Matthew Digesti

@RealTalkWithMJ1 🤫

Things are very different now

@CrazyVibes_1 Tell him to never stop painting!

My 11 year old son painted this. He's autistic and doesn't have friends at school, doesn't get invited to birthday parties, spends most of his time alone in his room. Teachers keep telling me he's "in his own world" like that's a bad thing. I've watched him sit by himself at lunch through the school window and it breaks me every single time. He started painting six months ago after discovering Bob Ross videos on YouTube. I bought him a cheap canvas set from the dollar store just to see if he'd stick with it. He painted for nine hours straight that first day, wouldn't eat dinner, wouldn't stop. I had to physically take the brush from his hand at midnight. This is his newest piece. Those mountains, that reflection in the water, the pink and purple sky. He's eleven. I kept staring at it thinking this can't be real, my little boy who can't tie his shoes without getting frustrated made something this beautiful. I posted it in a painting group because he asked me to, said he wanted to know if "real artists" would think it's good. Within an hour someone commented asking to buy it. I laughed out loud, thought it was a joke or maybe spam. Then another person messaged. Then three more. One woman offered $200 and said it reminded her of where her late husband proposed. My son doesn't know how to process compliments, he just went quiet and started rocking a little which means he's overwhelmed but in a good way. He asked me if people were being nice because he's "the autism kid" or if they actually meant it. I didn't know what to say. So I'm asking you all, honestly. Tell me the truth. Is this actually good? Because he's sitting next to me right now waiting to hear what real people think, and I need to know if I should help him open his own little shop or if I'm just a mom who can't see clearly. What do you really think? 🎨💜 Credit - Martha Barker

@bigconniekane Football irony at its finest

MCORKLE!

@spicyliltoaster There is a reason and his name is Jesus. Lean in.

Not going to lie… with everything going on, I’m feeling the pull to go to church and give my life to Jesus.

@iampaulgrewal Best apprenticeship available in law hands down

I'm not embarrassed that this was my usual practice on the bench, and my law clerks can confirm that my edits weren't usually light. But I wonder how many Americans appreciate that the first draft of most of their laws and court opinions are written by staff in their 20s less than 5 years out of university?

@iampaulgrewal Partisan AG offices gonna hockey stick too

Trump v. CASA will drive many district courts to push the envelope on class actions procedures, and the Supreme Court to rein them in even further. FRCP 23 is in for a serious workout.

@DudespostingWs Smoking various meats

This is true

@neelhome He is much smarter than me! 😆

@MatthewDigesti that’s a great point actually

some truth to this BUT - the average person is able to purchase real estate and finance up to 97% of the purchase price those people are not likely putting $100’s of thousands into the S&P 500

Part II Back in August, I met up with a group of friends in Pittsburgh to attend a Bruce Springsteen concert. Bruce talked about losing his friend Clarence Clemons and said something that made me think of both Mort and Benny. That night in Pittsburgh, Bruce told the crowd, “Grief is the price we pay for having loved so well.” And today we are paying the price.   We loved Benny so much. He slept in our room every night, greeted us when we got home every day, loved taking walks, eating turkey tendons, going for a quick swim in the pool, and giving anyone who got too close to him his patented sideye. On a regular basis, we’d be in our front or backyard, see bushes moving, wonder what was in there, and Benny would emerge. He loved being in, and coming out of, the bushes. We called it in “Benny in the Bush.” Hopefully Benny is playing with the two other dogs we’ve put down, Riley about 16 years ago and Maggie on the Friday the pandemic began in 2020. We have four more – Ella, Bailey, Apple and Brady – to keep us company, but it is not the same; it never will be.   Life gives us highs and lows. One year ago today, Jan. 8, I took both my children to Houston where we watched Michigan win a national championship and felt as happy as we could be. One year later, on Jan. 8, we woke up and were gutted to have Benny leave us. As I took Benny on a final car ride this morning to the vet to get his paw prints and ashes, the first song that came on the radio was Natalie Cole and Nat King Cole singing, “Unforgettable.”  And that’s what he was to us.   When Kirk Herbstreit lost his dog just over two months ago, a golden retriever also named Ben, he said, “Dogs only flaw is that they don’t live long enough.” And that is so true. But it also is true that Benny will live inside us forever.   We loved him and already miss him terribly. Rest easy, Benny.

Part 1: This was a day we knew was coming since last February, and yet there still is an overwhelming sense of sadness.   We had planned to put down our beloved Benny, who was our baby for over 15 years. He had liver cancer that had spread, he could barely stand anymore, and he stopped eating. We scheduled a vet to come to our house at 11 am today, and spent all of Monday and Tuesday crying over, and with, Benny.   And then, when we woke this morning for the day we dreaded, Benny was gone. He died in his sleep. We are in shock.   Our life revolves around our family, our dogs and, for better or worse, my work. But unlike our family or my work, dogs never give us any aggravation -- only love and loyalty. Benny was one of our five labradoodles; but he truly was one of one. He wasn’t a good boy; he was the best boy -- and we told that to him regularly.   Benny never bit anyone, never attacked one of our other dogs when they attacked him, he was such a gentle boy. One time when he was a puppy, he did jump out of out of the window of a moving car to chase after a pitbull before my wife had to pull over and chase him down. But aside from that, Benny gave us zero problems -- except for his health.   Roughly seven or so years ago, when he first was diagnosed with cancer, doctors removed one of his kidneys. Then last February, as he was running up our backyard steps into our house, he missed a step, hit his leg and could barely walk. Doctors discovered that, not only did Benny tear his ACL, but he also had liver cancer and other masses that had spread to his lungs. On Feb. 23, 2024, his doctor told us Bennyhad two to three months to live. My wife and I were devastated.   I remember the next week calling my dear friend Chris Mortensen because he was one of the only close friends I had who understood what it was like to love and lose animals. I cried to Mort, and listened to him talk about how much our pets mean to us. He did his best to pick me up, and he did briefly -- until I got a call a few days later that we lost Mort, too. My last conversation with Mort was all about Benny; now both are gone.   From the moment we were told that Benny had two to three months to live, I counted each time we passed the 23rd day of a month as another win for Benny. He stacked up wins when they weren’t expected, in July and August and September, until he got to another winter he wasn’t supposed to. There’s a video we posted on our dogs’ Instagram account from Sept. 29, when Benny jumped up and took away our daugther’s pizza, refusing to give it up. His energy and fight for someone fighting such an insidious disease was so impressive. But his decline from that day on, when cancer ravaged his body, was fierce.   Cont’d….

Look at the search phrase … @Google “where to vote Harris” is not the same search as @chamath “where to vote FOR Harris” That’s an entirely different search. Google’s explanation only works for its modified search phrase that makes the search more general in nature to support it’s “everything is fine” response. @elonmusk @DavidSacks

Good on @google for responding to even insignificant SERP issue from absurdly long-tail searches. 👏 We need to rebuild trust in institutions, from Google to Facebook to media to academia Sunlight and crisp communication is critical part of this.

Too much money chasing too few goods. Some people think this is a demand side issue. It’s supply side. He likely doesn’t cut spending as shown by his last admin. So he has to juice investment, productivity, and the production of goods with sound economic policies. Throwing more money at people like EITC or down payment assistance doesn’t solve inflation because it doesn’t address the cause - too much money chasing too few goods. More money chasing the same number of goods = higher inflation. Harris plan is a 1st grade solution to a post graduate problem.

Totally agree with the sleep stack above. I use the same from a company called momentum. I also have an @eightsleep that absolutely changed the game. I slept hot. This solved that problem. Body temp control is huge. Weighted comforter works awesome for me too. And mouth tape from @HostageTape. I’ve tinkered over the last few years and used @WHOOP to measure what works and what doesn’t. All the above have been game changers and my sleep scores are the best they’ve ever been. Tinkering and tracking has been an unlock for me.

@LuckyPenguin10 Thank you- this is way more than I asked for. Appreciate you taking the time for this

I can’t sleep for shit. Any advice? Like 3-6 hours a night even though I’m in bed 7+

@Matt_Pinner God is good

You wake up at 4AM look up and see this. What’s your first words?

@lex_node There is no industry that embraces tech slower than law firms. Check back in the year 2150 my dude.

if I get my way a lot more legal agreements are gonna look like this your lawyer just knows the standard text and its IPFS address (like a SAFE or SAFT) the text never changes, the negotiable points are all variables your lawyer negotiates with the other party's lawyers over the struct that sets the variables each party makes a function call on a factory smart contract (with the agreed struct as the function's argument) through a web app + wallet to "sign the agreement" the results are recorded on Ethereum or a specialized cybernetic law L2 and administered by a smart contract that was also spawned by the same function calls Ricardian Triples. . .

rocking my @weirdoBase beanie to a comedy show tonight - just felt right

@chamath 💯

Let me add to this to clarify...when I was young, one great piece of advice I got was be the non-complainer. When asked by someone to do something, I would do it. When asked to build a deck, I did it. And obsessed about every word, transition, image and animation until I felt it was pixel perfect. This took time. When asked to build a model, not only did I try to understand the purpose, I made the model flexible, structurally sound and elegant. This took time. When asked to work on a project, I took it on head first, developed some sense of it and then wrote a few pages explaining what I had learned and why it may be valuable as the project went forward, or didn't. This took time. Meanwhile, I didn't have time to gossip, I didn't have time to make friends at work, I didn't have time to complain. I made myself indispensable to my superiors by being a reliable worker. They then took me into the rooms they were in because I was essential to them doing well. Eventually, as they transitioned further upwards, I took command of the rooms they used to run. This is how the process is supposed to work. So if you want to get into the rooms where it happens, don't complain and don't get distracted. Be a reliable worker to those you work for and with. The rest takes care of itself.

@lex_node @0xMakesy @fubuloubu Kickin out actual lawyers but keeping devs who use you for signal? Based. 💀

There are two devs who've been in my (mostly lawyer) chat for years. Just learned they've been countertrading us for years while pretending to be our friends. "Lawyers are the best countersignal," one said. Now they're retiring. Go to hell, @0xMakesy @fubuloubu

@nicksortor Pray. Then pray more. And more after that.

I think I need God in my life. But I have no idea how the hell to do that. Especially as someone that is naturally skeptical of literally everything. Any tips?

People vs protocols …. IYKYK