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MaybeACrook @maybeacrook.bsky.social · 6h

Kentucky just made 90% of an incredible comeback and then pissed down their leg more thoroughly than I've ever seen

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Jason Kirk @jasonkirk.fyi · 7h

I don't like the comma after "squeaky"

Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 8h

TIL. www.charmin.com/en-us/about-us

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Chloe Denmark @chloedenmark.bsky.social · 9h

HUH. ITS ALMOST LIKE REAL PEOPLE SHOULD ACTUALLY TAKE NOTES. FUCKING WEIRD.

Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 9h

man wtf

Sam Udotong
Co-founder & CTO at Fireflies.ai
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We charged $100/month for an Al that was really just two guys surviving on pizza.
We scaled Fireflies to a $1B valuation after 6 failures from our original crypto food delivery idea.
Nothing motivates you more than the pressure of living month to month with no safety net.
Before I explain how 2 broke guys validated a $1B idea, you need to understand we were couch surfing while desperately chasing our entrepreneurial dreams. An Al notetaker was our last hope after 6 ideas our friends claimed were "genius".
The best way to validate your business idea is by becoming the product yourself.
We told our customers there's an "Al that'll join a meeting." In reality it was just me and my cofounder calling in to the meeting sitting there silently and taking notes by hand.

When customers scheduled a meeting, we'd manually dial in as "Fred from Fireflies.ai" We'd sit there silently, take detailed notes, and send them 10 minutes later. After taking notes for 100+ meetings (and falling asleep in many), we were finally able to make enough money to pay the $750/month rent for a tiny SF living room. That was the point when we said let's stop and automate everything, in 2017. Since then, security, privacy, and data protection became foundational to everything we built (see my other posts).
The best prototype was 2 guys surviving on pizza. Validation before automation saved us from our 7th failure.
Follow for more unconventional stories about how we built Fireflies to what it is today.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 9h

Okay so these people are morally bankrupt xenophobes AND they have no blessed idea how fighting wildfires works, helpful to understand

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

Here’s how Tricia McLaughlin defended this earlier today; focusing on his criminal record (and exaggerating it greatly by telling about charges and not the far lesser offense he pled guilty to).

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Jeffrey Keese @jeffreykeese.bsky.social · 9h

That’s a lot of red tones

Bryan Fischer @bryandfischer.bsky.social · 9h

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squeaky from:me @skeet.best · 11h

BABIES ARE BORN
WORSHIPPING
UNKNOWN GODS

— DWARF FORTRESS, BUG REPORT #13172

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Cam @camislike.com · 10h

As promised

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MaybeACrook @maybeacrook.bsky.social · 10h

What sounds good, anyways?

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MaybeACrook @maybeacrook.bsky.social · 10h

Spoken like someone who doesn't want to go to lunch on Friday

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MaybeACrook @maybeacrook.bsky.social · 11h

Is that what you think Mormons look like?

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 11h

This might end up being a heat check on the whole MAGA thing. Ginning up a false reality about immigrants or trans people or SNAP recipients works because most who want to believe it can do so with relatively limited intrusion from actual reality. That’s not really the case with prices.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

HASSETT: We're comfortable that inflation has come way down

QUINTANILLA: Even though it's been increasing for 5 straight months?

HASSETT: Well I guess there's ups and downs and seasonals

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MaybeACrook @maybeacrook.bsky.social · 11h

Is a kiss inappropriate?

a woman in a pilgrim costume is standing in front of a door and talking to another woman .

Alt: a woman in a pilgrim costume is standing in front of a door and talking to another woman .

media.tenor.com

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 13h

I've been seeing this headline floating around. To be clear:

1) This is "No. 1" on a miniscule chart, The "Country Digital Song Sales" chart, as in people actually paying money to download country songs which is a tiny amount of people

2) The actual consumers are almost certainly fake

The No. 1 Country Song in America is AI-Generated

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Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 14h

I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here

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David A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 15h

"If you owe the bank a hundred dollars, that's your problem. If you owe the bank a hundred million dollars, that's the bank's problem" but give it force of law

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Oh, so he totally stole the money

The U.S. Supreme Court was given the wrong numbers. The “unwind” in the event of a negative decision on Tariffs, would be, including investments made, to be made, and return of funds, in excess of 3 Trillion Dollars. It would not be possible to ever make up for that kind of a “drubbing.” That would truly become an insurmountable National Security Event, and devastating to the future of our Country - Possibly non-sustainable!

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Patrick Klepek @patrickklepek.bsky.social · 17h

A review is an op-ed by definition. You’re just upset at the criteria being used.

GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 20h

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has defended AI following Eurogamer's 2/5 Arc Raiders review, which criticised the game's use use of AI voice generation. "AI dialog generation + human personality and tuning could totally transform gaming," Sweeney said.

www.gamesindustry.biz/epics-tim-sw...

Epic's Tim Sweeney wades into the Arc Raiders AI row

"This technology increases human productivity in some areas by integer multiples"

www.gamesindustry.biz

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 16h

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 18h

at roughly this time 107 years ago, this man died trying tell his buddies that it was almost soup time. if you're having soup today, remember his sacrifice

Augustin Trébuchon was the last Frenchman to die when he was shot on his way to tell fellow soldiers, who were attempting an assault across the Meuse river, that hot soup would be served after the ceasefire. He was killed at 10:45 a.m.

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MaybeACrook @maybeacrook.bsky.social · 18h

I can promise you it does not impact my respect for you in either direction

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purwho @purwho.bsky.social · 19h

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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 19h

Another fine day at AL dot com...

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Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 1d

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

CHOAM Nomsky (thankful) @samthielman.com · 1d

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

Tweet by Joyce Carol Oates:

"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"--that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.

QT of @avidreader1000
Wherever he goes, he wants to leave: SA, Canada, ultimately the U.S. in the long run, based on his behavior. This also includes Earth. A continuous disavowal of your home is odd, to say the least. He seems to have no c...

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MaybeACrook @maybeacrook.bsky.social · 21h

If the smell fits

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Lois Norder @gainvestigate.bsky.social · 23h

A pastor recorded footage of the U.S. citizen family, the baby struggling to breathe, after being pepper sprayed. Immigration response: It didn’t happen. apnews.com/article/immi...

Suburban Chicago dad headed to store with toddler says they were pepper-sprayed by federal agents

A suburban Chicago father says he and his 1-year-old daughter were pepper-sprayed at close range as they headed grocery shopping over the weekend and happened upon federal immigration agents.

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MaybeACrook @maybeacrook.bsky.social · 1d

Mega kicker time?