RT @tlbtlbtlb: Governments funding pork projects is worse than simply lighting money on fire, because it causes talented people to spend th…

The Chronicle says vote for Lurie because of course they do They also said to vote for school board members who got rid of Algebra and said to keep Chesa Boudin The Comical is part of the problem in SF https://t.co/at6DZUhjbo

Now add an inbound email I can forward my confirmation emails to - there’s even a built in transform in Builder for email processing!

This is dope, paste -> structure is a great idea

RT @lhfang: San Francisco's anti-gentrification activists have blocked new restaurants, new housing, and new businesses over racialized con…

RT @lhfang: Older dude just jeered Aaron Peskin at the Italian American festival in SF: “Ya fucking communist!” People then booed and laugh…

Legalize business San Francisco has to stand up for its citizens and small business owners and stop enabling criminals

RT @agarwal: I don’t remember when I first met Michael Lai, but I remember immediately loving the guy. He’s so generous, authentic, passio…

RT @MylesPynchon: Julie Pitta is something else. Constantly looking for confrontation. She and her husband came at me in front of Safeway…

RT @caseytraina: Overlap Pro just released! Now you can - Convert to Vertical - Specify Length - Remove Watermark - Content type - Even ad…

RT @kane: another nonprofit that gets tax dollars approved by mayoral candidate @AaronPeskin donating directly to Peskin’s political causes…

RT @terronk: Got this @DeanPreston mailer. He’s rebranding himself as pro-public safety in the 11th hour, like we have the memory of goldfi…

RT @kvogt: Insanity. The nyt could have interviewed astronomers, futurists, engineers, or one of the thousands of other people who could c…

RT @kane: earlier this year i asked san francisco for public records on how much glass in public transit stations was destroyed by drug use…

RT @DrJenniferTran: Alameda County election ballots arrived today, and @lateefahsimon is so arrogant and condescending to the voters of the…

RT @markdietrichsf: Don't be fooled by Connie Chan's sudden plan to save public schools. As SFUSD closes schools and families suffer, it's…

RT @AdamNMayer: Lateefah Simon is a pro-criminal incompetent bureaucrat. Vote Jennifer Tran for Congress if you live in Oakland/Berkeley.

RT @bilalmahmood: Permanent supportive housing costs $1 million per unit to build. Interim housing costs $32K per unit to build Unsheltere…

RT @lwoodhouse: I can't believe activists in San Francisco are still fighting "gentrification." I got it pre-Covid, when fancy kombucha gro…

RT @yuris: Founder mode, public markets edition https://t.co/iQUDcoGO1t

RT @caseytraina: Competed in a hackathon with @ycombinator x @OpenAI I built ClipbookLM for Overlap using o1 Put in a long youtube video…

Apparently driverless/autonomous robovan like buses have already been deployed on the streets of Guangzhou for some time. https://t.co/1bksj6lFCi

To be clear, I found the demo impressive nonetheless. Remote control is the first milestone in making these robots autonomous. It enables massive data collection and eventually model training once there are enough behavioral and movement data collected.

"Megalopolis" was either the best bad movie, or the worst good movie, I've ever seen. I'm not sure which.

Imagine writing an entire book about the TSA––a book that ultimately condemns it––without mentioning 9/11, or in fact, the entire phenomenon of airplane hijacking. That is what Coates has done, in a nutshell. The fact that he did it with characteristically nice prose hardly

RT @newstart_2024: The World Economic Forum (WEF) is demanding that governments enforce bans on members of the general public growing their…

RT @DefiantLs: https://t.co/aNstcWq3LM

My @ycombinator Expansion Pack (for scaling) 🧡 Startups need a few more tools to support growth as they scale. Here are a few of my personal favorites: - @NumeralTax (W23): Sales tax is a pain. I spent about 5 hours the other day trying to figure it out. I'm pretty hype that

Looking to build an SEO channel in a competitive B2B SaaS category? Well, then, you won't want to miss this episode of the Optimize podcast with @JHTScherck. JH is one of the best in B2B SEO. So good... I had to have him back on the podcast for episode #67. JH is the Founder & https://t.co/TOAZcLeeHj

RT @theshortjacob: My Waymo had to back out of a blocked alley into oncoming traffic 😱 https://t.co/WOCEsJ1LUK

Right now we prompt AI. The next generation of AI Apps I'm seeing are built around AI prompting us. OpenAI's o1 is smart — probably smarter than me. The most promising apps I've seen building on it are centered around o1 leading the conversation, and prompting us to provide

RT @t_blom: Why doesn’t the UK have more startups? Capital is fixed, technical talent is world class, tax incentives are great, visas most…

RT @bayeslord: it’s that time https://t.co/cyOQbDlZvy

RT @DrJenniferTran: Hey @lateefahsimon , come down from your ivory tower in Emeryville with your personal servants and bodyguards and debat…

Bingo https://t.co/W6sWsROqje

RT @deanwball: “We, the California beach NIMBY commission, reject the US military’s request to do things on US military property because we…

RT @NateMatherson: My @ycombinator Expansion Pack (for scaling) 🧡 Startups need a few more tools to support growth as they scale. Here ar…

SF Nonprofits Don’t Work

The local “independent” media fails us. They lie to us. Ask yourself why real leaders have to post things like this? It’s so egregious. They are not independent and are extremely partisan. They do political work disguised as “journalism”

This is how SF will rebound from the brokenness: Bay Area leaders fighting for policies that work instead of virtue signal garbage Push the hard left political machine completely out of power and the SF boom loop is guaranteed

RT @Overlap_Tech: Marc Andreessen on the importance of startup timing: "You always feel like you're too late when in fact a lot of founde…

RT @moseskagan: If I were in government, I would simply not tax people busting their asses to make $40k to pay for $1MM apartments at the b…

RT @TSFAction: $3 million in gov't funded gift cards—disappeared. No tracking, no accountability from the Health Commission and Human Servi…

RT @samsinger: Oakland NAACP declares support for recall of Mayor Sheng Thao, joining unions, business groups and neighborhood leaders who…

RT @waitbutwhy: Good description by @coldxman of the quintessential low-rung mindset, which reduces complex, nuanced, real-world situations…

RT @thazhmon: I remember filing this application like it was yesterday. Thanks @bradflora @garrytan and @ycombinator for taking a chance on…

RT @amasad: Bureaucrats like this are the enemies of progress. They hate the First Amendment, which means they hate America. https://t.co/A…

Memento Mori

RT @sriramk: think we underprice how much various legacy industries + other parts of the world adopting AI will mean. Both in terms of ne…

RT @MelindaBChu1: It’s great to see this, what I think is a shift, in Amodei’s views. Several AI Doomers that left OpenAI went to work at…

RT @amasad: Anti Tesla decels always eat their words.

RT @itsmrquansah: Build AI Shorts Generator Micro SaaS App with Cursor AI, vO, Nextjs, Revideo https://t.co/UAgEqk5kKT

Had a lot of fun at the @ycombinator hackathon! We didn’t win, but we made it to the finals and got to present to the audience🍊 @hkonsti_ and I built an MVP of a „Cursor for Video“. Will post a detailed thread on this later🫡 https://t.co/8jB46QqdOy