Vidar Andersen 🇺🇦

Drugs rotted Elon’s brain. Now X is rotting ours. I’m usually associated with startups, innovation, and education. Not very active on this hellhole anymore.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

The companies I love working with in office hours are the ones where the founder has a specific, weird, earned insight that nobody else has. Not "AI for X." A genuine edge that came from living inside a problem.

The ones that are dying almost always have the same pattern: technically competent founders building something nobody asked for, moving metrics that don't matter, avoiding the conversation with the one user who'd tell them the truth.

The lucky thing is that 2nd type of founder can become the 1st kind if they don't stand still, they are willing to talk to people, try things, and always seek high rate of learning.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

The wonderful Anne Applebaum explains the whole reason for Russian's invasion of Ukraine

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[Caolan @CaolanReports]

The media celebrated a russian “ceasefire” this week. Then Ukraine suffered the worst air attack since 2022. While russia turns up in Venice
Time to stop pretending Russia wants peace. It will only be stopped when it’s sanctioned into the abyss & kicked out of the civilised world

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

Lately I've been doing the opposite of encouraging people to move to San Francisco.

Yes, @paulg is right. Being in San Francisco does give many advantages that he lays out well.

But I meet so many who feel FOMO for not being here. Families won't let them move. Or they don't yet have a business that works here. It's EXPENSIVE.

I spent time this week with one guy building a robot that removes snow and ice from sidewalks. He wants to move to SF to be around other people who work on robotics. Being a founder in the midwest is lonely, he told me.

I told him that the whole advantage of where he lives is he is close to the customers. The government officials who could actually buy such a robot.

Being close to customers is a huge advantage. One that many entrepreneurs don't appreciate enough.

I told another guy "come to San Francisco to get up to date for a couple of weeks then take what you learned back to your local community."

I've seen the advantages AI automation brings to businesses, whether big, like CocaCola, or small, like a dentist in a small town.

But most businesses haven't yet automated around the world. Those businesses don't spend time in San Francisco. And people outside of SF are the ones who will help them automate.

In other words, there is a HUGE opportunity outside of San Francisco/Silicon Valley and one that isn't hyped up enough.

[Vidar Andersen 🇺🇦 @blacktar]

@paulg Now try Copenhagen. ;)

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Eight European countries are calling for a Schengen entry ban for Russian servicemen.

Should’ve been done long ago and permanently.

Leaders also argued there is a risk of former Russian combatants involved in organised crime, extremist movements or hostile activities against EU countries in the context of Russia's hybrid actions.

[Natalie Wolchover @nattyover]

Bacteria move around using a molecular machine called the flagellar motor that rotates faster than the flywheel of a race car engine and switches directions in an instant. After 50 yrs, scientists have finally figured out how it works. “My lifelong quest is now fulfilled.” Link⤵️

[Vidar Andersen 🇺🇦 @blacktar]

@aakashgupta It's helpful to actually read the study. "Because this is an observational study, it remains uncertain whether this relationship is causal."

[Vidar Andersen 🇺🇦 @blacktar]

@ASychov I was talking about banning Hungary from the EU if Orban stayed in power and continued acting against European interests and sucking Putin off.

[Vidar Andersen 🇺🇦 @blacktar]

Ban Orban or ban Hungary.

[Vidar Andersen 🇺🇦 @blacktar]

@ASychov What the hell are you talking about? Orban is a cancer on Europe.

[Andreas Klinger 🦾 @andreasklinger]

People don't realize how bad autocrats are for their people.

Hungary is so poor that they need to shut down universities in the middle of the semester to save money.
Imagine being so broken as government that you can't pay your schools anymore and send students home.

Meanwhile his family and friends get ungodly rich.

Same with Putin and soon with Trump. They bankrupt their own countries for generations, fill their pockets, and blame everyone else for it.

Worst of all they are surrounded by yes-men so they even believe they are the victim here.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Tens of thousands of Hungarians are filling the capital streets right now shouting ‘Russians go home’.

They furious with Orban cozying up to Putin

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Good luck, Hungary !!

Remember 1956

I do !

[Vidar Andersen 🇺🇦 @blacktar]

@Amank1412 IMO, auto-generated AI slop. What is the relationship to "vibe coded" (aka also AI slop) loot-drop dot io, btw? Seems to be almost identical content?

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

A small logistics firm is quietly breaking Europe’s sanctions on Russia.

Berlin-based shipping network moves banned goods to Moscow disguised as postal parcels — exploiting loopholes in EU law. Reporters tracked packages with GPS from a German supermarket to Russia, Politico. 1/

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Here are all the lighthouses of the Northern Seas, each light is the right color, each turns or pulses at the right frequency, and is scaled with its brightness. You can also see how far they are visible.

I had Claude Code build this and upload it here: https://t.co/ZX6pyJhlr9

[Aida Baradari @aidaxbaradari]

Today, we're introducing Spectre I, the first smart device to stop unwanted audio recordings.

We live in a world of always-on listening devices.

Smart devices and AI dominate our world in business and private conversations.

With Deveillance, you will @be_inaudible.

[Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦 @andrii_sybiha]

The International Paralympic Committee has prohibited the Ukrainian Paralympic Team from wearing their national uniform due to… its inclusion of elements of the Ukrainian map within its internationally recognized borders.

There is no moral low that the IPC bureaucrats would not reach. They are ready to ruin the remains of the Committee's reputation by acting against UNGA resolutions, Ukraine’s territorial integrity, and international law, only to please Russian war criminals.

We urge the international community, including all countries and national Paralympic committees, to condemn the IPC's immoral actions, including their disgraceful decision to allow blood-stained Russian and Belarusian flags, and to boycott the opening ceremony of the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games.

Please, take a clear stance and refuse to be part of the IPC's war crimes sportswashing!