José Luis

[Essential Mastery @EssentialMastry]

Dostoevsky was right; “Every self-betrayal is a sin. Whenever you go against your nature, your body reminds you.”

If you spend enough time with anything, you start liking it, even sadness. So let’s choose people and spaces that truly elevate us. Your peace is worth it.

[Lomas Chapultepec @cclomaschapulte]

@BlindarMH @cesar_m_garrido @PAOTmx nos pueden apoyar con esto en la TORRE KLU montes urales 405 el ruido a todo @pilfernandez @Copalomas @comitebarrilaco

[beck @cardgani]

yo el 30 de junio después de que claudia sheinbaum me suspenda la línea telefónica

[yosoymario @yosoymario91]

Just remember:

68% men have visible abs
86% men bench 220 lbs
90% men run sub 20 5k
113% men squat 315 lbs

You're doing worse than you thought

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨let me tell you why Iran just closed the Strait of Hormuz again because most people have no idea what happened today..

this morning the deal was simple.. stop the war.. reopen the strait.. let oil flow.. Iran did its part.. oil dropped 16%..

but Iran had one condition that mattered more than anything.. Lebanon must be included in the ceasefire.. it was point one in their 10-point plan.. Trump called it "workable"..

hours later Israel bombed Beirut and Tyre.. Netanyahu said "this is not the end of the battle".. Trump confirmed Lebanon was never in the deal.. and Iran's parliament announced 3 out of 10 clauses were already violated..

so here's what actually happened.. Iran was told the deal covers Lebanon.. opened the strait based on that understanding.. then watched Lebanon get bombed while the White House said it was never covered..

Iran didn't break the ceasefire.. the ceasefire was broken around them.. and the strait is the only leverage they have to prove it matters..

20% of the world's oil is being turned on and off like a game.. running the worl like a school project..
people are dying in Beirut.. markets are swinging billions by the hour.. and the people in charge can't even agree on what they signed this morning..

these are our leaders..

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

fiber doesn't "fill you up"
soluble fiber is fermented by gut bacteria into short-chain fatty acids. those SCFAs stimulate L-cells in your intestine to release GLP-1 (the same hormone that ozempic mimics)

you can make your own GLP-1s, for free, from fiber

[‏ً @itsnwts]

My man said something to me that really stuck.

He told me, “I’m not here to control you. I’m not your dad, I’m your partner. You’re free to make your own choices. Just understand that every choice has consequences. If you choose something that damages what we’ve built, that’s on you.”

He said, “I’ll always tell you when something hurts me or crosses a boundary, because that’s what healthy communication looks like. But if you keep stepping over the line after I’ve shown you where it is, then you were never really protecting us to begin with.”
And honestly, that’s what accountability in a relationship sounds like.

[Emeka @OInnocxnt]

The moment you threaten to leave a man or end a relationship, make sure you say it once and back it up. Cos you’re never getting back the same man that once loved you.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

LLM Knowledge Bases

Something I'm finding very useful recently: using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics of research interest. In this way, a large fraction of my recent token throughput is going less into manipulating code, and more into manipulating knowledge (stored as markdown and images). The latest LLMs are quite good at it. So:

Data ingest:
I index source documents (articles, papers, repos, datasets, images, etc.) into a raw/ directory, then I use an LLM to incrementally "compile" a wiki, which is just a collection of .md files in a directory structure. The wiki includes summaries of all the data in raw/, backlinks, and then it categorizes data into concepts, writes articles for them, and links them all. To convert web articles into .md files I like to use the Obsidian Web Clipper extension, and then I also use a hotkey to download all the related images to local so that my LLM can easily reference them.

IDE:
I use Obsidian as the IDE "frontend" where I can view the raw data, the the compiled wiki, and the derived visualizations. Important to note that the LLM writes and maintains all of the data of the wiki, I rarely touch it directly. I've played with a few Obsidian plugins to render and view data in other ways (e.g. Marp for slides).

Q&A:
Where things get interesting is that once your wiki is big enough (e.g. mine on some recent research is ~100 articles and ~400K words), you can ask your LLM agent all kinds of complex questions against the wiki, and it will go off, research the answers, etc. I thought I had to reach for fancy RAG, but the LLM has been pretty good about auto-maintaining index files and brief summaries of all the documents and it reads all the important related data fairly easily at this ~small scale.

Output:
Instead of getting answers in text/terminal, I like to have it render markdown files for me, or slide shows (Marp format), or matplotlib images, all of which I then view again in Obsidian. You can imagine many other visual output formats depending on the query. Often, I end up "filing" the outputs back into the wiki to enhance it for further queries. So my own explorations and queries always "add up" in the knowledge base.

Linting:
I've run some LLM "health checks" over the wiki to e.g. find inconsistent data, impute missing data (with web searchers), find interesting connections for new article candidates, etc., to incrementally clean up the wiki and enhance its overall data integrity. The LLMs are quite good at suggesting further questions to ask and look into.

Extra tools:
I find myself developing additional tools to process the data, e.g. I vibe coded a small and naive search engine over the wiki, which I both use directly (in a web ui), but more often I want to hand it off to an LLM via CLI as a tool for larger queries.

Further explorations:
As the repo grows, the natural desire is to also think about synthetic data generation + finetuning to have your LLM "know" the data in its weights instead of just context windows.

TLDR: raw data from a given number of sources is collected, then compiled by an LLM into a .md wiki, then operated on by various CLIs by the LLM to do Q&A and to incrementally enhance the wiki, and all of it viewable in Obsidian. You rarely ever write or edit the wiki manually, it's the domain of the LLM. I think there is room here for an incredible new product instead of a hacky collection of scripts.

[Path of Men @PathOfMen_]

If you wait too long, the coffee gets cold, the door closes, you get old, the girls move on, and dreams fade.

You must act with a sense of urgency today.

[iza @izamamaa]

🚨🇲🇽 BREAKING — Mexican Scientist Successfully Eliminates HPV.

[Pat Stedman | Dating & Relationship Coach for Men @Pat_Stedman]

Probably the biggest reason modern relationships are failing is because the criteria for them has been framed around "me"

"How do I get them to meet my needs?"

"Is this relationship serving me?"

This is not the point of a serious relationship, and especially not a marriage.

Once you enter into a deeper commitment with someone "your" interests are no longer what you must pursue. What you must pursue is what the relationship requires.

You and her are pieces of a bigger structure. You neither serve yourself nor her.

You serve the marriage, because when you serve the marriage it serves you.

"What does the marriage require to function at a higher level?" is the only question you need to be asking. And it is the frame you need to approach all issues and disagreements with your wife.

If your sex life is bad, the frame is not your preferences vs hers. It's not "I'm not getting as much sex as I want." It is that the marriage is under threat by the current dynamic - that your connection is deteriorating. It is not an ego fight over who contributes what, or a tit-for-tat exchange. She is not a vendor you are transacting with. She is a business partner with equity. You don't measure outputs; you work together or you fall together.

It goes without saying the same thing applies to any frustrations she has about your own behavior. If doing something makes her feel more invested in the marriage, it is valid. These are different than self-serving shit tests or demands.

You may think this is all semantic but it is not. If you are looking at each other to change or compromise you are at odds with each other. You are at best negotiating two egos; more often than not you are simply manipulating or trying to control each other. If you are looking to what the relationship needs, however, then it stops being win-lose like this. Sex is not about exerting power anymore - which is incidentally a major reason why in monogamous dynamics most women stop "wanting" it. Sex is about reinforcing bonds. The more sex she has, the more the marriage thrives. If she values the marriage, having sex gives her what she wants, so she no longer feels the ego's pressure not to do it.

The modern obsession with the honeymoon phase and denigration of later relationship dynamics is downstream of the narcissism of modern people who see relationships not as structures to build, but as entities to extract validation from. They are addicted to the idealized reflection of themselves they get from someone's fantasy of them. They wax poetic about looking for love and excitement, but really it's not about anything besides ego gratification.

Men looking for marriage should be dating women they enjoy being around, get along with, and want to have sex with - because you will need these things with a woman to want to work together with her. And they should be vetting for whether these women share their values / vision and have good character, because these traits tell you that you can.

But even when you find a woman like this, if you don't anchor and reinforce the win-win framing, things will gradually fall apart.

All relationships deteriorate the moment they become about individual feelings rather than the needs of what you have agreed to build together.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

this is actually insane

> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets
> design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch
> genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own
> need ethics approval to administer it
> red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine
> 3 months, finally approved
> drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection
> tumor halves
> coat gets glossy again
> dog is alive and happy
> professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?”

one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline.

we are going to cure so many diseases.
I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

[Monica Almaguer @MonicaMAlmaguer]

Wife: I do ___and he "just accepts it"
What you do DOES affect him. He doesn't say anything because he knows he can't without the emotional fall out that will surely happen. Most men do want their wife happy, but it can't come with the cost of disrespect.

[roobz 🌙 🌸 @tishray]

Every country has an energy. And that energy rewires you whether you notice it or not. People move to Japan and become minimal. People move to Mexico and their entire relationship with time softens. People move to New York and suddenly they can't sit still. Your personality is far more malleable than you think. We treat it like something fixed, but new surroundings give you new defaults. New pace. New habits. New values absorbed through proximity instead of effort. You're not just the average of the 5 people closest to you. You're the average of the 5 places, the 5 routines, and the 5 inputs you're exposed to most. Your commute shapes you. The weather shapes you. Every space you occupy is voting on who you become. That's why I believe choosing where you live is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make. More important than your job title. Maybe more important than your five-year plan. Because the place shapes the plan. The place shapes your energy, your habits, your relationships, your default state. Get the place right and half of the other decisions start making themselves. Get it wrong and you'll fight yourself every day.

[Asanwa.sol @Chizitere_xyz]

It was my birthday last week, and I was sitting in the breakroom at work when a younger coworker asked what my partner had gotten me. She already had her phone out, completely ready to see a picture of a designer bag, a massive $500 floral arrangement, or a viral-worthy dinner receipt.

I told her the truth: He spent his entire weekend covered in grease, replacing the alternator and brake pads on my car, and then he quietly paid off the remaining balance of my student loan that had been giving me rolling panic attacks for six months.

She gave me this deeply tragic, pitying look. “Oh. Well, that’s practical, I guess,” she said. “But you deserve to be spoiled. You know, the princess treatment. A man who really loves you wants to show you off, not just do chores. That's kind of the bare minimum.”

I just stared at her.

What she didn’t see was that for the last half of the year, I had been losing sleep, my hair was thinning from financial stress, and I was terrified to drive my car on the highway. My partner took his only two days off from his own grueling job, completely wrecked his hands under my hood, and drained his own savings, just to hand me back my peace of mind.

The internet has completely rotted our definition of romance. We have been brainwashed to believe that if a man isn't performing his love for an audience, buying things that look highly aesthetic on a TikTok reel, then he isn't doing enough.

We are out here casually calling a man's literal blood, sweat, and absolute financial sacrifice "the bare minimum" just because it doesn't come in a shiny box with a ribbon.

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

learning how to tell when advice is really just someone else’s regret in disguise. your divorced friend cautioning you about marriage, your broke uncle’s take on investments, your unhappy parent steering your career.

they are not advising you. they are processing themselves. once you learn to hear the wound behind the words you stop letting lost people give you directions.

[E5 @E5THXR]

Hate to break it to you guys but sometimes you have to do things you don’t like for the sake of having a community. Avoiding consistency with the people in your life is working against us and the data already shows it. If you think connections can be sustained on absence carry on

[Vivian @suchnerve]

Journalists once again failing at understanding the very basic idea “Your job is to report accurately, not to try to look as ‘neutral’ as possible, because ‘neutrality’ in response to oppression is actually just complicity.”

[blue @bluewmist]

major cheat code in life: be the one who reaches out. text first. call first. plan first. initialize first. most people wait to be chosen. be the chooser. connection requires initiative. friendship requires effort. love requires action. stop waiting to be picked. start picking. initiative is attractive.