adam 李 altman 🍉📚🌲

Cofounder @letsrecast - turning articles into concise explainer podcasts using AI

[USGS Volcanoes🌋 @USGSVolcanoes]

Kīlauea’s summit eruption Episode 46 ended at 5:22 pm HST on May 5 after 9 hours of lava fountaining.

🌋 Only the north vent fountained, reaching heights of 650 ft (200 m). About 6 million cubic yards of lava covered over half of Halemaʻumaʻu’s crater floor.
💨 The plume rose to 20,000 ft (6,000 m), with tephra falling N-NW and NE of the crater. Fist‑sized fragments reached areas along the north caldera rim and Highway 11. Pele’s hair was reported in Volcano Golf Course and Mountain View.
⛔️ USGS maintained WATCH/ORANGE during the episode and lowered to ADVISORY/YELLOW afterward. NWS issued an ashfall advisory for S/SE Hawai‘i Island.

Kīlauea summit inflation after Episode 46 suggests another fountaining episode is possible, but more data is needed before forecasting Episode 47.

📹 Views of episode 46 on May 5, 2026.

#Kilauea #Lava #Eruption

[adam 李 altman 🍉📚🌲 @a18n]

@pitdesi Not in Hawaii!

[adam 李 altman 🍉📚🌲 @a18n]

@lyft For anyone curious in DM‘s, they are literally making it worse. They used to be the respectable company.

[adam 李 altman 🍉📚🌲 @a18n]

After an interaction with @lyft customer support today, I no longer believe they can or should win. If anyone from Lyft would like to attempt to make a horrible situation right please reach out.

[adam 李 altman 🍉📚🌲 @a18n]

@faraz_r_khan @pitdesi Imagine if they also did not have to subsidize all the other states with federal taxes while their lone 2 senators represent 40 million Americans.

[adam 李 altman 🍉📚🌲 @a18n]

@jack_roaming @rabbit_hmi @perplexity_ai @letsrecast @mreflow @MatthewBerman @wesroth We at Recast would love to chat :)

[adam 李 altman 🍉📚🌲 @a18n]

@bubba Holy moly. Congrats.

[adam 李 altman 🍉📚🌲 @a18n]

@andrew__rea lot of ex SVB folk now running HSBCs startup banking arm. Talk to @alexjchoy

[adam 李 altman 🍉📚🌲 @a18n]

@aniehenke Very well articulated.

[adam 李 altman 🍉📚🌲 @a18n]

Last week @letsrecast helped me “read” 130k words ideas, without reading!

[David Herbert👨🏽‍💻🚀 @DaveyHert]

If you’ve got a growing list of opened tabs and bookmarks of interesting articles you want to read but never seem to get around to it due to busy schedule, this thread is for you.🧵

Until last month, I had this same issue where I’d see an interesting article I wanted to read, open it in a new tab, and continue with what I was initially working on, hoping to come back later when I am free. Sometimes I do, but most times I procrastinate and over time I ended up with so many opened tabs that my MacBook started lagging. Lol.

It was even worse on my phone where I had some uncleared tabs from as far back as March; I know I’m not the only one guilty of this. So last month, while scrolling TikTok someone recommended using a productivity AI tool called “Recast” by @letsrecast, which turns articles into easy-to-digest podcast-style convos between 2 hosts.

I was wary at first because I’ve tried a few text-to-speech tools, but they usually sound very robotic and somewhat incoherent. So you can imagine how surprised I was when I tried it and it sounded like two engaging hosts on a normal podcast discussing your favorite topic with rich, radio-like voices. Lol.

I’ve been using it since then to convert most of the articles I haven’t had time to read into these recast podcasts and any chance I get while I’m working, at the gym, doing chores, or just commuting… I listen to them.

I think a lot of you might find it helpful, hence this thread. You can use the mobile app or the web version (with Chrome extension) to recast your articles by simply sharing them to the AI, and in a minute or two it’d add them to your playlist. You can also explore the countless recasts made by others

As I said, it’s free and should probably be on your list of productivity AI tools. Here’s a link to one of my recasts if you’re curious about what these article podcasts sound like:

https://t.co/Z5gYAqOFcR

If you find this helpful, don’t forget to retweet for others.💛

[adam 李 altman 🍉📚🌲 @a18n]

@alexjchoy Well said, and thanks for speaking when others choose not to.

[adam 李 altman 🍉📚🌲 @a18n]

@ImChauncey So freaking cute! Congrats

[adam 李 altman 🍉📚🌲 @a18n]

"but come on, the weather is so much better"

LA the last 2wks:
heatwave, hurricane, 5.0+ earthquakes

SF the entire time:
sure is a nice day to go to the park w my northface

[adam 李 altman 🍉📚🌲 @a18n]

Idk who needs to hear this but we millennials really don’t like handling matters over the phone.

[adam 李 altman 🍉📚🌲 @a18n]

Just a little more push! Recast was #1 product of the day, and could be #1 of the week too. need a push to flip the product ahead of us. If you believe in @letsrecast , please engage w/ our PH page and/or share this post. Thank you so much. https://t.co/5iQ4gT98y5

[adam 李 altman 🍉📚🌲 @a18n]

@chrispodcasting Any article online turned into a conversation with AI - it’s real @letsrecast

[adam 李 altman 🍉📚🌲 @a18n]

We were Umano fans too! And are humbled by the comparison. They paved the way, and now we've got more sparkly tech to bring to the job.

@letsrecast holding strong at #1 on PH today! Thanks all for your interest and support.

[Ryan Hoover @rrhoover]

Unfortunately, Umano shut down ~9 years ago.

Recast is sort of like its spiritual successor without the humans (ofc).

They just launched:

https://t.co/4snUUCeh1O

[adam 李 altman 🍉📚🌲 @a18n]

@fabritravels I hear you Sicilians roll deep
🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸🥸 ought to do it.

[Bubba Murarka @bubba]

So pumped to see that the word is out about https://t.co/4IUdg0PulX with @rrhoover's hunting today - currently ranked #1:

https://t.co/crGXnKXhCi!

Special thanks to @tjack, @fubini, @joshk, @btrenchard, @realalecberg, @MikeJudge, and all the other amazing team Fika supporters!