Troy Flint

No, our parents raised us better than that. 💯

@ThrowbackHoops Villanova was 22-23 (96%) from the line in this game. That was the hidden difference

Exclusive: American Nathan Martin, a 36-year-old high school cross county coach from Jackson, Michigan, is the personification of never giving up. He won the 2026 Los Angeles Marathon in 2:11:16.50, capturing the title in the final stride of the 26.2 mile race Sunday.

The average 30 year old man couldn’t break 40 in the 200. Most people who run 20-30 miles a week couldn’t break run sub-30. I remote trained a 72 year old woman who ran 39 in 200… amazing. Never slow down!

I love this chart of how some of the Founders actually got along with Washington as president (they didn't). A reminder that these great figures were not cardboard cutouts, but jostling, sharp-tongued pols. From Alexis Coe's fun Washington bio, "You Never Forget Your First."

137 seconds of Hatem Ben Arfa taking the piss out of his opponents on his 39th birthday. 🎻 You're welcome. ✨

This is how God must feel when he sees us scrolling on our phones

I wanted to understand how automation hits white collar jobs so I went on a huge research trip into the last time it happened: the 1980s We rarely talk about the mass automation brought about by the PC. But it was massive! Take a look at this map of the most popular job in every US state in 1978. With the exception of truck drivers – for now – every job on that map has been reshaped by automation

Harrison Ford was in tears during his super emotional Lifetime Achievement Award speech. This was so good "Sometimes we make entertainment. Sometimes we make art. Sometimes, if we're lucky, we make 'em both at the same time. And if we're really fortunate, we also get to make a living doing it. Success in this business brings a certain freedom that comes with responsibility to support each other, to lift others up when we can. To keep the door open for the next kid, the next lost boy who's looking for a place to belong. I'm, indeed, a lucky guy. Lucky to have found my people. Lucky to have work that challenges me. Lucky to still be doing it. And I don't take that for granted." #ActorAwards

Thank you, CSBA, for convening this important conversation. The opportunity for superintendents to provide candid feedback on state budget dynamics, governance proposals, and the Close the Achievement Gap initiative is both timely and necessary.

A pioneer on so many levels. Tied with Fletcher Carr on being our first black head DI coach Our first black DI coach to win a team NCAA DI team championship Tech'd Dan Gable Coach of Cael Sanderson R.I.P. LEGEND Bobby Douglas

@WallsofDereko @VinnysCorner1 2-19 is remarkable. DeLeon must have been really unlucky because a 4.70 ERA is high, but should produce more than 2 wins. Then again, it is the Pirates.

@tboneflint @VinnysCorner1 Slim pickings for the Pirates around 1985. Had to do some research. I have to go with Reuschel, mostly by default, but he had a really good year in 1985! Candyman was listed as the closer! Also, DeLeon went 2-19 with an ERA of 4.70. Yikes.

Who was your favorite MLB pitcher when you were 10??? I’ll Start…. Jim Abbot

me liking every tweet of someone celebrating their loved one being cancer free

Zraněný Sidney CROSBY si v Miláně naposledy navlékl výstroj a přišel na led jen pro stříbro 🥈 „Problesklo mi hlavou, že to může být poslední olympiáda. Ale nakonec šlo o to, co je nejlepší pro náš tým, co nám dává největší šanci na vítězství.” „V tu chvíli to bylo celkem jasné. Pokud nejsem schopný hrát naplno, nebudu ohrožovat tým, ani se nad něj povyšovat.“ GOAT 🐐

@qb_eagles @vintagemapstore Allentown?

@tboneflint @vintagemapstore And I grew up in the 3rd PA town which I bet 98% of non-PA people couldn't name

How many cities with a population of 100k+ does each state have?

@Api91Test @vintagemapstore Yeah, I was being tongue-in-cheek referring to it as impressive. It’s retrograde but still remarkable in a weird sort of way

@tboneflint @vintagemapstore It’s a tremendously detrimental thing. Endless layers of local bureaucracy cementing a slightly stagnant status quo for eternity

Your anterior mid-cingulate cortex is one of the most connected regions in the entire brain. It sits at the intersection of your salience network, frontoparietal control network, autonomic nervous system, and motor planning circuits. When you encounter something difficult, the aMCC runs a cost/benefit computation: how much energy will this require versus what’s the predicted reward? That computation is the whole game. Some people persist because their aMCC estimates the reward as higher. Others persist because their aMCC estimates the energy cost as lower. Same behavior, totally different internal math. Here’s where it gets wild. Touroutoglou’s team at Mass General found that “superagers,” people over 80 whose memory performance matches 50-year-olds, have aMCC cortical thickness equivalent to young adults. Postmortem analysis revealed these superagers had substantially more Von Economo neurons in the aMCC than age-matched controls and even younger people. These are rare spindle-shaped neurons found only in humans, great apes, and cetaceans, and they’re selectively vulnerable to neurodegeneration. The aMCC also grows when people do things they don’t want to do. It gets larger in people who successfully diet. It’s bigger in athletes. But here’s the catch that Huberman discussed with Goggins: once you start enjoying the hard thing, the aMCC activation largely disappears. The growth signal comes specifically from overriding the desire to quit. Twin studies covering 30,000+ participants suggest about 60% of self-control capacity is heritable. So the starting point varies enormously. But the aMCC shows high neural plasticity. Six months of aerobic exercise in older adults measurably increased gray matter volume in this region. The real takeaway from this paper: your brain has a trainable structure that runs energy predictions across every system simultaneously, and the only way to grow it is to repeatedly choose effort when your own prediction says stop.

@aakashgupta Epic post

The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet. 1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output. The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice. Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet. And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.” This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one. We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that. The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.