Nick

[chl$ @chelsssseeeea]

30 years of Super Mario 64 and I genuinely don’t think people who weren’t there can understand just how magical this game felt.

Walking into Peach’s Castle for the first time. Hearing the music. Running down those hallways, finding a painting, and realizing you could literally JUMP INTO IT and enter an entirely different world.

Every door was a mystery. Every painting was a new adventure. Every star felt like you’d discovered something nobody else had.

The first time you flew with the Wing Cap. Racing that stupid penguin down the slide. Swimming through Dire, Dire Docks. Running around Bobomb Battlefield with absolutely no idea what you were supposed to be doing, but somehow having the time of your life.
And the music. God, the music.
There was no YouTube tutorial telling you where to go. No internet spoiling every secret before you found it. Just you, your N64, and an entire new game to be explored.

I think what makes me emotional looking back is realizing we weren’t just experiencing one of the greatest leaps in gaming history. We were experiencing a kind of childhood wonder you can never quite get back. Those mornings sitting on the floor in front of the TV, completely lost in a world that felt so big.

I can still hear the castle music and immediately feel like a kid again.

[Nick @nickysfc89]

@BillAckman @cullenroche TOP

[Lanis 🇩🇴🌺 @alanisvivianaa]

This still one of my favorite videos of all time

[Bill Gurley @bgurley]

It was exactly three years ago that I gave this talk on “regulatory capture” at the @theallinpod Summit. I did predict that the large incumbent AI companies would “beg for” regulation. No idea they would beg this hard.

https://t.co/6vjhYZQNT7

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

Nietzsche asking the hard questions

[Irrational Analysis @insane_analyst]

🤡

[Nick @nickysfc89]

@Jason @altcap 😂

[Nick @nickysfc89]

@altcap who is we

[Parker Thayer @ParkerThayer]

This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works:
1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance.

2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely.

According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.

The AI Futures Project website says it is funded “primarily” by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which says on its own website that it has advised Jaan Tallinn, Skype creator and one of the leading investors in Anthropic, to grant over $2.5 million to the AI Futures Project since 2024.

Encode AI says on its website that it is ALSO funded by the Survival and Flourishing Fund, which in turn says that it told Anthropic investor Jaan Tallinn to grant $516,000 to Encode AI in 2025.

And wouldn’t you know it, the Survival and Flourishing Fund ALSO says it told Jaan Tallinn to grant $2 million to the AI Policy Institute, the 501(c)(3) affiliate of the AI Policy Network, as well.

What are the odds that the first three quote tweets of Coxon’s post would all be major AI-restriction policy advocates funded generously by the same donor, who also happens to be one of the leading investors in, and a board member of, Anthropic, the company Coxon was resigning from? And all within 15 minutes of posting (two within ten)?

3.) Jacob Coxon doesn’t have much of a resume, but we do know that, in 2022, he got a $20,159 scholarship for the “long term future scholarship program” from the Good Ventures Foundation, one of the philanthropic vehicles of Dustin Moskovitz, a notorious AI-doomer who has spent tens if not hundreds of millions on policy advocacy to strictly regulate AI, while also being an Anthropic Investor himself.

It also just so happens that the 14th person to quote Coxon’s post was @MaxNadeau_ (27 minutes after posting) who is the program officer for the Technical AI Safety team at Coefficient Giving, another of Moskovitz’s philanthropic spending vehicles. Max is not a frequent poster, his last posts before quoting Coxon were before Labor Day, but he was remarkably quick off the mark for this one.

4.) Basically every major Democrat politician and candidate has suddenly glommed on to this post, and conveniently, as the people cry out foe answers, Bernie Sanders already has a bill written to “ban super intelligence” and regulate AI into oblivion, and will be releasing later this week. The bill, among many other things, will create “a new cabinet-level federal agency to safeguard the public from the dangers of artificial intelligence” that will be “advised by an Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board comprised of experts on artificial intelligence.” Do you think, perhaps, Anthropic and its many investors who fund AI policy advocacy might have interest in getting to place a pet “expert” on the board of an entity that dictates what AI is and isn’t allowed to do? And isn’t it fortuitous that this whistleblower came forward with his oh-so scary stories so close in proximity to the release of the most radical piece of AI legislation ever introduced?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If you’re bored and want to find something to be upset about, this app will take care of that need!

[Charles Bukowski Legacy @Bukowskiquot]

when Ernest Hemingway said:

[Nick @nickysfc89]

@Victorr_Luis

[Nick @nickysfc89]

@Victorr_Luis @NUCLRGOLF hell nawl

[John Coogan @johncoogan]

Very few people pricing in a scenario where a rogue AI agent hacks into the FDA and unbans the original Four Loko

[Nick @nickysfc89]

@DudespostingWs

[Denny’s @DennysDiner]

@JensenHuang @nvidia

[Nick @nickysfc89]

Tbt

[RetroBayArea @RetroBayArea]

The San Francisco dating scene in the 1990s.

Before all the apps, people met at places like this. In 1994, Marcia Kimpton, KTVU’s San Francisco culture reporter, stopped by Noah’s to get a handle on what was going on in the Marina on the weekends.

You probably don’t know most of the people in this video. But you also know everyone in this video.

source footage 🎥: @MarciaKimpton & KTVU

[RUBBABANDGRANT @RubbBandGrant]

Soon as I seen this I said yup Trump got it