i love the small print “because the regulators won’t let us :(“
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Not that easy to clear pumpkins through security those days
As I leave Vancouver, I am comforted to know that I do so under the vigilant watchful gaze of the goose
atprOtO is a giant pile of economics problems people keep misconstruing as engineering or product problems. Raise money and hire a COO, or better yet, hire a fractional COO now and pay them in whatever combination of equity and cash you can manage so they can help you raise them a FTE salary.
I don't know why I show my teeth like that but I promise I won't eat those great fellows
(for now)
We might be reading different aspects of this.
But Sherlocking one of your few ecosystem members with business traction — at a community event where their logo is right behind you as a sponsor! — is at the very least hamfisted.
You don’t need to be maximally evil to FUD your own.
While it's true (and we should try to fund the actual people doing important stuff so they can, you know, pay their rent) it's also why this #ATmosphereConf was so different to some other conferences: money took the place it should always have, i.e. a tool to do great things, not an absolute goal 🙇
OpenAI a tellement freiné sur les investissements et annulé de commandes que le prix de la RAM commencerait enfin à redescendre.
whatever your thoughts on Bluesky and ATProto, I can say that having just spent the weekend hanging out with a ton of people involved with those projects in person, it’s a REALLY cool group. I do feel better about the future of the internet now.