Michael Rowe 🏴

Founder/CEO, Legacy of Hope, Inc.

[Michael Rowe 🏴 @MikeRowe_Legacy]

I am honored to be presenting at the annual conference of the American Society of Preventive Oncology in Chicago.

The Emergency Patient Support Network currently operates in two cities (Philadelphia and Camden NJ), and the program is receiving national attention.  We anticipate @LegacyOfHopePHL expanding to several other cities in the next year.

Today information on @LegacyOfHopePHL's Emergency Patient Support Network was well received at a Roundtable discussion on Food Insecurity and Cancer Outcomes.  Tomorrow I'll have the opportunity to present during the Best of ASPO:  Social Determinants of Health.

We're grateful to share the unique work that Legacy of Hope is doing in Philadelphia and proud to be a part of the important research in collaboration with the team at @KimmelCancerCtr and @TJUHospital.

[Nic Munoz @nic_munoz]

Elon on Speed

“I always tell the teams: compress the timeline. Take a 10 year plan and try to do it in 6 months. You’ll probably fail, but you’ll be so far ahead of everyone else that it doesn’t matter. Most companies move at a glacial pace. We try to move at the speed of light.”

[Julian Dorey @juliandorey]

it’s the way this guy clearly WANTS an attack to happen that pisses me off more than anything

[Sydney Runkle @sydneyrunkle]

loops can help you build more effective, more autonomous agents

this post dives into a few loops:
1. the agent loop
2. the verification loop
3. the event driven loop
4. the hill climbing loop

and how you can compose them with langchain primitives!

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

It is hard to overstate how pervasive the SPLC’s control was in the tech industry, and in fact still is in many companies.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

It shouldn't matter who you are or what your ideology is to understand how dangerous these laws are that require the submission of state ID to use social media.

"Protecting children" is the bullshit pretense. The real outcome is tracking everyone's views and online behavior:

[Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️ @EricJorgenson]

This is why the supporters of @elonmusk work hard to "defend him."

Because it's not about Elon.

He's a symbol of progress.

[Kun Chen @kunchenguid]

wow - this is huge!

anthropic is officially walking back their decision about banning programmatic use of claude code subscription quota

why is this a big deal?

this is a signal that anthropic is revisiting their ecosystem strategy which many of us have been criticizing

by allowing invoking claude code programmatically, anthropic will basically extend their subsidized subscription to power a much wider range of applications, not just their own, which effectively means they are leaning more into being an infrastructure provider rather than the super app that eats everything else

they still have more to do to gain back my trust as a developer but this is a very positive change and i'm happy to see anthropic revisiting their strategy

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

One of the greatest threats to internet freedom and privacy are these manipulative laws, now spreading, that force people to prove they're of a certain age to use social media platforms and other sites. The UK Government, naturally, is now seeking this.

The defense of these laws is emotionally powerful by appealing to child protection, but the real goal is online surveillance, an end to anonymity, and control over political content that young people can access. Few have done a better job reporting on these tyrannical threats than @TaylorLorenz. Read this:

[Race @multiplanet1]

Elon Musk got rejected by Netscape. He walked into the lobby, was too shy to talk to anyone, and walked out. Never got the job.

At his first company Zip2, the board demoted him. Twice. They refused to let him be CEO.

He got fired from PayPal as CEO while flying to his own honeymoon. The board voted him out mid air.

He almost died of malaria in 2000. Ten days in intensive care. Lost 45 pounds. A day from death.

His first child died at 10 weeks old.

His first rocket exploded. Falcon 1, flight one. Burned on the pad.

His second rocket exploded.

His third rocket exploded. The last of his money was nearly gone.

Tesla nearly went bankrupt in 2008. The closest he ever came to a nervous breakdown.

Both companies almost died on the same Christmas Eve.

He was sued by investors. Mocked by the people who built cars before him.

His childhood heroes, the astronauts who inspired him, testified against his company to Congress.

The Cybertruck window shattered on live stage in front of the world.

He overpaid for Twitter by his own admission and watched its value collapse.

He was beaten unconscious as a child and thrown down a flight of stairs.

He has said he goes to sleep alone and it kills him.

He failed in public, over and over, for thirty years.

He is the richest man in the history of the world.

The difference was never the absence of failure. It was the refusal to stop after it.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Open source is the escape hatch for businesses to be able to continue to control their own destiny long term

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Thank you for summing up why people hate successful people: you think you're a loser because someone else made you a loser. The reason you believe this is that it's a lot more comforting than the truth: you're a loser despite the fact that amazing business leaders like Elon created hundreds of thousands of jobs and paid billions upon billions in taxes. In other words, the reason you're a loser is you, your shitty, envious attitude and the fact that you don't understand that the way to achieve what you want is to provide something other people want so they're willing to pay you for it.

[Michael Rowe 🏴 @MikeRowe_Legacy]

Interesting and worth while read.

[Anthony Aguirre @AnthonyNAguirre]

https://t.co/acyvgIN1OE

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Whatever is going on in the world, Thomas Sowell always got there first and summed it up perfectly.

[Thomas Sowell Daily @DailySowell]

“I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.”

— Thomas Sowell

[Scottie Pippen @ScottiePippen]

Nobody teaches you that discipline feels like punishment until the results start feeling like freedom

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

November 2023. The most powerful companies on Earth lined up to make him kneel.

Disney. Apple. IBM. Comcast. They pulled their money and waited for the apology.

The whole press corps wanted one word out of him. Sorry.

Sorkin leaned in and offered him the exit. Just walk it back.

Musk: “If somebody’s going to try and blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself.”

No retraction. No cleanup post at 2am. No quiet calls begging the brands back.

They wrote that it was over. That he’d finally buried his own company.

He was worth around $230 billion that night.

This week SpaceX went public.

He became the first trillionaire who has ever lived.

Forbes puts him at $1.1 trillion. Almost four times the next richest person alive.

This was never about him.

The people threatening you only hold the power you agree to hand them.

Every time you apologized to keep the peace, you taught them the price was you.

He refused to pay it once, in front of the entire world.

The world blinked first.

The crowd never remembers who knelt. It remembers who refused to flinch.

The only person who can ever make you beg is you.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

No, it’s not “Pride Month.” Not for me, and not for millions of others.

You’re welcome to be proud of whatever you want, in any month you like—because this is America. But what started in 1969 as a rebellion against persecution, morphed into a license for public depravity, and then morphed again into a weapon aimed at families and innocent children. Along the way it went from a day, to a week, and then a month and became official, and thereby effectively mandatory for all.

Enough!

If you’re gay and wondering why you are facing resistance now, the answer is that, with few exceptions, most of you didn’t stand up against the expansion and weaponization of “pride,” and the coercion that went with it. In that failure to resist, the gay community compromised any expectation that the rest of us should support “pride” at all, but especially the obscene display of hostility toward civilization and the families of which it is built, and for whom it exists.

If your hackles are raised by the idea that civilization is about families, realize that families are how civilizations persist through time. Not everyone needs to form one, but we all must respect and protect them—It is the foundation of what it means to be civilized.

For the small fraction of gays and lesbians who DID courageously stand up and resist expansion, coercion and the weaponization of “Pride,” I stand with you, and I have all along. But I won’t be celebrating, and I won’t be silent.

It’s not too late to join the voices of reason and to confront the insanity of what “pride” has become.