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        <description><![CDATA[ Hi, I’m Nicholas.

This is a place for my thoughts. ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:18:36 +0000</pubDate>

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                <title>Fully loaded and ready to win</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[Every offseason comes with a thousand promises. Hype is cheap. But what the San Francisco 49ers have assembled heading into the 2026 NFL season isn&#039;t hype — it&#039;s hardware waiting to happen. With a retooled receiving corps, a defense poised to reclaim its identity, and one of the most intriguing rookie classes in recent franchise history, Kyle Shanahan&#039;s squad is built to make a serious run at Super Bowl LXI. Last season ended in heartbreak in Seattle. Nick Bosa and Mykel Williams went down with ...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>The app that wants to sound human</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[There&#039;s a particular moment in every AI voice interaction that breaks the spell. The assistant finishes its perfectly accurate sentence, and instead of responding naturally, it waits — silently, patiently, like a customer service machine — for you to give it the next command. The rhythm is wrong. It feels like filling out a form, not holding a conversation. Sesame AI, the startup co-founded by Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe, has spent the last several years obsessing over that exact problem. Th...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 17:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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                <title>Betting on the future</title>
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                <description><![CDATA[In a college dorm room in Austin, a 20-year-old pre-med student turned a $500 deposit into $4,800 betting that a particular election outcome would unfold exactly as he predicted. He shared the screenshot. It went viral. What didn&#039;t go viral was the follow-up: six months later, he had lost everything he&#039;d deposited — and then some — chasing that same high on subsequent events. His story is not unique. It is, increasingly, the template. Prediction markets — platforms where users buy and sell contr...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 21:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
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