Mirror Man

@cybrdave @thecurioustales If you find out it was for your own good, find strength instead of trauma in the experience, then there are only people to thank, no one to hate. (You do need walking by yourself, or the feeling of doing it. You have to bend your back in order to stand straight again.)

@thecurioustales Research can have lasting effects on voluntary subjects.

I was recently reading a 1971 study that psychology textbooks barely mention. Stanford researchers took ordinary college students, randomly assigned them to be "guards" or "prisoners" in a fake jail, and watched them transform into their roles within hours. The "guards" started abusing their power before the first day ended. The "prisoners" became submissive, developed stress disorders, and began identifying with their prisoner numbers instead of their names. By day six, the experiment was shut down because participants had become their roles so completely that ethical boundaries collapsed. These weren't hardened criminals or authoritarian personalities. They were psychology students who knew they were in an experiment. Yet their behavioral patterns shifted instantly when their environment and identity labels changed. The 21-day myth comes from a 1960s plastic surgeon who noticed amputees took about three weeks to stop feeling phantom sensations from missing limbs. Somehow this observation about neurological adaptation morphed into gospel about behavioral change. The entire self-help industry built a cathedral on the wrong foundation. Real habit formation operates on two completely different timelines: 1. Motor learning happens fast — your brain starts optimizing repeated movements within hours. 2. Identity integration happens even faster when the context forces it. Watch someone quit smoking during a life crisis. Watch someone start exercising after a health scare. The transformation doesn't happen gradually over weeks of repetition. It happens instantly when their environment or self-concept shifts dramatically enough to make the old behavior incompatible with who they've become. I tested this myself when I moved cities in 2019. Instead of gradually building new routines, I immediately started telling people I was "someone who walks to work" and "someone who cooks dinner." I picked an apartment where driving was inconvenient and ordered no delivery apps. The habits locked in within three days because my environment made them inevitable, not because I repeated them for weeks. The repetition-obsessed crowd misses the real mechanism. Habits stick when they become identity-consistent, not time-consistent. The Stanford prisoners didn't gradually develop submissive behaviors over 21 days. Their new identity demanded immediate behavioral alignment. Change your environment. Change your peer group. Change the story you tell about who you are. The behavior follows within days. The 21-day rule gives people permission to stay comfortable with gradual change in a world that rewards dramatic transformation. Real habit formation is violent, immediate, and permanent.

@BillyM2k Rules are meant to be broken, to unbreak your back, unbreak the rules.

is it just a rule that after you’re 40 you just have lower back pain forever

@his4Everz Break? Wanna play God, do we?

If the universe is a simulation, what would break the code?

@beyoumf I do not make money on war - I prefer peace

do you prefer peace or money?

Why are people scared of AI?

@kekmaximusk Mother Earth seems ready to set some of her children free, the Moon and Mars are lonely

gravity is earth hugging u bc it’s afraid u will leave

@ResisttheMS A small lifestyle change and 2 hours of core training per week can eliminate back pain. Strength and flexibility are the key.

ELON MUSK: "My back still hurts a little bit. I'm like, Can AI please solve back pain? … That would be a huge one. And I think it will. Back pain sucks. I think that's maybe why people get grumpy when they get older. Because of back pain."

@Kylechasse If it is not here, it must be there.

🚨 THEY JUST MOVED ANTIMATTER FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY Scientists at CERN loaded 92 antiprotons into a truck and drove them across the lab. This has never been done before. Ever. Antimatter is the most volatile substance in the universe. When it touches regular matter, both instantly annihilate in a flash of pure energy. It's also the most expensive material that exists. The challenge wasn't making it. It was keeping it alive. The transport device weighs 2,200 pounds and uses a superconducting magnet cooled to minus 470°F with liquid helium. If the temperature rises above 8.2 Kelvin, the magnets fail. If the magnets fail, the antimatter touches the walls. Game over. They had battery backup. Vacuum systems. And a 30-minute route at 29 mph max speed. It worked. The antimatter survived the 6-mile trip on March 24, 2026. So why bother moving it? Because CERN's antimatter factory is too noisy. The machines create magnetic interference that ruins precision measurements. Moving antimatter to a quieter lab is like removing vibration from a microscope. You see more clearly. And the next goal is bigger. They want to transport antimatter 8 hours away to Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf in Germany. If that works, antimatter research opens up to universities worldwide. Not just CERN. This matters because antimatter holds one of physics' biggest mysteries. The big bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter. But the universe is almost entirely matter. Antimatter basically doesn't exist. We don't know why. Studying antimatter could explain why we exist at all. Right now, only CERN can make and trap it. But if you can move it in a truck, you can FedEx it to labs around the world. A whole new generation of scientists gets access. This is the delivery service for the most dangerous substance in existence. And it just made its first run.

@kekmaximusk Typically me, never reading the terms and conditions.

𝕏 is a war zone if you’re gay don’t enter the arena

It's quite strange when you talk about timelines. Is it predetermined, or does self-control exist as mentioned. Where does self-control lie, can you break your primary timeline or just embellish it along the way? If you see yourself as a decentralized time-limited being, then the answer is already somewhat in your hands.

Yesterday I found a quote that said: to fall asleep, you must first pretend to be asleep. And that’s how everything works. That’s the secret to materializing what you want in the third dimension. You must match the energy. And you match it by pretending by acting as if, by talking as if, by feeling as if. I believe every possibility already exists. And I believe we are multi-dimensional beings. So the moment you match the energy of what you want, you’re in a different reality. You’re in a different dimension If you pretend long enough, the subconscious joins you. It believes you and then your reality begins to align with what you’ve been embodying

@White_Rabbit_OG 😂😂

Things Al can't beat

It is much faster and more fluid to write in cursive. Your personality gets exposed through the writing, making it easily recognizable, more charming, and personal. However, with the focus on the present and digitalization, organic writing like cursive is not practical—binary comes before organic. The challenge with cursive is the constant evolution of the script. I had difficulty reading my grandmother’s handwriting, and she had the same problem with writings from the past. Of course, the spelling of words also changes over time, which doesn’t make it any easier. I don’t feel I can recommend cursive. My personal experience is also a bit ridiculous, which might be coloring my opinion. My school was the last one in the country where we exclusively wrote in cursive—with grading! I spent 12 years developing a beautiful, fluid handwriting, only to then enter a world that understood absolutely nothing of what I wrote 😂😂 Now I actually had to learn to write all over again motorically. Many years have passed, and my handwriting still looks like something a 10-year-old could do better 😂😂 I would recommend learning cursive on the side for historical purposes, not as the primary way of writing.

Why did they STOP teaching cursive? ᝰ✍🏻 .ᐟ

@Kekius_Sage Yes,

Does the soul really exist?

@Rothmus Always 🃏🃏

@kekmaximusk I'm slightly paranoid, please don’t follow me! Especially Elon, it would be a disaster 🤬

play it cool and tell nobody

@Dearme2_ Some of us don’t have that many options 😂😂 The choices are between a samurai from Shogun, a monk from the past or Jason Statham. It's hard to choose, isn't it?

As a man, your haircut says a lot about the kind of person you are.

@Kekius_Sage What? Life has no meaning, no no - what’s that about?

The fact that the universe is indifferent to our existence, and that life has no inherent meaning, is so humbling.

@elonmusk @Ric_RTP The maskman: He uses so much stage makeup that it obscures his age and intentions. Like a tree, you'd have to saw him down and count the makeup rings to determine his real age.

@Ric_RTP Scam Altman is super good at scamming

This AI whistleblower just EXPOSED Sam Altman for manipulating his way into becoming OpenAI’s CEO. Everyone who helped him build it has left because they felt used. Karen Hao interviewed 300 people including 90 current and former OpenAI employees. And she just told Steven Bartlett what she discovered: In 2015, Altman needed Elon Musk to co-found OpenAI. Problem was, Musk was obsessed with AI as an existential threat. So Altman wrote a blog post calling AI "probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity." Before that blog post? Altman's biggest fear was engineered viruses. Not AI. He literally rewrote his worldview overnight to mirror Musk's language word for word. Musk bought in. Donated millions. Co-founded the company. Then Altman stabbed him in the back. When OpenAI needed a CEO for its new for-profit arm, the co-founders Ilia Sutskever and Greg Brockman initially chose Musk. Altman went directly to Brockman, a personal friend, and said: "Do we really want someone this erratic and unpredictable to control a technology that could be super powerful?" Brockman flipped. Then convinced Ilia to flip. Musk found out he wasn't getting the role and left. That's how the biggest rivalry in tech actually started. Not over ideology... Over a backroom power play. But here's where it gets darker: Every single person who built OpenAI alongside Altman eventually felt the same thing Musk felt. Used. Manipulated. Discarded. Dario Amodei, VP of Research, thought Altman shared his vision. Over time he realized Altman was on "exactly the opposite page" and had used his intelligence to build things he fundamentally disagreed with. He left and founded Anthropic. Ilia Sutskever, co-founder and chief scientist, tried to get Altman fired. He told colleagues: "I don't think Sam is the guy who should have the finger on the button for AGI." He was pushed outounded Safe Super Intelligence. That name alone tells you everything. Mira Murati, CTO, left and started Thinking Machines Lab. No other tech company in history has had every single co-builder leave and start a direct competitor. Not Google. Not Meta. Not Apple. NOBODY. 300 interviews exposed one consistent pattern: If you align with Altman's vision, you think he's the Steve Jobs of AI. If you don't, you feel like you were manipulated by someone who will say whatever is needed to whoever is listening. When talking to Congress? AGI will cure cancer and solve poverty. When talking to consumers? It's the best digital assistant you'll ever have. When talking to Microsoft? AGI is a system that generates $100 billion in revenue. Three completely different definitions of the same technology sold to three completely different audiences. And if you publicly disagree with any of it? OpenAI subpoenaed 7 nonprofit organizations that criticized them. Sent a sheriff to a 29yo nonprofit lawyer's door during dinner demanding every text, email, and document he'd ever sent about OpenAI. A one-man watchdog nonprofit got papers demanding all communications with anyone who questioned the company. OpenAI's own head of mission alignment publicly said "this doesn't seem great." That's the guy whose literal job is making sure OpenAI BENEFITS humanity. Former employees who spoke up about secret non-disparagement clauses that threatened to strip their equity described the psychological pressure as "crushing." This is the company that tells us it's building technology "for the benefit of humanity." Same company that mirrors whatever language gets them funded. Same company where every builder eventually walks away feeling deceived. Same company sending law enforcement to silence critics. The biggest AI company on Earth wasn't built on technology. It was built on one man's ability to tell everyone exactly what they needed to hear. And the scariest part is that it worked.

Who are the OG YouTubers you grew up watching?

@BillyM2k ❤️ Street smart, being real, facing life, doing things that scare you, learning old school - it doesn't happen behind the screen. I guess in my line my grandfather was the last silverback.

young people not embracing AI is really interesting to me growing up, young people would eat up new tech and the boomers would fear it today, the CEOs and VCs and tech bros love it, but others are much more mixed