Cato

a cat... decentralization, ai, open source, direct democracy, transparency, privacy, electronic music 😼

[Cato @catomean]

AI and robotics will kill all jobs.
That's the point of AI and robotics

Bitcoin will end all governments.
That's the point of Bitcoin

[Cato @catomean]

@AlexFinn Anthropic invented god. And Trump restricted it to Americans.

[Cato @catomean]

Be there when it's not cool yet

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Juan Hernandez began his career at SpaceX as a welder earning $28 per hour. When he became a full-time employee, the company granted him $10,000 worth of stock, a nice perk, but nothing that seemed life-changing at the time.

Then came SpaceX’s record-breaking IPO.

Those same shares are now worth more than $1 million.

Juan wasn’t the only one. Thanks to SpaceX’s generous equity program, thousands of employees, from welders and technicians to cafeteria workers and engineers, have also become millionaires.

His story is a powerful reminder: sometimes the greatest rewards don’t come from your hourly wage, but from owning a piece of the mission you help build.

[Cato @catomean]

@niederhaus17566 @SwissGov @UVEK on the surface, some did. those few (e.g. South Korea, China) developed despite it, not through it

[Cato @catomean]

These bastards... They did it! They really did it!

Anthropic really did invent ASI: the loop for infinite development.

And the model will be gatekept by the US Government just like it has been gatekept by @AnthropicAI for the last few months.

But the genie is out.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Cato @catomean]

@narendramodi Goa would be better off as an independent country. Indian bureaucracy and corruption are definitely a drag on their economy while sovereignty would allow for lower taxes, deregulation, and other pro-growth policies

[Cato @catomean]

@jointhebridge Zurich, please

[Cato @catomean]

@karpathy very linkedin of you

[Cato @catomean]

@benedictk__ count me in

[Cato @catomean]

@wandr_bkwise if u know, u know, habibi

[Cato @catomean]

Dubai and Singapore have safety, but no freedom.

San Francisco has freedom, but no safety.

Zurich has freedom, safety, and culture.

[Bercan @bercankilic]

Zurich has been IQ-mogging SF for a while now.

[Cato @catomean]

This seems crazy, but will be happening more and more:
- Switrzerland is a better place for biz that the US.
- Zürich has better quality of life than San Francisco.
- ETH is same league as Stanford and Berkeley Eng.

[Zeno @ZenoInMotion]

We're opening our Global Robotics Research HQ on Bahnhofstrasse in Zürich, and I'm so glad to announce that I'll be heading our expansion to this beautiful city!

Since I joined @microagi 4 months ago, I've experienced one of the most intense, insane and meaningful times of my life. We've grown from a few people in our Munich-based HackerPenthouse to operating in 15+ countries, opening multiple offices, and now making Zürich the heart of our global research programs. As anyone who has visited one of our offices would say: 'intense', 'insane' and 'meaningful' are the correct adjectives to use here.

The decision between Zürich and SF was not an easy one, but one we're taking with full conviction.

microagi's mission is clear: Accelerate Embodied AGI for all. We want our societies to move towards a future of abundance, where fleets of robots build nuclear power plants, construct housing, and source the necessary raw materials autonomously from Earth and space. We want to take responsibility and transition with the right values and humility.

Our research center in Zürich is focused on one singular research question: how do we bridge the data gap to real, meaningful deployment?

We're not doing this alone. We're partnering with the best frontier labs and hardware manufacturers worldwide to make this a reality.

If you haven't realised it yet: SaaS is dead, software is cheap, and tomorrow's trillion-dollar companies are being built on real physical value.

Don't waste your time, you only have one life.

It's time to Deploy Robots, guys.

Let's do it together.

[Cato @catomean]

@beffjezos Can't wait. I hate supporting anthropic

[Lukas Ziegler @lukas_m_ziegler]

Is Zurich really the capital of robotics in Europe? 🇪🇺

Well, if you look at their robotics ecosystem, it seems true!

👀 SPOILER: Zurich robotics ecosystem is that BIG, that describing it I exceeded X post standard length (some companies will be described in the comment section).

Zurich is a great place to start a robotics company because everything you need is close and well connected.

It has top engineering talent, mainly from @ETH Zürich, one of the best robotics and AI universities in the world.

Not to mention great student initiatives like @ethroboticsclub.

Many successful robotics startups come directly from ETH research. Also, the presence of Disney Research and RAI Institute helps to be on the frontier of physical AI.

The city also has strong industry and customers nearby. Switzerland is home to global companies in robotics, manufacturing, and automation, such as ABB Robotics, which often work with startups as partners or early customers.

Zurich offers good access to funding, especially for deep-tech and robotics. Investors here are used to long development cycles and complex hardware products. 💰

Finally, Zurich is known for stability and quality of life. It is safe, well organized, and centrally located in Europe, making it easier to attract international talent and scale globally.

Listing some of the Zurich-based companies here:

→ @anybotics -  builds autonomous four-legged robots for industrial inspection and maintenance, and has raised $ 150M+ in funding.

→ @GravisRobotics - develops AI-powered autonomy systems that turn heavy construction machines into self-driving robots, and has raised ~$27M in total funding.

→ Verity - builds autonomous indoor drones for warehouse inventory tracking and has raised ~$60M+ in funding.

→ @mimicrobotics - develops AI-powered robotic picking systems that enable fast, reliable manipulation and handling for industrial operations.

→ @HexagonAB - builds industrial humanoid robots that combine AI, sensor fusion, and spatial intelligence to automate complex tasks.

→ @microagi - builds data infrastructure and AI systems that capture large-scale real-world human work to train robots and enable humanoids to learn complex physical tasks.

→ @duatic_ag - develops advanced human-scale robotic arms and mobile manipulation systems.

→ @rivr_tech - builds autonomous Physical AI-powered wheeled-legged robots for last-mile doorstep delivery (acquired by Amazon)

→ @FlexionRobotics - builds the autonomous AI “brain” and software stack for humanoid robots, and has raised about $50 M in funding.

→ @voliro69689 - builds autonomous aerial robots for industrial inspection and maintenance and has raised ~$23 M in Series A funding.

→ @loki_robotics - builds autonomous robots that clean complex real-world environments like commercial restrooms and shared spaces

I'm aware that there might be some companies missing!

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[Om Patel @om_patel5]

THIS GUY REPLACED EVERY SUBSCRIPTION FOR OVER 30 SERVICES WITH A HOMELAB HE BUILT USING CLAUDE CODE

he built his own self hosted version of basically every service you pay for online and runs it all from a 27U server rack in his house

the goal was simple:

stop renting access to your own data, stop paying monthly subscriptions for things you can run yourself, and have one private dashboard that controls everything in your digital life

he opens one homepage on his browser and from there he can:

> stream his entire movie and TV collection through plex or jellyfin
> request a new movie through overseerr and watch it appear in his library automatically once it's downloaded and tagged
> back up every photo he takes through immich (his own google photos)
> store all his files through nextcloud (his own google drive)
> manage his audiobooks, ebooks, music, RSS feeds, recipes, and bookmarks from one place
> block ads across his entire network with adguard home
> see live grafana stats for every machine running in his house at any moment

and a lot more

the homepage dashboard even shows the current weather, his calendar, system stats, download queues, library counts, and shortcuts to every service he uses

the hardware list:

> netgate 1100 router running pfsense+ for firewall, DHCP, DNS, and VLANs
> tp-link 8 port managed switch
> tp-link archer C6 access point
> raspberry pi 4 dedicated to a full screen grafana dashboard
> HP laptop with i3 11th gen and 24GB RAM running proxmox VE as the main hypervisor
> compaq laptop with a core 2 duo and 4GB RAM running proxmox backup server
> tower PC with a core 2 duo running unraid for the NAS

the proxmox VE box runs every self hosted service inside a debian VM with docker compose. backups run on a schedule with chunk based deduplication. unraid handles all the storage with mixed drive sizes and a single parity drive

every device is on a tailscale tailnet so he can hit anything from anywhere in the world without poking holes in his firewall

then he built his own private streaming empire on top of it:

> plex and jellyfin pointing at the same library
> overseerr to request movies and shows
> radarr, sonarr, lidarr, readarr managing different media types
> prowlarr indexing everything
> sabnzbd and qbittorrent handling the downloads
> bazarr pulling subtitles automatically
> tautulli for plex stats
> trailarr for trailers

then the rest of the stack:

> nextcloud replaces google drive
> immich replaces google photos
> paperless-ngx for OCR document management
> adguard home blocks ads across the entire network
> miniflux for RSS, karakeep for bookmarks
> mealie for recipes, navidrome for music, audiobookshelf for audiobooks
> calibre for ebooks, code server for VS code in the browser
> stirling PDF, IT tools, microbin, searxng, pairdrop

every service surfaces through homepage, a self hosted dashboard he built tooling around to auto generate the YAML config (made with claude code)

this guy is paying $0 a month for what most people pay $200+ in subscriptions for and had an initial setup cost of ~1000 to 1500 USD

the homelab community is quietly the most overpowered and cracked group of builders on the internet

[Cato @catomean]

@Jason i'm in

[Cato @catomean]

@theklineventure The options are widening

[Atal @ZabihullahAtal]

Stanford just released a 1.5-hour lecture on “LLM Architecture.”

This is the exact thing systems engineers at Anthropic and OpenAI require to understand at a deep level.

Give it some time.

This might be the highest-ROI learning you do this month.

[Cato @catomean]

@bcherny You can only get away with this while you have the best model. I can't wait to drop you and never deal with your company ever again. But as long as you are the best, for the sake of efficiency, i will reluctantly continue being your customer, while praying for your competitors.

[Cato @catomean]

@elonmusk @grok how do i get google and other search engines to never show me @Wikipedia and show me @Grokipedia instead?