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It was a great Amendment. I wish we had the guts to do what we said we were going to do.

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The Great Books trend of the past 5 years has been a total catastrophe. The simple fact is that Plutarch and Homer and Virgil et al. do have radical insights buried in there, but at the same time most of these books are truly boring and lame and most people pretend to like them, cannot really digest anything, and get absolutely nothing from them! The trend is overwhelmingly powered by these books' aspirational quality; it's like a luxury heritage brand that conveniently only costs $15 a pop. The people on social media who've made brands around how great all these books are, often they are trying to *express* something about *themselves*, which is nice, but does not change how lame and boring the lion's share of these books are! You don't have to pretend to love them! If you're teaching undergrads that's great, or doing real research, fine. But this in no way means that everyone should read these books; it does not even mean that the smartest and most educated adults today need to read these books. The bits of radical alpha in them are great to find, explore, and write about if you are in the .01% of people who are called to do such things, but there is really zero reason why anybody else should read any of these books. Frankly, many of these authors are even somewhat primitive and infantile compared to the best thinkers of modernity. Plato and Aristotle have tons of provocative alpha worth getting, but also they were retarded on many topics, especially religion. The Romans were even worse in many ways. But all of this gets shrouded in the cult of Great Books. There have never been more people professing to love the Great Books, and mass public culture has never been lower brow than it is today. A ton of larping and precious little education, virtually zero novel insight, has come out of this movement.

February 14th might be a pretty controversial day in households this football season 😅❤️

BREAKING: X dropped the new ranking algo today. What's dead and what wins for bangers: [ what just died ]: - spam posting (4+ posts/day = author dilution penalty) - reply farming (replies weighted by WHO replies, not how many) - text-only posts (media gets 2x signal weight now) - recycled viral templates (the new content classifier flags them) - generic AI tool roundups (no original POV = low signal) - engagement bait closers ("what do you think?" gets flagged) - motivational fluff without specifics - engagement pods (mutual-follow scores reweighted) [ what just won ]: - original takes from small accounts (out-of-network discovery 3x'd) - threads with clear narrative arcs (model reads full thread context now) - text + media combos (out-performs either alone) - contrarian takes with personal proof (numbers, screenshots, names) - long-form posts (the 4000-char format gets heavier signal weight) - responding to your own replies in the first 30 min (ranking gold) - consistent posting cadence (regularity > volume) [ formats that work right now ]: - tactical playbooks: hook + 5-8 numbered steps + closer - personal proof posts: "$X → $Y in Z weeks" + breakdown - contrarian takes backed by screenshot proof - threads with arc structure: setup → friction → resolution - image carousels (3-7 slides), one bold claim per slide - short videos (under 90s) showing real work, not promo - long-form (4000-char) breakdowns of trending topics [ tone of voice that wins ]: - first-person specific ("I built X / I shipped Y") over abstract observation - concrete numbers and names over vague claims - builder energy over motivational fluff - one strong opinion per post, not three hedged ones - "here's what I shipped" over "here's what's possible" - direct address to the reader ("you") over generic third person [ the play starting today ]: 1. cut your posting to 2 a day max 2. always pair text with image, video, or thread 3. reply to every comment in the first 30 min 4. write in first-person specific, not third-person abstract 5. one bold opinion per post, backed by proof 6. let out-of-network discovery do the heavy lifting screenshot this. algorithm cycles repeat every 6 months

Church of England churches like St Cuthbert's Church, Earls Court are a reminder that post-Reformation Anglican Protestantism still carried deep reverence, beauty and historic worship. Built between 1884 and 1887, this Church of England parish is unmistakably Anglican and Protestant, yet filled with incense, vestments, candles, chanting and ancient Christian symbolism rooted in the old English tradition. A glimpse of how the English Reformation kept continuity with historic Christian worship while remaining outside papal authority. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿