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Sam

@sjroot

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 New York, NY
Joined July 2013
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Wanted to grab a new book but it was sold out everywhere in Manhattan. Instinct had me covered though. @noahrshinn this is magic.
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Um... I just had like a 20 minute conversation with ChatGPT about the history of modern physics. If I had this shit as a tutor during high school and college.... OMG. I think we can basically re-invent the concept of education at scale. College as we know it will cease to exist.
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So many companies died last week. They just don’t know it yet.
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Dall-E 2 blows my mind
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11 Promises from a Manager: a 🧵 1. We’ll have a weekly 1:1. I’ll never cancel this meeting, but you can cancel it whenever you like. It’s your time.
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A ton of us (myself included) just learned about poison pills this week and they're really not a good look.
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This is not the sign of innovation IBM thinks it is
Jon Erlichman (@JonErlichman) profile pictureJon Erlichman
@JonErlichman17 Apr 2022
Most U.S. patents granted each year: 2021: IBM 2020: IBM 2019: IBM 2018: IBM 2017: IBM 2016: IBM 2015: IBM 2014: IBM 2013: IBM 2012: IBM 2011: IBM 2010: IBM 2009: IBM 2008: IBM 2007: IBM 2006: IBM 2005: IBM 2004: IBM 2003: IBM 2002: IBM 2001: IBM 2000: IBM 1999: IBM 1998: IBM…
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Imagine being the team at the NY Times that has to incorporate this screen into Wordle
Screenshot of The NY Times “Word Bee” game, prompting the user to purchase a Games subscription to continue playing

ALT Screenshot of The NY Times “Word Bee” game, prompting the user to purchase a Games subscription to continue playing

A truly terrifying thought
Kendall Brown (@kendallybrown) profile pictureKendall Brown@kendallybrown14 Apr 2022
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: I just found out that many company's customer service live chats allow the agent helping you to see what you're typing before you push send. I figure I can't be the only one who didn't know this & has typed/erased in live chats before, so now u know
Crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi bought Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first ever tweet as an NFT for $2.9 million last year. He listed the NFT for sale again at $48 million last week. The top bid was $280 (or 0.09 ETH). @iamsandali reports trib.al/GMNiO9H
‘Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet’ NFT Went on Sale for $48M. It Ended With a Top Bid of Just $280

‘Jack Dorsey’s First Tweet’ NFT Went on Sale for $48M. It Ended With a Top Bid of Just $280

Crypto entrepreneur Sina Estavi bought Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first-ever tweet as an NFT for $2.9 million last year. He listed the NFT for sale again at $48 million last week.

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Sad but true
matt bernstein (@mattxiv) profile picturematt bernstein@mattxiv12 Apr 2022
people will use the sunset park shooting to say we need more cops to “keep us safe” so let’s just be clear that there are cops in almost every subway station and they do nothing all day but sit on their phones, smoke cigs, and arrest people for jumping the turnstile
1. We’re not in a “space race” with Bezos or anyone else 2. We’re not trying to take over NASA 3. We don’t have a SpaceX flag - our flag is the flag of the USA - it’s literally on all of our rockets. 4. I’m so sick of this crap.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) profile pictureSen. Bernie Sanders
@SenSanders8 Apr 2022
If we are able to accomplish the extraordinary goal of sending a person to Mars, I want the flag that will be flying on that planet to be the flag of the United States of America, not the flag of SpaceX or Blue Origin.
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Quite possibly one of the worst-timed sequence of tweets of all time.
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If the engineer(s) @apple who worked on this are on Twitter…you’re amazing.
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Pedro Duarte (@peduarte) profile picturePedro Duarte
@peduarte25 Nov 2021
I heard you like Vercel ▲ swags — so here's a black friday giveaway I'm giving a hoodie, a t-shirt and two mugs to a random person who retweets this tweet 🖤 (you gotta be following me obvs)
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discord destroyed irc, reddit and twitter destroyed phpbb forums, facebook destroyed blogs. all are investing in cryprocurrency flimflam. you think it's because they want to build a decentralized web controlled by the people? they're the fuckers who DISMANTLED the one we HAD
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I wish there was an option on social media ads to say “I really want you to know that this ad is like…just really poorly executed; didn’t win me over and is unlikely to sell anyone else” Like I’d actually use that feature _a lot_
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