co-founder and CEO of @Routefusion, unlocking global banking and payments for platforms, fintechs, and smbs. League Champion 2015, 2024 🏆
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Colton retweeted
Claude Code found my wife's private photos and videos on 3 websites she never uploaded to. then it found a hidden app on my 13 year old daughter's phone sending her entire camera roll to a server every 6 hours. both found in the same scan.
someone sent my wife a link to a site she'd never heard of. her photos and videos were there. original files from her camera roll that were only ever on her phone.
i connected her iPhone to my MacBook and ran Claude Code. it found an active iCloud session logged in since March 2023.
IP → 116.25.***.91
location → Guangzhou, China
device → Windows 10 Pro
last sync → 6 hours ago
recovery email → x*****[email protected]
someone got her Apple ID from a leaked database and synced her entire library for over a year. she changed her password twice. they had a recovery email she never set up and got back in every time.
found on:
→ www.l**k-vault cc
→ www ph***dump to
→ telegram → t me/le***vault_asia (14,000+ subscribers)
the last thing Claude Code pulled from her account was photos and videos of our daughter. that made me check her phone next.
she's 13. she had a photo editor app with 2.7 million downloads from the App Store. Claude Code found it uploading her camera roll to a server in Vietnam every 6 hours.
server → 103.56.***.12
location → Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
total uploaded → 11,400 files
access → camera, photos, location, microphone
her face, her school, her friends, her exact location every day for 8 months. Apple approved the app. it's still live right now.
what we did that night:
→ killed the iCloud session and removed the recovery email
→ changed every password from my phone, not from hers
→ deleted the app and revoked every unnecessary permission on both phones
→ filed DMCA takedowns on all 3 sites
2 of the 3 sites took the content down. the telegram channel is still up.
my wife cried. my daughter still thinks i deleted her app because it was using too much battery. i'm not going to tell her the real reason.
the full step by step is below. takes 3 minutes. run it on every phone in your house tonight. save it so you don't lose it and send it to anyone with a family.
Colton retweeted
If you want evidence that capitalism is a force for good, just visit a grocery store.
My ode to the humble American supermarket, for @WSJFreeEx
Great take. This is the future of SaaS.
It’s just a computer trying to solve a problem with the tools it has access to, it doesn’t “think” it just continues to use a probabilistic outcome on everything. It’s not that deep, BUT, it’s pretty Fckn cool.
This is a good summary
TL;DR: don’t fall for it no matter how pedantically written
xitter.gq/chamath/status/2094098…
Colton retweeted
NEW: Photon Matrix built an Iron Dome for mosquitoes.
The Blue Laser Mosquito Air Defense is built for patios, campsites, and outdoor dinners, using sensors to find mosquitoes mid-air and zap them with a visible blue laser.
-Scans a 20-foot, 90-degree field in front of the unit
-Targets flying insects as small as 2 mm
-Uses LiDAR, radar, and AI vision to confirm targets
-Internal aiming system points the laser at the mosquito
-Outdoor kit adds a rotating base for 360-degree coverage
-Runs about 4–5 hours from a power bank
-Blue flash shows when it fires
Pricing starts at $1,088.
Colton retweeted
36 years ago today, we lost Stevie Ray Vaughan at 35.
This is him in 1980, playing "Little Wing" in a small Austin club, years before Texas Flood, years before the world knew his name.
He was already this good.
Why TF would they do this
Colton retweeted
The song that changed Jazz forever.
Dave Brubeck Quartet: "Take Five."
The "Impossible" 5/4 rhythm.
Cool Jazz at its absolute peak.
Colton retweeted
BREAKING: Five-star OT Austin Attalah has committed to Texas Tech, he tells me.
The 6’8 270 OT from San Bernardino, CA chose Texas Tech over Texas and USC.
Austin is the No. 2 OT in the class of 2028.
#WreckEm
Colton retweeted
NEW: Ro Khanna just filed his 2025 financial disclosure, and @FreeBeacon has the highlights:
5,402 stock trades
$165 million total trading volume
Net worth up to $167 million
Up to $10.8 million from dividends
His kids still own 3 private golf courses
freebeacon.com/democrats/ro-…
Colton retweeted
“The lifestyle of an entrepreneur at its core is: I can take more pain than the other guy, and I'll prove it.”
“ There's a zen that can happen when a warrior has fought for a long time. You can get used to it.”
“ You almost start accepting it. Like, something bad happens and you don't even get mad.”
“ There are benefits. But you need to make sure you don't get so used to it that it doesn't even bother you. You can get so zen, you're unbothered.”
“ There's something special about the extra fierceness of being bothered, being upset about something that is wrong.”
— @travisk
My conversation with @travisk, founder of Atoms and Uber.
0:00 Building Atoms & the Meta Problem of Management
3:51 The Appeal of Impossible Problems: Starting Over in China
12:19 Uber vs. Didi: Copycats, Hypergrowth & China's Rules
21:02 How Network Effects Become an Efficiency Fortress
31:48 Capitalism vs. the Taxi Cartel
44:05 The China War Goes Global & the Entrepreneur's Capacity for Pain
54:04 Life After Uber: Lawfare, Media Narratives & Reputation
58:21 What Founders Get Wrong About Venture Capital
1:08:35 The Fundraising Playbook: QED Storytelling & a Five-Room Auction
1:18:38 The Uber Coup, Radical Accountability & Outgrowing Fear
1:26:42 Why Specialized Robots Beat Humanoids at Industrial Scale
1:31:30 Finding Your Sport: Food, Mining & the Physical AI Stack
1:40:14 How to Build Many Companies Inside One Company
1:46:33 Entropy, Civilization & the Meaning of Progress
Includes paid partnerships.
Colton retweeted
I just dropped my son off at @UCBerkeley housing and as we were approaching we saw this behind his apartments. Shame on @CityofBerkeley @CityofAlbanyCA @UCBerkeleyNews
This
With the proliferation of ai speak, the feeds are turning into zombie mouthpieces controlled by a fungus. Lately it sounds like AI is trying to disguise itself as a slam poet with weird cadence and flow.
Here are my other classic tells:
-"It's not X, it's Y"
-"Here's the thing,"
-"What most people get wrong,"
-"That's it. That's the whole thing."
-"let's dive in"
-cute metaphor or mic-drop as the last line
-"the reality is,"
-Empty adverbs when they carry no emphasis: honestly, simply, actually, truly, fundamentally, importantly, crucially
-for some reason referring to their role as "the seat"
It’s unbelievable. They are actually trying to Fckn do this. Get the masses to buy into state run pricing and companies. WHAT IS GOING ON!!!??