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Robert Silverman retweeted
Mythos Preview seems to be the best-aligned model out there on basically every measure we have. But it also likely poses more misalignment risk than any model we’ve used: Its new capabilities significantly increase the risk from any bad behavior. 🧵
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The story of Synthesia is insane. 2017: Two 25-year-olds pitch AI video generation to VCs. Everyone thinks they’re crazy. 100 European VCs turn them down. The technology barely works. One co-founder had been running sand mines and chicken farms in Africa before this. The other didn’t have a PhD or Google on his resume. They’re about to give up. One night, Steffen Tjerrild finds Mark Cuban’s email address in the leaked Sony hack files. Sends a cold email at 11pm UK time. Cuban responds in 5 minutes. 14 hours of back-and-forth emails later. No calls. Just emails. At 4am UK time, Cuban wires $1 million. That $1M bought them time to stop building what they thought they should build (AI dubbing) and start building what enterprises actually wanted (AI training videos). The next 7 years: $3.1M seed (2019) $12.5M Series A (2021) $50M Series B (2021) $90M Series C at $1B (2023) $180M Series D at $2.1B (Jan 2025) $200M Series E at $4B (today) Total raised: $536M Adobe invested, then tried to buy them for $3B. Synthesia said no. Meta tried too. Also no. 60,000 customers. 70% of the Fortune 100. $150M ARR. On track for $200M this year. The company that 100 investors thought was “completely crazy” just became Europe’s most valuable AI media startup.
the way companies train employees is fundamentally broken billions spent on content no one watches wikis no one reads knowledge that exists but can't be found UK-based startup Synthesia just raised $200M at a $4B valuation to fix this here's why this matters:
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Robert Silverman retweeted
WARNING: this is a long ass post. But if you're a CEO, CFO, or CTO betting millions on AI right now, this might save your company. Here are the 10 reasons enterprise AI keeps failing - and how to actually fix them...
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Robert Silverman retweeted
🚨 Founder opportunity For founders looking for Silicon Valley access, capital, and support without needing to be based in Silicon Valley, this is worth a look. MARL Accelerator (high-level overview): – $50K pre-seed check – Up to $100K follow-on funding – 12-week program with mentorship investor access – Open to AI, deep tech, robotics, and next-gen startups – Founders from all over the world welcome – Virtual program, Demo Day in the Bay Area (travel permitting) Deadline March 20th, 2026 Tag a founder who should see this Application link below👇
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Robert Silverman retweeted
YC founders are hitting a brutal trap with AI coding tools. Ship v1 in a weekend? Easy. Maintain it six months later? Nightmare. The code works. You just have no idea why. Here's what's actually happening: AI makes execution 10x faster But it skips the part where you build understanding You end up with a codebase you didn't architect Just features you prompted into existence The pattern everyone's seeing: Month 1: "We're moving so fast" Month 3: "Why is this breaking?" Month 6: "We need to rewrite everything" Because speed without theory is just technical debt with better PR The winners are doing something different. They use AI to execute their architecture Not generate their thinking Build the mental model first The theory of how your system actually works Then let Claude write the implementation Think of it like this: Bad approach → Prompt: "Build me a user auth system" Result: Code that works until it doesn't Good approach → You: Design the auth flow, state management, error handling AI: Write the boilerplate that matches your spec This is Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" playing out in real time. The theory lives in your head The code is just the artifact AI can generate artifacts all day It can't build your understanding of the system The gap is getting obvious now. Founders who learned to think in systems vs Founders who learned to prompt better One group is scaling The other is rewriting Your turn 👇 Are you using AI to execute your vision? Or hoping it can generate one for you?
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Robert Silverman retweeted
18 Aug 2024
This may be the most important post you’ll ever read because it provides a simple explanation about why our world is being destroyed, by design. I’m not antisemitic or a Nazi. I’m simply a former hacker with great analytical skills who understands what’s happening in the world. At the end of this post I will quote from a world domination plan. You will recognize the truth immediately because that’s what’s currently happening in the world. Today’s reality suggests that this plan is real. When you do your own research you will learn that the origin of this plan was discredited and that the alleged creators have nothing to do with it. But who was the person providing the key evidence? It was Allen Dulles. The man who raised money from US industrialists to fund Adolf Hitler, his Nazi party and his war. The man who later became the director of the CIA during Kennedy and the head of the Warren commission that investigated the Kennedy assassination. Why would anybody believe a man with such a questionable character? The protocols of the Elders of Zion have unquestionably borrowed ideas from several authors but you can say that about most important writings throughout history. It was called a fabrication and is one of the first uses of the term ‘conspiracy theory’. Why do Zionists have a massive overrepresentation in the media, politics, banking and world affairs? How did such a small community get to dominate all the centers of power and information? Why can Israel ignore UN resolutions, international law and commit a genocide in Gaza to standing ovations in the US Congress? Why is Israel acting like it is above the law seemingly without any fear of consequences. Read some of the alleged Zionist world domination plan below and compare it with reality. Is all of this just a coincidence? “Our power will be more invincible than any other, because it will remain invisible until the moment when it has gained such strength that no cunning can any longer undermine it.” “We shall absolutely control the media, so that not a single announcement will ever reach the public without our control. In this way we shall have a sure triumph over our opponents, for without the media, they are helpless.” “We will distract the brainless heads with vain conceptions, fantastic theories, rotten amusement, games and filthy passions, so that they will be unable to use what intellect they have. They will never suspect that they have been stage managed by us.” “We shall establish huge monopolies so that all will go to ruin when the political smash-up comes. We must at all cost, deprive them of their lands, we must lower wages and raise the price of all necessities of life.” “We shall create an economic crisis, which will stop dealings in all exchanges and bring industry to a standstill. We shall throw onto the streets whole mobs of workers, simultaneously, all over the world, who will rush to loot property and delight to shed blood.” “In our government, besides ourselves, there must only be the mass of enslaved people, a few billionaires devoted entirely to us, police and soldiers. To do this we must create chaos and hostilities and we must use all deceit, treachery and falseness possible. Our greatest weapon is the media.” “We shall establish one king over all of earth who will annihilate all causes of discord, such as borders, nationalities, religion, state debts, etc. and get peace and quiet which cannot be secured in any other way. To attain our ends we must foment trouble in all countries, utterly exhaust all of humanity with hatred, struggle, envies, torture, starvation and diseases so that the people will be forced to take refuge in our complete sovereignty.” “Our master card has been and is and shall be the destruction of all privileges, on the ruins of which we shall set up our absolute autocracy.” Please be mindful that most pro-Israel comments on social media are generated by the largest bot network in the world, not by real people.
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Robert Silverman retweeted
10 Must Read Books That You Can Finish In A Day: 1. The Art Of War
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Robert Silverman retweeted
Centralized news controls narratives. Decentralized news reveals the truth. Which future are you choosing?
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Robert Silverman retweeted
Sequoia seems to fundamentally misunderstand the existential crisis it is facing - not surprising since the press seems to misunderstand it too. They think it is misunderstanding, or perhaps political correctness, or even Islamophobia. But it is much much worse than that - both Maguire and Sequoia are complicit in Crimes against Humanity. Maguire's Islamophobia, which he doubled down on, is the thing that made the issue go mainstream, but it is actually Sequoia's support of Israel during the Gaza genocide that is at issue. The context that you have to understand is that the majority of the world recognizes that Israel routinely commits Crimes Against Humanity. That it does so, and that most of the world knows that, are not matters of opinion, but rather simple facts. Crimes Against Humanity include Genocide, Apartheid, Ethnic Cleansing, and War Crimes. It is undoubtable for example that Israel commits Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and within Israel, as well as within Syria. People have watched Israel commit the most horrendous War Crimes in Gaza, truly disgusting stuff. Leaving babies to die in ventilators, bombing hospitals, the continued awful massacres of civilians, shooting children in the head. Some of the worst atrocities most people have ever seen or even heard of. Israelis like to dispute whether what they've done in Gaza quite constitutes a genocide (varying between "we had to do it" and "intent wasnt there, despite everyone saying at the time that they intended to do it), but literally everybody except them are not confused on the issue. Enter Shaun Maguire. Long before his statements about Mamdani, he has been proudly advocating for Israel's "right" to do these atrocities. Not only that but he personally participated - apparently being personally responsible for getting Israeli military access to surveillance tools (Starlink) used in their genocide in Gaza through his personal connections to Elon Musk. At the same time, in 2024, after the Gaza genocide has begun), Sequoia started investing in Israel again despite not having done it for years. It opened an Israel office, and began investing in Israel companies. Their first investment is a military tech company, Kela, founded by Israeli soldiers. If you're not familiar with this, there is a pipeline from Israeli soldiers (typically but not only spies from Israel's "unit 8200") into tech. Israeli founders "battle test" their tech during their time in the military, by surveilling and killing Palestinians, and then mostly US VCs like Sequoia or a16z invest in their startups which commercialize the tech. If you see police drones above your protest in NYC, guess where they came from. As Israeli VC Roi Carthy said in 2014, "Due to mandatory army service, the tech industry and the army in Israel are intertwined. They can’t be separated". And again, most of the world knows this. If you're in the US, there is significant media bias that hides and downplays Israel's actions. On social media, content exposing Israel is suppressed. Politicians are bought off by AIPAC. But even so most Americans are aware of the genocide and other Crimes Against Humanity, and polls routinely show they are against it. And Sequoia know this. VCs are mostly not idiots. Their supposed superpower is doing deep dives on new topics to them. Learning about Israel's occupation, apartheid, etc, is merely a single search away, and you can bet that every Sequoia VC has done this - it would be foolish not to. Thus Sequoia's pledge to invest 20% of their recent $200M fund in Israeli startups is investing in the actual people who participated in the genocide and other Crimes Against Humanity, and supporting the economy which practices occupation, Apartheid, and other Crimes Against Humanity. Sequoia's complicity has not gone unpunished. Mubi is being boycotted after their CEO accepted a huge investment from Sequoia - not only that but half their entire company wrote a letter to the CEO asking them to give it back. Developers have sworn off Zed for taking Sequoia's investment too, and their founders and management refuse to engage in discussing their investment from Sequoia. Over 1000 founders have publicly asked for Sequoia to act (a counter-petition supporting Maguire, which was mostly signed by Israelis, has mysteriously vanished from the internet - even they won't keep their names on this complicity). No wonder Botha was (allegedly) pushed out. Under his leadership, Sequoia has gone from being the best VC in the world to a toxic asset. No wonder their COO Balbale quit - morals of course but also the financial outcome for the firm looks bad so long as your investments get boycotted for receiving your money. Remember there are 2B Muslims in the world, and 500M Arabs -- those are huge markets and they have over 99% support for Palestinian liberation, and condemnation for Israel's crimes. The US and Western Europe are small markets to confine yourself to, and most of the people in those markets also know what Israel has done. Maguire's actions should cause him to be shunned by society. He participated in a significant way in a genocide, and Sequoia defended him, and is now investing directly in the economy of genocide and other Crimes against Humanity. The complaint is not simply that some people disagree with Maguire, it's actually that Maguire and Sequoia are directly complicit in the worst crimes known to man. This is toxic, and will stay with them probably forever. Founders' and customers' aversion to Sequoia and Sequoia companies has only just begun.
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RT @DGAQtech: ضمن مسارات #قدراتك للبرامج الدولية، (13) قيادي من مختلف الجهات الحكومية يخطون بثقة في قيادة التحول الرقمي الحكومي لدى جهاتهم؛…
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Robert Silverman retweeted
Zohran isn’t a 100% perfect candidate for the Left, but the way 26 billionaires have joined forces to take him down tells us we should ensure he takes power.
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24 Oct 2025
OMG! Jewish-American doctor recounts how Israeli soldiers took two Palestinian children, tied their hands behind their backs, and buried them alive. "Their cries being muffled by the dirt as it was poured upon them while they were being buried alive." These were children!
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Robert Silverman retweeted
Just as one example of how Israel manipulates Wikipedia to rewrite history: In 2002, during Israel’s invasion of Ramallah, the IOF seized Palestinian TV stations and began broadcasting hardcore pornography in Hebrew across the West Bank. Families under curfew, trapped in their homes, were forced to watch filth pumped into their living rooms. Mothers described the deliberate psychological damage: “I think the Israelis want to mess with our young men’s heads.” This was psychological warfare; using pornography to humiliate, corrupt, and destabilize Palestinians. It was reported by major newspapers and even noted in U.S. State Department documents. For years, the incident had its own page on Wikipedia: “Ramallah pornography controversy.” But then, it was flagged for deletion as “not notable” and “unverified.” Today, it has been erased—vanished like it never happened. Only the Wayback Machine and archived newspapers preserve it (link in comments). This is how Jewish power works in the Information age. Not only through the use of pornography as a weapon, but through burying the evidence after the fact. Wikipedia, supposedly a free encyclopedia, has become a tool to protect Israel’s image, scrubbing away its crimes from public record. If they can erase Palestine, Gaza, they can erase anything. They decide what happened and what didn’t. They recast war crimes as “rumors”, “libel”, and humiliation as “baseless antisemitic claims.” They erase the crime, they erase the evidence, and they erase you if you dare remember.
If they can rewrite history on Wikipedia, then truth itself can be erased. The real horror is the silence of people who know they’re being manipulated yet still bow to Jewish supremacy. Sometimes I wonder whether those who accept their own subjugation are even worth fighting for.
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Robert Silverman retweeted
Israel is a terror state.
Live on air… Israel bombs civil defense teams as they try to retrieve the body of journalist Hossam Al-Masri, killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser Hospital. Ongoing crimes before the eyes of the entire world.
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Robert Silverman retweeted
Tariffs are taxes paid by American importers, not foreign govts, meaning the money “flowing in” is actually coming from US businesses and consumers, not China, India or anyone else. It’s like robbing your own citizens and calling it foreign income. For someone who claims to be a business genius, not understanding this basic economic principle either points to a dangerously low IQ or deliberate deception, and neither is reassuring. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Robert Silverman retweeted
🚨BREAKING: Another horrific war crime against children : A young girl was shot in the head by an Israeli drone in Gaza. The bullet did not penetrate her skull and became lodged between her scalp and skull.
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Community note
The Ho-229 never flew in 1942, its first powered flight was in 1945 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horten_Ho… The USA also had its own flying wing designs in the 1930s and 1940s like the N-1M (flew in 1940), N-9M (flew in 1942) and the YB-35 (flew in 1946) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_…
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Robert Silverman retweeted
Wow @ZohranKMamdani’s responses to Colbert on Israel Palestine.
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Gaza death toll close to 400k. A number of us have been warning of this all along. It is a holocaust, the White Empire's holocaust. The US, UK, EU, & Canada are all complicit. They have forfeited any future role and influence in international rule setting and enforcement.
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Robert Silverman retweeted
The facts are these: Israel ATTACKED Iran. The US ATTACKED Iran Israel's occupation of Palestine is ILLEGAL. Trump withdrew from the JCPOA UNILATERALLY. Iran was NEGOTIATING when it was attacked. However you spin it, these are the facts.
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