Brendan Rius

Co-founder @ MEE6

[DHH @dhh]

May Europe one day wake up and start striving for this level of capitalistic homerun. Dump the degrowth nonsense, celebrate progress, and once again reach for the stars.

[Henrick Johansson @compliantvc]

Elon Musk is about to become a trillionaire

If he agreed to pay just 80% of that as a wealth tax to the EU, the EU government could use its efficient operating experience to fund bicycles with solar panels attached to them for over 40 residents of the Netherlands

Elon is being selfish by not paying the wealth tax

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

SpaceX was founded to make life multiplanetary. We’ve been able to expand that mission with our Starlink constellation and AI solution

Learn more → https://t.co/PSCyWrMUYI

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Eli Lilly has done it.

They've gone and made what seems to be a powerful, permanent gene therapy for LDL cholesterol.

That means they'll be able to effectively prevent most heart disease with a single infusion!

[Evis Drenova @evisdrenova]

One fascinating consequence of GLP-1s/Ozempic:

For decades, people said that big pharma would never release actually effective obesity drugs because they’d lose too much money from downstream chronic disease treatment.

We’re seeing almost the exact opposite.

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

Ultimately the golden age of abundance will be this kind of tech built and deployed 1000x

[george hotz archive @geohotarchive]

The Eternal Sloptember https://t.co/kFIW7LNhNd

[Sam Altman @sama]

I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took.

Thank you for getting us to this point.

[Eric Larchevêque @EricLarch]

Je suis opposé à la régulation des réseaux sociaux, qu'il s'agisse de la régulation de ce que l'on peut publier ou pas, ou de l'interdiction de l'accès aux mineurs de moins de 15 ans.

J'entends le ravage potentiel des fake news, de l'IA et du doom scrolling sur le cerveau des plus jeunes (et des moins jeunes !), mais ce n'est pas à l'État de venir empiéter sur notre sphère privée.

La seule réponse saine passe par la responsabilité individuelle, l'esprit critique et le rôle des parents.

Oui aux initiatives menées par les plateformes elles-même pour apporter de la transparence sur leurs algorithmes, et mettre des ressources et outils à disposition pour aider à y voir plus clair.

Non à l'État nounou qui vient substituer à nos devoirs de vigilance pour nous dire quoi faire, quoi dire et quoi penser. Toutes ces initiatives de contrôle ne pourront qu'évoluer vers un recul intellectuel du citoyen ainsi qu'un asservissement culturel et idéologique.

Liberté et responsabilité.

[Pavel Durov @durov]

French police is currently raiding X’s office in Paris. France is the only country in the world that is criminally persecuting all social networks that give people some degree of freedom (Telegram, X, TikTok…). Don’t be mistaken: this is not a free country.

[Brendan Rius @brendanrius]

"La France, pionnière depuis 2018 de la régulation des plateformes, continue aujourd’hui de l’être en devenant le premier pays d’Europe à s’engager dans cette voie."

lol

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Interdire les réseaux sociaux aux moins de 15 ans : c’est ce que préconisent les scientifiques, c’est ce que demandent massivement les Français.

Après un travail fructueux avec le Gouvernement, l’Assemblée nationale vient de dire oui.

C’est une étape majeure.

Au Sénat maintenant de poursuivre ce travail constructif.

Pour que cette interdiction soit effective dès la rentrée prochaine, j’ai demandé au Gouvernement d’activer la procédure accélérée.

Parce que le cerveau de nos enfants n’est pas à vendre. Ni aux plateformes américaines, ni aux réseaux chinois.

Parce que leurs rêves ne sauraient être dictés par les algorithmes.

Parce que nous ne voulons pas de la génération anxieuse mais d’une génération qui croit en la France, la République et ses valeurs.

La France, pionnière depuis 2018 de la régulation des plateformes, continue aujourd’hui de l’être en devenant le premier pays d’Europe à s’engager dans cette voie.

Au 1er septembre, nos enfants et adolescents seront enfin protégés. J’y veillerai.

[Michael Truell @mntruell]

More on our experiments here: https://t.co/rze6VX3eov

[Michael Truell @mntruell]

We built a browser with GPT-5.2 in Cursor. It ran uninterrupted for one week.

It's 3M+ lines of code across thousands of files. The rendering engine is from-scratch in Rust with HTML parsing, CSS cascade, layout, text shaping, paint, and a custom JS VM.

It *kind of* works! It still has issues and is of course very far from Webkit/Chromium parity, but we were astonished that simple websites render quickly and largely correctly.

[DHH @dhh]

The last thing Europe needs is a Great Firewall concept copied from China. Lean into the enlightenment, lean into free speech. Major kudos to Matthew and Cloudflare for standing up to this nonsense 👏

[Brendan Rius @brendanrius]

@eastdakota @Cloudflare I believe you should do something but this would hurt your customers more than the italian gvt

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined @Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal of European media elites deemed against their interests. No judicial oversight. No due process. No appeal. No transparency. It required us to not just remove customers, but also censor our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver meaning it risked blacking out any site on the Internet. And it required us not just to censor the content in Italy but globally. In other words, Italy insists a shadowy, European media cabal should be able to dictate what is and is not allowed online.

That, of course, is DISGUSTING and even before yesterday’s fine we had multiple legal challenges pending against the underlying scheme. We, of course, will now fight the unjust fine. Not just because it’s wrong for us but because it is wrong for democratic values.

In addition, we are considering the following actions: 1) discontinuing the millions of dollars in pro bono cyber security services we are providing the upcoming Milano-Cortina Olympics; 2) discontinuing Cloudflare’s Free cyber security services for any Italy-based users; 3) removing all servers from Italian cities; and 4) terminating all plans to build an Italian Cloudflare office or make any investments in the country.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. While there are things I would handle differently than the current U.S. administration, I appreciate @JDVance taking a leadership role in recognizing this type of regulation is a fundamental unfair trade issue that also threatens democratic values. And in this case @ElonMusk is right: #FreeSpeech is critical and under attack from an out-of-touch cabal of very disturbed European policy makers.

I will be in DC first thing next week to discuss this with U.S. administration officials and I’ll be meeting with the IOC in Lausanne shortly after to outline the risk to the Olympic Games if @Cloudflare withdraws our cyber security protection.

In the meantime, we remain happy to discuss this with Italian government officials who, so far, have been unwilling to engage beyond issuing fines. We believe Italy, like all countries, has a right to regulate the content on networks inside its borders. But they must do so following the Rule of Law and principles of Due Process. And Italy certainly has no right to regulate what is and is not allowed on the Internet in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, Brazil, India or anywhere outside its borders.

THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FIGHT AND WE WILL WIN!!!

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

If you *only* used SAT to admit to elite colleges, share of admits from top 1% income falls 15.8% → 9.9% and representation from <$200k rises by +8.8%, with no reduction in post-college outcomes.

It's 'holistic review' and 'ban SAT' policy that allows the most wealthy and powerful to virtue signal while getting an edge.

[Brendan Rius @brendanrius]

@Jon_HQ Thank you for fixing the tweet. As you said, leaderboard visibility was public by default, but we turned it off a few months ago and it's now opt-in only.

Please note that we also take some anti-scraping measures for public leaderboards (although it's not perfect bc hard to do)

[Brendan Rius @brendanrius]

@RemiHuguet @mee6bot Super happy to have you on board! 🚀🙌

[Steve Aoki @steveaoki]

shoutout to the @mee6bot for keeping everyone informed on my new @discord !!!

if u haven't joined yet, &amp; own an Aoki NFT or bought into one of my Cardbreaks then get mooooving!!! 👇
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