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[Reza 🇨🇦 @rrahimi]

My favorite quote for the day comes from @dharmesh via @danprimack's Term Sheet. #Startups #Transparency

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

How money works:

1. OpenAI signs $300B GPU deal with Oracle
2. Larry gains $100B (no GPUs shipped)
3. Larry invests in OpenAI’s $1T round
4. Sam uses $300B to pay Oracle
5. Oracle stock pumps again
6. Larry makes another $100B
7. Larry invests in OpenAI

Flywheel go brrr.

[Reza 🇨🇦 @rrahimi]

@samt_granola @meetgranola Thank you Sam, email sent.

[Reza 🇨🇦 @rrahimi]

Hi @meetgranola - love the app, use it all the time. But recently it's been slowing down my laptop (M2 MBP) to a crawl. Activity monitor shows heavy CPU utilization and it seems to persist even after a meeting is done.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

They aren't even hiding it anymore.

NASDAQ futures start *aggressively* selling off at 7:52 PM (green circle) for no reason whatsoever.

Trump announces tariffs on Canada, Europe, and the rest of the world at 8:06 PM (blue circle).

NASDAQ bottoms *4 minutes* later at 8:10 PM (red circle).

You don't even need room temperature IQ to figure out what is happening over here.

[Katharine Houreld @khoureld]

Children clung to life in Sudan by the slenderest of threads, supported by community soup kitchens. Then the USAID funding cuts came, and their mothers watched them starve to death one by one. https://t.co/ZZVmidOS9c

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

MAGA Friday: No new wars!

MAGA Saturday: Ok bombings but no regime change!

MAGA Sunday: There’s really no other solution than regime change.

[Reza 🇨🇦 @rrahimi]

@nocksers @AmoneyResists @RepJeffries I understand education system in the US is very poor so I'll try to help: House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, has no power over the President.

On Nov 5, 2024, American voters decided that they do not want Democrats to hold any power in either house of the US congress.

[Reza 🇨🇦 @rrahimi]

@AlanRMacLeod This is a dumb take. Iranians or citizens of any country shouldn’t be cut off from the internet and no government with popular support would ever be toppled because of it.

[Reza 🇨🇦 @rrahimi]

@RonFilipkowski I'm still doubting all of this until Elon puts money up against GOP, particularly Trump endorsed candidates, in primaries.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.

What are we doing?

[Reza 🇨🇦 @rrahimi]

Idiocracy, the Documentary

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reed: I’m not a great mathematician but I think you were talking about a trillion dollars. I believe 1.5 billion times ten is 15 billion.

McMahon: I think the cut is 1.2 billion

Reed: That would be 12 billion not a trillion

McMahon: Okay

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Unbelievable.

When I was a director of an exchange in 2013, one of the first security policies I set up was:

-Once KYC/AML was approved it was printed out.
-One copy went to a fireproof filing cabinet at main office with the compliance lead.
-One copy went to secure offsite records storage with Iron Mountain.
-Digital copies were batched weekly to an airgapped offline server.
-All access went through senior compliance team members.

Coinbase’s disclosure here focuses on the stolen funds.

But that’s irrelevant.

They got physical addresses, and government IDs.

Things you can’t change, and things that put customers at physical risk.

No element of KYC/AML policy requires this kind of stuff to be accessible to your customer support agents.

I don’t want to hear about what Coinbase is doing to recover funds - I want to hear what they are doing to better deal with private data.

And why a $60B company, had such rubbish data policies when they can easily afford to hire top class talent?

[Reza 🇨🇦 @rrahimi]

@RodKahx There are more articles posted about this "movement" than there are people in the movement.

[Reza 🇨🇦 @rrahimi]

@RichardHanania It’s probably because Bukele knows both him and ICC are gonna be around long after Trump is gone.

[Reza 🇨🇦 @rrahimi]

@RonFilipkowski States should pass laws requiring retailers to display cost of tariffs transparently. Even if it’s just blue states, good enough.

[Gaurav Vohra @gauravvohra]

Signing into stuff in 2025:

> Sign in
> Forgot password
> Check email
> No email
> Try Google auth
> Hooray, works
> Is this really you?
> Grab iPhone
> Open Youtube app
> Yes it's me
> Okta sign in required
> Enter passkey
> Passkey expired
> Need backup code
> Open password manager
> Signed out
> Enter password manager password
> No backup codes
> "Try another way"
> QR code
> iOS Okta app
> Sign in
> Face ID
> Is this really you?
> 2FA SMS code
> Your account needs another layer of security
> "Do this later"
> Your org admin requires Passkey
> Set up Passkey
> Sign in
> Congrats you finally got into Salesforce or some shit

[Reza 🇨🇦 @rrahimi]

@ericbahn It creates lucrative exit opportunities for early investors like @a16z 😁

[Max Karpis @maxkarpis]

Revolut's customer numbers, revenue and profits over the last 5 years.