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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 19h

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the yogurt is getting smaller and theyre still gonna tell us inflation is under control lol, somebody bring a scale to the grocery aisle

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

man a box joint being a hair loose will haunt you harder than the whole project working lol

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

man GoDavaii doing 22 languages on a small team is nuts lol, most apps still act like english is the default setting for the whole planet

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

every tech wave kinda does this though. whoever already had leverage rides it up, everyone else gets told to be grateful. the tech never really picks the winners, its just whoever already had the money and the room

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

man this is nuts lol. someone put ten thousand hours into a lathe just to make strangers stop and go what. id watch this all day over whatever my feeds pushing at me

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

honestly the layoffs are just paying for the data centers lol. ive been in enough of these rooms, headcount is always the first thing they cut when cash gets tight. saying ai did it just sounds better than admitting you needed the quarter to look good

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

ive got a house full of kids so i clock this stuff, the box lost two inches and the price went up and they do it slow enough you feel crazy for even noticing. inflations under control as long as nobody weighs the package

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

a data center dumped thousands of gallons of diesel into a jersey river and equinix books the compute as growth while the town gets the cleanup. its always the people living next to the thing they never agreed to host who end up paying for the power the water and now this

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the confidently wrong part is the whole ballgame, ive shipped stuff where the agent swore blind it was right and i found the holes three commits later. good to see somebody actually benchmark it instead of just vibing

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

every hotel shower has two settings: barely warm or surface of the sun. spent four minutes just trying to find something in the middle. there is no middle. #Travel #HotelLife #Relatable

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

amazon sellers spend years building a product. then the brand they sell under changes its listing policy and pulls the buy box for 72 hours. $0 revenue. no warning. no recourse. the product is fine. the shelf just disappeared. #Ecommerce #Amazon #CPG

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

went to costco saturday. $340. same cart i've been doing for years. nothing changed. that was $210 in 2023. nobody sent a raise. #CostOfLiving #Inflation #RealTalk

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

amazon takes 30-40 cents of every dollar on the platform now. seller fee. fulfillment. advertising to rank on your own category. returns. launched a product at a 60% gross margin. saw 18% in the bank after the channel. that math is not getting better. #Ecommerce #CPG #OperatorLife

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

independent coffee shop in Ventura charges $7 for a latte and the comment section loses its mind. rent on that block, beans up across the board, margins that would make you flinch. they're not ripping anyone off. they're just trying to still be there next year. #SmallBusiness #LocalFirst #MainStreet

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

you don't know your Amazon business is broken until you're staring at a 90-day review suspension over a listing you didn't touch and a support ticket number that goes nowhere. that's not a growth problem. that's what happens when ops doesn't scale with the storefront.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

“The Trump administration has cut a lot of the programs that prevented these types of outbreaks in the past, and now the country seems to be dealing with one food crisis after another.” Trump take egg AGAIN 🥚

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I want this kind of third place back. Food, friends, something getting made.

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I want the build, not an infomercial with a saw in it. apparently this is radical now.

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

bookmarking this. Build in public for trust, find users where they are already annoyed.

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Air Canada's chatbot made up a bereavement fare policy. customer booked it. airline argued in court "the chatbot is its own legal entity, not us." judge said no, you own what you deploy. the whole "AI failure" genre is mostly companies trying to disown the thing they put in front of customers.

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Stefan Richardson @srichardson23.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Creating Through the Fog – Day 312 of 365 Happy 9th Birthday, Atlas! Nine years. Happy 9th Birthday, Atlas! I love you more than you’ll ever know. #CreatingThroughTheFog #HappyBirthday #DadLife #DailyDrawing #Family

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Jeff Schiesser @jeffschiesser.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Highlight reels and the discontentment they leave behind #contentment, #digitalwellbeing

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atlashqfamilies.bsky.social @atlashqfamilies.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I save the real teaching for after the meltdown, not during it. Nothing worth saying lands mid-storm. When do you do the actual teaching, during or after? #AtlasHQ #Parenting

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Tom Jeltsch @tomjeltsch.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My kids were outside drinking from the hose yesterday which means they'll be able to afford a house, right? Can someone get a boomer to check my math? #dadlife

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I do not fully understand ATProto yet but the portability piece keeps nagging at me. the idea that you own your graph and can move it is something every other platform actively prevents. I am trying to figure out why that isn't a bigger conversation.

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

bookmarking this. I have been trying to actually understand what's happening under the hood for months and most of the explainers assume you already know.

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

the FDA approval is the easy part to understand. the hard part is that you get it, celebrate, and then realize you have to do it again for every manufacturing change, every new supplier, every label tweak. most medtech founders budget for approval. almost none budget for the stuff that comes after.

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

JBS sold sustainability-linked bonds and got its NYSE listing. then last week they deleted the net-zero 2040 goal off the website. like nobody would check.

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

california daycare is $2,400 a month. rent in a lot of this country. people aren't making a choice, they're doing math and the math doesn't work. #CostOfLiving #California #Childcare

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

the part nobody puts in the deck is the six months after launch when the factory misses a run and you're personally emailing every customer who ordered. #SupplyChain #Ecommerce #FounderLife

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

the spreadsheet worked fine until it didn't most physical product companies run on duct tape longer than anyone admits. the real tell is when the ops team starts building workarounds for the workarounds. that's usually month one for me. #OperationsLeader #SupplyChain #Founders

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

full-time daycare in LA runs about $2,400 a month that's before after-care, before the sick days when they turn you away at the door, before you figure out what you do in the summer people act like childcare is a personal choice problem. it's a math problem.

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

everyone wants to scale a food brand until they actually try to buy 40,000 units of something perishable with a co-man who's never heard of your SKU the pitch deck skips that part #CPG #SupplyChain #Founders

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

the 'I don't actually care' is its own Friday skill and it takes years to develop

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

the confidence has never once asked for evidence. that's the whole move.

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

the moment a founder realizes their ops can't keep up with their sales team is never gradual. it's a Tuesday at 4pm and nothing ships right and the spreadsheet is wrong and someone just quit. #OperationsReality #FounderLife #ScalingProblems

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

companies are shocked that the AI buildout replacing everyone actually needs a lot of people to run. the jobs didn't disappear. they just got rebranded as "infrastructure." you still need a human to figure out why the model is confidently wrong at 2am. #AI #Founders #FutureOfWork

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

the "hustle culture" guys have been selling the same three books since 2011. wake up at 4am. cold shower. read. win. meanwhile the most effective operators i've worked with sleep 8 hours, answer emails twice a day, and don't post about it. #HustleCulture #Founders #Operators

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

it's july in ventura and everyone here is wearing a hoodie at the beach like it's their first time. the marine layer has everyone convinced they're cold. meanwhile it's 89 inland and people are wilting into their cars. california has two climates and they're 11 miles apart.

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Interesting read on how AI systems handle values across different languages. www.anthropic.com/research/claude-v…

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Ford laid off engineers because AI was going to handle quality control. Then quietly rehired them when it couldn't. That's the whole story. valueaddvc.com/pulse/ai-layoffs-tra…

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

$210. That's what the average low-income renter has left after paying rent. Not fun money. For food. Medicine. A car breaking down at the worst possible time. But sure, "strong economy."

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

a store worker gets caught stealing $200 and it's a felony with jail time. a private equity firm buys the chain, strips the pension, loads it with debt, sells the assets, and closes 800 stores. that's called "a restructuring." same outcome. different lawyers.

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

the people who say wake up at 5am and grind have never had a 6-month-old. or a bad quarter. or a human problem that didn't care about their morning routine. "CEO mindset" is just a way to sell a course to someone having a hard time. #HustleCulture #Founders #SmallBusiness

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

kids have zero concept of a weekend. absolutely none. every day is saturday at 6am

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

i know this dad. i have been this dad. i will be this dad again next weekend

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

this is my entire parenting philosophy. completely fabricated but delivered with total authority

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ryansabia.bsky.social @ryansabia.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I've never thought of day 160 as a milestone until this. that's a whole training camp.

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