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[Eric Schmidt @ericschmidt]

Sam Altman is a hero of mine. He built a company from nothing to $90 Billion in value, and changed our collective world forever. I can't wait to see what he does next. I, and billions of people, will benefit from his future work- it's going to be simply incredible. Thank you @sama for all you have done for all of us.

[Varun @varun_mathur]

Dear Mira and Ilya - congratulations on your coup at OpenAI. Since both of you have together never raised a penny as entrepreneurs, let me explain what happens.

Oh, and you *will* need to raise since your venture’s unit economics don’t make sense. Remember, you pay $0.30 every time someone asks a doofus question to ChatGPT. Heck, I sometimes ask the same thing 5 times.

Also, the last deal at $80 billion valuation - is as dead as the Egyptian pharaohs. Glorious to write about and visualize. But super dead, under the sand, not coming back.

Not only that - but you sideswiped your biggest partner, Microsoft. Of course publicly they will say the right thing, but you know and they know it and a random fellow like me knows it - they must be seething mad about it.

Few of your top researchers have already quit, and if there is one thing Sam Altman is especially good at, it is raising and deploying capital. Before the sign with your name and title as “CEO” and “Defacto CEO” gets emblazoned in the OpenAI offices, Sam would have a new company, $1 billion investment and offers out to all your, soon to be ex, top product people and researchers.

So you head into next week having lost your top dealmaker, top researchers, top product visionary, top partner and top investor, and with a business which has terrible unit economics.

And let’s not forget - the two of you are not entrepreneurs. Most people in your board have never held a proper tech job ever. You have never had to face the abject rejection which follows from pitching many investors, going through the process, and getting to close. Getting to close is the toughest. Sometimes investors say yes, but they don’t actually mean it. Sometimes they even sign, and still don’t wire the funds. You will need to live through all of it, the pain and rejection, and feel intense amount of pressure of having to provide for your team members - who pays their mortgages, car loans, kids school tuition - the ones whom you played with at the last company picnic.

After you are exhausted with the realities of the market - you will sell out OpenAI to Microsoft entirely, and be housed as Global Principal Product Managers in building 4 in Seattle, where it rains non-stop. Microsoft will never fire you, Satya will always say the right thing about you - because he is an honorable person.

But deep down in your heart, as you are watching the Netflix movie on OpenAI and Joseph-Gordon Levitt’s wife plays herself as a board member who fired Sam Altman over Google Meet, you will think and realize that you had it all - you could have been at the helm of a $1 trillion company. History will forget you. Sam and Greg and everyone else would have moved on and forgotten about you. e/acc would have built out fundamental OpenAI alternatives in anycase..

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

Assange & I were charged under a law designed to prevent fair trials—a law originally aimed at suppressing an old anti-war movement. Defendants are forbidden from mounting a public interest defense, juries prohibited from hearing⁠ it.

Whatever your politics, that's an injustice

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Do you want an edit button?

[Willy Woo @willywoo]

@elonmusk Only with a short time window before it becomes immutable to prevent tampering of the message after engagement has started.

Delete button should be removed, make it immutable.

[CZ 🔶 BNB @cz_binance]

@elonmusk Getting rid of spam is probably higher priority.

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

Governments claiming the authority to *freeze people's bank accounts* because they want to crush a protest movement is tyrannical and obscene. If you would oppose China or Russia doing it, you must oppose Canada doing it.

Very glad @CanCivLib exists.

https://t.co/wXBCLdtlbt

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

This…is…spectacular.

#Bitcoin

[Cash App @CashApp]

We’re giving away $10,000 today. QRT with your $cashtag, make sure you’re following @cashapp, then just stare at this for the rest of the day. #CashAppFriday

No purc nec. Void where proh. Ends 1/28 https://t.co/uv9PcsS6pt

[Jaimes @JPowellsPrinter]

@CashApp

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SpaceX is starting a program to take CO2 out of atmosphere & turn it into rocket fuel. Please join if interested.

[Jeff Booth ⚡️ @JeffBooth]

Energy will be priced in #Bitcoin. With new energy sources, and game theory playing out before our eyes, there is simply no war machine big enough to break that trend.

[Matt James @mattjames919]

Promise yourself today to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own🥳🕺🏿💫🙌🏾

[Reid J. Epstein @reidepstein]

NEW: Wisconsin Republicans are staging an all-out assault on the state’s election systems, trying to oust, eliminate and bypass the bipartisan WI elections commission and threatening jail for its commissioners so they can take total control for themselves.
https://t.co/qW6NXZCtGV

[InvestAnswers @Investanswers]

So looking fwd to discussing #Bitcoin #Bonds and the #Future with bond trader / financial risk mgr extraordinaire @FossGregfoss - join us live at 10:30am PT to fathom the future of #BTC - https://t.co/Jq7FjMrqaM

[Luke Gromen @LukeGromen]

BTC has the power to weaken countries in the same way that thermometers have the power to make Phoenix, AZ hot in the summertime.

BTC is merely a functioning "thermometer" on a nation's fiscal policies and leadership that can't be disabled like policymakers have done to gold.

[Heidi @blockchainchick]

#Bitcoin

[r/SpaceXMasterrace @SpaceXMR]

Based on actual numbers from the OIG report #SpaceX https://t.co/DFDiTFre5Y

[Tom Nash @iamtomnash]

Ford are trying to copy Tesla so badly they might as well call their next EV the Musktang