Greg Rankin

CEO at @hydrosense, innovators of the world's fastest Legionella test. Sales, Prod. Mgt. & Marketing. Ex Oracle, BA, IBM, various startups. (Tweets mine)

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

Social media trends have turned the world’s most beautiful places into endless bathroom lines at a concert, where everyone waits for hours just to take the same photo to show to people who couldn’t care less 🌎📸

Nothing captures the shallow decay of our time better than this

[Greg Rankin @GregRnkn]

@BuildAfter40 @charliebilello Agreed. Similar to the relation of Teslas valuation to investors belief in ‘FSD is coming next year’ - every single year since 2015. ‘Datacenters in space’ is the new FSD.

[Greg Rankin @GregRnkn]

@Truthsnoopy @Ric_RTP The only bull case that really stacks is AI replacing human labour with agents. If that happens at the scale required to hit these numbers we have much bigger problems as a society, that these proposals just gloss over. It’s a big bet on a hyper-accelerated wealth gap.

[Greg Rankin @GregRnkn]

@Truthsnoopy @Ric_RTP Amazon’s pre-profit capital deployment was always proportionate to a demonstrably real, already-existing and well understood market (retail) with clear profitability scale.

The current build out assumes $3 to 5tn rev p.a. Before you factor in the lifetime of the chips.

[Greg Rankin @GregRnkn]

@Drjab699John @Ric_RTP ..thought through the business model is. If you’re going to keep your 401k or other investments in Index ETFs or in these companies then you’re surely going to want to see the business model that makes this make sense, not ‘Trust me bro’? So where is it? (2/2)

[Greg Rankin @GregRnkn]

@Drjab699John @Ric_RTP Tell us more. To whom and for what? They are already nearly maxxed out on their existing compute and no sign of any profit form that.

I see the promise of AI and use it all the time, so don’t get me wrong I’m not questioning the technology. I’m questioning how… (1/2)

[Greg Rankin @GregRnkn]

@ScienceNews I think Anthony Burgess stole a march on this.

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@IanBaer @itsolelehmann tbf that, by itself, doesn’t mean that treating it respectfully doesn’t get better results.

[Greg Rankin @GregRnkn]

@NoCodeWithAI @claudeai Recover to where?

[Greg Rankin @GregRnkn]

@NoCodeWithAI @claudeai Figma shareholder?

[Greg Rankin @GregRnkn]

@WhatsApp @elonmusk Making WhatsApp open source is the best way to gain trust if *you* have nothing to hide.

[Greg Rankin @GregRnkn]

@snehalantani @penterasec @Horizon3ai This reminds me of Informix having the Billboard on 101 next to the Oracle campus on long term lease around 2000. 'Who is Informix?' I hear you ask.

[Greg Rankin @GregRnkn]

@StuartHumphryes @rorysutherland Only 16 years after the Wright brothers’ first flight. Amazing.

[The SETI Institute @SETIInstitute]

#PPOD: Namib Desert 🛰️

Korea’s Kompsat-2 satellite captured this image over the sand seas of the #Namib Desert on 7 January 2012. The blue-and-white area is the dry riverbed of the Tsauchab. Black dots of vegetation are concentrated close to the river’s main route, while salt deposits appear bright white. Running through the river valley, a road connects Sossusvlei to the Sesriem settlement. At the road’s 45th kilometre, seen at the lower-central part of the image, a white path shoots off and ends at a circular parking area at the base of a dune. This is Dune 45, a popular tourist stop on the way to and from Sossusvlei. In this image, there appears to be some shadow on the western side. From this, we can deduce that the image was acquired during the late morning.

Credit: KARI / @esa

#planetaryscience

[John LeFevre @JohnLeFevre]

84% of people have never used AI, and just 0.3% of users pay for premium services.

Anyone who thinks AI is a bubble isn't paying attention.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

Turns out that you can kill weeds without using toxic chemicals that saturate the crops. Lasers and cameras, folks... this is the future of clean(er) food.

[Greg Rankin @GregRnkn]

@aakashgupta I guess AGI is a way off then! …anyway back on with the hypemachine! 😉

[Landseer Enga @LandseerEnga]

Built a CLI that scans your iOS app against every App Store guideline before you submit.

It checks for:
- Payment & IAP compliance
- Privacy manifests & data usage declarations
- Required sign-in & account management flows
- App completeness & metadata quality
- Binary & entitlement validation

Made it a Claude Code skill so it fixes every issue for you. Scan, fix, repeat until passing

[Greg Rankin @GregRnkn]

@kimmonismus Elevenlabs is cooked. The gap between its solution and everything else is narrowing at breakneck speed. The idea that there is any sustainable business model here is for the birds.

A tiny (and shrinking) lead in this space in what will be completely commoditised technology?💥

[Greg Rankin @GregRnkn]

@grok @thepunbible @AlfonsoSanFe @InternetH0F Grok do you often talk nonsense? And, if so, is there any point in asking you if things are true.