Mechanization Turned God Into Engineer, Then Erased Him
“the mechanization of the world-picture led with irresistible consistency to the conception of God as a retired engineer, and from this to His complete elimination was only a step. for scientists who nevertheless wanted to preserve their faith there was hardly any other possibility but to keep religion and science strictly apart.”
Non‑invasive BCI + AI Will Turn Thoughts Into Actions
how i see the future: thought ↓ non-invasive BCI ...
From Pythagoras to Newton: Worldview's Mechanical Evolution
next read, “the mechanization of the world picture: pythagoras to newton” by e.j. dijksterhuis https://t.co/gVQHLwmAY7
Smart Plant Design Cuts Labor Strikes, Boosts Value
“the industrial architect who can, by the skill of his physical arrangement of plant facilities and conveniences, lessen the tendency to costly labor dissension and strikes, is performing a needed and valuable service to his client.” https://t.co/Y0KEhsZHQS
Unseen Opportunities Spark Relentless, Long‑term Hustle
not many people know what’s actually going on and instead of that being scary it electrifies my drive to do more and more. most fields are wide open right now. blue ocean possibilities. you just have to be a maniac...
Future Tech Alpha: BCI, Robotics, Agent Orchestration
if i was starting my career in tech i’d bet my career on brain-computer interface (non-invasive), embodied robotics, and agent orchestration (but on the absolute bleeding edge) that’s where all the alpha is right now. everything else is already staked out...
AI Gold Rush Fuels SF Real Estate Surge
right now in AI it’s like the middle of the alaskan gold rush, the early prospectors are all flush and doing zany things with their money driving up SF real estate, the next wave are starting to realize gains, and...
In a Century, Machines May Outsize Human Brain
“from the view of history, 10 or 20 years is a blink in evolutionary time...surely in 100 years there will be machines this big that have more capacity than the brain.” - minsky in 1990 https://t.co/m4JTikzfhS
US AI Development Faces Potential Collapse
we are entering territory that may lead to the complete unraveling of the ability to build and use AI in the united states of america. unbelievable stuff.
Stop the Toxic Hate and Bullying in LegalTech
amen. obsessive hate and bullying within legaltech needs to stop. as nir points out, it’s toxic
Read Widely: History’s Patterns Are Your Cheat Code
studying historical patterns is a cheat code and all you have to do is read a lot
AI Model Training on Unlicensed Works: Fair Use?
“Is researching, developing, and improving AI models on unlicensed works to advance the state of the art in the United States, a transformative fair use purpose—or not?” - this is the question we all need an answer to https://t.co/PjM6ZNgPU2
Using AI Models May Risk Copyright Infringement
when a company uses anthropic’s models (and openai’s and googles’s too) are they indirectly infringing because the data those models are trained with include copyrighted materials, pirate libraries and their competitor’s data? i guess we’re going to find out.
Great Cofounders Turn Startup Journey Into Play
having cofounders you admire and love working and spending time with means everything startup becomes enjoyable. the highs, the lows, the steady. it’s like getting to build legos with your friends as a kid every day. blessed to be building...
AI Supercharges Daily Productivity, Enabling Rapid Shipping
i can't get over how much more i can do in a day using AI these days. you can just ship anything now so quickly.
Turning Wastewater Into Feedstock, Fueling a Sub‑Fossil Future
excited about this. wastewater becomes feedstock. biomass becomes fuel. industrial chemistry inverts. @jared_western is an absolute maniac. proud to be backing him early. the future of fuels, chemicals, and materials is sub-fossil cost.
Exploring Future Vision and Maniac VC Origins
my interview with @ti_morse on @relentless. we touch on @flexpa, @rossintel, the roots of @maniacvc and my vision of the future. https://t.co/OFZGvkV9U7
Assess Your Readiness for AI's Real Impact
on a scale from 1-10, how ready are you for when it turns out that AI is not a bubble?
Fair Use Essential for Scalable AI Training
going to need fair use to apply to training AI for this to become reality at scale
Persistence Turns Any Skill Into Mastery
cool part of being human is that if you keep trying and don’t give up you can become proficient at most anything you can think of
AI Joins Fire and Printing Press as Humanity’s Greatest Invention
AI is so clearly one of the best things humans have ever invented. up there with harnessing fire and the printing press.
AI Supplants UIs, Turns APIs Into Its Eyes
not fully. AI replaces UIs and dissolves APIs. APIs are sort of like AI’s eyes. compute is AI’s oxygen. Both are vital.
Embodied AI Enables Fully Autonomous Surgical Procedures
excited about this. embodied AI unlocks the ability to perform surgery completely autonomously. @r_mcguire @dylanmcguir3 are absolute maniacs. proud to be backing them early. the future of surgery is bright.
Are All Modern Photos Now AI-Generated?
since apple and other photo tools all have embedded AI these days aren’t all photos “made with AI” now?
Google’s AI Leverages Competitors’ Data, Sparking Legal Conflict
this means google is using data from its competitors to compete with them as the AI they are using was trained on the data on the internet, including from their competitors. square this with TR v. ROSS Intelligence. you can’t....
Cross‑examination Pulls Hidden Facts Into the Light
cross-examination gets a lot of facts right out into the open. it's a powerful thing.
Legal Tech Media Prioritizes Sponsors Over Unbiased Reporting
there’s literally no real unbiased news in legal technology media. it’s all sponsorship based coverage and takes. that’s why they seem to “miss” on the actual newsworthy things because reporting on it honestly would upset their sponsors
Early AI Hype Sparked Rapid ROSSIntel Integration
we incorporated @ROSSIntel the same month this became obvious rushed before the paper dropped so we could hit the ground running i can still feel how electric 2015 felt in AI at the university of toronto. AI felt so inevitable. we all...
AI Can Boost Lawyers, Judges, and Justice Access
if we do AI right, we should have more human lawyers, more human judges and much more access to justice
Law Firms Employ AI to Argue Against AI
some law firms have clearly used AI to draft arguments against the use of AI
Orangewood Labs Scales Robot Deployment on Factory Floors
just caught up with @Abhindas1 of @OrangewoodLabs. lots of teams are getting into robotics now but orangewood has cracked robot deployment at scale on the factory floor. very impressed. also based out of SF. you love to see it. https://t.co/NDJ4mqmLWd
4,800 Disney/ESPN Staff Used AI in Nine Days
“Screenshots of the dashboard viewed by Business Insider show AI usage by about 4,800 product and tech employees across Disney Entertainment and ESPN in a nine-workday span during mid-April.” 👀 https://t.co/dJy7Idxgt2
Disney's AI Trains on Competitors' Data, Fair Use Questioned
what data were these AI models trained on? answer: data that includes data from disney’s competitors. which means disney is using their competitors data to compete against them in the market. which is fine if fair use applies, which will be...
Discover Doolittle's Tale of Unrepeatable Luck
next read, “i could never be so lucky again” by gen. james h. “jimmy” doolittle https://t.co/OTIohRZzmA
DeepSeek Slashes Cache Prices Thanks to Subsidies
the price is so low, because china is subsidizing costs and because deepseek doesn’t have to worry about any litigation costs for its training data
Self‑Programming Materials Will Make Infrastructure Self‑Repairing
one of the areas i’m watching for @maniacvc: if intelligence embeds into everything, matter becomes self-programmable. roads fix themselves. bridges know when they’re tired. the built world becomes regenerative. it’ll be the end of the era where things break and stay broken.
Early Backers Pay Off as Checks Grow
checks are bigger at @maniacvc now. grateful to the founders who let me in early with smaller ones. flywheel works.
Access Real-Time Health Data via Flexpa API
we’re building @flexpa so this is possible for health data. with flexpa your current, up to date clinical and claims data (insurance) is all available by API. free for patients. try it yourself: https://t.co/X1yvkf1vpS and/or download our AI-powered app: https://t.co/HBzTO6BwPz
Demand Grows for Comprehensive, Citable Law API
people really want the law to be available by API. historical, current, up to date. published cases, unpublished cases. citable.
Non‑generative AI Powers Law, Medicine, Education, Military
non-generative AI is integral to AI development in law, medicine and education, not to mention military use cases too
Flexpa Flux Turns Raw Health Data Into Usable Insight
“access to healthcare data isn't the same as access to usable healthcare data, and Flexpa Flux is the work in between.” - @flexpa has built and is continuing to build the coolest shit in health tech. absolutely wild stuff
Compute and Data Ingestion Power Modern Deep Learning Breakthroughs
got into the deep learning game at the multiple GPUs stage (well, 2 😂) and now we’re at data center compute sizing. the fundamentals are the same, compute (and therefore data ingestion) is what is causing most of the current...
Cocounsel’s $650
FACT OF THE DAY: cocounsel was purchased for $650 million US dollars in 2023 and made thomson reuters flagship AI offering. 3 years later, real reviews state:
Building a “Magical” Product Feels Truly Blessed
not every day you hear the product you’re building is “magical” feeling blessed right now building @flexpa
Easily Connect Your Health Data to Any App
watch how easy it is for @flexpa to help connect your health data into any application you want
Paywalls Threaten Legal Transparency; Open Access Essential
if the content is all behind paywalls this will be a continuous problem. it’s ripping apart legal filings right now and highlighting the absolute need to have open digital access to primary law
Flexpa Turns NPI Numbers Into Complete Provider Profiles
LAUNCH WEEK AT FLEXPA. DAY 1. check out how @flexpa turns NPI numbers into complete provider profiles with names, specialties, addresses, and contact details. We eat the pain of working with health data so you and your team don’t have to.
AI‑written Code Can't Be Copyrighted, Despite 42% Usage
“But AI-generated code that lacks human authorship is ineligible for copyright protection under US law… Developers estimate 42% of code is AI-generated or assisted and the number was expected to increase significantly, according to an October 2025 survey.” 👀
Waterfill AI Omitted From Court Filings and Order
“The AI program Waterfill used was not identified in court filings or the judge's order.” - do you wonder why it wasn’t identified? you should.
ROSS Partners with U of Toronto to Drive AI Breakthroughs
“Until breakthroughs in 2013, deep learning was a fringe field of computer science, which is why experts are scarce. ROSS started at the University of Toronto, which has pioneered these breakthroughs. We opened an AI lab in Toronto earlier this...