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Dad, @AthenaBitcoin Founder, CFO @edge_marketsio, studied where all the fun went to die (MIT, UofC)

Chicago, IL
Joined March 2011
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I built an app that watches for big whale trades on Kalshi. It has been collecting data on the election. So far about $7m in big trades have taken down 19million event contracts. (yes whales are taking a lot of long shots). For entertainment, I had grok make some slides. 1/5
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Ok the TX-Senate race, whales have called for a D-win, both in total number of whale sized prints and also that's where they are risking their dollars. 5/5
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If you want to get email alerts if a big trade goes up on Kalshi, check out whalealert.email
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You know those dogs that sense you are ill and sit quietly near you as you suffer a head cold? yeah, must be nice.
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I really hope I get a text from my governor telling me who to vote for tomorrow.
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This was a recruiting event - you think any engineer wants to work anywhere else?
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Quick, everyone should buy this book from a guy I went to summer camp with. Highly recommend.
I just got the first copies of my new book, Co-Existence (out October 20) & they look great! Also, there is a fun pre-order bonus: if you pre-order, you get a code to an AI interview that will help you figure out how to use your human advantages with AI. co-existence.ai/
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I’m sorry but America did not spend 250 years turning “what’s over there?” into the most powerful civilization on earth just to finally arrive at the most consequential technological frontier in generations and decide actually we’re scared of frontiers now. We ARE the fucking frontier. We cross oceans. We build railroads across continents. We split atoms. We put men on the moon. We turn sand into computers and computers into a global nervous system. Of COURSE AI is terrifying. The frontier is SUPPOSED to scare the shit out of you. That’s how you know you have, in fact, located the fucking frontier. The answer is not recklessness, but it sure as fuck isn’t paralysis either. America’s comparative advantage is an unusually high national tolerance for ambitious weirdos staring at impossible things and saying “Yeah... I think I can build it.” That trait is rarer than oil, harder to manufacture than semiconductors, and responsible for a frankly preposterous amount of the modern world. And you absolutely will not fucking regulate it out of us.
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Embarrassing that Illinois didn't even compete...
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It's four monitors...
S-Tier C-Suite: CEO: Square jaw behind a gray beard. Runs the company off an iPad and hasn't opened a laptop in a decade. CFO: Lenovo ThinkPad, three monitors, has cried over a spreadsheet and will absolutely cry over one again. Twitches over $14 salads on company card. CTO: Banned from 3 countries. Carries an Android phone they cracked themselves. Blurry in every photograph. Knows where the bodies are buried. Never online during the day. Always online at night. COO: Former valedictorian who once flagged the CTO for not updating a footer from 2025 to 2026. Always 10 minutes early. The CTO's natural enemy. CMO: Part time influencer who hasn't paid for a meal since 2016. Gets recognized at airport lounges by people who can't explain what they do either. CRO: Great Gatsby energy. Doesn't need the money, works for the thrill. Drives a vintage Aston Martin and is always late. The COO has filed complaints.
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Think you got screwed by the recent Polymarket resolution? 117 Partners is interested in purchasing claims from affected users. I'm Thomas Braziel. I've spent nearly 20 years investing in distressed assets and have been active in crypto distress since Mt. Gox. If you have a substantial claim and would rather receive cash today than spend years pursuing a recovery, reach out. For qualifying claims, we may pay up to 20-25% of documented losses/cost basis and take on the recovery risk ourselves. DMs open.
I was just scammed for $500K by Polymarket. I am "willo2", the top holder of YES on "MicroStrategy sells Bitcoin by May 31st". Here's what happened:
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This is literally the most UChicago thing I have ever seen
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I had this thought last winter, maybe I should revive the idea: reindust.com
Has someone built a Reindustrialize job board yet? Could probably vibe code, scraping the top 200 manufacturing startup websites every week to look for open positions.
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Heaven can’t be real because we’d be hearing Steve Jobs losing it.
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For years, Safeway has used your money to buy food and stock it at their stores for you to buy in your neighborhood. We should ban them from doing it - but allow you to use your money and time to drive out to a farm and buy your own produce.
For years, Wall Street has used your 401k money to buy single family homes. We should ban them from doing it - but allow you to use your 401k to help you buy a home, without penalties or caps or taxes.
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This is good for the world, even if we don't love that this is the way the world works.
Replying to @zarahsultana
I'll tell you this as someone who has been to Venezuela and not some UK lefty looking for political capital. I see the usual band of socialists like you, jumping on this because (1) they are lefty socialists and (2) they hate Trump. I’m don't know the legality of any this, and I’m sure oil will play a role, but most people have no idea of the reality inside Venezuela. I’ve been to Caracas and the Colombian border near Cucuta and it was like nowhere I had ever been. Caracas was unique, a middle-class bubble where if you have access to dollars, you can scrape together an okay-ish life. If you don’t, you’re living on close to nothing. At the border, there were huge numbers of Venezuelans sleeping rough, desperate for work and access to basic goods. I met a young man and his pregnant wife living on the street. Every day he was looking for any work at all, just to send money home to his parents looking after his kids. We gave him $60 and he cried his eyes out because this meant they could eat for a month. Inside Venezuela, there were long queues for food and we visited charities struggling to feed people who were hungry. Millions have fled the country, those that remained and supported Maduro were mobilised for pro-government protests in exchange for regular boxes of basic food, a system that keeps people dependent and compliant (no different from what the socialists do with welfare here). Political repression is real. Protests have been violently suppressed with soldiers opening fire. Journalists and activists have been harassed, jailed and murdered. Elections have stolen and political opposition forced into exile. I have friends who were intimidated into leaving the country, had businesses stolen and watched their life savings evaporate through hyperinflation. Venezuela was once one of the richest countries in South America. Chavez began the destruction and Maduro finished the job. What happens next matters, of course. But if this process leads to a transition toward a genuinely democratically elected government, then while leftist politicians slam Trump, I guarantee the overwhelming majority of Venezuelans, both inside the country and across the diaspora, will be celebrating. Sure sure, agendas agendas.
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My two favourite politicians. Coming from different angles, but they both end up proving the same point.
You can LITERALLY incarcerate your way out of violence. That’s precisely why incarceration exists in the first place.
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