Patrick J. Murphy

@MikeVanderbilt @larryislegend same thing in many cases

@larryislegend It USED to be “what parish are you from” on the south side.

Let me find out YT folks in Chicago be asking each other “what high school you go to?”

@larryislegend important question

@PhillipsPOBrien because you are a weak man

Watching Trump teeter on the edge of blowing up the world economy because of a combination of hubris, strategic incoherence, mendacity and outright stupidity, might be the most extraordinarily depressing thing I have observed in my entire life, or read about in any other period.

@newstart_2024 I watch YouTube videos of icebergs calving. Waiting for it to happen, the uncertainty, peaceful silence, it just works!

Andrew Huberman just shared a wild, science-backed trick to fall asleep when your mind is racing (and it takes 30 seconds): Close your eyes → Slowly move them side to side → Make slow counter-clockwise & clockwise circles → Look up, down → Try a gentle “cross-eyed” gaze toward the bridge of your nose → Exhale long and slow. Why it works: These eye movements signal your vestibular system & cerebellum to shut down proprioception (awareness of body position). You literally forget where your body is, racing thoughts quiet, and sleep onset accelerates. He says many people fall asleep faster this way — it’s not woo, it’s neuroscience (vestibular-ocular reflex + proprioceptive shutdown). Clip from this 5:54 masterclass — Huberman on why “just relax” never works, but this eye-movement sequence often does. Tried it yet? Did your brain finally shut off, or still racing? Drop your result below 👇 (and how many seconds it took)

@TheCinesthetic no need for the qualifier. it's a great film

You can have your opinions on Mel Gibson, but this might be one of the greatest adventure films ever made. Its strength isn’t just the setting, it’s the precision of its filmmaking. Scenes like this say everything. Apocalypto (2006)

@ARmastrangelo really enjoyed the ben stiller show in the early 90s

Ben Stiller is one of those comedic actors from your childhood that you think are hilarious as a kid, only to reach adulthood and realize he never was, you were just eight.

@AIPandaX no thanks

Instead of watching Netflix, watch Malcolm Gladwell on why success isn’t talent, it’s systems & timing.

@jpodhoretz we're fortunate historically that such weak men were not generally in such influential positions during WW2. they are toxic.

Snyder has become a nut.

@Agent1Security Most sheep-like electorate in the country. They need to be told who it's okay to vote for and they do it even if they don't like it

Only in Illinois do we complain about politicians....then turn around and vote the same and now bought politicians either back in office, or even higher office. This is why #Illinois is such a dysfunctional state. #Primary

He took the greatest military force in world history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, and demanded that the media lie about this and everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone can mistake this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength. His weakness is something negative, gravitational, so deep that it can draw in a whole country. But only if we fail to see it. Only if we let it.

@2024dion Thank the American private sector for envisioning and building it, specifically Westinghouse Electric Company, founded by one of the greatest American entrepreneurs. Today that tram is the world's busiest airport people mover and was built in 1980

People say American cities can’t build infrastructure but Atlanta has a fully automated subway with platform screen doors and 90 second headways that serves a quarter million trips a day. It’s just in their airport.

@bluewmist Root beer and almonds

Sober people (no alcohol, nicotine, drugs, etc ever), what is your end of day or weekend "wind-down"?

@degryse_davy @bluewmist and much closer in time than conventional history would have us believe

@bluewmist Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the pyramids. Zero practical value. Never leaving my head.

What is a completely useless piece of information that you will never forget for some reason?

@TAdventurousoul Shouldn't have switched camera perspectives mid jump

Judges had no numbers left for this 😭

@Microinteracti1 he's paid to say this

General McCaffrey doesn’t use words like “bombshell.” He uses words like “no one in their right mind.” A four-star general is now saying publicly what the situation demands: invading Iran was never a rational choice. It was chosen anyway. And the nuclear program? Untouched. The stated objective of the entire operation is still sitting there. Whatever was hit, it wasn’t that. Washington is now in the position every strategist dreads. Too far in to walk away. Too exposed to escalate. No victory condition. No exit ramp. Iran has 90 million people, mountainous terrain, and four decades of preparation for exactly this scenario. The trap is closed. McCaffrey said it out loud. In uniform. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@JChimirie66677 @grok summarize this post in a clear and reasonable paragraph

Trump Has Just Told NATO Allies They Are On Their Own. Starmer Did This. Donald Trump has just posted the most consequential statement about the Western alliance since its foundation. NATO allies, he wrote, privately agreed that Iran could not be allowed a nuclear weapon but refused to help when asked. America no longer needs or desires their assistance. We never did. Let that land. This is not bluster. It is a doctrine. Trump is telling every European government that the Article 5 guarantee they have sheltered under for seventy years was always conditional, and that they have now demonstrated they will not honour their side of the arrangement when it matters. The mutual defence alliance that kept the peace in Europe since 1949 has just been publicly declared a one way street by the President of the United States. Every adversary watching, Russia, China, Iran, will draw the same conclusion simultaneously. Britain's fingerprints are all over this moment. Starmer blocked Diego Garcia. He needed a drone on his own runway to reverse the decision. He consulted his team on minesweepers. He watched France, Greece and Spain defend a British base while HMS Dragon sat in Portsmouth. He offered an aircraft carrier after the war was won and was told it was no longer wanted. He issued a joint humanitarian statement about Lebanon that did not mention Hezbollah once. At every stage of this crisis he chose the path of least domestic political resistance over the obligations of the oldest and most important bilateral relationship in British foreign policy. Trump's post also hands every adversary a strategic map. A Western alliance whose European members privately agree on the threat but publicly refuse to act against it is not an alliance. It is a talking shop with a defence clause nobody intends to honour. Putin will have read this post with considerable satisfaction. So will Beijing. The fracture that Starmer and his European counterparts have opened is not merely reputational. It is structural. And it will not be repaired by a press conference or a carefully worded statement about the special relationship being in operation. Churchill understood that alliances are maintained by behaviour not words. You show up or you do not. Britain did not show up. Trump has noticed. And he has said so, in capital letters, for the entire world to read. The consequences of Starmer's calculations are no longer theoretical. They are here, on Truth Social, signed by the President of the United States of America. "At every stage of this crisis [Starmer] chose the path of least domestic political resistance over the obligations of the oldest and most important bilateral relationship in British foreign policy."

@a16z @KTmBoyle I am because they know and like music from the 1970s

"There's something about this culture of young people coming up where they're not afraid of hard work. They're not afraid to pop a Zyn and work at the factory all day." Why @KTmBoyle is bullish on Zoomers: "The best quote that summarizes why I'm so bullish on the Zoomers is Alysa Liu after winning her gold. She said, 'I love to struggle. It makes me feel alive.'" "It's the opposite of the morose theater kid vibes that we got from the millennial generation, where everything was very different in how they operated." "Like Jack Hughes—they get their teeth knocked out, they come back and say, 'It's not even a question. Of course I got my teeth knocked out. It's hockey.'" "And that means we're seeing totally different companies than we saw out of the Facebook diaspora—which was very much the Harvard dorm room—I like to work on my computer, I like to build apps. It's a totally different style of founder." "The next generation is so patriotic and bullish on the American project. I think this generation cares a lot about the country. And it shocked us. @davidu and I talk about this all the time—for some of these young people, they were not born on September 11th. They have no recollection of the things that the millennials remember, or anyone older than us remembers, but they care about the country." "They look up to people like @elonmusk, to people like Alex Karp. They look up to people who've been doing the hard thing for 20, 30 years and they want to do it too." "It's a different generation of founder that we've had the privilege of seeing very, very early on. I think the rest of the country is going to define tech and Silicon Valley by these people for the next 10–20 years." From @nypost

Puccini owes Nuria Espirt gratitude from the grave for giving his unfinished masterpiece (Turandot) an ending with the most incredible karmic retribution possible youtube.com/watch?v=AxyOR1…

Errors abound. The trick is to use them to generate greater successes than what would be possible without them!

@JackChambersGB great 1980s movie (cloak and dagger) filmed there

I don't care what anybody says, whether it's overrated or cliche, the San Antonio Riverwalk is a masterstroke of genius.