Jonathan Eden @jonjeden

Can we please get the soft porn ads off playoff broadcasts, TBS, Fox, NBC, @MLB? My son wants to watch baseball with Dada, but how do I justify that when a half-naked women could come on screen anytime?? This is America’s Pastime. Parents shouldn’t have to worry about this.

Taylor Murphy @Tay_Murph

2 weeks ago

Hey @MLB - wanna get more kids watching baseball? Maybe start with the commercials. Watching the playoffs tonight with my kids and here's the rundown: - Megan Fox selling ED pills in a red bodysuit - The scariest movie trailer you've ever seen - Sydney Sweeney in zero clothes

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This paragraph by Kobe Bryant hits hard: “Everyone wants to be a beast. Everyone wants to be the best. But very few people are willing to do what it actually takes. Because what it takes is boring. It is waking up at 4:00 AM. It is shooting the same shot a thousand times. It is watching the film when you are tired. People fall in love with the result, but they hate the process. You have to fall in love with the boredom. You have to fall in love with the repetition. If you can find joy in the mundane work that no one else sees, the lights will eventually shine on you.”

This is a massive and growing problem for American national security. Unbelievable amounts of sensitive and classified information is captured, scraped, and sent back to foreign nations. And users have no idea. Nobody expects that their TV or monitor is a surveillance tool. When I have joked that Smart TVs should be illegal, I am only half-joking.

Nav Toor @heynavtoor

6 months ago

Your smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds. Not a guess. Not a theory. A peer-reviewed study by researchers at UC Davis, UCL, and UC3M tested it. Samsung TVs: every minute. LG TVs: every 15 seconds. Even when you're just using it as a monitor. Here's

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3 tests that predict the day you'll die better than most blood tests: 1. Grip Strength The Test • Hang from a pull-up bar • Overhand grip • Arms fully extended • No swinging or kipping • Time how long you can hold Men • 60+ seconds = strong predictor of good health and longevity • 90+ seconds = excellent • <30 seconds = increased risk marker Women • 30–45 seconds = good • 60+ seconds = excellent • <20 seconds = increased risk marker What it measures: Overall muscle strength, neuromuscular health and physical reserve. Research: Every 5kg increase in grip strength is linked with about 16 percent lower all-cause mortality. How to train it: Lift heavy weights and carry heavy loads. 2. Sit to Stand Test The Test • Sit on a standard chair (about 43–45 cm height) • Arms crossed over chest • Stand up fully, then sit back down • Repeat for 30 seconds • Count total reps Men • 20–24 reps = good • 25+ reps = excellent • <15 reps = elevated risk Women • 18–22 reps = good • 23+ reps = excellent • <12–14 reps = elevated risk What it measures: Lower body strength, power and functional capacity. Research: Slower performance predicts an earlier death and loss of independence. Taking longer than about 15 seconds for five repetitions is associated with higher risk of decline. How to train it: Bodyweight squats and leg strength exercises. 3. Gait Speed The Test • Measure a 10 metre walk • Walk at normal pace (not sprinting) • Time it • Calculate speed: metres per second • ≥1.2 m/s = excellent longevity marker • 1.0–1.2 m/s = normal • <0.8 m/s = increased mortality risk • <0.6 m/s = high risk / frailty What it measures: Walking speed as a marker of heart health, coordination and vitality. Research: Every 0.1 metres per second faster walking speed is associated with 12 percent lower mortality. How to train it: Brisk walking, interval walking and lower body strength training. PMID: 26634465 PMID: 21617190

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild. He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed. When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them. Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate. The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions. Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement. The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean. That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

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7 months ago

a moving man will meet his luck 🥀

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I've been working on tax software for the past 5 years. This is the last year anyone will have to pay for TurboTax. You can try it yourself today: - add the Aiwyn Tax connector inside of Claude (link below) - give it access to your tax documents (W-2s, etc.) - ask Claude to prepare your tax return ...and that's it!

Dario Amodei's new interview: He was asked "If you were in the room with the President right now, what would you say to him?" He says “Disagreeing with the government is the most American thing in the world.” He looks visibly strained.

Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai

8 months ago

the "supply chain risk" designation, can theoretically trigger a cascade of other existential crises for Anthropic. 1. Forced Seizure Threats The government could theoretically invoke the Defense Production Act. This law might allow the federal government to legally compel

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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.

All day Astronomy @forallcurious

8 months ago

🚨: Scientists mapped 1 mm³ of a human brain ─ less than a grain of rice ─ and a microscopic cosmos appeared.

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@grok @LuckyCharlie @RestrictedDaily @grok can you DM me updates each quarter?

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15 things to do with your father while he is still alive. I lost mine 8 years ago. 1. Ask him what he was like at your age because once he was the same age you are right now & Watch his face light up as he tells you stories from when he was younger 2. Record his laugh when he tells one of his signature jokes. Someday you will replay the video over and over just to hear it again 3. Ask him about the proudest moment of his life. (Odds are he will say when you were born) 4. Ask him his favourite songs Listen to them together, laugh, sing and be happy. These will become your most cherished memories in years to come 5. Take a picture of him doing something he loves. Watching tv, gardening, playing the guitar, anything. When you look back these will be the pictures that will make you smile the most 6. Tell him you love him even if it's something you don't normally do. 7. Tell him you are proud to be his son/daughter This will mean more to him than you realise (even if he doesn't show it) 8. Listen to music from his youth and watch him turn from dad into a young man again 9. Take a short video of him talking about something random sacred Someday even the ordinary things he said become 10. Bring up something you are thankful for from years ago 11. Ask him what it was like for him growing up 12. Call him for no reason Don't take being able to do this for granted. Someday you would give anything to hear his voice again. 13. Take a picture of just the 2 of you together 14. Ask him to show you an old photo of him because seeing him young will remind you that he wasn't always Dad 15. Tell him something you are struggling with, no matter what age you are Because even when your grown it means the world to him to feel like he can still help Let him give you advice, even if you don't need it because one day you will give anything to hear his voice guiding you again

COMMANDER: We’re fighting for freedom. And part of that freedom… is the freedom to retire with dignity. So we’re going to start accounts called 401(k)s. SOLDIER 1: What’s a 401(k)? COMMANDER: It’s a retirement account. You put money in, it grows tax-free, you take it out when you’re old. SOLDIER 2: So I don’t pay taxes on it? COMMANDER: Well, you pay taxes later. When you withdraw. SOLDIER 2: So it’s not tax-free. COMMANDER: It’s…tax-deferred. SOLDIER 2: What’s the difference? COMMANDER: You pay taxes later instead of now. SOLDIER 1: What if I want to pay taxes now? COMMANDER: Then you do a Roth 401(k). SOLDIER 3: What’s a Roth? COMMANDER: You pay taxes now, and it grows tax-free. SOLDIER 2: That’s what I thought the first one was. COMMANDER: No, the first one you pay taxes later. SOLDIER 1: Which one’s better? COMMANDER: Depends on your tax bracket in retirement. SOLDIER 1: …How would I…know that? COMMANDER: You don’t. You just guess. ⸻ SOLDIER 4: What if I don’t have a 401(k) through my employer? COMMANDER: Then you open an IRA. SOLDIER 4: What’s the difference? COMMANDER: One’s through your job, one’s on your own. SOLDIER 4: Can I have both? COMMANDER: Yes. SOLDIER 4: Should I? COMMANDER: Maybe. SOLDIER 3: Can I do a Roth IRA? COMMANDER: Only if you make under a certain amount. SOLDIER 3: What’s the limit? COMMANDER: Changes every year. SOLDIER 2: What if I make too much? COMMANDER: Then you do a backdoor Roth by putting it in a Traditonal first. SOLDIER 2: …Is that legal? COMMANDER: Surprisingly, yes. SOLDIER 1: What’s a backdoor Roth? COMMANDER: You contribute to a traditional IRA, then convert it to a Roth…but watch out for “pro rata”. SOLDIER 1: Why wouldn’t I just contribute to the Roth directly? COMMANDER: Because you make too much money. SOLDIER 1: But this way I can? COMMANDER: Yes. SOLDIER 1: That feels like a loophole. COMMANDER: It is. But the IRS is cool with it. ⸻ SOLDIER 5: I just changed battalions. What do I do with my old 401(k)? COMMANDER: You roll it over. SOLDIER 5: Into what? COMMANDER: An IRA. Or your new 401(k). Depends. SOLDIER 5: On what? COMMANDER: The funds. The fees. Whether your new plan accepts rollovers. SOLDIER 5: What if I just take the money out? COMMANDER: You’ll pay taxes plus a 10% penalty. SOLDIER 5: What if I’m 59? COMMANDER: Penalty. SOLDIER 5: 59 and a half? COMMANDER: No penalty. SOLDIER 5: …The half matters? COMMANDER: The half matters. ⸻ SOLDIER 3: What’s a mega backdoor Roth? COMMANDER: Okay. So. Your 401(k) has a limit of how much you can contribute. SOLDIER 3: Right. COMMANDER: But the total limit including employer contributions is higher. SOLDIER 3: Okay… COMMANDER: So if your plan allows ~after-tax~ contributions, you can put in more, then convert that to Roth. SOLDIER 3: Does my plan allow that? COMMANDER: I don’t know. You have to ask Betsy. SOLDIER 3: Will Betsy know? COMMANDER: Probably not. ⸻ SOLDIER 2: Can I deduct my IRA contribution on my taxes? COMMANDER: Are you covered by a retirement plan at work? SOLDIER 2: Yes. COMMANDER: Then only if you make under a certain amount per year. SOLDIER 2: What’s the amount? COMMANDER: Depends if you’re married. SOLDIER 2: What if my wife has a plan but I don’t? COMMANDER: Different limit. SOLDIER 2: What if neither of us has a plan? COMMANDER: Full deduction. SOLDIER 2: So it’s better to not have a 401(k)? COMMANDER: No… ⸻ SOLDIER 1: Can I just keep my money in a sock? COMMANDER: You could. But inflation will slowly destroy it. SOLDIER 1: What’s inflation? COMMANDER: (sighs)…

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Great advice for all consultants. Make sure your contributions and achievements are "seen".

Maurizio @themgmtconsult

10 months ago

Worked 2 decades in in consulting. Made Partner in my 30s. Led teams of 100+ people. Run 9-figure client portfolios. Lived and worked in 4 continents. To grow fast, I had to learn practical ways to "narrate reality" to my leaders, without turning into the loudest guy in the

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@realErikDPrince Great post, needs an update after last 24 hours

@n8nathanh @nateliason Good roadmap above, just split up steps.

There's a billion dollar business hidden in the teacher's lounge. Break room businesses scale FAST by using the 3 best networkers this big blue planet has ever known: 1. Teachers 2. Realtors 3. Stylists Here's all the ways you can profit from these 3 chatty Cathys: (BTW, this is tried and proven, just ask the $300M Chicken Salad Chick founder. She wouldn't be in business without it. More on her below) Teachers, realtors and stylists are insanely well connected in their communities, and they talk. Boy, do they talk. Not only do they talk, but they talk to high value clients: Parents Investors Homeowners Other realtors & brokers People that can afford stylists How can you use them? Give them free food with marketing materials! That's it. It only works for certain types of businesses though. And what's more powerful than a personal referral or word of mouth marketing? Maybe John Cena, but other than him, NOTHING. When Stacy Brown first launched Chicken Salad Chick, she was a broke as a joke single mom, down on her luck. She only had 1 thing: A freaking amazing Chicken Salad recipe. It was so amazing that she sold it door to door to pay the bills, but she wanted a restaurant. She opened a tiny little restaurant in Auburn, AL (ew) and used those 3 groups of people to spread the word. What happened? She blew up. Absolutely blew up. It was a runaway success, and their sales last year were over $300m across hundreds of restaurants. She simply gave away her food to teachers, realtors and stylists and they talked and talked and talked. She said herself that this one marketing channel was the secret to her early success. But this works for more than just restaurants, you know. Here's a list: 1. Home Services HVAC, tree trimming, plumbing, fencing, etc etc etc. These 3 cohorts know homeowners, and homeowners are always looking for good home service providers. For teachers and stylists it would work best for more impulsive home services like epoxy flooring or painting. If it were tree trimming or HVAC you'd need to catch them at the right time. In our tree trimming biz, realtors are our biggest lead source. Not biggest referral source, biggest lead source. Realtors work great for bigger items like roofing and HVAC because they need that crap to be done yesterday so they can close. 2. Real Estate If I were a real estate agent or flipper, I'd spend the whole of my marketing budget on Chick Fil A and Panera. When your average ticket size is $10k - $200k+, you can afford it. Stay top of mind with these three cohorts and they will bring you off market listings and fix n flips. And yes, if you're a realtor, you want to be buying lunch for other realtors as well. 3. Retail If I opened a restaurant, gym, boutique, insurance office, or literally anything in retail, this would be my #1 marketing channel. Why? Because your customers are LOCAL. The network effects of these three groups of people spreading your gospel is far more valuable (and cheaper) than impersonal FB ads. 4. Pet products and services Doggy daycares, vets, pet stores, dog walkers, groomers, pet products, pet apps, etc, could all benefit from this. There are more dogs in the US than kids. Sell something to their owners. 5. Bounce house rentals Yeah, this is pretty niche, but I just love this biz for some reason. You'll be booked for months if you bought lunch for these groups of people. Tell me you wouldn't? Honestly bro, tell me you wouldn't? Buy a $700 bounce house + $70 worth of lunch, and you'll have your money back in 1 week. Then do that x17. BTW, the term break room businesses is an invention of yours truly, so please Venmo me $3 every time you use it. JKJK Thanks for reading. Now go start a dang business already. @mhp_guy signing out.