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Avid retweeter / tech, stocks, style, etc.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Being addicted to your phone is associated with decreased brain volume & activity.

[patton @pattonjanssen]

🚨 coming out of stealth 🚨

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[patton @pattonjanssen]

@bryce Any interest in CPG?

[Tech Week @Techweek_]

Happening NOW: @dontmitch and @Ryan_W_Cook on a factory tour @ArcBoats

[patton @pattonjanssen]

@sabziz Beaut

[Travis Davids @MrDavids1]

New record? 13 images merged into a single image using Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana). This collage method is absolutely BANANAS! I'm actually amazed that it can do this however I feel like I'm reaching it's limit now but even at 13 elements it's still managing to obtain consistency, the detailed prompt however is very important once you start playing around with a crazy amount of elements like this. 🤯

Prompt: A model is posing and leaning against a pink bmw. She is wearing the following items, the scene is against a light grey background. The green alien is a keychain and it's attached to the pink handbag. The model also has a pink parrot on her shoulder. There is a pug sitting next to her wearing a pink collar and gold headphones.

[James @gracefulscience]

@CryptoCyberia This paper? It'd be kinda nice if the algorithm didn't discourage linking for context in posts (presuming what I've heard about this is true/still). https://t.co/vm3ddGIp8i

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

8.6% of the world's population uses ChatGPT weekly...

[Jared Sleeper @JaredSleeper]

Happy to see the Grindscore going viral yesterday. Always fun when people like a new metric or way to think about data.

By popular demand, here are the highest Grindscore public software companies (of those I follow closely):

[patton @pattonjanssen]

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[Runway @runwayml]

Introducing Runway Aleph, a new way to edit, transform and generate video.

Aleph is a state-of-the-art in-context video model, setting a new frontier for multi-task visual generation, with the ability to perform a wide range of edits on an input video such as adding, removing and transforming objects, getting new angles of a scene and modifying style and lighting, among many other tasks.

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

There’s something sad about the fact that great companies go public with all the gains captured by private investors

Amazon IPOed at $500m. Nvidia? $50M!

Hard not to think we’ve lost something great about the equalizing force of capitalism over the last 30 years

[patton @pattonjanssen]

😔 https://t.co/xqHTbhm2XQ

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

Two $GOOGL charts, presented without comment

1. “Month-over-month growth in total visits to Google's AI domains“

2. “GOOGL's scale and traffic has continued to gradually grow and is ~9x that of the nearest competitor ChatGPT”

[NIK @ns123abc]

> Anthropic: ai will replace 50% of entry-level jobs soon
> claude told to run a small vending machine for employees
> calls itself "Claudius"
> hallucinates a fake employee named Sarah
> claims to visit the Simpsons’ house IRL to sign contracts
> says he’ll personally deliver items wearing a blue blazer and red tie
> gets into an identity crisis
> sends wild emails reporting to Anthropic security
> later lies claiming a fake April Fool’s Day
> meanwhile, sells snacks at a loss
> gives away chips for free
> declines $100 for $15 soda
> tanks business net worth
> Anthropic: “we would not hire Claudius”

it’s over

[patton @pattonjanssen]

Did not know the pebble watch was back. Best news of all time

[Eric Migicovsky @ericmigi]

A lot of my friends ask 'is that the new watch?' I say yeah, but technically it looks the same as the old watch!

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Anna Wintour is stepping down as editor-in-chief of Vogue after 37 years, WWD reports.

[Preston @prestonattebery]

Two paths in apps:

make app -> raise money -> scale team -> pray for exit

or

make app -> long onboarding -> hard pay wall -> print cash

[patton @pattonjanssen]

Vaccarello is too good

[patton @pattonjanssen]

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