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Kanye West advice on haters will change your life.
*I keep a folder of his best lines ever.
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There is a lot going on.
And tomorrow GBO 🍊
I have sent way too many memes to my Texas friends.
Best time ever to be alive!
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We had @ramez kick off the Open Source AI Summit with a keynote on AI as a Tool of Liberty
He looks at why AI is “default plural,” alignment and safety, and what the open-source AI community needs to do next ↓
Timestamps:
0:00 - How information technology expands human freedom
04:26 - The assumptions behind dystopian AI futures
08:30 - Why AI is “default plural”
15:32 - The biggest threats to a plural AI future
18:50 - AI alignment, safety, and control
23:10 - Four challenges for the open-source AI community
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Know a guy who managed a couple of top desks on Wall Street for many years. He’s always had a casual interest in BTC and has never seen it as anything more than an inflation hedge.
A few weeks ago, he asked me about it in the context of AI.
Always watch these types of emerging investment frameworks as they start to get traction.
(@jvisserlabs has lots of readers in the financial industry and a big part of this growing awareness comes from his work.)
Our latest research paper explores the growing connection between AI and digital assets and explains why broad AI adoption may drive new demand, utility and applications across the digital asset economy. blackrock.com/us/individual/…
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This is what “permissionless” actually means. Thank you, @RoyaMahboob.
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@imagineif_bna team, partners, speakers are all absolutely cooking. Very proud and inspired.
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Where should @AlphaSchool kids go after they graduate?
Gagan Biyani (@gaganbiyani) believes Horowitz Andreessen Academy is the answer:
“These Alpha students, they're going to come out of high school having this level of agency, having this understanding of self-directed learning, knowing that they can learn things way faster than the average.. & they're going to realize quickly that there's not a lot of people in college that are doing that.”
“That's why I think they're going to come to the Horowitz Andreessen Academy or try to get into it.”
@jliemandt
BREAKING: a16z Launches The Horowitz Andreessen Academy with $42M in Funding
Yes, a school.
The Academy is an unaccredited, residential alternative to a 4-year degree in San Francisco, led by Founder & CEO Gagan Biyani (@gaganbiyani) (Udemy, Maven).
Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) & Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) are on the board. Investors include Adam D'Angelo, Tobi Lütke, Tony Xu, Fidji Simo & Shyam Sankar.
Applications open today for a Founding Class of roughly 50 students, starting Fall 2027. 1 year, no tuition, admitted on proof of work.
Anthropic, Anduril, Coinbase, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit & Stripe are Founding Partners, with 30+ hiring partners behind them.
We cover:
› The $42M raise and the runway behind it
› Portfolios, interviews and IQ testing in admissions
› 75% to 80% project time and weekly pod check-ins
› Tuition, partnerships and equity as the 3 revenue lines
› Why the Academy is telling fundable 17-year-olds to wait
"The big difference between going to the academy and going to college is we are not gonna prioritize your grades. We're gonna prioritize proof of work."
𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒
(00:00) Gagan Biyani, Founder & CEO of Horowitz Andreessen Academy
(01:01) Why this Academy is different from college
(04:44) Started his first company at age 13
(08:30) Building a school for Silicon Valley
(11:55) Raising $40M for a School
(14:06) "You Did What?" - Proof of work over grades
(19:08) Should young builders really start companies?
(22:37) Why this is different from YC and fellowships
(27:35) The Academy is for young builders
(31:33) Why schools need to embrace AI
(37:18) How AI is changing education
(44:17) What an AI-native curriculum looks like
(48:51) Why high-agency students struggle in college
(53:12) Why the best builders zigzag
(1:02:19) Why you should apply even if you don't get in
(1:04:36) Building a supportive environment for young builders
(1:08:54) What the Academy program looks like
(1:10:44) Why the Academy is in San Francisco
(1:11:19) The people who shaped Gagan
(1:14:41) Favorite book!
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If I were the marketing department of Google Gemini, I would just say we’re coming out with 10.0 lol
Be the first to double digits.
None of it makes sense to me.
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For those wondering why Texas at Tennessee is a noon game, Disney had to lock in time slots back in June and incorrectly guessed that Texas A&M at LSU would be the bigger game.
All-time bag fumble to miss out on this atmosphere at Neyland Stadium:
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My kids when I said no to a snack, but their mom said yes.
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Tangents LIVE: Energy, Privacy, & Bitcoin Infrastructure | @SGBarbour @erskingardner @RyanTheGentry nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1qKVmyraz…
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Am I the only person that has no idea the names of the models and the difference between 5.1 vs 5.5 vs 3.7 vs 4.8.
I’m probably the moron here.
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It’s not just that he’s 95, it’s that he’s pretty much the same as he was when he was 65. I don’t understand it. I’m trying to think of a single example of somebody else like him, and coming up blank.
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I am living to 160.
good on shatner!
Have you ever noticed we live in a country where a 95-year-old man can walk into a mud pit in Chicago, call his band The Fuckers, and start reciting “Enter Sandman” like he’s giving a TED Talk from the afterlife?
William Shatner. Ninety-five. Riot Fest. Douglass Park. Thirty-five minutes. Spoken-word heavy metal. In the mud. With people cheering like this is normal.
It is not normal. It is magnificent.
He did “Crazy Train.” He did “Ace of Spades.” He did Metallica. Not sang them. Talked them. Like Captain Kirk got trapped in a guitar amp and decided to negotiate with Satan instead of the Klingons.
Behind him: actual musicians. Marcus Nand. Phil Soussan. Grown men who have paid rent with real notes while a nonagenarian stands there going, “What the F is heavy metal?” and somehow makes it a question worth answering.
Brian May is on the record. Tony Iommi is on the record. The album is called *What the F Is Heavy Metal?* which is the most honest title in music since someone first admitted most of it is just louder complaining.
The crowd ate it up. Of course they did. We will watch a man old enough to remember radio as furniture stand in wet dirt and dare death to tap him on the shoulder. Death probably took one look, said “I’m not dealing with this today,” and went to find someone easier.
You’re never too old to live out your dreams. That’s the line they always use. The real line is: most people quit the second it gets embarrassing. Shatner waited until embarrassing became the whole act, then sold tickets.
Follow @wickedsmaahht before the rest of the timeline figures it out.
#WilliamShatner #RiotFest #WhatTheFIsHeavyMetal #NeverTooOld #SpokenWordMetal #LiveLongAndGetLouder #CaptainKirkHasEnteredTheChat
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