Dr. Brian Sovryn

No phones, no filters, just 200,000 ravers and The Prodigy in their prime, 1997!

🚨 WhatsApp’s “end-to-end encrypted” privacy is a total lie. New class-action lawsuit just dropped: Meta secretly let employees, contractors like Accenture, and third parties read, intercept, and store your private messages WITHOUT consent. All while marketing it as “only you and the recipient can read it.” Zuck lied to billions. Your chats were never safe.

This was peak interface design

Be Jean-Baptiste Kempf > builds VLC media player to play anything MP4, MKV, AVI, FLAC, obscure codecs no installs needed > ships with built-in codecs no missing codec errors ever > plays broken / incomplete files even partially downloaded videos just work > supports network streams HTTP, RTSP, IPTV playlists paste and play > runs everywhere Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS > hardware acceleration support uses GPU, not just CPU > subtitles just work auto-detect, sync adjust, multiple formats > advanced control playback speed, frame-by-frame, audio delay > converts and records media not just a player, also a lightweight tool > no ads, no tracking, no login fully open-source, no nonsense Still one of the few apps that does more by doing less.

See what they took from us all

At 93, William Shatner’s secret to longevity isn’t kale or cold plunges — it’s this: “I know I’m one day shorter every morning, so I’ve got to extract as much as possible out of each day.” (Clip from March 2024) He stays fully alive with writing, horses, dogs, family, adventure, good food — and relentless curiosity about everything, including aging itself. No complicated biohacks. Just a deliberate decision to cherish every single day and squeeze the joy out of whatever time is left. Hearing a 93-year-old talk about gaining momentum instead of slowing down is genuinely inspiring. What’s one thing you’re trying to “extract as much as possible” from your days right now?

Sam Altman has admitted he is on a waitlist for a procedure that would digitize his brain. The procedure would kill him. He considers this an acceptable trade for digital immortality. This is the person making decisions about the future of artificial intelligence for hundreds of millions of users. A man who views ending his own biological life as a reasonable step toward uploading his consciousness to the cloud. These are not the priorities of a stable leader.

The Anthropic Mythos release does not appear near the top of the homepage on any major news site today. The NYT is closest, but it's still pretty far down. The Guardian thinks a Vogue cover with Anna Wintour and Meryl Streep is more important. The Washington Post is prioritizing yet another "we tried to get into Berghain" story. The media is not adequately covering the insane moment we are in.

The evidence screams we're living through a world-historical revolutionary existential moment, and yet most journalists ignore and dismiss it. Most are still in the 'it's just fancy autocomplete' phase - it's so so maddening, people need to f*king KNOW this is happening

Teenagers writing an essay in 2012 without ChatGPT