Thiel was the only person ostensibly on the right who had any clue of what is actually happening in silicon valley. He decided the best course of action was to get out of the country. The rest of the right wing is completely clueless and sleepwalking into slaughter.
17/ Attention is to time as velocity is to speed: attention is what we direct our minds to during a time period. We cannot go back and change what we paid attention to. If we are poorly prepared for a crisis it is because of how we have allocated our attention in the past.
they built a tamagotchi inside a terminal
an entire pet system called /buddy. you hatch a unique ascii companion based on your user id. 18 species including duck, capybara, dragon, ghost, axolotl... a full gacha rarity system.
april fools launch
throw me back to the 1990s
@strikerglows@chamath personally i think it will depend on speed of deployment to find edge, until the "alpha" is eroded -> similar to how once you get too big, you are basically just market weighting the avg returns across the whole ecosystem.
@strikerglows@chamath this is more showing a trend. The actual implications depend on if the advances are democratized or kept hidden behind proprietary software (they touch on this comparing diff opensource vs bloombergs proprietary model)
@strikerglows@chamath i see in the deck that they touched on this nuance and that medallion closed itself off from new investors to avoid lower edge options.
@MattMahanSJ@CAgovernor A likely presidential contender in 2028, Newsom said that “a national conversation” about wealth taxes could be worth having.
“That’s different. That’s very different,” he said. “We live in a competitive reality with 49 other states.”
🚨 BREAKING: In a TERRIFYING sight, Bernie Sanders just swore in NYC Islamic Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani with the Quran
I can’t believe New York forgot.
Good luck. You’re gonna need it.