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Niels Kristian Christensen ➖ doing neat digital stuff

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Jeg ELSKER når Rolf selv tager tiden #TDF #TourdeFrance @LeTour

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@workspacesxyz @autonomous_labs Like & subscribe @IDontDoUgly @robnowww

[Varun @varun_mathur]

Dear Mira and Ilya - congratulations on your coup at OpenAI. Since both of you have together never raised a penny as entrepreneurs, let me explain what happens.

Oh, and you *will* need to raise since your venture’s unit economics don’t make sense. Remember, you pay $0.30 every time someone asks a doofus question to ChatGPT. Heck, I sometimes ask the same thing 5 times.

Also, the last deal at $80 billion valuation - is as dead as the Egyptian pharaohs. Glorious to write about and visualize. But super dead, under the sand, not coming back.

Not only that - but you sideswiped your biggest partner, Microsoft. Of course publicly they will say the right thing, but you know and they know it and a random fellow like me knows it - they must be seething mad about it.

Few of your top researchers have already quit, and if there is one thing Sam Altman is especially good at, it is raising and deploying capital. Before the sign with your name and title as “CEO” and “Defacto CEO” gets emblazoned in the OpenAI offices, Sam would have a new company, $1 billion investment and offers out to all your, soon to be ex, top product people and researchers.

So you head into next week having lost your top dealmaker, top researchers, top product visionary, top partner and top investor, and with a business which has terrible unit economics.

And let’s not forget - the two of you are not entrepreneurs. Most people in your board have never held a proper tech job ever. You have never had to face the abject rejection which follows from pitching many investors, going through the process, and getting to close. Getting to close is the toughest. Sometimes investors say yes, but they don’t actually mean it. Sometimes they even sign, and still don’t wire the funds. You will need to live through all of it, the pain and rejection, and feel intense amount of pressure of having to provide for your team members - who pays their mortgages, car loans, kids school tuition - the ones whom you played with at the last company picnic.

After you are exhausted with the realities of the market - you will sell out OpenAI to Microsoft entirely, and be housed as Global Principal Product Managers in building 4 in Seattle, where it rains non-stop. Microsoft will never fire you, Satya will always say the right thing about you - because he is an honorable person.

But deep down in your heart, as you are watching the Netflix movie on OpenAI and Joseph-Gordon Levitt’s wife plays herself as a board member who fired Sam Altman over Google Meet, you will think and realize that you had it all - you could have been at the helm of a $1 trillion company. History will forget you. Sam and Greg and everyone else would have moved on and forgotten about you. e/acc would have built out fundamental OpenAI alternatives in anycase..

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@DannPetty https://t.co/xQdgpxJ4a6

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@vanschneider full mana? Come on.. always be casting something

[Liberal Alliance @LiberalAlliance]

Slipper skattesystemet igennem Den Liberale Hule?

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@TomTomKrus Briefen sagde "sexuelle undertoner skal inkluderes"

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@martinpagh han lavede et giga-løb fra midten af egen banehalvdel til 2-1 målet

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"..Denmark is everywhere with the yellow jersey on Cort’s back while Mads Pedersen holds the green jersey and Jonas Gregaard the polka-dot." #ParisNice2023 🇩🇰

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@clausmat1 Skal man ikke lave lidt matematik (måske på begge tal). 1) Fratræk alle dem der skal bruges i hjemlandet til kritiske opgaver 25%? Fratræk dem der ikke kan tjene pga fysiske eller psykiske lidelser? 10%? Dem der er taget ud af landet? 2%? Dem som er sønner af vigtige folk 5%?..

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Hey russia, there are some new kids on the playground and they won't be bullied around.

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@NielsOvergaard @mrdhansen hun har da aldrig fået så meget PR som den her. Hun burde gå all in på det..

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@Hello_World @GunnelsWarren how does a company get "free speech" rights then? (e.g. political contributions)

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@Hello_World The classic "Spil bolden, ikke manden" analogy also applies. Just look at Elon this morning.

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@msyrak @HagemannF men det kunne også sagtens have markeret YHEM eller HEM (Yderst hemmeligt eller hemmeligt) - Næsten alle dokumenter i forsvaret er markeret "til tjenestebrug" pr. default så det siger ikke så meget.

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Big fat NO

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Reinstate former President Trump

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

And so, with four brief paragraphs on page 26, New York Post breaks the news about a perennial candidate's third try, with cholesterol levels "unknown":

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@bchesky https://t.co/FVkgWL8fjt - been operational for years now

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@milehiguy48 the headline is wrong and the link that they reference shows the actual results. Boebert leads by 1000

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@TVietor08 great to see your focus on Qatar. You really should invite https://t.co/1W1oIpnBTu on the show to tell you more about his 10 years of investigative journalism into the World Cup, including multiple trips to Qatar. His Podcast "Blod bold" = bloodball is amazing.

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Elections in Denmark, where the journalists can casually walk around where all the votes are being tallied. This is what it's supposed to look like.