Mystic Mushroom

Le génocide à Gaza filmé en mondovision a posé les limites du journalisme en France. De mon vivant, je n’avais jamais vu autant de médiocrité, de malhonnêteté, de méchanceté, de mépris et de négationnisme journalistique. Nous sommes arrivés à un point de non-retour, et aujourd’hui il est urgent de faire barrage à ces grands médias devenus des usines aux multiples dérives de désinformation, dont des milliardaires et des puissances politiques se sont emparés pour imposer leur vision du monde au détriment de la vérité !

A professor quit a high-paying consulting job to teach math to seventh graders in a New York public school, and what she saw in that classroom launched the most important research on human achievement of the last 30 years. Her name is Angela Duckworth, and the question that haunted her from day one was deceptively simple: why do some kids succeed and others don't? It wasn't IQ. She could see that immediately. Some of her sharpest students were underperforming. Some of her slowest were grinding past everyone else. The variable she couldn't name was right in front of her face and it took her a decade of research at Penn and Stanford to finally pin it down. Here is what she found, and why it should change how you think about every hard thing you are trying to build. She started by going back to a famous experiment from the late 1960s. A Stanford psychologist named Walter Mischel brought four-year-olds into a small room one at a time, placed a marshmallow in front of them, and told them he had to leave. If they waited until he returned, they'd get two marshmallows. If they couldn't wait, they could ring a bell and eat the one in front of them right now. Most kids lasted about thirty seconds. But what happened over the next decade is what made Mischel's study famous. When he tracked those same children down years later, the ones who had waited the longest had SAT scores 210 points higher on average than the ones who rang the bell immediately. Self-control at age four predicted academic outcomes that most educators couldn't explain even after years of watching the kids up close. Duckworth was fascinated but she was after something deeper. Self-control explained part of the picture. It didn't explain everything. She thought about her own career early, scattered, unfocused by her own admission and compared it to people she knew who had found a mission at twenty-two and never let go of it. They weren't smarter than her. They weren't working harder than her in any obvious sense. They had something else. She called it grit. And the definition matters, because the word has been diluted into a motivational poster cliché that misses the point entirely. Grit, in Duckworth's framework, is not toughness. It is not working long hours. It is not refusing to quit when things get hard, although that is part of it. Grit is the combination of passion and persistence aimed at a single long-term goal over years and sometimes decades. The passion part is often misunderstood. She does not mean excitement or enthusiasm. She means the sustained fascination with a specific problem. The thing you keep returning to even when you don't have to. She built a twelve-question test to measure it. The Grit Scale. And then she took it into the field. At the University of Pennsylvania, students with high grit scores earned higher GPAs than their peers, even when those peers had entered college with stronger test scores. At the National Spelling Bee, grit scores predicted which children survived to the later rounds more accurately than hours of practice alone. But the finding that stopped the room every time she presented it came from West Point. Every year, West Point runs thousands of incoming cadets through a brutal summer training course called Beast Barracks. The military had developed its own complex evaluation tool called the whole candidate score to predict who would make it through. It factored in academic grades, physical fitness, leadership potential. Admissions teams had been refining it for years. Duckworth gave her twelve-question grit test to over twelve hundred cadets as they arrived. Her test outpredicted the whole candidate score. The cadets who dropped out weren't the weakest physically or the least intelligent academically. They were the ones who scored lowest on passion and persistence toward a long-term goal. The ones who made it through were the ones who had a reason to be there that was bigger than any single difficult day. The finding that most people miss when they hear about this research is the distinction Duckworth draws between motivation and volition. Motivation is wanting something. Volition is the ability to keep moving toward it when the wanting isn't strong enough to carry you on its own. You can be extremely motivated to build something and still quit at the first serious obstacle because you never developed the second thing. The marshmallow kids who waited the longest weren't the ones who wanted two marshmallows more desperately. They were the ones who had learned to redirect their attention, to think abstractly about the goal, to make the immediate discomfort feel smaller than the long-term payoff. That skill is trainable. That is the part that almost never makes it into the summary. Duckworth's research shows grit is only faintly related to IQ. There are brilliant people with almost no grit and ordinary people with extraordinary amounts of it. The raw intelligence gets you to the starting line. What happens after that is almost entirely determined by whether you have the combination of a goal worth caring about for years and the discipline to keep working toward it on the days when nothing is going well. Her TED Talk on this has been watched over 17 million times, which means the idea has clearly landed somewhere real in people. But the part that usually gets quoted is the definition. The part that actually matters is harder to talk about. You cannot manufacture grit by deciding to be grittier. What you can do is find the problem you are genuinely willing to be obsessed with for a decade. Not excited about. Obsessed with. And then build the systems around that obsession that make daily persistence the default, not the exception. The marshmallow test did not sort brave children from cowardly ones. It sorted children who had already learned that discomfort is temporary from children who hadn't learned that yet. Every gritty person you have ever admired figured out one thing the rest of the room hadn't: the goal on the other side of the hard stretch is more real to them than the discomfort standing between them and it. That is not a personality type. That is a decision, made early and remade every day.

@NawafAlThani Egypt and the USA have been collecting toll on the Suez and Panama canal. You should have mobilised your forces to save the children of Gaza but you did not as much move a finger. There are no rules. Israel has broken them all. Now sit down and grow a spine.

A short🧵for those insisting on a fiction: the Strait of Hormuz is not Iran’s sovereign toll gate, private cash machine, or maritime revenue stream. It is an international strait used by the world. Geography may give Iran a coastline on one side of it. It does not give Iran the right to invoice the rest of the planet for passage.

Trump: "Iran is run by lunatics” Meanwhile on Israeli TV israel politicians are quoting Hitler: “As Hitler said, 'I cannot live if one Jew is left,' we can't live here if one [Palestinian] remains in Gaza.”

🇮🇱🇵🇸“We do not take organs from Israeli soldiers.” “Then where do you take the organs from?” “We take them from Palestinians, or from migrant workers.”

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It is now illegal for most American farmers to do what farmers have done for 10,000 years. Save seeds from their harvest to plant next season. Four corporations control over 60% of global seed sales. Bayer-Monsanto. Corteva. Syngenta-ChemChina. BASF. Over 80% of all corn and more than 90% of all soybeans planted in the United States use patented biotech seeds. Farmers sign licensing agreements that prohibit saving, replanting, or sharing seeds. Every season requires a new purchase. Seed prices have increased over 300% since 1995. In the 1990s, most farmers saved a portion of their harvest to plant the following year. Seed companies genetically engineered crops to be resistant to specific herbicides, most notably Monsanto's Roundup Ready system. The seeds worked. Yields improved. Farmers adopted them rapidly. Then the patents locked in. Monsanto deployed a team of private investigators to audit farms suspected of replanting patented seeds. They filed over 150 lawsuits against American farmers. Settlements and judgments totaled over $23 million. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Bowman v. Monsanto (2013) that patent protections extend to self-replicating technologies including seeds. Farmers who had planted one crop with patented seeds could not legally replant the offspring of those seeds. The biology of reproduction itself was patented. Today, the four largest seed companies spend more on intellectual property enforcement and patent filings than many of them spend on R&D for new crop varieties. The consolidation of the seed industry is one of the least discussed monopoly structures in the global economy. Corteva (CTVA) was spun off from DowDuPont in 2019 as a pure-play agricultural sciences company. They control roughly 20% of the global corn seed market and are the largest seed company in the Western hemisphere. Revenue exceeded $17 billion. Operating margins are expanding as they shift toward higher-value biotech seeds and crop protection products. The pricing power comes from the fact that once a farmer is in the Corteva seed ecosystem, switching costs are significant because crop protection products are designed to work with specific seed genetics. Deere & Company (DE) sits at the intersection of the seed monopoly and the equipment monopoly. Modern precision agriculture requires Deere's GPS-guided tractors and automated planters to work in concert with biotech seed prescriptions. The software layer that connects equipment to seed to data is becoming the most valuable part of the farm. Revenue exceeded $51 billion. The precision agriculture division is growing faster than the equipment division. For broader agricultural exposure, the Invesco DB Agriculture Fund (DBA) tracks a basket of agricultural commodity futures. When seed costs rise, crop production costs rise, which supports higher commodity prices. The farmers absorb the input cost increase. The commodity market passes it to consumers. The companies selling the seeds and the equipment capture margins on both sides. The seed monopoly is a toll booth on the global food supply. 8 billion people eat every day. Four companies control the genetics. I'm hosting a once in a lifetime webinar where I go over the exact things I know as a former banker and world class investor. 100% free to join. Sign up with the link in my comments.

@1903wrightflyer @JessFrances26 @QudsNen @jaraparilla Children*

@JessFrances26 @QudsNen @jaraparilla Exactly but too cowardly to be boots on the ground in Iran, sending stupid Americans to be cannon fodder instead.

Ahmed Al-Helou and other children were subjected to extreme sexual abuse while detained by Israeli forces after being taken from an aid center near Rafah last year. These traumatic experiences have had severe psychological effects, leaving Ahmed unable to speak properly.

Iran has all my sympathy. Pushed to the edge… then bombed under slogans about “women’s rights” and “security.” Same script, different year. Still the same hypocrisy. They have every right to hit back. Survival doesn’t ask for permission. Hospitals, schools, universities… built under decades of sanctions… turned into targets. And we’re supposed to call that justice? Spare me. If accountability means anything, then those pulling the trigger and those giving the green light in Washington and Tel Aviv must face consequences: arrest warrants, frozen assets, travel bans, total isolation… and a courtroom, not a press conference. If that doesn’t happen, then let’s stop pretending. There are no rules. Just power. And once that’s the game… don’t be surprised when everything escalates and the fire spreads far beyond one country. Iranian mother during the burial of her child - killed by the “rules based west”

Et c'est pourquoi j'aime Michel Yakovleff 😁

🚨🇬🇧 BREAKING: British surgeon gives HORRIFYING testimony to the UK Parliament. He describes how IDF drones arrive right after airstrikes in Gaza, targeting and shooting the injured, including children, right on the spot. Repost this. Please I beg you

Iran just dropped the M.O.A.T. (Mother of All Trolls) video on Pete Hegseth… holy mother of fuck, this is top-tier propaganda.😳But the concepts/track? Absolute fucking banger. 🔥🤣

@persianigger @macroschema شما سلطنت‌طلبان مایه‌ی ننگ ایران هستید. باشد که خداوند شما منحرفان بی‌ادب را به جایگاه واقعی‌شان برساند. خداحافظ، دیبا

@insanitychained @macroschema Nah paj33t, we see all of you Indians/paki/bangh as the same species. The paj33t species.

No Indians

@jvttbvll @persianigger @thamajius @macroschema شما سلطنت‌طلبان مایه‌ی ننگ ایران هستید. باشد که خداوند شما عوضی‌های بی‌ادب را به جای درستش بنشاند. خداحافظ، دیبا

⁨⁨Le parcours classique d'un entrepreneur français : > Diplômé d'une école de commerce à 25 ans (37 000€ de crédit étudiant) > Stage non rémunéré chez Capgemini "pour l'expérience" > Premier poste : Chargé de mission digitale (1 400€/mois) > Rupture conventionnelle pour "se lancer" > Suit trois formations Bpifrance "Entrepreneuriat & Innovation" > Crée une micro-entreprise domiciliée chez lui > Découvre l'URSSAF, la CFE, et que son adresse a fuité partout > Rejoint un incubateur dans un tiers-lieu écolo avec un babyfoot > Levée de fonds de 25 000€ (subvention régionale) > Dépense 9 000€ en expert-comptable pour rester "conforme" > Ne se verse aucun salaire pendant 3 ans > Reçoit un redressement > Dépose le bilan, doit 14 000€ sur 0€ de chiffre d'affaires > Décroche un poste de chargé de mission innovation dans une collectivité territoriale > Met à jour LinkedIn : "Ex-Fondateur | Intrapreneur | Facilitateur Innovation Publique | Transformation Digitale des Territoires" > 30 commentaires hypocrites : " Bravo Michel!👏" Alors, ça donne envie ?⁩

LinkedIn bends the knee for Israel and Mossad. They specifically search to "anti-zionist" hints in your web browser plugin context, encrypt the data and send to Israeli firm. LinkedIn’s scan reveals the religious beliefs, political opinions, disabilities, and job search activity of identified individuals. LinkedIn scans for extensions that identify practicing Muslims, extensions that reveal political orientation, extensions built for neurodivergent users, and 509 job search tools that expose who is secretly looking for work on the very platform where their current employer can see their profile. browsergate.eu

@SempreVinta11 Why is Pakistan attacking Afghanistan? Did your country not attack them first? You need leaders like Imran Khan. The army will sellout to the USA Axis and do no good for the people of Pakistan.

Just saw little kids who lost their lives in a suicide attack by Afghan terrorists in Bannu, KPK, last night. But since these kids were Pakistani: >Al Jazeera won’t cover it >Yalda Hakim will stay silent > “Ummah jeet” will keep sleeping >Celebrities won’t post on their stories >Self-loathing Pakistanis won’t talk >Bushra Sheikh’s daughter won’t even know >No Muslim country will officially condemn it

@IranDefenceForc Not until the children of Gaza, Iran, Lebanon and Yemen get justice. Not until you end the parasitic zionist existence.

Do you think Iran should agree to a ceasefire? 👇

@IranDefenceForc No.