Aseem Kishore
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Building https://t.co/UAzrzIsvJr ✨ Creator of https://t.co/KQGOzXwkgX 👨🏽💻 @MIT ’08
San Francisco, CA
Joined August 2008
Thrilled to publicly share what we've been building at Portola! Tolan is a 3D, voice-native AI companion. Like a Tamagotchi you can talk to — or a ChatGPT with personality, memory, and more! Tolans pack a whole lot of power and utility in a fun and delightful frame. =) 1/3
I’m excited to announce Tolan, our first Embodied Companion. With no launch or press we’ve quietly hit 500,000+ downloads, over $1m in ARR, and a #1 app store category ranking. Today I’m also announcing our $10m seed round (more on that below) and sharing some of what we’ve
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Nothing to see here, just the president of the United States, underwater and with majorities in jeopardy, trying to steal the November elections for the GOP. It's not even subtle. It is incumbent on every GOP elected official to disavow this in the strongest possible terms.
BREAKING: President Trump signs an order directing the creation of a national eligible voter list, a move expected to face swift legal challenges.
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If any other president had pardoned - pardoned! - a man like this, they would have probably been impeached by now. Trump gets away with this kind of gross shit, day after day: https://t.co/EjfiSBwqoX
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ICE guards are betting on which detainee will kill themselves next. The AP just exposed the savage conditions of a detention camp in El Paso. The Associated Press got inside Camp East Montana. What they found should be on the front page of every newspaper in this country until
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I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran. This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low
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By the time these guys are finished, we will have built enough political momentum for one of the biggest anti-corruption pushes and string of prosecutions in our country’s history. Elect people who will deliver it.
NEW: Financial broker for Sec. of War Pete Hegseth allegedly attempted to make significant investment in major US defense companies weeks leading up to the Iran war according to the Financial Times.
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Just had my blood drawn from a very successful lab technician. She gave a great piece of advice: "I see lots of parents who try to reassure their kids that the needle won't hurt. They are lying to their kids! Of course it hurts. I tell the parents to step outside. And i
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I’ve been in Congress through divided governments, bitter fights, and historic crises. I’ve never seen anything like the last 24 hours. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson killed Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s bipartisan deal to fund the TSA, Coast Guard, and
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@lennysan Tolan is hiring a Principal Designer In office in San Francisco More details: https://t.co/Bg9VlH4MEE Feel free to DM
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Work with us at Tolan.
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you only get: 1 summer with them as a baby 3 as a toddler 5 as a child 3 as a preteen 6 as a teen so let them run barefoot, turn on the sprinkler, cut up the watermelon, chase fireflies under fading golden skies because the summers of sticky hands, sun tired kids, and slow
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Endless propaganda has convinced Americans that bombs dropping in the Middle East is “normal.” As if those families don’t have jobs, school, hopes & dreams. As if every life lost isn’t someone’s entire universe. Geographical luck. That’s the only difference between you & them.
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With two young boys at home, I try to imagine this every few months
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The inevitable result of this would be the creation of a permanent underclass of exploitable people, who grew up in this country, know no other, and have no education so are more vulnerable than ever before; a serf class for the rich and powerful.
Awful: Stephen Miller is privately floating the idea of restricting funding for the public education of undocumented kids. This has long been a right-wing dream: They want to get SCOTUS to reverse Plyler v Doe and further chip away at 14th Amendment. New: https://t.co/HrJNkjXQu2
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Anyone who thought creating the largest internal security force in the country, answering only to the president, was for anything else hasn’t been paying attention.
Steve Bannon: “We can use this, ICE helping at airports, as a test run, a test case, to really perfect ICE’s involvement in the 2026 midterms. Mike Davis: “I think we should have ICE agents at the polling places” Saying the quiet part out loud.
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Let me explain what just happened 👇 5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil. 5 minutes… These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire
BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades reportedly hit the market. In one move, $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold. These orders were 4–6x larger than
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A true honor for our team - nominated by @mobbin @asallen next to some gorgeous apps for "App of the Year" If you enjoy your little alien, vote here →
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Mobbin Awards is our first-ever design award, celebrating the best in UI craftsmanship across iOS, Web, Sites, Animation, and Innovation.
Honored I was asked to judge the inaugural Mobbin Awards App of the Year. Congrats to Tolan, Family, Arc, Open, Suno, Headspace for their achievements in pushing app design.
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This is sad. I know as a politician these companies are going to spend a billion dollars against me for saying it but 🤷🏽♀️ Pervasive gambling is not good for society. It turns life into a casino, traps people in addiction & debt, surges domestic violence, and fosters manipulation.
We’re honored to announce MLB has named Polymarket as their Exclusive Prediction Market Exchange Partner. Polymarket 🤝 MLB
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Whether the next president is a Republican or a Democrat, can we have someone with at least a little class next time? Because this is embarrassing.
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This is unhinged. The President of the United States went on a late-night rant, making clear he believes the Supreme Court justices he appointed owe him their loyalty and should always rule in his favor. The President of the United States is openly attacking the independence
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