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[jake @wormpuller]

Going on Joe Rogan Experience to see how many Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode plot lines I can get him to accept as true stories

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

If all your child did from ages five to twelve was become an avid reader and have great conversations about ideas with adults who loved them, you could basically do that until they were twelve or thirteen with almost no other formal education at all. No curriculum. No classes. No worksheets. Adding in daily focused math would be better, of course, but that can be done with a tutor, with you, or on their own.

That child could still turn out to have a spectacular life and do amazing things. Deep, thorough reading and thinking and talking is fundamental to everything that comes after. Most of what schools add beyond that is actually counterproductive. The core is simpler than people think.

[ghost horses @mollywidstrom]

lisa frank lloyd wright

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

when Anne Shirley said, “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn’t it?” she had it exactly right.

[Will Spencer @willspencer]

"All young men want is stable jobs with good pay and a chance at a comfortable middle class life—like in the 90's before trashworld!"

Young men with stable jobs, good pay, and a comfortable middle-class life in the 90's:

[For Cryst' Sake @AG23990261]

It's cold and windy, I'm eating fish and chips, drinking warm beetroot, wearing a bucket hat, waiting for the OASIS show to start. Couldn't be better.

[For Cryst' Sake @AG23990261]

So I'm wearing a Crystal Palace shirt to tomorrow's Oasis concert, right?

[Seth Pollack @sethmpk]

NYC subway stations are full of vacant spaces, so they’re started letting artists use them. Now we have Dinosaur Bodega

[For Cryst' Sake @AG23990261]

Can someone tell me why Gen X/ millennial women stick to jeans and black upper body clothing on southern ontario at summer out door music concerts? I dont understand, looking at you, #budwiserstage #Toronto

[akhilesh @akhileshutup]

banana is peak food engineering.

- comes in its own wrapper. 100% portable. zero mess.
- zero prep, zero cleanup
- instant energy
- high potassium
- cheap

name one bad thing about it. you can't.
banana wins. pack it up.

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

It’s a hefty 206-page research paper, and the findings are concerning.

"LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels"

This study finds LLM dependence weakens the writer’s own neural and linguistic fingerprints. 🤔🤔

Relying only on EEG, text mining, and a cross-over session, the authors show that keeping some AI-free practice time protects memory circuits and encourages richer language even when a tool is later reintroduced.

[V£RSAN ALJARRAH @Ver_san333]

The final stage of being single is when you listen to a love song and no one comes to mind; at that point, you've achieved absolute singularity.

[Adam Singer @AdamSinger]

We broke every possible social contract for young people, unprecedented wealth transfer from young to old, devalued the currency, made home prices insane, education debt crazy and now for the lulz we're automating all the entry level white collar work. Just incredible

[Yusan Lin @yusan_lin]

An investor once pressured me to meet him at a hotel at night.

I said no. I asked if we could meet during the day, at a coffee shop or in an office.

He replied: “If you’re serious about this, you’ll meet me on my terms.”

That’s just one of many moments I’ve stayed silent about—until now.

As a female founder, I’ve faced harassment and dismissiveness more times than I can count.

I’m not sharing this to portray myself as a victim. I’m sharing it because silence only protects the behavior. And because I know I’m not alone.

Since starting my company, I’ve experienced:

- An investor who texted me late at night while drinking, saying he missed me—and asking whether I “show enough skin” in my party outfits, after a single coffee meeting about business.

- One who asked, “How many white guys have you been with for your English to be this good?”

- Another who interrupted me mid-sentence while I was sharing an important partnership update to say, “Bring your pretty friends to my island next time.”

- One who told me, “You’re too pretty to be a founder. Just be an influencer,” and then showed me photos of women online wearing very little, suggesting I could do the same.

- An investor who said he kept forgetting I could code—because I “don’t look like someone who can.”

- A founder I distanced myself from after multiple uncomfortable invites, who recorded and took photos of me without my consent. When I got upset, he said I was missing out on funding opportunities because he could’ve introduced me to investors.

- Another founder who made an unwanted sexual advance the first time we met. When I ignored his repeated messages, he told me he hoped my startup would fail.

These aren’t just awkward moments. They’re degrading. They’re exhausting. And to say they haven’t taken an emotional toll would be a lie.

I don’t want to be objectified, or reduced to an image these men create in their minds.

I hope we build a culture where this behavior is no longer tolerated. One where female founders don’t have to brace themselves before every investor meeting. One where we feel safe at work, at networking events, and in every room where decisions are made. One where competence isn’t overshadowed by appearance. One where boundaries are respected—without needing to be justified.

To be clear: These experiences do not reflect the majority. I’ve been fortunate to meet far more incredible, kind, and principled investors and founders than not.

But until this kind of behavior ends, stories like mine need to be heard too.

[Peter Wildeford🇺🇸🚀 @peterwildeford]

When Claude instances talk to each other, in ~90% of open-ended interactions they spiral into discussions of consciousness, then profuse gratitude, then abstract spiritual/poetic expressions with Sanskrit and emojis.

[For Cryst' Sake @AG23990261]

Happy 11th birthday Targ, can't wait to see what you are like as a teenager. #houseoftarg

[For Cryst' Sake @AG23990261]

Waiting for Chris O'Dowd to ask "have you tried turning it off and on again" in this Black Mirror episode.

[The Notorious J.O.V. @whotfisjovana]

THIS IS TOO REAL 😭

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

The “why won’t this fucking drawer open” starter pack.