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Ave person checks their phone 186x a day. That's an interruption every 5 min. This shrinks the brain, causing lost capacity for deep reasoning and sustained thought. Deep focus strengths neural networks for complex thought.

@markgadala lol

Someone is using AI to make babies do stand up comedy. We are cooked.

Finished a seven day social media fast. It feels like the most effective longevity therapy I've done. Everything got better: mood, sleep, energy, presence, judgment, relationships, and optimism. Evidence shows a seven day fast produces a reduction of anxiety (16%), depression (25%) and insomnia (15%). The effects felt bigger. Conversely, dipping back in, I can viscerally feel that my body metabolizes social media similarly to a fast food meal, corrosive relationship, hangover, and sleep deprivation. My body hates it. After the previous fasts (40/hr and 70hr), I wrote that social media is pollution.  Not a vice or guilty pleasure. It’s closer to water toxins, air pollution and microplastics. This time, the major insight was that social media is a form of intoxication. Alcohol is honest intoxication. It clearly tells you what it's taking from you. Social media on the other hand does not disclose itself as an intoxicant. It produces the sensation of being informed, engaged, and connected while quietly evacuating your capacity for depth and independent thought. You don’t feel drunk, you feel current. But evidence shows that it causes your brain to shrink. The impairment is real by you can't feel it. Making it the more dangerous type. If you haven't tried it, I strongly encourage you to try a social media fast. Even if for one day.

I did a 40 hr and then a 70 hr social media fast. I’ve come to believe that social media is pollution.  Not a vice or guilty pleasure. It’s closer to water toxins, air pollution and microplastics. Social media has been on my mind because I can feel how bad it is for me. For my health and agency. I am a professional rejuvenation athlete. For five years, I’ve engineered my life around biological renewal and the elimination of decay. After hundreds of experiments across food, sleep, exercise, therapies, and toxins, I’ve developed both data and intuition about what strengthens or degrades my system. I can viscerally feel that social media is bad for me.  It erodes my autonomy and increases cognitive entropy. Like other toxins, it accumulates. You can’t unsee or unfeel what you’ve consumed. It settles into mental tissue like heavy metals, producing chronic low-grade inflammation.  Evidence suggests even after you stop scrolling, attentional fragmentation and emotional priming persist. Your thoughts begin to mirror the algorithm’s incentives. Independent cognition quietly erodes and you don’t notice the loss. Time away and getting lost in deep focus is the only remedy. When something erodes your agency, the rational response is elimination. The problem is, elimination isn’t realistic. “Just put the phone down” is as practical as telling someone in 19th century London to stop breathing coal smoke. You need to know what’s happening in the world, be in touch with your friends and be part of the tribe. That necessity is what allows companies to harvest your emotions, intellect and time for their profit. You are their raw material they exploit. Then in an ironic twist, the system gets you to exploit yourself by engineering an environment where it takes more effort to stop than to continue scrolling.  Pollution exposure by default. What specifically makes social media toxic is that value and poison are inseparable by design.  You go to hear from friends and you leave an hour later absorbed in outrage that serves no biological interest of yours. The water is real. The lead is in the pipes. The performance metrics (likes, views, etc.) bleed you of independent thought. They create quantified social proof, triggering ancient hierarchy reflexes. You no longer evaluate signal from noise; the engagement metrics do it for you. Like all toxins, the damage is cumulative. We live inside the exposure long enough that it feels normal.  The 40 and 70 hour social media fasts did that for me. Gave me just enough separation to feel and diagnose the poison. The obviousness of it feels like when I went to India and saw their humanitarian crisis of air pollution which no one sees anymore. So what do we do? Neither platforms nor individuals are likely to change on their own. AI may be the countermeasure. An AI layer between you and the feed. Filtering rage, removing vanity metrics and translating sensationalism into calm, factual language. Preserving signal and eliminating noise. I want social media to become a longevity intervention, not a longevity threat. I never want to see the raw feed. I want an AI agent to read it for me, strip the engagement metrics that hijack my judgment, filter the rage, and return only what I actually came for. Every generation faces its pollutants. When cholera spread through London's water, the answer wasn't telling people to drink less. It was building filtration. The same logic applies here. Best next move is to design the filter to avoid being the raw material.

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@AutismCapital let's go IRC

🚨 NEW: Discord will require MANDATORY Face ID biometric scanning and ID verification for ALL USERS starting next month. It’s time to return to the beginning. To a better time when chat apps were just chat apps. It’s time to return to IRC.

In January 2015, Google and Fidelity wrote a combined $1 billion check for roughly 10% of SpaceX. The company was valued at $12 billion. Google’s portion: approximately $900 million for 7.4%. At the time, SpaceX had just successfully landed a Falcon 9 first stage for the first time. Starlink was a PowerPoint presentation. Revenue was a rounding error compared to today. Ten years later, SpaceX has become the most valuable private company on Earth. The valuation trajectory tells the story: 2015: $12 billion 2020: $36 billion 2021: $100 billion 2022: $127 billion 2023: $180 billion June 2024: $210 billion Late 2024: $350 billion 2026 IPO target: $1.5 trillion That $900 million investment from Google? At the $1.5 trillion IPO target, it would be worth approximately $111 billion. A 123x return. From one check. To put that in perspective: Adobe’s entire market cap is $144 billion. Google’s single 2015 investment in SpaceX would be worth more than 75% of one of the largest software companies on the planet. But here’s where it gets interesting. In Q1 2025, Alphabet reported $8 billion in unrealized gains from a “non-marketable equity security in a private company.” Bloomberg confirmed it was SpaceX. That $8 billion boost represented nearly 25% of Google’s entire net income for the quarter. One investment. One quarter. Almost a quarter of their earnings. And that was based on the $350 billion valuation from late 2024. If SpaceX hits the $1.5 trillion target, the paper gains from this single position could exceed $80 billion more. The financial return alone would justify calling this one of the greatest venture investments ever made. But the financial return is actually the boring part. Look at what SpaceX has become. Starlink went from zero subscribers in 2020 to 1 million in 2022 to 4.6 million by end of 2024 to 8 million by November 2025. They’re doubling annually. Revenue hit $7.7 billion in 2024, up from $1.4 billion in 2022. Projections for 2025: $11.8 billion. Starlink now represents 58% of SpaceX’s total revenue and the majority of its profits. SpaceX has reused a single Falcon 9 booster more than 20 times. They completed 134 Falcon-family launches in 2024. They’re on pace for 150+ in 2025. They now account for approximately 90% of the world’s payload mass delivered to orbit. Read that again. One company. Ninety percent of global payload mass. The reusability breakthrough is what made Starlink possible. You can’t launch 7,500+ satellites on expendable rockets. The math doesn’t work. But when you can reuse boosters 20 times and turn launches around in under 30 days, you can build an orbital internet constellation that would have been economically impossible for any other company on Earth. And then there’s the government money. SpaceX CEO Gwynne Shotwell said the company holds $22 billion in government contracts. Pentagon contracts alone total nearly $8 billion. The Space Force just awarded SpaceX $5.92 billion for satellite launches through 2029. The National Reconnaissance Office signed a classified $1.8 billion contract for Starshield, SpaceX’s militarized satellite network for intelligence and surveillance. The Pentagon plans to acquire more than 100 Starshield satellites for its future satcom architecture. SpaceX is now the dominant launch provider for the U.S. military, the U.S. intelligence community, and NASA. They have more government contracts than most defense contractors, but they’re valued like a tech company because they actually are one. Starlink isn’t just consumer internet anymore. It’s 75,000 vessels with maritime connectivity. 300 cruise ships. United, Air France, Hawaiian Airlines. Direct-to-cell service launching with T-Mobile. Military encrypted communications via Starshield. Ukraine’s battlefield connectivity runs on Starlink. This used to be a rocket company. Now it’s a telecom company that happens to own the rockets.

This is what peak CEO performance looks like

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@TheGoldenDays 🤣

You were there when Nero failed at 16x

This is the most jaw-dropping 4 minutes and 21 seconds you will watch this year. Nicole Shanahan — ex-wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, former running mate of RFK Jr., and someone who personally signed nine-figure philanthropy checks — just went full whistleblower on the entire Silicon Valley “tech wife mafia” and how they were used. Her exact words (full clip attached): “I don’t think many of the tech mafia wives realize… they were used to set the groundwork for what Klaus Schwab calls The Great Reset. Their money especially was being conscripted through a network of NGO advisors, Hollywood, Davos, and their own companies. A really small group of people… completely blind to how their groundwork is being used to enable these Great Reset policies.” Then she turns the knife inward: “These women find their meaning through philanthropic work. I really believed I was helping Black communities and indigenous communities rise up. But now the problems have gotten worse. Crime worse. Mental health worse. The whole model is broken. At the end of the day they always go: ‘But climate change.’ Social justice + climate change — it gets progressive women 100% of the time.” She even says many now believe the biggest “climate change issues” are actually geoengineering issues. This isn’t some random podcast bro. This is a woman who lived in the mansions, sat on the boards, flew private to Davos parties… and is now saying: “We were the useful idiots.” Watch the full unedited 4:21 below. Sound on.

It does, and that's because it's mirroring an actual, physical user interface.

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@GoldTelegraph_ @paoloardoino LFG

Tether bought more gold last quarter than any central bank. Wow… @paoloardoino Very smart.

@burkov After a few prompts you need to start a fresh conversation

I don't understand why Google trained Gemini 3.0 Pro this way. User: Fix this issue. Gemini: Here's the updated code. User: You removed all the comments and log commands, put them back. Gemini: Here's the code with everything back. User: The comments are still absent, and the log commands too. You must only modify the relevant part of the code and keep the rest of the existing code intact. Gemini: Here's the code with everything back. User: FUCK! YOU STILL REMOVED ALL THE COMMENTS AND LOGS! PUT THEM BACK, YOU LITTLE PIECE OF SHIT! Gemini prints the correct code. @GoogleAI , why? I mean, WHY?

@bryan_johnson 😂

starting a new protocol

@VraserX 3 years

In 10 years you will talk to AI more than to any human besides your family. Correct or not?

@VraserX Creativity & passion

When AI eliminates 80 percent of labor, what becomes the new definition of success? Genuinely curious.

@slow_developer Synthetic data

LLMs are a dead end Deep learning has hit a wall LLMs are nearing a plateau or diminishing returns sorry, but there's no way we plateau in 2026 or after that with all the new datacenter compute coming online from next year, there's just no chance. we just need to fix a few persistent model flaws, and AGI looks plausible by 2027-28

What amazing fortune To be 1 of the 100 billion homo sapiens sapiens that have ever lived And to be alive at this the moment of the great inflection Not to be 1 of 50 billion that died of mosquito borne disease Nor to be 1 of 30 billion that died before age 5 Nor 1 of 10 billion killed in an act of violence Instead to witness this ahistorical moment, to contribute in whatever small way in our outward expansion and proliferation, To stand on the cusp of history: What amazing great good fortune

@johnrushx Accurate

i logged off for a minute and all these things happened: > google is so back with a new gemini & Antigravity IDE (renamed windsurf) > Humanoid companies are going crazy, I'm on a waitlist for a teleoperated robo-wife > Cloudflare crashed 80% of the internet, users posted 1 trillion tweets and it brought X down too > Jeff Bezos is a startup founder again, with his new Prometheus > after those servers, the markets dropped down too, both the stock & crpt0 > Mega rounds: Cursor: $2.3B, Cohere: $450M, Ramp: $300M, Apptronik: $400M, d-Matrix: $275M, Mira Murati's Thinking Machines: $50B valuation > Warren Buffett declared the winner of the AI Race, and it's google > Yann LeCun is (almost) fired from Meta cuz he doesn't believe in LLMs > Jeff Bezos landed his rocket, too > Satya Nadella actually uses X and follows Pieter Levels > openAI, xAI & anthropic launched their new best models too > John Carmack thinks we're entering an era of Solo Makers leveraged by AI > Marc launched TrustMRR and killed buildInPublic fantasy mrr world > Indie hacker world has lost another soldier, after Dago, it's Alex Isora > Replit coding agent went from producing the ugliest UI to the prettiest(it's so good) > Manus launched their Chrome extension so that you could generate more ai slop on the internet > Apple is trying to sunset Tim Cook, who would be the new CEO? > EU softens the AI Act > France plans to tax citizens globally, like the US. > Most YC startups use Chinese LLMs (just like all hardware companies been doing for decades) > There is more funding into building datacenters than housing in the US > Big investors sold their NVidia stake, maybe because AMD and others are catching up > Saudi Arabia Invests $1 Trillion in the U.S > Alex Karp flexed his sword skills on an interview with Molly > GTA6 Release Delayed Yet Again > Nikita Bier plans to dox everyone's location on their public X profiles > Bill Ackman fixed low fertility rates by introducing "may I meet you" > Bonus: I'm about to "John Rush Bundle" - all my products (SEObot, Unicorn Platform, ListingBott, IndexRusher, SocialBott, TinyAdz & More).