Allen @allensmith

Exited founder @semantticai back in big company world. Talking about design, AI, bitcoin, and the singularity. 🇸🇪🇺🇸 modeless.io Sweden / Florida Joined April 2007

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Allen @allensmith

20 hours ago

@DrewPavlou What I hear: to save democracy, we must ban democracy.

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Best Zelenskyy interview I’ve seen. Unfathomable anyone can watch this and not admire and sympathize with the Ukrainian people for their bravery. Absolutely disgusting how they have been treated by Trump for a war that Putin started. President Zelenskyy: It's Time To Tell You The Truth About The War! They... youtu.be/5x9dkYIRb58?is… via @YouTube

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Allen @allensmith

2 days ago

@BrettFromDJ Faster, yes... but a working app looks decided. Nobody argues with navigation they can already click, so open questions quietly turn into shipped answers. If the first artifact is code, it needs a way to show what's still undecided, otherwise speed makes the decisions for you.

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Allen @allensmith

3 days ago

@idagabrielsson

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Allen @allensmith

3 days ago

@tomfgoodwin Depends on the dashboard. If you don’t know what questions to ask to begin with then any data will do. I see dozens of dashboards like this every month…data for no clear purpose.

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Allen @allensmith

3 days ago

Back in 2011-12, I and a few friends built Social Locale, which used the FSQ API (plus twitter, facebook, and others) to aggregate check-in data for in-store screens. “Check-in at the checkout” was our slogan. It was my first time trying to raise money and I failed badly. It was a fun product to build though. What a bummer they era is over…the internet was so much fun then.

Dennis Crowley 🇺🇸 (mostly on Threads, @dens) @dens

4 days ago

Foursquare was acquired last month. The outcome was disappointing. It's taken me a while to write this, but I think I'm finally done grieving it. Here are some thoughts on our final years, an effort to honor the team who helped build & maintain FSQ's legacy, and my attempt to

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Allen @allensmith

4 days ago

Because there's no money left after paying for all the "free" goodies.

Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider

5 days ago

France has FREE health care, paid parental leave, paid family leave, FREE child care, FREE preschool, 5 weeks paid vacation, a 35 hour work week, generous unemployment and housing benefits, and heavily subsidized higher education. Everything the left says they want AND THEY'RE

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tetsuo @tetsuoai

4 days ago

America innovates 🇺🇸 Europe regulates 🇪🇺 Made in 46 hours by 135 agents. 8,624,565,970 tokens · 910 images · 261 clips

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WIRED @WIRED

4 days ago

The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean. buff.ly/5cLtnha

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Allen @allensmith

5 days ago

I was never one way or the other on the 2A until I moved to Europe, and now I’m very pro 2A specifically because of stuff like this.

RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa

6 days ago

France. A father defends his shop. His only source of income to feed his wife and children. They mock him. They beat him. They destroy everything. These are not criminals, they are terrorists. Europe is dying.

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Allen @allensmith

5 days ago

Accurate

Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) @antoniogm

6 days ago

The europoor meme can be funny, but it's also midwit and wrong. As someone with both EU and US passports who's lived in both sets of elite poles (SF/NYC and BCN/BER/PAR), let me just give you the TLDR: -The percent of GDP spent on welfare in the US is the about the same as the

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Allen @allensmith

7 days ago

Between destroying history and looting, these “protesters” are really making some great points.

Brivael Le Pogam @brivael

7 days ago

Une vendeuse qui fuit sa propre boutique. À Lyon. En France. En 2026. Oui, au bout d'un moment, il faut blâmer les abrutis qui brandissent un drapeau palestinien ou algérien pour des causes dont ils n'ont absolument rien à foutre, et qui s'en servent comme d'un permis de piller.

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Allen @allensmith

7 days ago

@idagabrielsson

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Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano

a week ago

The biggest, and stupidest, myth in European politics, particularly popular in France, is that Europe suffers the consequences of "austerity" and "neoliberalism". In the biggest 5 countries in Europe, more than half of the population makes its income from the state, less than half from the private sector. This is what makes the problem of reducing the welfare state so impossible: more than half of the voters are net recipients. No surprise that Italy's budget has not been balanced in 100 years, France's in 50 years (ooh la la, l'austérité!!): -France: 30 million from the state versus 21m private sector workers. State spending is 57% of GDP, taxes more than half the economy. The budget hasn't been balanced in the lifetime of most French (since 1974). - Germany: 35 million adults from the state, versus 34 million from the private sector. 10% of the population is registered as severely disabled. Public spending is over half of GDP. Germany has had a continuous budget deficit since 2019. -Italy: 23 million from the state, versus 20.5 million private-sector workers. Public spending is 51% of GDP. Italy has had a budget deficit every year since 1925, for 100 years. - Spain more people get their income from the state since 2024: 18.21 million from the public sector versus 17.9 million people working in the private sector. Since 2025, Spain also had more government employees than self-employed workers (autónomos) for the first time in history. State spending is at 45%, budget has not been balanced since 2007. - UK: 54% of households now receive more in state benefits than they pay in taxes. State spending is 44.5% of GDP, taxes (40%) are at their highest since 1950, the budget hasn't been balanced since 2001, and 1 in 5 new cars is paid by the government through a bizarre state disability scheme (Motability).

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Allen @allensmith

a week ago

Greatest new product demo ever

Tesla @Tesla

a week ago

Real life, baby

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Allen @allensmith

a week ago

Put them out of their misery

Michelle Weekley @michelleweekley

a week ago

Not even Black Mirror could predict this level of dystopia.

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Allen @allensmith

a week ago

@idagabrielsson

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Allen @allensmith

a week ago

@8bdrssss Yes, the terrible tragedy of being net negative. holmgrenpeter.substack.com/p/sweden-is-ne…

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Allen @allensmith

a week ago

@rabi_guha @vasuman @openuidev Built this same idea 3 years ago @SemantticAI …too early. I still think composable UI is a thing, but maybe the big models just end up embedding it.