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@loomdoop "@vtlynch1 I still think this is arcane. As a whole what is happening here is massive investment in something where there is no near-term payoff with it. It's a bubble. And it's all driven by a quest for Google and Microsoft to be the next-gen monopoly. It's not growing naturally"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-26 01:05:55 UTC 3090 followers, XX engagements

"@LeighKimberg They succeeded in getting him put on administrative leave and some kind of voluntary arm-twisting retirement. XXX% at the behest of Scott and the caucuses he chairs"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-28 02:39:15 UTC 3105 followers, XX engagements

"@3TH3RIC @FalconryFinance Definitely. Working for ICE and abducting people should be a federal offense. A capital one. It will be"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-27 21:29:40 UTC 3105 followers, XXX engagements

"@tonewplaces Doordash should be regulated (and will eventually be I'm sure) to provide low-cost service to people based on need probably funded by SSI or similar. It just takes so long for this stuff to catch up because we let these companies get away with so much"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-23 00:08:21 UTC 3105 followers, 2184 engagements

"@vtlynch1 What does inference cost matter when the goal is an exponential increase in inferences and all of them exist at a loss And requiring things like repurposing Three Mile Island to power AI data centers instead of 800000 homes"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-26 00:11:19 UTC 3086 followers, XX engagements

""In simpler terms XX% of the US stock market is held up by five or six companies buying GPUs. And as you will shortly find out there is no AI trade because generative AI is not making anybody any money.""
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-25 21:33:18 UTC 3100 followers, 3038 engagements

"Trump here is doing policy that originates with Democrats like Scott Wiener. Using involuntary commitment as a way to criminalize poverty and get around Habeus Corpus by imprisoning indefinitely without charge. Only difference is in the language"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-25 01:16:07 UTC 3093 followers, 1060 engagements

"Y Combinator is not a best choice for anyone. It functions somewhere between predatory record label A&R loan shark and cult. It really wants to be a cult. And it has a XX% failure rate"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-10 23:35:36 UTC 3093 followers, 2526 engagements

"Bay Area connection to this one. Zohran here with Jamaal Bowman. Bay Area tech billionaires from Coinbase Ripple and a16z spent $X million on attack ads against Bowman in 2024 and around $XXX million against progressives nationwide"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-25 18:24:09 UTC 3105 followers, XXX engagements

"@vtlynch1 It's advancing quickly because these companies are throwing half a trillion dollars at it to make their language models larger have more/better GPUs larger data centers engineering resources etc. There's nothing natural or organic or even sustainable about it"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-26 00:00:13 UTC 3086 followers, XX engagements

"@thekc23 Volvo is like Caterpillar and Hyundai. They are selling the equipment to the IDF to do demolition. These aren't considered weapons but they are used as weapons"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-27 01:03:54 UTC 3098 followers, XX engagements

"This is a really good long read by @edzitron Plan your weekend accordingly"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-25 21:33:18 UTC 3105 followers, 41.4K engagements

"@fuelgrannie Toronto is so expensive. There are a lot of new construction towers and mini-towers. This is in the same neighborhood and $XXX million Canadian which is still close to $X million USD. The row houses are cheaper"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-22 03:12:19 UTC 3099 followers, XX engagements

"@GplusB @MattLech Also with these VC firms they all are investors in the same things. It's very herd mentality so it's not really like they have any identity of their own. There will be XX firms on each round and it's the same ones. Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia share half their portfolio"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-08 06:25:40 UTC 3094 followers, XXX engagements

"The whole mode of Silicon Valley in the past XX years has been to enter existing industries like hotels taxis food delivery and pretend to be different enough to avoid labor law taxes regulation. For as long as possible. DoorDash year XX has avoided disability access"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-22 18:52:56 UTC 3105 followers, 95.5K engagements

"@Mteuzi And it's not only the method of resistance. It's the whole civil society because the party in power. So it's like condemning the health ministry schools street cleaning water etc. Which is the justification for destroying all of it"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-23 02:55:18 UTC 3100 followers, XX engagements

"@jonfreakingc Jackie is good. Walton has been good. Chyanne Chen seems promising. Connie Chan has been good and has done things that are confusing. 4/11. :)"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-25 22:18:29 UTC 3098 followers, XXX engagements

"@vtlynch1 I don't think it matters. It's incredibly resource intensive. And it's so far from being a net positive that it's negligible. And it's possible to be less so like Deepseek was/is right but that is a threat to these monopolistic American companies and not how they operate"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-26 00:20:11 UTC 3087 followers, XX engagements

"@vtlynch1 I guess if the models get better there will be fewer inferences because most of them in my experience need multiple attempts. They need better names. Token is already overused by crypto"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-26 01:05:31 UTC 3086 followers, XX engagements

"Here is Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan begging on CNBC for a $XXX billion federal bailout of Y Combinator investments. Which he got. The same week. Anyway he's mad that @sadfrancisco69 a journalism startup got a $30000 arts grant bc its coverage is critical of tech business"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-18 19:18:41 UTC 3105 followers, 81K engagements

"Check out Michael Shellenberger giving personal thanks to San Francisco's crew of crime panic influencers for a Donald Trump executive order expanding the state's Gestapo quotient. Seriously. This all has its genesis in liberal San Francisco"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-25 05:56:16 UTC 3105 followers, 1819 engagements

"@LeighKimberg I think he's finally realizing that this is going to catch up to him"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-27 21:40:26 UTC 3102 followers, XX engagements

"@vtlynch1 The cost to the user is not represented at all right now. Like it's either given away for free or for nominal cost at a loss subsidized by speculative investment or packaged as pretty useless features into existing products. It's not like it's close to breaking even"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-25 23:51:00 UTC 3088 followers, XX engagements

"WTAF. A gay San Francisco right winger is wanting to dismantle gay rights. This only makes if you know this place. Hes doing it to side with corporations who dont want to pay for healthcare"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-25 18:00:33 UTC 3105 followers, 4589 engagements

"There is zero difference and minimal distance between Trump and what are called Moderate Democrats in San Francisco. Lots of same financial backing people policy. It's all tone and aesthetic. Trump can be openly exterminationist and Dems need to couch in liberal-speak"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-25 01:09:25 UTC 3105 followers, 8724 engagements

"Trevor Chandler is the perfect San Francisco Liberal. He's on the SF Dem party committee and postures opposition to ICE raids while his day job is Public Affairs director (chief lobbyist) for Flock Safety; a surveillance company providing targeting data for ICE raids"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-17 23:38:36 UTC 3102 followers, 5733 engagements

"@GplusB @MattLech I think the difference with YC a16z Founders Fund etc. is that they have moved beyond a model where they are even bothering to create anything. It's all hype cycle and Ponzi scheme or intentionally trying to be the most apocalyptically evil things they can find"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-08 06:20:27 UTC 3105 followers, XX engagements

"@LeighKimberg This was one of my replies at the time but it's so fascinating how Zohran Mamdani was able to completely defuse this line of attack. But it was working enough to push out a university president a year ago"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-28 02:46:37 UTC 3105 followers, XX engagements

"This is not going to last long. Meanwhile San Francisco is going ahead with staking all of its future dreams on the success of an AI bubble filling up the city the way Airbnb and Pinterest did a decade ago. But it's probably already peaked in an era of layoffs"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-25 21:42:34 UTC 3103 followers, 2356 engagements

"Oh my god this is every billionaire-funded Democrat in San Francisco. Which is all of them but a couple at this point. This is so brilliant"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-23 17:17:17 UTC 3093 followers, 6583 engagements

"Yoav Gallant October X 2023: I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity no food no fuel everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly. 2023. And the US has kept this going to this point"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-28 06:24:48 UTC 3105 followers, XXX engagements

"@emily_wherever This should be illegal too"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-25 17:40:16 UTC 3098 followers, XX engagements

"This is absolutely true. And equally complicit in this are local California companies; Lockheed Martin Google Amazon Microsoft IBM Palantir Airbnb Caterpillar Chevron Cisco and many others"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-26 18:41:23 UTC 3105 followers, 3356 engagements

"Bob Geldof did a Live Aid mini-reunion and anniversary a couple of weeks ago. He should do one for Gaza. With Macklemore Bjork Massive Attack Kneecap Bob Vylan Dua Lipa Brian Eno The Weeknd. And every UK/US artist who has been brave enough to stand up"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-27 19:32:39 UTC 3105 followers, XXX engagements

"@marcus_walters And currently that's all one company called TSMC. Might be. This is the model these companies like Google and Microsoft want. Where their sheer size gives them all the advantage. But it seems like all of the development in this is motivated by upholding that"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-26 01:19:24 UTC 3098 followers, XX engagements

"Interesting list. I love ambient music and only know about 1/3 of these. Obscurity is the genre. They choose one Orb album and it's their one that is considered the third album curse that was critically panned on its release and a commercial failure. Which is ambient cred"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-22 00:08:23 UTC 3102 followers, XXX engagements

"@vtlynch1 Because this is not how the industry works. X. The resource use of an inference is not fixed. The goal is to have it be able to handle more and more complex tasks. X. If you're losing $3m a day $2.85m is an improvement but not really"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-26 00:51:38 UTC 3086 followers, XX engagements

"Silicon Valley spent half a billion dollars or more in 2024 to turn the federal government into Silicon Valley. And the thing is its nothing to them. These guys made trillions in crypto schemes and artificial stock valuations and buying politicians and elections is cheap"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-21 18:59:08 UTC 3105 followers, 3762 engagements

"Same players too. Like the GEO Group which is already doing this in SF and killing people. All of this template for Third Reich XXX has deep roots in San Francisco and the confluence of tech money and Democrats. It's just getting more explicit"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-25 01:22:11 UTC 3092 followers, XXX engagements

"@vtlynch1 This all seems very arcane. It's incredibly resource and capital intensive and advances rely on massive increases in resource use and capital. And there's no financial model to support it"
@loomdoop on X 2025-07-25 23:41:49 UTC 3089 followers, XX engagements