Aaron Lopes

the future of shopping is sustainable curation with prev: @google, CS @GeorgiaTech

[Isaiah Taylor - making nuclear reactors @isaiah_p_taylor]

Good morning.

Last night at 8:51pm Mountain Time, the Valar Atomics Nuclear Operations team brought Ward 250 to 10kW thermal output. We held this power level throughout the night.

This is another historic milestone from the Valar team, marking first nuclear power by a startup.

[Aaron Lopes @AaronLopes2]

@benjiianc Yo

Building Finer, an AI stylist for sustainable fashion - https://t.co/4SIR5i4f2j

Onboarded around 500 users via quiz funnel + ads and currently building for iOS

Also based in NYC. Would love to chat

[Ed Elson @edels0n]

0.3% of the water consumed by US golf courses last year

[Aaron Lopes @AaronLopes2]

Labs need to stop pedaling this AGI bullshit and start focusing on getting their current models cheaper for enterprise.

Tell me I’m wrong

[𐙚⋆ @voidwithverses]

“An enemy will agree, but a friend will argue”

— Russian Proverb

[Aaron Lopes @AaronLopes2]

nyc got so much aura

[Aaron Lopes @AaronLopes2]

Paywall screen for Finer - .99 or round it up?

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

@eladgil BS.
Attention was born in Montréal
PyTorch in NYC.
AlphaGo in London
AlphaFold in London
ESMFold in NYC
Llama 1 in Paris.
Llama 2 in Paris+NYC+SV
DeepSeek in Hangzhou

Plus:
DINO in Paris
JEPA in Montréal+Paris+NYC

SV is 3 mos ahead on topics SV is singularly obsessed with.

[Aaron Lopes @AaronLopes2]

Wow 5.5 is so humble

[Sam Sheffer @samsheffer]

steve did the job, then tim cooked, and now john will ternus the key in a new chapter for apple

[∿ @somewheresy]

Bushwick: NYC should be more like PALESTINE!
Williamsburg: NYC should be more like ISRAEL!
The glorious residents of the Upper East Side: NYC should be more like Indiana (correct)

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

This goes incredibly hard.

[Peter Moskos @PeterMoskos]

STFU. I was part of a snow shoveling crew. And yeah, there were 7 of us. So what? What's wrong with that? You do the job done and move on to the next. For 8 hours. And yeah, sometimes you just stand there and catch your breath. (Also it was $30/hour) You got a better plan?

[Aaron Lopes @AaronLopes2]

💯

[Roy @im_roy_lee]

“bring back integrity” but “the problem isn’t 18-year-olds gaming incentives”

so which is it, do u think gen z/alpha don’t have any integrity or do u think some systems are just designed to fail?

if 40% of stanford undergrads are claiming disability, the obvious solution is to rework the disability system entirely, not to shake ur first at the sky about how young’uns have no morals.

do we solve the obesity problem in america by crying about “bringing back hard work” or do we try and stop putting fucking twinkies in every grocery store?

the brutal truth pill i think u and everyone else >25 need to take is that the number of (otherwise integrity-having) young kids cheating in school is not some reversible 10%. it’s closer to 95-99%.

so sick of hearing old techies complain ab morals when the actual answer is that u just have to completely rebuild most systems YOU guys put into place

[Office of Nuclear Energy | US Department of Energy @GovNuclear]

Nuclear is the future.

[Secretary Chris Wright @SecretaryWright]

Yesterday I had the opportunity to join @Meta in announcing landmark agreements that will expand the operation of three nuclear power plants, lowering energy costs for Americans while also powering the AI revolution!

Thanks to President Trump, America’s nuclear renaissance is here.

[Aaron Lopes @AaronLopes2]

it has never been a better time to be a cs student in college. all that free time to explore these revolutionary tools that, with your skills, you can leverage and be better at using than 99% of the population

[Feru ✭ @ferupity]

A lot of you niggas got him beat

[Aaron Lopes @AaronLopes2]

December 2025 was the first month that I realized making money online wasn’t some mythical story gurus sell you. It’s not some crazy number, but that’s not what I was chasing. Not yet, anyway.

2026 will be Finer’s year and we’re just getting started

Happy New Years ya’ll