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André-Pierre du Plessis 🍏 retweeted
Ladies and gentlemen, once again I present Katie Zacharia's first day as the new White House Press Secretary ;)
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Writing Koos Bekker's unauthorised biography: TJ Strydom on how he did it, and why he said no to the Stellenbosch mafia. Full episode: youtube.com/@buitelyn
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Mark Zuckerberg pretending to enjoy Guinness is my new favourite thing.
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this is one of my favorite videos ever on the internet
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Ek het 'n nuwe ding begin op YouTube. Gaan kyk: youtube.com/@buitelyn
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we are literally inside the movie
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Jean Smart just made Emmys history, becoming the first woman to win Lead Actress for every season of a TV show’s run. she won 5 consecutive Emmys for Hacks, and she now ties the record for the most Primetime acting Emmys ever, at 8. icon! here's her reaction and speech:
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Ai Race Situation:
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There isn’t a single American worker in this video.
This Labor Day, we celebrate the workers and products that are proudly MADE IN AMERICA. 🇺🇸
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Found the original director’s cut of last nights Cybercab video …
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I'm starting a media company of 1. My imaginary employees are fantastic btw and this was the launch party. Spot all the influences on my life. Thanks @hellobellbros for allowing me to lift their video. My manifesto: seepunt.com/about-us – at Cape Town, South Africa
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For those who missed it, last month an Italian company called Bending Spoons listed. It's an interesting company in that they buy smaller, as well as older apps and tech and then improve them from a cost and efficiency point of view. They however don't sell it, but rather keep it. So, you end up with a portfolio of renewed apps that were bought cheaply but comes with existing data and users. They currently own names such as: AOL Vimeo Evernote WeTransfer Eventbrite Remini They are also in the process to acquire Airtable. Cool example of the new economy.
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André-Pierre du Plessis 🍏 retweeted
AI agentic Internet traffic will obviously VASTLY exceed human usage. Not a close call at all. Cloudflare’s forecast is accurate.
For context, Global bandwidth is somewhere between 2-8 Pbps (2,000-8,000 Tbps) depending on if your measuring fiber public backhaul (like international fiber) or all public and private connections. 100,000 V3 Starlinks equals 100 Pbps 10x-50x the total bandwidth available today. If Starlinks V4s are 5x more capable we are looking at 50x-250x more bandwidth than world has today over the next 10 years. This may sounds like a supply shock but remember ~2B people don’t have regular access to the internet today, and we are connecting robots (digital and physical agents) to the internet at an accelerating pace. Distributed sensor data collection (on and off planet) is growing. On top of that individual internet usage does steadily increasing. In 10 years we’re probably going to move two orders of magnitude more information per second around than we do today.
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If they give you this laptop at work, you're finished. 💀
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This is a must watch! #thesimpsons
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Anthropic in 2037 after finding out your grandma has a handwritten diary that they didn’t scan and burn
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To the world today, Nelson Mandela is a hero exalted as a legend. But to the people of South Africa, he was Madiba, a leader who fought for justice even when the tides of the present were turned swiftly against it. To honor Madiba’s legacy is to fight injustice before history rewrites itself.
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André-Pierre du Plessis 🍏 retweeted
Sam Altman: "You can identify founders who have a chance at creating a $10 billion company. With practice." Then he shared the experiment that proved it. YC funded 20 teams of strong founders without ideas. All 20 failed. > real founders generate new ideas every week, not one big one > execution speed between meetings predicts success better than anything on paper > a founder improving fast over 2 months he's been right ~10/10 times on this signal > the core four: obsession, focus, frugality, love everyone screens for intelligence. almost nobody screens for slope. which one would you bet on?
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