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Ben Springwater

@benspringwater

cofounder @matter, friend to all

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If Anthropic is going to contest OpenAI in "consumer" (big if...not obvious what their strategy is), feels like it'd be a killer move to acquire The Browser Company. - Beat OpenAI to the browser (OpenAI will surely launch one by EOY) - Supercharge it with computer use, agentic

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I had a similar feeling listening to Mamdani on Derek Thompson Plain English as when I listened to Jared Kushner on Lex Fridman. That is, I felt the chasm between the media caricature and the direct source. Go listen. I'm not here to say he is going to do great, but you may be

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Not enough people are talking about how one of the most canonical pieces of audio programming ever just quietly slid into podcatchers, buried among the disposable news of the day.

Not enough people are talking about how one of the most canonical pieces of audio programming ever just quietly slid into podcatchers, buried among the disposable news of the day.
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This whole interview is fantastic, but the closing line especially reverberates: “There’s a concern that AI leads to more slop, to more crappy things and not more of the best things. I don’t what Cursor would do to ensure the world is creating more of the *best* software, and

This whole interview is fantastic, but the closing line especially reverberates:

“There’s a concern that AI leads to more slop, to more crappy things and not more of the best things.

I don’t what Cursor would do to ensure the world is creating more of the *best* software, and
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It's just crazy what Substack has done. What started as "Mailchimp + Stripe", at a time when social media had already killed off so much journalism, has today completely redrawn the map of elite discourse, spawned major media companies (eg Free Press), minted dozens of journalist