I'm here to divert myself from the quotidian dreariness of my existence.
Introverse.
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If you take even one step outside of the scope of liberal-accepted activity irl, I can absolutely assure you that forces beyond your comprehension will spawn out of thin air to stop you with extreme prejudice
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BREAKING: Mercor Raises $750M at $20 BILLION Valuation
I sat down w/ Co-Founder & CEO Brendan Foody (@BrendanFoody) to discuss the explosive growth of one of AI's fastest-growing companies & his ambition to build a trillion-dollar business.
Founded in 2023 by college dropouts, @Mercor is building the human intelligence infrastructure behind frontier AI models.
Mercor by the Numbers:
› $750M Series D, backed by Nvidia, Benchmark, General Catalyst, Funds managed by affiliates of Apollo, Salesforce & others
› $20B valuation
› 5X+ growth on a mid-nine-figure base since last September
› 5M+ experts in its network
› $5M+ in daily expert payouts, up from $1M annually just 2 years ago
› 7M+ AI interviews conducted
Brendan's thesis: Every Fortune 500 company will eventually operate like an AI lab, training its own models on proprietary data, workflows, and expertise.
We discuss Mercor's expansion into enterprise AI, its acquisition of Deeptune, reinforcement learning environments, why AI training data is still undervalued, competition with Scale AI, and how companies like Harvey are building proprietary AI capabilities.
Plus, why Brendan and his co-founders have turned down opportunities to walk away with significant cash, Mercor's IPO ambitions, and what it takes to build a category-defining company.
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(00:00) Brendan Foody, Co-Founder & CEO Mercor
(01:00) Mercor's Path to a $1T Company
(02:22) Mercor's 3 Products
(04:05) $5M a Day in Expert Payouts on Stripe Connect
(05:40) Why Mercor Is Not a Marketplace
(08:51) Is Human Data a Durable Category
(12:20) How Mercor Finds and Evaluates Experts
(15:45) Holding Category Leadership With a Founding Team in Their Early 20s
(18:00) Chips on the Shoulder and Avoiding Mimetic Competition
(28:25) Why Mercor Acquired Deeptune
(31:22) Turning Down Acquisition Offers
(34:40) Harvey, LAB and Why the Model Is the Product
(41:30) Why Data Is Mispriced in the AI Stack
(43:40) Every Fortune 500 Becomes a Neolab
(49:55) IPO Timeline and the Next 12 Months
LOL All the "NYC will learn a bitter lesson" folks must be pissed.
New York City recorded its safest first 10 months of any year in history.
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Preliminary NYPD stats show record lows in shootings/murders for first 10 months of 2026 (largest major crime reduction in 17 years) but are routinely revised upward after audits (avg. +2.7% in prior years; every report since 2018 increased).
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Divi filius retweeted
this stuff is so tiresome. jp morgan lead new york city yacht club to two successive cup victories, rockefeller raced trotters through central park, ellison made sailboats fly
you all are falling victim to the pastiche of martyrdom without any of the glory. get over yourselves
LOL It's funny because if it were a white person that got away with this and Kanye were canceled, it'd be called racism.
I think some people just have the people's hearts.
Can anyone explain why Kanye West gets so much love? Regardless of the lines he has crossed. Many have been cancelled for less to the point of no return. But to Kanye that just turns into a bad few weeks.
What makes him so different? Genuinely asking.
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British actor Russell Brand sentenced to more than 10 years in prison after being convicted in the UK of raping a fan and assaulting three women. cnn.com/2026/11/09/entertain…
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People say stuff like this, but, he was attracted to her. Isn't that the arbiter?
All your theory of "standards" and "qualifications" purports to describe what he would be attracted to. When that mismatches empirical reality, that's a problem with your theory, not with her face.
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Trump has endorsed an immigration deal with Democrats every year since 2017, and he has shot the bills down every time.
Trump has offered a pass to illegals who work or have ties here, then does the opposite. So far this is only words, his actions keep blocking amnesty.
Trump endorses an amnesty deal with Democrats, saying immigration maximalists are on the “pretty far right” and suggesting that illegals who have been in the US for 10-15 years should have an opportunity to stay.
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The breakneck race to destroy *any* connection to a shared or objective reality is one of the most repulsive things going on right now in tech
You WILL be alienated from every other human on earth. You WILL be embalmed in your own delusions, and you’ll pay us $20/month for it
Microsoft has filed a patent for an AI system that could rewrite what people say during livestreams in real time. It could change words depending on who's watching, taking into account their age, location, and language.
The idea is to clean up broadcasts by removing filler words, censoring swearing, or even replacing certain words.
The AI could also adjust the speaker's lip movements so viewers wouldn't notice anything had been changed.
This can’t be used for anything
Microsoft has filed a patent for an AI system that could rewrite what people say during livestreams in real time. It could change words depending on who's watching, taking into account their age, location, and language.
The idea is to clean up broadcasts by removing filler words, censoring swearing, or even replacing certain words.
The AI could also adjust the speaker's lip movements so viewers wouldn't notice anything had been changed.
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Rightists have trouble understanding why Charlie Kirk jokes are funny.
Maybe I can explain it in a way you can understand.
People make jokes when a situation is absurd, and more specifically, when others demand you say something untrue about a person and treat them with more respect than they deserved.
George Floyd died. You conservatives thought jokes about St Floyd were funny. In your mind, he was a criminal and a drug addict, and leftists had treated him like the Second Coming of Jesus. Or think about how you'll see a trans person playing basketball with biological women, which leftists tell you is fine and normal, and how funny it is to laugh at this.
Similarly, most Americans do not share your personal admiration for Charlie Kirk. They think he was a bigot and a conspiracy theorist. He was also not in any way a thinker or someone who contributed positively to the discourse, but a political hack who formed his opinions based on tribal considerations and owning the libs.
When Charlie Kirk died, you went around cancelling people for being insufficiently sad. Even if someone said they were sad about his death and they just thought he didn't deserve to be admired, in those cases rightists still tried to destroy people's lives. Republicans in Congress started calling for a statue of Charlie Kirk in the US Capitol, and others introduced legislation to put his face on coins.
As of April 2026, an AP article identified more than 60 Kirk-themed bills introduced across over 20 states. Among these was one in Florida that threatened to take away funding from universities if they didn't rename a road after Charlie Kirk.
Outside of your bubble in which Charlie Kirk was a great thinker and leader, this is all ridiculous.
So when people at a Chappelle show hear the name "Charlie Kirk," they're not thinking about the human being and father. They're associating the name with rightists trying to create a cult of personality, and are employing humor, which is common when people are facing a movement that is trying to tell them what to do.
