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An inside look at technology, business, and culture with @davemorin @brit @lessin and @jessicalessin every Friday.

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Improved automatic continuous more or less chat. turns out we can do our podcast 100% automatically at this point with the right traning set. just need to up the snark and add some pop culture.

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Agentic AI Will Break the Internet (@OpenClaw, @OpenAI & the AI Demand Delusion) https://t.co/n34OZecXfY

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Great article in the Washington Post today about etiquette school & evolving tech culture as it isn't cute little side show anymore... link below.

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New Pod Up: AI rings, robot tanks for your driveway, Apple’s forearm iPhone sock, why multitasking is destroying our brains, and Sam’s etiquette cult going global. Plus, Jess quits Instagram live on the pod. It’s a ride. https://t.co/0tnYEqJshe

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@lessin https://t.co/u7lxBu8s5W

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In tech, we still obsess over cap tables.

But as @lessin says, we may be entering an era where power > ownership.

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@lessin https://t.co/u7lxBu8s5W

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The internet only matters if people are behind it.

Replace them with machines and it’s just noise. @lessin

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@sama https://t.co/u7lxBu8s5W

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Even @sama only has ~10K followers on Sora.

Turns out virality ≠ friendship… and polished AI content ≠ good content.

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@Jessicalessin @brit Watch now: https://t.co/u7lxBu8s5W

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NEW EPISODE: Sora vs TikTok -- is OpenAI's compute cost finally justified by AI slop?

> @Jessicalessin questions whether Sora is just a novelty or the start of an AI-native social economy, arguing OpenAI needs its own device to escape current platform limits.

> @Brit calls it “Vine meets MySpace,” highlighting its cameo mechanic as a creator tool that could outpace Meta’s AI video.

> @davemorin says Sora only needs to be entertaining and pitches OpenAI’s real graph play: embedding ChatGPT in group chats.

> @lessin compares Sora to Truth Social, not Instagram, arguing power and narrative—not unit economics—drive the AI capex boom.

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The Washington and Silicon Valley Alliance: They’re never going to break up Big Tech--that’s the point.

They’re trading partners, not regulators.

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Meta’s AI glasses, Find-My the new social app, and Nvidia as the East India Company of compute: https://t.co/YaREoxXW9X

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NEW EPISODE: Is Lens Crafters the newest Best Buy?

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TikTok, Meta's New Glasses, Sam's Etiquette School and more: https://t.co/sfBG8zlv9D

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NEW EPISODE LIVE:

>"If A16z will be a shareholder in TikTok... I don't think Andreessen can have a board seat. But Sequoia have a ton of ByteDance exposure... they may get 20% through that." @Jessicalessin

>"If the algo's just a licensed black box, who has veto on the model updates?" @davemorin

>"People moved on from social to LLMs. 'How ChatGPT is making kids kill themselves'--that's the new battlefield." @lessin

>"Sheryl comes out of retirement and does it..."
@brit

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TikTok's US deal, Sam's Etiquette School, Meta's new glasses and more: https://t.co/1vNP7ACmib

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@davemorin @brit @lessin @Jessicalessin Watch now: https://t.co/Yru7GNeXI5

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NEW EPISODE IS NOW LIVE! @davemorin @brit @lessin and @Jessicalessin goes over:

> “Skinny iPhone” and why “thin” might be back
> Market reaction: “Not enough AI,” money flows to Oracle
> YC protest: is relevance measured by outrage?
> Creator-led startups as an investing edge
> Khosla: bargain hunting is a poor AI bet
> Why money feels unlimited again (FOMO returns)
> Quiet shakeout: sub-$100M seed funds at risk
> Crypto policy clarity as 2025 macro driver
> Meme warfare: the next GTM playbook

See the thread for more of our favorite takeaways from this week’s episode.

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@davemorin @brit @lessin @Jessicalessin Memetic Warfare is the new distribution. Don’t push messages. Seed templates people want to adopt, remix, and share.