Whoever did this ….. you deserve to retire from this alone 10/10

"I'm just imagining what's happening in New York City now!" Spike Lee, Tracy Morgan, and Fat Joe taking in the Knicks' first championship in 53 years 🗣️

Roommates EXCLUSIVE❗ NEVER BEFORE SEEN speech from Jim Dolan before the Knicks playoff run 🏆

The Tonight Show… WHERE THE CHAMPIONS GO! @nyknicks

🚨 INCROYABLE ! Les joueurs des Knicks réclament que Spike Lee reçoive une bague de champion après avoir été un fan inconditionnel de l’équipe pendant 41 ans 👏🏼 L’acteur a dépensé environ 300 000 $ par an pour les voir et plus de 10 millions de dollars au total 🤯

GOLDMAN JUST MAPPED THE HUMANOID ROBOT SUPPLY CHAIN: AI Data Centers, Grid Upgrades, & Humanoid Mass Production Are Converging on a Scarce Metal Supply to Ignite a Multi-Year Critical Metals Squeeze! open.substack.com/pub/metals…

in @ycombinator they have a playbook on how to get customers ASAP for your startup. if you follow this, you’ll brute force your way to 100 customers, almost no matter what your product is. Here it is: 1/ launch-max. product hunt, hackerNews, devhunt, betalist, peerlist, indie hackers, etc. YC tells you to launch 3 times MINIMUM 2/ pull your competitor’s strongest backlinks and get yourself listed in the same places. whatever article they have listed, you make a better version and ask the site to replace it (or supplement) with yours. 3/ WARM OUTBOUND. Everyone knows about building in public. but you still need to capitalize on the 99% of leads who see your content but don’t come inbound scrape everyone who likes your posts on Linkedin each week, check if they fit your customer profile, and message them. you set this up to fire automatically with @origamichat (i dropped a prompt in the comments) 4/ find 20 to 30 ugc creators on tiktok / instagram in your niche. ask them to create content about your product, ideally from a fresh account. pay them a fixed fee ($15–$30 per video) plus performance incentives ($1k for 1 million views, etc). you can use @sideshift_app (best creators imo) and line up 20 of these creators in 1 day 5/ when building in public, a video is 10x better than an image/text - spam use cases of ur product on X/Linkedin 6/ figure out where your customers actually spend time. which slack/discord groups are they in? what newsletters do they open? which podcasts and accounts do they follow? pay those people for shoutouts 7/ there's a fresh trend on x basically every week. jump on the relevant ones and fold your product in (like i’m doing right now). To find trends i just use Origami & search “Lead Gen/GTM posts that are viral on X” to find the best posts every week in my niche Then, I will reply to those, quote tweet them, and use the formats that work myself (that’s the secret to why my account has high engagement BTW - you can do this too) --------- if you are doing all this every single week and DO NOT GIVE UP (launching, posting demos, contacting new customers) I guarantee you will hit your customer goals. Then the game becomes retention. will be posting 2-3 more growth hacks every single week

RT @b_judah: Excellent graphic on economic loss or gain by relationship with the EU:

Clemens Fuest, one of Germany's most well-known economists, is calling for special economic zones to allow the rapid construction of both energy plants and data centers. On developing AI models, he primarily calls for supply-side measures.

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I don't think people in Europe (and the UK) are taking our technological (and therefore economic) divergence seriously enough. A few disparate datapoints: 1. Our compute is woefully behind; three American labs each operate more AI compute than all of Europe combined 2. OpenAI has paused Stargate UK (indefinitely); our energy costs and regulatory environment are actively driving frontier infrastructure away 3. Mistral reportedly considering acquisition by SpaceX; Europe’s most valuable AI company is struggling to get the necessary resources to compete 4. FluidStack cancelled plans to build in France and moved HQ from London to the US; a company founded in the UK, that signed an MOU with the French government, chose American capital and contracts 5. Project Glasswing launched as a coalition of US firms - the most powerful AI model ever built was shared with Americans first and Europeans are still negotiating access 6. A Trump executive order gives the US government up to 30 days of exclusive federal access before a model's public release, and a say in which 'trusted partners' can use it first (American strategic interests are being baked into the architecture of who gets access to frontier AI, and when) Those who wrote Europe 2031 are some of the few people taking this seriously. Well worth a read.

This is, perversely, good news for Britain, Australia, Japan, Europe, and other countries being cut off that would once have seen themselves as close allies of the United States. It shows us what the future may hold if AI is the strategically and economically decisive technology of the 21st century and is controlled by the US and China. It is good news because *it may be happening early enough to give us time to act.* I think this will be rescinded pretty soon, but it’s a sign of things to come. In a future where frontier models cannot be used outside the US, our industries and economies will fall behind and American businesses may not be able to operate overseas. We won’t be able to defend ourselves militarily with defence systems built on obsolete software. Europe 2031 is a good scenario of what a future like this could mean: europe2031.ai Some of the things we need to do are ‘no regrets’ measures we should do anyway. But some are genuinely costly and risky. We need cheap electricity – powered by gas, coal (this is costly, coal is very bad), deregulated nuclear fission – whatever can provide *cheap, reliable, 24/7* power. This almost certainly excludes wind power, which is enormously expensive and unreliable. We need projects to be able to connect to the grid in days rather than years by paying for fast-track connections. We need to make it incredibly easy to build data centres, with the property taxes retained locally and hypothecated for local tax cuts so there is some direct benefit for locals. This doesn’t need to be nationwide. We need to create new regulatory regimes for innovative businesses that give them the right to hire and fire staff with ease. The difficulty and cost of firing staff is one of the main reasons Europe has fallen behind so badly. We need to create a parallel employment regime that companies and workers can opt in to: worksinprogress.co/issue/why… Even though I think it will probably fail, I think we should probably try to create a good, non-American frontier AI lab. I am quite pessimistic about this – even extremely well-resourced, innovative software companies are struggling to do this. But the stakes are so high that not trying seems foolish. One thing that might work in our favour is the number of brilliant AI engineers who are not US citizens, who under the current export controls do not have access to Mythos/Fable even if they live and work in the US. What happens to Demis Hassabis, Ilya Sutskever, Andrej Karpathy, and the many other Europeans, Canadians, etc who are working on AI models in Britain and America who are affected by this? I do not think we should force our own companies to use model, because this would exacerbate their economic weakness – this lab should have to compete on an even playing field. I am deeply sceptical that this can work, but we cannot rule it out. If we do it, it has to be able to pay US salaries, operate without political constraints. worksinprogress.co/issue/how… It is cope to tell yourself that Trump is an aberration or that these export controls are a one-off. To repeat, I think these specific controls will be lifted quickly and it will be easy to move on and forget it happened. But this is a look into a potential future. Every one of us that is not a US citizen is at risk. The standard political divides do not apply here; the question is whether you grasp the enormity of AI as a technology. We have to act!

Funny you ask, we actually worked on this over months. Borrow freely: europe2031.ai

We are living through 1 of the 2 largest investment booms IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Bigger than the internet. Bigger than the railroads. Bigger than Apollo. Only the Louisiana Purchase was larger.

Three years ago Mistral was three researchers in Paris Today it's raising 3bn euros at a 20bn valuation it runs its own data centres near Paris and in Sweden and it ships sovereign AI to Airbus BMW and European banks Here's the catch Mistral has raised about 2,9bn euros in equity OpenAI has raised 180bn Anthropic over 70bn Sovereignty isn't a slogan it's a capital question and right now we're bringing a few billion to a fight measured in hundreds If Europe wants AI it controls on infrastructure it owns under its own law then backing Mistral isn't charity It's the price of not renting our digital future from Washington or Beijing

Jalen Brunson taking the pay cut to come to New York, getting his friends on the team and actually winning the Championship. One of the most gangster stories in NBA history

We need more Mistrals and a 10x better startup flywheel 🇪🇺 Some ideas: