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[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Current state of the market:

Google stock, $GOOGL, erased -$160 billion in 2 hours after OpenAI launched a web browser.

Then, it added +$180 billion back 4 hours later after everyone realized OpenAI's web browser is just Google Chrome with ChatGPT bolted on.

[Thorsten Claus @thinkstorm]

We’ve normalized deception at scale under the banner of ‘disruption.’ Until internalizing externalities is the norm — not the exception — posts like this will keep feeling uncomfortably accurate.

[Spooky JL @spooky_JL]

Now that fraud is legal i am looking to do some fraud

What are some good frauds to get into for a beginner

[Spooky JL @spooky_JL]

Now that fraud is legal i am looking to do some fraud

What are some good frauds to get into for a beginner

[Thorsten Claus @thinkstorm]

@spooky_JL Start with founder-friendly accounting. Build ARR out of annual commitments, ignore churn, raise a bridge from your cousin. Repeat until Sequoia calls.

[Thorsten Claus @thinkstorm]

@GoTransAm @cube3studio @WeatherTechRcwy It’s raining! Race still on?

[Thorsten Claus @thinkstorm]

Hey @berkeleypolice my daughter’s AirTag got stolen from the side of the house. Her bike was attached to it. We know where the AirTag is. We called 5.5h ago, several times, and you just gave us the run-around to the Emeryville and Oakland police department. Jackshit happened.

[Thorsten Claus @thinkstorm]

We discovered some fun with the 4-yr old kids, writing whimsical rhymes with plain-old text-davinci-003. Not as educational as Dr Seuss, but still fun to draw crayon pictures to.

[Ridge Ventures @ridgevc]

Say hello to our new Partner, @akritidokania! 👋

Prior to investing, Akriti co-founded a startup and worked as a software engineer and product leader at AWS and MSFT, respectively. She possesses the rare insight (and empathy) of a founder-turned-VC.

https://t.co/0gE7WtpX8P

[Thorsten Claus @thinkstorm]

There isn't anything in some sense that you know more deeply or believe more deeply than that which you act out.

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While it's actually the other way around: What we perceive is coming inside-out, and the sensory data is just keeping our perceptual best guesses in check. (2/2)

[Thorsten Claus @thinkstorm]

We think perception is a process of reading out sensory signals. it seems as though the world pours itself into our minds through the transparent windows of our senses. (1/2)

[Thorsten Claus @thinkstorm]

And even if they strike you with the force of brilliance, your job is to assume, first of all, that they're probably wrong, and then to assault them with everything you have in your arsenal and see if they can survive. (2/2)

[Thorsten Claus @thinkstorm]

There is a fundamental truth: Almost all ideas are wrong. It doesn't matter if they are your ideas or someone else's ideas. They are probably wrong. (1/2)

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@DennyDelivers hahahahhhhhhahaahahahhahahhahaha

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@KensethFan17_20 when was that?! got out OK?!

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@pmarca my thoughts exactly.

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Friday Night Ideas of my wife: A restaurant where diners each get their own bathtub; serving French wine, Italian pasta.

[MattyVerse @DCLBlogger]

Oh no what happened here.

Someone accepted $115 DAI on their Ape thinking it’s 115 ETH? ($380k USD).

Ouch.

[Thorsten Claus @thinkstorm]

@SwiftOnSecurity Sometimes it comes back when you create a new “Balanced” power profile.

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@SwiftOnSecurity “Let me clean up that registry that MS can’t get right but I can” - *computer dies*