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@jamescfox @timburchett I discovered homemade PB&J burritos a few years ago. Haven't looked back. Highly recommend.

@timburchett I make pb&j sandwiches for my son all the time (me too). I’m probably better at them than making UFO documentaries 😂

I didn’t get an invite to the State Dinner tonight so I microwaved some frozen bread and had some PB&J instead.

@SamiZayn We need to be friends. Manifesting it.

@aakashgupta I read this and immediately stuck some birdsong on in the background. This also helps explain why I love walking around and hearing birdsong so much. Thanks Aakash.

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. Right now, in this room, it is on. The circuit predates primates. Mammals have been using ambient soundscape continuity as a predator-detection system for roughly 200 million years. Birds stop singing when something larger moves through their territory. For most of mammalian history, a forest full of song meant no large predator was nearby, and the cessation of sound was the warning. Your nervous system never updated this software. The Max Planck Institute tested the inverse in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong dropped anxiety with a medium effect size. Six minutes of traffic noise raised depression with the same. The effect worked on subjects who lived in dense urban environments and had no regular contact with nature. The brain still ran the check. Birdsong sits in the 1,000 to 8,000 Hz range. Your brainstem reads continuous patterns in that band as a signal that nothing dangerous is currently moving through the environment. EEG data shows birdsong at 45 to 50 decibels boosts alpha wave activity by 14.1% relative to silence. Alpha is the brainwave signature of relaxed alertness. Push the same birdsong above 60 decibels and the response flips. Stress markers rise 29%. The circuit only trusts the signal at the volume of quiet conversation, which is exactly the volume birds sing at from a typical distance. Three things happen simultaneously when the brain registers ambient safety. The amygdala downregulates. The parasympathetic nervous system takes over from the sympathetic. Heart rate variability rises, cortisol drops. The posterior cingulate cortex, which sits at the center of the rumination circuit, quiets down. King's College London tracked this through a smartphone study with over 1,200 participants and found the mood lift lasted hours after the sound stopped. People diagnosed with depression got the same response as healthy controls. Most of what gets labeled mental fatigue is hypervigilance running in the background. Birdsong tells the circuit it can stand down, and the brain reallocates the freed compute everywhere else. A quiet park feels different from a quiet office because the parks have sentinels.

Prometheus. Prometheus, when combined with TIG, enables the collaborative mining and monetization of algorithms at scale. No PhD. No lab. No permission.

@CraddockCJ Most meetings would be better with dogs 😊

Best breakfast meeting ever — when the CEO of the bank you proudly support turns up with their adorable sausage dog 😍 Now that’s how you start the day! 🇫🇷🌭

@tigfoundation 👏🔥

Announcement time! Dr. Karim Tamssaouet joins @tigfoundation as Challenge Owner for Job-Shop Scheduling One of the world's foremost experts on this problem, with deep experience across both academia and industry. He co-authored the definitive 30-year review of the Job Shop Scheduling Problem, co-founded Planimize which deploys scheduling optimization into semiconductor fabs, and is an Associate Professor at BI Norwegian Business School. We could not have found a more qualified person to own this challenge. Incredibly excited to have him on board!

@eweissunburied @nickpopemod So sorry Elizabeth

My heart is breaking -- Nick (@nickpopemod) passed away this afternoon at our home. The last few weeks of his life, even as he suffered, he managed to do a few interviews from home. I was so lucky to have met and to have married Nick. He was a wonderful husband. I loved him dearly.

@bryan_johnson The way blackbirds vary their song so much with each "line" fascinates me. Love it. Not sure if you have any of those round your parts, but I'm sure you have some good ones.

It's 5am. The birds start singing at 5:15 am. Can't wait.

@bryan_johnson @aakashgupta This makes a great study for how one might optimally prepare for psychedelic experiences. In the Don't Die future, hopefully we will have good frameworks for this. Bryan could be considered patient zero! Thank you Bryan.

@aakashgupta Had I not done all the hard work to rebuild my body and mind over the past five years, I wouldn’t have been ready for this or capable of the breakthrough experience. It was earned.

Bryan Johnson spent $2 million a year for five years building the most measured human body on Earth. 100+ daily supplements. Gene therapy in Honduras. Blood swaps with his teenage son. Shockwave therapy on his penis. Every calorie tracked, every biomarker logged, every organ scored. Then he smoked a vaporizer on a livestream in British Columbia and said it beat everything. Run the math on what he's comparing. The Blueprint protocol costs roughly $10 million over five years. It requires a full-time medical team, custom compounding, twice-yearly epigenetic testing, and eating your last meal before noon every day for the rest of your life. The 5-MeO-DMT session took 30 minutes and the compound itself costs less than dinner. And here's the part his audience will gloss over: he's not talking about biomarkers. He's talking about how he feels. The man who built an entire brand on removing subjective human experience from health decisions just admitted that subjective human experience is the thing he was missing. His own published research framework cited neurogenesis, Default Mode Network disruption, anti-inflammatory cytokine modulation. Real science. But his actual quote was "a reset of me as a human." That's not a biomarker. That's the language of someone who just realized the dashboard doesn't capture the thing that matters most. 200,000 people watched him lie on the floor for 30 minutes. The facilitator wore all white. His girlfriend played with his hair. He came out of it and said "the preciousness of our existences is unfathomable." Then he plugged his manifesto and a URL. Johnson just accidentally revealed the ceiling of quantified health. You can optimize every organ in your body and still be missing the thing that makes the whole system worth running.

@tupacabra Bloody love Arrival.

A decade after it's release and ARRIVAL is still the best UFO movie of all time.

@alterbridge @MarkTTremonti @MylesKennedy @Scott_Phillips -- Writing something as incredible as Slave to Master at this point in your careers...insanely impressive 🙏💪❤️ A transcendent listening experience for me every time. Thank you so much!

@IOV_OWL @Fityeth The Mummy! Yes mate. This guy knows. Rick O'Connell forever.

@Fityeth You win. LOTR Harry Potter Star Wars Coraline The Mummy The Last Samurai Raiders of the Lost Ark Jurassic Park

The most rewatchable movie in history? I'll start with The Shawshank Redemption.

@iluminatibot As I understand it, these guys appear to have done it in the open at an initially small scale: casimirspace.com

AJ from The Why Files just dropped a bombshell on Tucker Carlson’s show. “The US government has unlocked zero point energy.”

@bryan_johnson Need me some of that forest bathing soon.

Spent the day in the woods. Haven’t heard quiet in a while. How refreshing. Clears the mind and soul. Also a robust longevity therapy.

@jack @blocks @Dr_JohnFletcher Another domino falls. Jack, there is powerful as-yet mostly unnoticed information that may help you find an optimised path here. Please talk to John if you see this.

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company. #### today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone. first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay. we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly. i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures. a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers. we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward. to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow. jack

@Dr_JohnFletcher Powerful article, John. A very big deal.

@MinuteofZombie The Monument to the Unknown Soldier is the first suggested location that I think actually fits the "laudatory" aspect Ross originally mentioned, as in its purpose is to "laud" the unknown soldier. Very interesting indeed.

Baghdad.

@GBNEWS Great work @ufouapam. Would like to see you make more appearances like this. Great, calm, logical dismantling of the stereotypes the interviewer posited.

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@nickpopemod This was beautifully written, Nick, and I enjoyed the little window it gave me into your journey. Sending you my warmest wishes and great human respect.

A Message From Nick Pope: A while ago, following some digestive issues, I was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. Unfortunately, it's Stage 4 and has metastasized to my liver. While I know that it's kindness and hope that leads people to suggest healers and supposed miracle cures, and to say things like "fight it", and "you can beat it", I'm afraid my diagnosis and my situation leaves no doubt whatsoever: I can't beat it. What an amazing adventure I've had! A 21-year career at the UK Ministry of Defence, where I got involved in subjects ranging from financial policy to counter-terrorism; from military policing to UAP. And I saved six cows; it's a long story! The things I've done; the places I've been; the people I've met; and the secrets I've been privy to. I wouldn't have swapped it for the world. And then a second career, where my previous government UAP role brought me to the attention of the world's media, leading me to become a regular commentator on TV news shows and documentaries, as well as consulting and acting as spokesperson on various UFO and alien-themed movies, TV series and video games. The media called me the real Fox Mulder! The true highlight, of course, is life with my wonderful, beautiful and incredibly smart wife, Elizabeth. She's a real-life Agent Scully: a scientist, a skeptic and a redhead. We met randomly in the lobby bar of the Fairmont Hotel in downtown San José (she was an anthropology professor at San José State University) in October 2010 and got married 3 months later. We applied successfully for my Green Card and she had me shipped over and imported to the U.S., where a new adventure began, as Elizabeth and I enjoyed wildlife watching at our wonderful home in Tucson, desert hikes, film noir, true crime, country music, Sunday lunches with my in-laws, and much more besides. Recently, we had an amazing one-year adventure in New York City, living 5 minutes from Times Square, and having a wonderful view of the Empire State Building from our apartment window. We proofread each other's books and articles (I love commas, hyphens and exclamation points way more than Elizabeth, and managed to win at least a few of those battles), and I'm  supporting her in her ongoing fight for free speech, academic freedom, and keeping political correctness, superstition and identity politics out of science and academia. The White House Press Secretary Tweeted one of her recent newspaper articles, which shows the huge impact she's having. I kept working for as long as I could (right up until last week), with my various film/TV interviews, conference appearances, and live events, including my position as moderator of Ancient Aliens Live - where I think I did 94 shows. Sadly, the time has come where I've had to step away from this work. A lot of people have followed my work on UAP. I'm loath to use the word "fans", because I'm not a celebrity. But I am a public figure, and many people have followed me on my journey as I've sought to keep the UAP subject in the public eye, and to frame it as a defense, national security and safety of flight issue - as well as a fascinating science problem. Some of this work has been public knowledge, but some such work, of necessity, has been done behind the scenes. I hope I've helped move the needle forward. But most people, of course, know me through my media interviews and live events. To everyone who's followed me on my journey, thank you - and good luck with your own journeys. I wish you every success and happiness. It's all been amazing, and I'm grateful for the things I've done, not mournful for the things that I won't now get to do. Per Aspera Ad Astra! Nick Pope, Tucson, Arizona, February 12, 2026