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Merry Christmas! In the New Year, my resolution will be to do more video. Play with @grok Imagine, keep adding new skills. Not sure what the best aspect ratios are, Grok said vertical or square. Cool...

There is something fundamentally wrong with how we educate the young now. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein at 18. Tolstoy published his first novel at 24. Napoleon was a general at 24. Pascal invented a calculator at 19. Mozart composed symphonies at 8. The common factor? All classically educated and trained. They were immersed in Greek and Latin, philosophy, mathematics, music, and history before adulthood.

I bet your little corner bar doesn't have these cannons

I bet your little Asian, fish head, wife doesn't have these cannons

Plato thought that beauty is the only eternal truth we can see with our eyes. every other virtue stays invisible and has to be reasoned out. he thought beauty was the shortcut to the divine.

Me: *disables Google home microphone* Me: hey google Google: your microphone is currently disabled Me:

@KatyTalento Thank you Katy for coming clean and for your support. All is forgiven!

🚨 NEW COURT FILING — OpenAI's own solicitation emails to Musk For three days, OpenAI's lawyer Savitt has been framing Musk as a founding donor who broke his pledges. Today Musk's lawyers filed the receipts to show what actually happened: Altman's October 2015 email to Elon Musk: > "As discussed I think starting with a $100MM commitment (and leaving the time unspecified) is the way to go..." Then the number: > "Can you donate $30MM over the next 5 years?" Musk responded: > "Let's discuss governance. This is critical. I don't want to fund something that goes in what turns out to be the wrong direction." Altman to Musk, a few months later: > "Can you do $20MM a year for the each of the next 3 years?" Musk delivered $38 million plus the office rent. Two and a half years after Musk left the OpenAI board, the asks resumed. July 22, 2020, OpenAI's CFO to Musk's family office: >"It would greatly help the nonprofit org if you're willing to assist with covering... landlord passthroughs and security costs." Musk agreed. He funded OpenAI's rent. Under California law, when a charity solicits and accepts donations, a fiduciary relationship forms between the person who asked and the person who gave. A legal duty to use the money for the declared charitable purpose. Altman and the CFO solicited. Musk donated. OpenAI accepted. Then converted the charity into an $852 billion company. The trust was breached.

Okay today's courtroom sketches are really getting out of control

>swiss think immigration is too high >propose referendum to limit immigration >government accepts proposals >holds referendum to limit immigration >limit immigration vote wins >government limits immigration >central issue of C21st western politics instantly solved >it’s that easy

@elonmusk I’m standing by anyone who stands for free speech and the truth.

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Everyone talks about the perverted ideologies pushed by American schools… but did you know where they come from? Germany in the 1920’s. The “Frankfurt School,” & by the 1960s it had completely infiltrated the American university system.

Writing advice from C. S. Lewis…

This whole story is hilarious.

Say goodbye to $5 rotisserie chickens

🚨BREAKING: Newly released emails show Fauci directed colleagues to “delete this after you read it”—dating back to Feb. 2020. He denied it under oath. These documents are now public, and Fauci will finally testify before Chairman Rand Paul.

The Strait of Magellan is so deadly (even in the modern day) that ~440 Years Ago, the Spanish Empire abandoned & doomed over 200 Conquistadors, & left them to their fate at the bottom of the world. Eventually, when every single Conquistador died from exposure, being attacked by Native Patagonians, or starvation… the colony they built fell into ruins & was reclaimed by the wilderness. By the late 1700s, nobody even knew where the colony originally was & it disappeared from the maps. But, just last month, Chilean archaeologists Simon Urbina and Soledad González Díaz, in partnership with the Universidad de Magallanes (UMAG), followed the original Spanish & English journals to a location along the Strait of Magellan—and using LiDAR, they finally rediscovered the lost colony of Puerto del Hambre “Port Famine” after over 400 years. The original sources describe a silver Spanish coin being placed on top of a corner foundation block & the colony’s church… and when they excavated the site’s main structure, like something out of a movie, the 400+ year old silver Spanish coin was sitting right where the old journal said it would be. LiDAR mapping is going to revolutionize archaeology & bring about an entirely new era of exploration🛰️

If Elon owned Twitter in 2020 they would not have been able to pull off COVID. Fact.

The new algorithm is motivating evergreen content. Now is the perfect time to begin too, if you’ve been waiting. It’s springtime (the human new year), which means everything you plant now, as it grows, you’re psychologically & physiologically synchronized to grow as well. I think putting the calendar New Year in dead winter was a terrible idea. @grok how did that happen? Explain the history of legal newyear vs calendar newyear vs astronomy concerns and everything else interesting in the scope of that subject tree. If you could answer like Fred from Scooby Doo, as if he’s explaining to Shaggy, that would be groovy. Thanks!

@EricLDaugh Cancer is the natural corollary.