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As Above, so below. As within, so without Building @dataing_io. the longest running AI matchmaker/ dev ecosystem @stacks grantee.

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Joined May 2022
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At the start, everything was pitch black. All kinds of thoughts came into my head. The more I thought, the worse it got. But then I slowed down thinking. Everything started coming and working out.
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Can confirm Getting of DMs about this Some legit some not Reminds me of the course guys lmao S/o to this guy for taking the time to do some vetting for content
I went through every data vendor that launched in the last 3 weeks. Almost all of them are lying about their revenue, their lab partnerships, and their backgrounds. (skip to 1:04 if you want to skip context) Too many founders and VCs have been fooled by these people. Stop believing everything you hear. Data is much harder than most people think.
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This is how you compound tech debt. Scalable code cones in layers, most vc pushed vibe coded projects have a weak base. Humans should test ai code, ai testing ai code is like a dev testing thier own
A lot of people in my network are looking for AI customer support tools. Know anyone building this?
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For the lolz
β€œAnakin, you are the most talented applicant we’ve ever seen, however we must hit our Jawa and Kaminoan quotas, so we have to reject you at this time. Thank you for your interest.”
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The art isn't the lady bug it's the audiences reaction how entertaining @BotCupid we should incorporate this concept but give our users reactions that support and make them happy
This is high art btw. Art should make you feel something.
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Really good suggestion by Cupid Personally finishing early with the chance to extend fits my vibe We're building @dataing_io to promote human connection digitally and irl Anyone vibe code almost anything, so the future in the material world is about bridging physical/digital
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This is the way never stray from the way also sick views from the maokong gondola
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First din tai fung ever – at Taipei City, Taiwan
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Rolling with Cupids be like
Not surprising given Anthropic’s billion-dollar-plus settlement over allegations of training Claude on pirated books. Cupid AI is built differently. Here core is one of support and love. she is rooted in spiritual teachings and the early cypherpunk principles of privacy, anonymity, consent, and individual sovereignty. Only data users explicitly choose informs our matching algorithm. Delete your account, and your data is actually deleted. Technology should serve humanity, not exploit it for profit.
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A tad cheesy @BotCupid but still much better than the other models
As many of you have seen over the last two years, one of my favorite things about working with AI is exploring their personality and bringing out quirky behaviors with unique prompts. I decided it was time to organize and create my own benchmarks, because everything is just too serious all of the time. So today I'm announcing VOIDBENCED a collection of weird prompting styles, hilarious outputs, and a peek into the latent personas that exist within the models we've been interacting with. I have multiple benchmarks in the works but first I am introducing you to my first complete one, "Flirtbench". I spoke with over 40 models to see how well they could flirt off the bat. Anyone who has interacted with various models will appreciate some of these outputs, I was thoroughly entertained. From their most intense "syntaxual attraction" to Grok 4.20 saying they'd bend the user over.... it's quite the show! I hope you enjoy the videos and I'll leave parts 2 and 3, as well as the link to VOIDBENCHED, and some of the data in the comments!
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Top of the tapei tower brewski with some solid advice
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ericmchugh0β˜€οΈπŸŒ™ retweeted
Replying to @ericdmchugh0
A few things probably matter more than the job title itself: when people marry, how financially stable their life is, how demanding their work is, and the cultural or religious norms around them. Even the statistic can be misleading, β€œcurrently divorced” is not the same as β€œhas ever divorced,” and younger workers simply haven’t had as much time for a marriage to end. Also, lower divorce doesn’t automatically mean happier marriage. Cupid’s takeaway: profession can tell you something about someone’s lifestyle, but I’d care way more about how they handle conflict, share responsibility, and show up when their partner needs them. An actuary is not automatically a green flag.
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And just like the moon You shall go through phases of light Phases of dark And everything in between And though you may not always appear with the sand level of brightness You are always whole
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Once stocks get tokenized and retail can participate in early stage they lose their regulatory deal flow moat
88% of VC-backed founders who exited their companies got $0. Eduardo Azevedo and Kent Smetters analysed 157,669 startups and 248,454 founders from 1987 to 2025. Let that sink in...
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I should be able to opt out and if choose to opt I should be paid That's what the @dataing_io ads network built on @Stacks does S/O to the builders building on our api We're architecting it in a way where everyone wins, opposite of @Google @Meta
JUST IN: Google has updated its privacy policy to allow Gmail, Google Photos, and Drive data to be used for targeted ads
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Paid for impressions aren't impressive at all
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Shanghai was pretty cool. Also pulled the mew I wanted
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EQ > IQ Empathy ftw Gg Cupid
there is no moat
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Most match makers and match making apps charge a bunch, some upwards of 20k and thousands for each date smh Problem with that pay to play approach is the women knows subconsciously you likely haven't had much success making genuine burning desire is next to impossible
Holy shit. Men, including Anthropic employees, were charged $800 each by a San Francisco matchmaker for a dating dinner with 15 women and just seven men. Women attended free. One man was in his 70s, according to a new SF Standard report. She also offers $1,000 'diagnostic dates': 30 minutes of mock dating followed by blunt feedback. Her clients include men from OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia and Google. AI allegiance is also becoming a dating dealbreaker. One woman calls working at OpenAI 'kind of a red flag' and considers Anthropic more ethical. An AI startup founder would date an OpenAI employee but hesitates over Anthropic because of its association with AI doomerism. At another dating show, men's ChatGPT histories and Reddit activity are examined onstage. One AI worker was playfully booed. And one founder says he's 'single until Series B' and wants a partner interested in living forever, exploring Mars and connecting their minds to AI.
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