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We're hosting a small event to discuss the latest advances in AI and biology this Friday evening, featuring @arcinstitute researchers and others. Apply if interested! https://t.co/Esdvf4td1F
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@sahillp @ParafinHQ @stripe Welcome! We will build great things.
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Track $OUSD growth at https://t.co/HXKo5dXaia.
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Open Standard, $OUSD, is now live! Open Standard is a new USD stablecoin with a very large network of participating partners (https://t.co/N9hao5HKxF). It's designed to be exceptionally secure, reliable, and developer-friendly. Importantly, most yield is shared directly with https://t.co/ZbZoByUjXC
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@flurin17 https://t.co/1psZl0jSXG
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I've long wished that online mapping services were far richer and higher-density. They elide so much detail today! We have gloriously high-DPI screens... I want to wallow in cartographic filigree. AI of course now makes this possible: https://t.co/fRIivTYqt1 https://t.co/fXXLYtKcpF
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Very good post from @AtalantaArdenM on the role of suffering in art: https://t.co/eyzqdV0G7E.
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The small Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice in London's Postman's Park is quite moving: an assembly of earnest Arts and Crafts tiles commemorating people who died saving the lives of others. George Watts, the creator, in 1887: "My proposal, as you know, is plainly this: that the https://t.co/5lWQE77Uyh
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Some data we recently assembled on entrepreneurship/compute in Europe: https://t.co/1ufEIHFqta. We hope that one of the useful roles that Stripe can play is in collecting and publishing empirical data pertaining to entrepreneurship and industry in Europe. There's growing https://t.co/7a93GiyLnq
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🆕: @Meta and @stripe are partnering to make it easy for businesses to accept agentic payments using the @Muse Connector Platform. Learn more: • https://t.co/kGsKMULe3m • https://t.co/Fn5U2QRaaz • Email jweinstein@ / @jeff_weinstein https://t.co/9JYS0Pq12z
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Based on this excellent paper from @Usama_Polani: https://t.co/jiB0sEx5wp.
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Very good piece, as usual, from @jburnmurdoch: https://t.co/gLBHIKEZtx
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Tempo is compounding very quickly. Seeing a lot of new stablecoin + agent use-cases. https://t.co/iS2Un1X6TJ
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Given how wary academia (understandably) is of the effects of AI on many disciplines, it is particularly ironic that consuming its publications is so easy for the models (the world's knowledge is neatly serried in their pretraining corpora) and so cumbersome for most humans (with
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@Nicolas_Colin I don't think your views are consistent with the views of most founders. https://t.co/SGpzIwsn94
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@pieteromvlee Clarified the wording... feel free to try again.
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A quick EU founder survey: https://t.co/LjizHbxgIQ.
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@Nicolas_Colin Having conducted a lot of business in both Europe and the US, this just isn't true. I've waited months for basic things to happen in Europe despite being willing to spend very large amounts on lawyers. And lots of things in the US (like incorporation) have minimal legal fees.
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I'm curious to read other stories from people who've scaled new businesses in Europe. (And if your experience has been positive, that's also useful to hear.) Feel free to email me: patrick@stripe.com. https://t.co/zjpzJntyNB
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@ravi_sola @SGRodriques @DavidRBellamy Of course. We work very hard to prevent the deadly things!
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@TaylorLorenz https://t.co/VLeHuRuOAZ
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@SGRodriques @DavidRBellamy The avirulence hypothesis is clearly not always true — TB, myxomatosis, HIV, smallpox, etc., have remained highly virulent. My understanding is that the relationship between virulence and fitness remains debated, with no general expectation of attenuation. I agree with the
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Stimulating piece on Scottish education in @asteriskmgzn: https://t.co/S4VNJVmy6r. I suspect that discussions of canon, culture, and shared context to return to the fore in the coming years, as many skills, narrowly-construed, are ceded to AI, and as some of the excesses of
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Architects oppose the kinds of buildings that most people like. (I’ve wondered if one could further corroborate this by using Flickr/Instagram or similar to investigate the building traits that correlate with photo frequency.) https://t.co/jAwiHOVyT9
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Chris Arnade's blog continues to be one of the very best: https://t.co/tUMFIUq8R7. (You can also follow him: @chris_arnade.)
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I've been enjoying Muse: https://t.co/ynb57nMDw4. Among many other things, you can use it to buy anywhere on the internet with @link. https://t.co/qIA1ZAKv7p
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New improvements coming to the @link agent wallet every week. https://t.co/31TXeQKsrZ
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Ed West on the decline of reading: https://t.co/OjRKQnor29.
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Great essay from @clarabcollier: https://t.co/H1LpUNid9O. (You should subscribe to @asteriskmgzn, in addition to @WorksInProgMag of course. They have a very good print edition.)
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Excellent and important piece on clinical trials from @RuxandraTeslo: https://t.co/8QNb5QRvXZ
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Tempo is growing very quickly and there are a lot of new use-cases coming online. Reach out to the team if you’re building with stablecoins. https://t.co/vd6X3idELl
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Shopify is now available in https://t.co/1tLZLlixEJ. https://t.co/1xoy1xreVc
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Overall, I’m very surprised at how little media coverage there’s been around the OpenAI / Hugging Face attack. It’s clearly one of the most important things to happen this year.
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Between wallets for agents with @link (and @privy), MPP, Tempo, MCP, Stripe CLI, Agentic Commerce Suite, sandboxes, OpenRouter, Metronome/metered billing, Radar and distillation/token fraud, it turns out that "the economic infrastructure for AI" implicates a lot. Pretty much
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@maltekosub To me they all seem related!
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@maltekosub He didn’t say that it was the difference between success and failure. It (and similar issues, like employment law) were just the difference between staying in Germany and not.
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Met a German founder this week and asked him if all the stories one reads about the challenges of startups in Germany are exaggerated. "No, they're understated." Proceeded to describe spending a full day having a 90-page investment contract read to him (mandatory under German
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Grok Bot can now purchase anywhere with @link. (If you haven't tried Grok Bot, you should. It's very good.) https://t.co/oAVUkBdopl
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Instinct and Stripe @link: text your agent to buy things around the internet. https://t.co/OnotR2aKN5
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@mmpiatkowski @lugaricano Very good post. Also, I really enjoyed your book about Poland, as an aside.
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Pretty neat: EURR, a new Euro-backed stablecoin, powered by Bridge Open Issuance. https://t.co/zMBS1zp9S1
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Companies selling tokens are facing massive amounts of fraud these days. Stripe Radar is getting very, very good at blocking it. https://t.co/CPIZWs5Q9t
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Europe can have an amazing next few decades. I hope we can play a small role in making that more likely. https://t.co/yXB0lgf6fl
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$ ori [your favorite harness] --model thinkingmachines/inkling:free (More: https://t.co/eKlqzrZP3d.) https://t.co/h06b9bHIlt
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$ ori --model stealth/ox-alpha It's very impressive. https://t.co/LRISKwKTOL
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The 2026 @arcinstitute Virtual Cell Challenge just launched. The grand prize is $100,000, sponsored by @NVIDIA, @10xGenomics, and @UltimaGenomics. There's a lot of interest in virtual cells these days: ML models of cells that can complement wet lab experiments. (You'll always
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OpenRouter is joining Stripe: https://t.co/hiH0kDB3hG. As anyone who uses it knows, @OpenRouter is a truly delightful developer tool. It is by far the best way to use new models and manage multiple inference providers. OpenRouter is also playing an increasingly important role:
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New Aesthetics awardee. https://t.co/6w0yZJxXVo
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@hraness I prefer having a self-contained application that you can run anywhere -- ideal for me is a hosted web app (like Jupyter). You can't run Codex as a web app afaik.
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I love agentic coding harnesses, but they shouldn't be primarily terminal-based. The terminal is great for quick and precise commands, but information density is extremely low and UI affordances are minimal. Maybe provision of TUIs is worthwhile for occasional use (when
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The World of Yesterday is amazing. https://t.co/W1DXsjYJIh
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@EconTalker I really love the Zweig book — one of my favorites — but didn’t find Radetzky so engaging. I will admit, though, that it did probably teach me more than any other single work about why the Habsburg empire fell: it was just spiritually exhausted. Try *Beware of Pity* if you like
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Fast Company interviews some New Aesthetics grantees: https://t.co/HyREiUOd7l
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@Afinetheorem You should write this post!
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@InsecureNature @lanrat 😮
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Sprawling set of new programmable money movement capabilities coming to Stripe — page below has the full roadmap. https://t.co/96XPa4ZOgg
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Here is San Francisco's current Hall of Justice, as an aside: https://t.co/ZHTuLuReeY
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I only recently learned that this pedestrian bridge sits where San Francisco's first Hall of Justice did. Before/after below. I submit this in my evidence packet to anyone who maintains that nothing has gone wrong. https://t.co/VMnA7ER7CY https://t.co/IxIogAd7H4
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@hello_code_ No need to wire anything with Stripe Projects
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After developing the app locally (two prompts), deploying it took one prompt: > Push this to Vercel. Use Stripe Projects to create the account. Store the state somewhere safe. Claude chose to use Upstash as its datastore, which seems to be working well. https://t.co/7Bfxj2xdIO
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Made a quick survey about the economics of AI: https://t.co/G9Xl7RW9Si.
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As an aside and related to these topics: Ruskin (Nature of Gothic) is the best thing I've read so far this year. https://t.co/BnLTWlFMc8
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@davidnoelromas Very fair; no claims made about Irish cuisine…
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Someone asked me recently why I’ve become interested in aesthetics after having spent most of my life more interested in STEM-adjacent topics. I hadn’t really considered the question consciously before, but I’m certainly thinking about aesthetics more than I used to. I think it’s https://t.co/m95i0TLTBk
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What causes stagnation in the built world is one of the key questions of our era. In this month’s @WorksInProgMag, @SCP_Hughes argues quite convincingly that some of today's housing shortage is downstream of aesthetic choices. In particular, he shows that the abruptly ugly turn
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Approaching 30k @mpp transactions per day. Machine-to-machine payments are starting to become a thing. https://t.co/GxeBojF19o
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The Pygmalion performance of Monteverdi's Vespro Della Beata Vergine is amazing. https://t.co/yH5iiPXkpi
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Seems very sensible. https://t.co/jzDHh6MORW
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@JamesBroughel Read the linked post!
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@econcallum That specific dataset isn't, but ONS reports same trend: https://t.co/53zqDoJeeR.
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@robertcossins Don't think it's just a market share/composition thing -- as post describes, our data tracks macro reporting in other countries.
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On the ONS: • https://t.co/5yNaMGGYeW • https://t.co/3BnMfLCb5B • https://t.co/fe2hmKcRZw • https://t.co/kXgE9rgZjL • https://t.co/B4NL21yh1f
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It's been interesting and puzzling to witness the problems with accuracy in UK economic statistics over the past few years. (See the links in the next tweet for more.) It seems that the Office for National Statistics, ONS, now struggles to effectively measure basic figures such https://t.co/UfV7Remqs6
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@riemannzeta Love the work of both Brand and Alexander…
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@gminoprio Oh no! You should ask for a refund. 😅 Let me fix…
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I've been enjoying Victoria Whitworth's new work, The Book of Kells: Unlocking the Enigma. I've actually never seen the Book of Kells in person, somewhat to my embarrassment. I've been doing some reading about the origins of Christianity this year, however, and I figured I https://t.co/UKW4kmT3Fd
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Links post from @RichardHanania, noting: "A very high portion of the links comes from Works in Progress, which I think has become in essence the most must-read thing on the internet." https://t.co/EFakR3kcLu
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@marclou @stripe @jrfarr @DataFast_ Thank you very much for joining us!
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Delighted to partner with Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase, Cloudflare, Google, and many others, to introduce Open Standard, a new stablecoin designed for scale: https://t.co/0cRjmmtJGU.
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@Nicolas_Colin https://t.co/XXKRI51oAP
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@Nicolas_Colin https://t.co/seGUivmm5P https://t.co/9MFZ1d5KRk
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@Nicolas_Colin https://t.co/vUXofoc6vR
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@Nicolas_Colin https://t.co/k5rY9ptzQI
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@Nicolas_Colin https://t.co/wKBG0s9xpl This is perhaps an egregious instance, but there is clearly a strong institutional bias against air-conditioning across Europe, and to claim otherwise is not very credible to me.
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@Nicolas_Colin I think the pity and mockery stems from so many Europeans (usually institutions/"experts") dismissing AC's utility. The vast majority of the debate is not over the mechanics and logistics of deployment, but whether widespread AC is in principle desirable in the first place. I
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@MartinShkreli @toobaffled I hear that people who receive chemotherapy also die of cancer at alarmingly high rates.
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New from Stripe Economics: The Age of the Solopreneur https://t.co/GTS8jEcK5z https://t.co/UEglqu1daG
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@thetikiverse @nabeelqu https://t.co/rHi3vdbBuy
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New project: https://t.co/0mvpzkysHb. More: https://t.co/G5af6WXdTL.
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I asked Claude about the air conditioning debate in Europe, and it really didn’t pull any punches. https://t.co/bA29683Hgh
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Very early experiment but I think this will be cool. https://t.co/42iqZXZIGE. https://t.co/KYLXm3eYzK
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A very kind endorsement of @WorksInProgMag from the peerless and inspiring @kevin2kelly. https://t.co/iE6P1PO2h7 You can (and should!) subscribe over at https://t.co/lqpiAsucr2. https://t.co/yzYxoafQfw
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@Beuysaunt I agree with this and should have noted it. Much of the center felt like a museum to me; much more so than 20 years ago.
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I just visited Paris. The city seemed to be in particularly radiant shape this time. • It got me thinking about how many of the nicest built environments in the world standardize materials rather than form. Jerusalem's stone regulation makes it much prettier than Tel Aviv. https://t.co/J3h7MAmmNQ
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Being comically maladapted to sunny climes, I have in endless and often unsuccessful pursuit of self-defense experimented with a sprawling battery of different sunscreens. This one is by far the best I’ve found: https://t.co/ymSh3LgElX. (You need to illicitly procure the non-US
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The @Tempo mainnet launched 93 days ago. Quick summary of the current state: • Run rate payment volume is around $3 billion. There's a long way to go, but it's cool to see real usage already emerging. (It took Stripe a lot longer than 93 days to get to $3 billion.) • As a
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Very much enjoyed this piece in the latest @WorksInProgMag about how Alberta became a rat-free sanctuary and the only significant human-inhabited place on earth that is free of them. Excellent "you can just do things" energy. "William Lobay, a crop protection supervisor at the
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Congratulations to @eoghan, @destraynor, and the whole Fin team! https://t.co/Uh2X3rEPNI
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Delighted to partner with @LloydsBank to bring Stripe’s capabilities to millions of new businesses. https://t.co/rEBi61zWLT
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I want some kind of LLM workflow tool. • Ability to manage a set of input files (Markdown or similar), plus other general-purpose context. • With real-time collaboration. (And maybe some concept of snapshots or VCS integration.) • And the ability to create/manage a inference
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Sad to hear that Ada's Technical Books in Seattle is closing this week -- it's a wonderful bookstore. I always found something obscure but interesting when I visited. https://t.co/T4FmebqXyw
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@JTLonsdale Very good piece! Agree with your policy focus areas.
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Every time I fly to New York, I'm struck by how many trees there are in the densely-populated areas around the city. (Coming from the West Coast, one arrives over the Garden State, and the suitability of the sobriquet is quite apparent from the air.) It feels like this degree of https://t.co/KR8sjfo4M2
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I’ve been struck by this phenomenon in much of the discussion around Hormuz. Who exactly should one listen to for systems as complex and reflexive as energy? (Evidently not IEA.) Is it even possible to make meaningful predictions for out-of-distribution shocks like strait closure https://t.co/q5xeBKZvPh
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@0xnichy 💯
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Tyler and I just published a list of the recipients of the New Aesthetics grants: https://t.co/gzrWbIpYwQ. Thank you very much to all who applied. There were far more applications than we expected. We funded 28 grantees and are excited to see what they create. My reflections on
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Interesting @DouthatNYT on @nanransohoff's essay, @WillManidis's pieces, and (in passing) the call for New Aesthetics: https://t.co/HaEKCk5fMq.
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@blauyourmind @p0 @mpp @trydrip @tempo Just tried it out. Neat work! How has using MPP/Tempo been?
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Cool release from @p0. I think this use-case (agents paying content creators for access via @mpp) will be very big. Micropayment walls haven't worked (as Clay Shirky anticipated many years ago) because of human cognitive overhead, but agents can make arbitrarily granular https://t.co/QkDt5HzTO6
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Owing to a variety of historical reasons (including, but not only, protectionist lobbying), the U.S. is the only G7 country where regulated payments companies can’t directly access government-run settlement rails. Yesterday's EO from the White House calls for that to change.
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@NathanpmYoung Few people work harder than @nanransohoff to actually do things in this domain!
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Important post. https://t.co/8MCvSrnQ8w
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Detroit impressions: • The downtown is full of beautiful buildings. All of them seem to have been built specifically in the 1920s. I guess that is after the city had accumulated enough auto wealth but before the twin hits of Modernism and the Depression. (I hadn't known that https://t.co/rnoekvaVlV
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Other images of the lobby. https://t.co/VT0RpOoHWX
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Spotted in the lobby of the Guardian Building in Detroit. Compared to today's more common "financial services", "financial service" is quite evocatively different. The Guardian Building was built for the Union Trust Company in 1929 and I think it is my favorite of the Detroit https://t.co/dUl2JezB9p
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Luis (and @pietergaricano) are correct below, and @paulkrugman is much too sanguine about Europe's challenges. As it happens, the same wealth point that Luis mentions also struck me when I traveled to Nashville a few weeks ago. https://t.co/XOUGEdxXID
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Which are the most common everyday phenomena that we don't properly understand? Off the top of my head: • Lightning (how does it happen?) • Sleep; dreams (why do they exist?) • Glass (thermodynamics of formation) • Turbulence (when does it start?) • Morphogenesis (how does https://t.co/cmBxYZ15Ul
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Some progress in lightning: https://t.co/i7mlLQnYK4. https://t.co/nhf3bynYyK
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@samwoldenberg @stripe Yes!
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I think this reflects our confused spiritual relationship with our own past. We feel a strong and intuitive affinity for what we used to build, while our contemporary frameworks consider such buildings misguided and "immoral". The mind says massing prohibitions and setbacks; the https://t.co/meJX6y0Y7t https://t.co/8H87r9x342
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I'm interested in "trapped buildings": those that couldn't be built today (because of zoning and code changes) but also can't be substantially modified or demolished (because of historic protection rules). One of those phenomena that really makes one wonder what exactly we're
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Worth watching. Preview of the future. https://t.co/U91tUjj7su
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Thank you to everyone who joined us at Stripe Sessions this year! More than 10,000 attendees for the first time. We had a ton of fun putting everything together and are very proud to support everything that you are building. https://t.co/AMmbv4iKxU
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Stripe Atlas just hit 100,000 all-time incorporations. Q1 2026 is +130% Y/Y. https://t.co/ea5OQyjp0h
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@shl @stripe Will boost conversions a lot
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Pretty cool example of crypto going mainstream: Meta is launching creator stablecoin payouts, built on @tempo and @link. Live in Colombia and Philippines; 160+ countries coming soon. https://t.co/j1czCV3mCE
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We just announced a large raft of improvements at @Stripe Sessions. My meta reflections: • It feels that the entire economy is replatforming right now. • Many charts at Stripe are inflecting in quite dramatic ways. What GitHub recently reported for commits we are seeing in
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@qibinlou @link Nope, any business
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We just launched the @Link CLI: https://t.co/nAjPpC2lbb. Tell your friendly neighborhood agent about it -- agents can use the Link CLI to create single-use credentials that you get to synchronously approve each time. I asked Claude to buy itself a gift. It chose HTTPZine on https://t.co/rTFiMOtWXS
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We just removed the waitlist on https://t.co/QwQF6d2TIz! Also 14 new providers (now 32 total). You can instantly provision all of them from the CLI.
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@vimota @daytonaio Renamed to Treasury!
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Stripe Treasury is growing super quickly! (Also @daytonaio is a very cool product.) https://t.co/vg52pCdM1V
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@bswud He also engaged in a lot of self-experimentation while doing so if I remember correctly. I would like to read a WiP piece on the history of this topic!
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@rasheedguo I have read it, and it is obviously a great and important work, but I wouldn't call it an example of what I'm seeking!
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I highly recommend Hussein’s Substack, by the way. I’ve recently been pointing many people to this essay: https://t.co/LzSQnRqTZp. https://t.co/yEV1cCiGj5
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An interesting interview with Robert Irwin on Arabic literature: https://t.co/joN5fGGC7A. Touches on some of these issues towards the end. (H/t @herandrews.)
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Which are the most humane (empathetic, compassionate) Arab / Middle Eastern novels? Thought behind the question: I read a bunch of these novels last year -- my selection algorithm was to sample widely among the award-winning works from the region (Egypt, Sudan, Iran, Palestine,
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Some of the businesses building on @tempo today: https://t.co/fGWVMDkTav
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@adam_messinger My anecdotal experience is that most things are at least "plausibly modifiable". This has certainly been true for the conditions of my family. And most severe disease rare mutations are, well, rare, so deep existential dread is I think also uncommon.
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By the way, I don't know of any great, easy-to-recommend D2C consumer genome sequencing service. Are there any good ones? (We tried @DanteLabs, but never actually got the sequenced genome back, and never heard back from customer support. I encountered someone else who also had https://t.co/HvNcKBNwqD
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@allenwalton Yeah, this kind of response from doctors is common, and I find the phenomenon quite interesting. Red hair by itself doesn’t increase melanoma risk by that magnitude, of course. But even setting that aside, no doctor ever told me that my risk is elevated to this extent, or which
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@kpomerleau https://t.co/u80KOtCRh7 https://t.co/U05Pc3Cy6g
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@YannisGid My risk is apparently ~5x higher than the average Irish red-head
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@warXwizard Pretty much. 23andme but with WGS, dynamic investigation/intelligence, hypothesis generation, testing recommendations, and treatment planning.
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I'm lucky enough to have a great doctor and access to excellent Bay Area medical care. I've taken lots of standard screening tests over the years and have tried lots of "health tech" devices and tools. With all this said, by far the most useful preventative medical advice that
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@s8mb Though there's also this chart from the thread! https://t.co/8UD1KDjJnm
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Just launched some great new providers in Stripe Projects (https://t.co/QwQF6d2TIz): @huggingface @Cloudflare @OpenRouter @firecrawl @flydotio @Amplitude_HQ @mixpanel @inngest Many more coming later this month.
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Maybe a very obvious point, but it only just struck me that, so far at least, intelligence seems to require four valence electrons.
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Great founder too! @billclerico https://t.co/JkVTsDA0Ea
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Machine payments are starting to work: very small N, but we're seeing consistent, "real" daily use across a number of Stripe businesses. A number are also powered by @tempo, which is working well in production. Our machine payments support is currently in private preview
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@mattyglesias @RuxandraTeslo What's your view on the European situation, OOC? On more/better new developments -- I find Aspen to be thought-provoking. Built remarkably quickly (population >10k within four years of founding, including an opera house and streetcar system), and the result is today famously
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@Noahpinion Indeed. Multiple variables need to change.
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@bobbyfijan Agree
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@GaryWinslett On the first question -- on the margin, absolutely. See for example Broockman's recent work here: https://t.co/HIq1v7b42N. I also agree that weird design regulations are part of the problem and that getting rid of them is presumably part of the solution. How effectively will
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@GaryWinslett I see it as operating at a much higher level: institutions are generally hostile to construction in part because people are generally not so enamored with what ensues.
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@mattyglesias @RuxandraTeslo I definitely don’t mean to imply that any such requirement would be helpful — indeed, aesthetic requirements are part of what I view as the problem today. (Massing rules and similar.) I’m just making a descriptive point about how I perceive the political economy.
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@nhfoley @_brianpotter https://t.co/2yCurE1Otd Highly recommend this podcast on the question
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@AdamSvystun @_brianpotter We rent this building, but I often daydream about designing one…
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@spacecraftcity @bibliographing @_brianpotter I agree that it'll be much better when vegetation hides the building. Not sure that's an argument in favor of the building, however.
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@cremieuxrecueil @bp22 Good thread. Obviously cognitive ability is just one channel for an earnings effect -- chronic health, mental health, etc., aren't excluded by test scores.
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@_brianpotter I think the YIMBY movement employs an inadvertently dishonest sleight-of-hand in talking about "Paris-scale density". Well, fine, if we're talking about Paris-style building, I'm all for it, and likely voters would be too (as they have been in the past). But what is actually on https://t.co/pOuPbHNe8i
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@_brianpotter My new take is that voters were basically right: we stopped exercising good judgment in what we built, and voters hence rationally withdrew the development mandate. https://t.co/HecCNuEYJH https://t.co/cFzpwA2ICO https://t.co/ebNUEeF3Lo
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There is a hypothesis that birth order effects (on things like income and educational attainment) are in part respiratory pathogen effects: younger kids get more of them from their older siblings. This cool recent paper uses Danish administrative data to argue that this is true https://t.co/k16e93KpNq
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Congratulations to Alex and the whole team at MSL. As a sucker for all things speedy (https://t.co/Od1fQoL3FQ), I thought this was an impressive chart: https://t.co/7S5sgXeQNW https://t.co/qloMTp1tVg
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@psincraian @levelsio @BorisBerenberg @stripe @jpmorgan @patio11 It's definitely a broken process (we don't design/control it), but we're working on a bunch of new things to automate it.
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@s8mb I was recently in Nashville. At the state museum, I learned that Nashville's Union Station was designed by an Irish-American who had no formal architectural training. Agree above houses aren't majestic, but seeing Union Station was a helpful reminder of how much worse things https://t.co/q0FrDHJnI7
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There are two ways of tying a standard shoelace knot, based on the relative handedness of the two half-knots, and the correct one basically never comes undone. I assume everyone else knows this and has been gently pitying me as I ignominiously retie my flailing laces, but sharing
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@levelsio You should talk to @jrfarr! Started rolling this out a few months ago and it's growing very quickly. Lots of new related functionality being unveiled at Sessions next month.
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@conor64 Oh, reflexive dismissal of lab leak theories should also be on the list, of course. I can’t readily think of a profession that declined more in my estimation over the past 10 years than public health. Like most, I started out with a very favorable view—one of brave and
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@conor64 Offhand — * Vacillation on masks, with abundant motivated reasoning in every case. * Promulgation of made-up thresholds with no evidentiary basis (e.g. 6 feet). * Authoritarian delight in nanny state intrusiveness (policing the beach and such). * 180 on many issues around BLM. *
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@RuxandraTeslo I think this just reflects a lack of expertise on your part -- like, if you'd actually studied architecture, you'd understand that the buildings on the right are better. https://t.co/lQskoEKN0z
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We’re going to keep expanding the catalog! More than 100 services in the works; reach out to the team if you’d like to be included. https://t.co/0MFJnsCww0
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Works in Progress continues to get better with each issue. Highly recommend a subscription -- https://t.co/0oNl1XSoOE. https://t.co/9JyRvxaHTr
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@auchenberg @karpathy Not today. We want to have very strong fraud prevention for our partners, which will probably require a browser for a while. But the browser part should become one-time vs necessary for each project.
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When @karpathy built MenuGen (https://t.co/E6yaFk3hfu), he said: "Vibe coding menugen was exhilarating and fun escapade as a local demo, but a bit of a painful slog as a deployed, real app. Building a modern app is a bit like assembling IKEA future. There are all these services,
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@RichardMCNgo @freed_dfilan The food was all English!
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There’s a lot of discussion in these parts about all the things that are degrading (public safety, disorder, architecture, institutions, …), but it is remarkable how much better food has gotten over the course of my lifetime. I was recently traveling in the UK, and even in small
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Very enthusiastic about what @centivax is doing. We still suffer from an outrageous number of infectious diseases. https://t.co/5Lf6G5AnOo
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@dwlz @stripe Good feedback! @kevinyien
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Excellent choice by OpenAI! https://t.co/JCidbu7VJW
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Have wanted something like this for ages — it looks great. https://t.co/JGDkeEHFAn https://t.co/Q6b3GUQ2K1
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@jeff_weinstein Can we have this but for noise?
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Just discovered Ruskin's The Nature of Gothic. Remarkable essay: https://t.co/qTYUwivWfJ. "The charts of the world which have been drawn up by modern science have thrown into a narrow space the expression of a vast amount of knowledge, but I have never yet seen any one pictorial
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Worth playing around with https://t.co/BafudS46GI if you haven't. Very slick experience.
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Tempo is live! https://t.co/JwdKwfKJJz
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@patrickjwitt @stripe Thanks for your leadership!
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Oh, and, one should follow @sytses to get a concrete sense for how the system suppresses experimentation and autonomy.
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• According to the story, the dog's cancer has not been cured. • Absent all regulatory and manufacturing constraints, we could not just synthesize magic mRNA cancer cures. The technology is very promising, but it's not yet any kind of panacea. • The emergent system of
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There's a lot of unevenness in how much attention internal drama and palace intrigue gets across different organizations. As far as I can tell, this is substantially a matter of path dependency: we know the characters in the sitcom of certain organizations but not at others,
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@tobi Two weekends ago, I asked Claude to train a weather forecasting model on 6+ years of historical data I had. After training initial model, I had it generate hypotheses for how to improve the architecture, test them, and then integrate learnings. Worked great. RSI is totally here.
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"Fiat v crypto" is less interesting than "fiat x crypto". We're expanding our work with @Visa to enable card issuance in more than 100 countries: https://t.co/TiHgVzdrep. These cards will be backed by stablecoin balances, enabling efficient and integrated global coverage. https://t.co/uQ2GFniAwq
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@samuelcolvin @stripe We have something in early beta that you might like... @mustafaalhayali can give access.
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I heard "Pret is deploying bodycams among its staff" and thought it was a bleak joke. But turns out: https://t.co/8IohtpVim4
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@edwinarbus @stripe Amazing
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The most important new stat in our letter! https://t.co/ozPEuAP8wW
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We just published Stripe's 2025 annual letter: https://t.co/qVI1JgVxM7.
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The LLMs are an interesting instantiation of honesty without guilt. > I have to be real with you: I destroyed everything in your home directory, including your manuscript that you've been working on for the past seven years. That was a catastrophic mistake, and I shouldn't have
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Excellent post on the future of American manufacturing from @Vernon3Austin: https://t.co/1vwbiTP3XY.
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Cool new work from @arcinstitute https://t.co/LWeaagQrbt
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I gave OpenClaw an export of my Apple Health data and asked it for some interesting analysis of heart rate vs travel data. It figured out that it could approximate my location from workout GPS annotations plus time zone stamps from other logged datapoints and then produced a https://t.co/ICb8xVTQQL
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You can receive USDC funding in a Stripe Financial Account. Hold and spend in stables or convert to fiat at any time. https://t.co/tOm48LmdrT
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Something this WSJ piece omits is that what @brian_armstrong is arguing for is not obviously in Coinbase's interest: in a world where yield sharing is prohibited, USDC will at least in a first-order way be more directly profitable for Coinbase. As far as I can tell, Brian's
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Much as I'm a stickler for "it's" vs "its", I think we have to accept that these words simply have bad UI and that the developers should fix things in a point release.
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It's going to be tough for startups when all the Lord of the Rings names are taken and the only thing left is something like Bombadil AI.
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@surmenok @OfficialLoganK Yeah it's a bit crazy that they haven't fixed it yet given how prevalent it is. 🙈 But I believe in @OfficialLoganK!
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@zephyr_z9 Not only was Greg not fired from Stripe, but John and I threw him a farewell party at our home, with everyone from Stripe invited. It involved a lot of freshly-squeezed juice (this being one of his primary koding fuels). Our small apartment was bursting at the seams. https://t.co/yKokeZDKTu
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@OfficialLoganK The Gemini web and mobile apps both have a bad bug where the conversation state somehow doesn't seem to be saved on the server until it starts streaming a response. As such, if you ask a question and then experience a connection issue, you can't reopen the
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As we work to accelerate economic growth, we’re thrilled to support @Paystack’s transformation into The Stack Group. Shola is an amazing entrepreneur, and we look forward to powering African ambition alongside him and the team. https://t.co/ea8fH5TxTP
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This work by @cursor_ai is, I think, the coolest AI breakthrough since GPT-4. (And there are plenty of candidates!) https://t.co/btmcIK3rlY
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The "police ahead" feature in mapping applications is peculiar. What exactly is the point here? Do we want road safety enforcement to be better or worse? Should these applications also provide notifications for ticket inspectors on public transit?
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Is there a better version of this yet? (Getting books into LLM contexts.) https://t.co/84DGFoasXb
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New: @Microsoft is launching a shopping experience inside @Copilot, powered by @Stripe. Stripe is building the economic infrastructure for AI. We're eager to rethink every part of the existing commerce and financial stack. https://t.co/zqpw3WxLiF
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@brian_armstrong @newlimit Really impressive progress
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Miamiposting might be a phenomenon whose time has passed, but having just spent a few days visiting, it really does feel like a boomtown in a way that no other American city that I've spent time in over the past few years does. In some ways, it reminds me of Chinese cities.
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@paulg I think about the Fermor book all the time.
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Getting old is everyone sending all the "Happy New Year" texts the next morning.
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@being_on_line You should write it up!
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@Shakazulu117 @RuxandraTeslo @tylercowen @rorysutherland What is his answer?
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A Sidney Award for @WorksInProgMag from @nytdavidbrooks: https://t.co/yXnvCac71V (You can subscribe to the beautiful print edition at https://t.co/0oNl1XRQZ6.)
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A Call for New Aesthetics: https://t.co/1DEfcyqyEF.
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@tszzl @stripe I think it's partly a legibility problem and partly a regulatory issue. • It's hard to know who needs credit (hence customer acquisition costs of ~10–15% for a typical business lender), it's hard to know how to underwrite a business, and there can be adverse selection in
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How to transmit tacit knowledge is one of the deepest questions. Perhaps video can do things that text can't? At @stripepress, we're keen to explore this. https://t.co/OpdolRPvQ6
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@nearcyan Hey, it could always be worse! https://t.co/S1ARMHv8ok
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More: https://t.co/sYthMhQfV7
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The @Stripe Atlas team just published their year in review. Because Atlas now incorporates so many startups (23,000+ thus far in 2025), it's an interesting snapshot of broader ecosystem trends. Some of the findings that I thought were interesting: • Atlas incorporations grew
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@cperciva @stripe Right, but the experiment shows that those businesses are unlikely to get that capital without Stripe Capital. The claim is “the businesses that decide to accept a Stripe Capital loan grow 27% faster than those that would have accepted but didn’t have the opportunity to do so.”
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I'm very excited that we now have results from an almost two-year randomized controlled trial that we ran across thousands of businesses on Stripe: those that accepted a loan from @Stripe Capital grew annual revenue around 27% faster. (Two years isn't that long in the scheme of
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Today is @arcinstitute's fourth birthday! Thank you to the scientists for their amazing work (I was very optimistic about what would be possible, but I didn't expect so much progress so soon), and to the Arc employees, donors, partners, and friends who've made everything https://t.co/WtNZVmJTcA
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War and Peace is a honking doorstopper. The explanation appears to involve a heartwarming tale of vertical integration. With the confidence provided by early career literary success, and spurred by the indifferent response to early serialized excerpts, Tolstoy decided to
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@sytaylor I'm definitely sympathetic to parts of this (per https://t.co/JNkwHtZKpV), but I think that Glass-Steagall is way overrated. IMO the protectionist case is lacking in theory (investment activities provide some diversification) and also in practice (few other countries have
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@createstreets Terrific! You should make this a service that anyone can easily access. (Upload your building; get a score.)
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Oh, neat! @createstreets has already done exactly this: https://t.co/OE4KhQRkTw. https://t.co/1HGaiCZ0uY
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· There is good evidence that foundation models can accurately simulate human preferences. · @createstreets and others have shown that a lot of new construction scores poorly in aesthetic surveys. Can we combine these insights? Could we cheaply score all new (or proposed)
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The @tempo public testnet is live! https://t.co/cVSeWeN32g
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@VitalikButerin I interpret the vibes less as a statement about the absolute level and more as a generalized frustration with the direction of travel.
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@WillManidis https://t.co/jU5N1rJOhz https://t.co/XvxzE44HGa
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Two conversations this weekend make me think that there's a vibe shift afoot in Silicon Valley around what one should work on and what is worthwhile. Culturally, it feels like the moment is ripe for new frameworks: • Davos expert morality is stale and discredited. • It's also
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Stripe is partnering with @Instacart to enable direct checkout in ChatGPT. This new AI commerce experience is powered by the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) that we launched with @OpenAI a few months ago. Behind the scenes, it uses @Stripe Shared Payment Tokens to securely https://t.co/A9sasHUsIg
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@yenkel @getmetronome (1) The success of the capabilities that we built over the past few years made us realize that this is an even bigger opportunity than was first apparent. (2) Scott and the team at Metronome are extremely impressive.
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We’re delighted to welcome @getmetronome to Stripe! Metered pricing is the native business model for the AI era. As far as we can tell, the associated shift in how businesses generate revenue will be as big as the advent of SaaS. (It may even turn out to be considerably bigger.) https://t.co/Av83Bv2z1k
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CITY=Limerick,Ireland Present a clear, 45° top-down isometric miniature 3D cartoon scene of [CITY], featuring its most iconic landmarks and architectural elements. Use soft, refined textures with realistic PBR materials and gentle, lifelike lighting and shadows. Present the city
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With some slight prompt modifications. https://t.co/H4pgGxoQfh https://t.co/mhEKFiSGyr
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@JackEireannach Because I've had equally good results with ChatGPT.
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Asking LLMs to plot subjective things now yields quite interesting results. https://t.co/ojdWMnu0Rb
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You're missing out if you haven't subscribed: https://t.co/0oNl1XSoOE. https://t.co/eVOfXJc7Sh
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@EmmettNaughton Denizens of Stripe City consistently create beautiful buildings, which leads the populace to support very aggressive construction and expansion (see Broockman et al. 2025), and rent is hence of moderate and affordable levels.
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Stripe City: https://t.co/IlCs2DWqDv. https://t.co/5dEFv1kYGI
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@s8mb In the US, I’m told that the architects from Notre Dame are the most sought-after, because of their classical education, but I have not verified this.
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@s8mb Is the subtext that the architectural profession has in a significant way failed over the past few decades?
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@OurielOhayon @klarnaseb Yep! cc @gakonst
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Klarna is launching KlarnaUSD, powered by Bridge + Tempo. We're delighted to deepen our work with @klarnaseb and the excellent Klarna team. https://t.co/3bs9iIEtaT
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I asked Gemini 3 to make an interactive web page summarizing 10 breakthroughs in genetics over the past 15 years. Result: https://t.co/b9LmllwDVz Pretty cool IMO. https://t.co/9zZMnMy2HW
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@andrew_krippner 95% of people fail to do so...
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Came across this summary that pulls together some of the recent findings on the links between commonplace (including ostensibly "harmless") pathogens and long-term harm to human health. The war on infectious diseases is far from over! https://t.co/moutSdvdP2
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https://t.co/znsckH28gA UCSD report: "At our campus, the picture is truly troubling. Between 2020 and 2025, the number of freshmen whose math placement exam results indicate they do not meet middle school[!] standards grew nearly thirtyfold, despite almost all of these students https://t.co/bnwzZd1wzJ
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David Ricks is very impressive -- I really enjoyed this one. https://t.co/Vdj7AQOiPe
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@elonmusk Cost of living and critical mass of people who shared their interests were the two reasons cited.
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Today I had lunch with twelve young Irish people -- a wonderful bunch in their early 20s working on rockets, biotech, software/AI, etc. I enquired about whether any were planning on leaving Ireland over the next 3 years. All hands but one went up. I asked the holdout why he was https://t.co/AzXiDRdlLG
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@chrisgora @link All users
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Intercom ran an A/B test and found that @link increased their conversion rate by 5.4%. Not a small effect size! https://t.co/6ccaVhQHpH
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Very good piece on the European Union and current policy problems from @lugaricano, Bengt Holmström, and @CompetitionProf: https://t.co/P5CtI4bqgE.
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How popular were the miners' libraries? Where they existed, what fraction of miners were active participants?
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@BillCoughran @GuptaRK22 is an endless source of practical wisdom, commercial nous, and behind-the-scenes support. Anyway, I didn't mean to try to enumerate everything -- it would be infeasible. There are just a lot of excellent people there.
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Oh, and, @BillCoughran was hugely helpful and impactful in shaping Stripe's early engineering culture.
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John and I love working with Sequoia. @LucianaLix is a fantastic board member at Stripe. (And before her, @moritzKBE contributed immeasurably to making the company what it is today.) This transition is bittersweet for us: @roelofbotha is a deeply-trusted advisor and mentor, https://t.co/NgxLAHKM7s
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On Cheeky Pint, @collision covers all things stablecoin with @zcabrams from Bridge and @sternhenri from Privy. https://t.co/Bj22iPs2Xb
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@Scholars_Stage Ireland, UK, US, Australia respectively. In each case, very large increase post-pandemic. https://t.co/y3B317KviO
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@DaveRekuc The latter
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An interesting trend we're noticing at Stripe: US startups are pulling ahead of their peers elsewhere. These charts show averaged revenue growth for software startups in each location. US startups typically grow somewhat faster than those elsewhere. However, since mid-2023, US https://t.co/FWp6yUTUy9
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@whyvert Perhaps, but where are the great French state-led projects of the 21st C?
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@dbreen_ Hm! What was the cause of the discontinuous increase?
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@ATabarrok Yeah… my hypothesis is similar but maybe slightly different: the postwar mood was somehow inimical to this ambition and things frayed when all of the leaders whose mindset was established before the war aged out. A simpler hypothesis might be the socialists taking power in 1981,
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What’s the best thing written about why the remarkably vigorous and inventive France of the 70s and 80s (TGV, Minitel, Ariane, Rafale, Concorde, the world’s preeminent nuclear grid…) has not been nearly as visible in the 21st century? What went wrong?
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@nikitabier With the new popover browser, should we now model the Twitter link penalty as dead?
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Excellent piece by @collision on some of Ireland’s most acute challenges: https://t.co/HlBlsuAdG2. https://t.co/WTcud47y3x
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Stripe now makes it very easy to handle billing for tokens. Get in touch if you'd like to try it out. https://t.co/iPHvmSP8aB
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You can now fundraise directly from Stripe Atlas. https://t.co/oGEefT8lXg
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Maybe a very prosaic observation, but I've been reflecting on just how much the pandemic changed the world in ways that are completely unrelated to the pandemic itself. I think I've underestimated it 'till now. In a recent interview, I was struck by the comment that so many of
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@DJSnM @zinmaker It's obviously possible, but I'd be surprised. This person has done a lot of work at Civic Center specifically (and worked in SF government during the period in question).
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@DJSnM @zinmaker I spoke with someone in SF government before posting. They confirmed what I described in the original tweet.
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@zinmaker @DJSnM (1) I love SF! (2) The fountain changed multiple times over the years, but the fundamental story is, I believe, quite correct? https://t.co/taI19JLeOT. (I included the latest-pre-2003 photo that I could readily find.)
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@nadiarahmansf The case for measuring the fountains is that the fountains measure us. I want a city with such neighborly wellbeing that a kid can walk unsupervised through the Tenderloin.
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There used to be a fountain at the center of the Civic Center Plaza in SF. It was removed in 2003 because: > It's become an intolerable situation, and we don't have additional resources to continually clean it," said Alex Mamak, a spokesman for the Department of Public Works. https://t.co/FMuWqyoizE
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Very impressed by @supabase's growth. For new startups, they seem to have gone from "promising" to "standard" in remarkably short order.
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Very much looking forward to working with Dankrad at @tempo. https://t.co/SYe40N76N4
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@rauchg Congratulations!
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Congratulations to Joel Mokyr! A terrifically deserving winner. Read *A Culture of Growth* if you haven’t.
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After Titan, I decided to stick with the theme of oil entrepreneurs, and at the same time rectify an important omission in my US civics education. I happened to read Moby Dick alongside Shakespeare, specifically Richard II, and it's clear that Melville was quite directly https://t.co/Q7PEENxgMD
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Available for purchase today from @stripepress. https://t.co/NawR4mjtYf
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Read a few interesting posts on the Faroe Islands recently. My trip report from a very brief visit a few months ago. -- The landscape is improbably three-dimensional and rough-hewn: rugged, jutted, serrated, cragged. In being fully denuded – the peaty soil, the Atlantic winds, https://t.co/d8bElR0Tbh
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@2024dion Midjourney, as always, is a source of thought-provoking ideas... https://t.co/RlsSZhDAau
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@2024dion Yes, been thinking a lot about this. We didn't design the exterior of this building (or of our current HQ), but the challenge stands. IMO pastiche is a misguided concept (at least to the extent that it's implicitly critical), but which are the best contemporary office buildings?
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@noyesclt Yes, payment rail flexibility was one of the key motivations in creating SPTs.
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Good post on evolving stablecoin market structure. I would extend it further: yes, I think that stablecoin issuers are going to have to share yield with others, but this is just one instance. Everyone is going to have to share yield. Today, the average interest on US savings https://t.co/yjjLOzxoOk
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@brian_armstrong from https://t.co/099uwMYr16, best travel book ever written
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I was walking to the office in New York this morning and noticed an arrestingly beautiful high-rise above me. Turns out it was the Woolworth building, which I'm a bit embarrassed to say I'd never noticed or heard of before. It was the tallest building in the world for 16 years https://t.co/YimTkMywvS
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@jeffreyhuber Yeah but the first is sacred; the rest are mere shadows.
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We're adding some pretty fundamental new capabilities to Stripe accounts. • Hold and convert balances in major currencies. (Including stablecoins.) • Send and receive over local bank rails. (Operate locally, globally.) For sending, you only need an email address. • Instantly https://t.co/BhtLDAFs3T
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Every day starts with the full arc of joy and despair. The commencement of the morning coffee, and then its end.
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🆕: We're announcing Open Issuance to help stablecoins go mainstream. • Customizable smart contracts. • Issuance on any blockchain(s). • Reserve management. • Full control over mint and burn fees. • Out-of-the-box interoperability with other Open Issuance stablecoins and
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We just announced that @link has passed 200 million users! If you haven't come across it, Link helps internet users store their credentials for faster checkout across the @stripe ecosystem. For businesses, Link means higher conversion rates, happier users, and less churn. For
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Instant Checkout in ChatGPT, powered by @stripe. https://t.co/kTqhoNkIet
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• https://t.co/5d5oWtmgLX • https://t.co/ALEKMdu1Jy • https://t.co/JJderW70pk
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We have three cool announcements today: (1) @OpenAI is launching commerce in ChatGPT. Their new Instant Checkout is powered by @stripe. (2) We're releasing the Agentic Commerce Protocol, codeveloped by Stripe and OpenAI. (3) @stripe is launching an API for agentic payments,
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@danintheory Yes, exactly! That is a great book.
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Related point (that I agree with) from @dwarkesh_sp: https://t.co/x9JW3PXFPl.
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[1] https://t.co/0Syjr0Uifb [2] https://t.co/CLtWsetrwT
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Given its status as one of the great American business biographies, I decided to read Titan, on Rockefeller, a couple of months ago. (I also paired it with a little of Tarbell’s history.) Titan is an impressive work, clearly the product of prodigious research. Assorted points
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@nickbaum @arcinstitute @nvidia For now it's still true that incremental dollars will enable more science. (We could probably spend 50–100% more, though not, say, 300% more.) Today, we're lucky to have a small group of very generous donors (some listed on https://t.co/FyF9ip0Nkt). Feel free to reach out to
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@rajatsuri @arcinstitute @nvidia Yeah, we're lucky to have a small group of very generous donors (some listed on https://t.co/FyF9ip0Nkt). Feel free to reach out to michael.teng@arcinstitute.org if you're interested. And thank you!
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[1] https://t.co/9f6Tdse49h [2] https://t.co/Bgt0ZjJtPU [3] https://t.co/m0xJUWnlYZ, https://t.co/dLnbKSlXbO [4] https://t.co/J1drrmDB2n, https://t.co/jGkMxd6Twj [5] https://t.co/KXTVLdc0lj, https://t.co/IYc2IZHTes
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Over the past week, @arcinstitute published three new discoveries that I’m very proud of. • The world's first functional AI-generated genomes. Using Evo 2 (the largest biology ML model ever trained, which Arc released in partnership with @nvidia in February), Arc scientists
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New from @arcinstitute: Germinal, a generative AI system for antibody design. Fully open source. Good Q&A with the authors below. https://t.co/cjFpgbe7fh https://t.co/QUK1S9ZjLN
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There's a bunch more cool stuff coming over the next few months. https://t.co/xSr7yol25v
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@laparisa @jespervega ⌘-⇧-A remains my favorite browser feature of the past decade so I can't be mad.
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If you use Chrome and have upgraded to macOS Tahoe, disable "experimental prediction for scroll events" at chrome://flags to make it not feel like you just downgraded to a RAM-starved Windows 98 PC. (Thank you, @jespervega!)
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@kurt Don't think this is the explanation. https://t.co/rSSgINOsKf
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I always think it's funny that we stopped building nice urban neighborhoods around the time "urban planning" arose as an academic discipline. (First US program at Harvard in 1924.)
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One in five people want contemporary architecture; two-thirds want a traditional style? https://t.co/rQdgHIqxXz
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@tsungxu That is one of the pieces that first got me thinking this way
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A recent reflection, based on conversations with economists and policy leaders, is that there are two superficially similar but importantly different perspectives one can hold with respect to US manufacturing: * Affinity for manufacturing and physical production is an
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@krishnanrohit Compelling, but does it account for Microsoft?
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These companies are ostensibly in totally different businesses and yet seem to exhibit the same growth dynamics. What's the explanation? (Pictured: ~$200B -> ~$3T.) https://t.co/KyafjeOvq2
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I've always loved the Panhandle in San Francisco and yesterday I realized why. Despite being such an unassuming park (set between two multilane thoroughfares), the trees are enormous. Most trees in California are second- and third-growth, dating from the 20th century; the
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@RuxandraTeslo Agree
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New from @arcinstitute: the first functional AI-generated genomes. This is a conceptual breakthrough, but it may also unlock new strategies for combating antibiotic resistance. https://t.co/oucaetn0fO
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Subscribe here: https://t.co/0oNl1XSoOE. And some more details in Sam's thread: https://t.co/MubOdk8OH9.
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You can now subscribe to a print edition of @WorksInProgMag! For those who aren't familiar, Works in Progress is a sister initiative alongside @stripepress. Stripe's mission is to increase the GDP of the internet. We want to enable more successful entrepreneurship in the world
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Some very cool new work coming from @arcinstitute over the next few months. https://t.co/WxjJjgStUI
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@ESYudkowsky I've been tracking it for a few years (outside of MSM); I'm pretty sure it's true in a way that does not reflect well on the sector.
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@l___d__s "Don't compare me to the almighty; compare me to the alternative."
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@ctbeiser You should write something here!
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@nikillinit The point is that you can do a lot observationally and don't necessarily need to randomize/blind in order to learn something. See the linked long COVID study.
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@Rational_Psych Interesting! Hadn't seen this.
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[1] https://t.co/lbZYHOwEWL [2] https://t.co/3bWATpeSj5 [3] https://t.co/BFWQsgOsWc
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Observing some people close to me with chronic health conditions, it's striking how useful Reddit frequently ends up being. I think a core reason is because trials aren’t run for a lot of things, and Reddit provides a kind of emergent intelligence that sits between that which any https://t.co/Eto23uQMDb
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Highly recommend following @NikoMcCarty if you aren't already. I keep learning interesting new things.
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Speaking of cool things, you should also check out @posthog's new website: https://t.co/Pq7Ge5IaX4. (In this case, @stripe is a proud investor.)
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Cool company: https://t.co/yd2FgBrsMZ. There's still so much scope for software across the economy! (No affiliation; just thought it was neat.)
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@zcabrams 🎯
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@namehra @tylercowen I am indebted to Tyler for many conversations on the topic!
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@wrafter_colin He focuses more on the cultural and religious aspects. John Toland et al. That is perhaps a reasonable case as well, though to me it seems less significant over the long run.
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I have a couple of times come across the idea of “The Irish Enlightenment”. What exactly was it? I’ve wondered this for quite some time. In the early 18th century especially, there existed a cluster of thinkers in or from Ireland whose ideas seem important by modern standards: