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There are so many French founders in SF. San Francisco has become San Franceisco.

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Actually, it's only a SAFE if it comes from the SAFE region of France. Otherwise, it's just a sparkling term sheet

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Unless it’s a SAFE copied directly from the YC website assume it is unSAFE.

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Going to buy this book today, at the bookstore @karaswisher has had a legendary career, was extremely kind to those of us coming up in the same industry and was/is a phenomenal person to learn from.

Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

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This lecture by @MelMitchell1 is a must-watch for anyone who wants to understand the history of AI optimism.

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2 out of 3 are @dreammachinevc

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Seeing three of my angel investments top the charts now: • Locket at #3 in Social • Flo at #2 in Health • Airbuds at #9 in Music We are so back.

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In addition to being a pretty good VC, Niko is also a talented photographer (🤫)

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❤️ NYC magic ❤️

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Despite their intended purpose, the words 'calm down' have never actually led to anyone calming down.

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SF's hottest club is a Waymo.

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Subway stops that count as a visit to the gym: 63rd St/Lexington

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The Succession finale is NBA Finals Game 7 for nerds.

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This is a god-tier @RickRubin @tetranow interview of @pmarca Fun fact: "Tetragrammaton" actually means god.

Marc Andreessen

Listen to this episode from Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin on Spotify. Marc Andreessen is a prominent entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer best known for his key role in the development of...

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Just bought a fake plant. If anyone asks me if it's fake, I'll say that it's AI.

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Wake up babe, new sky color just dropped.

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"Perhaps hangouts will go from being something that everyone just naturally did because it was the only way to get human contact to being something that people deliberately carve out time for and put on their calendars." -- @Noahpinion

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11 months

Definitely a first for me and maybe for anyone.

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If you want someone to do the dishes, give them a work deadline.

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2 months

My former TechCrunch colleague @SarahPerezTC lost her home in a fire last night . Please donate; let's send her our love and support.

Sarah and Josie need our help!, organised by HEIDI SULPHER

In the early hours of March 13th, Sarah's world turned upside down. As the bright glare o… HEIDI SULPHER needs your support for Sarah and Josie need our help!

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1 year

The most contrarian thing you can invest in right now is a wrapper on top of OpenAI

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1 year

Everyone is dunking on the classic "what's moat" question these days. Top question -> most hated. This is what happens when you realize all software companies are -wrappers + -built on top of open source and fragile dependencies. The real moat is distribution and GTM.

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#NYtechweek consumer software panel with @MariaSalamanca @ashleymayer @EmmaSHBates Thank you @_____collective @selins4 @MiriBuckland @e_a_buckingham @zehranaqvi_ for hosting.

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I asked GPT4 to "wow me, " and this is what it did. Reader, I was wow'd.

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HBO has given itself a medal for changing its name to Max.

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“It took a few years of basically being disabled, disabled to the point of not being able to work, to realize that, oh, actually these things that I deemed to be irrational or, like, useless types of creativity, were essential to my functioning.”

How “post-rationalism” is reshaping tech culture

Tara Isabella Burton on Silicon Valley’s Endarkenment

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1 year

Greatest moment of your life is someone else’s burrito break.

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1 year

There will never be a greater underdog story than 2x MVP Nikola Jokic being drafted during a Taco Bell “Quesarito” ad

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'“There is no mention of eating human bones being good for bone health in the provided context.” But, well, it’s not wrong.' lol @riptari ☠️

Wellen taps OpenAI's GPT for a chatbot that dishes advice on bone health | TechCrunch

Wellen, a New York–based fitness startup that's focused on women's bone health, has launched an AI chatbot built on OpenAI's GPT.

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1 year

Terrence Malik’s version

Scott Stein 👓🎲🪄

@jetscott

1 year

@FilmUpdates We’re inside a terrarium. We see the life of a small frog as it learns to walk, and at the end, it finds another frog. We realize there’s a TV on beyond the glass but the chiron is fuzzy

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1 year

Turns out Jimmy Butler did have that dawg in him

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"Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons are going to have some respect for Jimmy Butler because he has got that dog in him... he is clutch, closer -- on defense and offense." — @RealSkipBayless

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We’re all about to look like we’re scuba diving through real life. 🤿

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Youth mental health startup Somethings launches with a $3.2M raise led by General Catalyst via @techcrunch ( @patty_gilligan is one of my favorite founders.)

Youth mental health startup Somethings launches with a $3.2M raise led by General Catalyst |...

Looking to bring mental health care into the Z & A generations, New York based startup Somethings launched a digital platform connecting teenagers with trained mentors between the ages of 19-26....

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There's even a YC co that's just payroll software for French companies.

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Airbnb 'Icons' ideas: Powerlifting with @bchesky , MMA with @finkd , smoothies with @brianjohnson

Austin Rief ☕️

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Silicon Valley's transformation from scrawny tech nerds to powerlifting jacked dudes is beautiful.

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It's been said before, but friendships make the world go round.

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GPT-4 is your smartest "phone a friend," on almost everything.

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1 year

The ERAS TOUR

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11 months

If you're in for a smoky night on the East Coast, you can use your AC as an air filter

How to Keep Indoor Air Clean if You Don’t Have an Air Purifier

Fans and air-conditioners, if you use them right, can help.

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1 year

You’re going to need a Lockscreen for your Lockscreen.

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One of my favorite VC writers is starting her own publication

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1 year

For the past six months at Contrary, I’ve published essays on everything from microchips to metallurgy, artificial intelligence, carbon removal, cell therapies, and much much more. Today, that essay series is breaking out into its own publication called Foundations & Frontiers!

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11 months

Any chance we can revert back to weeks where only weeks happen?

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If movies were true to life, characters would be interrupted 3x a day by spam calls and texts.

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2 months

Reddit is a prime example of the power of perseverance and resilience in business. It was not the clear category winner.

Soraya Darabi

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2 months

As Reddit approaches an IPO nearly two decades since inception, it’s easy to forget just how profound the company’s imprint on the internet has been. #Reddit revolutionized how content is shared and consumed, but also showed us all the power of online communities.

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Landing, a platform for making virtual mood boards, brings its creation tools to mobile via @techcrunch

Landing, a platform for making virtual mood boards, brings its creation tools to mobile | TechCrunch

Landing, the community-powered social platform where users create and publish virtual mood boards and collages, today launched a mobile feature called Landing users can now create and publish virtual...

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1 year

Airbuds from the @cappuccino_fm team is charting in the App Store Everyone complains that music discovery is broken; this is a fix.

‎Airbuds Widget

‎Airbuds is a widget for best friends to share their listening activity. You and your friends can see what each other are listening to right on your home screens. You can react to songs, play music...

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Software is eating the mood board @landing__space

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7 months

Congratulations @ali_debow ! @joinswsh is trying to help people build relationships, not follower counts.

Swsh's new app helps you maintain your friendships through polls and games | TechCrunch

Ever since BeReal became popular among Gen Zers, giving them a platform to be their true selves rather than scrolling through heavily edited content, Swsh is a social app founded by Gen Zers, for Gen...

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Not an economist but I feel like AI might replace this job

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3 months

No one ships faster than @vidythatte . Now he's built a tool to help you do the same.

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We did it! made a @figma plugin for @trace_ai Convert your designs into SwiftUI and preview your screens right inside your figma canvas in minutes.

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VCs are basically airports for intros.

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2 months

If 'Her' came out today, it would win best picture @dreammachinevc @brex and @generalcatalyst hosted a ten-year anniversary screening last night. The movie is even better now, as an approximation of real life.

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2 months

Last night we hosted a bunch of VCs, founders, & creatives for a screening of the movie “Her” in honor of its 10 year anniversary!🍿 It’s wild how watching the movie back then felt dystopian & watching it now feels realistic Dream collab w/ @brexHQ x @generalcatalyst x @alexia

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"Writers will manipulate A.I. the way that hip-hop producers dig up and arrange samples. Those with the best taste, and the most knowledge, will make the best stuff, some with a genius all its own."

A Human Wrote This Book Review. A.I. Wrote the Book. (Published 2023)

“Death of an Author” is a murder mystery coaxed from artificial-intelligence tools like ChatGPT.

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8 months

The best panel at TechCrunch Disrupt is this @TechCrunchPlus panel w/ @ashleymayer ❇️

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4 months

If you are looking for writing talent, look no further than @mjburnsy @etherington @CatherineShu @Harriblogs @morgan_sung (All great writers/editors impacted by the TechCrunch layoffs yesterday.) DM them directly or me if you need to be connected. 🙏

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The older I get, the more I understand that “Lakers beat the SuperSonics” line in ‘It Was A Good Day.’

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An incredible essay from Jake Seliger, who lost his tongue and ability to swallow because of Cancer Consider donating to his medical care

Help the fight against cancer with Jake S., organized by Sam Seliger

In October 2022, my brother Jake discovered a strange growth on his tongue, whi… Sam Seliger needs your support for Help the fight against cancer with Jake S.

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4 months

One "low-hanging fruit" way to improve American healthcare is to default to itemized receipts.

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@nikitabier I am rooting for you from the sidelines Nikita

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Why rabbits? by @Noahpinion

Why rabbits?

Towards a better, floofier world.

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"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” — Charles Mackay

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Low-trust society is destroying culture, sure, but it is also destroying something as simple as going to the drugstore. Why is the baking soda locked up? Why is the baby formula under lock and key?

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These people are going to make it so museums aren't open to the public anymore and we can't see art except from 10 feet away behind glass cages. Low trust society destroying culture.

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I’m in the arena, thinking about the Roman Empire.

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4 months

Darrell and Matt are incredible writers and thinkers, and it was an honor to work at TC alongside them Hire them!

Darrell Etherington

@etherington

4 months

Laid off from @TechCrunch , the website I built over the past decade with the help of many wonderful humans including @jordanrcrook , @panzer , @alexia , and @mjburnsy to name just a few. Open to work if you're hiring, and also snap up @morgan_sung and @Harriblogs both also impacted

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Sales emails lay it on thicker than concrete.

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1 year

If there’s anything I don’t need to do, it’s celebrate my Zoomiversary.

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@paulg @naval @Itsjoeco SF: What do you make?

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A group of kids in Tribeca today debating the efficacy of cobblestone at the turn of the century: “What did they have back then, buggies? I can’t see how this would be an improvement. I’d rather have dirt man, I’d rather have dirt.”

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Better be aliens on this

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The pace of change is exponentially accelerating. There are now days when decades happen, versus weeks.

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10 months

Nothing makes me believe we're in a simulation more than @TaikaWaititi joining @taikacoffee

Taika Waititi Signs on to 'Stealth Health' Beverage Startup

'I’ve always wanted to have a beverage of some sort.'

www.adweek.com

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8 months

80s? “I’ll wear my Hawaiian shirt!” Hippie? “I’ll wear my Hawaiian shirt!”

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1 year

If the Titanic sunk today, there would be a thousand Substack takes, every day.

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Congratulations to one of my favorite consumer founders @ali_debow , on the launch of @joinswsh , a photo-based community app 📸

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3 months

so hear me out, shared photo albums but better 😏 swsh is live on the App Store 📱

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3 months

. @joinswsh , Gen-Z Facebook

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3 months

Just had my second “ @joinswsh in the wild” experience After @ZFellows_ USC event, a student from came up to me to tell me that she had just used swsh last weekend for her club’s event. She said she heard about swsh randomly through a friend of a friend and wanted to try it out

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Look @landing__space is one of the best apps @BusinessInsider downloaded this year

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All you can do, at a basic level, is solve or neutralize problems, your own first, but then those of others the moment you feel you have enough of a handle on your own. 💪🏻

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The Row's ICP is Bene Gesserit, Reverend Mother.

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Including the @generalcatalyst growth team (where my husband @bonatsos works on early-stage investing).

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This is the song that never ends

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1 year

A while back, I set my Twitter location to Iceland, so I wouldn't have to deal with the discourse. Alas, the discourse has come to Iceland.

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2 months

Tech can seem like a Pandora's Box at times. But when it gives a quadriplegic the power of movement back, you remember that hope was also in the box.

Has Neuralink made a breakthrough in brain implant technology?

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface firm Neuralink has released a video of its first patient, Noland Arbaugh, controlling a computer cursor with his thoughts - is this the future?

www.newscientist.com

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@gabirnbaum @canofsoup_inc $WADS

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Asked GPT to make me an image of a rabbit in an AVP, and it included a small virtual carrot. 🥕🤌🏻

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Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Live, Laugh, Love."

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6 months

SF is a boom town and right now, it's booming

Andrew Tan

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6 months

Always a great time when you bring together amazing founders & builders for a night of good food and stories 🫶 Thanks to @AndreaShuyuWang @bonatsos @generalcatalyst for co-hosting with me! 💪 We'll definitely do this again, HMU if you're in SF and building something exciting!

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"A better world is not going to be built by increasing our screen time" via @daisandconfused

It's Obviously the Phones｜Dirt

The loneliness culprit.

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Life is a …

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Retro is my favorite app of 2023: . You can see the craft and thoughtfulness that went into it. (And no, it's not a portfolio co.)

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5 months

Retro for Android is here! And just in time for the holidays: 2023 Recaps & Photo Postcards. We're psyched to finally share this with everyone and say some more on the "why" behind this launch... Why use Retro? Because it's the best place to stay caught up with your family and

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Watching portfolio founder @pdavison talk socializing remotely at the @TechCrunchPlus stage

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Phone autocorrected ‘I’ to ‘Ai.’ One small step for computer …

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One of my favorite portfolio products launched this week @privacypartyapp A security guard for your online life. @triketora

Privacy Party - Product Information, Latest Updates, and Reviews 2024 | Product Hunt

Stop exposing your personal info on social and reduce your risk of impersonation, phishing, harassment, and other online attacks with our free browser extension.

www.producthunt.com

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Pets are not getting their treats. Time to lower the rates.

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9 months

Eventually, someone is going to win in each of these "graveyard" categories and make us all look foolish

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@erenbali

9 months

There are some ideas that are graveyards for founders - Marketplace for homemade food - App for event discovery - Social network around interests - App to aggregate medical records - Booking site for medical tourism - Personal CRM What else?

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This essay in and of itself is an example of female "greatness" @ginevlily

How Feminism Ends - American Affairs Journal

At least, the timing of the redefinition of “woman” is convenient. At the exact moment that we are implicitly evaluating the results of a century’s worth of upheaval on sexual roles, the key demogr...

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We had means of production (capital), modes of production (labor), and now, models of production (Al).

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As a lifetime Beatles fan, I find this to be such a beautiful song Even if there's AI in it.

Now And Then

The Beatles · Single · 2023 · 2 songs.

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Instead of reducing work, AI is creating more.

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Just keeping up with product, technical, and science developments in AI is rapidly becoming a full time job. There are economies of scale in being able to grasp the technical and science ideas quicker after you get through first few, but the pace of innovation is unlike anything.

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A wonderful man and great entrepreneur, Costas Apostolidis, passed away on Monday It's not just if Greece had more people like this, it's if the world had more people like this ...

If Greece had more people like Costas Apostolidis | eKathimerini.com

Greece lost a very rare person on Monday. Costas Apostolidis was the founder of industrial surge protection manufacturer Raycap, but for those who knew him, he was much more than that.

www.ekathimerini.com

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My portfolio co @landing__space is imminently launching its mobile app; get on the waitlist here

Landing

Landing is your community-powered inspiration engine. Join Landing’s Community Spaces to connect with a global network of Creators over all the dynamic and niche interests that make you, you! Sign up...

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4 months

Same here. Figuring out what I can Tip Top @panzer @Basti

Greg Kumparak

@Grg

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Go @panzer !! Matthew being involved makes this an instant signup for me.

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2 years

Twitter's "What's happening?" prompt is more resonant when you add an exclamation point: "What's happening?!"

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1 year

Congrats to @ghostmessaging on their launch -- GPT-powered social, ghost in the machine

Ghost's new anonymous group messaging app has ChatGPT baked in | TechCrunch

A startup called Ghost believes that putting in extra guardrails around the anonymous experience will allow users to have fun, without the usual downsides.

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"Who are you wearing?" "What are you reading?" "Where is the alpha?" :) A conference where dressing up didn't deter from your smarts.