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never really felt like an attorney
commercial counsel @ Figma
ex-cravath
cofounder @ onedocs

[Figma @figma]

Huge if true (it’s true)

You can now connect Figma to your @Muse

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

The ChatGPT desktop app is now my main browser and my productivity has never been higher

[Dylan Field @zoink]

More ridiculous behavior

[Figma @figma]

Shipping something big today

[Figma @figma]

Two stops for #Config2025: San Francisco and London.

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[Pika @pika_labs]

Sry, we forgot our password.
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[Bilge Yılmaz @ProfYilmazBilge]

Mayıs 2023 seçimlerinin üzerinden 15 aydan fazla süre geçti. O zamandan beri geniş halk kesimlerinin refahı ve gelir dağılımındaki bozulma daha da kötüye gitti. Seçimlerin ardından geçen 12 ayda yıllık enflasyon yaklaşık iki katına çıktı. Peki neden?

Ağustos 2022'de ülkemizde uygulanması gereken ekonomi istikrar programını açıklamıştım. Maalesef Mayıs seçimlerinden sonra göreve gelenler böyle tam kapsamlı bir programla yola çıkmadılar. Hatta ülkemizin ihtiyacı olan programı hazırlayabilecek kadroları kurmak bir yana, Mayıs 2023’te ülkemizi uçurumun eşiğine getiren ekonomi kadroları büyük ölçüde görevde tutuldu. Kısacası liyakatsiz kadrolar ve başarısız olacağı çok belli bir programla yola çıkıldı.

Kimsenin inanmadığı TÜİK enflasyonu ve piyasa katılımcıları anketi ile yol alan Merkez Bankası’nın bir iki iyi atamayla halkın enflasyon beklentisini aşağıya çekmesi mümkün değil. Bu yüzden TCMB’nin uyguladığı yüksek faiz politikası istenilen sonucu vermiyor. Zaten para politikası doğru maliye, tarım ve sanayi politikalarıyla desteklenmediği için elde faizi arttırmak kalıyor. Sadece faiz politikaları ile talebi azaltarak enflasyonu düşürme çabası geniş halk kesimlerini fakirliğe, yoksulluğa ve mutsuzluğa hapsetmekten başka bir işe yaramadığı gibi, enflasyonun da beklenilen seviyelere düşmesini sağlamaz.

Bir hasta düşünün tedavisi için üç farklı ilaç kullanması gerekiyor ve bu ilaçlardan biri belli bir diyet ile birlikte kullanılmalı. Hasta iki ilacı hiç içmiyor, diğer ilacı ise diyeti uygulamadan kullanıyor. Tabii ki tedavi başarılı olmuyor. Bunun üzerine hasta kullandığı tek ilacın dozunu sürekli artırıyor ve çok ciddi olumsuz etkilerle karşılaşıyor. Eğer hasta bundan vazgeçmezse sonu hiç iyi olmayacak. İşte Türkiye’nin 15 aydır ekonomide yaptığı şey tam da bu.

Bundan sonra ne olacağını ve buradan nasıl çıkabileceğimizi önümüzdeki günlerde sizle paylaşmaya devam edeceğim.

[Material Design @materialdesign]

🚨 We just dropped big news at #Config2024.

The Material 3 Design Kit is now a default UI Kit in Figma!

Incorporate Material from start to finish for beautiful, usable app design → https://t.co/GhhiOdRlJb

[bensuaydin @bbensua]

#Config2024 is loading!

[bensuaydin @bbensua]

Akbelen Ormanı'nı ve zeytinlikleri vermeyeceğiz. #AkbeleneDokunma @TCTarim @ibrahimyumakli @csbgovtr @mehmetozhaseki @TCEnerji @aBayraktar1 @LimakEnerji - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/5ZxHhpz37c via @Change

[bensuaydin @bbensua]

1. Investments in AI have dropped precipitously.

2. Investors struggle to find value in AI correlates with the cost of scaling, because it’s just too expensive.

3. Profits from AI come from hardware, not software.

4. AI will increase efficiency, not profitability.

[The Short Straw @short_straw]

I promised a thread this weekend about OpenAI and the lawsuit I filed against them, and an explanation of what I hope to achieve here. Sorry for the length, but there's a lot going on here.

To begin with, we need to understand what “OpenAI” really is: a poorly constructed scheme operated by the Y Combinator Group to avoid the requirements of copyright law, tax law, and fair competition law in order to enrich their own insider group, the Y Combinator network.

What’s Y Combinator you ask? YC is a ‘tech accelerator’ out of San Francisco, CA. They work with tech startups to scale them up at alarming speeds (a process called Blitzscaling) and provide access to the Venture Capital money that drives these products. YC has funded over 4,000 startups since 2005. When you think of YC and blitzscaling, think of companies like Airbnb and Instacart; they captured incredible portions of market share with their VC funding and grand promises to the gig economy workers they pray on, then rapidly raise their rates and include absurd restrictions and costs until they are making a bare minimum 20% cut off of every transaction to repay these VCs. As these companies mature, they min-max to suck every penny they can out of local economies, there is nothing altruistic about them. They are very proud of this mode of operation; they refer to themselves as ‘Masters of Scale.’ It is also notable that Microsoft has invested in many YC companies.

Let’s look at why I claim OpenAI is just a poor cover for the activities the YC group:

1. Of the notable board members, investors, and business partners of OpenAI, well over 90% of them have previous financial dealings with Sam Altman and YC. Read the complaint, be horrified when you see the list.

2. Sam Altman stepped down as president of YC to become CEO of OpenAI. – Same leader

3. Board members, technology, corporate structures, and even the names are constantly passed back and forth and used freely among this group. For example YC Research, once a Research arm of YC, is now called “OpenResearch.” This is called comingling. When a corporation is formed, it has a separate legal identity from its individual owners. Comingling is generally illegal whether you are for-profit or non-profit. All the resources of the non-profit arm of OpenAI are comingled with resources of the for-profit arm. Same board members, same technology assets, and again, even the same name. OpenAI confirms all of this in a blog post.

4. OpenAI has claimed from founding that the company mission is non-profit; they have committed to ‘broad distribution’ to ‘benefit all of humanity.’ However, a close look at forming partnerships easily debunks this claim. While many developers are on a waiting list to create apps working with OpenAI’s GPT software, the business partners who received early access and are at the top of this list are overwhelmingly YC network founders and investors. Devs, while you are waiting for access right now, over 70 YC companies from the latest W23 batch are ‘AI companies.’ These companies will get access to OpenAI’s GPT and API while you are still waiting. The game is rigged; by the time you get access YC will have lined their pockets and captured the majority of market share. It is the Y Combinator network, not ‘all of humanity,’ that is reaping significant financial benefits from the founding and operation of OpenAI.

5. The members of the YC network came together and pooled their resources under the banner of ‘OpenAI’ to avoid copyright protections, paying taxes, and create, for themselves, the world’s most powerful supercomputer.

So as a member of the group ‘all of humanity,’ the reported beneficiaries of OpenAI, I have filed a claim for Breach of Fiduciary Duties. Breach of Fiduciary Duties is the umbrella my complaints generally fall under. The board members of OpenAI have a legal duty to serve the mission of the non-profit in good faith, to act prudently, and to obey the law, all of which they are not doing. OpenAI has *constantly* confirmed via public messaging their mission is to “benefit all of humanity;” the only logical conclusion to these statements is that all of humanity, you, me, and people on every continent, are beneficiaries of OpenAI’s mission. *I firmly believe, and state in good faith, that every human being on the planet has standing to sue OpenAI for these egregious actions.* Further, I look forward to hearing the legal team of OpenAI explain how this is not the case. If anyone has any illusions about the altruistic intentions of OpenAI, their explanation should put these illusions to bed.

Do I think my claim will go anywhere? Hard to say. The defendants are overwhelmingly some of the richest and most connected parties in the world. They have a combined of net worth of trillions of dollars. I’m litigating the suit on their home turf in SF, CA. However, I hope some attention on my claim will make it obvious that the State Attorneys General should be litigating and correcting this situation. OpenAI has repeatedly promised its benefits to “All of Humanity” in a ‘broad and distributed fashion.’ Any SAG that isn’t bought and sold by the upper class should be filing suit on behalf of their state constituents. One of my goals here is for us all, together, to bring enough attention to this problem to drag the SAGs into this. I’m happy to do the SAG’s jobs for them until they wake from their slumber.

People will make many claims about me and my complaint. People will claim I am crazy, or I have no right to file a suit, or that OpenAI has no obligations to me despite the absurd level of virtue signaling about ‘benefitting all of humanity.’ Those people are gate-keepers, and nothing they say stopped me from filing my suit, and nothing they say will convince me not to make my attempt to keep OpenAI accountable. They will tell you that everything they have done here is fair and above-board, they will tell you there will be plenty of jobs and opportunity left after they have sucked the financial landscape dry. They will tell you I’m crazy, and that if you even think of challenging them, you are crazy too. You know better; if we give an inch on this, they will take miles. Be loud. Protect your work. Protect your future. Don’t for one second think you are crazy for being concerned with any of this, you’re not.

[egirişim @egirisim]

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[Emrullah Saruhan @EmrullahSaruhan]

Müşahit oldun ama hiçbir şey bilmiyor ve zamanın da yok mu? Instagram hikayelerine benzeyen bir formatta, farklı kaynaklardan derlenmiş seçim güvenliği eğitimini alabilirsin. 📲📷

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[Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu @kilicdarogluk]

Buradayız. Sonuna kadar mücadele.

[bensuaydin @bbensua]

Turkiye’den NBA maclarini en kolay nereden izleyebiliyoruz? Biri yardimci olur mu? 😇 #nba #Knicks

[bensuaydin @bbensua]

Forbes announced its annual list of the 50 most promising privately-help AI companies. This year's AI 50 is putting up $27.2 billion.
https://t.co/xTQiM6wTcN

[bensuaydin @bbensua]

There has never been a better time to build.

[Alex Banks @thealexbanks]

Last week Stanford University released its 2023 AI Index Report.

It's 386 pages long.

Here are the 10 charts everyone must know:

[Ali Tekin @alitekintr]

ChatGPT-4, inanılmaz bir yapay zeka aracıdır.

Ancak şu anda ona erişmenin maliyeti 20 dolar.

İşte ChatGPT-4'ü ücretsiz kullanmanın 4 yolu: ++

[New York State Bar Association @NYSBA]

“An initial pass at contract redlining usually takes about 40 minutes. With AI Assist, we’re seeing users complete them in two minutes." @ironclad_inc CEO and co-founder, Jason Boehmig.

@heyitsalexsu what effect will this have on 'Track Changes?'

https://t.co/E45pXl4uL1