Noella Your Lifestyle Coach 👸🏼

My tweets are opinions of my own as a lifestyle coach ✈️ 🏂🏄‍♀️mom, tennis player, patriot 🇺🇸 from 🇧🇷 in Cali living the dream

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

Physics can be incredibly satisfying

[Burak is back @gecersandin]

Adama bak ne yapmış 🤯

[NefodOff @v_nefodov]

Most people who see this guy walking around a house with a strange device think he is doing something pointless. He is actually billing $300 an hour.

He combined two things nobody thought to combine: a surveying credential and Claude Code.

The device is a ZEB Horizon, a professional handheld LiDAR scanner. He walks the perimeter of a property and it captures millions of precise spatial data points per second, building a complete 3D model of the structure as he moves. Every wall, roof angle, window placement, and exterior surface - measured to millimeter accuracy without a single tape measure or tripod.

That raw data used to require a full surveying firm to process. Reports took weeks. Clients paid for the team, the software licenses, the office overhead.

He replaced all of that with Claude Code. He built a processing pipeline that takes the LiDAR output, runs it through automated analysis, and generates a complete property report with measurements, 3D renders, and boundary documentation. What used to take a firm two weeks takes him two days. Alone.

Pause the video at
0:08 and look at the car parked under the roof overhang on the right side of the house. Did you notice that too?

The scanner already has it. Every dimension of that carport, the vehicle inside it, the gap between the roofline and the ground - all of it is in the point cloud before he even finishes the pass.

Real estate developers, architects, insurance assessors, and municipal planning offices are all paying for this. He does four properties a week at $300 an hour per scan.

Claude Code did not replace the surveying skill. It made one person with that skill worth what a whole firm used to charge.

[Сarm1ne @carm1nee]

The last place on earth where a high school dropout could borrow $80,000 - walk onto a trading floor - and become a millionaire before lunch

a rare 1980s documentary inside the Chicago trading pits - how fortunes were made and lost in seconds with nothing but hand signals and the sound of your voice -

where a seat cost $300,000 and your word was worth more than any contract ever written

"when you sit back at the end of the day and you look at how much money you made or could have made - you say wow - it's hard to believe someone can make this kind of money"

"losing feels a whole lot worse than winning feels good - please God just get me back to even and I'll get out"

bookmark & watch the full documentary ↓

[Ruben Hassid @rubenhassid]

People think learning Claude takes days. It doesn't.

I wrote 17 free guides that teach it in hours:

Claude 101: https://t.co/HNa5MrCLVU
Claude Code: https://t.co/O2kJvFkgan
Claude Skills: https://t.co/jT4uB5Bdjw
Claude Design: https://t.co/q1zjMfeAyg
Claude for Excel: https://t.co/7g3CFNcKrs
How to Prompt: https://t.co/EE46WHU8vg
Claude + Linkedin: https://t.co/9d5stC6grm
Be good at Claude: https://t.co/SVGd967eMQ
Stop writing like AI: https://t.co/JWKUGNKgOS
Claude Certificates: https://t.co/9jKsXWOt66
Claude for your team: https://t.co/U1JsBVCzYH
Claude Connectors: https://t.co/TSAQqOpDeV
Set up Claude Cowork: https://t.co/diDhiKkfjs
Stop Prompting Claude: https://t.co/j1LATSJiat
Claude to sound like you: https://t.co/kDGBpSF7Wh
Stop hitting Claude limits: https://t.co/j5fEzSH5br
Stop using Claude at work: https://t.co/c6X55Thy6t

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PS: I'm Ruben Hassid, and I want us to master AI before it masters us, with simple instructions.

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[Raytar @Raytar]

Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic five weeks ago.

Yesterday my friend on his team sent me the Claude.md file he actually uses.

It completely changed how I work with Claude.
From the very first message, the difference was obvious.

With this file, Claude finally stops fighting me and starts working exactly the way I need it to.

Bookmark it before it gets taken down.

Read it now, then check the article below.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Apple can't even fix Siri but they're making more money from AI than companies spending 30x more.

They pulled in $900 million from AI apps last year. On track to cross $1 BILLION in 2026.

Not by building AI models or spending hundreds of billions on data centers...

But simply by charging everyone else a 30% tax for the privilege of reaching iPhone users.

OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, xAI. Every major AI company on the planet pays Apple a cut every time someone subscribes to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Grok through the App Store.

75% of that $900 million came from ChatGPT alone.

Meanwhile, here's what Apple's competitors spent on AI last year:

Amazon: $100+ billion
Microsoft: $80 billion
Google: $75 billion
Meta: $65 billion

Combined: almost $400 billion.

Apple's AI spend? $12.7 billion. A fraction.

And Apple is STILL making a billion dollars from AI while spending 30x less than the competition.

Morgan Stanley projects Amazon's free cash flow will go NEGATIVE this year. Potentially by $28 billion. Barclays says Meta's free cash flow could drop 90%.

These companies are hemorrhaging cash trying to build the future of AI.

Apple just sits there collecting rent.

Think about the absurdity of this situation:

Sam Altman raised $110 billion for OpenAI. Spent years and billions building ChatGPT. Got 900 million weekly users. Built the most popular AI product in history.

And Apple takes 30% of every subscription that flows through the iPhone.

Altman does the work. Apple gets the cut.

Google spent $75 billion on AI infrastructure and is STILL paying Apple $20 billion a year to be the default search engine on iPhones. Now Apple is collecting ANOTHER revenue stream from Google's Gemini app subscriptions on top of that.

Google pays Apple coming and going.

The strategy is so simple it's almost offensive.

Every other tech company is in an arms race. Burning cash. Building data centers. Training frontier models. Fighting over who has the best AI.

Apple's strategy: Let them fight. Whoever wins still needs the iPhone to reach consumers. And whoever reaches consumers through the iPhone pays us 30%.

Apple is the toll road for AI.

And here's the thing that makes it even more brutal:

Siri is STILL terrible.

Apple's own AI assistant is years behind ChatGPT and Claude.

They're literally partnering with Google's Gemini to replace the brains behind Siri because they couldn't build it themselves.

Apple LOST the AI technology race.

But it doesn't matter.

Because they won the distribution race decades ago.

2.4 billion active iOS devices worldwide. The App Store processes every major AI subscription. And Apple takes a cut of all of it.

Wedbush analyst Dan Ives estimates Apple's AI layer alone could be worth $1.5 trillion over the coming years. Adding $75 to $100 per share just from being the middleman.

No data centers. No training runs. No frontier models. No billion-dollar compute bills.

Just 2.4 billion devices and a 30% tax on everyone who wants to reach them.

This is the most underrated business model in the entire AI industry.

Everyone's debating who builds the best AI.

Apple's already decided it doesn't matter.

Because whoever wins still pays them.

Do y'all think Apple is making the right move by not participating in the AI race?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Japan just raised its tourist visa fee 400%, the first increase since 1978. If you hold a US, UK, EU, Australian, or Canadian passport, you will not pay a cent of it.

Those roughly 74 countries can still walk in for up to 90 days with no visa and no fee. The new charge, 15,000 yen (about $93) for a single entry, up from 3,000 yen (about $18), only hits travelers from the 100-plus countries that need a visa to get in, like China, India, and Vietnam.

The increase is mostly catch-up. That 3,000 yen fee had been frozen since 1978. The yen has since slid from around 110 to the dollar in 2019 to roughly 150 now, which quietly turned an already-cheap fee into pocket change. Even after the jump, $93 is low compared with other countries. To defend the increase, the government pointed to fees abroad, where some US visa charges run $400 to $470 and Germany's sit near $107.

The timing lines up with a tourism boom that has little to do with the people paying this fee. Japan drew a record 42.7 million visitors in 2025, about 10 million more than before the pandemic, and they spent 9.5 trillion yen, roughly $60 billion. The weak yen is the engine. It makes Japan cheap to visit, which packs Kyoto and the trails up Mount Fuji, and most of those crowds come from the visa-free countries that pay nothing at the border.

The money trail makes the goal clearer. Japan expects the higher visa fees to bring in about 116 billion yen, near $718 million, next year. The government has set it aside for processing a record 4.13 million foreign residents, paying for Japanese-language programs, and cutting about $43 off the cost of a passport for Japanese citizens.

The visa fee is one line on a longer bill. The departure tax baked into every plane and ferry ticket triples the same day, from 1,000 to 3,000 yen. Kyoto's hotel tax now reaches 10,000 yen a night at the priciest hotels, about ten times the old ceiling. Climbing Mount Fuji costs 4,000 yen. And a new online entry permit called JESTA, due around 2028, will finally charge the visa-free crowd a small fee too.

Japan's own government says it does not expect any of this to slow arrivals, and the track record agrees. Venice started charging day-trippers in 2024 and the crowds kept coming. The 400% headline is real. For most of the tourists it makes you picture, the cost at the border is still zero.

[The Icahnist @TheIcahnist]

You could literally just fly to Zurich, grab a Kaffee und Gipfeli with a 63 year old Heizungsbauer in Winterthur, close your first acquisition over Kalbsfilet at the Kronenhalle, roll up 40 certified HVAC operators across DACH, ride the EU boiler phase-out like a regulatory escalator, build a recurring maintenance book worth 10x, sell to Brookfield at 14x EBITDA tax-free, park the HoldCo in Zug at 11.9%, and spend your summers in Ascona with a blonde who reads Hesse and Jünger.

- but you will not.

[ludoonchart @ludoonchart]

how Peter Thiel legally printed $5 billion completely tax free

in 1999, he put just $1700 into a middle class Roth IRA to buy early shares of PayPal

as Thiel famously said: "the biggest secret in investing is that the best investment outperforms all others combined"

bookmark this,and read the article and watch the cnbc news report below breaking down the greatest tax heist in history

[Aaron Bennett @Aaronbennett]

To max out a Roth IRA for a year ($7,500) you have to contribute $21 a day, everyday for the whole year.

If you max out your Roth IRA for just 3 years and let the money compound at 10% annually for 40 years you will end up with roughly $2.6 MILLION dollars that you can withdraw tax-free.

If you lock in for 3 years & contribute $20 a day for 3 years…

Retirement is guaranteed.

[Metav3rse @themetav3rse]

Peter Thiel turned a $1,800 Roth IRA contribution into $5 billion without paying a single dollar in tax.

The Roth IRA was designed for middle class workers.

Most IRAs have a limit of $6,000 a year in annual contributions that was installed just to prevent this kind of abuse.

But Thiel was able to get around that by basically buying shares of PayPal at the time, which he was a co-founder of, back in 1999.

He paid less than pennies per share for that.

If he waits to withdraw that money until he turns 60, that will be in 2027, he can start withdrawing those funds without paying any income taxes on that as it has grown over that time.

Another legal route used by a billionaire to build the largest tax-free fortune in American history.

PS. Follow us @themetav3rse for latest news on emerging technology and internet culture.

[LMD (Arc.) @Layemie001]

Amazing much time being put into making something so ridiculous, talmbout “you’ve been using a shovel the wrong way in your entire life”

[Anuj @anujcodes_21]

🚨Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.

Taught by the people who built it.

Free. No registration. No paywall.

I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

Watch it and bookmark it now.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated.

His name is Qing Li.

He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea.

The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason.

Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005.

He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest.

Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty.

The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected.

The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly.

Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty.

Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month.

Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet.

The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation.

The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall.

When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab.

Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system.

This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress.

A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower.

The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down.

Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks.

They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone.

The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk.

After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature.

What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care.

But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free.

The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish.

Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens.

Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

[HOUSE PORN @HOUSEPORN___]

bro has a whole world in every room of his apartment 😭

[David Senra @davidsenra]

When Adam’s stock price dropped by 92% he borrowed money to buy back $6 billion in stock.

That bet made the company more than $60 billion:

“If no one's going to buy our shares why don't we just start buying our own shares?

The company at the bottom was worth $3.8 billion.

And we were generating over a billion dollars of EBITDA.

Well in theory we could buy back 20%
of the shares of the company just in the next year if we really believed in the path we were on.

So we kicked that off.

But we did it a little bit differently than what most companies do.

Most companies go out and say I'm going to buy shares from the public markets and just take shares back.

But you don't know who's on the other side of that trade.

On the other hand we knew that we had a cap table where about 50% of the
shares were going to sell at some point over the coming years.

We had private equity investors
that owned roughly 50% of the shares of the company alongside some
other founders that were no longer there.

So instead of going to the public we went to the shareholders that we knew
were going to sell and got them to agree to sell back to us over time.

And so for the following 18 months we ended up deploying around $6 billion of buybacks using our own capital and we leveraged some to buy back shares in the company.

And over time that ended up creating somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 to $60 billion of actual proceeds from the buyback.

It was one of the most successful buybacks in the history of companies.”

[Documenting ₿itcoin 📄 @DocumentingBTC]

On this day in history, 15 years ago, the price of a bitcoin crashed from $17 down to literally $0.01 per coin in a matter of minutes.

A hacker gained access to the Mt.Gox exchange website database and placed massive fake sell orders. This YouTuber streamed it happening live:

[HOUSE PORN @HOUSEPORN___]

I can understand why ancient civilizations were so obsessed with mirrors