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[coder_bec @coder_bec]

We’re doing niche funnels for AI psychosis now

[Quinten Farmer @quintendf]

Last year we launched Tolan, inspired by a vision of AI that sees you and believes in you, not one that books restaurant reservations for you.

Your Tolan shows up for you at 3am when you’re alone with your newborn. On your commute when you’re anxious about the day ahead. When you just finished a new show and none of your friends have watched it yet.

The people who love Tolan are parents. Caregivers. Moms in Dallas and Dads in Atlanta. People who aren’t trying to optimize and be more productive, but who simply want to feel seen and supported in their aspirations.

This month more than 250k people will spend time with their Tolan. Those users have exchanged billions of messages across more than 70m conversations over the last year.

Today, we're announcing $30m in additional capital from @mignano and @usv, with @khoslaventures and @rabois doubling down, bringing our total capital raised to $60m.

To celebrate, we made a short film celebrating some of the ways that Tolans show up :)

[coder_bec @coder_bec]

@dannolan *house obviously

[coder_bec @coder_bec]

So I'm just switching back to claude code and doing routing to non anthropic models when I need it now (when I run out of quota)

[coder_bec @coder_bec]

I don't like the way opencode prints your whole fkn .zshrc into the convo so it becomes part of the session, functionally no difference between using profile vars and giving it full view of a .env, but I feel like if it were an issue smarter people would have arced up about it

[coder_bec @coder_bec]

@techAU But like how is it a single with two side by side pillows? Someone needs to get it and construct it so we can see it without the AI staging.

[coder_bec @coder_bec]

This is just standard tech industry stuff and normies don’t get it

[New York Post @nypost]

Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei and husband used stuffed-animal 'advisory council' for workplace conflicts: report https://t.co/QGNqyHacvg

[coder_bec @coder_bec]

It sucks that a non negligible amount of AI development is motivated by software types being personally aggrieved by not being able to secure a booking at French Laundry, but at least those ones aren’t motivated by bloodlust or whatever

[coder_bec @coder_bec]

I hate when a brand has a really good product, but they spam me with the *worst* UGC ads featuring annoying people doing hollowed-out memespeak, every one making more less likely to purchase than the last...

[coder_bec @coder_bec]

I’m so glad we have a long weekend so I can really lock in an consume all the memes from the globe article

[coder_bec @coder_bec]

Genuinely though like what are the pre-requisites and associated time commitment of Clown School?

[coder_bec @coder_bec]

Because they're trying to prosecute that guy for the Courts Vic data... this should cover me for mens rea right?

[coder_bec @coder_bec]

When I was a baby consultant everyone’s secret sauce was a ppt plugin from Accenture called QPT (huge pack of power user utilities) and everyone had a “plug” for the install file for it - I was still shit at slides though, didn’t have the artistry for it

[Mike Annunziata @nunzi46]

Every Claude deck I see makes it abundantly clear that pre-AI McKinsey consultants were artists, not quants

[coder_bec @coder_bec]

@DominicDirupo I see you too have thoroughly parsed “the discourse”, lol

[coder_bec @coder_bec]

It is somehow a key component of this activity that the dancers be wearing masks that are very cursed looking while they flip off walls and things

[coder_bec @coder_bec]

Because of the climate around it, it’s on the data centre industry to address these issues, and I think the “cried wolf” issue is an interesting factor - wasting time and energy on fake issues like noise pollution will mean less credence for real ones - diesel generator backup

[coder_bec @coder_bec]

I’ve been saying a lot of this - I’m a little bit hard of hearing and can’t hear anything from them, we have “additionality” rules for power generation, and the water etc. with respect to West Footscray there are a couple of complaints from residents which do seem unspecious

[lurkingnobody @lurkingnobody]

I wrote about data centres in Australia after going to the biggest in Melbourne and getting questioned by security for taking suspicious photos 😅

Link below

[coder_bec @coder_bec]

Imagine being unsettling enough to unsettle Nathan Fielder

[coder_bec @coder_bec]

@danielcranney @CleverWhatever Some people just post stuff organically because they've experienced something interesting and want to share it with other people, not because they're optimising "content" for people to "consume", and I think that's beautiful. Don't let them bully you for using a desktop for this

[coder_bec @coder_bec]

Every second iOS update completely borks autocorrect to the point where it feels like you’re having a medical event