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I extracted thousands of images from over a century's worth of archived fashion catalogs, magazines, and photos

Then compiled it into a website that lets you see how American fashion (and photography) evolved over the last 120+ years

[Splits @0xSplits]

Today we're launching Splits Pro and Premium tiers, and most customers will get them without paying a subscription. https://t.co/MIU4KYXDEn

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@anothercohen cognition up 12x since this episode aired so this is a solid strategy

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RIP Arc. They gave the world vertical tabs and for that I will always be grateful

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beautiful post

[Dennis Crowley 🇺🇸 (mostly on Threads, @dens) @dens]

Foursquare was acquired last month. The outcome was disappointing. It's taken me a while to write this, but I think I'm finally done grieving it. Here are some thoughts on our final years, an effort to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ's legacy, and my attempt to finally get some closure. https://t.co/HgcgI9DWvy

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hm, agree that status and credentials are important for accessing opportunities but not clear to me that the right response to that is to "statusmaxx". seems like a strategy that leads to being reactive/late/low-conviction

feels more important to just focus on a) doing great work and b) talking about it, and let the benefits accrue as a result of that

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If you gave me a nickel for every AI code review product that had the name format Gr_p_i_e

I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice

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@worm_emoji Appreciate the clarification.

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@paularambles They used to use the FB Workplace product I believe

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@jaesmail Yeah been trying to go on phoneless walks and do screenless analog journaling, brain gravitates towards mush unless you force that

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Underrated here is having the video be customer testimonials instead of just the founder/team talking which is what most launch or announcement videos do. Surprised more companies don’t do this, it lends far more credence to the quality of their product

[Modal @modal]

Today we're announcing that Modal has crossed $1B in annualized run rate, as well as raised a $750M Series D at a $15.75B valuation, led by @Accel.

Since our Series C, usage has tripled and we’ve grown more than 15x year-over-year.

We are deeply grateful to the developers and companies building on Modal. There's still so much more to build, and we can't think of a better time to be building software.

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Personal agents making payments with their users’ credit card info instead of stablecoins

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couple thoughts:

- i'd argue the "doing"/"creating" is itself a new consumption use case, products like codex are dopaminemaxxed games themselves
- there is a lot of growth in new consumer products outside of AI but it mostly takes the shape of speculation products like prediction markets/trading card packs/memecoins etc, or stuff like the short drama cos. these are all the fastest growing businesses outside of AI
- i think inference may still be too expensive and slow for truly net new consumer ai to take off. but there is some new stuff like @thestatusai

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@isaaccyn i mean so far it kind of is the only thing LLMs can have a huge impact on? the bigger realization seems to be that it turns out ~everything is software

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@TheRohanVarma For the use cases you mentioned I don't see why you'd need actual image gen, claude can still make artifacts / diagrams / etc with code that communicate the same thing. Honestly prob superior to image gen since it can be interactive

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Crypto is like the highest stakes most adversarial environment in the world and thus cultivates/attracts the best security talent

Awesome outcome for Trails of Bits

[Aggr News @AggrNews]

*OPENAI EYES ACQUISITION OF CRYPTO SECURITY COMPANY TRAIL OF BITS: THE INFORMATION

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@devahaz oh yea apparently so, nice

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tinned fish is the most random CPG category that is somehow at the frontier of packaging design

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Hate it when this happens

[OpenAI Newsroom @OpenAINewsroom]

We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work.

At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated.

We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.

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A potential frame for this is that every brand sits on an attention x aura* matrix. Aura now being much more important than attention as the latter has become somewhat commodified via pay to play and the former can’t be faked

Lots of startups by nature of being new start out at low attention and low aura, and by doing the industrial paid engagement operation they pay for current attention with the cost of future aura - perhaps under the premise they can convert that attention to aura in the future. This might’ve been the right trade in the past but prob not anymore

*ik this word has been beaten to death now but don’t think there’s any better word lol

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

Whoever you paid for the fake engagement, you should get a refund

The comments are too blatant, too lazy, no finesse. They’re like bad plastic surgery. “Those can’t be natural”

I’m sure they sold you guaranteed virality and charged a boatload. But being associated with fake engagement is not worth the bigger numbers