ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 05/09/2026mrkrudd.substack.com/p/the-evolut...mrkrudd.substack.comThe Evolution of Chinese Economic Strategy Under Xi JinpingOn Becoming a Techno-Industrial Superpower by 2035: The Ideology of AI and Xi's New Quality Productive Forces 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 18/08/2026Thoughts from this past quarter/year training an AI model is no longer the bottleneck; deploying, monitoring, and securing it is - and usability and matters more than anything. "WE DON'T LIKE WAITING, GIVE US MAGIC NOW." 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 29/07/2026July 2026: Claude Fable 5: $10M/$50M (input/output tokens). GPT-5.5: $5M/$30M. Gemini 3.1 Pro: $2M/$12M. DeepSeek V4 Pro: ~$0.44M/$0.87M, making it ~23× cheaper than Claude Fable 5 on input tokens. 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 22/07/2026Horseshoe crab blood is valuable because it contains a copper-based pigment which makes it useful for testing the sterility of medical products and spacecraft surfaces. The more you know. 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 06/05/2026As the SEC proposes rule to allow public companies to report twice a year, I'm stuck trying to look past the bad idea of less transparency for investors as being a good one. 101
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 24/02/2026I don't think attacking Iran is a good idea for Americans. I think if we do it, it should be with congressional approval. 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 31/01/2026Some of y'all have Scooby-Doo challenges: knowing when to skedaddle versus when to scram. 110
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 06/01/2026"Pay congress the same salary that public school teachers make in their home state" 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 06/01/2026Amodest proposal: Tax billionaires at the same rate we tax lottery winners. 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 30/10/2025I'll be surprised if the new Starbucks CEO makes it another three quarters, missed expectations by 5% with everything you've done... GTFOH 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 23/10/2025I think perplexity gets acquired before it scales. To be overshadowed by the browser is crazy. The leap frogging that has happened with Atlas over Chrome will get an answer very very soon. 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 23/10/2025There's a movie about deep mind on Amazon called ” The Thinking Game”, I'm just right in adhering case. Somebody else was interested in watching it and tell me it was good or nah. 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 09/10/2025 Pieter Abbeel explains things in a very interesting yet clear way, i am curious about who that person is for Quantum ML/RL 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 09/10/2025The model that powers "deep research" is a fine tuned model of o3. #OpenAI 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 04/10/2025what is the legal reasoning behind striking civilian boats in international water that we allege have drugs? 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 03/10/2025Ai gone wrong: Best Buys voice system is so much worse than just hiring an off shore call center. 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 03/10/2025We are completely underestimating how cool a quantum future could be, and are doing everything to purge the people who could build it out of this country. It would be nice if we could just focus on the science. 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 03/10/2025Harvard Researchers Develop First Ever Continuously Operating Quantum Computer | News | The Harvard Crimson share.google/IAH29vnPVTIZ...share.googleHarvard Researchers Develop First Ever Continuously Operating Quantum Computer | News | The Harvard CrimsonA team of Harvard physicists built the first-ever quantum computing machine that can operate continuously without restarting, achieving a major breakthrough in a field that could revolutionize everyth... 010
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 02/10/2025It's complicated: "The FBI said on Wednesday it cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish group that tracks antisemitism, after conservatives criticized the group for including slain activist Charlie Kirk's organization in a glossary on extremism." 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 30/09/2025Whatever happened to lk99? Room temporary semi conductors would have been neat. 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 10/09/2025Apple said that iPhone users took 500 billion selfies last year. I know the how - but the question is why do they know? In an age of bad government - why do we allow people to watch us that closely? 010
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 09/09/2025I think AAPL is a safe longterm bet, I truly think it might actually be safer than the US dollar right now. What goes up must come down but it's a commodity at this point. Slow incremental growth. 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 09/09/2025Watching the Apple Live event and I have to give it to them. It looks like that they have made even though they're small... iterations in hardware and I really wish other people would do that. I think that we need more @google 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 06/09/2025Harry Truman would be beating ass If he heard the things that got said about him today. 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 02/09/2025This Google ruling likely will hurt Firefox very much with the suspension of payments for exclusivity. 000
Reposted by ZTFAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Gonna keep reposting this @timdickinson.bsky.social / me item: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...rollingstone.comTrump Thinks It Was 'Stupid' Not to Cash in Harder on His First Term. He's Making Up for ItTrump seeks crypto profits, foreign luxury gifts, as he wields the public office of the presidency for his private enrichment 14474197
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 01/09/2025This Giuliani story sounds like he brake checked somebody and spun up a diddy of a story afterwards. 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 17/08/2025Wait wait Whats a Norland nanny? Teaching nannys to evasive drive, sew, fight and bake? What are we even? 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 07/08/2025I'm pretty sure that there is a way to make Bay Area voters live in every congressional district in the state and God damn it I'm encouraging at Newsom to try. 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 05/08/2025One benefit of the tariffs is the ability to put pressure on India to stop buying oil from Russia and hopefully the work on the Ukrainian War ending. 010
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 31/07/2025People will sometimes weaponize stories you tell them. Watch what you share, or you might just get your feelings hurt. 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 28/07/2025"You got to look at DIME when you're looking at a taking over country diplomacy intelligence military economics" - THESE DUDES WHO REALLY LOVE THEIR ACRONYMS 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 22/07/2025e gamification model FIFA ( EA) employed with the pacts that was subsequently adopted by Call of duty, then the skins with fortnite...$$ There's just a lot of industry manipulation of psychology while also being patrons of digital art. If you're a pixel placer 2025 is still your time to shine 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 22/07/2025One day we should study the predatory cycle of application development + money farming that some of these mobile games are doing. Specifically, I'm talking about Kingshot. Huge advertising budget, gamified, essentially gambling. Highly addictive to kids, in low benefit to society. 100
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 15/07/2025"I hate it when Facebook suggests I friend someone I know is dead." - FB post from someone I thought was dead 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 07/07/2025Good read but this terrifies me, I felt like we had issues with safety and security for a long time but this foments my anxiety. 020
Reposted by ZTFMichael Feinberg @michael-feinberg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025@lawfaremedia.org has been producing incredibly important scholarship and commentary on national security and rule of law issues for fifteen years now, and I’m beyond excited to join their team this fall.givebutter.comPublic Service FellowshipAlumni of the federal workforce and civil service with expertise in national security, law, and policy 1920933
Reposted by ZTFChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/07/2025Wow! France gifted her to us, and now they’ve captured what so many Americans are feeling on Independence Day. The values the Statue of Liberty stood for are no more. 📌 A stunning mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her face was unveiled in Roubaix, France, on July 3, 2025. 672251218383
Reposted by ZTFTechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 03/07/2025Everything you need to know about Flashes, the Bluesky-based Instagram alternativetechcrunch.comEverything you need to know about Flashes, the Bluesky-based Instagram alternative | TechCrunchThe app, which is now available in beta, offers a different way to browse the visual posts on Bluesky. 1920464
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 21/06/2025Ban corporate money from politics. If we fix that, a lot of other problems start getting easier to tackle. 000
Reposted by ZTFChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Trump’s go-to line about every foreign policy crisis and war - from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to October 7th, to the Israel’s devastation of Gaza - was “It would never have happened if I was president.” Welp. 21985751366
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 08/06/2025Airport theory does not work at Orlando or Denver. #Airporttheory 000
ZTF @iamprettyawesome.com · 01/06/2025Kind of sad that we'll never get an Elon 'Behind the Music', I kind of want to see what made him spiral... 000
