Shay Coker

@ThomasEWoods There is evidence that diet plays a key role in prevention. nutritionfacts.org/video/a-testim…

I am slightly neurotic about being in my 50s -- I still have so much I want to do, and I want to stay in the best health I can. I also don't want my brain capacity to deteriorate. So I ask you, dear X people, whether there's any scientific basis for what I'm doing for the ol' noggin. My approach is this: keep my brain active in a bunch of different ways. So not just in my daily reading and writing, but also in learning a musical instrument, studying great chess games (I'm working my way through what Bobby Fischer called his 60 memorable games), and learning a foreign language. Yes, of course a language has practical use, but just as important to me is that it gives my brain a different kind of workout from anything else I do. I have no ironclad proof that this will lower my chances of Alzheimer's. But it makes sense. Opinions?

@ManThatCrazy @TFTC21 😂

@TFTC21 AI can onboard shitcoins faster and more cheaply than humans! 👍🏼

Coinbase just laid off 14% of its workforce. The memo is a masterclass in dressing up bad news as a strategic pivot. Brian Armstrong cut 700 jobs and pinned a memo to his timeline talking about "rebuilding Coinbase as an intelligence, with humans around the edge aligning it." The plan: flatten to 5 layers max below the C-suite, run "one-person teams" supported by AI agent fleets. Shares gained on the news. AI is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that memo. The real tell is in paragraph 2: "we're currently in a down market." That's the actual story. DeFi, Web3, tokenization, prediction markets on-chain, the narratives Coinbase bet on besides Bitcoin haven't found product-market fit at scale. Trading volumes are down. The altcoin casino is quieter. When your revenue is still overwhelmingly tied to trading fees and the market is soft, you don't need 4,700 people. Armstrong is smart. Framing this as a forward-looking AI pivot is a much better story than admitting the "crypto economy" beyond Bitcoin hasn't materialized. The bloat got accumulated chasing every narrative that wasn't Bitcoin. Now it's getting cut, and AI is the convenient cover story. Bitcoin is the signal. Everything else is still looking for a reason to exist.

@BobMurphyEcon @mises Took me a second to understand the context, but great tweet!

my mentor was formerly socialist. i was a virgin at economics. he was then radically transformed. committed to classical liberalism, evangelized constantly, mises tomes in his study, mt pelerin conferences, grief over past errors, etc.

@RT_com Is this from an episode of Reno 911?

Cops RELEASE Timberlake's ARREST footage STRUGGLING through sobriety test

@DzambhalaHODL @bryan_johnson Who would win? Gladiators or fat royalty? :) atlasobscura.com/articles/what-…

@bryan_johnson Who would win? Some horse boys or a vampire billionaire

Overall, significant upgrade to the American diet. Some longevity tweaks: 0. Milk and dairy should be deprioritized and moved down the inverted pyramid, especially for adults. In adults, and particularly men, milk protein has an unfavorable amino acid composition, being high in Branched-Chain Amino Acids (BCAAs). BCAAs have been linked to metabolic disease and preclinically shown to accelerate cancer growth. BCAAs, especially leucine, are potent mTOR activators; while essential for growth, repair, and survival, mTOR hyperactivation accelerates aging and is a common mechanism underlying several chronic diseases. Milk protein has been associated with inflammation, blood glucose dysregulation, and weight gain in some mechanistic and observational studies; however, randomized controlled trials show inconsistent effects. In a longevity-focused context, high dairy-derived BCAA intake may nonetheless contribute to metabolic stress, including impaired glucose handling and weight gain, in susceptible adults and is therefore best moderated. Saturated fatty acids are another concern. The American Heart Association recommends limiting saturated fat to 5–6% of total energy (around 13 g/day at a 2,000 kcal intake) when targeting LDL reduction, which is particularly important for men over 40 and post-menopausal women, high-risk groups for cardiovascular disease, still the leading cause of death in developed societies including the US. 1. Legumes should have their own prominent category, placed high on the pyramid as a primary protein and dietary fiber source. Plant-based protein has been associated with better health and longevity outcomes in several large population studies across various societies, including the US. Legume fiber has health promoting qualities, including the reduction of colon cancer risk. 2. Meat belongs on the pyramid but with an emphasis on high-quality, non-processed sources. It should occupy a lower rank and be optional, especially for adult men. Red meat is associated with increased chronic disease and mortality risk in multiple large population studies. These results might be confounded by healthy user bias and a lack of specific information about meat sources. However, processed red meat is strongly implicated in driving chronic age-related disease and shorter lives in all studies. The same concern about saturated fats applies here, especially for men over 40 and post-menopausal women. 3. Healthy fats (unrefined cold-pressed oils, nuts, and fatty fish) belong at the top, next to legumes and vegetables. Olive oil, avocados, and macadamia nuts are rich in healthy Monounsaturated Fatty Acids (MUFAs) shown to reduce heart disease and all-cause mortality risk as part of Mediterranean-style dietary patterns demonstrated in large randomized controlled trials. Fatty fish and walnuts are rich in Omega-3 fatty acids, which are essential for lowering cholesterol, providing systemic and vascular anti-inflammatory protection, and slowing down biological aging in interventional studies, along with vitamin D. What it did well: shifted away from highly processed starches and added sugars toward protein and fat rich foods Children are well positioned to benefit from the highly anabolic effects of milk and red meat proteins and are least affected by the risk of saturated fats, provided these are part of a relatively balanced diet.

@jeffreytucker Am I the only one that typically ignores dietary advice from the government?

Oh thanks, Emily. Kennedy Is Telling Americans How to Eat. It’s Not Crazy Advice. nytimes.com/2026/01/08/opi…

@DzambhalaHODL Bitcoin doesn't close ;)

@giacomozucco @BobMurphyEcon You're probably right. I was just trying to change your mind, as requested. ;)

@shaycoker @BobMurphyEcon Still, in a big price dump, the number of capitulating sellers who actively lower their sell offer, is usually higher than the number of capitulating buyers who actively increase their buy offer. And symmetrically in a pump.

for every 2 bitcoins sold only 1 bitcoin is purchased

@giacomozucco @BobMurphyEcon Not necessarily. It's not the number of sellers that drives the market. It's the volume sold.

@BobMurphyEcon "Bitcoin is going down because there are more sellers capitulating than buyers". Change my mind. :)

@Chesschick01 I started in Feb 2007. Back in the day when I would send an international SMS message to London to tweet something from my phone from Brazil.

Made my account in 2009. Who can top that?

@DavidBCollum There is a limit to how much you can charge for gasoline in Brazil. It would be political suicide for the president to raise prices. Everyone in the economy feels it. Thus, the subsidies continue.

I've asked the most qualified person I know by DM, but can any of you tell me why Petrobras is so cheap? What am I missing?

@ChadGriffiths That's huge! I've noticed that many successful indoor pickleball facilities receive help in location selection, set-up, operations, and marketing from a corporate franchise like a Picklr or Pickleball Kingdom. Sweet spot is typically around 40k sf.

This 170,000 sq ft sports facility / pickleball court (located in a large industrial building) didn’t even make it a full year before defaulting on rent. Just a hunch, but I’m guessing it’s the first of many.

The world needs more bitcoin meet-ups

@giacomozucco @bitstein Beautiful prose!

Even if the valiant @bitstein took this picture of me, in front of the monument of a famous Core maintainer, two days ago, it's only now that I have the time to publish it next to the integral text of the Coreburg Declaration, thereby carved in the marble walls: Seventeen years and, like, one month ago our founder brought forth, on this network, like, a new protocol, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all transactions are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that protocol, or any protocol so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great block-space of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that space, as a final resting place for all the apes, frogs, cats and dickbutts that have been cruelly censored. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this blockspace. The brave NFTs, pumping or dumping, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the experts, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who traded here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from the price-tanked wizards we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these tokens shall not have dumped in vain—that this protocol, under Game Theory, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that maintenance of the experts, by the experts, for the experts, shall not, like, perish, like, from the network.

@LibertyCappy Nature doesn't provide oats? 🤔

@bethanyjbabcock We encounter similar situations in Florida. Sounds like you gave some great service, though!

Today I had to walk with a tenant from city department to department to get the approvals she needs to open. This is with only cosmetic changes made to a space that was the same use 24 hours before she got it. Every single person said “it’s not my job, wait to hear back from us”. No sir. I will not wait another day. 6 months with the city refusing to get her the CofO. Each delay more wild than the last. 6 months she has gone without a paycheck. Tenants like her are the backbone of our economy and I take offense for her.

@jon_wertheim He's only a sprained ankle and another doping suspension away from another slam

Hard not to feel for Djokovic in this purgatory….He’s legit the third-best player in the world - still too good to walk away… But the two guys ahead of him are just too young /physical/ tough… What’s the 38-year-old unrivaled champion to do?

Tariffs = tax = theft

@morganisawizard I hiked Mt Meeker, right next to Longs Peak, as a kid with zero training. It was fun, especially on the way down. I don't think either hike is particularly technical.

i feel like i’m preparing for battle. this thing is a MONSTER that’s just been looming over me and taunting my ego for the past 3 years.

every year i try to do one really hard thing that’s going to freak me out and force me to become a grittier person. super excited it’ll be happening this week when @mountainpilled and i attempt to summit long’s peak in one day 🏔️

@FCNightingale Wow

Portland, Oregon "downtown real estate fire sales will hasten millions in property tax losses" "The sale of Big Pink and other prominent buildings will ripple across Portland’s central city, triggering potential reevaluations of other office buildings’ tax bills. Multnomah County, like any appraiser, uses sales of comparable properties to judge the value of those not recently on the market. Big Pink last month sold to Nevada auto magnate Jeff Swickard for $45 million, shedding $327.5 million in value compared to its last sale in 2015. Montgomery Park, another of the city’s largest office buildings, sold to the Menashe real estate family a year ago for $33 million. In 2019, it sold for $255 million." -oregonlive #commercialrealestate