It was a blast coming on the show with @preston to talk all things AI! We discussed privacy and the bright future we can have if we're willing to build and use AI that is open and verifiable. Closed AI apps are powerful but come with the big tradeoff that we must give them our most unique data: our minds. There is a better way forward. Let's make it!

Reasons for the US To Print Massive Amounts of Money 1. we can't make our own military equipment anymore. Need to get mineral production and factory production going 2. we can't afford our debt interest and entitlement programs 3. AI is a global arms race. We need to develop models, computing, and the full stack 4. housing is where boomers stored their wealth. If prices fall too much, they take the economy with them 5. more

Qwen3 Coder is a huge upgrade over previous models that were available in @Maple. It's faster and produces better code. Really enjoying it!

Next couple of months are going to be very exciting for @Maple. So stoked!

I’m at a vintage bookstore. Shill me the best book to get for a collection?

I am working on a long-form article in the AI space. Funny enough, AI has been incredibly useful with the process. I started with my own words from hours of voice memos where I explained the concept and direction I wanted to go. AI took my words and wrote a rough draft. I edited the draft heavily, changing phrasing, rewriting multiple paragraphs at a time, and more. Now I'm using AI to incorporate feedback from select people as well as performing final edits. I often debate with it about two options for incorporating a specific item of feedback, just like I would with an editor. The result is a long piece of writing from me, but it's difficult to know which words were me and which were the AI. In my experience, it's similar to how I've worked with a human editor in the past, except the feedback loop compressed from weeks to days. In the end, I'm the one pouring over the words and putting my name on it, so it's going to be my published work. And it is far from a one-shot prompted paper. These tools are remarkable.

Did Bitcoin die yesterday? I was busy catching up with frens irl and going to a football game with my daughter. Forgot to check in.

gotta tip my hat to the high school kid that just yolo’d his way into a 1:1 call with me and got a free 20 min architecture design brainstorming session for the app he wants to build

Had the pleasure to speak about Freedom of Thought in the Age of AI at the inaugural Imagine IF summit. Amazing venue at Belmont University. It all comes down to Open vs Closed AI. Summary and a breakdown of a new vulnerability I refer to as Subconscious Censorship. ⬇️

This is my sidebar and still not a billionaire

Used ecash to buy lemonade from kids at a neighborhood lemonade stand They accepted cash, Venmo, Cash app, and Bitcoin. I scanned the Bitcoin QR code with my cashu wallet and paid. Worked really well. Now… I might have had some influence over the inclusion of the Bitcoin payment option, but nevertheless it worked 😄 cc @calle @bob

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It's time for a wake up call with AI. ChatGPT and Grok have published user conversations publicly on the internet. Meta encouraged their users to do so. Sure it was just the ones that used the "Share" button, but does that somehow make it okay? There is a fundamental flaw here. AI companies have access to your data. It is now their data to do what they will, for better or worse. If your business is using AI for important work, be aware that your proprietary info could show up online at any moment without your knowledge. If you're using AI in your personal life, your struggles about relationships or salacious chats with an AI girlfriend could be shared online without your consent. And could be used in a court room. It doesn't have to be this way. This isn't a sacrifice we need to make. We can have access to the best technology while also preserving our privacy. This is why we work on @Maple everyday, to give the world a better option. Every user of ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity, Claude, Meta AI, and Gemini should have at least a free account on @Maple as well. We as a society win by using the products that protect our data. Start adding privacy products to your toolbox right now. You won't regret it. 🤘

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Google requiring Bitcoin apps to have a license. China requiring AI apps to have a license. Do you see where this is heading? Learn the tools now instead of later.

GM take a walk in the morning sunlight. It makes you feel very tall.

Freedom Tech Weekend going live in 30 mins. Today we're looking at running open-source AI locally on your computer. A few we'll look at: - Text chat with OpenAI - Image gen with Qwen - Audio processing with Whisper

People love to say “just wait until you hit X age, your body won’t move the same”. Ignore them. Keep living a healthy life everyday. Good food, good sun, good movement, good sleep.

Imagine if you had built your business process and fine-tuned it to a current ChatGPT model. That model is going away and you could see a material impact to your company. With open-source AI models, once you nail your process, you can stay on that model as long as you want.

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