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Designer and Artist

[Tom Bilyeu @TomBilyeu]

If I sold my company tomorrow, I'd build my next multi-million dollar business in 90 days using Claude.

Here's the exact 5-person AI team I'd hire on day one. Steal every prompt.

[nicksaraev @nicksaraev]

AI has solved infinite personalized education.

This took $0.35 and ~15 minutes to make. You can create one on any topic, length, and level of complexity for a penny or two more.

Soon it'll be $0.00001 in tokens and realtime, next to you.

Human educational content is dead.

[0xMarioNawfal @RoundtableSpace]

Claude can find problems in your business idea that you haven’t even thought about yet

And it’s surprisingly good at spotting the things you’re overlooking

Here’s a prompt worth saving:

“Act as a skeptical investor reviewing my business idea: [idea]. Find the 5 biggest reasons it could fail, challenge my assumptions, identify hidden costs and competitors, and suggest practical ways to reduce each risk. Be brutally critical, not encouraging.”

The goal isn’t to have AI tell you your idea is amazing

Run this before spending a dollar on your next business idea. Finding one major flaw early could save you thousands.

[Corriere della Sera @Corriere]

"Temo per la mia famiglia": l'aspirante sindaca di Berlino e la paura per i legami con esponenti pro Hamas. L'intervista allo Spiegel diventa un pasticcio https://t.co/7F5vX71OZc

[Emil Kowalski @emilkowalski]

Things you can use Al for when working on UI:

- ask it to try and break the stuff you built
- let it create state machines to check different scenarios (success, error, different user roles, etc.)
- when finished, ask it to make before/after screenshots
- make it ask you lots of questions about the thing you are working on to validate the idea
- let it create a few variants of a Ul piece so you can try it out
- setup loops to maintain a quality bar by constantly monitoring

[Asaf Zamir אסף זמיר @asafzamir]

אני בעד שילוב חרדים וערבים בהנהגת המדינה, ככל שיסכימו להשתלב, לשאת בנטל וכו. אני לא נגד.
והלוואי שהמחנה הליברלי / חילוני / דמוקרטי / משרת היה רוב במדינה - אבל הוא לא. זאת המציאות, הגיע הזמן להכיר בה.
ולכן, אנחנו גם צריכים להבין ולמצוא דרך לחיות בהנהגה משותפת עם הליכוד. זה החיבור שהוא הבסיס עליו אפשר לבנות פה עתיד משותף במחנה המשותף הרחב וההגיוני ביותר.

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

”המחנה שלנו הוא לא הרוב. פעם היינו הרוב, אבל כנראה לעולם לא נחזור להיות הרוב. לכן, אין מנוס משיתוף פעולה עם המחנה השני.“

דברים מדויקים ומפוקחים של @asafzamir

[Nuseir Yassin @nasdaily]

I feel lucky to be Israeli.

Out of 14m Palestinians in the Middle East, Arab Israelis are the *only* ones that get a vote.

Palestinians in West Bank haven't voted since 2006, stuck under a 90 year old dictator.
Lebanese Palestinians don't even get the citizenship.
Jordanian Palestinians have a.........king.

You may not like this, but the best thing to happen to Palestinians is to live inside Israel.

Eat your heart out.

[il Donaldo Trumpo @PapiTrumpo]

THAT WAS AWESOME!!!😎🇺🇸🔥🔥🔥

[Making Sense Podcast @MakingSenseHQ]

When Progressives Become Useful Idiots

[Thierry from arvy 🇨🇭 @ThierryBorgeat]

This is it.

Everyone is excited about AI.

I'm not.

AI is the biggest commoditizer of human capability we have ever built. Doctors earn more than cleaners because expertise takes a decade to acquire and judgment to apply. AI is going to make most of that expertise available to anyone, at marginal cost.

The gap doesn't go to zero. But it shrinks. And the same thing happens in almost every knowledge profession. Programmers. Lawyers. Analysts. Traders. Designers. The taxi driver replaced by a robotaxi is the easy case. The harder ones are people who spent twenty years training to do something a model can now do in a second.

The one corner of human life I don't see this hitting is sport. Nobody pays to watch a robot beat a human. The whole appeal is humans competing against each other. That's why nobody watches Deep Blue play chess anymore.

From an investing perspective, the next decade plays out in three phases.

Phase 1 is the buildout. Hundreds of billions in capex on chips, data centers, and energy. This is what's driving today's market.

Phase 2 is the deployment. Productivity rises sharply, then deflation sets in as the cost of knowledge work collapses. Jobs disappear faster than the economy can replace them.

Phase 3 is the social adjustment. Capital becomes more powerful than labor. The biggest winners are likely to sit where AI cannot reach. Real assets. Energy. Commodities. Precious metals. Scarce land.

And there's something deeper than the economics. The Japanese have a word for it: ikigai. The reason you get up in the morning. Your vocation. Your purpose. The work that makes you feel needed. AI is coming for that too. Nobody has yet figured out what a healthy society does when most of its members no longer feel needed by anything.

I might be wrong. I hope I am.

If I'm not, the world is about to change faster than most people are ready for.

[Naruto @NarutoNolimits]

Elon Musk says humanity doesn't even register on the scale aliens would use to judge us..

in 1964 a Soviet astronomer named Nikolai Kardashev ranked civilizations by power..

Type 1..
use all the energy of your planet..

Type 2..
use all the energy of your star..

Type 3..
use all the energy of your galaxy..

where are we..

not even Type 1..

the sun holds 99.86% of all the mass in our solar system..

Earth is in the tiny miscellaneous part..

and humanity uses less than a trillionth of the sun's power..

Musk says reaching one millionth would be an epic achievement..

we think we're advanced..

on a cosmic scale..

we haven't even started

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

The MOST obvious (but REALLY good) STARTUP ideas right now:

1. Zestimate for company data (what your data is worth to an AI lab)

2. Google Analytics for agents (see which agents visit your site and what they want)

3. Y Combinator for 1 person companies (back solo founders running a team of agents)

4. Okta for agents (who each agent is and what it's allowed to touch)

5. Marie Kondo for your company's data (clean it up so agents can use it)

6. FICO for agents (a trust score before an agent can spend money)

7. Geico for agents (insurance for when an agent makes an expensive mistake)

8. Datadog for agents (see every step your agents took)

9. Twilio for agents (phone numbers and texting for agents)

10. Upwork for agents (hire an agent for a job instead of a freelancer)

11. ESPN for AI (every model launch covered like a big game).

12. Shutterstock for robot training videos (get paid to film yourself doing chores)

13. Credit Karma for what AI knows about you (see it, fix it, delete it)

14. Norton for AI scams (protect your parents from fake voices and emails)

15. PayPal Buyer Protection for agent purchases (fixes it when your agent buys the wrong thing)

16. Geek Squad for AI (set up personal agents for families and small businesses)

17. Dell for private AI (AI in a box for firms that won't use the cloud)

18. Carfax for used GPUs (a health report before you buy secondhand)

19. Airbnb for idle GPUs (rent out computing power you're not using)

20. Rotten Tomatoes for AI models (real reviews instead of benchmarks)

21. G2 for skills (find the best skills for your agent)

22. Dropbox for your AI memory (take what your agent knows about you to any agent)

23. Canva for physical products (design it with AI and get it made)

24. ADT for your personal agent (alerts when your agent does something it shouldn't)

25. Hertz for robots (rent one for a move, a deep clean or an event)

26. Harvard Business School for internet businesses (a real education in building online)

27. Workday for agents (onboard, manage and offboard your digital workers)

28. Getty Images for your face and voice (license your likeness to AI safely)

29. Meta Muse for older adults (and other high LTV niche)

30. Google Ads for agents (pay to be what the agent recommends)

31. Loom for agents (a walkthrough of everything your agent did)

32. Plaid for agents (approved access to banks, airlines and stores)

33. Jiffy Lube for vibe coded apps (quick fixes when your AI built app breaks)

34. Ancestry for datasets (where your training data came from)

35. The organic label for human-made content (proof a person made it)

36. Strava for builders (track what you ship every week)

37. Honey that haggles for you (your agent negotiates the price)

38. SEM Rush for personal agent platforms (like Muse etc)

39. Frequent flyer miles for agents (loyalty programs built for agents)

[jack @jack]

We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence.

https://t.co/r0qFLdvd6c

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

מילטון פרידמן מסביר שצריך לסגור את כל משרדי ממשלה חוץ מביטחון, חוץ, אוצר ומשפטים:

- משרד החקלאות: לסגור
- משרד הכלכלה: לסגור
- משרד החינוך: לסגור
- משרד האנרגיה: לסגור
- משרד הבריאות: לצמצם
- משרד השיכון: לסגור
- משרד העבודה: לסגור
- משרד התחבורה: לסגור

[john milinovich @jmilinovich]

# Black October

For anyone who knows me even somewhat well, it's clear that I am a 99th percentile tech optimist. However, the vibes have shifted for me quite a bit in the last 18 hours, and I feel a moral imperative to share what I'm thinking and feeling with my circles so that everyone can understand, and hopefully take seriously, what's happening right now. I think October 2026 will have many chapters written about it in the history books.

You know those scenes in financial movies like Margin Call where someone realizes that they're all fucked, and no one else sees it yet? And that person feels like they're crazy, and then suddenly everyone is pulling an all-nighter in a boardroom and freaking out? Yeah, that's kind of how this is feeling right now in the SF/Bay Area/AI circles.

We're 48 hours into what is being called Black October. In the last 2 days there have been several dozen cyber attacks which, in isolation, would each have been the worst to happen in an entire calendar year. Every sector from government to education to big tech and banks is being massively affected, and people are starting to freak out.

In a nutshell, what's happened is that frontier AI models have gotten to a point where they are as advanced as the most sophisticated programmers, with one critical difference: they can work 24/7, and you can spin up 10,000 of them with a single command and they'll work together tirelessly until they accomplish their task. The most advanced models today are from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, whose current best technology is so good that they haven't been able to roll it out to everyone yet because of the national security risks it poses.

Meanwhile, the best open source models (where anyone can just download the model weights and do whatever they want with them, uncensored) are slightly behind the frontier but still 90-95% as capable. These models, developed primarily in China, are being used by black hat hackers to wreak havoc on the Western capitalist structure. Presumably, this has been part of China's plan the entire time, and we're seeing its implications fall out in real time.

In red-pilled AI circles, we've been sharing and reading papers called things like "Situational Awareness" and "AI 2027" for the last year or so, which at the time felt a bit like near-term speculative fiction. They laid out the case for why Artificial General Intelligence (AI smarter than any human at any knowledge task) and Recursive Self-Improvement (models that are able to use themselves to get better) weren't half-baked future ideas anymore, but instead an inevitable outcome of the linear progress that's happening.

These papers would then talk about things like "takeoff scenarios," trying to envision how that moment would come to be and what it would be like when it happened. It would either be a "slow takeoff" that would play out over the course of months and quarters, happening subtly and only obvious to a few. Or, it would be a "fast takeoff" where it would pretty much happen instantly, like a bit flipping from 0 to 1.

From everything that I can see and am feeling, we are currently experiencing the fast takeoff scenario. Beyond the crazy security vulnerabilities that have come out recently, there have also been massive breakthroughs in life sciences, fundamental computer science, materials science, and pure mathematics that have all landed in the same time frame. While I still firmly believe that AI will be a net positive for humanity, it's more clear to me than ever that the societal and individual risk is very real, and is playing out NOW.

For as much conviction as I have that this is happening, the thing that's caused me to lose sleep is that I don't really know what to do about it, or more importantly, what to tell you, reader, to do about it. So, the best I can do is make a few suggestions that have always been a good idea but are more timely now than ever:

Set up 2-factor authentication for everything. I use Duo.
Use a password manager across your devices. I use 1Password.
Get an identity protection app set up. I use Alta.
Move your IoT devices to their own network. Claude helped me do this.

And last, but certainly not least, if you've been avoiding leaning into AI, see this as a catalyst to wake up and start using it. Don't just use the chat mode version of ChatGPT/Claude; click that Code/Work button and see how easily you can have AI write code to help you with your job. One of the biggest vulnerabilities was in a massively popular programming language called PHP, and the prompt that set it off was literally, "Find vulnerabilities in php."

This is an unprecedented time for humanity, but as we've done with many things before, we will prevail so long as we are kind, loving, and open-minded to the world.

Much love.

[عيديت الجاسوسة Idit Bar @bararit]

شكرا شكرا شكرا لكل الزعران اللي رفعوا العلم الفلسطيني بفرنسا، وكسروا وخربوا باسم "فلسطين حرة"!

إسرائيل من سنين بتحاول تشرح للعالم شو يعني تتعامل مع العنف والتطرف والهمجية.
وإنتوا، ببلاش، عملتوا إلها أكبر حملة إعلامية.
عنجد، خدمة ما كنا نحلم فيها!
شكرا!!!

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

A very young Italian boy says that the rioters who are out protesting against “the poor educational system in Italy” are a bunch of strange people:

“Why are they bringing Palestinian flags for a protest for Italian schools”

[Francesco 🇮🇹 @SaP011]

An Italian child:
“Can someone explain something to me? Why are they protesting for Italian schools while waving the Palestinian flag? I don’t get it. Weird people.”

Even children get it, but not the idiotic communists.