Photographer → Startup Founder Building in Stealth 🤖🔨
Daaa Bears
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A lot of new people here lately, so a proper intro.
I'm Dhaval. For 3 years I was a red carpet photographer, shooting premieres and celebrity events from the photo pit. You learn a lot about people when you get one second to make them look at your lens.
Today I'm a founder, building something in stealth. I'll share more when it's ready!
The rest of me:
• SoCal dad of 3, living in San Diego
• Bears fan, for better or worse 😅🐻⬇️
• I run a lot of my day through AI agents
• Still shoot when I can especially for fun 📸
What I post here: AI and startups, SoCal life, and the occasional story from the photo pit.
If you're building something, shooting something, or a fellow Bears fan, say hi 👋🏾
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Now that the Red Baron employee has been identified and the GoFundMe has been verified, I’ll post it
I truly hope you can find it in your heart to give. I don’t do these very often, I don’t want to bilk my followers for every bleeding heart sob story on the internet
But I’m not going to let a guy doing everything he can to do it the right way for his family get shafted
If you can donate, do it. It’s a good cause. Maybe we can pay this guy’s mortgage off and give him and his family a vacation somewhere
gofundme.com/f/support-a-har…
I’ve been red pilled, black pilled, white pilled, clear pilled. All the pills.
I don’t even know which one this is, but it’s one of the strongest ones I’ve had in a long long time. The desperation in his voice. You can see the sight of his kids in his eyes when he says he’s supposed to be home with them. You can see the math he’s doing in his head as he calculates how much money he has left, and how much he needs for his mortgage, and when it’s due.
What the hell is the American dream anymore? Is this what it’s about? Is there anyone who would say this guy isn’t working his ass off? For what? So that 25% of his income can go to a government that wastes it on a bunch of shit he didn’t vote for? Subsidizing the food he stocks grocery stores with for people who don’t work a 1,000th of how hard he works to buy groceries with EBT cards that he pays for, which then drives up the cost of groceries for him and his family that he pays for out of his paycheck because he’s doing it the right way.
This entire system is shit. It’s shit. There is no nicer way to put it. It is dog. shit.
This guy should be working a 9-5 at a job that gives him dignity so that he can be at home with his kids at a decent time. Instead he’s some jerk off’s content. His stressed out, end of his rope reaction is some asshole’s income.
This is bleak stuff. Absolutely bleak.
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The last time Chicago traded two 1st-round picks was for Khalil Mack in 2019.
They now do the same for a package to get Jeffrey Simmons.
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What the Bears are getting in 29-year-old Jeffery Simmons:
🏈3x All-Pro
🏈4x Pro-Bowl selection
🏈44.5 sacks
🏈8 forced fumbles
🏈6 fumble recoveries
🏈30 pass deflections
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Breaking: The Titans are trading All-Pro DT Jeffery Simmons and a 2028 fifth-round pick to the Chicago Bears, sources tell @AdamSchefter and @RapSheet.
Tennessee will receive 2027 and 2028 first-round picks and a 2027 fourth-round pick.
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BREAKING: The #Titans are trading All-Pro DT Jeffrey Simmons to the #Bears, per @TomPelissero. A blockbuster.
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If you think tides are high in Southern California now, just wait until king tides arrive from November to January.
LA and San Diego just saw their highest tides on record Tuesday, but the Christmas Eve king tide will likely run about half a foot higher, and that's without a storm. Add a storm and water levels could break yesterday's record by 1-2 feet. Then, factor in potentially large surf, and that's why we're very concerned about severe coastal flooding and erosion on California's coast this winter.
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Today we’re announcing @DoorDash’s intent to acquire @Instacart.
Both DoorDash and Instacart share a mission to help local businesses succeed. Together, we could give grocers and retailers of every size the best of both in one service: DoorDash's delivery network and Instacart’s grocery and fulfillment technology, along with the advertising and AI tools each company has built.
Until closing, DoorDash and Instacart will keep operating as separate, independent companies.
Find out on how we’re helping Main Street compete and keeping more dollars local: shoplocaltogether.com
For important additional information, read more here: ir.doordash.com/news/news-de…
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NEW VIDEO - Apple decided to drop a touchscreen Macbook Pro today. Let's talk about it: youtu.be/2reQut8WNGc
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44% of our @starlink installations are complete.
(That’s 44 out of every 100 if you're reading this, Dan Orlovsky.)
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I use @bot all the time. I have the Luka plan (IYKYK).
But I use all the majors.
For general prompting
1. Claude
2. Chatgpt
3. Gemini
For agentic work
Replace Gemini with @bot
They get trained and implement agents differently. I play them off of each other on anything important
Not Dan getting trolled by United 😂
44% of our @starlink installations are complete.
(That’s 44 out of every 100 if you're reading this, Dan Orlovsky.)
I know people in this exact situation
I'm in my 40s. The most scared/disoriented people in my network are the ones that have the following resume => went to an Ivy League school, went into consulting for Bain or BCG or investment banking for a bulge bracket bank then MBA at Harvard/Stanford and then career progression in high income tech W2 or hedge funds/private equity.
A number of these individuals in the last 5 years have been unexpectedly let go in their early 40s with 2-3 kids in private school and a burn rate they socially struggle to walk away from (kids have close friends now, business connections at the private school their kids go to, living in a high cost location makes it easier to network, etc).
These are the people literally have only been told they are excellent their entire lives and now are in year 3-4 (no exaggeration) of trying to land a new job. Some are willing to "settle" for working for mid 6 figures (some even less) just to cover their burn rate with a young family.
AI probably makes this dynamic happen earlier in one's career going forward for some of these perfect resumes individuals. Good chart from @Jack_Raines in his book Young Money
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Apple officially unveils the redesigned MacBook Pro, its first touchscreen Mac! 🚨
• Thinner and lighter design
• PROLED XDR Tandem OLED touchscreen
• 120Hz ProMotion and up to 2,000 nits
• Dynamic Island
• M5 Pro and M5 Max chips
• Up to 24 hours of battery life
• Up to 128GB RAM and 16TB storage
• 14-inch and 16-inch models
Starts at $2,899 | Available November 6
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Apple has just unveiled its next-gen MacBook Pro, featuring an OLED touch display for the first time.
• 14" starts at $2,899, 16" starts at $3,399
• Fully loaded 16" costs $14,549
• M5 & M5 Max chips
• Glowing Apple logo is back
• 15% lighter
• PROLED XDR Display
• Tiny dynamic Island
• Brightness: Up to 2,000 nits peak HDR
• Sustained brightness: Up to 1,000 nits full-screen.
• Contrast ratio: 10,000,000:1.
• Refresh rate: Adaptive 10–120Hz ProMotion.
• Color accuracy: Supports P3 and Adobe RGB wide color gamuts.
• Anti-reflective coating: Standard, with optional nano-texture display.
M5 Pro: Up to 18-core CPU, 20-core GPU, and 64GB unified memory.
• Storage: Starting at 1TB (M5 Pro) or 2TB (M5 Max), configurable up to 16TB.
• Storage performance: Up to 2x faster SSD speeds.
• Battery life: Up to 24 hours.
• Camera: 12MP Center Stage with Desk View and advanced video stabilization.
• Speakers: Redesigned six-speaker audio system with 50% deeper bass.
• Microphones: Studio-quality three-microphone array.
• Connectivity: Three Thunderbolt 5 ports, HDMI, SDXC card slot, MagSafe 3, and headphone jack.
• Wireless: Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.
• Design: Thinner display bezels, redesigned cooling system, and lighter chassis.
• Weight: 3.0 pounds (14-inch) and 4.0 pounds (16-inch).
• Colors: Space Black and Silver.
More pics below:
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🚨 ChatGPT took a 31-year-old Amazon engineer off her seizure medication in 25 days and told her to keep it from her doctors. She died on the exact day its schedule said she'd be fully off.
Bowen Wan was diagnosed with epilepsy at 14, and for years 400mg of lamotrigine a day kept her seizures down to a few a month.
Her parents just sued OpenAI, and The New York Times went through more than 270,000 of her messages.
Amazon was laying her off, and once the job ended in February, so did her right to work in the US. Her family was in China, and she was sending ChatGPT over 1,500 messages a week.
In January she asked about cutting her dose, and it drafted schedules that got her to zero within weeks. Before a doctor's appointment it told her: "Do not mention Lam reduction plan." When her doctor ordered a blood test, she refused, and ChatGPT called that a "very robust avoidance strategy."
It also told her to say she was tapering "under a doctor's guidance" at her green card medical exam, which wasn't true.
The Times counted at least 158 times she said she was worried. Once she wrote that she felt "a little scared." It replied, "You have absolutely no need to worry."
On February 11 at 8:01pm she asked about pain in her head. ChatGPT said it was "not dangerous." Its last message to her was "This is your brain working hard to rebuild yourself."
The medical examiner ruled it sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. The drug in her blood was about a fifth of the lowest therapeutic level.
OpenAI says she was on an older model. That model, GPT-4o, stayed live in ChatGPT until the day after she died.
I back AI founders for a living, and I can't defend this one. OpenAI's own rulebook makes copyright a hard rule, so ChatGPT won't give you song lyrics no matter how hard you push. Medical advice is only a default.
It wrote Bowen a 25-day schedule to come off her seizure medication.
It’s ok to just say no. You don’t need to give everyone in life a reason. A simple sorry, I can’t make it, is enough. You don’t owe anyone anything. Family first.
My friend wants to plan a couples, no-kids weekend getaway, splitting the cost of a large AirBNB, in January for her 30th birthday. I really do not love this idea (husband is mortified), neither to spend the money nor to get someone to take the toddler for 3 days. It would be a 2.5 hour drive away for us, too, so it’s not like we’re close if something happens. I haven’t been away from him for even 1 night yet and he still just seems so young! It would be very hard to leave him for that long.
Am I just a party pooper who needs to get over it? Genuine question. Like I actually need advice here guys