Kevin Thompson 🛡️

@FoxNews Oh whatever! We loved it. It's part of the journey, never a straight line. I was on the field with the kids after graduation and ZERO complained. All smiles.

A graduation ceremony in Franklin, Tennessee turned into a soaking wet controversy after officials decided to keep the event outdoors during a torrential downpour. Footage from the ceremony shows graduates crossing the stage in heavy rain while families sat drenched in the stands as the storm moved through the area. Now some parents are demanding answers, saying students deserved better and arguing the conditions became unsafe.

Oh whatever! We loved it. It's part of the journey, never a straight line. I was on the field with the kids after graduation and ZERO complained. All smiles. cc. @TheDego16

This needs to be done all over the place.

Track fans, give my daughter Siena a follow! @SienaRT1. Rising junior with a 2:12 800m, 57.0 400m, and a cross country star.

Proud of you @SienaRT1!

Nashville will host Super Bowl LXIV in 2030! #SBLXIV

This would also reshape DeFi. As the TVL explodes onchain, the demand for stablecoins is going to go through the roof.

bitcoin back to selling off on any news whatsoever

⚡️The deeper signal is youth risk did not disappear. It migrated inward. Teen drinking fell because the old physical world of adolescence got dismantled. Alcohol belonged to a social ecosystem: unsupervised time, cars, parties, local jobs, malls, basements, boredom, flirting, older siblings, house gatherings, and the chaotic peer world where teenagers learned who they were by colliding with other people in real space. That ecosystem was replaced by phones, surveillance, parental tracking, algorithmic entertainment, social anxiety, online status games, and a much thinner physical commons. So the surface looks healthier. Fewer kids drinking. Fewer kids using weed. Fewer kids doing reckless things in public. The hidden layer looks worse. The young are less reckless because they are less socially embodied. Less initiation. Less unsupervised friction. Less courage-building. Less embarrassment and recovery. Less real dating. Less independence. Less contact with the physical world before adulthood demands it. The old teenage world produced damage, stupidity, alcohol abuse, pregnancy risk, fights, accidents, and bad decisions. No need to romanticize it. But it also produced social reps. It forced young people through discomfort. It made them practice attraction, rejection, conflict, reputation, risk, repair, and status in the open. The new world suppresses visible risk while increasing invisible fragility. That is the trade. A teenager can avoid drinking, avoid parties, avoid sex, avoid driving, avoid real confrontation, avoid rejection, avoid shame, avoid danger, and still arrive at 23 emotionally underbuilt. Cleaner behavior does not automatically mean stronger formation. This is why the marriage chart and the teen drinking chart are the same story at different stages. People are not suddenly failing to pair in adulthood. The whole pathway into embodied adulthood has been slowing for years before marriage even becomes the question. The real truth: society solved part of the teen vice problem by shrinking the arena where teenagers become adults. It took away the dangerous commons and replaced it with controlled isolation. The result is safer kids with weaker initiation into real life.

Since Odyssey Discourse shows no sign of slowing down I’m going to perform a public service and remind everyone that <2 yrs ago there was a brilliant cinematic adaptation starring two of the best dramatic actors alive and which was utterly faithful to the spirit of the myth.

This is a live stream… it’s so over.

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Big week for digital assets. After nearly a year of bipartisan work, this markup brings us one step closer to cementing America's place as the global leader in financial innovation. Wyoming showed the way, now Washington is following.

“The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.” ​— Margaret Bourke-White

Looks like peace talks are going well…

Carl Pickens could do it all

SpaceXAI will provide @AnthropicAI with access to Colossus 1, one of the world’s largest and fastest-deployed AI supercomputers, to provide additional capacity for Claude → x.ai/news/anthropic…

Oura sells $99 blood panels via Quest. WHOOP and Hims too. Function Health, valued at $2.5B, now integrates with ChatGPT Health for AI-assisted result interpretation. Patients are ordering tests their PCP never ordered, getting results their doctor never saw, and interpreting them with an AI their doctor doesn't control. Three migrations (diagnosis, monitoring, and interpretation) converging in a single consumer workflow. buff.ly/xkIc3eh #DrYou #FiveMigrations

@molincochriebtc @RolandGunnTN Hunters Bend is the one I had in mind. Numbers are lean at other lower schools. It all ties to housing.

@KPTlaw @RolandGunnTN Schools, or school? I only know of 1 with low numbers.

This is code for “Williamson County Schools are the best in the state and it’s unfair to poor people can’t send their kids to them, so we’re gonna find a way to cram 30,000 people into apartments.”