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seriously unserious. founder @everydaydvcs | backed by @fdotinc

NYC / SF
Joined July 2017
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Introducing Laika, by Lucen Robotics. An open, modular robotics kit for anyone building physical AI. Biped, 7-DoF arm, dual arms, wheeled robot, quadruped — reusable, repairable, open. For under $6k, one kit converts into 4 embodiments instead of buying 4 robots, 3 times cheaper than Unitree EDU. Arm-only kits start at $1,999. We're fortunate to have early support from @fdotinc. Pre-orders are open, limited to 100 units, shipping in December. lucenrobotics.com
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Introducing @typesafeai Jev-powered Viral UGC Discovery Find high-performing creators for just $0.002 each. No more $199/mo influencer tools. Your AI agents can now: → Search 10K+ TikTok, Instagram & YouTube creators → Analyze each creator's last 50 posts → Discover small creators with outsized engagement Open source. No subscriptions. 0% markup.
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Announcing REK 2.1 on Nov 20 Win in the sim, control a real robot! Sim playoffs start Oct 30 at 8PM PT.
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Today I’m excited to share that Optivolt is unstealthing with a $32M Series A. Solar growth continues to outpace all other forms of energy production, but the granularity of control we get from deployed systems hasn’t changed in decades. So we’ve added a brain inside solar panels, opening the door for a new unit of optimization and control.
We’re proud to announce Optivolt has raised a $32M Series A to deliver the world's most intelligent solar stack.
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we made a game where you find the bug in openai’s office it’s called Chat & Mouse hope you enjoy
We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices. We used our models to understand the device and where it had come from, identifying that a specific employee had planted it a few days earlier. We referred the matter to the FBI, and we’re grateful to the agents and prosecutors who moved quickly to make an arrest. The FBI’s investigation is ongoing and we will continue to support their work. At this time, we have no indications of this individual inappropriately accessing or exfiltrating model weights, source code, or customer data. The employee was terminated. We take protecting our technology, data, and people seriously, and as a matter of national importance. Our security program is designed to protect against a wide range of threat actors, from insider risks to cybercriminals to nation states, and this case is an example of how AI can help address these sophisticated security threats.
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they’re back again
NYC! We are BACK on October 22nd with @matamalaortiz, @minafahmi, and @alexleiphart. We'll hear about the generative UI research happening @runwayml, the design thinking behind @sandbar's Stream ring, and the agentic brand systems being built @littleplainsxo. Big night!
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New York City is one of those places where the hype seems so desperately overblown until you get there and find your silly eyes growing wide and sparkly like a plucky young kid arriving from the sticks somewhere in some fuckass Netflix movie and you start lucidly dreaming that Everything Is Possible™ bc it genuinely all feels like it's right at your fingertips and everyone is friendly and High Openness the Way It Should Be and also you can finally move at your normal pace as a fast walking jaywalker without looking like a fucking weirdo
I miss New York City everyday
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if you fidget all day like me, go sign up on itsabilly.com and follow @whatsabilly first batch coming soon!
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we’re up to something @whatsabilly
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I ran a simulation built on 700 million real MTA trips. It said to close the 3rd Avenue L stop. stopthestop.com
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NYC gotta be the only country in the world where you can get pumpkin spice lattes with your boys
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a friend for fidgeting and more
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building toys / universal design @michaelgmarkman
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new york city is the best city to be a designer right now
NYC! Your favorite live design podcast is BACK on September 24th for our Season 2 premiere featuring @scspeier, @johnbai, and @kelin_online. This is gonna be a great night - see you there!
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they’re back 🔥
Season 2 is coming this Fall, live in New York City.
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michael markman retweeted
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weekends are for partifuls, weekdays are for lumas
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am i the only one unreasonably bothered by the uneven padding on this bank of america logo?
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stepping closer and closer towards the future
Collaborative design is moving off the screen and into your physical space. @ShapesXR is bringing its highly recognized spatial creation platform to XREAL AURA. Leveraging AURA’s immersive 70° FOV, teams can sketch environments, storyboard interactions, and test concepts in 3D before writing a single line of code. For the first time, this powerful design tool is available natively on lightweight OST glasses via Android XR. #XREAL #AURA #ShapesXR #SpatialComputing #AndroidXR #EnterpriseXR
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