Jake Schuster

This was a lot of fun!

@LawrenceElliots @TuckerMax called this a few years ago

Someone asked what the alternative is The alternative is to embody the exact opposite of what stoicism asserts: To directly impose upon reality and reject acceptance of ‘what is’ They tell you to ‘accept what you can’t control’ The real truth is that there is absolutely nothing you cannot control You will convince yourself this is delusion But the universe doesn’t care for your logic The sooner you understand this, the better. Most never get there

@UpdatingOnRome Alexander

What piece of Roman or historical media, movies, games, or TV shows, were you the most excited about that ended up completely disappointing you?

Fun tip: When you send me a signed contract, Friday afternoon is best. It makes for an extra sweet Shabbat celebration. The wife is on her way to a country music concert so her friends joined in the remote candle lighting and we all leveled in the customer wins together!

@pedroelchileno I want Joao Gomes or Andre if cant get one of the top choices. I really rate both players.

If all of Anderson, Wharton, Tonali, Fernandes are on the market, there is no chance they all go for 70m+. Ederson, Joao Gomes, Camara also in the market at lower prices.

@JakeEntwistle Chelsea's place in the table is not talked about enough

6th to 16th is an insane swing for two games. Can completely warp perception of a season despite it being based on two results.

@CoachDanGo Squats

What’s the most overrated exercise on the planet?

Teams who scoffed at us a year ago are calling us now. Something is happening. Can you feel it?

@Dr_TheHistories Banter if a whole country is named after a pseudonym

A new DNA study has revived a long‑running theory that Christopher Columbus may not have been Italian at all, but actually Pedro Álvarez de Soutomaior, a Galician nobleman also known as Pedro Madruga. Researchers compared genetic material from remains believed to be linked to Columbus with DNA from documented descendants of Madruga’s family line, finding striking similarities. This theory argues that Madruga disappeared from historical records after a regional war in Galicia, the same moment Columbus suddenly emerged in Portugal with a new identity, nautical expertise, and connections that would later launch his Atlantic voyages. Supporters of the theory point to additional clues: Columbus named over 100 places in the Americas after Galician towns, and 80 handwriting experts have concluded that Columbus’s writing style is virtually identical to Madruga’s. If true, this would radically reshape the accepted biography of one of history’s most famous explorers, suggesting he may have concealed his origins for political survival. While the theory remains debated, the new DNA evidence has pushed it further into mainstream historical discussion. One of the strangest supporting clues is Columbus’s 'obsessive use of Galician‑Portuguese language patterns', even in private notes. His letters contain idioms, spelling habits, and grammatical structures that do not match Italian dialects of the era but align closely with the writing of nobles from southern Galicia. Even more intriguing: Columbus repeatedly used Galician nautical terms that were not common in Genoa or broader Italy, but were standard among sailors from the exact region where Pedro Madruga ruled. Linguists argue this is nearly impossible to fake, especially for someone supposedly born and raised in Italy, and it quietly strengthens the case that Columbus was hiding a past tied to Galicia’s political conflicts. © The Historian's Den #drthehistories

Vibe coding is the Home Depot of software. You can use it to fix a deck, install new lights, maybe handle minor plumbing. The 80% case works. Home Depot won't build you a house. If I'm doing anything serious there I'm making two or three trips per project minimum, and that's if I know what I'm doing. Vibe coded internal software is the same. Fine for the deck. The house takes experienced builders and infrastructure that holds.

@thealepalombo Vejer rocks. Jerez, nearby, is nice too.

3/ Vejer de la Frontera (Andalucía) Population 12,500. The whitest of the Andalusian pueblos blancos, and the only one most foreign lists somehow skip. Vejer sits on a hilltop 10 km inland from the Atlantic, 50 km southeast of Cádiz. From the walls of the old castle you can see the Strait of Gibraltar, the African coast on a clear day, and the wind farms that line the Cape Trafalgar plain. The Moorish past is closer here than anywhere else in mainland Andalucía. Vejer fell to Castile around 1250, but the medina layout, narrow whitewashed alleys, blind walls, courtyards behind heavy doors, has barely changed in 800 years. The Plaza de España is centered on a fountain of Sevillian azulejos. The local women wore the cobijada, a full black covering close to a chador, into the mid-20th century. Older women still wear it during the patron festivals. Distance: 50 min from Cádiz, 1h45 from Sevilla airport, 2h from Málaga. Eat: atún rojo de almadraba (the bluefin tuna caught by ancient trap nets), retinto beef from the local pastures, sherry from Jerez 1h north. Andalucía without the August crush. Beaches 15 minutes away. I go in October.

I'm Italian, living in Portugal. From Lisbon, the Spanish border is two hours east. I'm in Extremadura more than I'm in Porto. Almost every foreigner who comes to Spain does the same trip: Madrid, Barcelona, maybe Sevilla, Granada or Valencia. The Spaniards I know don't spend their weekends there. They drive inland. To Castile, Extremadura, Aragón, Galicia. The interior that emptied out since 1950, what they call la "España Vaciada". That's where the country still lives. 10 places I've stayed in. Some many times. 🧵

Current situation:

@bojanglesijoe @SamWallaceTel Don't share. It's gutter mongering. Elliot is a treasure to the global football community!

@SamWallaceTel Free link here if anyone wants to read it: archive.is/HJBPm

Legal battle over the Arsenal fan podcast that went from a group of online friendships and acquaintances to a lucrative business telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…

@Princecg11 @pitdesi All this logic makes sense post revenue once a couple years into building...not at inception.

@pitdesi Founder secondary at seed is usually 5-10% sold into a primary. The signal read is misframed. It is option premium math. Cash funds the founder long enough that future dilution stops mattering personally. That is what changes behavior. Not confidence.

In case you were wondering where we're at in the cycle, I just heard about a seed round where the founder is selling secondary

@joahspearman @pitdesi @danprimack This.

@pitdesi @danprimack Founder note: if seed VCs are throwing money at <18 month AI startups with pilot revenue but requiring >18 month non-AI startups with ARR to (pre-Chat) Series A metrics in order to raise a Seed, the founders are potentially betting on profitability rather than future fundraising.

@riohodges__ @pitdesi Genuine LOL. That's so good!

@pitdesi "we are pre-revenue, pre-product, post-porsche"

AI transformation is just a cooler way of saying data engineering, process mapping, change management and intelligent automation.

@theoliverxp @grok please make a step by step plan on how to do this

For anyone wondering, what are you talking about? The TCPA says that for each single call to your personal cell phone that is on the Do Not Call list, you are entitled to: $500 for the call itself $500 for using a robo-dialer $500 for using a spoofed number Many of these personal loan companies are being sold lists of numbers that they are told are scrubbed of do-not-call numbers, but nobody's doing that. Who's liable? The company making the call.

I started logging calls and sending demand letters for TCPA violations (I have been on the DNC list for 14 years). First time I did this, the company paid me $1500 and this year another company's legal counsel "called my bluff" so I filed suit, settling weeks later for $7500. Many are hard to track down, using virtual mailboxes and registered agents, etc - but there are ways to find them. These dirtbags must pay.

In 1922 Winston Churchill, as Colonial Secretary, casually carved off 77% of the land promised for the Jewish national home. Everything east of the Jordan River, gone, just like that. He created Transjordan and handed it to a Hashemite king. That huge slice was never meant to be separate. It was supposed to be part of the Jewish homeland. Yet ever since, the world has kept trying to slice away more from what little remained. Enough. Estimates show that people of ‘palestinian’ origin now make up 60 to 70% of Jordan’s population. They already have their country. It’s called Jordan. It’s like promising a family their dream house, then quietly handing three-quarters of it to the neighbours before they even move in, handing them just the garden shed. Then the world acts outraged saying the shed belongs to the house. The facts have been staring everyone in the face for over a century. Time to accept reality.

This is amazing. What's a little scary is the sheep brain dynamics apply elsewhere!

@Opus_Rexx @dissidentwest This is the correct answer

@dissidentwest Starship Troopers is the greatest because they set out to paint RW coded ideas as bad but just made RW ideas look pretty badass instead. Imagine choosing the bugs lmao what losers.

What’s the best right wing coded movie that was clearly not intended to be for a right wing audience? You’re not allowed to say The Matrix.