Larry Graham

Failure is inevitable. Success is elusive.

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@kohjingyu Come on. Gather Town isn't that bad.

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@NewsWire_US

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@bryancsk Just you watch

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Is that @zywoo?

[B/R Hoops @brhoops]

The Lakers have signed Robbie Avila aka Cream Abdul-Jabbar to an Exhibit-10 contract, per @DraftExpress

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You can tell this post isn't written by an LLM because no AI will choose to use the word "Robinhoodies"

[Robinhood Comms @RobinhoodComms]

Our CEO Vlad Tenev shared the following note with our team at Robinhood today:

Robinhoodies,

We’ve made the difficult decision to say goodbye to some of our team members today. Those departing are being notified, and we’re offering them full support through this transition, including severance. These are good people who helped build the foundation we stand on today, and I am deeply grateful for their contributions to Robinhood.

I want to be transparent about why this is happening now. Robinhood’s business has never been stronger. But to achieve the massive scale of our mission, we cannot default to operating as a heavily-layered organization. We must be a lean, hyper-focused team where every single individual is empowered to make a massive impact. Our execution is strong today, but our ambitions require us to continuously raise our own bar. To achieve that, today we are flattening our org structure and reducing our overall team size by 10% of headcount.

Because our financial position is strong, we are making this change proactively. The goal is to maximize our talent density and ensure that our culture is defined by an absolute elite performance bar and a superlative commitment to our customers. This transition creates even more opportunities for our most talented people to grow and take on greater responsibility. We will also continue hiring strategically, investing heavily in top-tier talent, and utilizing frontier technologies to push our execution even further.

I know it can be painful to say goodbye to teammates. It is the hardest consequence of committing uncompromisingly to our values of being “Lean & Disciplined” and demanding “High Performance.”

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@TheRealAdamG Yeah. They really really want to fk up Microsoft

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@unusual_whales Hmm. I don't see $DOCU going up today?

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@ArtistMonster24 @shimeren Go get them, champ.

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon.

Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic.

Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity. Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of “effective altruism,” they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission - a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives.

The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield.

Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable.

As President Trump stated on Truth Social, the Commander-in-Chief and the American people alone will determine the destiny of our armed forces, not unelected tech executives.

Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered.

In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service.

America’s warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.

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@LowLevelTweets Two more and you will get permabanned

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End of an era

[Nathan Lambert @natolambert]

My time at Ai2 / @allen_ai has come to an end.

Ai2 is a wonderful place. The last 2.5+ years building Olmo, Tulu, and other projects will be one of the peaks of my entire career. I'm extremely thankful for my teammates and the open community who made this work possible.

For me, it's time to try something different. I will still be working in the open model & open science spaces (more news on that soon). In the meantime I'll be spending a few months learning, chatting with a broader network, getting married (!!) and most importantly recharging from pouring my soul into this place.

I've attached the note I shared with the team and some fun photos from our time together. I'll keep cheering for Ai2 and am excited to see what you build next.

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@FangYi11101 Do you have a signup sheet?

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@HardPass4 Thank you @theo

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@himself65 All in $SPCX?

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@linguinelabs Left out the most important question

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@Dexerto 10/10, GOTY

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@DanielleFong Redefining two-pizza team

[MTS @MTSlive]

Offer letter sent to Sam Altman by OpenAI asking to bring him back.

His base salary was $64,480, the minimum required to qualify as an exempt employee in California.

November, 2023

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@nealCS The second pic will go so hard in Chengdu

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@Ballislife