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Christina Rasmussen

Christina Rasmussen

@SecondFirsts

Writer of books. Painter of worlds. Explorer of human and non human intelligence. Here to learn, teach and prosper.

Austin, TX Sumali Ekim 2010
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Christina Rasmussen
Christina Rasmussen@SecondFirsts·
By the time people have to stop taking these drugs, we would have figured out other cures for the heart conditions you mentioned. These GLP drugs are a bridge to a healthier younger human self we are all walking towards. 10 years from now medicine, healing, and being a human being would look very different. Millions of people are not planning on stopping a drug that is giving them life until a better intervention comes along. And a lot is coming. Stay current and maintain a future focused approach. It would be more helpful for your audience long term.
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Ziyad Al-Aly, MD
Ziyad Al-Aly, MD@zalaly·
What happens to the heart when people stop GLP-1 drugs? The short answer: nothing good. New from our team: a study of 330,000+ people in @BMJMedicine 🧵
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Gary Brecka
Gary Brecka@thegarybrecka·
How many steps did you get today?? Be honest.
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Jordan Crowder
Jordan Crowder@digijordan·
If you’re at @sxsw come see me and the guys in the morning! We’ll be blowing minds 🤯
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David Shapiro (L/0)
David Shapiro (L/0)@DaveShapi·
*Laughs in ADHD* Now all you fools understand what it's like to interact with normies. AI is the only thing that operates at our speed.
Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai

New Harvard Business Review research reveals that excessive interaction with AI is causing a specific type of mental exhaustion ( or AI brain fry), which is particularly hitting high performers who use the tech to push past their normal limits. A survey of 1,500 workers reveals that AI is intensifying workloads rather than reducing them, leading to a new form of mental fog. While AI is generally supposed to lighten the load, it often forces users into constant task-switching and intense oversight that actually clutters the mind. This mental static happens because you aren't just doing your job anymore; you are managing multiple digital agents and double-checking their work, which creates a massive cognitive burden. The study found that 14% of full-time workers already feel this fog, with the highest impact seen in technical fields like software development, IT, and finance. High oversight is the biggest culprit, as supervising multiple AI outputs leads to a 12% increase in mental fatigue and a 33% jump in decision fatigue. This isn't just a personal health issue; it directly impacts companies because exhausted employees are 10% more likely to quit. For massive firms worth many B, this decision paralysis can lead to millions of dollars in lost value due to poor choices or total inaction. Essentially, we are working harder to manage our tools than we are to solve the actual problems they were meant to fix. --- hbr .org/2026/03/when-using-ai-leads-to-brain-fry

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Christina Rasmussen
Christina Rasmussen@SecondFirsts·
@newstart_2024 Still, he doesn’t understand that ADHD folks are very self motivated when it comes to interesting arenas. And that doesn’t mean video games. Let’s stop listening to some old guys from a different century explaining something much more advanced than they are.
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Camus
Camus@newstart_2024·
Dr. Russell Barkley drops a brutal truth about ADHD that changes everything: ADHD isn't just "can't focus"—it's "can't self-motivate." Your emotions = your motivation. If you can't manage emotions, you can't generate internal drive. No internal fuel tank = dependent on immediate external consequences to do anything. That's why: - Video games = hours of focus (constant rewards, instant feedback) - Homework = 5 minutes max (delayed/no consequences, nothing happens when you finish a problem) Put an ADHD brain in any environment with no immediate consequences → guaranteed failure. Not laziness. Not choice. Not "if they just tried harder." It's a neurogenetic executive function deficit: they literally cannot self-motivate like others can. Barkley: "This is not willful... They can't self-motivate like other people. So it doesn't matter what your goals are—you won't get there." If you've ever wondered why ADHD people can hyperfocus on passions but collapse on "boring" must-dos—this is why. Parents, partners, teachers: understanding this one point can stop so much blame and shame. What's one thing that finally helped you (or someone you love with ADHD) bridge that motivation gap?
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Christina Rasmussen
Christina Rasmussen@SecondFirsts·
Maybe we are here right now in this significant moment in time because we have always been here. Maybe we keep living the same life many times. We just have to remember. So we can exit the loop.
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Jordan Crowder
Jordan Crowder@digijordan·
After years of using the Gateway program from Monroe Institute…I created this map of the ‘local’ astral plane. The main areas being the ‘Spirit World’ which consists of a massive amount of earth-like individual virtual worlds, including the ‘belief system territories’ that tend to serve as a trap. A thick flow of consciousnesses steadily streams to and from this later as people are born and die. The ‘Last Timers’ ring is separated so those consciousnesses can focus and reduce any karma or tethers that might inadvertently keep them here. Consciousnesses here are either one time humans or long time humans set to graduate. ‘The Park’ is a central way station that souls visit to calm down after the big transition (death). There’s many paths that lead from it. Once you’re balanced and ready, you’re typically led from the Park to your next destination. One of these destinations is to journey out to the ‘Soul Clusters’ area where you can reconvene with your ‘I-There’ as Robert Monroe calls it. Or your higher self. This is just scratching the surface of course. - - - - - - 👇 If you’re interested in learning Gateway, the Monroe Institute just released a NEW at-your-own-pace, at home version called Gateway Voyage Online. It’s an absolute game (and life) changer! Use my code ‘GVO-Jordan’ for 20% OFF and get FREE access to the Conscious Observers Community. Link in comments to start 👇
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Christina Rasmussen
Christina Rasmussen@SecondFirsts·
We are moving towards a future that requires us to calm our nervous system down. Everything is speeding up. Slowing down the physical being that your soul occupies is necessary to allow for a more human experience in a world of ai and robots. Breathe.
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Christina Rasmussen@SecondFirsts·
@CoralineHatz I changed my career completely. It took me 4 years to get there. But so worth it. Now my every day life consists of things I want to do.
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The ADHD Learner
The ADHD Learner@CoralineHatz·
I’m curious: what system actually changed your life with ADHD?
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Revelator42
Revelator42@foardeetou·
@SecondFirsts @TOEwithCurt I further expound on this concept here, if you’re interested. Thanks x.com/foardeetou/sta…
Revelator42@foardeetou

We exist within infinite spacetime. Thats the provable reality of life using the current understanding of physics. Its true unless you break Conservation of Mass/Energy. There is no new space or time being infused into the universe. All the space and time that has ever existed or COULD ever exist in the future exist right now and always have. We are in a singularity and always have been. The reality of infinite spacetime also means matter cannot exist since by definition it would be everywhere and nowhere all at the same time. Our experience of reality is highly similar to the dream state. You can experience all your sense and emotions in a dream while never interacting with anything “physical”. It all occurs strictly the mind. We exist viewing a type of 2D screen. There are only 2 spacial dimensions. Our essence exists in a 3rd Dimension similarly to how our sleeping body exists one dimension out from our awareness during a dream. The illusion of a 3 dimensional realm results from changing visual perspective and sense activation. You’re not holding the phone. You’re viewing a “screen” that displays your phone, your forearms, the background, etc… and offered the illusion of holding the phone because your sense of touch activates as electromagnetic repulsion occurs between your fingertips and the phone screen. All dimensions can be displayed on a 2D plane.

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Curt Jaimungal
Curt Jaimungal@TOEwithCurt·
When was a time you tried to go deep on one of these topics (physics, consciousness, philosophy) and hit a wall? What happened? And what was frustrating about it?
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Revelator42
Revelator42@foardeetou·
@SecondFirsts @TOEwithCurt The math we used to understand the universe doesn’t function unless we exist within a fundamental infinity. The universe is everything that could ever possibly exist including past and future time. That by definition is an infinity. The only way out is to break conservation laws
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Jil Theo
Jil Theo@theo_jil·
At 50, most people start slowing down. I started building a second life.
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Libriscent
Libriscent@libriscent·
Neurodivergent exhaustion doesn’t go away with rest. It goes away when you finally get time that belongs completely to you — no demands, no access, no one needing anything.
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Christina Rasmussen
Christina Rasmussen@SecondFirsts·
Jimmy make sure your numbers are accurate so your articles continue to help people. You do great work but make sure you qualify accurately. I have run large workshops with hundreds of people at a time doing visualizations and the number of 3 to 5 percent was what I was experiencing directly in my groups. I would also imagine you would think that 50% is obviously high. Humans are reality creators and if 50 percent could bot visually create then our reality would look very different. “How common is aphantasia? The available research indicates that aphantasia is uncommon overall. Experts estimate between 2% and 4% of people have it. However, research on this condition — including how many people have it — is limited.Aug 31, 2023”
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Rizwan Virk
Rizwan Virk@Rizstanford·
As a fan of Eric Davis and *former* fan of Eric Weinstein, I look forward to this discussion - I hope it's not just Weinstein acting arrogant about how smart he is - hope we get some meaningful discussion and EW lets ED, who may actually know about the UFO programs, talk!
Jesse Michels@AlchemyAmerican

🚨 BREAKING: Two of the most technically qualified scientists to ever engage with the UFO mystery sat down together for the first time: Dr. Eric Davis, astrophysics PhD who formally investigated the crash retrieval program through classified government channels and Dr. Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein), Harvard math PhD and founder of physics theory, Geometric Unity. Davis confirms that he personally interviewed 5 direct crash retrieval program employees at two legacy aerospace companies (one being TRW, acquired by Northrop) and that the United States holds between 10 and 40 UFOs in its direct possession. He also describes discussing UFOs with George H.W. Bush directly and Jimmy Carter getting briefed on the subject. Finally, Davis says the program only consists of Aerospace engineers. Weinstein's response: if these craft of non-human origin defy the laws of physics, you need top theoretical physicists on the program. Weinstein says either the people running it are criminally incompetent or there are no craft. Sparks flew.🚨 This is the conversation I have been trying to make happen for years. Eric Davis is one of the most credentialed investigator of the UFO crash retrieval program alive with an eidetic memory. Astrophysics PhD from the University of Arizona, 30 years in the field, security clearances through AAWSAP, formally deputized by the DIA under program manager James Lacatski (who himself claims he has stepped inside a UFO and breached the hull). Eric Weinstein is one of the most technically gifted minds outside the classified world, someone Davis himself identified as one of only three people technical and heterodox enough to engage with this material. I put them in a room and let them go at it. This conversation was nothing short of historic. Bombshell Details: Davis Says Roswell Was Real and He Confirmed It Officially: Davis traces his investigation to 1996 at Robert Bigelow's NIDS. Astronaut Ed Mitchell told him Admiral Thomas Wilson, then J2 on the Joint Chiefs, independently verified the 1947 Corona crash was a real non-human craft. Davis later used his DIA credentials through AAWSAP to reach the programmatic level of the operation. His conviction: 100%. Weinstein says he has talked to too many credible people to dismiss it, but has never seen one piece of incontrovertible proof. Davis Interviewed Program Workers. None Were Physicists: Davis met five people from one legacy aerospace company on the program. A material scientist who spent two decades on it. A TRW source who ran the SCIF at Wright-Patterson with access to intact craft in a secured hangar. Not one of Grusch's 40 firsthand witnesses is a theoretical physicist. Davis confirms none of his contacts were either. Weinstein compares this to performing Beethoven's Fifth with accountants and boxers. Eight Decades of Reverse Engineering. Zero Results: Davis's senior VP source confirmed no functional progress after eight decades. They could see how craft were constructed at the nanoscale. Could not reproduce any of it. Davis asked: where are your physicists? Answer: we never had any. Weinstein calls this a two-line proof. If it defies the laws of physics and you have no physicists, you are either the dumbest operation in history or there is nothing to reverse engineer. Weinstein Tells Davis His Physics Won't Work: Davis has published on warp drives and traversable wormholes within general relativity. Weinstein tells him directly: none of it will work. Davis accepts this. Weinstein says if craft break known physics, the answer is not squeezing exotic scenarios out of Einstein. The answer is Einstein is incomplete. Davis agrees. The debate becomes a collaboration. The Golden Age of Gravity Research Vanished in the 1970s: Weinstein identifies a 1971 Australian intelligence document naming physicists like Arnowitt, Desser, Dyson, and Oppenheimer in what reads like a Manhattan Project for Gravity and exotic propulsion. Two apparent cutouts funded work through Bryce DeWitt at UNC and Lewis Witten at a facility called RIAS inside the Martin Company. Sheldon Glashow and Solomon Lefschitz worked there. Then the trail goes cold. Davis noticed the same disappearance in graduate school. No one had an answer. String Theory as a Weapon Against Frontier Physics: After a Princeton junior designed a working atomic weapon from public sources, theoretical physics became too dangerous to leave in the open. String theory consumed the field. 42 years, zero experimental predictions. The Biden White House told Andreessen and Horowitz directly that entire areas of physics were classified in the nuclear era. Davis says he always thought string theory's dominance and the absence of physicists on the crash retrieval program were connected. Weinstein agrees. Weinstein Finds Gravity Hidden in the Strong Nuclear Force: Lazar's "gravity wave A" claim sounds like garbage. Weinstein treats it as garbled proximity information. He identifies a formal possibility: the theta term from QCD, based on the Pontriagin class, transgresses to a Chern-Simons functional: the closest known Lagrangian to Einstein-Hilbert, which governs gravity. Davis calls it remarkable. Weinstein believes this is the first time the connection has been stated publicly. Renaissance Technologies as the Possible Physics Brain Trust: If a secret physics program exists, track where frontier physicists cluster. Renaissance Technologies hires differential geometers and topologists. Sits next to Brookhaven National Lab. Draws from SUNY Stony Brook, where C.N. Yang was based. Returns resemble state-sponsored performance. Weinstein told Jim Simons before his death that Chern-Simons theory is the closest Lagrangian to Einstein-Hilbert. Simons invited him to Stony Brook for a year, then asked where he would find the funding. He was worth over $20 billion. The Wilson-Davis Notes Are Confirmed Authentic: Davis confirms the typewritten notes are real, legitimate, and 100% accurate. They describe former J2 Admiral Wilson being denied access to a crash retrieval program inside a private aerospace company funded from his own DIA budget. He was told he lacked need-to-know and met with Davis out of frustration. Davis wants blanket immunity to say everything about this meeting but confirms the notes are real. Why This Matters: These two arrive from opposite directions and land on the same problem. Davis has total certainty non-human craft exist in American possession. Weinstein cannot construct a single theory that explains the full landscape of claims and missing evidence. Both say the absence of theoretical physicists is indefensible. Davis wants access to the hardware. Weinstein wants the right minds inserted. The question Davis asks: let us in. The question Weinstein asks is sharper: if you will not let physicists in, what exactly are you protecting? Full conversation covers all of this and much more. Special thanks to @MinuteofZombie for co-hosting! One of the most important episodes we have ever done live now 👇

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