Jeff Weber

@bolaurent @ianmiles You are upset because waste and fraud were eliminated?

@ianmiles But what I saw him do with DOGE was not truth seeking at all. It was wanton destruction with little interest in what was being destroyed.

Marc Andreessen highlights why the people who work for Elon Musk echo the exact same sentiment as those who worked for Steve Jobs. Even after difficult interactions or a sudden departure, they inevitably report that they did the best work of their entire lives because they were pushed to their absolute limits. What drives this intense environment is a demand for truth-seeking at all costs. People who criticize Elon often miss this fundamental trait. He genuinely wants to know the ground truth and has zero tolerance for anything else. When confronting bad news, he is absolutely ruthless and relentless in making sure he understands exactly what is actually going on. This level of radical transparency is shockingly rare in the business world. The typical startup founder operates on forced optimism, constantly putting on a brave face, telling everyone to have faith, and promising that everything will be great just to keep talent from leaving. Elon completely flips that standard script. He operates with pure urgency by simply telling the unfiltered truth, even when that truth is that the company will go bankrupt and die if they fail. In almost any other corporate environment, that level of blunt, existential dread would cause the talent pool to immediately bleed out. But for the teams working under him, that brutal honesty acts as the ultimate catalyst. It strips away the corporate fluff and forces them to rise to the occasion, leaving them with the undeniable realization that, much like the engineers who built the first iPhone, they just completed the greatest work of their careers.

Grok groks

Gunther asked @nickshirleyy if he'd go to (IL) next and expose JB Pritzker Shirley responded... "is that what the people want"..? In (2025) Pritzker gave Illegals ($2.5B) dollars of taxpayers money Dear Nick Shirley, That is exactly what we want 👍

@TheChicagoPope Great second half for sure. But when you look at the season as a whole still a lousy year and I’m not okay with missing 50 games on a regular basis.

@87Jeffweber No I have a pretty excellent memory and I’d argue he played his best baseball in the 2nd half last year once the first wave of youth came up and the weight was off his shoulders. Trading him would have been fine if we got at least one good player in return. Acuña is nothing.

I understand the logic behind trading him, but I still think the #WhiteSox should have kept him given what we got in return. This lineup looks a LOT worse without him in it as CF is our biggest positional need by far, not just in Chicago but across the entire farm.

The Artemis crew took a picture of the Apollo 11 landing site. That’s where Neil Armstrong took the first human step on another world. We will be back.

@SSBehavior I can’t support a guy who can’t run to first and gives half effort much of the time. He is the last guy I want around young players.

He was never gonna play like this for us

@ChiSoxFanMike He sucked for us so why pine away about him leaving? He was checked out, lazy, disinterested and the last guy I would want around young players. Fuck him

White Sox didn’t need him, I was told.

“But the curse of every ancient civilization was that its men in the end became unable to fight. Materialism, luxury, safety, even sometimes an almost modern sentimentality, weakened the fibre of each civilized race in turn; each became in the end a nation of pacifists, and then each was trodden under foot by some ruder people that had kept that virile fighting power the lack of which makes all other virtues useless and sometimes even harmful.” -Teddy Roosevelt

@TheCinesthetic Completely different to watch. I read the books it was based on and they had the same impact as the series. Very heavy and depressing.

The Pacific (2010) doesn’t get the same love as Band of Brothers, but it goes for something heavier, more brutal, less heroic, and that shift in perspective makes it hit in a completely different way.

The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.

@ChiSoxFanMike He has impressed so far with his hustle in addition to his performance. He seems to have an old school approach and great respect for the game.

I’ve seen so many videos of Mune signing autographs and interacting with fans before games. The White Sox needed a player for the next generation of fans to look up to. I think he’s the guy.

Swing tracking -- Big Mune Murakami 75.9 mph bat speed ➡️ 111.1 mph HR

@JAYChi_WhiteSox As a White Sox fan I hope so

Another Roch bomb to start your week💣 This kid is hitting .342, with a BB:K ratio of 1:1. Is he still the #1 pick in this upcoming draft??👀

This is why Americans are the deadliest fighters on earth. I met a priest yesterday who just got accepted to chaplain school in Newport. I asked him the obvious question: Marines or Navy? Navy, he said. His face fell a little. He told me he could never be a Marine because every Marine is a rifleman, and as a priest he can’t carry a weapon. He’s hoping to get assigned to a Marine unit anyway. All chaplains are Navy officers, so that’s the only door in. I laughed. I feel a little bad about that. Then I explained to him what “Devil Doc” means. The Marine Corps doesn’t have medics. They use Navy Corpsmen. I told him: when you get out to the fleet, find a Marine sergeant with a couple of Purple Hearts and tell him Devil Docs “aren’t real Marines.” Be prepared to duck. Marines are violently particular about who gets to wear their uniform. Navy Corpsmen and Navy chaplains who have eaten dirt alongside them in combat qualify. Full stop. My dad was Air Force. Not even Navy. I remember going to VFW halls with him as a kid. Someone would ask him what service, he’d say Air Force, and the room would chuckle a little. Then they’d find out he was a medic, and the air in the room changed. Something close to reverence. Dad hated being honored. He had one line he used to deflect it: “I didn’t do much. Save your praise for my cousin the PJ.” That always broke the ice. PJs are the Air Force special operators who go into hell to pull downed pilots out. They will take casualties and are prepared to die to rescue a single pilot or crewman. The math doesn’t math out. Why would any combat force take multiple casualties to rescue one air force jet jockey? What the padre is about to learn is that the military has a hierarchy that has nothing to do with rank, and nothing to do with the service stitched on your chest. Have you deployed? Have you seen combat? In every firefight there are men who move toward the guns and men who hang back. And when the guy at the tip of the spear is pinned down, bleeding, with rounds cracking past his head, there is exactly one word he screams into the radio. “Medic.” Here is the catch, and it is the whole reason America fights the way America fights. That Marine is willing to push forward into fire BECAUSE he knows the Corpsman is coming. He knows the medevac birds will land in the hot LZ. He knows the Devil Doc will drag him out by his plate carrier if it comes to that. And, if the medic can’t help, if he has what Dad called “injuries incompatible with life,” he knows that chaplain will crawl on his belly to administer last rights and deliver him to heaven. The F-15 pilot punching out over enemy territory knows the same thing. He knows the PJs will move heaven and earth to reach him, and turn whatever is shooting at him into a smoking crater of hell on earth on the way in. This is the quiet math underneath American violence. Our warriors are the fiercest on earth not because they are more aggressive, not just because they are better trained, or better equipped, though they are all of those things. They are the fiercest because they know, in their bones, that when they key the mic and call for help, help is coming in hot. Take that away, and you don’t have the U.S. military anymore. You have a security force.

@ProfMJCleveland Or the equipment left in Afghanistan

A little perspective:  The cost of rescuing that airman in Iran (lost aircraft and all) was a fraction of the cost of Somali fraud in Minnesota.

Man are the bots swarming today! They hate God, America, Trump, patriots, successful people with full lives. Some even hate flowers, knitting, and short skirts! Miserable haters and losers! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

we got an astronaut posting on 𝕏 from a spacecraft that’s about halfway to the moon. what a time to be alive.

@LeaderJohnThune Pass the SAVE Act

Always grateful to be able to spend time with the grandkids in South Dakota. Wishing you and your family a blessed Easter! ✝️

@TheCinesthetic One of my all time favorites!

Band of Brothers (2001) plays like a ten-hour film, following Easy Company from training to the end of the war, and the way it holds that continuity makes it feel like one complete masterpiece.