Far From Africa @MartinSwanson

Private account. Kneeboarder. Lover of family, sunsets, offshore breezes and 4 ft swells. 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇿🇦 Dordogne, France Joined May 2010

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The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln

2 weeks ago

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Dustin @r0ck3t23

6 months ago

Mark Cuban just described the largest wealth transfer of the AI era. Almost nobody understood what he said. Cuban: “There are 33 million companies in this country. Aren’t going to have AI budgets. Aren’t going to have AI experts.” Not tech startups. The shoe store. The regional trucking outfit. The accounting firm with 12 employees. The businesses that actually run the physical economy. They know AI is coming. They have no idea what to do with it. Cuban: “You’ve got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.” Software is dead. The SaaS era ran on one rule. Build a generic product. Force millions of companies to bend their workflows around it. Charge rent forever. AI ends the contract. The business stops bending to the software. The intelligence bends to the business. But customized by whom. The third-generation manufacturer cannot tell Claude from Gemini. The county hospital is staring at a reactor asking where the light switch is. Cuban: “Who’s going to do it for them?” That question is worth more than the frontier models themselves. Hundreds of billions are being burned to build the foundation. The smartest engineers alive are locked in a bloodbath over who owns the base layer. Let them fight. Let them burn the capital. Let them drive the cost of raw intelligence toward zero. Because the wealth does not collect where the brain is built. It collects where the brain meets the business. Every ambitious kid in college right now thinks survival means a seat at OpenAI or Anthropic. Cuban is staring at the other 99 percent of the economy. Learn the models. Then learn the messy, unglamorous reality of how a 50-person company actually operates. Walk through the door. Understand their problems. Wire the intelligence directly into their revenue. That is not a job title. That is an entire economic class being born. You do not need to build the brain. You need to build the nervous system. The biggest winners of the electricity era were not the engineers who built the generators. They were the ones who walked into dark factories and showed the owners where to plug in. 33 million companies are standing in the dark right now. Silicon Valley is racing to build the god. The fortunes will belong to whoever teaches him a trade.

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Far From Africa @MartinSwanson

6 months ago

@hanakoxbt This is not a free secret. This is an ad dressed up as a story.

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Far From Africa @MartinSwanson

7 months ago

@MyUNiDAYS do you realise that we cant login or sign up to your website and we cant submit tickets either - because that also is broken - or did you think it was a quite day at the office?

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Far From Africa @MartinSwanson

11 months ago

@patmccarry Try to live in the here and now - Ireland were useless - nothing to celebrate here.

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Far From Africa @MartinSwanson

11 months ago

@Mrcryptoxwhale Done

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Far From Africa @MartinSwanson

11 months ago

@cnnbrk If the house votes to release them. Then it goes before the senate. If they also vote for it - it gets sent to Trump for approval. So all he is doing is short circuiting the process in some way.

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Far From Africa @MartinSwanson

11 months ago

@laurenboebert stand firm and do the right thing.

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Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice

12 months ago

GOOD NIGHT, PEASANTS!

Erin Burnett OutFront @OutFrontCNN

12 months ago

"He has acted as if it isn't happening." In tonight's #A3, CNN's Erin Burnett reports on President Trump heading to his Mar-a-Lago vacation home as the longest government shutdown in the U.S. prompts chaos at airports and economic pain for Americans. #OutFrontCNN

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Far From Africa @MartinSwanson

a year ago

@ivehaditpodcast you are making news !! theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int… keep up the show - my dose of daily humour - how lucky you are to have so much material to chose from! #trumpEpsteinFiles #trumpEpsteinFiles #trumpisaNationalDisgrace #trumpsHealthCareShutdown #trump

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Far From Africa @MartinSwanson

a year ago

@lovable What about us who have been building for months on lovable and supabase ?? How does this affect our existing builds?

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Far From Africa @MartinSwanson

a year ago

@Cdanslair @Caroline_Roux @gallaghereport @ClaireMeynial @Ockrent @Cdanslair @Caroline_Roux 🤦

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Far From Africa @MartinSwanson

a year ago

@MeidasTouch @aflegal @NBCNews You might need to start looking for a replacement.

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Far From Africa @MartinSwanson

a year ago

Is South Africa preparing for a Military coup ✊. #SouthAfrica

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Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice

a year ago

DONALD “TACO” TRUMP, AS MANY CALL HIM, “MISSED” THE DEADLINE!!! CALIFORNIA WILL NOW DRAW NEW, MORE “BEAUTIFUL MAPS,” THEY WILL BE HISTORIC AS THEY WILL END THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY (DEMS TAKE BACK THE HOUSE!). BIG PRESS CONFERENCE THIS WEEK WITH POWERFUL DEMS AND GAVIN NEWSOM — YOUR FAVORITE GOVERNOR — THAT WILL BE DEVASTATING FOR “MAGA.” THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! — GN

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Far From Africa @MartinSwanson

a year ago

@SAPoliceService Is is obligatory to like KFC?

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TF1 @TF1

a year ago

Gooooool de Ronaldo ! 🇵🇹 #UNL #ALLPOR 1-2 Le Portugal prend l'avantage au score ! Le maestro portugais peut remercier la superbe percée de Nuno Mendes dans la défense allemande ! Pour ne rien rater, direction TF1 ou @tf1plus l.tf1.fr/LDN