charles wolfe

deep inside the american power grid. you’re in good hands, kentucky.

BOOM! 💯

@ProudElephant Some diversity would be great for Africa, as a show of appreciation for all of the diversity that they have given the rest of us. Share the love!

GOOD RIDDANCE!!! 👋

@WhiteHouse As a high earner, all of my 30 overtime hours are fully taxed. Why does this only apply to lower wage earners and not EQUALLY to EVERYONE? It’s a great start, but there’s a long way to go ….

President Trump promised to reward the American hustle that makes our country great. Through the Working Families Tax Cuts, he’s rewarding the grind: NO TAX ON OVERTIME 💸💪

@SecDuffy HAHA BRILLIANT!

👾 MISSION ACCOMPLISHED IN RECORD TIME ‼️ ✅ 8,000+ qualified air traffic controller applicants 🇺🇸 Fastest application pace in American history The next generation of air traffic controllers has ARRIVED ✈️

A useful way to think about migration is to consider what kind of societies the migrants have built in their home countries and to what extent you would like those conditions replicated here.

@CollinRugg Execute him immediately

@CosmicGaiaX @RaeJessica34 wunderschön!

@RaeJessica34 Kaprun, Austria

Follow the path

The man who ended World War II couldn't figure out his to do list. In the 1950s, Dwight Eisenhower commanded the largest military operation in human history. D-Day required coordinating 156,000 troops, 5,000 ships, and 13,000 aircraft across weather windows measured in hours. He managed supply chains spanning three continents while juggling the egos of Churchill, Stalin, and de Gaulle. Every decision carried the weight of millions of lives. Yet when he became President, Eisenhower found himself drowning in paperwork. Cabinet meetings ran over schedule. Minor policy decisions consumed entire afternoons. Congressional briefings that should have taken minutes stretched into hours. The same strategic mind that had orchestrated the liberation of Europe was getting buried under routine administrative tasks that any competent aide could handle. The problem wasn't intelligence. It wasn't experience. It was something more fundamental. Eisenhower realized that peacetime leadership operates under completely different cognitive demands than wartime command. In war, everything feels urgent because people are dying. The urgent and the important collapse into the same category. You don't have the luxury of distinguishing between them. Every decision gets the full weight of your attention because the stakes are always maximum. But in civilian government, that framework breaks down catastrophically. Most urgent things are not important. Most important things are not urgent. And the human brain, evolved for immediate survival threats, cannot naturally distinguish between them. Your nervous system treats a ringing phone the same way it treats enemy artillery. Your attention mechanism defaults to whatever demands immediate response, regardless of whether that response actually matters. Eisenhower discovered this during his first year as President. He would spend entire mornings handling crisis calls from congressmen about local bridge projects while legislation that would shape American foreign policy for decades sat untouched on his desk. The urgent was consuming the important, and he had no systematic way to separate them. The matrix emerged from his attempt to build a filtering system for his own attention. He drew a simple grid. Vertical axis: important to not important. Horizontal axis: urgent to not urgent. Four quadrants. Every task, every meeting, every decision got sorted into one of the four boxes before it could reach his calendar. Quadrant one: urgent and important. Handle immediately Quadrant two: important but not urgent. Schedule deliberately. Quadrant three: urgent but not important. Delegate completely. Quadrant four: neither urgent nor important. Eliminate ruthlessly. Most people live almost entirely in quadrants one and three. They bounce between crises and interruptions. They mistake motion for progress. They confuse being busy with being effective. Eisenhower realized that high performers spend most of their time in quadrant two. Important but not urgent. Strategic thinking. Relationship building. Skill development. Prevention rather than reaction. The activities that compound over time but never scream for immediate attention. The matrix became a forcing function for intentional neglect. Today's productivity systems try to help you do more things faster. But, the Eisenhower matrix helps you identify which things you should never do at all. It gives you permission to ignore urgent tasks that don't matter. It trains you to recognize the difference between what feels important and what actually is important. Humans are wired to find urgent tasks satisfying. Urgent creates clear feedback loops. You answer the email, the notification disappears. You handle the complaint, the person stops calling. Your brain gets a small hit of completion dopamine. Urgent tasks feel productive because they produce immediate, visible results. Important but not urgent tasks provide no immediate gratification. You spend two hours thinking through strategic direction, nothing happens. You invest time in a relationship, you get no immediate return. You work on skill development, you see no short term progress. Your brain interprets this as wasted effort. For most of us, even when we understand the matrix intellectually, still default to living in the urgent quadrants. The important activities require you to act against your immediate psychological rewards. They demand faith that invisible work will produce visible results eventually. Eisenhower understood this tension because he had lived it at the highest possible stakes. Military strategy is pure quadrant two work. You spend months planning operations that might never happen. You prepare for scenarios that might not unfold. You build relationships with allies you might not need. All of it feels abstract until the moment when it determines whether you win or lose a war. The matrix trains you to think like a general about civilian life. Most people manage their time like privates. They respond to orders. They react to incoming demands. They measure success by tasks completed rather than outcomes achieved. The matrix forces you to think like a commander. What matters in six months? What relationships will determine long term success? What problems can you prevent by acting now rather than reacting later? The deeper insight is about attention as a finite resource that compounds differently depending on how you invest it. Time spent in quadrant one feels necessary but produces no leverage. You're always playing defense. Time spent in quadrant three feels productive but creates no value. You're busy but not effective. Time spent in quadrant four is pure waste. Time spent in quadrant two builds momentum that makes everything else easier. Eisenhower's genius was recognizing that the urgent quadrants will always refill themselves. There will always be more crises. More interruptions. More demands on your immediate attention. The only way to escape that cycle is to deliberately starve the urgent quadrants by overfeeding the important ones. The matrix is less of a productivity tool and more od a framework for choosing what kind of person you become over time. People who live in the urgent quadrants become reactive. They get good at firefighting but lose the ability to prevent fires. People who live in the important quadrant become proactive. They shape circumstances instead of being shaped by them. Eisenhower spent the rest of his presidency religiously applying this filter. Every morning, every decision got sorted into the appropriate quadrant before he engaged with it. The result was eight years of remarkably strategic governance despite constant political pressure to react to daily controversies. The man who defeated Hitler finally figured out his to do list. And accidentally created a framework that would reshape how humans think about attention for the next seventy years.

@alexysiktrice @RealDaPhuc best tripping like the one in simon haiduk’s art

L'Amanite tue-mouche (Amanita muscaria) contient deux toxines principales : l'acide iboténique et le muscimol. Chez les mammifères, ces molécules provoquent des hallucinations, une perte de coordination et des phases d'euphorie suivies d'un sommeil profond. Des biologistes et des gardes forestiers (notamment en Russie et en Amérique du Nord) ont rapporté des cas d'ours ayant consommé ces champignons et présentant des signes d'ébriété : marche chancelante, désorientation et comportement léthargique. Certains chercheurs suggèrent que les ours ne mangent pas ces champignons par accident. À l'instar des rennes en Sibérie, ils pourraient les rechercher spécifiquement pour leurs effets psychoactifs, agissant comme une sorte de "divertissement" ou d'évasion sensorielle.

@AmiriKing Pat, I’d like to solve the puzzle!

Grocers have been forced to install anti-theft devices on Lunchables in South Dallas. We’re locking up Lunchables now… how did we get here?

@Keir_Starmer But never mind keeping them safe from grooming & rap3 gangs, right?

I know parents are worried about social media and its impact on their children’s safety. They rightly expect fast action. Today, I’m calling on senior leaders from X, Meta, Snap, YouTube and TikTok to step up. I will do whatever it takes to keep children safe online.

Starship Super Heavy Booster, the most powerful moving object ever made by far

@RodDMartin That was truly excellent, i hope you’re paid well for these deep insights. i can not imagine how long it must have taken you to prepare all of this report! well done, sir. Thank you!

Here's that Deep Dive: x.com/RodDMartin/sta…

Today Iran lost the last leverage it had: the Strait of Hormuz. It also lost 90% of its income. Iran is being strangled. It is losing hundreds of millions of dollars a day. And America doesn't need a single "boot on the ground", not even on Kharg Island, to achieve that. The result is decisive. America has turned the tables on Iran, and not just on Iran, but on every government and every faction that hoped to benefit from Iranian pressure, confusion, or Western hesitation. The United States is now the one power that can effectively determine whether the Strait of Hormuz is used, by whom, and on what terms. That is a staggering reversal, perhaps even more for China than for Iran, but certainly for our perfidious NATO allies. People think Trump is improvising. That's a combination of TDS and refusal to do the homework. Trump has: 1. Told you exactly what he was planning for Iran, out loud and in public, since 1980. 2. Also told you exactly how he thinks, negotiates, creates and takes away leverage, in 12 or 13 books and 15 seasons of a top-rated TV show. Oh, and I hear he was President once before. If you don't understand how he works by now, the problem is you. Iran, and the Iranists abroad, will go on celebrating imaginary victories right up until the regime falls or signs the terms of defeat America imposes. And then, almost certainly, they will celebrate that too. But if you want to understand what's really happening, read the Deep Dive I wrote yesterday. It's an eye-opener. Link in the comments.

@visegrad24 Well, that ought to help the average middle class German citizen get by.

Germany announced a new military aid package for Ukraine today worth €4 billion. It will include: - Hundreds of Patriot missiles - 36 IRIS-T launchers - €300M for long-range drones & missiles - Joint drone production and much more

@elonmusk @rachelplntgnt It’s Californication

@rachelplntgnt Seriously 😐

“I have paid taxes for things you wouldn’t believe”

@LibsHateUs you forgot to include 1s1am in the equation! can’t forget THAT…..the most important ingredient for having a sh!tty society!

When you mix low IQ and overpopulation you get Bangladesh.

@AlexDuncanTX @KosherRedPill With a name like that………

Texas based HEB is a disgrace for pandering to Islam. As the Islamic invasion continues to rage on, HEB decided it would be a good idea to cater to Islam by offering Halal. It’s absolutely disgusting!

@BGatesIsaPyscho totally—and why not have a telescope onboard to zoom in on the Apollo landing sites and dispel a few questions and doubts?? Huge missed opportunity.

This was recorded from Earth using a Nikon Telescope. So why couldn’t Artemis II provide us better imagery given that it’s 240,000 miles closer & why couldn’t they do the reverse but zoom in on Earth? Simple questions with what should be a simple answer.