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Romit Mehta

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Product manager, data products & platforms Analytics, data science, ML/AI platforms USC Trojan ✌🏽 coffee, scotch 🏈 🏏 🏀 🏎️ On Threads at @[email protected] (also federating) Was fun while it lasted @theromit on Twitter

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Romit Mehta @romitmehta.com · Nov 15

Long overdue #introduction:

My day job is product management of data infrastructure, platforms and products.

I am here to discuss more about my work in data but also non-work: news, entertainment, nfl, collegefootball, cricket, formula1). Expect regular shitposts, dad jokes and meme retweets.

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Harry @harry.bsky.team · 18h

A note for sports: Bluesky’s engagement rate was x10 higher than X’s across a sampling of identical posts made on both platforms by @rapsheet.bsky.social (sharing with permission)

Fwiw we see a similar trend across all communities, not just sports. Real people, real conversations.

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Romit Mehta @romitmehta.com · 2d

Is that a fancy phrase for money? 😉

Romit Mehta @romitmehta.com · 2d

“Silicon Valley” aka VCs only adopt one view — how to take $1 and make it $100 or $1000. If ESG does it, that’s what they will chase. If it’s bullshit digital currency “instruments”, they will chase that.

Now it’s defense tech because … yes you got it, that’s where the money is!

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 2d

A profile of Katherine Boyle, an a16z partner and a friend to JD Vance, as Silicon Valley increasingly adopts her views, including embracing defense tech (Julia Black/New York Times)

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 3d

The Louvre has been temporarily closed following a robbery that took place this morning.

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RedditCFB @redditcfb.com · 3d

Florida State was the strongest voice against adding Stanford to the ACC and filed suit, saying they diluted the strength of schedule of the conference.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 13d

not comforting that every time someone says Well It Sure Feels Like We're Living in Unprecedented Times, the history knowers have to reach further and further back in history to smugly rebut them

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 14d

Duchamp Flies, by Carmen Cicero, 2009, 📸 by Frank Franklin II

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Romit Mehta @romitmehta.com · 14d

That’s a good one!

Romit Mehta @romitmehta.com · 14d

Maybe that’s how it works.

That’s not how it’s supposed to work!

Romit Mehta @romitmehta.com · 14d

Nah, I meant Tesla. That announcement was clearly to pump his stock and it worked.

Romit Mehta @romitmehta.com · 14d

For Tesla robotics?

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 14d

I think we know what the question mark indicates, don’t we?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

the question mark is how you know Fox has the goods

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Romit Mehta @romitmehta.com · 14d

Heineken is in English tho :)

Romit Mehta @romitmehta.com · 14d

Really need a pump and dump emoji because ... ::points at everything around::

Romit Mehta @romitmehta.com · 14d

Had anyone other than EM not abandoned that goal?

Meanwhile the stock has been pumped to the moon since this was announced.

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 14d

Sources: Tesla abandoned Elon Musk's goal to make thousands of Optimus robots in 2025 due to significant technical challenges, especially with the robots' hands (Theo Wayt/The Information)

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Harry McCracken @harrymccracken.com · 15d

This question is for people using iPads running iPadOS 26 with a physical keyboard.

Using touch gestures, it’s easy to flick an app to the left or right to have it take up half the display. But I can’t accomplish the same thing by flicking the trackpad in a similar fashion. Can anyone do it?

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 15d

Ah yes let us not judge her based on the words that come out of her own mouth but rather whether or not she created shareholder value

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Romit Mehta @romitmehta.com · 15d

At least someone is asking a basic question

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 15d

OpenAI's computing deals with Nvidia, AMD, Oracle, and others have topped $1T, commitments that dwarf its revenue and raise questions about how it can fund them (Financial Times)

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Romit Mehta @romitmehta.com · 15d

Old enough to remember Amazon HQ2 "competition"

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 16d

A look at OpenAI's search for the sites of its Stargate data centers in the US; OpenAI has received 800+ applications since January and has 20 finalist sites (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

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Romit Mehta @romitmehta.com · 17d

#SVLife

License plate seen in the Bay Area that says “AGIDRVR”

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 18d

I love this so much!

nflpa.com/press/atlant...

Washington D.C. - Bijan Robinson has been selected as the Week 5 NFL Players
Association (NFLPA) Community MVP after hosting a book fair for more than 7,700 kids in Atlanta.
After learning nearly 70 percent of third-and fourth-grade Atlanta students were reading below proficient level, the Atlanta Falcons running back felt compelled to do his part in addressing the growing literacy rate crisis. On September 23, Robinson welcomed students from more than 35
elementary schools in the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) district to Mercedes Benz
Stadium for a memorable event.

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Romit Mehta @romitmehta.com · 24d

OMG Makai Lemon is amazing. #USC

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Strategic error by #USC I think and I hope I am wrong. Leaving too much time for Illinois offense.

Romit Mehta @romitmehta.com · 24d

OMG OMG OMG #USCvsILL

Romit Mehta @romitmehta.com · 24d

#USC as usual among mistakes and committing too many penalties (including that idiotic one on the Lemon TD) …

But that QB is giving confidence that we are in good hands!