Amy Rubinate

#Audiobook producer @mosaicaudio Dog enthusiast. Muppet at heart. Author #GraphicNovel Kate & the City of Fire, Annie & the Unsinkable Ship

[thelotachi 🔲⛓️ @0xlota]

Ethan Hawke tells Sydney Sweeney his unique method for memorizing massive amounts of dialogue by treating it like a personal journal.

​"What I do, and I started doing this a really long time ago, I handwrite everything like it's my journal. When I'm memorizing, I'm not memorizing from a typewritten final draft page. I don't want to have that in my brain, and I don't want irrelevant stage directions to be part of it."

​"And then I do it again to see what I remember and what I don't remember. I try to write it from memory. And then I look, and I see what I got wrong. That process really helps me."

​"Then I try to record it with no acting. I listen, when I if I think I have it, I take three pages or something and you try to learn that. And then I look at the script and see what I got wrong."

​"Jon Voight taught me this when I was like 19, which is you unlace your shoe, and you have to do the speech lacing your shoe. If I'm trying to remember, then it's difficult to do. Until you can do that, until you can do other things, you don't really know it."

[Lezzet Rotası @LezzetRotasi_]

Tek tavada, bol lezzetli domatesli ve patlıcanlı makarna. 🍅🍆🍝

[gomi @parveen__tyagi]

writing will genuinely change your life more than motivation ever will. not in some cringe “manifest your dream life” way. i mean in a very real, practical way. most people never actually stop long enough to understand what’s going on inside their own head. they just react to life all day. scroll when they feel uncomfortable. distract themselves when things get quiet. jump from one dopamine hit to the next. but writing forces you to slow down for a second and actually look at your thoughts instead of running from them. and the weird part is you usually don’t even realize what you truly think until you start writing it down.

writing doesn’t just record your thoughts it creates them. ideas start flowing that you didn’t even know were there. patterns start showing up. emotions start making sense. problems become easier to solve because they’re no longer this giant fog floating around in your head. writing organizes your mind. every high performer, every sharp thinker, every person who just gets it, they all write. It keeps showing up as the common thread. not the expensive stuff. not the complex stuff. Just pen and paper. they write because feelings are vague but words are precise. every time they sit down and search for the exact word to describe what’s inside them, they become a sharper, more powerful communicator.

“people follow the person who can say what they mean and mean what they say. writing every day is how you build that muscle until it becomes second nature.”

over time, all that accumulated writing becomes a resource you can draw from forever. the more you write, the more material you have to solve problems, connect dots and think bigger.

the better you get at putting thoughts into words, the better you get at communicating in general. and honestly, communication controls a huge part of your life. like relationships, opportunities, business, confidence, influence, all of it comes down to how clearly you can express yourself. and no, you don’t need to be some amazing writer either. your grammar doesn’t need to be perfect. nobody cares. half the benefit comes from simply getting thoughts out of your head and onto paper.

some of the best writing advice i’ve ever heard was:

“write badly. just write.”

because the moment you stop trying to sound smart or perfect, your real thoughts finally start coming out.

even 30 minutes a day changes something in you. you become calmer because your mind isn’t carrying around a thousand unprocessed thoughts anymore. you become more self aware because you start noticing your own habits and emotional patterns. you become more articulate because you’re practicing turning feelings into language every single day.

if you write every day, your future self gets to sit down and read exactly how far you’ve come. i think that’s more valuable than any photo album.

who knows maybe one day all that writing becomes a book, a course, something you give your children. at the very least, it becomes proof that you were here, that you grew, that you tried.

that’s one of the coolest parts about it. writing lets you watch yourself evolve with time.

seriously. start writing. doesn’t matter if it’s in a notebook, your notes app, twitter wherever. just sit, think about your thoughts and write.

just sit down for 30 minutes and let your mind speak for once. and watch yourself becoming unstoppable.

[Isabel🌻 @isabelunraveled]

How to get over your fear of being seen + get comfortable putting your face / voice out there. Also, watch the documentary I mention here because I SWEAR you will understand all of this when you do.

[Jota @jota_snchez]

En 2015, Matthew McConaughey dio un discurso de graduación que se volvió legendario.

No felicitó a nadie. Se saltó los halagos y fue al grano.

10 lecciones que deberían enseñarte antes de salir al mundo:

1. La vida no es fácil. Y no es justa.

[Amy Rubinate @amyrubinate]

WHAT?!

[Alvin @Alvin1492840]

Netflix is quietly hoping you never type a 4-digit code into your browser.

I did.

There are 2,200+ hidden categories the homepage will never show you noir thrillers, cult sci-fi, tearjerkers, gentle British reality TV, witchcraft documentaries, deep sea horror, gritty courtroom dramas.

Netflix uses over 2,000 "taste clusters" to decide what you see. The algorithm shows you what IT wants. The codes show you everything.

You've been scrolling for 20 minutes saying "there's nothing to watch" while sitting on a library of 8,000+ titles organized into categories you were never meant to find.

Here's how to unlock them and the codes most worth bookmarking 🧵

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Marc Brackett spent 20 years at Yale studying why intelligent people are the worst at understanding their own emotions.

What he found will change how you see yourself:

1. Most people cannot name what they are feeling. When Brackett asks a room to find the single word that best describes their emotion, over half struggle. We have never been formally taught to go deep into our emotional lives. We develop a sophisticated vocabulary for things we pay attention to, like wine, but almost none for our own inner states.

2. Emotions quietly control decisions we think are objective. Brackett had teachers grade the exact same middle school essay after being put in a good or bad mood. The grades differed by a full letter, sometimes two. When asked afterwards if their emotional state affected their evaluation, 90% said no way. It did, and they had no awareness of it.

3. No emotion is bad. Everyone is useful depending on what you do with it. Yellow, high energy, and pleasant, is great for brainstorming but terrible for careful decisions. Green, calm, and pleasant, is good for consensus building. Blue drives empathy. Red, anger, points at injustice, and can fuel passion if you channel it instead of being run by it. The goal is not to feel good all the time. it is to use each state well.

4. Jealousy and envy are not the same, and the difference changes how you treat them. Envy is wanting what someone else has. Jealousy is about a relationship, a threat to a bond you already have. It matters because jealousy tends to drive more aggression and violence, so the strategy you would teach a jealous child is completely different from the one for an envious child. Precise labelling enables precise action.

5. Telling someone to calm down, focus, or pay attention almost never works. Brackett points out we bark these commands at children and adults constantly, but we never teach the underlying mental processes for how to actually calm down or focus. Naming the desired state is not the same as giving someone the tools to reach it.

6. 80% of people rate themselves as more emotionally intelligent than the person next to them. which is statistically impossible. Self-report is nearly useless here because there is no reference point. Compared to his father, Brackett says, he is an emotional genius. Compared to the dalai lama, he needs work. Asking people to rate their own emotional intelligence has no validity.

7. 360 reviews measure your reputation, not your skill. When you ask other people to rate someone's emotional intelligence, what you actually capture is whether they like the person, not how skilled they are. The only valid measurement is watching someone solve real emotion-related problems, like decoding expressions or handling a loaded situation.

8. Emotions gate your ability to think and learn at all. A child worried about being bullied between classes cannot focus on the lesson. Brackett failed to focus on his own graduate school entrance exam months after his mother died, and only later understood it had nothing to do with his problem-solving ability. His emotional life was occupying the cognitive space the test required.

9. Emotion regulation is not just about managing negative feelings. We think of it as anger management or stress reduction, all down-regulating. But Brackett asks, who has ever taken a course in optimism induction or happiness maintenance? Regulation also means generating emotions you need, like a leader creating energy in a room, and maintaining good states when others try to pull you out of them.

10. Children with higher emotional intelligence do better on almost every measure that matters. less anxiety, less depression, less likely to abuse alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes, less aggression and bullying. They are seen as better leaders, are more attentive, less hyperactive, and perform better academically. The skill that determines academic performance most powerfully is emotion regulation.

11. The strongest sign of emotional intelligence in the workplace is whether people want to take you with them. Brackett had a Fortune 100 company's executives rate 100 managers, including one question: if you left the company tomorrow, would you do anything to bring this person with you? That question correlated more strongly with emotional intelligence than anything else. People want to be around those who have these skills.

12. Brackett hires on the coffee shop criteria. At Yale, he stopped looking at grades because everyone applying is already smart enough. What he looks for instead is whether, in the first 30 seconds, he thinks he would enjoy grabbing coffee with the person and just talking. That instinct tells him whether they are curious, creative, and know how to ask questions, the things schools rarely teach.

13. Creativity only translates into creative output when paired with emotional intelligence. Brackett cites research showing that people who are biologically more open to experience are only rated as producing genuinely creative work when they also score high in emotional intelligence. The reason is that creating means failing and being disappointed constantly, and without the strategies to manage that disappointment, the creative potential never gets unleashed.

14. The meta moment is a six-step tool for not being hijacked by emotion. Something triggers you. You sense the shift in your body and thinking. You take a breath to activate your parasympathetic nervous system and bring the hijacked state down, so your prefrontal cortex can work again. Then you picture your best self, the version of you that you want to be, and let that guide your response. Brackett jokes that six steps done well can help you avoid the twelve steps later.

15. When you are angry, you search for every reason to stay angry. Brackett describes how anger makes you dig up every past grievance, the vacation three years ago, the promise from last week, the thing from when your child was born. Anger is one of those emotions that hunts for justification. The meta moment is designed to interrupt that spiral before it compounds.

16. Seeing your best self is what makes the breath actually work. Brackett admits that taking a breath alone is not enough, because sometimes you take the breath and calmly decide to go for the jugular anyway. The missing piece is shifting your mindset by asking what your best self would do. He built this idea after a student called him the feelings master, and he started asking how the feelings master would actually carry himself in a hard moment.

17. You never regret taking a moment, and you always regret being dysregulated. Brackett is honest that even after years of this work, he sometimes ignores his own best self and ends up, in his words, sleeping alone on the couch that night. But he has never once regretted pausing to be his best self. The regret only ever comes from the times he let the hijack win.

[Amy Rubinate @amyrubinate]

I will never remember these if I don't repost...

[Earn Knowledge @earnknowledgee]

8 Poses For Women To Get Great Photos 🔥📷

[Catherine Austin Fitts @austin_fit76995]

This is a classic, calculated land grab by the technocratic elite. AI data centers aren't being placed in remote, uninhabited areas where they should logically go. No, they're being strategically positioned adjacent to residential neighborhoods.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Big Tech will absolutely destroy our drinkable water supply to advance their AI products and increase their profits.

Just like the health insurance industry lets people die to increase their profits.

Just like Big Oil destroys the planet to increase their profits.

Just like military contractors donate millions to politicians to start wars to increase their profits.

Just like polluters poison our air to increase their profits.

Just like food manufacturers add poisons to our food to increase their profits.

Billionaire and trillionaire greed is killing us.

[K(sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyett]

Those of us on the academic and research side who have been warning of the threat of the billionaire class, and specifically the dark enlighten neo reactionary sect of techno fascists tried to tell yall this was how it was going to end.

They plan to murder humanity.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

If you had told me 10 years ago that a billionaire would accuse humans of drinking too much water in 2026 because data centres need it to power the AI tech that is now threatening our entire way of life, I would have told you to write a better Bond villain, because wtf?

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

Huberman interviewed Michael Easter on the comfort crisis.

The scariest part:

A life with no hard things trains your brain to fear everything.
[Your memory center gets weaker & emotions become harder to regulate]

Here are 7 hard things that can recalibrate your brain: 🪡

1. Do one thing every day you might fail at.

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

The Atlantic just released a tool that lets you see if your music has been scraped for AI training.

Recordings I sang on in King's College Choir are in there. So is the music of millions of other musicians.

Great work by @_alexreisner.

Check it here: https://t.co/2oT8tLeCJM

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

Someone replaced the dinosaurs in JURASSIC PARK with PEE-WEE HERMAN and I love it even more now 😂🔥 (not created with AI btw)

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

[The White Rabbit @TheWyteRabbit1]

They just pulled off the most successful trick of the last decade. And you were probably fooled.

500 million people downloaded Pokemon Go and never knew the company was collecting 30 billion images of every space they walked through. That data was just sold off to train delivery robots.

Meta has been using footage from their Ray-Ban smart glasses to train AI. That footage included people on the toilet, couples in bed, and bank card details accidentally filmed.

They are now being sued in federal court.

DoorDash just launched an app that pays 8 million dashers pennies to film themselves doing chores in their own homes.

The footage trains the robots being built to replace them.

The future they are building is one we are paying for. With our jobs. With our homes. With our most private moments.

[Joanna Stern @JoannaStern]

This wasn’t the case a year ago when I gave a commencement speech almost entirely about AI. As I’ve been saying in my book tour, I find this pushback unsurprising and even encouraging.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

This monologue from Hannah Einbinder on the show “Hacks” perfectly encapsulates the frustration many people feel about AI.

What are your thoughts?

[onion person @CantEverDie]

the tech world has genuinely not grappled with how many people
despise them and what they make