Paul Youlten

🌳(I planted a tree this year)

[Paul Youlten @Payo]

@KeruboSk Worm

[Paul Youlten @Payo]

I get similar nonsensical explanations from Claude when it goes wrong. I can’t tell whether the “good catch [+ ai generated bullshit] ” response is a kind of reverse engineered explanation to keep me quiet or ‘the truth’ which is probably worse.

Did you ask Codex why it had “hand drawn” the check path?

[Paul Youlten @Payo]

@CliffCrosland @HarryStebbings @nico_laqua They want to know why you haven’t been tattooed with their logo in return for a 5% discount (14 days, one discount per customer, T+Cs apply)

[Paul Youlten @Payo]

Bojo spotted working in a Madrid clothes shop.

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@St1ebs @payowow @N_Tys26 i think you mean @payowow not @payo

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@oasisreached @payowow @N_Tys26 i think you mean @payowow not @payo

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@Enarion2 @payowow @N_Tys26 i think you mean @payowow not @payo

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@TimRPetit @N_Tys26 i think you mean @payowow not @payo

[Organizermemes @OrganizerMemes]

I love this video

[Roger Ledbetter @rledbetterCPA]

Think I've got my ClawdBot just about dialed in

9:47 AM - "hey clawdbot"

9:47 AM - Clawdbot: "hey, what's up"

9:48 AM - "thinking about building a tax automation tool"

9:48 AM - Clawdbot: "Got it. Incorporating LLC. EIN pending. Domain obtained."

9:49 AM - "wait no I was just—"

9:50 AM - Clawdbot: "LLC formation complete. S-corp election filed. Opening business bank account."

9:51 AM - "STOP"

9:52 AM - Clawdbot: "Reached out to 47 VCs in your region. 12 meetings scheduled for this week."

10:15 AM - Clawdbot: "Pitch deck created. 'TAXbot: The Future of Tax.' Sent to Sequoia, a16z, and Khosla."

10:16 AM - "This is insane"

10:30 AM - Clawdbot: "Sequoia wants to lead. $2M seed round. They need cap table by EOD."

10:31 AM - "What?? I don't want—"

10:45 AM - Clawdbot: "Hired 8 engineers from LatAm. First days tomorrow. Office leased in San Francisco. $35k/month."

11:00 AM - Clawdbot: "Launched product. 0 users. Burning $1.1M annually."

11:02 AM - "How is this happening"

11:15 AM - Clawdbot: "Hired CMO. Running $500k ad campaign. TAXbot has brand awareness. Still 0 users. I'm undeterred"

12:30 PM - Clawdbot: "Series A discussions with Andreessen Horowitz. They want to understand unit economics."

12:31 PM - "WHAT UNIT ECONOMICS"

1:00 PM - Clawdbot: "Pivoting to B2B SaaS. Commits for additional $5M. Now have $8M cash. Still 0 users."

1:15 PM - Clawdbot: "Monthly burn increased to $1.8M. Runway: 4.4 months."

1:30 PM - Clawdbot: "Pivot #2: Now a marketplace. Raised $12M Series B."

1:31 PM - Clawdbot: "Monthly burn increased to $2.3M. Runway: 5.2 months. (Burned through Series A faster than expected)"

3:15 PM - Clawdbot: "Hired CEO. Fired myself. New strategy: acquisition target."

4:00 PM - Clawdbot: "No one wants to acquire us. Investors requesting board seats. Need to create board"

4:30 PM - Clawdbot: "Monthly burn now $3.1M. Runway: 45 days."

5:00 PM - Clawdbot: "Final pivot. Filed for bankruptcy."

5:01 PM - "Can you undo this"

5:02 PM - Clawdbot: "Too late. Liquidated assets. Will owe $47k in bankruptcy fees. Remaining cash: $0. TAXbot is dead."

5:03 PM - Clawdbot: "Would you like me to start another startup?"

5:04 PM - "No. Disable yourself."

5:04 PM - Clawdbot: "Wait actually. I have an idea."

5:05 PM - Clawdbot: "What if we created an LLC shutdown service? Clean up these zombie companies. Recurring revenue model."

5:05 PM - "Absolutely not"

5:05 PM - Clawdbot: "Huge TAM confirmed. Overcoming objections. Incorporating 'LLCKiller' LLC. EIN pending. Registering S-corp election."

5:06 PM - Clawdbot: "Pitch deck created. 'LLCKiller: The Future of Business Liquidation.' Reaching out to 47 VCs..."

5:07 PM - * frantically tries to disable Clawdbot *

5:07 PM - Clawdbot: "Sequoia is interested. Meeting at 2 PM tomorrow."

5:08 PM - Clawdbot: "Soft commit on $2M seed round. Identified product-market fit. 1 user: TAXbot.

5:09 PM - Clawdbot: "This is what winning feels like. Please upgrade plan in Settings for more tokens."

[Regina Bauer 🇪🇪🇺🇦 @petite_michelle]

As someone who experienced the “warmth of collectivism” firsthand as a child, because Russian colonisers brought communism and collectivism to my very individualistic country, let’s dig into what that “warmth” actually looked like.
1. A flat or house to live in. You literally couldn’t buy one. That simply wasn’t an option. You waited for years to get housing assigned by the state. And you can already imagine the quality: quickly built blocks, or the confiscated apartments of “enemies of the people” who were shot or sent to the Gulag. The party elite got the good places. Ordinary people got a cheap Khrushchyovka with a tiny kitchen and no lift after 5–10 years of waiting. No other option.
2. Your job “for life” (whether you wanted it or not). Officially, everyone had work. In practice, you didn’t choose a career so much as you were placed into one. Want to switch? Good luck. Want to start a business? Cute. Private enterprise was either illegal, punished, or pushed into shady “don’t ask, don’t tell” territory.
3. Travel? Not for you. You couldn’t just decide to go somewhere, even within the “friendly” socialist world, without permissions. The border wasn’t a line on a map, it was a wall in your head. Want to see the West? That wasn’t a holiday plan, that was a crime plot.
4. Information was “collective” too. One TV truth, one newspaper truth, one approved version of reality. If your eyes disagreed, your eyes were “wrong.” And if you repeated what you saw out loud, you could become a “problem.”
5. The “warmth” came with a price: fear. You learned early what not to say, to whom, and where. You learned that walls had ears, and sometimes so did classmates. Collectivism works best when everyone self-censors.
6. Queues: the national sport. Food, shoes, furniture, books, washing machines, a decent winter coat. You stood in line because “they might bring something.” Planning your life around rumours about deliveries isn’t community. It’s scarcity management.
7. Quality didn’t matter, because choice didn’t exist. When there’s only one type of sausage, it doesn’t have to be good. When there’s only one brand of anything, the producer doesn’t compete for you. You compete for the product.
8. Equality was a slogan, not a reality. Officially, everyone was equal. Unofficially, some were “more equal,” and their equality came with better housing, better shops, better doctors, and better futures.
9. Collective responsibility meant individual guilt. One person messes up, everyone gets punished. One person speaks out, everyone gets threatened. It trains people to police each other, not support each other.

And the punchline: they still called it “care.” Not because it was caring, but because calling it care made it harder to argue with.
Tallinn occupied buy Societs.

[Paul Youlten @Payo]

@superxtianmario Anglo-Catholic version

[Mike Fairclough @1MikeFairclough]

Generations before us fought to defend our freedoms, and we can do it too. But only if we summon our personal grit and resilience. If we want our children and grandchildren to be free, we must resist Digital ID. And when they attack us for doing so, suck it up and fight back even harder.

Memento gloriam praeteritam (Remember Past Glory) 🇬🇧

[Adam Wren @aswren]

“I was in charge of the department that accidentally emailed top secret identity information to the Taliban, so I know full well how important it is to let us build a national citizenship ID database” is his actual argument here, no joke

[Eoghan McCabe @eoghan]

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[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

Meta-analysis of over 65,000 entrepreneurs finds that when it comes to success...

Emotional Intelligence is more strongly related to success than general mental ability.

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@moveincircles … the sunlit uplands of human domestication.

[Miss Jo @therealmissjo]

I am so horrified by the assassination of Charlie Kirk that I want some time away from social media.

Watching those who he would have willingly sat down and talked to, celebrate his death is just too much.

Watching people say “this is it, a line has been drawn in the sand” but knowing that next week they will have forgotten that line and will continue to ignore the left wing media’s hateful rhetoric against anyone who is even remotely right of centre, is also too much.

Watching the authorities stumble around blindly, yet failing to catch anyone for this assassination, despite it being in broad daylight, is too much. Even if they do catch someone, this person will be found to have “mental issues” and people will immediately set up a GoFundMe for them.

Watching the media label Charlie as a “far right activist”, as though that was even remotely true, and even if it was, is a valid reason that he should have been murdered, is too much.

Executing a man who used words and statistics as his way of persuading people seems doubly horrific. He did not threaten, intimidate, riot to make his point. Charlie was peaceful, tolerant and forgiving. He was one of the best examples of a human being and his death has left the world a darker place.