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@frazerrice @JonLuskin Expect to pay a lot more for that umbrella for everyone under 25 yo.

@JonLuskin 5 minimum - especially with car driving kids.

Is $1 Million in Umbrella Insurance Enough? Some believe the main benefit of umbrella insurance is gaining access to the insurance company’s legal team. That argument goes:

@GregWAutry Fraunces Tavern on Pearl in FiDi. Oldest NYC tavern. Get the chicken pot pie. Trust me.

Anyone got dinner recommendations for this town?

@julia_doubleday @AAA_Travel They stranded us also. They had just replaced a battery in a college kiddos car and it died again. Since the wait time was hours we attempted to clean terminals. They arrive and wouldn’t do a thing because we had ‘disconnected the battery’ already - so they just left us there.

My dad is driving to DC for the first time since my mom died in Jan and he hit a deer. He called @AAA_Travel for help and a tow & they asked to speak to my mother. He informed them she just died & they said he can’t use the policy then & left a 70 year old grieving man stranded

(no spoilers below for hail mary) i just watched an early screening - TLDR: this was the greatest movie i've seen in over 10 years this movie has given me faith - that hollywood can still create something truly novel, beautiful and incredibly engaging i felt like i was laughing or crying or on the edge of my seat the entire movie - something i haven't done in years due to the absolute dogshit recycled/excruciatingly boring content being pumped out these days there's just no other way for me to describe it - for 156 minutes straight, i was in pure bliss. from the visuals, to the perfectly balanced soundtrack, the outstanding plot, and to the ABSOLUTELY LEGENDARY performance of ryan gosling it is so insanely rare in this day and age for a new movie to be a perfect 10 out of 10. the closest chance we have to getting one is whenever christopher nolan is able to take a shot at it every few years. but this one did it. it truly did. if you have the ability to watch this in IMAX, prioritize this. trust me. it is the movie we've all been waiting for its 1:35am and i had to get this off my chest right after getting home. it was that fucking good. i will likely go again to re-watch it soon "grace rocky save stars. amaze amaze amaze"

@mcrs987 Amaze amaze amaze 🤩

That was so much better than I could have anticipated. I have never heard a theater so silent before. Holy cow

Heading to see @projecthailmary now. The only other time I get this excited is for rocket launches. 🚀 #Rocky Thanks @andyweirauthor

@maddierune The quickest path to emotional truth for me was having children.

No one tells you that parenting is just relearning the world through someone who thinks worms are friends & birds are miracles. It’s the most healing thing I’ve ever done. My daughter looked out the window this morning & said, everything is green & growing. I told her, you too. And something inside me whispered, so are you. Now I’m watching her hold flowers up to the sun while the light bends like it recognizes her. It’s funny, every spring I think I’m teaching my child about the world & every spring she proves she’s the one teaching me how to see it.

…and this is how we’re going back.

NASA is sharing the following information at the request of NASA astronaut Mike Fincke:

@markcecchini Hang in there. It’s just the first 50 years that are the hardest.

can any parents with kids over 18 months let me know when the perpetual state of fight or flight is over

@r0ck3t23 Men are not ready for a direct cognitive transfer of our she-laborating.

Elon Musk just dated the death of human language and explained exactly why it has to die. Musk: “Our brain spends a lot of effort compressing a complex concept into words.” Language isn’t communication. It’s failed compression. You have a complete thought. You crush it into words. The listener gets fragments and attempts reconstruction. Everything important dies in translation. We don’t communicate. We approximate and hope it’s close enough. Musk: “You would be able to communicate very quickly and with far more precision.” Neuralink doesn’t improve communication. It replaces it. No compression. No loss. Direct cognitive transfer at the speed thoughts occur. Not describing the painting. Transmitting the experience itself. Musk: “You wouldn’t need to talk.” Five to ten years until brain interfaces make speech optional. Talking persists for sentiment. For information? Speech becomes primitive compared to direct neural transmission. Lifetime of memory in one second. Complete schematics transferred instantly. Not summaries. The entire thought structure whole and uncompressed. Not better communication. Actual telepathy at physical information limits. Musk: “Ideally, we are a symbiosis with artificial intelligence.” Humans who don’t merge with AI at high bandwidth don’t just fall behind. They become incomprehensible to the intelligence that matters. We’re already cyborgs with pathetic interfaces. Phones extend cognition through typing at words per minute when bandwidth should be terabytes per second. Neuralink doesn’t optimize that. It detonates the constraint. Five to ten years. Not fiction. Deployment window. From language as default to neural link as standard. From compressing thoughts into inadequate words to transmitting uncompressed cognition. From humans using AI to humans indistinguishable from AI at communication speeds. The species that survived by evolving language is making it extinct with technology matching how fast we actually think. The ones who don’t transition won’t just be slow. They’ll operate at such reduced bandwidth they become effectively deaf to everything happening at neural speed around them. Language served 50,000 years. It has less than a decade before it becomes smoke signals. Functional but hopelessly inadequate for anything that matters.

@TheSecretAcct I’d still hire him.

@SpaceDavenport Add Griffin and Bridenstine and you have my whole NASA career.

Great NASA photo of several space agency administrators gathered at Arlington National Cemetery for the Day of Remembrance today.

@_sorrengailll Jones Road Beauty Miracle Balm. It’s like putting tinted Crisco on your face.

Girls, what if each of you shares the worst make up product you’ve ever bought, so the rest of us don’t waste money for nothing? I’ll start: olaplex shampoo

@markcecchini My fav one: “Congrats, and just remember, it’s only the first 50 years that are the hardest.” I’m 25 years in. They weren’t lyin.

Repeat after me: “Congrats! When is he/she due?” “Congrats! It’s the best thing ever.” “Congrats! It flies by. Enjoy every minute.” or literally anything but: “Enjoy your sleep now!” “Say goodbye to your free time!” “The newborn phase is the easy part lol. You’ll see.”

@hjluks Yeah, I feel this. We spend so much time preparing for all their ‘firsts’ in life - but nothing prepares us for all the ‘lasts’. Here’s to many new firsts as parents of adult kiddos.

The Last Snowman I’m at that stage of life where I’m starting to realize that some moments might be happening for the last time. Yesterday, my middle son and I built a snowman :-). Yes, this 60-year-old doc's child comes out every now and then. Fresh snow, quiet air, the kind of morning that feels suspended outside of time. He’s graduated from college. His life is already pulling him west…toward love, toward opportunity, toward whatever comes next. And as we packed snow between our hands, shaping it into something temporary and imperfect, I realized this might be the last time we do this together. Not the last time we’ll talk. Not the last time we’ll laugh. Not the last time we’ll see each other. But the last time we’ll build a snowman. No one tells you how parenting changes. At first, it’s all beginnings. First steps. First words. First days of school. You’re trained to look forward, always forward. And then, without warning, life quietly starts handing you endings instead. Not loud ones. Soft ones, often unannounced. You don’t get a notification that it’s the last time they’ll fall asleep on your shoulder. Or the last time you’ll hold their hand crossing a street. Or the last time you’ll all be living under the same roof. You just live through them. And only later do you realize what they were. I want my kids to move on. I want them to chase what calls them. I want them to build lives that are expansive, brave, and unmistakably theirs. I’m proud of their independence. Proud of their curiosity. Proud of who they’re becoming. But pride doesn’t erase grief. It just lives beside it. I’m climbing what’s been referred to as my Second Mountain now. The first was about building, proving, and accumulating. This one feels different, quieter, and far more deliberate. It’s less about adding, more about distilling. Less about what I achieve per se, and more about what and who I carry forward. And with that shift comes questions that don’t always have clean answers. Was I present enough? Did I listen well? Did I prepare them for what I couldn’t protect them from? What did I miss while I was busy building everything else? I don’t know. Maybe no one ever really does. Yesterday, we built a snowman. But, for me,  it wasn’t really about the snowman. Well… maybe a little about the snowman. But… It was about time. About becoming…. and about letting go without letting love leave. About standing in that strange, tender overlap where past, present, and future all exist at once. If that really was our last snowman, I’m grateful I was there for it.

@NASA @NASAArtemis Nice and slow, team. You break it, you buy it.

Wow. LETS GO!!!

The National Space Club and Foundation proudly announces Hon. Christopher J. Scolese, director of the NRO, as the 2026 Goddard Trophy recipient—honoring nearly five decades of transformative leadership across civil, military, and intelligence space.