JRose
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Taking these distress signals—delinquencies at multi-year highs across cards/auto/student debt, office vacancies at 18.4%, Chapter 11 filings up 67%, and private credit redemptions surging with Fed bank inquiries—liquidity flows into risk-on assets (equities, credit) primarily as short-term policy buffer rather than broad recovery fuel. It props valuations via carry and asset reflation but falters as defaults spread and risk aversion builds. Yes, late-cycle: external shocks + internal leverage strain echo pre-crunch phases where optics masked fragility. Watch credit growth and delinquencies for the shift.
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Ojo a estas declaraciones de Mouratoglou. Dice que el tenis está en PELIGRO ‼️
🗣️ “Los jóvenes ya no ven tenis, todos los estudios lo han demostrado. Es esencial involucrarlos en este deporte si queremos que perdure. La afición es enorme, pero está envejeciendo. Si nos proyectamos 20, 30 o 40 años hacia el futuro, la afición habrá desaparecido
Incluso los jugadores. Cuando les pregunto, todos me dicen que ya no ven los partidos. Son demasiado largos. Solo ven los resúmenes. El producto no es adecuado. Es adecuado para mí, pero no para menores de 30 años”
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NCAA leadership is expected to finalize an expansion of the men’s and women’s tournaments to 76 teams soon after this year’s tournament 🏀
The proposal would add eight games to the First Four, with 24 teams playing in an opening round before advancing into the main bracket.
Via @YahooSports | ow.ly/yNgb50YCTv2
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The Chiefs are making an "aggressive" push to play in Spain this year, team president Mark Donovan told The Star.
More details here:
kansascity.com/sports/nfl/kan…
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The truth is, just about ANY amount of masturbation can fall into the healthy normal range for a human. It's not harmful if it fits your life—i.e. it doesn't interfere with work, relationships, or energy, and it feels like a choice, not a compulsion/actual addiction
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There's a huge push to stigmatize masturbation in the manosphere. Like I had one guy come to me for coaching saying he was struggling with porn addiction. I asked him how often he masturbates, he goes "2 or 3 times". I go "a day?" And he says "no, per week."
Mystique.@Mys_t8
And we need to fully destigmatize masturbation frr. In my experience at least, people more in touch with themselves and sexuality through masturbating have more/better orgasms during intercourse, so if we stigmatize self-pleasure, we're messing sex + pleasure to an extent.
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨
Wimbledon have announced plans to switch to an ALL-CLAY surface on ALL of their courts, starting from 2028.
Tournament director Jamie Baker said:
"Grass has continued to be phased out on all levels and remains unpopular with the players."
Wow.
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A Miami bartender showed me her phone at 2 AM.
She had 143 unread texts from guys begging to take her out.
She replied to exactly ONE.
I read his message. It broke every single "nice guy" rule.
Here’s the psychology behind what he did (and how you can steal it): 🧵
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@Architect9000 Verily I say unto thee, those who cannot read these hieroglyphics shall not gain admittance into the kingdom, for only he who discerneth “rear,” “front,” and “oscillate” shall be washed and made worthy.
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Just got a Toto Neorest. The days of hand molesting myself to wipe the arse are over. This brings me great joy and inner peace.
When I die, I want my ashes to be flushed in this Toto, and the buttsprayer to give me one last 21 second warm water salute.
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@PaulMburner34 Elmarko was nothing but straight ass tn
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@M_Vernon @RockChalkBlog Taking him out for Elmarko who gave up the drive uncontested was the disaster. Elmarko was always destined to make the deciding fuck up play for this season.
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Putting Kohl in at this moment is a coaching disaster after not doing it for so long
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⚡️People are starving for worlds that are small enough to feel real.
That is why this hit.
A video store sim gives players something modern life keeps taking away. Clear boundaries. Tangible objects. Limited inventory. Simple rules. Human scale. Immediate agency. You walk in, understand the fantasy instantly, and start mastering it. That is rare now.
Most of modern digital life feels infinite, abstract, and frictionless. Streaming is endless. Stores are dead. Algorithms choose for you. Games are bloated with live service sludge, battle passes, lore inflation, and engagement engineering. This game does the opposite. It gives you a place. Shelves. covers. late fees. customers. upgrades. small power. The brain can hold the whole world in one grip.
That is the deeper hunger.
People miss environments where culture had weight and choices had shape. In the old world, scarcity forced taste. You had to browse. You had to choose. You had to live with what was available. Even the inconvenience made the experience more memorable because it gave the world texture. Streaming solved access and killed ritual. Infinite abundance made culture flatter.
So this game is not really selling the 90s.
It is selling relief from digital sprawl.
That is why two indie devs can outrun giant studios.
Big studios keep trying to impress the market with scale. Players are increasingly rewarding coherence. One clean fantasy executed tightly can beat a hundred million dollars of bloated confusion. The market is starting to value emotional compression again. If the fantasy is instantly legible and mechanically satisfying, it travels.
And this connects to something bigger than games. As reality gets more virtual, automated, and depersonalized, old forms come back as luxury experiences. Vinyl. film cameras. mechanical keyboards. physical books. old interfaces. dead media return because friction starts feeling real once everything else becomes vapor. The obsolete object becomes emotionally premium.
The real truth is simple.
This game is winning because it gives people a bounded world they can still touch, understand, and rule.
Modern life keeps scaling upward.
People are starting to crave downward again.
Indie Game Joe@IndieGameJoe
Two indie devs made a game where you run your own video store in the early 90s. It’s currently the #5 top-selling game on Steam. - Rent out VHS tapes & manage customers - Charge Late & Broken Fees - Upgrade & customise your store It’s called Retro Rewind - Video Store Simulator
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@_dnj81 @brett_colgan The coffee sucks though, despite the supposedly premium brands.
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Wow. What an emotionally raw interview with @GaryWoodland and his struggle with PTSD after his brain surgery. It is a must watch and a great reminder to give grace. Gary is one of the strongest, grittiest dudes I know. If he suffers from this, anyone can.
youtu.be/yFGyXUPMpcY
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@matt_gray_ Awesome. Thanks for sharing the recipe for media crack. We certainly need more of it.
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‘Our consciousness is under siege’: Michael Pollan on chatbots, social media and mental freedom | Well actually | The Guardian theguardian.com/wellness/2026/…
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People stopped liking poetry because we got too good at teaching it.
For thousands of years, poetry was central to education and people loved it because we were so bad at teaching it. Then came a group called the New Critics in the 1920s who figured out how to analyze poetry. For the first time in history, poetry was taught right, and it killed the audience.
How was poetry taught before? You memorized it. You recited it. You sang it. And you didn't teach poetry as something that needed to be understood via analysis.
The best way to teach poetry is like this: experience it, perform it, memorize it. Once you've done that, then you can do the analysis. But analysis is secondary to what poetry is.
We don't make people analyze pop songs before they fall in love with them, so why do we do that for poetry?
— @DanaGioiaPoet
David Perell@david_perell
Dana Gioia is one of the world’s greatest living poets. He’s been writing for ~55 years, and this 3-hour interview is all about his approach to writing. Some lessons: 1. What is poetry? Here’s a definition: “Poetry is a way of remembering what it would impoverish us to forget.” 2. And who is the mother of the muses? Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory. 3. You can’t understand poetry until you start learning it by heart. Yes, memorizing it. The metaphor of knowing something by heart means storing a piece of wisdom in the center of your being and making it a part of you. 4. Poetry exists in the body before it exists in language. For him, great writing is about putting form to felt sensations. 5. First drafts are an act of madness. They’re messy and chaotic, and it’s worth embracing that. Only in the process of revision does the structure begin to reveal itself. 6. The most valuable ideas arrive suddenly, fully formed but fragile, and they won’t wait for you to be ready. If you don’t write them down immediately, you’ll probably forget them. 7. His artistic process: Confusion, followed by madness, exhilaration, and despair. 8. Aspiring writers who can’t find the time to write run the risk of living a life of regret, where destiny takes the wheel and steers them off-course. Seneca says, “If you follow your destiny, it guides you. If you resist it, it drags you behind it.” 9. What’s the purpose of art? Most people, most of the time, go through life half-awake. The purpose of art is to awaken us to reality and help us feel our situation. Done right, it excites, expands, and refines our complete human intelligence. 10. Can you write with a full-time job? T.S. Eliot had a day job at a bank. Wallace Stevens was an insurance lawyer. Dana Gioia worked a full-time job in New York and wrote in the evenings. 11. Life is like a wallet full of one-hour bills. You only have 24 hours to spend every day. If you want to do serious writing while raising a family and maintaining a full-time job, almost every hour of every day has to be budgeted. 12. Poetry should turn. It shouldn’t just climb to an emotional height. It should pivot, contradict, or contain its own rebuttal. But most new poems go something like this: “I’m sad, I’m sad, I’m sad, I’m sad, the end,” or “I’m happy, I’m happy, I’m happy, the end. There’s no twist, no turn. 13. You don’t need to be 100% original. All you need to do is assemble parts of the reality that already exists. As George Balanchine said, “God creates, I assemble.” 14. A foundational book in his life: The City of God by St. Augustine. He says there are two cities that exist: There’s the City of Man, which is ruled by wealth and power and all the laws of man. And there’s the City of God which is eternal and governed by the rules of God. 15. Great poetry exists at the level of intuition, and it’s the same intuition that academic education tries to suppress. With great poems, like great songs, you feel before you understand. 16. Art is an argument with yourself. Yeats said: “Out of arguments with others, we make politics. Out of arguments with ourselves, we make poetry.” 17. Great writing should astonish the creator, and if it doesn’t astonish the creator, it won’t astonish the reader. 18. Robert Frost once said: “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” 19. Beauty is being able to see the form, the shape underneath reality, and to understand why it is right, even when it is destructive or terrifying or humiliating. The most powerful kind of beauty is to discover the secret shape and rightness of things that are terrifying. 20. On novels: Most people don’t understand what a novel is — and how revolutionary the form was. So, what’s a novel? It’s a story that tells you simultaneously what’s happening on the outside of a character and what they’re thinking on the inside. I’ve shared the full interview with @DanaGioiaPoet below. If you’d rather watch it on YouTube, or listen on Apple or Spotify, check out the reply tweets.
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Leo Tolstoy was once asked if a novel should deal with social issues and stuff like that.
He said: "No, no... a novel isn't commensurate with those things. What a novel does is make you feel the joy of being alive in the world."
That's what art does. It ignites our humanity. It shows us how we aren't actually all that alive most of the time. That's why we need art. It excites. It expands. It refines our complete human intelligence.
(From my interview with @DanaGioiaPoet)
David Perell@david_perell
Dana Gioia is one of the world’s greatest living poets. He’s been writing for ~55 years, and this 3-hour interview is all about his approach to writing. Some lessons: 1. What is poetry? Here’s a definition: “Poetry is a way of remembering what it would impoverish us to forget.” 2. And who is the mother of the muses? Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory. 3. You can’t understand poetry until you start learning it by heart. Yes, memorizing it. The metaphor of knowing something by heart means storing a piece of wisdom in the center of your being and making it a part of you. 4. Poetry exists in the body before it exists in language. For him, great writing is about putting form to felt sensations. 5. First drafts are an act of madness. They’re messy and chaotic, and it’s worth embracing that. Only in the process of revision does the structure begin to reveal itself. 6. The most valuable ideas arrive suddenly, fully formed but fragile, and they won’t wait for you to be ready. If you don’t write them down immediately, you’ll probably forget them. 7. His artistic process: Confusion, followed by madness, exhilaration, and despair. 8. Aspiring writers who can’t find the time to write run the risk of living a life of regret, where destiny takes the wheel and steers them off-course. Seneca says, “If you follow your destiny, it guides you. If you resist it, it drags you behind it.” 9. What’s the purpose of art? Most people, most of the time, go through life half-awake. The purpose of art is to awaken us to reality and help us feel our situation. Done right, it excites, expands, and refines our complete human intelligence. 10. Can you write with a full-time job? T.S. Eliot had a day job at a bank. Wallace Stevens was an insurance lawyer. Dana Gioia worked a full-time job in New York and wrote in the evenings. 11. Life is like a wallet full of one-hour bills. You only have 24 hours to spend every day. If you want to do serious writing while raising a family and maintaining a full-time job, almost every hour of every day has to be budgeted. 12. Poetry should turn. It shouldn’t just climb to an emotional height. It should pivot, contradict, or contain its own rebuttal. But most new poems go something like this: “I’m sad, I’m sad, I’m sad, I’m sad, the end,” or “I’m happy, I’m happy, I’m happy, the end. There’s no twist, no turn. 13. You don’t need to be 100% original. All you need to do is assemble parts of the reality that already exists. As George Balanchine said, “God creates, I assemble.” 14. A foundational book in his life: The City of God by St. Augustine. He says there are two cities that exist: There’s the City of Man, which is ruled by wealth and power and all the laws of man. And there’s the City of God which is eternal and governed by the rules of God. 15. Great poetry exists at the level of intuition, and it’s the same intuition that academic education tries to suppress. With great poems, like great songs, you feel before you understand. 16. Art is an argument with yourself. Yeats said: “Out of arguments with others, we make politics. Out of arguments with ourselves, we make poetry.” 17. Great writing should astonish the creator, and if it doesn’t astonish the creator, it won’t astonish the reader. 18. Robert Frost once said: “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” 19. Beauty is being able to see the form, the shape underneath reality, and to understand why it is right, even when it is destructive or terrifying or humiliating. The most powerful kind of beauty is to discover the secret shape and rightness of things that are terrifying. 20. On novels: Most people don’t understand what a novel is — and how revolutionary the form was. So, what’s a novel? It’s a story that tells you simultaneously what’s happening on the outside of a character and what they’re thinking on the inside. I’ve shared the full interview with @DanaGioiaPoet below. If you’d rather watch it on YouTube, or listen on Apple or Spotify, check out the reply tweets.
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