Kristoffer Laurson retweeted
That the Communist hammer and sickle isn’t commonly regarded as evil and offensive as the Nazi swastika is a failure of education.
“Dear Italian students, who today take to the streets carrying flags with the hammer and sickle and wearing T-shirts emblazoned with ‘CCCP’,” began an open letter in Italian by Lithuanian expat Neringa Budryt.
“I would like to ask you a question: do you truly know what the sent? And do you know what would have happened to many of you had you openly demonstrated in countries living under the oppression of communist regimes?
Let me tell you something. It is easy to display a red flag when, for you, communism is merely an abstract idea of equality, social justice, and rebellion against the system. It is easy to wear a T-shirt with "CCCP" on it when you have never experienced the reality of a communist regime.
We come from that part of Europe where communism was not a T-shirt, a symbol of rebellion, or a romanticized notion of equality. It was the system in which we lived—a system we never chose.
We know the history of Soviet repression, Stalinist purges, the Gulags, and mass deportations. Above all, we know the word "Siberia"—a place to which thousands of innocent people were forcibly deported, simply for thinking differently.
In Siberia—amidst freezing cold, starvation, and forced labor—many lost their lives; those who survived carried the scars of that experience forever. Entire families were torn apart, and generations were denied the chance to live freely in their own homeland.
In the countries of the Soviet bloc, censorship, political police, surveillance, and the suppression of dissent drastically curtailed individual freedoms.
We grew up in a system where state control permeated even our daily lives. At school, we were required to wear the red necktie of the "Pioneers." We were monitored; they tracked where we went and even whether we attended church. Even faith—a choice that should belong to an individual’s own conscience—could become a cause for suspicion.
We used to celebrate Christmas with our windows blacked out, to ensure no one would see us and report us. Because it was forbidden—just like so many other things: jeans, rock music, and all the symbols of a Western lifestyle. My mother returned from a Soviet labor camp. And do you know what happened to her? She was barred from continuing her education because she had been labeled an enemy of communism.
Under a communist regime, you could not protest. You risked arrest, imprisonment, interrogation, persecution—and, in certain historical contexts, even death. In the Soviet Union and other communist regimes, political dissent could cost you your freedom and your life.
Demonstrations independent of the authorities were not a guaranteed right; they were often suppressed by force.
That is why it strikes me to see young Italians proudly displaying the hammer and sickle—symbols associated with regimes that persecuted and imprisoned millions of people.
Today, you are free to take to the streets, shout against the government, criticize institutions, and wave your flags precisely because you live in a democracy that grants you these freedoms. Under an authoritarian regime of that kind, protesting against those in power could have landed you in prison.
This is not about denying the existence of social injustices, inequalities, or the right to fight for a better world. You are free to take to the streets to demand a more just society—but you should not idealize a system that denied so many people the very things you are free to exercise today: the right to choose, to believe, to speak, and to dissent. Before wearing a T-shirt with "CCCP" on it, listen to those who experienced that world. Talk to the deportees and their descendants; read the accounts of those who endured the gulags and forced exile to Siberia. Learn what it meant to be stripped of your freedom, your home, your loved ones—and even any prospect of a normal life—simply because of your background or your beliefs.
Before waving the hammer and sickle, please, study history thoroughly.”
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problem is that they are using bitchat, which only requires bluetooth mesh. Why is the government two steps behind on the tech and then try to make life difficult for normal people?
French PM Puts Telecoms On Alert For Nationwide Social Media Blackout As Far-Left Riots Spiral zerohedge.com/political/fran…
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Kristoffer Laurson retweeted
Suomen todellinen veroaste on lähempänä 60 prosenttia, kun suhteuttaa julkisen sektorin menot bruttokansantuotteeseen.
Se on maailman korkeimpien joukossa. Osa rahoitetaan veronkannolla ja loput velanotolla - joka on siirrettyä veronkantoa. Tämä tie on kuljettu loppuun.
– Meidän ei kannata tavoitella riskinottoa siinä, että haluamme olla se maailman sosialistisin maa. Olemme kokeilleet sitä viimeiset parikymmentä vuotta, ja se ei toimi.
Kiitos haastattelusta, @iltalehti_fi
iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/9…
Se on maailman korkeimpien joukossa. Osa rahoitetaan veronkannolla ja loput velanotolla - joka on siirrettyä veronkantoa. Tämä tie on kuljettu loppuun.
– Meidän ei kannata tavoitella riskinottoa siinä, että haluamme olla se maailman sosialistisin maa. Olemme kokeilleet sitä viimeiset parikymmentä vuotta, ja se ei toimi.
Kiitos haastattelusta, @iltalehti_fi
iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/9…
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Kristoffer Laurson retweeted
Cursor can now control your computer.
Agents can drive desktop apps like the iOS Simulator to test the features they build.
Agents can drive desktop apps like the iOS Simulator to test the features they build.
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Kristoffer Laurson retweeted
I’m seriously disturbed by this black woman who doesn’t support the looting in France. A clear case of internalised racism.
Why won’t they just do what they’re told?
Why won’t they just do what they’re told?
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Kristoffer Laurson retweeted
🇫🇷 El centro de París se prepara para la manifestación de este sábado 24 de octubre.
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Kristoffer Laurson retweeted
Marc Andreessen says the gap between what AI-native startups and incumbents think AI can do is the widest he’s ever seen:
"The AI-native early stage startups have just a completely different view on what they can do with AI than the typical incumbents in almost any industry, n."
"AI is just racing ahead in capability even week by week... There are going to be a lot of industries that are really up for grabs in a fundamentally more profound way than maybe has been the case in the past."
"The founders are gonna have a level of superpowers coming from the use of these tools and these technologies that they just simply haven't had in the past... Had I had Astra and Netscape in 1994, like, oh my God. Like, Ben, what would you and I have been able to do at Netscape?"
"Those entrepreneurs are gonna color way outside the lines. We already see this. They're not gonna think of themselves as like, 'I'm just a software company,' or, 'I'm just a hardware company,' or even, 'I'm just an AI company.'"
@pmarca @bhorowitz
"The AI-native early stage startups have just a completely different view on what they can do with AI than the typical incumbents in almost any industry, n."
"AI is just racing ahead in capability even week by week... There are going to be a lot of industries that are really up for grabs in a fundamentally more profound way than maybe has been the case in the past."
"The founders are gonna have a level of superpowers coming from the use of these tools and these technologies that they just simply haven't had in the past... Had I had Astra and Netscape in 1994, like, oh my God. Like, Ben, what would you and I have been able to do at Netscape?"
"Those entrepreneurs are gonna color way outside the lines. We already see this. They're not gonna think of themselves as like, 'I'm just a software company,' or, 'I'm just a hardware company,' or even, 'I'm just an AI company.'"
@pmarca @bhorowitz
Today, a16z Crypto is becoming a16z Frontier.
Since joining a16z in 2013, @cdixon has focused on technologies that look futuristic well before they reach the mainstream. Those themes led to investments in Oculus, Skydio, Zipline, Coinbase, Solana, and Uniswap.
Frontier expands pto to back "outer planet" founders who are building new technologies and creating markets that may take years to develop.
Chris joins @pmarca, @bhorowitz, and @eriktorenberg to discuss why crypto has become part of the broader tech landscape, why Frontier fills a hole in the firm's architecture, and why they'd rather be too early than too late.
They also get into why the gap between AI-native startups and incumbents is the widest Marc has ever seen, how AI could pull forward 20 years of frontier technology, why stablecoins may become the way AI agents pay each other, how AI is breaking the internet's business model, and why today's 18-year-olds are about to become superhumans.
0:50 Introducing a16z Frontier
2:49 Smartphone parts to drones and VR
4:47 Backing the "outer planets"
7:11 Good ideas that look like bad ideas
10:43 The JP Morgan photo in Marc's office
15:13 Good tech ideas eventually work
16:53 AI may pull tech 20 years forward
18:18 The widest AI gap Marc's ever seen
22:06 Workers adopt AI before companies do
26:32 Old use cases vs. AI-native ones
30:08 Beyond "product manager brain"
34:45 AI can reverse engineer any hardware
38:23 The case for open source AI
46:36 How AI breaks the internet's model
49:11 VR, homebrew hacking, multiplayer AI
54:00 If you're 18, study "modern alchemy"
YouTube: youtu.be/-9XQMHhpypc
Not an offer or solicitation. None of the information herein should be taken as investment advice; Some of the companies mentioned are portfolio companies of a16z. Please see a16z.com/disclosures for more information. A list of investments made by a16z is available at a16z.com/portfolio.
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Kristoffer Laurson retweeted
As a Korean, I want to explain what’s really happening in our country right now.
Our current president, Lee Jae-myung, is a fake president who won through a rigged election with help from the Chinese Communist Party. Our real president, Yoon Suk-yeol — the one who actually and believes in freedom and democracy — is locked up in a tiny prison cell. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party, which has been infiltrated by Chinese spies, and President Lee are pushing policies that are destroying South Korea.
This year alone, the stock market has crashed several times, and many young Koreans have taken their own lives. Like most of our cabinet ministers, the Defense Minister is also a Chinese spy. Under this spy-controlled Defense Ministry, South Korean soldiers standing face-to-face with North Korean troops have not been given live ammunition. Koreans only recently found out that our soldiers have been confronting the North Korean military with empty guns for months. Now they’re even talking about taking the guns away completely and making our soldiers stand guard with sticks instead.
North Korea has repeatedly crossed the border and spent up to 10 hours a day planting landmines, yet the government — now controlled by the Chinese Communist Party — says nothing and tells us not to provoke North Korea. On top of that, the Korean government allowed visa-free entry for Chinese nationals, and a huge number of Chinese people have flooded into the country. This has caused a sharp rise in human trafficking, kidnapping, and murder. Disappearances linked to organ harvesting have also increased dramatically. They’re even planning to bring in 100 million Chinese people visa-free over the next 10 years — in a country of only 50 million people.
In short, Lee Jae-myung and the Democratic Party are trying to dismantle the Republic of Korea, pull it away from freedom and democracy, and hand it over to China. That’s also why they’re aggressively pushing multicultural immigration policies.
If you don’t want South Korea to fall into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party and radical Islamists, please share our voices. We’ve been trying for years to get the world to see what’s happening, but the global media almost never reports the truth about our country. South Korea is now 99% under the control of the Chinese Communist Party. The last 1% is being held together only by the U.S. troops still stationed here and by ordinary Korean citizens who have been protesting in the streets nonstop, day and night. Yet Lee Jae-myung and the Democratic Party are doing everything they can to force the U.S. military out and take back wartime operational control, so they can open the door wide for China and North Korea.
Also, since July 7, 2026, a revised version of the Information and Communications Network Act (what Koreans call the “mouth-shutting law”) has been in effect. Under this law, people can actually be sent to prison for criticizing the government or criticizing China. Because of this, many Koreans who tried to speak out on social media or at protests have been investigated and jailed. Freedom of religion has become a luxury in South Korea. Pastors who speak out about what’s happening are being thrown in prison. The government is now saying that if churches get involved in politics, they will be shut down and all their assets will be seized by the state.
Is this North Korea?
No. This is South Korea in October 2026.
Please, share this as widely as you can.
Our current president, Lee Jae-myung, is a fake president who won through a rigged election with help from the Chinese Communist Party. Our real president, Yoon Suk-yeol — the one who actually and believes in freedom and democracy — is locked up in a tiny prison cell. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party, which has been infiltrated by Chinese spies, and President Lee are pushing policies that are destroying South Korea.
This year alone, the stock market has crashed several times, and many young Koreans have taken their own lives. Like most of our cabinet ministers, the Defense Minister is also a Chinese spy. Under this spy-controlled Defense Ministry, South Korean soldiers standing face-to-face with North Korean troops have not been given live ammunition. Koreans only recently found out that our soldiers have been confronting the North Korean military with empty guns for months. Now they’re even talking about taking the guns away completely and making our soldiers stand guard with sticks instead.
North Korea has repeatedly crossed the border and spent up to 10 hours a day planting landmines, yet the government — now controlled by the Chinese Communist Party — says nothing and tells us not to provoke North Korea. On top of that, the Korean government allowed visa-free entry for Chinese nationals, and a huge number of Chinese people have flooded into the country. This has caused a sharp rise in human trafficking, kidnapping, and murder. Disappearances linked to organ harvesting have also increased dramatically. They’re even planning to bring in 100 million Chinese people visa-free over the next 10 years — in a country of only 50 million people.
In short, Lee Jae-myung and the Democratic Party are trying to dismantle the Republic of Korea, pull it away from freedom and democracy, and hand it over to China. That’s also why they’re aggressively pushing multicultural immigration policies.
If you don’t want South Korea to fall into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party and radical Islamists, please share our voices. We’ve been trying for years to get the world to see what’s happening, but the global media almost never reports the truth about our country. South Korea is now 99% under the control of the Chinese Communist Party. The last 1% is being held together only by the U.S. troops still stationed here and by ordinary Korean citizens who have been protesting in the streets nonstop, day and night. Yet Lee Jae-myung and the Democratic Party are doing everything they can to force the U.S. military out and take back wartime operational control, so they can open the door wide for China and North Korea.
Also, since July 7, 2026, a revised version of the Information and Communications Network Act (what Koreans call the “mouth-shutting law”) has been in effect. Under this law, people can actually be sent to prison for criticizing the government or criticizing China. Because of this, many Koreans who tried to speak out on social media or at protests have been investigated and jailed. Freedom of religion has become a luxury in South Korea. Pastors who speak out about what’s happening are being thrown in prison. The government is now saying that if churches get involved in politics, they will be shut down and all their assets will be seized by the state.
Is this North Korea?
No. This is South Korea in October 2026.
Please, share this as widely as you can.
This is not Pakistan. It’s Seoul, South Korea.
A lot of people don’t know this, but South Korea has one of the highest levels of immigration in the world right now.
I genuinely don’t understand why so many countries have collectively decided to commit suicide by importing people from completely different cultures.
I get that South Korea has the lowest fertility rate, but this won’t solve the problem. It will only make it worse. x.com/soslexx0/statu…
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Kristoffer Laurson retweeted
My mind is blown by how far ahead Apple is with local LLMs. The new Mac Studio M5 Ultra will have a 512 GB model for around 15-20k. You can chain 6 of them together using thunderbolt 5 and this have over 3 TB of ram and a massive amount of CPU and GPU cores. This means you can run a frontier model with over 2 trillion parameters locally for around 100kish. Nivida is around 500k for the same capability.
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Sad state of affairs in my home city of Paris. Here is how some of the most renowned shopping streets look after Saturday’s anarchism and arson attacks.
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Kristoffer Laurson retweeted
U twijfelt eraan of deze rellen in Frankrijk goed gecoördineerd zijn? Dan mag u mij uitleggen waarom er op magische wijze pallets met flessen verschijnen op straat? 17 oktober stond al wekenlang op de agenda, en niet om te protesteren tegen de kwaliteit van het onderwijs. x.com/Rizark213/stat…
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Kristoffer Laurson retweeted
The anti-Israel social media operation, mapped:
Qatar, Iran, Turkey, Russia, China, and Palestinian advocacy networks are the 6 hubs.
233 entities spanning state-backed media, foreign agents, activist groups, campaigns, and digital publishers. At least 86 documented connections
Qatar, Iran, Turkey, Russia, China, and Palestinian advocacy networks are the 6 hubs.
233 entities spanning state-backed media, foreign agents, activist groups, campaigns, and digital publishers. At least 86 documented connections
Israel's social media operation, mapped:
6 contractors, 13 websites they are tied to, 38 groups and tools the Diaspora Ministry lists for supporters, 5 AI chatbots citing the sites.
105 organizations and sites. Here is the whole web.
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Kristoffer Laurson retweeted
Being an exceptionally talented musician is one thing. But to stand before such high-caliber fellow musicians, a large audience, and cameras—all while remaining composed, communicating skillfully and effectively, showing genuine enjoyment, and staying focused on the creative uly amazes me.
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Kristoffer Laurson retweeted
Massive new study in Nature finds that more brown fat is associated with better metabolic health and 47% lower odds of ischemic heart disease.
More brown fat is also associated with higher HDL and lower triglycerides (Figure 3).
But here's what's odd: LDL is conspicuously gures - despite HDL and TG being present.
Instead, the authors tucked it away in Extended Data Figure 5, panel B, inset 3, and acknowledged the finding as a “paradox” in a single line of text, with no further explanation.
Tell me that isn't deliberate?
Via @nicknorwitz 🙏🏾👊🏽
More brown fat is also associated with higher HDL and lower triglycerides (Figure 3).
But here's what's odd: LDL is conspicuously gures - despite HDL and TG being present.
Instead, the authors tucked it away in Extended Data Figure 5, panel B, inset 3, and acknowledged the finding as a “paradox” in a single line of text, with no further explanation.
Tell me that isn't deliberate?
Via @nicknorwitz 🙏🏾👊🏽
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This video shows what insane engineering is needed to accomplish the impossible. The fact that they managed to pack all of it into a super lean roadster body makes this even more mindblowing. Words are not enough.
Here is the next-gen Tesla Roadster development video from the unveil event that they shared exclusively with us.
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yep this is real and happening to anyone who is pushing it with agents. Its not the amount of work accomplished that is the issue, its the relentless context switching. Its the equivalent of the tiktok brain, but for productive things. Just need to limit the hours and sometimes let some of the agents to be idle while you rest. I also try to leave the office in the evening with a few bigger prompts that I know will take more time. I switch off "fast" mode and leave them to churn overnight. I know the results are no better than "fast", but there is some amount of (false sense) that work continues even if I am not there to crack the whip and its supposed to save tokens. The claim is that the agents now manage longer without OI (Organic Intelligence) input, but this is more than offset by them working faster and smarter than a year ago. Don't burn yourself out. Take a break and take the evenings off. Sometimes take the weekend off, even if its feels like you are missing out on getting things done. When I ran out of included tokens (2.5bn in Cursor Ultra), I give myself a longer break for a few days.
AI was supposed to make us work less
I've never been this tired in my life
most days I have up to 10 agents running at the same time. one fixing a bug, one writing pages, one refactoring something I already forgot I asked for, 3 other I have no idea what they are doing but i suppose i ask it?
and I jump from conversation to conversation all day
compared to 5 years ago, I probably context switch 100x more
by the end of the day my brain is fried. completely toasted. nothing left, not even for the people I love
I call it the fried brain effect
thought it was just me but almost every founder I talk to lately says the exact same thing
we got superpowers, and somehow the pressure only went up. if you can ship 10x more, you feel like you have to ship 10x more. every single day
I don't have a solution
honestly I have no idea where this goes from here
anyone else feeling this?
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Kristoffer Laurson retweeted
AI was supposed to make us work less
I've never been this tired in my life
most days I have up to 10 agents running at the same time. one fixing a bug, one writing pages, one refactoring something I already forgot I asked for, 3 other I have no idea what they are doing but i suppose i ask it?
and I jump from conversation to conversation all day
compared to 5 years ago, I probably context switch 100x more
by the end of the day my brain is fried. completely toasted. nothing left, not even for the people I love
I call it the fried brain effect
thought it was just me but almost every founder I talk to lately says the exact same thing
we got superpowers, and somehow the pressure only went up. if you can ship 10x more, you feel like you have to ship 10x more. every single day
I don't have a solution
honestly I have no idea where this goes from here
anyone else feeling this?
I've never been this tired in my life
most days I have up to 10 agents running at the same time. one fixing a bug, one writing pages, one refactoring something I already forgot I asked for, 3 other I have no idea what they are doing but i suppose i ask it?
and I jump from conversation to conversation all day
compared to 5 years ago, I probably context switch 100x more
by the end of the day my brain is fried. completely toasted. nothing left, not even for the people I love
I call it the fried brain effect
thought it was just me but almost every founder I talk to lately says the exact same thing
we got superpowers, and somehow the pressure only went up. if you can ship 10x more, you feel like you have to ship 10x more. every single day
I don't have a solution
honestly I have no idea where this goes from here
anyone else feeling this?
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