The primary uniting force in this country is anime. It's the only media through line that I can reliably observe regardless of political alignment.
It is also I think underrated as a later stage illustration Revolution. I'd argue the akira art is the Cold War Mona Lisa
Wrong. Perplexity ships slop because they lack focus. The Browser Company pivoted the entire company to work on Dia because they understand the value of focus.
A somewhat obvious lesson of the last several years in startups: you just need to survive long enough to keep turning over new cards.
E.g. Replit's narrative power far-outweighed their commercial traction for years... but nevermind that web IDE and unified infra ultimately never caught on for professional devs.... Here they stand in 2025 with brand, infra, and data advantages that set them up extremely well for the current AI moment.
This is exactly why SpaceX is beating everyone else. You can have the best engineers, but if they are limited by management, they are useless.
(From the Blue Origin subreddit)
@okletsdothisx I don’t know Molly but I did try Nox last year and it was an absolute terrible product.
Just based off of that, this game plan holds zero credibility. Execution matters.
Nonetheless, startups are hard and I wish them the best and hope they can turn the ship around.
Call in the national guard.
Fire all SF politicians.
Enough is enough.
Time for @elonmusk & @realDonaldTrump to step in and fix SF.
Our top AI technologists get assaulted consistently.
This is a national security issue.
Result of the inquiry for a CNC part:
* 5 american companies: 0/5 responsed
* 5 european: 2/5 responded, but too expensive
* 5 chinese companies: 5/5 responed
its so over.
Just finished The History of the Future. Meta really shafted Palmer Luckey.
All over optics of $10k and a Hillary meme billboard.
Reminder that people don’t change, situations do.
@fintechjunkie While both sides make mistakes, the relationship is fundamentally asymmetric. Bad investors can destroy a company, yet for them it’s just a write-off. For founders, it's years of their life and their entire company on the line.