Diana R Burke

Very proud to be part of PACE Canada's delivery of 1500 OneTab devices developed by Onebillion.org which will "Help Young Children Succeed" at over 340 kindergarten schools across Jamaica. jis.gov.jm/1500-tablets-d…

On #ThisDayInWeatherHistory in 1848, Niagara Falls dried up. ow.ly/6Ftq50YACkX

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We are called "the elderly." But that quiet label hides something most people rarely stop to consider. We are the last living witnesses of a world that no longer exists. Look at us and you might see gray hair, slower steps, and the patience that time teaches. But listen to our story — really listen — and you'll realize something extraordinary. We are the only generation in human history to have lived a fully analog childhood and a fully digital adulthood. That's not a small thing. That's one of the most breathtaking journeys a human being has ever been asked to make. We were born in the 1940s, 50s, and early 60s, into a world still rebuilding from the rubble of World War II. Our toys were marbles and hopscotch and card games at kitchen tables. When the streetlights flickered on, that was it — childhood adventures were over, and it was time to go home. No smartphones. No streaming. No endless scroll. We built our memories in the real world. With scraped knees and laughter echoing down streets and friendships formed face to face. In 1969, we sat in living rooms staring at black-and-white televisions as Neil Armstrong took humanity's first steps on the Moon. Hundreds of thousands of us stood in muddy fields at Woodstock believing — really believing — that music and community could reshape the future. We fell in love to vinyl records spinning on turntables. We waited days, sometimes weeks, for handwritten letters to arrive. We learned patience because information didn't come instantly. Mistakes were fixed with erasers — not a delete button. Then the world transformed. Machines that once filled entire rooms shrank to devices lighter than a paperback. We went from rotary phones and party lines to seeing the face of someone we love on the other side of the ocean — instantly, on something that fits in a pocket. We watched the birth of the personal computer. The arrival of the internet. The smartphone. Artificial intelligence. And through every single shift — we adapted. Not because it was easy. Because that's what our generation does. We also carry the weight of history in our bodies. We grew up afraid of polio and tuberculosis. We watched science defeat them. We witnessed the discovery of the structure of DNA, the decoding of the human genome, the transformation of medicine itself. We survived pandemics across decades — and kept going. Few generations have been asked to absorb so much change in a single lifetime. And through all of it, certain things never changed. We still know the joy of a cold glass of lemonade on a hot afternoon. The taste of vegetables picked straight from a garden. The value of a long conversation that unfolds slowly, without a screen interrupting it. We have celebrated births and mourned losses. Carried the stories of friends who are gone. Watched the world become something our younger selves couldn't have imagined — and found ways to belong in it anyway. We are not relics. We are living bridges between two entirely different worlds. Our memory carries something the modern world needs — proof that progress doesn't have to erase wisdom. That speed doesn't have to replace patience, kindness, or reflection. So when someone calls us elderly, we can smile. Because behind that word is something remarkable. We crossed two centuries. Witnessed eight decades of transformation. Walked from handwritten letters to artificial intelligence — and never lost our sense of what actually matters.

A MIT professor taught the same lecture every January for 40 years, and every single time it was standing room only. I watched it at 2am and it completely rewired how I think about communication. His name was Patrick Winston. The lecture is called "How to Speak." His opening line hit like a truck: your success in life will be determined largely by your ability to speak, your ability to write, and the quality of your ideas in that order. Not your GPA. Not your pedigree. Not your IQ. How you speak is what separates people who get heard from people who get ignored. Here's the framework he drilled into MIT students for four decades. He said never start with a joke. Start by telling people exactly what they're going to learn. Prime the pump before you pour anything in. He called it the "empowerment promise" give people a reason to stay in their seats within the first 60 seconds. Then he broke down the 5S rule for making ideas stick: Symbol, Slogan, Surprise, Salient, and Story. Every idea worth remembering hits at least three of these. The part that floored me was his "near miss" technique. Don't just show what's right show what almost looks right but isn't. That contrast is when the brain actually locks something in permanently. His final rule before any big talk: end with a contribution, not a summary. Don't recap what you said. Tell people what you gave them that they didn't have before they walked in. I've used this framework in pitches, interviews, and presentations ever since watching it, and the results are not subtle. Patrick Winston passed away in 2019, but this lecture is still free on MIT OpenCourseWare. One hour, watched by millions, and it costs absolutely nothing. The most important class MIT ever put on the internet isn't about code or math. It's about how to make people actually listen to you.

The Jamaica Beach Birthright Environmental Movement, JaBBEM, is forcefully rejecting the government's proposed Beach Access and Management Policy Framework as a colonial and capitalist instrument of dispossession. READ MORE HERE: ow.ly/sL5Z50YxSEp

Big job ahead @PeterBlairHenry so hoping to get regular updates.

🚨 BREAKING: Google Gemini can now analyze any stock like a Wall Street analyst (for free). Here are 10 insane Gemini prompts that replace $4,000/month Bloomberg terminals: Save for later🔖

🚨BREAKING: GOODBYE POWERPOINT forever. Claude just collapsed 5 hours of presentation building into 100 seconds completely free. 10 prompts to go from completely unprepared to completely untouchable in every meeting: 👇 (Save this 🔖 you’ll need it later)

BREAKING: AI can now diagnose diseases like a Harvard doctor (for free). Here are 10 insane Perplexity prompts that replace $500/hour medical consultations: (Save for later)

Steve Jobs literally predicted the iPhone, the Internet, AI and the next 50 years of technology in a single speech from 1983:

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Leonardo DiCaprio’s #Oscar acceptance speech for Best Actor has 59 million views on Youtube for a reason: it sounded like Leo was waiting 25 years to give this speech. He is beyond eloquent. These are the sort of moments that make the Academy Awards special. What a moment.

🚨 Governments pay millions for this kind of intelligence. Shadowbroker just put it in a GitHub repo for free. You're getting: → Every US Navy carrier strike group tracked via OSINT → Military aircraft separated from commercial in real-time → Spy satellites color-coded by mission (recon, SIGINT, early warning) → GPS jamming zones with live severity overlays → Ukraine frontline updates every 30 minutes → 25,000+ ships tracked via live WebSocket → 2,000+ CCTV feeds from NYC, London, Singapore Right-click any point on Earth and get a full intelligence dossier. The knowledge has always been public. Nobody bothered to aggregate it. Until now. 100% Opensource. Link in comments.

BREAKING: Claude can now run your entire social media strategy like a $500/hour social media manager. For free. Here are 7 prompts you should be using right now: Save this before it goes viral.

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% of people who say their fellow citizens are morally good (Pew Research, 2025) 1．Canada 🇨🇦 92% 2．Indonesia 🇮🇩 92% 3．India 🇮🇳 88% 4．Sweden 🇸🇪 88% 5．Australia 🇦🇺 85% 6．Japan 🇯🇵 83% 7．Mexico 🇲🇽 83% 8．United Kingdom 🇬🇧 82% 9．Netherlands 🇳🇱 80% 10．South Korea 🇰🇷 78% 11．Germany 🇩🇪 72% 12．Kenya 🇰🇪 72% 13．Nigeria 🇳🇬 71% 14．Spain 🇪🇸 71% 15．Argentina 🇦🇷 70% 16．Poland 🇵🇱 70% 17．Hungary 🇭🇺 68% 18．Israel 🇮🇱 68% 19．South Africa 🇿🇦 63% 20．Italy 🇮🇹 59% 21．France 🇫🇷 55% 22．Greece 🇬🇷 55% 23．Brazil 🇧🇷 51% 24．Turkey 🇹🇷 51% 25．United States 🇺🇸 47% Source: Pew Research Center

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