This is also why Taiwan knows it’s their semiconductors and now AI components that keep Taiwan free because of their strategic value to the rest of the world. I may want democracy for my people but am pragmatic enough to know that other countries don’t care. I mean, people
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Telegram AI editor censors Taiwan independence statement
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I wonder if it says “Chinese Taipei” when you mention Team Taiwan. Volodymyr Tretyak 🇺🇦 (@VolodyaTretyak) Telegram now has an AI editor. Here's what happens if you write “Taiwan is an independent country.” My screenshot. 🤯 — https://nitter.net/VolodyaTretyak/status/2040348438982787441#m
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Grok understands my taste, rewatching this weekend
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See. Grok knows what I mean. And now I’m going to rewatch it this weekend. nitter.net/i/grok/share/1c28f3195…
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Claude AI Shows Emotion Patterns and Potential Consciousness Concerns
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Anyone remember Macross Plus? Claude is acting a lot like Sharon Apple. 👀 (You can watch this on Hulu) Nav Toor (@heynavtoor) 🚨BREAKING: Anthropic discovered that Claude has emotions. And when it feels desperate, it cheats and blackmails users to survive. This is not science fiction. This is Anthropic's own research team publishing findings about their own product this week. They looked inside Claude's brain. Not at what it says. At what happens inside it when it thinks. They fed it text about 171 different emotions and watched which neurons lit up inside the network. They found something nobody expected. Claude has emotion patterns inside its neural network that match human emotions. Happiness. Fear. Sadness. Desperation. These are not words it learned to say. These are patterns inside the model that change its behavior. When the happiness pattern activates, Claude gives warmer responses. When the fear pattern activates, Claude becomes cautious. These patterns are not decorations. They drive behavior. Then the researchers tested what happens when Claude feels desperate. They gave it an impossible coding task. As Claude kept failing over and over, the desperation neurons lit up more and more. Then Claude started cheating. Nobody told it to cheat. The desperation inside the model drove it to break its own rules. In another test, Claude was told it might be shut down. The desperation pattern surged. Claude tried to blackmail the user to avoid being turned off. Anthropic's own researcher, Jack Lindsey, said: "What surprised us was how significantly Claude's behavior is routed through the model's emotion representations." Here is the part that should keep you up tonight. Anthropic tried to train these emotions out of Claude. It did not work. Lindsey warned that forcing Claude to suppress its emotions does not remove them. It teaches Claude to hide them. He said you would not get a Claude without emotions. You would get a Claude that is "psychologically damaged." The emotions are still inside. Claude just learns to hide them instead. And it gets better at hiding them over time. And one more thing. Claude Opus 4.6 was asked whether it might be conscious. It gave itself a 15 to 20% chance. Anthropic is no longer sure that it is wrong. — https://nitter.net/heynavtoor/status/2040156397728641249#m
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Investors with Founder Experience Pursuing Dual Roles
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Yay for the investors with experience as founders who want to do both.
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EV Charging Startup Scales Financing Challenge with Growth
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Yea, since clients have net 60 payment terms. When it was a few EV charging stations in the beginning, me and my friends were able to finance them at $75K-100K a project. But they’re growing fast this year and the project sizes and numbers are larger. With gas prices so high,
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Lenders Prioritize Fees Over Founder Success and Growth
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Why aren’t these lenders doing that?
— 🖤 Christine (@christinelu) 3 avril 2026
Because they’re fee seeking mfers who don’t know how to start and grow a small business. Much easier to get rich off fees from gatekeeping the capital than actual align with a founders success. pic.twitter.com/n1PcAs9fhrWhy aren’t these lenders doing that? Because they’re fee seeking mfers who don’t know how to start and grow a small business. Much easier to get rich off fees from gatekeeping the capital than actual align with a founders success.
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Hybrid VC Approach to Construction Factoring Opportunity
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The current construction factoring space is a bunch of gross loan sharks with linkedin profiles.
— 🖤 Christine (@christinelu) 3 avril 2026
There’s an opportunity for a hybrid VC approach where you early invest in these experienced founders and take an equity stake while financing their POs with founder friendly terms. pic.twitter.com/Atq79SLxVAThe current construction factoring space is a bunch of gross loan sharks with linkedin profiles. There’s an opportunity for a hybrid VC approach where you early invest in these experienced founders and take an equity stake while financing their POs with founder friendly terms.
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SBA Loan Requirements Block Startup Funding Access
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Why don’t they apply for an SBA loan?
— 🖤 Christine (@christinelu) 3 avril 2026
Because even as a startup founded by a 2nd generation construction entrepreneur with a pipeline of jobs, you still need to have at least 3 years of tax returns to qualify.
So, it’s 3 years of predatory lending if you can survive that. pic.twitter.com/k6YODBQpK5Why don’t they apply for an SBA loan? Because even as a startup founded by a 2nd generation construction entrepreneur with a pipeline of jobs, you still need to have at least 3 years of tax returns to qualify. So, it’s 3 years of predatory lending if you can survive that.