PubliusBio @PubliusBio

@JoshPhillipsPhD Awesome. Don’t want to overwhelm but reading works of people like Joseph Ratzinger and Bishop Varden has made a world of difference for me.

Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and he will establish your plans. Proverbs 16:3

@Kulambq I hope this is what heaven sounds like. It’s also why I love the Latin Mass.

You will NEVER find anything so beautiful and angelic than Christianity. None.

@chadwahl @ssankar Shyam is moving into Thomas Sowell territory, in that he is right about everything

@BiotechGirlOKC "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field."

Contrast the present hysteria with Los Alamos. The Manhattan Project scientists thought the first nuclear explosion could ignite the atmosphere and end humanity. They did the math. They determined it wouldn’t. And they proceeded. Because they weren’t fighting a thought experiment. They were fighting the Nazis. Effective Altruism inverts this. Multiply a sufficiently horrifying hypothetical future by enough hypothetical future humans and suddenly speculation acquires the moral authority of fact. That’s not empiricism. It’s secular eschatology. Take risks seriously. Do the work. Engineer against them. But don’t confuse the ability to imagine the apocalypse with the authority to rule the present.

@loganclarkhall "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

Beamer, Rescorla, and Crowther embody the greatest teaching in human history. In Christ’s farewell discourse at the Last Supper according to the Gospel of John, he washes the feet as one of his final acts of service to his disciples and then says: “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” There’s no better way to grieve our heroes than to take solace in the gospel of John in my opinion. See if it helps you on a tough day.

Pub @PubWanghaf

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Same energy 🇺🇸 ♥️🤍💙 #NeverForget

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Tom Junod's 2003 Esquire piece on the Falling Man is one of the great pieces of 9/11 writing. esquire.com/news-politics/…

My all-time favorite quote by Charles Krauthammer explains why I've dedicated the past 16 years of my professional life to getting our politics right, even when politics is far from my favorite subject: "While science, medicine, art, poetry, architecture, chess, space, sports, number theory and all things hard and beautiful promise purity, elegance and sometimes even transcendence, they are fundamentally subordinate. In the end, they must bow to the sovereignty of politics. Politics, the crooked timber of our communal lives, dominates everything because, in the end, everything – high and low and, most especially, high – lives or dies by politics. You can have the most advanced and efflorescent of cultures. Get your politics wrong, however, and everything stands to be swept away. This is not ancient history. This is Germany 1933… Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns."

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8

“And lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.”

FDNY @FDNY

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Each year, FDNY members, family and friends walk in the footsteps of Father Mychal Judge, honoring a man whose compassion, courage and devotion to others defined his life of service. On September 11, 2001, Father Judge, an FDNY Chaplain and Franciscan Friar, rushed to the World

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Thrive Capital just published its first investor letter in 15 years. It explains how concentration, patience and independent judgment built a $65B firm with a 41% gross IRR. Eight ideas from the letter:

Niko Ludwig @Collateral_com

4 weeks ago

After 15 years, Josh Kushner just published Thrive Capital's first formal investor letter. Thrive manages $65B+ and has compounded capital at a 41% gross IRR since inception. Full letter for those who haven't read it yet:

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A lot of people are rightly pointing out that the pace of experimentation and regulatory approval are major hurdles to AI-driven impact on disease. But I think there’s a deeper issue. We haven’t fundamentally evolved how we think about treating disease. The dominant paradigm is still largely: find a target → develop a drug → run a clinical trial → get approval. But even if we solved the experimentation and regulatory bottlenecks and AI massively accelerated the end-to-end pipeline, would that revolutionize human health? Probably not. For most major chronic diseases, there isn’t a single cause or target (there certainly isn’t for aging) and we’ve had remarkably little success curing these diseases. Yet we continue plowing ahead with the therapeutic pipeline built around finding a target and developing a drug against it. That will never be enough. Instead, AI should be used to do more than accelerate this existing process. It should allow us to meet biological complexity head-on and think about entirely new ways of treating disease. If we want to realize the promise of curing diseases that today seem intractable, we have to be brave enough to disrupt the paradigm at its foundation.

@BenSasse And the Nebraska QB ain’t bad!

@RolandGunnTN already fully collapsed in MA. Demonic state. foxnews.com/politics/dem-g…

I asked for a hype video and they done went and made me cry 😭

Tennessee Football @Vol_Football

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Our Tennessee Home 🦋 #GBO 🍊

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Two thoughts from Marie Curie "Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." "Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."