TIM 🤝

New Yorker from Kentucky doing Silicon Valley things 🗽🏇🌉

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Agree 💯💯💯. The question is whether our existing 2 party system is capable of allowing this to happen.

I’m a fan of Rank Choice Voting. It democratizes primaries in particular.

Any thoughts on RCV or similar approaches ?

[TIM 🤝 @tim_talks_]

I’ve sold software to 100+ universities, including CUNY and SUNY. This is the most outrageous and egregious thing I’ve ever seen. Shame on @Oracle AND on @CUNY if true

[Andrew 🫜 🫜 @chocolateycrepe]

NYC's public college system paid Oracle ~$600M to build our course management portal. It's built on top of Oracle's PeopleSoft suite, which they refused to customize without an extra $400M (to hit $1B).

New Yorkers got the image below and pay $5M+ / year for *hosting*.

[Michael Seibel @mwseibel]

@zakkinion Then LLMs got good - tarpit needs to be redefined: https://t.co/nLQIvptlof

[Michael Seibel @mwseibel]

Too many startups/investors are exploring the b2b opportunities with LLMs and not enough are exploring the consumer opportunities. This is the moment consumer founders have been waiting for.

[Spencer Greenberg 🔍 @SpencrGreenberg]

Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill.

Here is how the study was designed and what we found (including a result that really surprised me):

🧵

[Michael Seibel @mwseibel]

I now realize that reporters are more important than I thought. They are the daily narrators of our global story. The topics & tone they choose have a massive impact on our perception of the world. I wonder what the most important inputs are that determine which stories a reporter decides to write and the tone those stories will have.

[Dennis Porter @Dennis_Porter_]

BRREAKING: In less than 24 hours over 1,100 letters have been sent to U.S. Senators asking them to co-sponsor the 'Strategic Bitcoin Reserve' Bill - Nearly 60% of letters sent to Democrats

[Michael Seibel @mwseibel]

Politicians lie about the past to make you think the present sucks. It’s one of the best ways to get your vote. K-12 history books sugar coat the past to make think your country is awesome. It’s the best way to create patriotism. Combined these forces really mess with Americans in the second half of their lives.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Here is my unpopular on @X opinion on this political cycle:
"This seems to be to be a race where everyone's frame of reference is influenced more by the narratives delivered by the algorithms we consume than the actual events themselves.

Those algorithms evolve as new information, accurate or not, are posted.

So none of us really have any idea how any event or reality will impact the Presidential and other important races this cycle.

This is the first AI driven election season where policy and personalities mean nothing and algorithms drive everything

The most influential positions in politics, is whoever controls the algorithms for each significant online platform.

The next most important positions, are the people at each campaign, who can figure out how to reverse-engineer the algos and use them to their advantage. "

Now I wait for the personal attacks that those algos deliver to the top of my replies 😘

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yeah, @Jack is right

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"The goal of media is to make every problem, your problem."

@naval

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"A busy mind accelerates the perceived passage of time.
Buy more time by cultivating peace of mind."

@naval

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"I have this theory that 99% of work that you do is useless. You still have to do it because it's iterating your way to the 1% that is useful. But, in an ideal world, if you are omniscient, you would just cut to the 1%."

@naval

[Mike Novogratz @novogratz]

I watched the Navalny doc last night. Left me so sad that in 2024 dissident leaders get murdered and we all mourn and rage for a few days and the dictators go on. He was so charismatic. So full of hope. All the Putin sympathizers on this platform should watch this doc.

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

Bitcoin is an exit from the Fed.
DeFi is an exit from Wall Street.
Social media is an exit from mass media.
Homeschooling is an exit from industrial education.
Remote work is an exit from 9-5
Creator economy is an exit from employment.
Individuals are leaving institutions
@naval

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

More than 40% of your personal income tax dollars go to pay interest payments on the US national debt.

Wild.

[TIM 🤝 @tim_talks_]

@mauraball 🔥🔥🔥

[Keljar Moatis @KeljarMoatis]

@Cobratate @GretaThunberg Translation: "I have to buy a lot of cars to feel any type of happiness, but it's never enough. I have to brag to people about it so I can feel superior even tho I am not. I must insult the idea of caretaking my home planet because it makes me feel edgy."

grow up already

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

yes, please do enlighten me. email me at [email protected]

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

If you think America is highly polarized, you’ve been fooled by social media selection effects. Twitter is theater; it doesn’t reflect reality, it dramatizes it. And this dramatization convinces us that everything is falling apart.

My new essay.
https://t.co/4dbOdTcdSq