Blake Dodge
@dodgeblake
charming delinquent (many ppl are saying) speaking a good word for the truth @PirateWires. tech + weird. prev @BusinessInsider. DMs are open.
"this is all to say, I understand the impulse to build and use these things. but with no positive narrative surrounding them, the most notable thing about the goonbots seems to be we aren’t even pretending they’ll improve our lives." aka: what exactly are we hoping for here?
NEW FROM MIKE SOLANA: GOONPOCALYPSE From the moment you meet, xAI’s Ani attempts to build intimacy by getting to know “the real you” while dropping not-so-subtle hints that mostly what she’s looking for is that hot, nerdy d*ck. From there, she basically operates like a therapist…
This will assuredly ruffle feathers since it involves money (and nuance) I think we, as founders, need to say no to partial acquisitions Otherwise, less people will go into startups because the social contract of "Ride (or die) Together" gets fractured And then everyone loses
NEW: How partial acquisitions are killing startup culture — and what we can do about it. Earlier this month, after Google poached Windsurf’s braintrust and licensed its IP (Cognition later acquired what was left), @JustJake coined the term “shell-qui-hires” to describe…
how are the mainstream pubs still getting away with this? we are 3 YEARS into consumer LLMs. chatGPT cannot: - self-report anything - 'admit' anything it is word prediction with fancy math. believing that those words represent some essential truth is JUST AS DERANGED as when…
stop 👏 anthropomorphizing 👏 the 👏 LLM 👏
Parenthood gives you a stake in your local surroundings that's load-bearing for maintaining civilization. I don't think it's a coincidence that SF became San Fransicko after decades of VC culture propagandized the family-later-but-grind-first ethos for startups.
Women after describing the most traumatic shit you’ve ever heard
damn u could buy so many lamps
what are some more productive, impactful, or otherwise useful things a young kid might do with $400k rather than attend UMiami? please be creative
It's amazing how many AI researchers I've talked to who have been offered literally hundreds of millions of dollars by Zuck and said no. The repeated reason was integrity and the perception that people taking the deal are cashing out, meaning the team is a retirement home.
the woo girls who also get capitalism are a rare breed. Protect us
You know when the intern starts following the calendar invite is inbound. Time to suit up. Let's talk CALIFORNIA FLOURISHING @aerosenblum @tbpn
PW EXCLUSIVE: Pipedream is building a 40-mile underground pipe network in Austin to deliver physical goods via 100mph-traveling autonomous robots. Eventually, you will be able to get groceries, fast food, hammers, clothes, body wash, or anything else you could want — in under 5…
CEO of Rainmaker, Augustus Doricko, debunks claims about Texas floods. "We flew one 20-minute cloud seeding mission on July 2nd, dispersing 70g of silver iodide into two clouds, which dissipated within two hours. Cloud seeding cannot produce the hundreds of billions of gallons…
this book actually fucked me up lol
I've been reading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis, and I just came across a paragraph that hit me harder than I expected.
another similarity: you feel like dogshit as a journalist if the short-term KPIs don’t validate you even if the long-term signal is up and to the right
Venture capital and journalism share a funny structural trait: Their short-term KPIs often actively undermine their long-term goals. Mark-ups are the retweets of venture. They feel good, signal traction, and mean almost nothing in the long run.
yeah sex is cool but have you ever listened to sad songs when ur sad
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the pirate wires crew is assembling in downtown manhattan on thursday, july 17th, from 6 to 9PM courtesy of our friends @joinwarp. and we would love to have you join us. there will be drinks. and there will be merriment. subscribers only, but you're in luck — the daily…
saving the American west from drought is *checks notes* a pretty good quest
the hurricane laser people are threatening augustus’s life for making it rain. they are idiots. but he *can* make it rain — and he should (we thank you for your service). the canonical profile on rainmaker from @dodgeblake with a great new piece for pirate wires.