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"i think X is better now than ever" - Taylor Lorenz "twitter was falling apart so i'm glad Elon Musk took over but i was like elon has never ran a social media product" "he banned me by the way. first major mistake" "i was very skeptical and i thought this would be the end of X but my controversial take now is that X is better than ever. especially for technology and for the cultural conversation" "we got jensen tweeting, we got zuck back on. they have all come crawling back"
atlas4,592,344 views • 18 days ago
bi founders (bicoastal) kind of fell off so i caught up with autumnkyoko in NYC to discuss this. we covered: - bicoastal as an identity - what is an egirl - status in SF vs status in NYC also just note that i have also gained access to her hinge account so both me and her dad are now monitoring. 00:00 - Dressing in SF vs NYC vs LA 02:04 - Sina on the lines in my face 04:40 - In SF you shouldn’t do anything that is high status 08:03 - Being bicoastal is a personality 12:20 - Bicoastal founders fell off 15:43 - Invite-only social networks 18:03 - What is an egirl 19:21 - roon reaction 23:53 - The value of being a bicoastal technology founder 26:55 - SF is controlled delusion 29:57 - Risk management in SF vs risk management in NYC 32:53 - Selling the girlies software
atlas46,066 views • 1 day ago
"SF is a deep meritocracy. people don't really care how much money you have or care where you went to school" - Celeste Amadon "they care about how smart and capable you are" "i think these men that come to SF, a lot of them do make it and pour 100% of their life into it" "but that means they come up for air in their 30s and they don't have the friend groups and haven't dated as much" "that's a tough spot to be in"
atlas1,343,001 views • 2 months ago
today is the one year anniversary of MOTS and to celebrate i was lucky enough to hang out with Taylor Lorenz at the park and read ads at her. we covered: - the creative process - AI doom - messaging around data centers and AI 00:00 - X is back and better now than ever 05:55 - Adjusting messaging for different social media platforms 09:42 - How to be creative in media and the creative process 14:30 - Why SF is obsessed with housing 18:07 - Flock cameras in SF, wearables and surveillance 24:44 - Making friends in SF 29:11 - People in SF are inspiring 35:15 - AI doom 42:18 - Young people working in AI 45:03 - The sentiment of those working in AI (from an insider) 48:15 - Panic and fear leads to authoritarian places 50:05 - The pro data center party and data center messaging 51:45 - Soon reaction 55:23 - Will the messaging around AI be able to change? 01:02:45 - Tech needs to stand up to online freedom
atlas305,704 views • 20 days ago
🚨 Emergency Pod 🚨 no one asked and yet i delivered. it's factory vs cognition beef live here on x dot com the everything app. what does this all mean? who won? i'm not here to deliver the news. i'm here to tell you how to feel. 00:00 - Necessary personal disclosures 04:12 - Matan Grinberg reaction 06:12 - Is lack of integrity unique to the AI era? 07:35 - What the current funding market means for integrity 08:47 - Matan reaction continued 10:58 - Scott Wu reaction 12:25 - Chris’s announcement 14:55 - Factory needs to send a spy 17:02 - Shaun Maguire reaction 17:32 - Vinod Khosla reaction 18:30 - VCs shouldn’t invest in competitors 21:20 - MOTS integrity
atlas42,439 views • 7 days ago
i caught up with Celeste Amadon to chat about a few things SF dating: - single until series B - the state of dating apps - men in SF i was also put on the spot with how i used to date (trick question i was terrified) 02:35 - SF dating vibes in 2026 and single until series B 06:11 - Can you cold approach at the gym 11:10 - The state of dating apps 14:50 - Matchmakers in SF 17:10 - The male eligibility problem in SF 21:07 - 7 Girls of SF and Madison Kanna shoutout 22:43 - Sina reaction 24:31 - alli reaction 25:01 - Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 reaction and dating events 28:15 - What would I suggest for the men of SF 34:12 - Is SF dating really that bad? 41:27 - “paula” reaction 44:30 - Best places to meet your wife/husband in SF 47:58 - What is a pre-date? 50:38 - Pitching a friend
atlas402,809 views • 2 months ago
i visited the Vercel openweights event to do the only things i'm okay at: - lift - podcast - talk to dudes i was joined by Melkey and Andrew Qu on the gym couch to discuss the current state of software engineering 00:00 - What we worked out at Open Weights 01:50 - Why the gym for a startup event? 03:05 - CLI or desktop app in 2026 05:15 - Interfacing with agents and alli reaction 07:58 - What even are sandboxes 08:44 - I won the pull-up competition???? 09:24 - Agents outside of sandboxes and the $1m bounty 11:10 - I guess we’re doing software factories now 12:30 - Hot take: read the code
atlas158,589 views • 1 month ago
introducing MOTS Office Gyms, a series in which i tour the gyms of the greatest companies on this planet. for the inaugural episode i got to tour and rate the Cognition garage gym with Jared Zoneraich and we summoned employees to do pull-ups with us. The Tour 00:14 - The evolution of the cognition gym 01:58 - The dumbbells 03:14 - The cognition bench press 04:46 - Cardio and cables 06:52 - The looney tunes section 09:21 - The squat racks 11:14 - The rating The Hang 13:12 - We can call ourselves whatever we want 14:55 - Tokenmaxxing was a bad idea 17:35 - Why not just use codex or claude code 19:46 - The first pull-up victims arrive The Challenge 21:13 - Max pull-ups 27:23 - My pull-ups
atlas34,981 views • 10 days ago
i caught up with valentina🌷 and Luke Igel to get a vibe check on SF so far in 2026 and explain why Corgi-posting proliferated across the timeline (i'm sorry). also you might have noticed that MOTS looks somewhat polished?? well luke's product Kino kind of changed my life 00:00 - Vibe check on SF, everyone is nervous 03:13 - The different SF personas 08:04 - The striver problem in 2026 13:49 - Are the non-technicals nervous? 20:45 - The best event in SF so far in 2026 23:20 - maritza lerman yoes reaction 25:18 - is roon fat? 27:00 - Beff (e/acc) reaction 31:15 - People are doing crazy things for SF apartments in 2026 37:21 - Why the Corgi Cafe? 42:29 - sucks reaction 44:35 - Squirtle reaction 45:39 - giatt reaction 46:25 - hope hopes hoping reaction 48:55 - The Corgi Bus 55:48 - Follow Kino
atlas142,323 views • 2 months ago
there is no greater honor in this life than being a "friend of the show" so that's why valentina🌷 and i of MOTS caught up with Theo Jaffee and sof 𓋹 of MTS (we are friends of the show of the friends of the show). they graciously hosted us in Napa this weekend and we got to discuss some AI stuff like: - kanye nick land - IG girlie AI sentiment - normie doomerism 00:00 - Podcasting in remote locations (Napa) 02:45 - “imagine if Kanye knew about Nick Land”- sophia 05:38 - Do we need a new landian-style figure to counter doomerism? 07:18 - Dean W. Ball and Tenobrus shoutouts 9:44 - What happens when the general public thinks AI will kill us all? 13:05 - How do you change data center messaging for the lay person? 19:19 - The artist sentiment towards AI 22:58 - DJs did everything to music work that AI could have done
atlas51,696 views • 24 days ago
i got chinese food with Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 and koreanpeptides while we went through the best food in SF for each cuisine. i also put the camera on the lazy Susan so you as a viewer can be one with the chinese food. 00:00 - Sichuan Tasty Restaurant (best Chinese food in SF) 02:32 - My favourite steak and Italian place in SF 04:09 - Does SF have good food? 09:07 - Best dumpling place in SF 11:35 - Best burrito in SF 13:28 - Best tacos in SF 14:20 - Best Italian in SF 20:08 - Izakaya in SF 21:33- Omakase in SF 23:26 - Best Thai in SF 25:53 - Best Vietnamese in SF 31:49 - Best Nepalese in SF 34:30 - Deva Hazarika and “paula” shoutouts 35:50 - Best low stakes date spot in SF 42:55 - Best high stakes date spot in SF 45:00 - Yums per dollar
atlas205,995 views • 3 months ago
i turned signüll into a giant gray blob and took him to dolores park so we could have some takes. we covered: - why AI writing is good actually - why AI design is good actually - dating discourse is this the worst set of topics ever? 00:00 - The kinds of people that come on MOTS? 00:55 - Are email jobs actually fake? 04:03 - The actual American dream and ads on data centers 08:40 - There is data for every narrative ever 12:00 - Unpaid ads except they’re podcasts 18:45 - AI-generated writing and design is good actually 27:28 - Luke Igel and Kino shoutout again 32:01 - You can just make things up 35:35 - The pro billionaires march 37:30 - AI SEO and blog slop 42:25 - How do women reject men and how do men reject women?
atlas87,904 views • 1 month ago
it's been a slow news week so that's where MOTS comes in to cover what no one else is willing to cover: - corgi crash outs - top 100 poster controversy - alex wang muse mascot gooning i also responded to all of your dms that you sent me 00:00 - Slow news week 01:34 - The Corgi crash outs 06:30 - nico laqua reaction 08:45 - In defense of the corgi twitter girls 13:00 - The Horowitz Andreessen Academy 15:55 - etn. top 100 most influential posters 22:21 - Alexandr Wang generational posting run 29:58 - MOTS Mail
atlas20,976 views • 12 days ago
i spoke to Brianne Kimmel about NYC girlies moving to SF and living in rincon hill (east cut, bugman city). "i don't think you want to live in the east cut" "it's just you and joe and the juice" "joe and the juice has really bad toast and it's not a vibey spot to hang out. that's it"
atlas39,611 views • 26 days ago
SF is nothing without its people so i brought on some of the greatest in Kylie Robison and Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼. we covered: - the different groups you can find in SF - the different kinds of events worth going to - groups working to make SF better - why we love SF (controversial) 01:36 - 7 Girls of SF 03:18 - Sam D'Amico BBQs 04:14 - Madison Kanna reaction 05:41 - Kate Deyneka reaction 06:08 - tao te chic reaction 07:15 - Larkin, Gays, Rationalists and Hippies 13:05 - Why we lost the old Oakland warehouse rave punk scene 18:21 - SF events (shoutout to Chairman Birb Bernanke) 23:55 - MOTS events 26:50 - What the SF party scene needs more of and bridging the artists and tech people 34:20 - Why it is actually so hard to bridge art and tech 39:45 - Groups making SF better, Hamilton Society, SF10x, GrowSF 41:30 - will o’brien reaction 43:16 - lilly sharples reaction 45:15 - Shoutout Garry Tan and GrowSF 51:10 - Why we love SF in 2026
atlas187,084 views • 5 months ago
there has been a lot of discussion of the SF housing crisis on the timeline recently so i brought on Sam D'Amico and Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 to break down how we got here while we cooked some steaks. finally MOTS gets political 00:00 - The SF Sam power rankings and using the Impulse stove 03:00 - Preparing steak 04:07 - Recent history of SF politics 07:48 - The rise of the NIMBY in SF 14:25 - SF Faction breakdown and inclusionary zoning 20:11 - The rise of the YIMBY in SF 24:33 - The progressive overreach in SF 28:23 - The weirdos in SF joined the AI labs 30:30 - It’s hard to know what you’re voting for 34:05 - Mayor Daniel Lurie 35:05 - SF unions 40:10 - The rise of non-profits in SF 45:35 - The board of supervisors and veto power of development
atlas89,714 views • 2 months ago
i had both valentina🌷 and Nicole Summer Hsing over for some tea and to discuss different social interactions you might experience in San Francisco. we broke them down into four main categories: - networking - parties - confrontation - dating 00:00 - valentina🌷 cold open 03:56 - networking events 07:35 - talking the book 09:12 - reaction 12:15 - alli reaction + is it a date or is it networking? 15:25 - Beff (e/acc) reaction + upside to SF networking 20:52 - SF parties 22:30 - taking dates to SF parties 28:58 - Miranda Nover reaction 29:45 - valentina🌷 reaction + latino parties 31:41 - another alli reaction <3 32:14 - winny reaction 33:52 - confrontation in SF 42:19 - SF dating 44:29 - Linda Chen reaction + not dating until series B or some shit 48:20 - Tenobrus reaction 50:28 - Cree reaction + the poly thing 54:58 - dating in SF is good actually
atlas205,680 views • 6 months ago