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@WestsideLAGuy Took a Federal Courts class in law school. Each class was basically an hour long dialogue between the top student and the professor that few could fully follow. This same student was hit by a car crossing the street at least twice in her small home town.

People underestimate the intelligence gap between classmates at the same elite college. So I have a friend, let's call him Joe. Asian American, met him at one of those "gifted" summer programs. Top of his class at MIT CS, worked at a top quant hedge fund, also a YC founder. He is significantly smarter than me. One day I said "man, you were probably like the smartest kid at MIT when you were there." He looked at me like I had horns and said "dude not even close. There were so many times I felt dumb." He then told me about a classmate of his, let's call him Ron. White guy. He was a legendary math olympian, and MIT classmates called him the Great White Hope. Joe was struggling with a math problem set, no progress after hours of laborious work. He finally swallowed his ego and asked Ron for help. Ron was playing video games, thought for a few minutes, and solved it with very little effort. Joe was stunned. That was his come to Jesus moment when he realized the limits of his intelligence that nature endowed him with. That there were levels to this. I was reminded of this story when I read the Scott Wu profile on Colossus.

@SenorVito9 Yes - publicsquaremag.org

Honest question here— Is there actually a Latter-day Saint version of something like the Daily Wire? Feels like I see a lot of commentary around the Church from different angles, but I’m wondering if there’s a space that’s both solid on the restored gospel and engaging in the broader cultural conversation. Genuinely curious.

@Spursnacho @BBHerodotus @baseballcrank Correct!

@BBHerodotus @UtahHalosFan @baseballcrank Fresh pineapple makes the jello watery. Use only canned

There's a pretty clear correlation here.

@BBHerodotus @baseballcrank Much like our love of fry sauce, the origins are murky and probably ultimately undiscoverable. Yet it is true that we like jello. It's delicious - use pineapple juice with cherry jello and mix in grated apple - mmmm!

@baseballcrank Wait.. why do Mormons eat so much Jello? Can a Mormon explain this to me?

@nateholiday @gboatman12 My thoughts exactly. Go Halos!

@gboatman12 awesome. and looks like we got an extra Angel's fan too!

A less active family visited the St. George Temple on the way to Disneyland. During that brief visit a 13 year old boy climbed the steps of the temple. At that moment the Lord lifted him from the path he was on & placed him on the covenant path. Forever grateful for that day.

...The move to Blanche will be seamless. He has not only been serving with Bondi, but he is an experienced and distinguished lawyer. He has been a partner in a world-class law firm as well as a successful prosecutor in the leading U.S. Attorney's office in the SDNY...

The news of the departure of Pam Bondi hit with a thunderclap in Washington. There were some recent rumors, but nothing concrete in the prior week. Bondi is the ultimate loyalist who, like Todd Blanche (the new acting AG), earned her bones in the trenches with the President in impeachment and criminal trials...

We need to support Ukraine’s effort to ensure that authoritarianism does not win. Putin and Xi want to relitigate the fight between authoritarianism and democracy, and they believe they can win. Four years later, Ukraine holds the line and authoritarianism has not won. @cepa

.@RepStenyHoyer is right. Congress should pass legislation helping Ukraine acquire the weapons it needs to defend against Russia’s invasion & tighten sanctions against Russia. We have 217 signatures to force a vote & only need one more. Americans overwhelmingly support Ukraine & want us to do more. hoyer.house.gov/media/press-re…

@apaulbrown @DoBetter_ @nasamomdele @twm_report This particular couple helped the church arrange financing to expand a soup kitchen / homeless shelter run by another church. The group wanted to name the new building after President Nelson (which didn't happen, of course)!

@apaulbrown @DoBetter_ @nasamomdele @twm_report They came back and said they couldn't even give away all they were allotted to dispense. My sense is if the Church sees a need they will try to fill it if they can do so by using already existing, well run, legitimate charities.

The LDS church is touting a 9% increase in charitable giving in 2025 (up to $1.58B). I applaud the increase, but it is not near enough. It's not very impressive when @twm_report estimates that their investment fund increased by ~12% (up ~$25B to ~$231B). It gets worse... 🧵

@musicandroots I'm late to seeing this post, but congratulations!

I’m honored to be chosen for the Music Library Association’s 2026 Eva Judd O’Meara Award for my review of Byron Adams’s and Daniel Grimley’s “Vaughan Williams and His World” in Notes.

@ClassicalCritic Sitting next to Bruckner would be fun???

Take your seat! 1: Complete silence the entire flight 2: Tells you his sordid love story 3: You leave feeling weirdly German 4: Swapping grooming product info 5: The most fun 6: Fretting that the plane might crash 7: French only need apply 8: Somehow better airplane food!

@BretVDB The Emperor of Ice Cream not in the top tier? That's the one I recall seeing most often in the American Lit anthologies I had for my classes thirty plus years ago.

Randall Jarrell’s selection of Wallace Stevens’s best poems: ‘I should like, now, to give a list of eighteen or twenty of Stevens's best poems, and a list of twenty or thirty of his better. Reading the poems in these lists will give anyone a definite—dazzlingly definite—idea of the things I think exceptional about Stevens's poetry, and the lists can be of help to people just beginning to make, from this big Collected Poems, a Selected Poems of their own. Some of his best poems are, I think: "The Snow Man," "To an Old Philosopher in Rome," "Esthétique du Mal," "The World as Meditation," "Peter Quince at the Clavier," "Autumn Refrain," "Angel Surrounded by Paysans," "Sun-day Morning," "The Death of a Soldier," "Prologues to What Is Possible," "Madame La Fleurie," "Sea Surface Full of Clouds," "The Man on the Dump," "Some Friends from Pascagoula," "The Brave Man"—but now I begin to be very confused about where the best ends and the better begins—"Dutch Graves in Bucks County," "Seventy Years Later," "The Comedian as the Letter C," "The Emperor of Ice Cream," "Mrs. Alfred Uruguay," "Page from a Tale," "The Common Life," "Sailing after Lunch," "Le Monocle de Mon Oncle." And now I begin, however uneasily, on my second list: "To the One of Fictive Music," "St. Armorer's Church from the Outside," "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock," "The Plain Sense of Things," "The Good Man Has No Shape," "Lions in Sweden," "Gubbinal," "Sonatina to Hans Christian," "The American Sublime," "A Quiet Normal Life," "Tea at the Palaz of Hoon," "Bantams in Pinewoods," the first of "Six Significant Landscapes," Part IX of "Credences of Summer," "A Lot of People Bathing in a Stream," "Metaphors of a Magnifico," "Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, et Les Unze Mille Vierges," "The Idea of Order at Key West," "Anecdote of the Prince of Peacocks," "No Possum, No Sop, No Taters," "Martial Cadenza," "Anglais Mort à Florence," "Mozart, 1935," "A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts,"' "Poetry as a Destructive Force," "A Woman Sings a Song for a Soldier Come Home," "Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit."’

Vin Scully is the best.

Happy collapse of the Soviet Union Day to all who celebrate!

@JamesWHankins1 I got my Christmas wish!

@JamesMelville This is a true statement

The 80s is the greatest music decade. Agree or disagree?

@Jak3Murphy @MurphyToTheHall Jake I'm impressed you can be so high minded. It's an outrage he's not in. Murph made more kids into baseball fans in than any other player of my generation. It was a dream come true to meet him (and you!) at the Dale Murphy Experience a few years ago.

Even though he didn’t make it, I’m grateful to all of my dad’s fans who connected and relived his career with me these past few months. I was 4 when he retired so never saw him play. Thank you all for sharing your memories with me. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻. Until next time! @MurphyToTheHall

Sharing my case for Dale Murphy to be elected to the Hall of Fame. It's long overdue. This is my story, one of a generation of TBS kids with their fingers crossed for Sunday. If you're a #Braves fan, please read and share, if you would be so kind. fromthediamond.com/post/it-is-tim…