after Chat GPT arrived, dozens of existing @ycombinator startups suddenly decided they're "AI-powered" to attract gullible investors ... behold the pivots and the B.S. that is the silicon valley startup economy .. 🧵
Juicebox in November vs. Juicebox today .. now with AI
MagnaPlay two months ago vs. MagnaPlay today .. now with AI (and a totally new pitch)
Fini two months ago vs. Fini today (now with AI)
Stellar app two months ago v. Stellar app today (now with AI)
Pump (lol) in October vs. Pump today (now with AI)
Knowtex a few months ago vs. Knowtex today (now with AI)
Uplink in January vs. Uplink today (now with AI)
check out the @ycombinator funded startup Reviewify, which promises to use AI to fix your code. on left is reviewify. on right is chat gpt. hmm
could give many more examples but probably best to stop here. especially after SVB/ First Republic, it may be worth asking how many of these extremely well-funded startups are using AI branding to rip off gullible investors
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this is wild. in its indictment of Doug Mackey, a guy with 50,000 Twitter followers who shared a meme mocking Clinton voters, the DOJ claimed that he had more political influence than NBC News , Newt Gingrich and Stephen Colbert
This is from the factual findings of federal Judge Nicholas G. Garafus based on government arguments. Full text: casetext.com/case/united-st…
Also, no one talks about this, but the people who texted Mackey's fake number got this alert from the text service provider telling them it wasn't legitimate.
This could be why the government couldn't find a single person who was fooled by his meme
during george floyd trial, chief medical examiner & prosecution witness Andrew Baker admitted under cross examination that Chauvin's knee did not cut off Floyd's airway ... it is a travesty how this trial was covered
Baker privately told colleagues days after Floyd's death that the level of fentanyl in his system was "pretty high" and would be fatal under normal circumstances, according to a contemporaneous memo from prosecutor Amy Sweasy. Under public pressure, he later stated that neck compression -- for which there was no physical evidence -- contributed to Floyd's death.
Here's the ER doctor who treated Floyd admitting under cross-examination that low brain oxygen levels can be achieved not simply by 'neck compression,' but also by ingesting stratospheric amounts of fentanyl, especially when combined with meth (as Floyd did). He never administered Narcan during the 30 minutes Floyd was in his care however
UPDATE: @wakeforestmed announces that Kychelle Del Rosario, the med student who boasted about stabbing a patient because of his politics, is now on an "extended leave." They don't elaborate on length of leave. A member of Congress has told us he will soon push for transparency.
I have again asked @wakeforestmed to elaborate on: (1) The length of the 'extended leave'; (2) Why the medical school has refused to condemn the student's decision to boast about a patient injury, publicly or internally; (3) How they determined that the stabbing was accidental.
At this time, the D.A. in Winston-Salem has clear legal basis to issue a subpoena to @wakeforestmed to obtain the identity of the patient who was stabbed and to conduct an independent investigation. Wake Forest has refused to tell us if they've contacted the patient.