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If I had gotten an image back in 2024, I would have caught this years earlier. Realistically it would have only been months earlier but still: a simple test would have given an answer. Moral: if you're feeling off, get blood work and imaging. It can literally save your life.

PSA: Pretty sure this device just saved my daughter’s life. She was choking on a peice of food, turning purple, and the Heimlich Maneuver wasn’t working. This thing worked perfectly, first try I’m NOT sponsored by them, but I seriously encourage everyone with kids to get one.

Ro Khanna is on the Armed Services Committee AND the Select Committee on China - while defending Iran's nuclear program on national TV and co-chairing Bernie Sanders' campaign. The guy who wants to tax Silicon Valley's unrealized gains is sitting on the committee overseeing defense tech made by his own constituents. Think about it: CA-17 companies build the chips, the Al, the defense tech, the cybersecurity infrastructure that the China committee is supposed to be protecting. And their congressman is: On the China committee while aligned with Iran (China's ally) On Armed Services while voting against military authorization Pushing policies that will drive tech out of California: the very tech his committees are supposed to champion for national competitiveness Advocating mass asset seizure taxes on the founders building the technology edge against China That's not just bad representation. It's a structural conflict of interest at the national security level. The Select Committee on China exists to counter the CCP's tech ambitions. The member representing the actual center of American tech innovation is simultaneously trying to break up and tax the companies building that edge. Ro Khanna wants to destroy Silicon Valley and destroy the competitiveness of Amerian technology companies. Literally killing the golden goose. His craven lack of leadership is not just local: it has American national defense implications. And we need to vote him out of office.

This is a long overdue re-entry! I’ll spare you guys the lore of my initial entry and exit, but I will talk about how excited I am for the future of Quirks with @RealPapii behind the wheel. There are very few people in this space that can match his energy, tenacity, and kindness. When he took over the brand I knew it wouldn’t be long before the community would find a new spark. Here we are months later and the entire brand is on a rampage. The community is buzzing, new products are being shipped regularly, and the team appears to be expanding. We need a lot more of this in Web3! It’s an honor to build alongside people and companies like Papii and Quirks. I’m very excited to see what the future has in store for holders and fans alike 🦑✨

@evanwch @BlueskyLibs Great tweet. Ill pin this one until you get scared and delete it. @nytimes

@BlueskyLibs People get drunk and have sex. How do you know he didn’t black out during the sex?

I’m no Eric Swalwell fan- but if you give your boss oral sex and then later get drunk and have sex with him and regret it, that’s not sexual assault. That is you making bad decisions and then trying to rewrite the story later to make yourself feel better

Everyone who agrees with this read it on the device that’s causing the problem. And you’ll keep scrolling after you like it. That’s the mechanism he’s missing. Let me explain what’s actually happening at the level of neural circuits, because until you understand the mechanism, you cannot intervene. Your phone operates on what’s called a variable ratio reinforcement schedule. Same reward pattern that makes slot machines the most addictive form of gambling on earth. Every scroll, every pull-to-refresh is a randomized reward delivery. And your nucleus accumbens doesn’t fire dopamine when you find something good. It fires in anticipation of something good. That anticipation is what keeps you scrolling past content you don’t even enjoy. You’re chasing the prediction, not the reward. Here’s the key thing about dopamine that most people get wrong. It operates on a peak-and-baseline system. Every spike is followed by a trough that drops below your previous baseline. Your phone delivers hundreds of micro-peaks per hour. Each one produces a compensatory dip. Over weeks and months of this, your tonic baseline dopamine, the resting level that determines how motivated and focused you feel just sitting there, drops progressively lower. A novel delivers one slow dopamine arc over 6-8 hours. Your phone delivers 300 variable-ratio hits in 6-8 minutes. Once your baseline has been ratcheted down by chronic overstimulation, the book registers as aversive. The book hasn’t changed. Your neurochemistry has. The structural imaging data is clear on this. Heavy smartphone users show reduced gray matter volume in the anterior cingulate cortex and orbitofrontal cortex, the exact regions your brain uses for sustained attention and impulse control. Your brain remodels around whatever input pattern dominates. Feed it rapid-switching variable-ratio reinforcement for 4-6 hours a day and the architecture for sustained linear focus literally atrophies. The loop runs like this: boredom → low-grade anxiety → reach for phone → dopamine spike from novelty → rapid habituation → scroll for next hit → baseline drops further → phone down → boredom now feels worse than before → reach for phone again. Each cycle deepens the trough. Now here’s where the point about kids becomes really important and I want to be precise about why. Synaptic pruning, where the brain eliminates unused neural connections, runs aggressively through about age 25. Circuits you use get strengthened. Circuits you don’t use get cut. A child raised on variable-ratio reinforcement from birth is building attentional architecture optimized for rapid context-switching, not sustained linear focus. In adults, you can reverse dopamine dysregulation in roughly 30 days through deliberate protocol. In children whose pruning window is still open, the architecture itself is forming around the stimulus pattern. That’s a fundamentally different problem with a much smaller intervention window. The protocol for adults: morning sunlight, 10 minutes minimum within the first hour of waking, to anchor circadian dopamine production through the melanopsin ganglion cells. Deliberate cold exposure, 1-3 minutes at uncomfortable but safe temperatures, which increases baseline dopamine roughly 2.5x for up to 3 hours. Non-sleep deep rest protocols for 20 minutes to restore tonic dopamine. And the most important one that nobody wants to do: scheduled boredom. Sit with zero input. Train your prefrontal cortex to tolerate low-stimulation states without reaching for the phone. Walsh is right that something has gone wrong. Where it needs to go further is the mechanism. Telling people to put the phone down without addressing the underlying dopaminergic dysregulation is like telling someone with chronic insomnia to just close their eyes. The nervous system runs on protocols, not willpower.

It’s mind blowing to me that it’s been over a week since the world learned the depth of the @reidhoffman/ Jeffrey Epstein relationship (emails, trips, etc) - AFTER Reid knew of his conviction history and @GreylockVC still has this dude on their team page. WTAF

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Trump has falsely positioned Walsh as an independent inflation hawk who will pursue an even tighter monetary policy than Powell. That way, when Walsh does exactly what Trump wants him to do, the markets will assume rate cuts are economically justified, not politically motivated.

@Vivek4real_ This "bottom" call on $BTC will be remembered and the clip akin to the Haines Bottom in equities in 2009 😀

BINANCE FOUNDER CZ JUST EXPLAINED HOW WAS HIS FIRST DAY IN PRISON "LIFT YOU BALLS, SPREAD YOUR BUTT CHEEKS" HE SAID THIS LIVE ON NATIONAL TV

@chamath @ChrisMurphyCT Can you please help fix this dark blue shade. Its very painful 😓

The blue states in the image below have electricity prices that are as much as 4x the electricity rates of the red states. This is not due to any technological inferiority in those blue states but specific policy decisions that have driven competition out and prices up.

Last week, I turned 39 years old. Here are 5 things I’ve learned about money after living with it for most of my adult life.

@ConceptualJames Or a more simple explanation; - Iran falls - Terror is no longer funded - major city demonstrations suddenly evaporate - dems trying to front run their move “to the right side of history” / pretending as if they never supported any of this political theater

I'm pretty convinced they know or can soundly bet a major terror attack is coming and they're getting ahead of it.

@JBudDavis The kids are not kids. They are 23 years old (6 & 7 year NIL transfers) going against kids. But thats what the rules allow. Not that fun to watch, that much is definitely true. No one should be fawning about how "great" the coaching is.

Friday Hot Take: What Cignetti has done at Indiana is so unprecedented and outside the normal real of what modern CFB data tells us to expect... That I kind of suspect there is some kind of cheating going on. This isn't based on any evidence and is total speculation/gut.

Still eerily valid ZK

The investigative work by @nickshirleyy is top notch, we need more of it. Nick — Rumble wants to give you a deal. Livestream your work raw and unfiltered. We will pay you for your streams, you can keep YouTube going, but we’ll pay you far better than YouTube ever will. DM me.

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@snydxr Just save this post when the Pats return back to the top of division….again

@nic_carter Great rec!!

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