Michelle Zier

“When every person in your life repeats the same script, you start questioning your own sanity.”

Gen X getting it done.

Thank you, Victor, Christina, Reid, Jeremy, and all of NASA for uniting us in a spirit of hope, love, and purpose. A tremendous win for humanity. ❤️

Polling shows Americans are pretty pessimistic. That's why Artemis II is so important. It's pure American excellence. The mission and its pilot, Victor Glover, are inspiring. Artemis II is a feel-good story. We could use more of those. My new column 🖋️ newsweek.com/artemis-ii-mis…

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. William James

"Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo

An astronaut talked about his Christian faith while rounding the moon over Easter last week.

Sam Gamgee is the true hero of The Lord of the Rings because he represents the kind of courage that history usually overlooks. Tolkien himself saw Sam as a reflection of the ordinary English soldiers he knew in World War I: loyal, steady, humble, and stronger than they appeared. Sam helped get the Ring to Mount Doom in almost every way that matters. He keeps Frodo alive. He cooks, gathers food, carries gear, finds water, watches over him while he sleeps, and keeps moving when Frodo is too weak to think clearly. He also provides moral strength. When Frodo starts to collapse under the Ring’s weight, Sam encourages him, reminds him of what they are fighting for, and refuses to let despair win. In Moria and later on the road, he protects Frodo in danger. He is the one who suspects Gollum early and keeps a close eye on him. When Shelob attacks, Sam fights her, believes Frodo is dead, and for a moment takes the Ring so the mission can continue. Then, after learning Frodo is still alive, he enters the tower of Cirith Ungol, rescues him, and returns the Ring. Near the end, when Frodo can barely walk, Sam literally carries him up Mount Doom. That image says everything. Frodo bears the Ring, but Sam makes it possible for the Ring-bearer to reach the end. What makes Sam so important is that he does not help through power, rank, or special gifts. He helps through loyalty, endurance, plain courage, and love. Without Aragorn, Gandalf, or others, the war would have gone badly. Without Sam, the Ring almost certainly never reaches the fire.

Yep! This one broke me down. 😢 I’m thankful for @BenSasse’s public witness. Faith and courage in the face of death.

Prices are the most important information system in any economy, and most people don't realize it.  When the price of something goes up, it's telling every producer "make more of this" and every consumer "use less of this."  No one has to coordinate it. No ministry issues an order. It just happens. When governments freeze prices to make things "affordable," they destroy that signal. And then they wonder why there are shortages.

🎯 Truth.

Thinking about this Bono quote again

The most interesting part about learning history is realising how human nature never changes. History is a case study of human psychology. Events or technology changes, but we react the same and repeat same mistakes. What history proves is that we are slaves to our psychology.

@dima_strakovsky 🤣😅

Art people always deliver 😂😂😂

@RandySVoges Well said!

@MichelleLZier Exactly. The mistake is to conflate autonomy with freedom.

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“When you can classify a significant movement as unworthy of your consideration due to your intellectual or political station, it is hard to then sit down and work out solutions to shared problems.” ~ John Mauldin

The people designing humanity’s collective future at core do not even want to be human.

Sam Altman has admitted he is on a waitlist for a procedure that would digitize his brain. The procedure would kill him. He considers this an acceptable trade for digital immortality. This is the person making decisions about the future of artificial intelligence for hundreds of millions of users. A man who views ending his own biological life as a reasonable step toward uploading his consciousness to the cloud. These are not the priorities of a stable leader.