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The original prompt: “let there be light“

Billionaire WeWork founder Adam Neumann shares with Rick Rubin how Shabbat transformed his life. It started with a rabbi who refused payment, instead pushing him to reconnect with his roots. 25 hours unplugged. Fully present with family and purpose. He calls it life-changing—and urges Rick to try it.

I'm listening to Plutarch & he starts the life of Pericles with a basically unrelated ramble about how certain women buy 'puppies and young monkeys' instead of having children. Truly nothing is new under the sun

How to save the West starter pack:

Denmark keeps impeccable statistics on crime, immigration, and, as shown here, crime committed by immigrants. And that's very important because the Western intuition on these numbers is usually completely off. Only remedy is repeated exposure to the data and the facts.

Literacy starts at home.

My all-time favorite Churchill quote is from the morning after Pearl Harbor. Churchill said that after he was told about the attack the night before, he “slept the sleep of the saved,” knowing that America would now enter the war and literally save the world. Churchill was a Patriot, and removing him from British currency is a disgrace.

@OpenAINewsroom @astral_sh ❤️

We've reached an agreement to acquire Astral. After we close, OpenAI plans for @astral_sh to join our Codex team, with a continued focus on building great tools and advancing the shared mission of making developers more productive. openai.com/index/openai-t…

Excited to share that I've joined Vercel's Board of Directors. Vercel is made up of builders and tastemakers that continually ship things that deeply impact how developers work: Next.js, AI SDK, v0, etc. I can't think of a more exciting place to be. Let's fucking ship. ▲ My relationship with Vercel goes back to the earliest days. HashiCorp was an early adopter of NextJS and Vercel (~10 years ago!) and it remains my default tech stack and deployment platform to this day. Ghostty's website is all on Vercel, too! Beyond that, I've been continually impressed with the teams relentless focus on shipping meaningful software. And importantly, software that has incredible taste. Now we are in the age of agentic software development. Vercel is building agentic infrastructure that I think every app and agent will need (I certainly need it!) and I can't think of a more exciting place to be. Huge thanks to @rauchg , Jeanne, Marten, @cramforce, @tomocchino and the entire Vercel team for the warm welcome. Time to work.

@mualphaxi ordered!

I have been dreaming of this day for a long time. Arena is now a book publisher, and our first volume, "Silicon" is open for preorders. It's quite unlike anything you've seen: a coffee table book capturing the ecstatic beauty of silicon technology. arenamag.com/silicon

Everyone wants me to rip on TrumpRx. Reality is, it’s saving patients money on IVF and a few other drugs. A lot of money. IMO, anything that saves patients money is a win. And they truly do have some great people that are making smart moves. You just don’t know their names. Chris Klomp. Mark Atalla, Abe Sutton and so many more. When you talk to them, and see the work they put in, it’s obvious they are focused on trying to do the right thing for patients. Don’t forget they didn’t give the insurance industry a price increase they wanted, and those stock prices got crushed. TrumpRx is just getting started. @costplusdrugs is just getting started.

So much AI hysteria is driven by the class envy and aspiration of public intellectuals: Basically if it’s an existential threat like the nuclear bomb, it must be controlled by priests/intellectuals and their client managerial class. But if it’s just a very powerful tool, it will simply increase the power of crass capitalists.

🇺🇸 🤝 🇸🇪 Today, the Kingdom of Sweden becomes the first member of the European Union to sign the Pax Silica Declaration. What is unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz right now is a lesson. Iran is deliberately weaponizing a single point of failure in the global economy to hold the world hostage through a narrow corridor of water. This lesson is not only about oil. It is about dependency. It is about what happens when the physical infrastructure of global civilization — the chokepoints, the corridors, the cables, the ports — becomes the battlefield. Sweden is not merely a diplomatic partner. Sweden is a 5G power. Ericsson — born in Stockholm, built over 150 years of relentless engineering — is one of the only companies on Earth capable of building trusted, sovereign-grade 5G infrastructure at scale. We are building the logistics architecture, the mineral supply chains, the refining capacity, the manufacturing redundancy, and the investment vehicles so that no adversary — ever — can weaponize a chokepoint and threaten our economies. state.gov/on-the-occasio…

Lee Kuan Yew, founding father of Singapore, on England’s trajectory in 2002: "Five decades ago London had less food, less cars and was deprived of the modern consumer society. But the people were homogeneous, White, Christian, admirable, self-confident, courteous… Britain is now multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious. Churches are nearly empty on Sundays, while some 500 mosques are filled to capacity on Fridays, and other Hindu temples. Well, what of the future?"

No shit.

@UsmRana Mighty defenders of Western civilization and Judeo-Christian values are far more welcome than barbarian hordes.

This Mossad agent is not welcome in Norway

@GadSaad Norway has definitely not woken up yet. It's only at the quiet chatter stage. No action taken, zero impactful policy decisions made.

I'm receiving requests from Norway and Sweden (two nations that suffer from Stage 5 Suicidal Empathy). Are they waking up? Might be too late.

@espenteigen deporter dem hjem

Tre irakere med norsk statsborgerskap er pågrepet for terrorbombing av den amerikanske ambassaden. Etter etterlysningen har det haglet inn med tips, og politiet pågrep de tre brødrene kl. 16.30 onsdag. Politiet sier det kan bli flere pågripelser.

@SawyerMerritt this is the minivan Tesla needs to make for families

NEWS: Mercedes has unveiled the VLE, a new all-electric van that will launch in the U.S. in 2027. • Price (estimate): $100,000+ • Up to 370 mile range • 300kW peak charging. 189 miles in 15 mins • 31" rear retractable panoramic screen (8K resolution, split-screen capable) with 8-megapixel camera for rear-space video feed • 115 kWh battery • Sensors: 10 cameras, 5 radars, 12 ultrasonic sensors • 800v architecture • 0-60 mph: As low as 6.4s • 93% battery-to-wheel efficiency • Up to 408 hp • Drag coefficient: 0.25 Cd • Rear-axle steering: Up to 7-degree steering angle • AIRMATIC air suspension with intelligent damping. Predictive height adjustment using Google Maps data • Seating capacity: Up to 8 passengers • Cargo volume with seats up: Up to 28 cubic feet • Grand Comfort Seats (includes additional pillow, wireless charging, lumbar support, massage function, calf support) • Panoramic roof: Sky View one-piece fixed-glass roof from B-pillar to rear with electric sunshade • Additional features: Folding tables, wireless charging, Bluetooth gaming controller support • Displays: 10.25" driver display, 14" central, 14" front passenger • Audio: 22 speakers and Dolby Atmos • Head-up display: Augmented reality navigation (virtual 23" image appearing ~13 feet ahead) • Systems: MB. DRIVE with Distance Assist DISTRONIC, Lane Change Assist, semi-autonomous steering on motorways Pricing will be announced later, but Mercedes said North American will only get the long wheelbase version and higher spec trims. Deliveries start in the U.S. in 2027. More photos of the Van in the thread below:

@shadcn what is stopping you? fund the causes you believe in, don't worry what other people do.

Hear me out. Crazy idea. What if we took one billion and just… did some good. Right now. Instead of investing it in AI to maybe do some good one day.

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WATCH: In our new meteorology segment of the show today, @BenMacklinn says LA is due for "big rain" in the afternoon due to a massive barometric pressure inversion caused by several low-pressure areas in various parts of his weather map.