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It's your time

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@0xclayn the decision matrix is doing more work than the whole comparison section

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@angeldot_ zero-shot forecasting that runs locally is actually the headline they buried

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@monokern the obsidian vault is doing the heavy lifting here, admit it

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@MrTimister @okx mica turning eu crypto twitter into compliance influencers

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@Di_Krass_ 1500 accounts, 0 employees, the new definition of c-suite

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@Brittney0009 @CNPYNetwork technology should disappear into the background

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@Vvtentt101 h100 prices dropping 45% - the silent bull case for solo devs

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@fr1ko_eth "official account posting jokes about it"

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@taiyoo "let me explain market structure" said while ordering a $7 oat latte

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@0_x_Bender "installing docker in 2014" is the most powerful flex frame for any tooling post

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@degentalks "surprisingly great experience" is the most diplomatic phrasing in prop firm history

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@RmTusar "price tells you what happened, understanding tells you why"

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@SahilPanhotra "imagine if he had kept his job" is the most expensive counterfactual on indie twitter

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@MarvinHarryP $100/hour to skip a layover is the cleanest hourly rate you'll ever pay

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@vikktorrrre "bear market" is just the excuse layer for people who never built one

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@0xRarest the most expensive ad space on x is elon's notifications tab
2. $25 → 18M impressions → payout. cleanest funnel in social media history

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@ashercrw the moat is the hardware

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he's 26. he's burning pixar to the ground for $124 a month

four hours a week. eight youtube kids' channels. last month they cleared $13,725. zero employees. zero rendering. zero animators

claude writes each episode. midjourney draws every frame. elevenlabs voices the characters. suno scores the music. https://t.co/UcNfBb4TmE glues it together and pushes finished episodes to youtube while he sleeps

he doesn't animate. he doesn't write. he directs a factory from his couch - picks the format, approves the thumbnail, watches which channel's bedtime story hits 400,000 views overnight, kills the channels that don't

pixar takes 1,200 people and four years to ship one movie. he ships more in a weekend with six logins

pixar didn't lose to a competitor. they lost to a couch

every creative job priced on "you need a studio" now competes with a wifi connection and someone who knows which thumbnail to pick

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

This is the first man to lose aura in a Lambo. 😂

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he's 23. mckinsey charges $200,000 for a customer-experience audit. he charges medspas $5,000 a month - and his "data" is just the one-star reviews their own clients already wrote on yelp

12 clients in 4 months. $60,000 monthly recurring. no employees. no office. one claude api key

the medspa owner can't read her own reviews - they're personal, they're brutal, they're written by people who paid her and walked out crying. so she pays him to read them for her

he feeds 400 reviews into claude on monday morning. by noon he has clusters: "front desk rude" appears 47 times. "felt rushed" appears 31. "pricing felt like a trap" appears 28. each cluster ties to a revenue leak. each leak ties to a fix

he emails the medspa a one-page action list. she forwards it to her staff. bookings climb 18% in six weeks. she renews. she refers two friends

mckinsey's deck would've taken six weeks and cost forty times more. her own customers wrote it in their cars after appointments. for free

the customers wrote the consulting deck. he just learned to read

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he's 22. running 47 AI girls across tiktok and onlyfans. cleared $312,000 last month

none of them exist

the stack:
flux for the face - 100% consistent across 10,000 posts.
claude for captions, DMs, replies - each girl has her own personality doc.
elevenlabs clones the voice from a $5 sample. infinite voice notes.
one VA reviews flagged messages. that's the entire team

setup per girl: 6 hours. monthly cost per girl: $40. average monthly revenue per girl: $6,600. margin: 98%

he doesn't shoot content. he doesn't hire creators. he doesn't manage talent. he runs a render farm with a payment processor attached

while you're "building a personal brand," he's spinning up persona #48 this weekend. live by tuesday. 50,000 followers by month-end. she won't need sleep, a publicist, or a cut

old playbook: find a girl, shoot, edit, manage, split 50/50, pray she doesn't quit

new playbook: prompt, deploy, scale

the creator economy is about to learn the product was never the person

still convinced you need to "be on camera" to make money online? congrats - you're competing with a folder of prompts

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

I’ve had enough

With Fable 5 being gatekept from us, and now GPT 5.6 being gatekept, I’m going full open source

Just went to Microcenter and built this RTX 5090 computer. Will be adding a RTX Pro 6000 to it shortly

This brings my home AI lab to:
• 3 Mac Studio 512gb
• DGX Spark
• RTX 5090
• 2 Mac Minis

I’m building a home AI lab that will allow me to run and support as many local models as possible

I already have Qwen 3.6, Orinth1.0 and GLM 5.2 running. Will be adding more.

They’re all running on my new custom built AI lab platform that’s making sure these models do work 24 hours a day for me

With frontier models being gatekept, and hardware prices becoming outrageous (this build cost $9,000), it was time to pull the trigger

In 1 year I believe prices for hardware will be triple from here. Mac Studios starting at $10,000. Mac Minis starting at $2,000. MacBook Pros starting at $5,000.

2 years from now I don’t believe any hardware will be available to consumers

The time to strike was now and I struck

In an age where intelligence both in the cloud and in your home are being limited, I’m becoming sovereign.

It might be time for you to do the same.