Ventsislav Marinov

Software engineer. On a quest for wisdom, finesse, and integrity. Helpless deep thinker.

[Ventsislav Marinov @zenVentzi]

Speak less. Communicate more.

[Ventsislav Marinov @zenVentzi]

@X there must be better ways than limiting the following click-through rate for non-bot accounts.

[Kim Dotcom @KimDotcom]

Told my wife to have dinner ready at 6 or I will obliterate her entire civilization.

She now charges me a fee to use the bathroom, that used to be free, and I didn't get dinner. WTF

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

Just discovered my 19 year old daughter has an OnlyFans account

I was devastated

She clearly must not be registered as a sole proprietor with the the German Trade Office

I sat her down and asked how much she'd made

She said €4,200

I nearly collapsed

That's at least €1,890 in unreported VAT obligations

She started crying but I did the only thing a good father could do

We spent the entire weekend filling out forms together

She's now fully compliant with a business registration and tax ID

Makes €340/month after taxes and social contributions

I've never been more proud of her

Only 19 and already an online entrepreneur

She has a bright future ahead of her

[Matthias Schmidt @eurofounder]

Perfect European career (female edition):

18 - Begin studies in marketing

20 - Student exchange in Lisbon, have sex with foreign men

23 - Unpaid internship at an NGO

25 - Start Masters degree

27 - First paid position. €1,100/month

29 - Get pregnant after a one night stand with a Dutch tourist

30 - Go on a 5-year maternity leave

35 - Return to work, get promoted under the EU Gender Balance Directive

38 - Burn out. Go on 2-year fully paid mental health break

41 - Return to work, surprised that there is no promotion

42 - File discrimination lawsuit

43 - €180,000 settlement, retire

44 - Write LinkedIn post titled “What It Means To Be A Female Leader In Europe”

[UAE Embassy US @UAEEmbassyUS]

The UAE-US AI partnership is delivering results. The 5GW AI Campus with @Microsoft, @Cisco, @Oracle, @nvidia, @AMD, @Cerebras & @OpenAI is under construction, with the first phase of the 1GW Stargate UAE launching in 2026.

[Ventsislav Marinov @zenVentzi]

@DefiantLs @grok what is a booby trap and why does Trump care about it

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

GPT-5, Claude, Kimi, and Gemini: "I can travel back in time to any time before 1500 and change only one thing, what is the single thing you would change, nothing obvious."

[Ventsislav Marinov @zenVentzi]

@BowesChay can't say I'm pro West but

[Russian Market @runews]

In China, factories are using artificial intelligence to monitor not only every movement of workers, but also their gaze. The systems track each step and attempt to assess a worker’s level of concentration by analyzing facial expressions.

[Alice Chen @flower_alicee]

After 6 months of living in SF, I understood why I hate it here.

In short, everything is optimized for ROI:

> bend your “values” for better “results”
> exaggerate results cuz everyone is doing it
> stay “friends” in case they become successful
> ghost people with low “return”

It’s all about optics and outcome. SF truly took “fake it till you make it” to another level.

But no matter how shiny the apple looks, the rot inside will show one day. If this is what is shaping the kids who dropped out to “build the future”, imagine the kind of future they’ll build.

[Ventsislav Marinov @zenVentzi]

@soiled_plants2 Building a life around not being a slave who has to be (always) on for other people and having enough autonomy to be on on your own terms.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

yesterday sam altman walked on stage and made your entire tech stack obsolete.

not with a better product. with a new layer of dependency.

apps in ChatGPT. agent kit. github actions that auto-review your code. API access to gpt-pro and sora. all of it genius. all of it necessary. all of it wrapping around your throat like silk.

this is how platform lock-in begins - not with control, but with convenience.

they make it easier to build inside ChatGPT. cheaper to distribute. instant access to 800 million users. why would you ever build anywhere else? and before you realize it, every "independent" AI product is just another plugin in sam's operating system. your business lives in their world. your users never leave their app. your code runs on their infrastructure. your growth depends on their algorithm.

you think you're building a startup. you're actually building a feature.

we've seen this movie before. we know how it ends. but we keep buying tickets anyway.

facebook did it with pages. in 2010, brands rushed in. organic reach was magic - post something, everyone sees it. then the algorithm shifted. reach plummeted. suddenly you're paying to talk to your own audience. the people who *chose* to follow you. and if you complain? "it's a business, not a charity." they're right. it's their business. you're the product.

apple did it with the app store. they gave developers a gold rush, took 30%, seemed fair for the distribution. then came arbitrary rejections. guideline changes overnight. apps disappearing without real explanation. and if you get too successful? they just build your feature into iOS. hey, remember when third-party flashlight apps were a thing? yeah.

amazon did it with third-party sellers. they boosted you with algorithm love, gave you prime badge credibility, made you feel like a partner. then they watched what sells. learned your margins. studied your customers. and launched "Amazon Basics" to crush you with your own data. the platform became the competition. and you can't leave because that's where all the customers are.

google did it with search traffic. publishers built entire businesses on SEO. then google decided they'd rather answer questions directly. featured snippets. knowledge panels. AI overviews. they're not sending you traffic anymore. they're taking your content and keeping the user. "but we credited you with a small link." thanks.

at first, they make you rich. then they make you dependent. then they make you irrelevant. then they make you pay to stay visible. then they build your feature themselves. the cycle is predictable. we just keep hoping we'll be the exception.

AI was supposed to be different. supposed to flatten the internet - make creation open again, give developers superpowers, democratize intelligence, let anyone build anything without gatekeepers.

instead, it's building the most sophisticated walled garden in history. only this one doesn't look like a garden. it looks like an assistant. speaks in probabilities and polite disclaimers. says "I'm sorry, I can't do that" with perfect grammar. and every conversation, every prompt, every app built on top - flows through one gate.

the future isn't open if every prompt goes through one company. if every agent needs their API. if every breakthrough requires their approval. if independence means giving up distribution.

[Dr Singularity @Dr_Singularity]

This is insane.

New AI model from Samsung, 10,000x smaller than DeepSeek and Gemini 2.5 Pro just beat them on ARC-AGI 1 and 2

Samsung’s Tiny Recursive Model (TRM) is about 10,000x smaller than typical LLMs yet smarter because it thinks recursively instead of just predicting text. It first drafts an answer, then builds a hidden "scratchpad" for reasoning, repeatedly critiques and refines its logic (up to 16 times), and produces improved answers each cycle.

This approach shows that architecture and reasoning loops (not just size), can drive intelligence. It enables powerful, efficient models that run cheaply, validate neuro symbolic ideas, and open highest quality reasoning to far more applications.

Acceleration is everywhere

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

A comparison:

[O.W. Root @owroot]

You need to be surrounding yourself with soft lights, you need to be barely able to see after the sun goes down, you need to feel like you are walking through a maze of soft yellow and black, you need to be living your late nights in a dream before you even sleep.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

Game theory teaches that every decision is interlocked with the choices of others, that no move exists in isolation,

And that survival depends less on the strength of your hand than on your ability to anticipate the hands of those across the table,

Because the board is never neutral and every player is calculating silently while pretending otherwise.

You walk into interactions as if they are conversations, blind to the fact that they are contests of strategy,

Where every smile may conceal a move and every concession may be a trap,

And so you lose without ever realizing you were playing, thinking yourself unlucky when in truth you were merely unprepared.

In zero-sum games, your win is another’s loss, because the rational opponent will exploit weakness until you are consumed,

But in nonzero-sum games, the illusion of cooperation disguises a deeper law - alliances endure only while payoffs align,

And the moment incentives diverge, betrayal is inevitable, not as a possibility but as the logical endpoint of the system.

Mastering game theory means not clinging to ideals of fairness or permanence, you see cooperation as temporary camouflage, conflict as default, and reputation as the currency that influences the calculations of others,

And so you engineers conditions where your rivals defeat themselves, where every option available to them strengthens your position while weakening their own.

Understand this: life is not a fair contest of effort, it is a board of infinite games layered atop finite ones,

And the men who rise are not those who play hardest but those who play coldest,

You map incentives before meetings. You study reputations before deals. You anticipate betrayal before commitment.

You know that threats and promises matter only when credible, so you commits visibly, burning bridges that force others to recalculate in your favor.

You play reputation as a weapon.

Stop treating life as if it were fair play. In every workplace, every negotiation, every relationship, you are already in a game.

[sui @birdabo]

just found out SIM cards are self-contained computers with their own 30 mHz CPU, 64KB ram and some storage space. also runs ‘applets’ written in a stripped down form of java.

u can technically install linux on ur sim lol.

[Sam Altman @sama]

Today we are launching my favorite feature of ChatGPT so far, called Pulse. It is initially available to Pro subscribers.

Pulse works for you overnight, and keeps thinking about your interests, your connected data, your recent chats, and more. Every morning, you get a custom-generated set of stuff you might be interested in.

It performs super well if you tell ChatGPT more about what's important to you. In regular chat, you could mention “I’d like to go visit Bora Bora someday” or “My kid is 6 months old and I’m interested in developmental milestones” and in the future you might get useful updates.

Think of treating ChatGPT like a super-competent personal assistant: sometimes you ask for things you need in the moment, but if you share general preferences, it will do a good job for you proactively.

This also points to what I believe is the future of ChatGPT: a shift from being all reactive to being significantly proactive, and extremely personalized.

This is an early look, and right now only available to Pro subscribers. We will work hard to improve the quality over time and to find a way to bring it to Plus subscribers too.

Huge congrats to @ChristinaHartW, @_samirism, and the team for building this.