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Big Ten hasn't had all four teams in the Final Four since '76*

@madeofmistak3 Turn the rating chart 90 percent and it looks like Homers face lmao

this chart will never cease to amaze me

found someone charging $9/month for personalized ai bedtime stories. 900 subscribers. pulling $8k+ monthly. the content is simple. ai generates a 3-5 minute story starring the subscriber's kid. kid's name, kid's favorite animal, kid's favorite color woven into a new story every night delivered via email. this person picked a niche where "made by ai" is a feature. parents don't care if ai wrote the story. they care that their 4 year old heard their name 8 times and is now asking for the doggy astronaut story again tomorrow. most people chase niches where ai tries to replace human quality. beauty content, fitness coaching, educational explainers. niches where the audience actively hunts for signs of fakeness and punishes it. the money moves are in niches where ai capability IS the product. personalization at scale. custom content per user. things a human literally couldn't deliver because writing 900 unique bedtime stories per night is physically impossible. other niches with this same dynamic: custom ai pet portraits from submitted photos, personalized workout plans based on body type questionnaires, ai-narrated family audiobooks from old letters and journals. the product is the personalization. ai is the only way it can exist at that price point.

@BillboardChris I drove 1 and 1/2 hours = not from around here

Trans-identified female lawyer berates judge, pulls trans card, gets found in contempt, resists arrest, screams “I can’t breathe,” and yells for people to call 911 as she’s fighting police. Absolutely glorious performance. Women should not take testosterone.

Watch it here: youtu.be/Unzc731iCUY?si…

A MIT professor taught the same lecture every January for 40 years, and every single time it was standing room only. I watched it at 2am and it completely rewired how I think about communication. His name was Patrick Winston. The lecture is called "How to Speak." His opening line hit like a truck: your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas in that order. Not your GPA. Not your pedigree. Not your IQ. How you speak is what separates people who get heard from people who get ignored. Here's the framework he drilled into MIT students for four decades. He said never start with a joke. Start by telling people exactly what they're going to learn. Prime the pump before you pour anything in. He called it the "empowerment promise" give people a reason to stay in their seats within the first 60 seconds. Then he broke down the 5S rule for making ideas stick: Symbol, Slogan, Surprise, Salient, and Story. Every idea worth remembering hits at least three of these. The part that floored me was his "near miss" technique. Don't just show what's right show what almost looks right but isn't. That contrast is when the brain actually locks something in permanently. His final rule before any big talk: end with a contribution, not a summary. Don't recap what you said. Tell people what you gave them that they didn't have before they walked in. I've used this framework in pitches, interviews, and presentations ever since watching it, and the results are not subtle. Patrick Winston passed away in 2019, but this lecture is still free on MIT OpenCourseWare. One hour, watched by millions, and it costs absolutely nothing. The most important class MIT ever put on the internet isn't about code or math. It's about how to make people actually listen to you.

The subpoena released this morning by Chuck Grassley in connection with the fraudulent Arctic Frost investigation is absolutely staggering. It didn’t just ask for Kash Patel’s phone records, it asked for everything he did from 2020 to 2023. Just to name a few, they requested all usernames and screen names, every address and email, complete billing and payment details including credit card and bank account numbers, every device ID, and a full log of every call, text, and voicemail showing who was contacted, when, and for how long. They also obtained all internet session data, including the exact IP addresses. So this wasn’t just about who Kash called. It was basically a complete view of his entire life, mapping his daily routines, travel, relationships, finances, and even tracking the specific hardware he used. In short, they got a full digital shadow of his life. To have come through all of this without so much as a scratch tells you just how clean he is.

China makes these "boneless" sofas, packs them in boxes and ship to the US. It might be alarming for IKEA. Logistics costs are plummeting, costs decreasing.

@tog3915 @GeriPerna Baby boomers

@GeriPerna To paraphrase from "Dazed and Confused," "That's what I love about these CEOs, man. They get richer, I stay on the same wage." 1965 CEO pay: 20x the typical worker 2021 CEO pay: 400x the typical worker

When I worked at Macy's back in the 80's, people who worked there raised families on what they made. It was their career. I remember the guy in electronics retired after 30 years, and my boss in the cash office did the same. The guys who worked in the suit department did very well for themselves. Despite that, the store profited greatly every year, and we were given a beautiful Christmas party in appreciation. What changed in this country? When did it become nearly impossible to support oneself at a job that didn't require a degree or technical school?

Ten years ago, when I was still in university, I wrote a bot to scrape all indeed job postings and their expected salaries. I ran histograms on the total income I'd expect, and found correlations to skills. This is why I decided to focus on distributed systems instead of data / ML jobs. They simply made more money

Fuck yeah retards.

You can now enable Claude to use your computer to complete tasks. It opens your apps, navigates your browser, fills in spreadsheets—anything you'd do sitting at your desk. Research preview in Claude Cowork and Claude Code, macOS only.

Interesting for this week. Teams on a 6+ game winning streak straight up, who are underdogs in the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament are 41-16-2 ATS since 2005. Since 2015, they are 23-5-2 St John's and Arkansas match this

Score Microsoft Office for windows or mac at a deep discount right now trib.al/pfhZ9HE

Sweet 16 teams' record vs. Sweet 16 teams: Arizona: 6-0 Michigan: 6-2 Purdue: 6-4 Duke: 4-0 Iowa State: 4-2 Alabama: 4-4 Illinois: 4-5 UConn: 3-3 Tennessee: 3-3 Michigan State: 3-4 Nebraska: 3-5 St. John's: 2-3 Arkansas: 2-4 Houston: 1-4 Texas: 1-4 Iowa: 1-7

@RudisRowley Get an empty gallon water jug Fill it with spit.

Starve yourself and hit the treadmill

@TheFieldOf68 Why not $50 million?

“I’d like about 5 more million (dollars).” Mick Cronin on what needs to change for UCLA to get out of the first weekend going forward.

@gaborgurbacs Were you in prison?

‼️Ownership in brokerage accounts is not real ownership!! I have $101 in a Robinhood account that I didn’t log into for ~3 years. The state wants to transfer my money out of my account into the states’ account because I didn’t log in?! Share this so that more people are aware!!

Oddsjam is shilling an "Insiders Tool" for $500/mth They have me blocked, so here's how to build the tool for free. Just copy/paste the prompt: 👇

@KiwiRealTalk @Pirat_Nation Open PSA 10 Jordan Rookie. Replace with PSA 7 Jordan Rookie. Reseal PSA holder.

@Pirat_Nation >open box and take out gpu >replace with item >Reseal box

An Indian buyer purchased an RTX 5090 GPU for about $3,200 on Amazon, only to receive 1 kg of Ghadi detergent worth $2. Amazon investigated but denied the refund, claiming the correct item was shipped, despite the buyer's unboxing video evidence