Steve Thommes (pronounced Thomas)

Xoogler. Former Adobe, EF, DoubleClick. Dad Surfer Hacker Human. Change yourself, then change world for the better. UCLA Econ SysSci-Cybernetics

[Steve Thommes (pronounced Thomas) @Euph3mistic]

I am a strange loop! Godel, Escher Bach continues to reveal itself as an example of recursive meta-fiction that lies at the nexus of programming, AI, consciousness and being human. We don't have brains, we ARE brains. I AM Euphemistic (not Euph3mistic) on https://t.co/PEKv7SSTuY

[Steve Thommes (pronounced Thomas) @Euph3mistic]

drink deeply; fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars...

[Dov Kleiman @NFL_DovKleiman]

Powerful: Josh Allen was asked why he didn't look to break Dak Prescott's $60M per year record on his new extension:

"I know it's weird to say, but what's $5M more gonna do for my life right now that I can't already do? …I live a really good life. Got a house, got a car. We're good."

Allen is a class act and wants to do what's best for his team.

👏👏👏

(via @NickVeronica)

[Steve Thommes (pronounced Thomas) @Euph3mistic]

Deus Ex

[Nikita Bier @nikitabier]

The backlash over the Jellyjelly coin has been hilarious to watch. Excluding Trump, every single meme coin launched in the last year has gone to zero. Like, what do people expect to happen?

Until a platform figures out how to make meme coins a genuine measure of a topic's future relevance (and not simply an arbitrage of transaction timing), this pattern will repeat itself 100% of the time.

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

Mind blown.. it really is true

[Steve Thommes (pronounced Thomas) @Euph3mistic]

@iamnot_elon A

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we mourn the transgender Americans whose lives were taken this year in horrific acts of violence.

Every American deserves to be treated with dignity, and live free from discrimination.

Today, we recommit to building a country where everyone is afforded that promise.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship is by far the most powerful flying object ever created

[Gordon 🐂 @GordonGekko]

This kid rugged a coin for $30k

They doxed him and found his school

And sent the coin $QUANT to $35M market cap so his original coins would have been worth over $1M 😳

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The objectives for Starship Flight 6 are:

1. Restart of Raptor engines in vacuum.
2. Daylight landing of the ship.
3. Higher peak heating (steeper) reentry.
4. Faster/harder booster catch.

There are thousands of small design changes also being tested.

[Pavel Durov @durov]

20 days ago, a developer launched a Telegram mini app. He built it over a weekend — alone, with no team, budget or investors. His mini app already hit $1M in net profit.

💡 You don’t need a team to become a millionaire #

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

Given high demand, we upsized our $MSTR offering of 0% convertible bonds due 2029 from $1.75 billion to $2.6 billion, including a $400 million greenshoe option, and priced it at a 55% conversion premium.

[Steve Thommes (pronounced Thomas) @Euph3mistic]

@sairahul1 Pinterest

[XH @xhfloz]

I want a website for analogy enthusiasts. BrainyQuote for people who spend their idle hours foraging strange associative horizons.

[The All-In Podcast @theallinpod]

next up from @allinsummit: google co-founder sergey brin!

(0:00) @friedberg intros sergey

(1:41) what sergey is working on at @google

(5:45) is google chasing a "god model"?

(8:49) thoughts on the massive ai chip buildout

(12:54) future of human-ai interaction

(14:58) changing google's conservative product culture

(18:21) is the "race to agi" overblown?

[Steve Thommes (pronounced Thomas) @Euph3mistic]

“I guarantee you, if Jesus came down and was the vote counter, I would win California,” he said. “In other words, if we had an honest vote counter, a really honest vote counter, I do great with the Hispanics, great, I mean I had a level that no other Republican’s ever done”

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

Google was first to ship:

- 1 M context window (and 2 M)
- A SOTA multi-modal LLM
- Context Caching
- A high quality small model for developers (Flash)
- Both SOTA proprietary and open model lineup
- More to come

So yeah, definitely no innovation happening here…..

[C.C. Gong @CCgong]

My boyfriend is in YC and this is what I come home to Friday night.

I make sure that he’s fed, do his laundry cut his hair. I give feedback, customer intros, and encouragement. YC girlfriends should be granted sweat equity.

@ycombinator 30 days until demo day 💪