It is time for the United States Postal Service to ban junk mail.
Unsolicited spam calls are already prohibited by the FCC. Emails are heavily regulated by the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Junk mail is the majority of mail, 100 million trees per year. Enough!
Terrence Tao’s arguments for the value of serendipity and the counterintuitive benefits of inefficiency align perfectly with Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned. Too much emphasis today on optimization, getting the answer right, and getting exactly what we asked for.
🇩🇪 Beekeeper trains a bumblebee queen to use a protective cap in less than 24 hours.
This protects the colony from hornets and similar threats. Crazy how easy that was.
This bee's story got me! 🐝
Bees are the backbone of our planet; pollinating 1/3 of our food, helping wild plants thrive so animals have homes, food, and holding biodiversity together. Their work is valued in the hundreds of billions, yet populations are declining fast. Compassion starts small, but it ripples huge. Let's honor Beetrix by honoring all bees. 🫶🐝🫶
Thank u @arsenault.em IG
What is Cuby (@buildwithcuby) doing?
They are building AI Robot based factories that BUILD FACTORIES that builds local homes.
Amazing work by @AGampel1 and team!
If your phone charging connector is a USB Type-C, you need this information before you plug your cord to random charging outlets next time.
If anyone carrying a block that looks like a ‘power bank’ asks you to unlock your phone and help them confirm if their type C charger is working (they’d lie that it’s not charging their phone), please DONT DO IT.
The new scam in town is they use the tech device (that has the look of a power bank) to clone all your files (photos, videos, chats etc). Their aim is to basically clone your phone with the device, with future intent to use it to blackmail you or steal from you. However, the scam won’t work unless you unlock your phone. Unlocking gives the device the access they need to transfer your files.
Why am I sharing this information? We are currently handling a case like that with the police. A guy invited a lady he met online for a movie date, during the movie, he told the lady that his USB Type C cord is not charging his phone and asked if he could try the charger on her phone. The innocent, unsuspecting lady unlocked the phone for the guy, and continued with the movie. About 5min later, the guy passed the Lady’s phone back to her saying he forgot and they moved on. Few days after the date, the guy began blackmailing the lady with private files from her phone that even her couldn’t remember she still had them.
Henceforth, before you connect your USB Type C to a ‘power bank’ or ‘charging outlets’ without your adapter (charging brick) please ensure you set your phone to not charge unless unlocked. Or better still, get your own powerbank.
This is Kiki and she gives us insights on who we are. Not only in human compassion but in understanding we don’t know the limits to our intelligence nor the intelligence of other species.
You should not be able to bet on human suffering.
The nihilistic gambling arena should not be allowed to publish their own headlines to spread FUD on the wellbeing of the people
This! 👇🏽
We also need more 3D platformers, we’ve gotten some really solid entries in the genre (Astro Bot, Pyschonauts 2, & Creash 4) kinda recently but they’re too few and far between! 😭
Movies should be seen on the biggest screen possible—there’s nothing like the magic of cinema coming to life right in front of you! Every moment feels larger than life and full of endless possibilities.
It’s unreal to me that studio execs learned nothing from the BARBENHEIMER craze.
Girls were dressing up like Barbie. Theaters were packed at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday for both films. People stayed at the theater for hours for the double feature.
People love going to the movies!
we just raised another $25M after 10x'ing our ARR in 5 months. the crazy part is this almost never happened.
17 years ago, I watched Iron Man as a 10-year-old kid in Delhi. that night, I pulled my first all-nighter teaching myself to code. not because I wanted to build apps or make money.
because I wanted to build Jarvis.
my parents gave me 1 hour of screen time per day. so I coded in secret, sleeping every alternate night through middle school and high school. built 50+ apps. got a cease and desist from Google at age 12.
all for this one obsession: making computers understand us like humans do.
fast forward to today:
- we've raised $81M total to build the voice operating system
- growing revenue 40% month-over-month this year
- 70% user retention after one year (unheard of in consumer)
- teams at 270 of the Fortune 500 use Wispr Flow daily
our Series A2 was led by @hanstung at @notablecap (who was an early investor in five companies that made it to $100B valuation like Slack, Tiktok, and Airbnb). we also brought on @StevenBartlett as an investor and partner.
but here's what matters more than the money:
we cracked voice input. not transcription - actual understanding. our users hit "send" in under 0.5 seconds without checking. they trust it blindly. that's never existed before.
in a recent benchmark, Wispr came out as 3-4x more accurate than OpenAI, ElevenLabs, and Siri.
and we're just getting started. voice input was step one. now we're building the assistant that actually does things for you.
to my co-founder @SahajGarg6 - there's no one else I'd rather build Jarvis with than my college roommate and closest friend.
to our team pulling all-nighters and shipping magic - you're the reason that 10-year-old kid's dream is becoming real.
we're hiring cracked engineers and growth marketers who want to build the future of human-computer interaction.
the keyboard had a good 150-year run.
time to build what comes next.
PS: like, retweet, and bookmark to get wispr flow for free for 3 months ❤️
— Written with @WisprFlow