Tootfinder

"What is the state of Trump? He is failing at fascism. For Trump to succeed in is fascist transition, he needs a bloody, popular, victorious war. And that is out of his reach. The State of the Union was full of fascist atmospherics. But it was also blowhard exhaustion."
https://snyder.substack.com/p/fascist-…

Fascist Failure
The State of Trump

AI companies are raising at valuations that require them to grow at rates that are only achievable by chasing the broadest possible market with the most generic possible product.
A company that raises at a $500M valuation needs to show a path to billions in revenue,
which means it can't afford to be a niche tool that does one thing brilliantly for a specific audience.
It has to be a platform, horizontal, aimed at enterprise, built for no one in particular.
Ever…

Everyone in AI is building the wrong thing for the same reason
Every AI founder I talk to is on an accelerating treadmill, burdened by a nagging suspicion that the entire industry is moving too fast in a direction that doesn't quite make sense, with no idea about how to get off. There is an overwhelming feeling that if everyone stopped and

Investigation: internal Binance files show it failed to stop hundreds of millions in crypto from flowing through suspicious accounts, even after a 2023 US deal (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5d8af345-d593-47b1-85ae-758ee60e9a89

Binance allowed suspicious accounts to operate even after 2023 US plea agreement
Leaked files show continued activity despite links to terror networks, failed ID checks and other red flags

The foxographer was heading back to its secondary den after completing an assignment and caught the kind of snow falling photo we've been looking for lately
#photo #photography #cornell