Phaedrus

The iPhone circa 2007 was the last great invention of the American empire Slowly but surely culture, technology, music, entertainment, and society at large has degraded into a blob of melted goo The last gasps of beauty cry out as they drown in the sea of monetized dopamine

@BrianRoemmele Looks more like this…

Cole Allen interned at NASA in 2014. In 2014, NASA published a paper and "Henry Martinez" was an author, he is a chief engineer at Lockheed Martin. An X user named "Henry Martinez," made in 2023, made only a single post on Dec 21, 2023. The post only said "Cole Allen."

@PeterDiamandis the physiognomy is a dead ringer every time

The Gold vs. Bitcoin Debate.

@bryan_johnson lol this has an n of 62 bro

Surprising new findings about coffee: you are drinking coffee for the gut bugs that run your brain. > coffee affects the gut which then affects your brain > it's the coffee bean, not the caffeine, doing most of the work > polyphenols feed gut microbes, microbes send chemical messages, brain responds > both coffees lowered inflammation, caffeine drove it further down (IL6, IL10) > decaf raised systemic inflammation markers (hs-CRP, TNF-alpha) > decaf uniquely fed the protective gut microbes > caffeine blocked those gains by pushing food through too fast for the Clostridia bacteria to finish their work > at baseline, coffee drinkers sat in the bottom 25 to 30 percent for protective gut metabolites compared to non-drinkers > coffee lifted mood, cut depression and stress > caffeine specifically lowered anxiety. > the stress hormone story people tell about coffee does not hold up, cortisol did not budge Study details: 62 people, 14-day coffee washout, then 21 days randomized double-blind to caffeinated or decaf. They measured gut bacteria, stool and urine chemistry, cognition, mood, blood inflammation, and cortisol. What to do Caffeinated in the morning for focus and lower anxiety. Decaf in the evening for memory and gut. One cup 6 hours before bed still acts like half a cup at bedtime. Less is better than more either way. The takeaway You are drinking coffee for the bugs that run your brain.

You should do Olympic lifting tutorials/videos. The physique of elite Olympic lifters (lower weight classes) is the best across any sport imo. Add in the body building exercises and that mix is unbeatable. Let’s be honest, your physique now, has a lot to do with your training when you were younger grinding out those cleans and snatches.

A TRX Y-pull (also commonly called TRX Y raise, TRX Y fly, or simply TRX Y) is a bodyweight suspension exercise performed on a TRX (or similar suspension trainer). It targets the upper back, rear shoulders, and posterior chain while strongly engaging the core and scapular stabilizers for posture and shoulder health. Here’s how I do it: Keep your core integrated throughout the movement (the pilates C-curve is the ideal isometric core position to hold). For elite level core integration, imagine all of your musculature interwoven from the back of your head to the back of your heels (indeed, your body is an interconnected myofascial network). Keep a slight bend in elbows for proper tension distribution. Feet further from wall makes it easier, and vice versa. Finish with a rotational lat stretch to get blood flow into muscle and connective tissues, setting you up for good recovery. Stay strong brothers 💪🏼💪🏼

@EricBalchunas GFC was the beginning of the end of good music

Amazing this whole song is one chord. And yes, didn’t know it then but were so spoiled in the ‘90s, this is why it’s hard for us old heads to get excited about Ed Sheeran or Harry Styles et al- even tho they good at what they do it’s just not in the same universe.

@aakashgupta Gymnastics and pole vaulting was higher sir

Tennis players live 9.7 years longer than sedentary people. Not 9.7 months. 9.7 years. Nearly a decade. The Copenhagen City Heart Study tracked 8,577 people for 25 years and ranked every sport by how much life it adds. Badminton: 6.2 years. Soccer: 4.7. Cycling: 3.7. Swimming: 3.4. Jogging: 3.2. Tennis almost triples jogging. A separate study of 80,000 adults found racket sports cut all-cause mortality by 47% and cardiovascular death by 56%. Swimming hit 41%. Aerobics hit 36%. The question is why racket sports destroy everything else. Three mechanisms stack on top of each other. First, the physical demands. A tennis rally requires explosive sprints, lateral cuts, and sustained aerobic output. You're training fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle fibers simultaneously. Most cardio only trains one system. Second, the cognitive load. You're reading spin, predicting angles, adjusting position, and executing motor patterns in real-time. Your brain is solving spatial puzzles at 80+ mph. That hand-eye coordination and strategic processing builds neural connections that protect against cognitive decline. Third, and this is the one researchers keep coming back to: you literally cannot play alone. Every racket sport requires another person on the other side of the net. That forced social interaction triggers neurochemical benefits that solitary exercise cannot replicate. Strong social connection alone increases your chance of longevity by 50%. Jogging is you and your thoughts. Tennis is you, a strategic opponent, and a community. Dr. Daniel Amen is right. The data is overwhelming. If you want the single highest-ROI activity for a longer life, pick up a racket.

@StockSavvyShay lol it’s the top boys

$BIRD is selling its brand and footwear assets renaming itself NewBird AI and using a new $50M convertible facility to pivot into AI compute infrastructure by buying GPUs. Going from selling wool sneakers to chasing AI compute might be one of the wildest pivots this cycle.

@mikealfred Get lessons

@TFTC21 @DrJackKruse the eric weinstein of health and bitcoin

Every Bitcoiner thinks every attack vector has been covered. This one hasn't. "They are trying to slow the base layer down incrementally, just like chronic disease in biology. When you ossify the main chain, that's an extinction-level event." - @DrJackKruse

@SStricklandMMA Noveske Space Invader

I want a new night stand gun... full set up that isnt a handgun What do you run??

@BitPaine "Yea, feeling really good these days. I'm exercising, eating healthy, journaling. It's really paying off. I also have been doing some coke here and there, and Monday through Friday I'm doing smoking meth for 3 hours a day. But yea, it's a holistic approach. Feeling awesome.

Breedlove looks great and glad he’s being open about his steroid use but my bother in Christ the peptides didn’t do shit. Adding peptides to Test, Primobolan, Masteron, Anavar and Winstrol is like the French sending their aircraft carrier to the Gulf. Like sure, it’s there. And it cost a lot of money. And that’s all that can really be said about it.

@dgt10011 @NateSilver538 Lila is one of the best unknown books ever written

This is good — even if it slanders the em-dash. AI's tendency to statistically smooth out the rough edges produces extremely mid prose. nytimes.com/2025/12/03/mag…

@LynAldenContact Very cool, congrats!

My new sci fi thriller, The Stolguard Incident, is now available! Been working on this for a while. Enjoy. :) lynalden.com/the-stolguard-…

@Melt_Dem @airweaveUSA @eightsleep ok i see you

@phaedrusghost @airweaveUSA @eightsleep the firmest one

in case anyone cares, i ended up going with the @airweaveUSA takumi mattress. will try for a few weeks to see how cool it sleeps before deciding to add the @eightsleep interesting that VCs were team eight sleep, autist founders were team japanese mattress

@LukeGromen @shehzadhqazi It’s more about psychology and human behavior than military strategy or numbers. As are most things in life.

@shehzadhqazi If someone repeatedly told you the plan is to wipe you and everyone you know out, and then killed your wife and father and child, and now you have managed to grab them by the jugular that is Hormuz, would you let them go so they can re-arm, or would you take them down with you?

Heard someone say this morning that the only two options for getting the Strait of Hormuz open are 1. Regime change or 2. Ceasefire. Obviously regime change operations will only delay the opening. It’s not even clear a ceasefire will do the trick immediately!

@Leishman @River Lending

Three features you can only find on River: 1. Bitcoin Interest on Cash 2. ForceField account security against threats 3. Supercharged buys to double down on dips What should we build next?

@signulll this guy

the most underrated hire right now is a great product person. when i say product person i'm def not talking about a product manager. perhaps i think there has to be somewhat of a new role. i don't have a good name for it yet but maybe something like "product thinker".. someone with an intuitive grasp of the product as it exists, where it's soft, where it sings, & how to iterate it toward something even sharper. in some sense, this person has to cohesively hold in their head where this product should be 2 years from now & work backwards from that. i say this cuz when building was hard, engineering was the bottleneck & the status hierarchy often reflected that. building is no longer hard. which means the variance in outcomes has shifted almost entirely to judgment on what to build, how to sequence it, & how to talk about it. & the story matters as much as the thing. internally, it organizes the team around a shared model of why. externally, it shapes the interpretive frame users bring to their first experience. you can't retrofit narrative onto a product & expect it to land, it has to be load bearing from the start. the rarest version of this person sits at the intersection of culture & deep technology. someone genuinely bilingual. they know what's technically possible & they know which cultural currents are real vs. ephemeral. that combo is what separates products that feel inevitable from products that feel assembled. before ppl clap back with this person has always been valuable, i know.. i am just saying now they might be the most *important* person in the room. their value compounds like never before.

@vagafin @profplum99 “Define wrong…”

@profplum99 At what price will you admit you’re wrong, Mike. Genuinely curious.

I confess I am intrigued by the growth in Lightning usage, albeit it’s being subsidized by Block. Would also note a positive divergence is building short-term. Bitcoin is dying, but not dead yet.