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Buying a Bentley in Bali is literally exactly what a poser would do

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Andrew Follett@AndrewCFollett

Scientists gave people ~8,000 people in 40 countries a 5-minute task that was impossible to finish in 5 minutes. Here's how many people lied they completed it anyway by country, a great measure of honesty. All the nice places to live are honest. Lesson for immigration there!

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Queen Natalie 👑@TheNorfolkLion

This guy had his bike stolen and traced it down to a house. The bike’s been there for over 12 hours, but listen to how the police acted and the attitude! They say they can’t do anything because the back gate is open and there’s no other evidence. He then argues with the man, who clearly just wants justice for his stolen bike. The British police are an absolute joke.

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@levelsio@levelsio

In the future writing actual code will be like using a pro DSLR camera, and no code will be like using a smartphone camera Some pros will keep doing work with DSLRs (and need them), but most basic apps will be built with no code. Just like most photos now are shot on a phone

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Brooke Lacey@brookejlacey

A $30M Series A. The About page autoplays the actual instrumental of Daft Punk's "Giorgio by Moroder" with Moroder's vocals AI-stripped from the track. Not a reimagining. Not "inspired by." The real song, vocals removed looping on the page in the background while you read. The words on that page mirror Moroder's opening monologue beat by beat. like letter-precise transposition. he cast himself in the Moroder role- He scored his own founder bio to a copyrighted Sony track he ran through stem separation which is, incidentally, the same category of tool his platform sits in. I spent a weekend trying to decide whether to read this as elaborate performance art or as the most expensive sony copyright violation in startup history. Either way, it's the about page of a $30M company. The announcement video pinned to the round contains literally zero product. No dashboard. No demo. No metric. No customer. Just diatom thumbnails and pixel art "lonely AI" and stock footage of children silhouetted on beaches at sunset. The ARR claim has 14x'd in 90 days. 🤡 $709K on Mixergy → $3M on the True Ventures blog → "approaching $10M" in the announcement. 2.7-star Trustpilot. The math doesn't math. And then the founder, on his own announcement post on X, in reply to someone asking what the $30M is actually for: "mostly AI compute and marketing tbh. And also hire the best marketing agencies to help to the next marketing stunts." The next. Marketing. Stunts. He said it in writing. With "next" doing the work of admitting that the previous ones were stunts too. The mask isn't slipping down his face he took it off and is holding it. I don't actually care if my brother in Christ here gets called out. I care that this is now the precedent. If a $30M round closes on this in 2026, the next ten companies of this shape are much easier to fund. Which means every founder who is actually shipping something real, who is grinding through compliance, who is in their inbox at 3am answering customer emails (unlike my guy here), just got handed a version of the AI startup category that they have to compete with for capital and attention and air. The receipts of "aisloP" BS have been sitting on the marketing surface the entire time. Nobody hid anything. So what do we do when the dishonest version is louder than the honest one?

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koli | KJJK 🧠🐀@filmsdiciple

i survived tropical country heat my entire life like weather dropping at 40° but germany’s 25° got me walking around like a rotisserie chicken fighting for my life. this heat doesnt even feel real it feels personal. like the sun here wakes up every morning w hatred in its heart

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Garry Tan@garrytan

The companies I love working with in office hours are the ones where the founder has a specific, weird, earned insight that nobody else has. Not "AI for X." A genuine edge that came from living inside a problem. The ones that are dying almost always have the same pattern: technically competent founders building something nobody asked for, moving metrics that don't matter, avoiding the conversation with the one user who'd tell them the truth. The lucky thing is that 2nd type of founder can become the 1st kind if they don't stand still, they are willing to talk to people, try things, and always seek high rate of learning.

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Dragos Roua@dragosroua

Given the Chinese approach to markets, I suspect this was legit invented in Japan, then silently copied in China.

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比特币橙子Trader@oragnes

中国杭州初创公司PettiChat，118美元AI宠物项圈使用阿里巴巴Qwen模型，能以94.6%准确率实时翻译猫狗声音和情绪，已获1万预订。

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@levelsio@levelsio

I found €10 on the street, nobody is around What should I do with it???

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Svenllama Association Football Club@svenllama

This is great, but it's also worth noting that someone who is 63 today was in their early 30s during peak electronica (1995-97) and time goes by much faster than you think it does.