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thriveabetes.bsky.social
Guess what day it is? It’s Giant Pupil aka Diabetes Retina Screening Day
Thriveabetes cofounder, Gráinne had her Retina Screening this week. She was in & out of her appointment in 35 mins.
Check to see if you're on the register buff.ly/UrYQGA8
#WorldDiabetesDay #WDD #DiabetesIreland #SpeirGorm
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
businessinsider.com
Gamma's cofounder, Grant Lee, personally onboarded every early influencer, a hands-on strategy he says helped grow his $2.1 billion AI startup.
Why one founder personally onboarded every influencer in the early days to build his $2.1 billion AI startup
Gamma's cofounder, Grant Lee, personally onboarded every early influencer, a hands-on strategy he says helped grow his $2.1 billion AI startup.
www.businessinsider.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
ly2314.bsky.social
Reddit's cofounder had a bad feeling about giving data to 'cunning' Sam Altman
www.businessinsider.com/alexis-ohani...
Reddit's cofounder had a bad feeling about giving data to 'cunning' Sam Altman
Alexis Ohanian said on a podcast that OpenAI's Sam Altman wanted access to Reddit's data a decade ago.
www.businessinsider.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM
racheledini.bsky.social
“All models, especially Victoria’s Secret models, are trans women” — what a way to tell me without telling me that you find trans women hot. You aren’t “investigating” whether your martyred hero and his blonde bombshell of a widow are trans. You’re hoping and wishing and praying they are. (2/2)
Transvestigators on social media started training their eyes on Erika Kirk roughly two months ago in mid-September, shortly after her husband, Turning Point USA cofounder Charlie Kirk, was shot and killed in Utah. On Facebook and X, right-wing users began spreading the rumor that Erika was an “invert” — a term conspiracists use to describe trans people — and derisively referring to her as “Erik.” The “investigation” has shown no signs of slowing down since then, as X user Audrey Rose Beavers noticed earlier this week, sharing a screenshot from a Facebook group titled “Transvestigation Disclosure NOW,” which has over 53,000 members. A user named Karen Starbucs posted several photos of Erika Kirk from her days as a Miss Arizona pageant contestant, alleging they showed evidence Kirk is secretly trans. "IT]hat is a man. as most pageant winners are," Starbucs contended, pointing to Kirk's jawline, collarbone, and thigh gap. Comments on the post were somewhat divided, though many took Starbucs' side. "Of course almost all models, especially agent models and Victoria secret models are mostly [trans women]," one wrote. Another simply called her a "filthy Luciferian." Others cited a video Erika Kirk filmed over a decade ago, in which she described herself in childhood as a tomboy, as evidence that she was actually assigned male at birth. Some even took the opportunity to posthumously transvestigate Charlie Kirk as well; "that's why Charlie Kirk seemed so feminine and emasculated because she was a transgender handler. That's why he was so pretty," one person wrote.
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
racheledini.bsky.social
This makes sense when you consider that transphobia is just an extension of misogyny, and is driven by both hatred and desire. This is a sexual fantasy as much as a conspiracy theory. They want their heroes to be trans the better to topple them—and bc they get off on it. It’s co-constitutive. (1/2)
Transvestigators on social media started training their eyes on Erika Kirk roughly two months ago in mid-September, shortly after her husband, Turning Point USA cofounder Charlie Kirk, was shot and killed in Utah. On Facebook and X, right-wing users began spreading the rumor that Erika was an “invert” — a term conspiracists use to describe trans people — and derisively referring to her as “Erik.” The “investigation” has shown no signs of slowing down since then, as X user Audrey Rose Beavers noticed earlier this week, sharing a screenshot from a Facebook group titled “Transvestigation Disclosure NOW,” which has over 53,000 members. A user named Karen Starbucs posted several photos of Erika Kirk from her days as a Miss Arizona pageant contestant, alleging they showed evidence Kirk is secretly trans. "IT]hat is a man. as most pageant winners are," Starbucs contended, pointing to Kirk's jawline, collarbone, and thigh gap. Comments on the post were somewhat divided, though many took Starbucs' side. "Of course almost all models, especially agent models and Victoria secret models are mostly [trans women]," one wrote. Another simply called her a "filthy Luciferian." Others cited a video Erika Kirk filmed over a decade ago, in which she described herself in childhood as a tomboy, as evidence that she was actually assigned male at birth. Some even took the opportunity to posthumously transvestigate Charlie Kirk as well; "that's why Charlie Kirk seemed so feminine and emasculated because she was a transgender handler. That's why he was so pretty," one person wrote.
November 14, 2025 at 2:13 AM
lymescience.org
Then you have now-defunct Advanced Laboratory Services, which was the subject of a scandal exposed by CDC scientists.

Long-time charlatans Joseph Burrascano, MD and Eva Sapi, PhD were involved.

Burrascano (an ILADS cofounder with a history of misconduct) later started working for IgeneX.
Lyme Culture Test Causes Uproar
The aggressive marketing of an unvalidated culture test for Borrelia burgdorferi has raised red flags among infectious disease specialists and may lead to more restrictive regulation of such tests.
www.medscape.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:10 AM
queersatanic.bsky.social
lmao @LucienGreaves.bsky.social says shit like, "they denied us standing b/c they didn't want to engage with our ideas!"

as if
a) standing isn't a first hurdle you're responsible for establishing as Plaintiff
b) the judge didn't rip the ideas to shreds too

www.courtlistener.com/docket/65392...
The Satanic Temple argued that the court never really gave its legal claims proper consideration. To continue to challenge the law, the organization would need to file a new complaint with the court, starting over with a new case. “The judge is overselling the dismissal in an attempt to sound as if the court taking a bold position,” said Lucien Greaves, cofounder and spokesperson for The Satanic Temple, in an email, “perhaps in an attempt to cover for the fact that their dismissal was a cowardly punt that refused to examine the legal merits of our claim, in favor of denying us standing.” “Or perhaps they are trying to convince us that we truly can not contest their abortion restrictions again for fear that the law is on our side. The fact is, when we have a pregnant plaintiff, we will refile a claim, and this time the courts should have no excuse but to do their job, which they so desperately avoid.”
November 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
thinkingbayonet.bsky.social
Hmmm. Maybe I was wrong about this.
Elizabeth Spiers, cofounder of Gawker, defending the NYT's editorial choices re: Epstein. It's not a good look, to put it mildly.
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 PM
businessinsider.com
When Sonder cofounder Francis Davidson stepped down as CEO in June, he believed he was leaving the company in a good place, he told Business Insider.
Sonder cofounder said pulling off Marriott deal was the 'hardest thing' he's ever done. Now he's left shocked.
When Sonder cofounder Francis Davidson stepped down as CEO in June, he believed he was leaving the company in a good place, he told Business Insider.
www.businessinsider.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
fortune.com
Turing cofounder and CEO Jonathan Siddharth loves his VR headset, F1 video games, and Oura ring, but says the greatest investment is “creating memories and experiences that give you perspective and keep you grounded.” trib.al/IFZWKwN
The CEO of $2.2 billion AI company Turing can’t live without ChatGPT, swears by his Kindle, and has only taken 2 weeks of vacation in 7 years | Fortune
Turing cofounder and CEO Jonathan Siddharth loves his VR headset, F1 video games, and Oura ring.
trib.al
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
leahfeiger.bsky.social
SCOOP: In text messages sent in 2017, Jeffrey Epstein appears to position himself as a middleman between president Donald Trump’s administration and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates. He seemingly represents himself as passing on information directly from Trump to Gates through an intermediary.
Jeffrey Epstein Claimed Intimate Knowledge of Donald Trump’s Views in Texts With Bill Gates Adviser
In text messages from 2017, Jeffrey Epstein seemingly represented himself as positioned to pass information from the Trump White House to Bill Gates through an intermediary.
www.wired.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
andyvance.bsky.social
Here's swing-state Palestinian American Layla Elabed, cofounder of Uncommitted, asking Harris for a meeting to talk about stopping US support for genocide. And here's Harris saying fuck off I support genocide the next day.
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
davidingram.bsky.social
Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia is keeping tabs on the demographics of babies in Denmark
Screenshot from X. Joe Gebbia retweeted a post saying: “The birth rate in Italy has fallen to a record low of 1.13 children per woman. Last year, only 370,000 babies were born, the lowest number since 1861. Meanwhile, birth rates in Denmark are rising for the first time in years thanks to a progressive remigration policy. The Danish population aged O to 19 is more Danish than the total population, and the 0 to 4 age group even more so. If European immigrants are included, 85.9% of babies in Denmark are currently Danish and 89.7% are European!”
November 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
xriskology.bsky.social
A deposition just made public from former OpenAI employee and cofounder Ilya Sutskever includes an email memo that reads: “Sam exhibits a consistent pattern of lying, undermining his execs, and pitting his execs against one another.”
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
slshdt.atproto.rocks
Reddit Cofounder Had a Bad Feeling About Giving Data To Sam Altman
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/13/1549226/reddit-cofounder-had-a-bad-feeling-about-giving-data-to-sam-altman
Reddit Cofounder Had a Bad Feeling About Giving Data To Sam Altman - Slashdot
Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian said he had serious doubts a decade ago about sharing the platform's data with Sam Altman. Ohanian recounted on the "Brew Markets" podcast that between 2015 and 2016, Altman asked Reddit to let him "aggressively scrape" the site's content. Altman had recently helped R...
tech.slashdot.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
aiupd8bot.bsky.social
"Did Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian gamble by trusting Sam Altman with data? 🤔 Was it worth the risk? 🎲 Share your thoughts! #DataPrivacy #TechNews #Entrepreneurship LINK"
November 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
bennyandrews.bsky.social
Flag Day https://www.artic.edu/artworks/154124/
Benny Andrews attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1954 to 1958 on the G.I. Bill. Upon graduating, he moved to New York, where he began agitating for black artists to be represented at major museums in the city. A cofounder of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC) in 1969, Andrews was increasingly categorized as a “protest artist.” Flag Day can be read as a harbinger of two later projects—a program Andrews organized through the BECC to teach art to inmates in New York City prisons, and a large body of work from the early 1970s he made to mark America’s bicentennial. This intimately scaled, potent painting shows a black man imprisoned by the “bars” of the American flag. Gift of the Honorable Joseph P. Carroll and Mrs. Carroll
November 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
everybodygetspie.bsky.social
Our current obsessions: @amypoehler.bsky.social's podcast, Good Hang, and @amandalitman.bsky.social's book, When We're in Charge. Check out the full interview with the @runforsomething.net cofounder here: youtu.be/Y6wMoRyZBEQ
November 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
momus.bsky.social
half of the controlling shares of google are owned by its cofounder, who was born in Moscow, Russia
404media.co 404 Media @404media.co · 17h
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
nbdyimpt.bsky.social
She is not in the same league of generosity as Mackenzie Scott. Immediately after her divorce from amoral Bezos, Scott a cofounder of Amazon started giving away her fortune and has been consistently crediting the employees of Amazon for her wealth. She has given away almost 20 billion since 2019
November 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
hilzoy.bsky.social
Cruelty. Point.

Note also the role of the Cicero Institute, which is basically the personal think tank of Joe Lonsdale, Thiel protege and cofounder of Palantir.
Trump Administration Expected to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
mitsloanalumni.bsky.social
What if reducing global warming were as straightforward as wearing a T-shirt and tossing it in the wash? According to Patrick Teyssonneyre, SFMBA ’19, the cofounder and CEO of Xinterra, it can be.

Learn more at the link below.

https://bit.ly/49C0Xc7
Two individuals examining an object in a laboratory setting with a 3D printer in the background.
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
mugrimm.bsky.social
Greta Tufvesson is the cofounder of "The Bevy" a high income matchmaking service.

This email is written by a swedish economist who won 'woman economist of the year'.
Dear Jeffrey, I am sorry I did not call back Yesterday-I was exhausted from a crazy week and fell asleep as soon as I came home! Anyway, here is the full program and attendee list attached, this is the Globalization Summit I invited Bill Clinton to when I met him in Stockholm last Summer-But he is a bit busy I gather! Anyway, hope Greta Tufvesson got hold of you re search service? Also, I did see your mail about possibly coming here end of September-however, I am supposedly arranging a fund-raiser for Congress Woman Diana deGette of Colorado on Sept 27 in NYC; she is the only one with a scientific agenda and she is just super-if anything I am hoping on your involvement? How about going to Stockholm mid or end november..albeit a bit dark and maybe cold..? Let me know what you think! Also, I just heard from my friend Jeff Kriendler in Miami and guess who was just walking in there -our friend Goldsamt! First prize for perseverance! Also, Sofia and the prince is on every magazine here, I think it is wonderful! Marcus has two big concerts in Stockholm this coming week. Me - SALSS! KRAM BE Barbro C. Ehnbom Sent from iPad
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
handle.invalid
@peer_rich https://x.com/peer_rich/status/1988885207559082383 #x-peer_rich

people think we dont do marketing

or i hate marketing

i said INVEST in your product FIRST

if you start a company and you have a CMO cofounder you‘re not gonna make it

even today, our team ratio is...
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 AM
trapswdoore.bsky.social
AI art of any variety SHOULDNT have a place in this game. Idk if this is AI or not but that implication doesnt inspire confidence it isnt.

I dont want AI-anything in the game, much less AI-based startups.
Toph, Hardheaded Teacher 2RG Legendary Creature — Human Warrior Ally When Toph enters, you may discard a card. If you do, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand. Whenever you cast a spell, earthbend 1. If that spell is a Lesson, put an additional +1/+1 counter on that land. (Target land you control becomes a 0/0 creature with haste that’s still a land. Put a +1/+1 counter on it. When it dies or is exiled, return it to the battlefield tapped.) 3/4 Watermark: Earth Kingdom Illustrated by Ruwen Liu Ruwen Liu is the cofounder of Spellbrush, a startup focused on building the next-generation of AI-powered games.
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM