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“Read books. Travel when you can. Learn how to cook one meal exceptionally well. Sit in old bars and talk to strangers. Wear your best jacket to dinner. Appreciate good wine, good music, and good conversation. Do the right thing, even when no one is watching. Set the example for younger men who are watching you. Call your parents. Take long walks. Leave your phone behind sometimes. Become the kind of man people feel better after being around. Life is short, so live it well.” -J.B. Lloyd

@DailyNoud I’m curious - could Drake bet on any of these that he knows are true and get paid for it? Could he start his own bet that would have seemingly slim odds so the payout is higher? I’m completely uninvolved in this kind of thing.

There is a 22% chance that Drake says “Papi” on Iceman

@Kurrco Granted, I’m white - but I like the song. Don’t understand why it’s getting so much hate

TOMMY RICHMAN CHANGES (MUSIC VIDEO) OUT NOW 🚨

@realAtlasPress This makes me think of the constant rotation of commoditized nostalgia for the millennials. Sequels, reboots, spin-offs, etc. However - if American car companies wanted to start re-releasing classic models I’d be all for it.

Nassim Taleb, what. a. line.

can’t stop thinking about this

@elonmusk All it needs is a datacenter

Nietzsche, what a line

@MorePerfectUS @MorePerfectUS @grok What can the people actually do now to fight this or reverse it? Bullet the key actions first so folks see them right away. Utahns need real tools. (Boost if you’re in Utah or care about water, local control, and stopping unchecked development.)

Kevin O'Leary's massive data center was approved by a county commission in Utah last night. At 40,000 acres, it would be 2.5x the size of Manhattan. The commission approved the proposal despite opposition from hundreds of locals.

@MorePerfectUS There are at least three data centers going up near me (that I’m aware of) - all three of them were highly protested against by the townsfolk yet they still all were passed. It’s interesting (& worrisome) that this is occurring in other states.

@Kurrco I hope Don Barris didn’t have to follow that 😂

Dave Chappelle brought Ye onstage during his comedy show at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood last night 👀 According to TMZ, Ye received a standing ovation from the crowd and Dave reportedly joked while bringing him out: “Kanye West has lost more money than I’ve ever made.”

A surprising amount of adulthood is finally realizing that structure is not the opposite of freedom. It’s the thing that keeps freedom from turning into aimlessness.

until death, all defeat is psychological

@GovPressOffice @GovPressOffice please ditch this Trump-mockery approach to posting. I’m sure it increases engagement, but I doubt it facilitates conviction. Jmo.

JOE "LITTLE GUY" ROGAN IS TOO CHICKEN TO HAVE ME ON HIS FAILING PODCAST BECAUSE HE KNOW I'D CRUSH HIM, SO HE TAKES CHEAP SHOTS FROM THE PEANUT GALLERY AS HE GETS RELEGATED TO IRRELEVANCY. ALL TALK, NO ACTION. I'M READY WHEN YOU ARE, "LITTLE GUY." OR KEEP HIDING!!!! — Governor GCN

@effthealgorithm Recently hit this wall after I updated my Roku TV, which of course now displays ads as soon as you turn it on

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

“Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.”   — St. Francis de Sales

Robert Sapolsky is a Stanford neuroscientist who proved chronic stress is the silent killer doctors ignore. On Chris Williamson's podcast, he revealed 10 "normal" habits you do every day that wreck your sleep, mood, and nervous system: 1) Replay conversations in your head

Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for building up what is needed, so that it will give grace to those who hear. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. - Paul, Ephesians 4:29-30

@EMichaelJones1 This is interesting. But I still can’t help but feel troubled at the Pope adopting this posture at an Islamic temple. Please help me understand, Michael. Is this traditionally acceptable for the Pope to do? @EMichaelJones1

Logos is rising. We're witnessing an unprecedented shift in the hidden grammar of geopolitics as Catholics and Muslims unite against a common enemy based on acceptance of a universal moral law, binding on all men, and a repudiation of the Zionist illusion of racial supremacy. Catholics and Muslims have more than a common enemy. A consensus is emerging. If God is Logos, men have a duty to be reasonable and follow the dictates of practical reason, otherwise known as morality. If Muslims and Christians unite behind this shared understanding of logos, over half the world's population will have a rock solid ontological foundation that will lead to peace in a way that the expiring third republic category of the mind, "we the people," did not.

@ericweinstein Hey @ericweinstein who is John Galt?

Hey Eric: What's going on w/ dead/missing American Scientists? What's going on w/ the El Paso airspace shutdown? What's going on w/ dead Iranian Scientists? What's going on w/ Epstein and Gravity? What's going on w/ Zorro Ranch, Sandia & Los Alamos? What's going on w/ the absence of physicists in UFO? What's going on w/ Scientists excluded from PCAST? What's going on w/ String Theory? What's going on w/ Americans and Europeans in STEM? What's going on w/ Epstein and the Harvard Math dept? What's going on w/ Fusion given the Straits of Hormuz? Let me say first, as a scientist, "I don't know." But you might look at that list. A common theme might be "What do we do with POWERFUL minds we need, but who seemingly cannot be fully controlled with normal carrots and sticks?" Let me say secondly: You can't spay, neuter, declaw, or shock collar your scientists. When you do, they aren't scientists anymore. They're pets. Somewhere around the time of the Mansfield Amendment around 1970, we started converting our wolves into fluffy lapdogs. It's not working out that well. Lastly, scientists are the most powerful not fully controlable people in a society. Pauling, Teller, Watson, Ulam, Crick, etc. That is why you see power willing to deal with Billionaires. Billionaires are controlable. Perhaps barely. But still controlable. Power doesn't know how to deal with scientists. They are unruly. The good ones anyway. Top Scientists are simply not fully controlable. Full stop. I would very seriously think about Elliptic Curves and privacy/autonomy, Control of the remaining fundamental forces, post-Einsteinian spacetime engineering, Post chemical propulsion and basic Linear Algebra as a potential basis for all intelligence. We went down the wrong path spaying and neutering our scientists, freezing them out and making them precarious. We are going to have to cut scientists back in at a decision making level AND allow them to FULLY participate in the world they created for absolutely everyone else. Mark that previous sentence. It is not possible to stay #1 by spaying and neutering your top scientists when they have disturbing news for those who seek the reins of power. Like with COVID. I don't know what happened to these folks. But I'm curious, worried and paying attention.