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SF Bay Area
Joined October 2006
I must be among an extremely small group of people (n=1?) that have both 1) trained a frontier LLM and 2) designed and synthesized custom viruses in a lab with my own two hands. And I think that the takes on AI killing us all by creating dangerous viruses is total bogus.
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Jack Chou retweeted
Midjourney is acquiring Co-Star. CEO @banu__guler is now Chief Design Officer at Midjourney. She's building a cross-functional design, product and frontend team for all our efforts. The Co-Star app will continue to operate under Banus complete control. Welcome Banu and team <3
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Congrats, @banu__guler!
SITUATION DETECTED: Midjourney is acquiring astrology app Co-Star. Co-Star CEO Banu Guler is now Chief Design Officer at Midjourney.
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Jack Chou retweeted
Gmail organizes your emails. @extradotemail organizes your life. Live today. extra.email
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Upgrade your email via Extra @extradotemail. Congrats @ngavini, @AlbertPereta, @steveram, and the whole team!
Gmail organizes your emails. @extradotemail organizes your life. Live today. extra.email
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Our company Supertalk AI is being acquired by @Headspace. Here's why: 1/6
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With that, I’m excited to share that our Supertalk team is joining forces with @Headspace. @alexshye, @julie_thrall, and I joined the team this week and are excited to bring our conversational applied AI technology into their platform. 5/6
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And thank you to everyone who helped build Pace and Supertalk. We’ve closed those chapters, and the story continues at @Headspace. Next play. Fin/6
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With this in mind, we built Supertalk, an AI companion designed for the use case closest to our expertise. And it was clear we could bring the impact we were striving for - safe, scaled, trusted mental health support for all - to life much faster at Headspace. 4/6
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Some earnest and tepid election day opinions: • There is a lot of evidence about how each candidate will actually act and behave in office. Look at their track records. Beware anyone who claims to know otherwise. • Neither will definitively spell the ruin of the United States. Beware anyone who claims to know otherwise. • Neither of them is even bothering to lie about reducing the deficit. Seems like a problem. • Where I live in CA: • The state is asking for $20,000 million ($20B!!) via debt. • The high school district is asking for $287 million via property taxes. • The city is asking to increase sales tax for $4 million. • Vote and then turn off this app till tomorrow.
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Arnold @Schwarzenegger speaking truth.
I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians. I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor. My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California. That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people. Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime. It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand. I want to tune out. But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious. For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing. The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better. It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed! But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems. It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful. We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger. That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz. Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us. And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. vote.org
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SF is such a dump now. šŸ˜€
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I told the @pacetogether team, past and present yesterday: "We did something good in the world. It meant something." T-2 days to the end of the Pace app and platform, so I penned a goodbye. linkedin.com/pulse/why-pace-…
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But this isn’t a law of physics - we think the internet can bring people closer. Actually we know it can: we’ve seen over 25,000 sessions of real people (strangers even) finding common humanity. I know this whenever @pacetogether members feel so connected that they travel to meet in-person and send us photos. 4/
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