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Jeremy Lloyd Conlin
@jlconlin
Follower of Jesus Christ. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints., Husband, Father to 4 great kids. Scientist at LANL. PhD from the University of Michigan.
Los Alamos, New Mexico Katılım Mart 2009
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@1Password I have a family plan with you. I’m starting a business and want to keep my business passwords separate, but I don’t want to pay for another plan. What are my options here? Just create a new vault for the business? Can/should I just move my family to a business account?
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⚡️What you are seeing is selection collapse.
And it started decades ago.
1. Truth lost its economic utility inside elite institutions
Universities stopped being places where truth advanced careers.
They became places where alignment advanced careers.
Once that flipped, everything downstream became inevitable.
Professors no longer ask:
• What is true?
• What explains reality?
• What survives adversarial pressure?
They ask:
• What keeps my grant?
• What keeps my tenure clean?
• What keeps my students calm?
• What keeps Twitter quiet?
Truth that creates turbulence is now negative EV.
So it disappears.
2. Ideology is a side effect, not the driver
This is the part people get wrong.
These institutions did not become ideologically skewed because of politics.
They became skewed because politics is the safest camouflage for cowardice.
If you wrap yourself in moral language, you gain:
• immunity from challenge
• protection from scrutiny
• justification for exclusion
• license to punish dissent
Ideology is a shield.
Cowardice is the engine.
3. The smartest people left first
The people most capable of independent thought:
• see incentive gradients early
• detect dishonesty quickly
• hate speaking lies for survival
• refuse to subordinate cognition to status games
They exited.
Some went to industry.
Some went to finance.
Some went to startups.
Some went silent.
What stayed behind were not the dumb.
They were the compliant.
High IQ.
Low spine.
4. The system now rewards symbolic intelligence over real intelligence
Symbolic intelligence looks like:
• perfect language
• correct tone
• moral fluency
• citation stacking
• rhetorical smoothness
Real intelligence looks like:
• asking forbidden questions
• generating uncomfortable models
• breaking narratives
• tolerating social cost
Guess which one gets punished.
Over time, the institution forgets the difference.
5. This is an extinction-level event for institutional authority
Once an institution stops correcting itself, it enters decay mode.
Decay always looks like:
• increased moralization
• decreased tolerance for dissent
• obsession with language
• hostility to measurement
• elevation of feelings over falsification
That is where we are.
The public feels it.
They may not articulate it.
But they smell rot.
Trust collapses silently first.
Then suddenly.
The real truth most people won’t say is this:
Elite institutions failed because they abandoned adversarial truth-seeking.
They replaced strength with safety.
Reality with consensus.
Courage with compliance.
And once an institution selects against courage long enough, it loses the ability to produce truth at all.
At that point, collapse is not political.
It is structural.
And it is irreversible without a total reset.
That is the part no one wants to admit.
Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath
“Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome…”
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@BookofMomma6 My only son (he has three sisters) has grown up, eaten all the food, and left the house. My grocery bill is a lot smaller now, but I miss him being around. He’s doing great things now so I can’t complain.
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Having wild and crazy young sons was so fun, but a bit exhausting. Having adult sons makes my heart almost explode. It’s like payout for all the things they broke when they were little.
There is always a strong man around to open my pickle jars, reach the tall shelves, or carry something heavy in.
And unlike when they were little, they devour all the food I make for them. With gratitude. Instead of me begging them to eat.
I’m living my glory days.
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@FiverMacGyver @kalos21million I’ve read the book and watched the movie and I can’t imagine someone getting so caught up with revenge that they can’t move on with life.
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@kalos21million You won't.
And you'll fly into rage whenever someone says they love the movie without having read it.
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Be careful out there. The McRib usually comes back right before a major world event.
Dexerto@Dexerto
McDonald's is bringing back the McRib for a limited time on November 11 in the US
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I heard an interesting quote from a coach of the @LeTour and thought it had great application to life
"It's okay to lose, but it's not okay to fail… Losing is something we have to do as we [try to get better]. Failing is not doing what we want to do, the way we want to do it."
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@marcelolima @greggertruck Sort of. If a company can take it away if you choose not to subscribe next month, then they can always take it away. You only own it if the company is benevolent.
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@greggertruck YOU own it, it's attached to your username/password.
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If FSD belonged to the Tesla account, meaning it could go with you to new vehicles or even in rentals, FSD would triple the take rate.
Many don’t want to buy FSD for $8k to assign to a single vehicle that won’t have any realized value upon trade-in.
Something Tesla should consider @elonmusk
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“The fire of yesterday’s testimony can warm us for only so long. It needs constant nourishment to keep burning brightly.”
@UchtdorfDF
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President Trump Participates in a Bilateral Meeting with the President of the Republic of Finland twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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“As one of the special witnesses of the name of Christ in all the world, I testify that He is the Son of the living God. Jesus is the Christ—our atoning Savior and Redeemer. This is His Church, restored to bless God’s children and to prepare the world for the Second Coming of the Lord.” —Russell M. Nelson (1924–2025).
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If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.
If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.
If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.
If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.
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@EricCMeadows @1000HolyPlaces Never heard it before but I love it!
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All right, fill up my feed with the very best showtunes! I'll start:
"Ol' Man River" from "Showboat." This song sends CHILLS up my spine every dang time.
youtube.com/watch?v=UMSidC…

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I am dying. Hopefully not immediately. But, ALS will probably take me sooner than I had planned. So, I want to make this perfectly clear:
I am all in for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. It is the kingdom of God on the earth and teaches the complete gospel of Jesus Christ available today.
People seem proud to declare their departure from or doubt of the Church. But, I am proud to know what I know and tell others about it.
Of course the Church is not perfect. But God's plan moves forward in spite of us. We have weird cultural quirks. But, we are collectively trying to come unto Christ and be perfected in him, and deny ourselves of ungodliness. That is no small task. But we join together in congregations to help each other. If we seem weird, give us a chance.
There are a few key things that I know from years of work and experience. I cannot deny them, even though God's plan for me took a rather crappy turn.
I know that Joseph Smith saw and talked with God the Father and His son, Jesus Christ in the spring of 1820. He learned what philosophy and theology had argued about for 1800 years: that God exists and his son Jesus is the savior of the world. He became a prophet, and spent the rest of his life imperfectly working to live up to that calling.
I also know that The Book of Mormon is holy scripture, at least equal in value to the Bible. It teaches of Jesus Christ on nearly every page. I have studied it in many different ways, and prayed for answers. I know through many answers to those prayers that it is true.
I also know that we have a living prophet and apostles on the earth today. And a living prophet is much more important than a dead prophet. Dead prophets don't talk back, and are subject to interpretation. Living prophets are essential to understand what God teaches us TODAY.
Because I know these fundamental truths, I know where to go when I have doubts or questions or when I get a diagnosis with a 100% fatal disease. I know that God answers prayers. And, even though it took a long time, I have come to agree with His plan for me, even though it sucks right now.
So, as I celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, I am grateful to know him better through my service and study in the restored Church of Jesus Christ. I am grateful for blessings he has showered upon me and my family. I know that it is worth it to try to follow him a little more each day.
If anything I have said is interesting, I am happy to chat about it with you. That is literally the most important thing I can do with my time.
I also wrote a book about why I know these things.
MERRY Christmas.
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The pearl-clutching and selective outrage we've seen since the NCAA ruling has nothing to do with "protecting the game."
It's about coping—coping with the reality that Michigan flipped the rivalry with OSU and won a national championship while you were busy making excuses.
If the folks who are so outraged about the sign-stealing saga were truly interested in protecting the integrity of college football, they would have turned their anger toward their own beloved programs years ago.
STORY: si.com/college/michig…

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@UTrocketman19 I’ll get a breakfast burrito with you on your return visit
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