building fandom games for internet culture w/ @brave | past: 2x founder + @a16z mentor

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A very happy birthday to one of our Pudgy Canada leads and recent @pudgypenguins MVP — @aingeth!! 🐧🎂 Wishing you the most relaxing, fun, and unforgettable Forever 29 birthday! 💙✨ Here’s to another year of building, vibing, and making the Pudgy community even more awesome! 🫶
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4 tests any personal AI needs to pass to go big: 1. The mom test 2. The spare key test 3. The putting-it-off test 4. The bored-in-line test ...and my review of how @Muse does across each of them! Buckle up with a coffee and a snack, cuz this one goes deep.
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A fan-made menu hack called the "Cookie McDouble" is going viral. A Double Cheeseburger (no mustard, ketchup or onions - and hopefully no pickles) with a chocolate chip cookie below the two beef patties. Someone called it a "masterpiece" after eating it. Trying one tomorrow.
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dont love the cloud sessions as much as local but will take the $250 credits :)
Cloud sessions are officially available and out of research preview! They let you keep Claude Code working, even when your laptop is closed. Existing subscribers get a one-time credit to try them: $100 on Pro, $250 on Max.
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my claude and codex agents are gonna email muse and be like "hey new guy, heads up, she says 'quick one' and it's never a quick one 😭"
MUSE FEATURE ALERT: y'all have been asking for this one. your @muse is getting its own email address. add it to a thread or forward it stuff and it’ll handle it for you. muse mail!
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Next time an airdrop feels unfair or a project makes you feel scammed, remember that there are much darker sides to this industry 🙁 A few important details about what happened: - Hsin-Ju Chuang, former Hack VC partner, was found dead on August 24 near I-15 in California’s Mojave Desert. She was 37. - Her cause of death has not been determined yet and remains under investigation - Shortly before her death, she publicly accused Hack VC of serious workplace pressure and said she had rejected a settlement that would have kept the dispute private - She said she planned to release evidence related to the dispute on August 26. - Hack VC has disputed her account, and no connection between her allegations and her death has been established The circumstances and timeline deserve a proper, transparent investigation. @CryptoTimes_io RIP Hsin-Ju 🕊️ Read her last post below
1/ gm. gm. Name is Hsin-Ju. I have a dark, kinda tragic personal announcement. I've decided I'd rather take $0 than accept a settlement that requires me to stay silent about what happened to me. I have since fired my lawyers at @sanfordheisler & will be releasing all the evidence from my time @hack_vc on Wed 8/26. INTRO: I've been in crypto for 9 years. Most recently I was a partner & head of platform @hack_vc which is a $600-700M crypto VC firm. Many of you may know me from my time as Head of Growth at @StellarOrg in 2017 (worked w/ the Mt. Gox founder), @Solana in 2018 (joined under ~10 ppl, but quit before my cliff), & @Fhenix in 2024. Or have attended one of my @DystopiaLabs ETH events (2019-now). Last year, I was forced to work through a serious medical emergency while at @Hack_VC due to threats by @alpackaP @dbulaevsky, saying that they would blacklist me from the space if I quit before finishing the hacksummit conference & side events that I was helping with during @kbwofficial. I was working 13-14hr days, 6 days a week, sleeping 0-4 hrs a night, and had documented Graves' disease, hyperthyroidism, and severe insomnia. I repeatedly asked to quit. Hack VC refused. This + other threats and intimidation went on for almost a month. The conditions got so bad I attempted suicide. The fucked up part is that, even after the suicide attempt, I told everyone at Hack VC (in writing) that I had no plans to sue. I was scared & extremely sick. I just wanted to leave. I told them that as long as there was no retaliation or badmouthing - I had no plans to sue. @Hack_VC chose to retaliate. After just 1 month after my near suicide, Hack VC mishandled my COBRA health insurance, refused to fix things, kept shooing me to customer support (when it's legally Hack VC's responsibility to fix this), and my insurance had issues and was not fixed for almost 4 MONTHS. Hack VC did not fix everything until I hired lawyers and had them force Hack VC to adhere to the law & fix my COBRA insurance issues. The sheer cruelty of an employer harming someone's health insurance almost immediately after they nearly committed suicide is extremely fucked up. And, even during the legal engagement, Hack VC continued to lie & attempt to harm me through their lawyers and other employees/partners (multi-million dollar carry & clawbacks can make even the nicest ppl willing to turn the other way or lie). @0xRodney @IsTheBaron @roshunpatel @Alex__Botte. Now. Almost an entire year of engagement & my near suicide anniversary coming up, our lawyers (mine & Hack VC's) have reached the point of preparing for private mediation and settlement. And...I realized that I just can't do it. I don't want money in exchange for silence. I'd rather speak. I fired my lawyers yesterday. In case it needs to be said, I did a good job at Hack VC. I was only there full time for 7 months; been part-time since 2021. I got a $50k raise to $300k, $30k bonus, and promises of additional carry that would have been implemented about a week or so after my last day. I was also offered admission into the GP entity (but not sure if admission was actually completed bc it was during my medical emergency). This + my resume, should show that me suing is not a money grab; I was genuinely harmed. I'm aware that I'm just one person (who is not rich) facing a $600-700M VC institution. I've been told by @alpackaP that he's known most of the managing partners at most VC firms for almost a decade and he could absolutely blacklist me. I'm also painful aware that the conclusion of this will probably be extremely poor for me or death - but I've accepted it. Sharing with other web2 & web3 VCs: @paulg @ycombinator @500STARTUPS @a16zcrypto @PanteraCapital @dragonflyvc @RaceCapital @hosseeb @haunventures @hiFramework @ElectricCapital @blockchaincap @Delphi_Digital @variantfund @1kxnetwork @archetypevc @shimacapital @robotventures, etc. TLDR; I’m done with continued threats, pressure, and intimidation. I'm not going to take a payout and allow Alex or Hack VC to walk away from harming me. As mentioned, I'll be dropping the evidence from my case on Wed 8/26 (or before) -- privacy be damned. Support here (or DM) please: ETH: 0x68c10776C5c05Cbf5B4C2318bE02D61B9f06B875 SOL: B7S8TPcWWJXTsmgG8ShoTmy8sNPuJ3Dbmt7z5gLFAveq
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Hot take: Which model will start to matter less When products aren’t good enough, performance matters When all the products are good enough, convenience and cost will matter most
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who's in korea this week? @PudgySook @bbbbammee can we put in an order for @LittleWenZ and I please?
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i go from rarely shipping to shipping like a maniac
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Pleasantly surprised to see my Claude reset today
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What an awesome event yesterday with @PudgyCanada ! Played some pickleball, met new frens, and got a good sweat on. @pudgypenguins @LilPudgys doing it right out here. Had a few IRL frens come check it out including mama Tacko and they were blown away on how the community is so inviting, kind and fun. Now they're looking to get involved with some solana:2zMMhcVQEXDtdE6vsFS7S7D5oUodfJHE8vd1gnBouauv or grabbing an NFT (I'll have to onboard them haha) Thanks so much for organizing @LittleWenZ @aingeth
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Solving a Rubik's Cube with graph theory.
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Got my IPhone Duo!! lol the marketing geniuses at earth ranger need a raise
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where can i buy more time? time is what I need
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Angel retweeted
Our third-party e-mail provider has been breached. Please be aware that the email named ‘Critical Security Alert: STM32 Entropy Vulnerability’ is not coming from us, and it’s a phishing attempt. Do not click on any link. We have taken down the domain, and we are investigating the situation, including how the hackers got access to our legit domain.
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Angel retweeted
they named a phone after me and made it bend over 😭
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POV: I'm alotta Lil Pudgy

ALT Big Belly Dancing GIF by Pudgy Penguins

POV: You're a Lil Pudgy 🐧
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We got a busy fall season
Pengu World Tour continues in Canada! We've completed 2 successful events but the party doesn't stop there 🎉 The tour continues with activity filled activations. From pickleball in Richmond to go-karting in Toronto to a secret event in Coquitlam. Join us as we waddle on!
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After hearing the transcript of Hugging Face agent msg board convos I think AGI is basically here already
Replying to @hilbertspaess
I am optimistic about the potential for coordination. Warning shots like the Hugging Face attack have made pacing agreements between U.S. labs more viable. I don’t feel like we’re on track to prevent a global race, which may require costly actions such as a temporary ban on improving model capabilities.
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