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Darien

@boy-rat.bsky.social

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Born in Boston - hybrid mix of 🇺🇸 🇧🇲 🇬🇧 Raised in Bermuda and UK Educated at MIT 🦫 Private Pilot 🧑🏻‍✈️ 🛩️ Worked at Google/Apple 🤓 Built and sold AI fraud detection company 🤖 trying to go broke helping as many as I can 💸💙 Sorry no DMs or funding requests 🚫

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Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not gonna lie, I was actually grinning when signing the check to international rescue - #thunderbirds are go 🚀

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · 1d

In honor of the #NobelPeacePrize decision, I’ll be donating $1M to:

Médecins Sans Frontières
Amnesty International
UNHCR
International Rescue Committee
The Global Fund
and to help Victims of Human Trafficking

These heroes work tirelessly to help others
Real work. Real peace. No campaign needed

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is the ONLY person in the ENTIRE history of the #NobelPeacePrize to have actively lobbied for it himself

EVERY other laureate has shown HUMILITY

Trump publicly claimed he DESERVES it — something NO ONE has ever done

ironic as he’s the LEAST DESERVING person in the world for such an honor

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · 9d

What are you talking about

Mortal Kombat did quite well as did Resident Evil

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · 9d

We’ve launched a bridging loan facility for those hardest hit but truly wish I could do more to help people during the shutdown - it’s incredible how many people are affected by this 😢

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · 9d

100% - I wish people would stop speaking of autism as something that needs to be r cured - I like my brain 🧠 and together we’ve done quite well in a world that keeps saying we need fixing

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 9d

People like to claim that autistics are bad at communicating and like, my dude, the problem does not lie with us, it lies with the web of manipulation and lies and passive aggression and ulterior agendas that you weave around yourselves instead of just doing what we do, which is saying what we mean.

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks for sharing- Will reach out to make sure this guy is taken care of - no one will suffer for standing up to the dictatorship

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · 11d

We will once again be offering to pay for legal assistance to anyone wrongfully detained while exercising their constitutional protected right to protest against the would be king

As before, I will NOT pay a cent to anyone who uses violence or destroys property!

We are better than that #nokings

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · 14d

I’m so fed up of seeing Ai slapped on everything!

I spent 15 years building and running an Ai fraud detection company

LLMs are NOT Ai 🤖 not even remotely related and as for Sam Altmans claim that they don’t fully understand how their system works… I’m happy to explain it to him using crayons 🖍️

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Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · 15d

Now take both of their daily user counts and divide by a random number between 2 and 8 and you’ll have the actual number

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · 15d

God I wish people would stop talking about Autism as something that needs to be “solved”

I am Autistic (and have ADHD)

I graduated from MIT

I have a private pilot license

I built and sold a multi-national Ai company from nothing

I like my brain

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Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · 16d

Honestly, ever since leaving the United States, I’ve realized just how much of a gift free speech is. Don’t get me wrong—the UK is a great place and I’m grateful to have the choice to live here, but nothing quite tops the First Amendment and the rights it guarantees. It’s worth fighting for.

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · 19d

I’m nowhere near as wealthy as 🦎 (less that 3%) but I hate bullies and so will be reaching out to this brave woman who stood up and told the truth about the toxicity inside FB - bad lizard!

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company

Exclusive: Sarah Wynn-Williams faces $50,000 fine every time she breaches order banning her from criticising Meta

www.theguardian.com

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · 24d

Have offered to pay all legal costs for those arrested in the UK over projecting the Epstein story on the castle. There is no 1st amendment in England but I’m sure that the best lawyers will find a way to get them out without charge - no matter what the cost no-one will suffer for telling the truth

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · 24d

Indecent Proposal

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · Sep 6

Why has nobody done more memes about #trump as Commandant Lassard

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · Sep 6

Am I the only one who sees this 😜

#trump on a a recent call with secdef

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · Aug 23

Exactly!!! We don’t want to get our hopes up and then find out it’s not terminal

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · Aug 19

Screw it - if the republicans are going to use gerrymandering to manipulate the midterms, I’m going to break my own rule and spend whatever it takes to make sure that democracy is restored

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thank you all for the invites to back various candidates in forthcoming elections

I decided long ago I would never let my position influence any election

Just because I’ve been lucky my vote and opinion does not matter any more than anyone else

Believe me the temptation is there to level things

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · Aug 12

I just threw up in my mouth

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · Aug 10

Google / Apple - I will donate $5m to any charity you choose if you do this for 30 mins

Come on Tim Apple - stand up for something

Worth a shot I guess

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · Aug 10

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-enD...

Our version 🤪😀

Pharrell Williams - Happy (Bermuda)

YouTube video by Into Bermuda

www.youtube.com

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Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · Aug 10

I’ll get my guys to reach out to him - no one will suffer for standing up to this monster

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · Aug 8

Still better educated than 1,500% of maga or the sitting president 😜

Darien @boy-rat.bsky.social · Aug 6

I have to be honest - I actually cried today for the first time in as long as I can recall

Seeing so many terrible things happening and feeling powerless to do anything about it

I’ve given money and have teams working to help people who are in suffering but it just doesn’t feel like enough