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ive seen unscrupulous founders fake traction during diligence, which is my day job

but ive never seen one raise $4.5m for an ai agent startup built around pulling fresh web data, then openly cheer the unethical proxy infrastructure used to evade consent and blocks

then inventing a fantasy about who i associate with instead of answering that conflict is an unusually loud form of projection



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> forced lowercase

??? shift is an extra key to press


https://www.businessinsider.com/lowercase-typing-altman-dors...

most shibboleths are subtle like that


I'm...not old enough to read a Business Insider article about being annoyed by lowercase letters.


I think most young people (with friends to text) have already encountered this.


Most young people are familiar with lowercase sentences and have been for a while, yes


aseigo was the OG, «aseigo: the triumphs and travails of a shift-key-challenged KDE hacker» was his blog byline a couple of decades ago.




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