Mesay

Mesay

@mesay.bsky.social

I don’t have a substack or a newsletter. Ethiopian, which means I run on coffee + shiro. Product Marketer by profession, bread maker by calling. https://www.rescue.org/volunteer

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25% of Anthropic’s rev comes from just 5 customers. 50% of their rev comes from AWS & Google Cloud distro. OAI doesn’t have the burden of being a public company (yet). If they wanna play some sick game theory stuff, they can nuke Anthropic’s biz (half a $trillion+ in debt makes things very tricky).

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

“Your margin is my opportunity” is a famous Jeff Bezos quote. OpenAI is now winning Anthropic customers with steep discounts. Replit shifted most of its AI spending to OpenAI after getting over 30% off a $100M+ annual contract. Competing on price will threaten Anthropic’s profitability narrative.

Twice Brasil had the chance to go out progressive or authoritarian and twice in a row they said no thanks.

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com

BREAKING Brazil's Lula clinches victory over Bolsonaro to win fourth term: official results show

Sky Sports is now doing a 1hr special with Horner. Obvious attempt from him to do some clean up job to come back to the sport (the rumor has been he has his eyes on Ferrari). Nasty, nasty work from everyone involved.

vogue.comFormula 1’s Sexual-Misconduct Scandal, Explained
Mesay@mesay.bsky.social

Christian Horner is a despicable person. He has no place in F1. If you choose to invite him to your show/podcast it says a lot about you (Naomi Shiff, why?) Also hope he goes no where near Ferrari, or any other team. Leave that man behind.

Kid’s got ice in his veins. Iceman 2.0, like his namesake from Finland

Formula 1@f1tv.bsky.social

KIMI ANTONELLI WINS THE UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX! 🏆✨ #F1 #USGP

Carrick deserves better. 3 goals, all from player mistakes. You don’t mark the far player, you don’t clear a ball (and fall), keeper error. And on the last 2 multiple defenders don’t run with players they’re to mark. That’s not on Carrick. The players sealed his fate. They should feel embarrassed.

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there’s no such thing as “strategic bigotry.” I know this because there is no amount of money you could pay me to become a bigot. the democrats who do this agree to do it because they’re bigots

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

From a feel-good story of Obama endorsing him and appearing in his campaign ad a few months ago to this. Embarrassing and hateful.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

George Russell getting absolutely cooked by a 20yo on equal machinery on a season where he was the consensus fav to win his first #f1 WDC title. The kid said “hold that unc”

Formula 1@f1tv.bsky.social

KIMI ANTONELLI IS ON POLE IN TEXAS! 🥇 #F1 #USGP

Healthcare in poor countries. Growing up, Polio was common enough in Addis that I knew schoolmates who had it. And that was in a middle-class school in the capital. Now, they’ve almost eradicated it from the country. HIV was a death sentence then; now people live normal lives with it. Medicine ftw!

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

This is like putting a bandaid on a GSW. Man Utd change managers like it’s a seasonal mandate, but the core problem still exists. Rangnick had his flaws but he was right about one thing: the club needs an “open-heart surgery.” Glazers + INEOS out. Berrada + Wilcox out. Complete overhaul.

Christian Horner is a despicable person. He has no place in F1. If you choose to invite him to your show/podcast it says a lot about you (Naomi Shiff, why?) Also hope he goes no where near Ferrari, or any other team. Leave that man behind.

Chain Bear F1@chainbear.bsky.social

Fucking hell every time I see F1 media it's Christian Horner

Econ of scale works when your fixed cost is relatively stable and you grow revenue fast. Cost of compute is not going down and everyone is forecasting capex the size of Kenya’s GDP. But hey…

Dave Lee@davelee.me

Zuckerberg on Meta call on Muse costs: "Muse is very compute intensive to run, but we expect to improve its cost efficiency by more than 10x in the next year, which will enable it to be profitable once the revenue lines are at scale." Translation: This is costing us a bomb

The era of capex > multiples of FCF is here to stay until everyone wins or goes broke and starts liquidating office furniture in their campuses. The firm can stay irrational longer than you can stay sane, or whatever Johnny Keys said 😏

$META beat, raises capex *META 3Q EPS $3.83, EST. $3.57 *META 3Q REV. $64.60B, EST. $63.33B *META 3Q AD REV. $63.06B, EST. $61.85B *META SEES 4Q REV. $73B TO $76B, EST. $73.57B *META SEES FY CAPEX $135B TO $145B, SAW $130B TO $145B

I can’t wait to support my club in the Championship next season. I’m always wanted to support a division 2 team, and now I get the chance 😏

ESPN FC@espnfc-m.bsky.social

Manchester United are now SEVEN matches without a win 😳 Their last victory coming on Sept. 10 against Azerbaijani club Sabah 😬

I really wanted the fake S-1 time travel stuff to be so real, but no early Xmas presents for us 😏

Anthropic S-1 leaks from the WSJ - $16.3bn in 1H revenue (vs $1.1bn in 1H '25) - Nearly $9bn in compute spend - $450bn of future compute obligations (over next 7-10 years) - 1H net loss of $80.7bn (but only $8.7bn ex convertibles valuation changes - Very close to breakeven on an operating basis

Almost everyone in Seattle politics is explicitly anti-poor. Unapologetically anti-poor.

Erica C. Barnett@ericacbarnett.bsky.social

The first comment at today's public hearing and vote on Dan Strauss' plan to ban RVs in Seattle, restricting them to two-hour parking, is from someone who owns an RV he and his wife travel in. He wants an exemption for RVs parked on the street at the residence where they're registered.

I hope we get a PSG v Barca CL final because that was entertaining as hell to watch. “Heavy metal footy”, word to Klopp.

Netflix’s problem is that it’s real competitors have an army of teens (TikTok, Reels) and creators(YT) making content for free (well, rev share) while it has to pay Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Fincher 9-figures upfront before it sees a dime back. It has a biz model disadvantage.

Layoffs doesn’t fix that. Biz model change/innovation is its only way out. Ads was a start but they’ll need more.

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I worked with—and deeply admired—Helen for almost 30 years. She was hands down *the best source* about emerging infectious diseases that I've ever known. My first warning of COVID was when on Dec 28, 2019 she reposted a ProMED mail report of an atypical pneumonia cluster: "This doesn't look good."

statnews.comHelen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69Helen Branswell, STAT's infectious disease reporter who earned the respect of experts and public health officials with her accessible, prescient dispatches, has died at age 69.

Gave buddy a history lesson, free 99. (Side note: I’m not sure if American History & Government is still a required course in HS, but it should be. That way you wouldn’t embarrass yourself in public).

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

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I assumed the response to the Omar harassment was muted because there's an assumption that she'll win in the end. But @sophiatesfaye.bsky.social is probably right that the press has been cowed by right-wing conspiracists into thinking they may have something. www.salon.com/2026/10/17/t...

salon.comThe media’s Ilhan Omar blind spot handed Trump an openingHow mainstream journalism sanitized MAGA's weaponization of justice against the Minnesota Democrat

Summer of freshman yr in undergrad I went in for a “sales and marketing interview” that turned into an instant job offer. It was”Vector Marketing”, basically an MLM to sell Cutco knives. I quickly realized it was an MLM. Sold my sample knives to my mom’s boss at a $150 profit and quit the same day.

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Ended up working for Hollywood Video in about a week. We got 2 free movies every shift, including titles that were 3wks out before release. Also made bonuses if we sold a popcorn and Pepsi bundle. I love movies. Still one of the best jobs I’ve ever had.

Game’s gone. Bring back analog cards!

ESPN FC@espnfc-m.bsky.social

A referee used a digital device to show yellow and red cards during Nacional vs. Rentistas in a Copa Uruguay match 😳 The game is constantly changing 😲

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When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

PSG doing Liverpool’s job. Guess the only way to stop a bad (state-owned club) with a gun is with a good (state-owned club) with a gun 😏