Negative capability

🔴Breaking: Esmaeil Shokri, father of Sepehr Shokri (the young man killed in the December 2025 Tehran protests), was just arrested by security forces and taken to an unknown location. The arrest happened this afternoon with violence, right at his son's grave in Behesht-e Zahra cemetery.

20 seconds. That’s all he had. ‘I’ve been charged with moharebeh… (war with god) help me.’ Sina Shams, 25, a wrestler, was beaten, dragged from his home, and taken. No lawyer. Family attacked. This is a death sentence. Be his voice. #Sina_Shams @elicalebon

Be His Voice! @nypost @Rueters #KingRezaPahlavi‌ #DigitalBlackOutIran‌

STOP REHEARSING YOUR FAILURES IN YOUR HEAD. START VISUALIZING YOUR WINS!

@elonmusk I feel like it might be possible with the help of AI tools to find some very elegant and compact descriptions that explain some of the deepest mysteries of the universe, but it might take a lot of pattern processing and matching to get there...

It’s 2am again, my favourite time, and as always reality is still staring me in the face 🧐

i still dont think people understand how insane it is that we're getting these 2 in the same year

Dune is also part of the genesis of the real time strategy game

Here's an underated benefit of cold approach: You'll naturally select higher-quality women. Because cold approach actually has a cost, it's a lot more than just a right swipe and some text game from the comfort of your home. If a girl is mid/chubby, there's no way I could be arsed to jestermax and dance like a monkey in front of her just for a CHANCE to fuck her. Over my dead body. Hot or bust. If a mid falls into my lap, sure, I'll play along. But there's no chance in hell that I'd move mountains to try to be with her. To open her, to isolate her, to listen to her yap, to go for the "let's have another drink at my place" ask. Apps are different, you're not forced to think whether the investment is "worth it" or not, because the investment is near 0. On a side note, if you're old school and really want to sharpen your in-person game (i.e. you're a "thrill of the hunt" guy), cold approach is the only way. And it's the one that makes you feel the most alive too. You're a hunter, a predator, and you're picking and choosing your prey, you pounce, and you go for the kill. Even if the hit rate is much lower than just swiping on apps, there's really nothing quite like it. This is why cold approach is the final frontier. It's a useful beginner tool to get over approach anxiety, yes. But for advanced dudes, it's the ultimate test of your game and frame.

The war with Iran has been executed nearly flawlessly by the US Military. Anyone who says otherwise is either stupid, or has an agenda.

Suicidal Empathy is far more dangerous than any weapon that the enemy could ever develop.

One of black twitter’s finest imo

If you honestly think Iran isn’t an existential threat to the western world, you’ve had your head in the sand for 47 years.

@Mark_Penn Extremely well written. 🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱🫡

War Resolve In the past, casualties were the important and real limiting factor in any war. Today, people are worked up over a transitory increase in the price of gasoline and the most evil regime on earth is banking its survival on the West being more concerned about money than lives. Consequently they even execute teenagers without fair trials to create fear among the population to prevent an uprising. And the global anger is over gas prices not the executions. It will take resolve to see it through. The Iranians appear to have enough command and control left to launch desperate attacks on the region and suppress people at home. The aims of the operation have not been met until that chain is broken and the regime can no longer inflict terror on the world. And that may well take another month or so to accomplish and so the world will have to decide if it can withstand a temporary bump in gas prices to rid us of one of its most evil actors whose despicable actions are even more evident each passing day. Hopefully we can find that resolve because the good of ridding the world of this regime, ending its terror network and ending its threats against the West far outweigh a spike at the pump that will quickly be forgotten once this is finished.

I used to think Trump was just a good president. Now I realize the system has been corrupt for decades, and he’s the only one who’s ever been able to fight it.

NVidia CEO Jensen Huang tells the All In Podcast that the world will be a much safer place when the war in Iran concludes: “I believe that there's a reason we went to war. And I believe at the end of the war, the Middle East will be more stable than before.” He sees what so many are too short-sighted to even comprehend, in that Iran is a destabilizing force and one that's kept the Middle East locked in turmoil for half a century.

🚨 Japan to send help to open Strait of Hormuz

Being a founder is one of the greatest convex experiences in life. Even if you fail you will learn more than 99% of your peers who never take a risk. But if you succeed. The upside is unquantified as it can change your life. Your outlook on life and everything else. Do it.

@SantiagoPliego @LancesLegion @pmarca Jep, love that book

Insane alpha in this book btw h/t: @pmarca