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MEDIC

[Mod @CFCMods]

This is cold.

[(fan) Trey @UTDTrey]

78th minute- Argentina 0-2 Egypt
84th minute- Argentina 2-2 Egypt

Hate watching Messi will make you run mad, tf is this life

[A.D @DrSolonyus]

Lmaoooo😅😅😅 Baba said not yet

[Big Jord. @StatsbyJordan]

Nylon Messi,
Retire in peace na,
This guy!!!

[A.D @DrSolonyus]

@semasir @Phathy4 @Oluomoofderby Please check your DM boss

[A.D @DrSolonyus]

@semasir @Phathy4 @Oluomoofderby Should I DM?

[A.D @DrSolonyus]

@Benn_X1 Systemantics!

[Toyin Roberts @IamToyinRoberts]

Please I’m looking for visa sponsorship for someone who is like a sister to me, she has 4 weeks left on her post study visa.

She has worked in multiple admin, customer care roles in uk banks and private sector.

She does not drive.

This is a distress call. Thanks in advance

[A.D @DrSolonyus]

@zemzyjuice @Akinlxlx see your IB people😂😂

[A. T. K ⚕️ @atkkay]

I’m tired with this specialty

You blink and there’s a new study going contrary to what you just learnt!

[A.D @DrSolonyus]

Dowman going back to school as the youngest PL scorer is crazy😮 Aura off the charts!!

[A.D @DrSolonyus]

Dowman scored? WHAT!!

[darkzodchi @zodchiii]

https://t.co/kx4hKgCVSE

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

This was an eye opener from Jensen Huang

When asked whether he would rather relive his 20s or be 20 years old today, this is what he had to say:

"I thought our 20s were happier than these 20s. I think everyone deserves some time to be oblivious, and not wear all of the world's problems on their shoulders on Day 1

We are raising a generation that is very cynical and too informed

They are cynical, not because they are inherently cynical. They are cynical because they see so much stuff. It is too much stuff

You have to build up some internal reserve of optimism. You have to build up some reserve of goodness."

[A.D @DrSolonyus]

I find DB row better than Seated Cable Row. Better ROM and back activation for me

[Elnathan John @elnathan_john]

https://t.co/Bv6hgN8Ttd

[Rational Aussie @rationalaussie]

Now is the time to start preparing for a world of chaos, when the default (wrong) view is that AI is going to be a huge nothing burger.

Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of macroeconomics, technology, AI and human nature can see the writing on the wall.

The people who comment on this and disagree generally have no understanding of any of these topics, yet alone can they see how each interacts with each other to form the bigger picture.

Some concrete things you should be questioning right now:

1. Is my portfolio set up to deal with this type of AGI-driven world of high unemployment and social unrest?

E.g. if you're all in on Bitcoin, now might be a good time to consider whether you should carve out a section of your portfolio for non-Bitcoin asymmetric defensive bets (defence, biotech, space, compute infra, energy, commodities) in case the 'unknown unknown' of AGI / quantum proves fatal.

2. If you can get another passport, you should, asap. Getting another passport gives you the optionality to leave a country at a moment's notice if you need to in case asset confiscation and/or heavy wealth tax policies are implemented (likely).

3. If you work for someone else, particularly if you are a white collar worker, expect to be made redundant sometime within the next couple of years, and have a plan in place if that happens.

This might mean accelerating plans to increase your side hustle income, building a stronger network of relationships, and/or simply holding a much bigger liquid cash (Bitcoin) buffer in case you need to really bunker down for a few years of no work.

4. Find things you enjoy outside of work, because work is now on a finite timescale before the vast majority of humans are redundant and economically useless.

[Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove]

Many years ago I engaged in a long and intense flirtation with a brilliant writer, but the first time we were alone in a room together he couldn't get an erection despite telling me he was enamored with my beauty. My attraction died there.

Later I discovered he had unusual tastes that I couldn't think about without disgust, and suddenly his "brilliant" writing, which I thought was sensitive and lovely and empathetic, seemed just like the work of a weak-willed man asking for sympathy.

Later I started to flirt with another writer. I wasn't the biggest fan of his writing - he had young talent but his stories had a dark, cruel edge that I found distasteful. Still, when we finally met, despite his edgy persona, I discovered him to be kind, and sweet and rather "normal." His writing transformed for me. He became more than an edgelord. I saw his style as bold and incisive and courageous.

That is to say, writing can often obscure the truth of who we are, but the dick never lies.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

We do stand at the edge of a pronounced crisis of identity, but, only in the fact that it will happen simultaneously for so many.

This has happened again and again in small ways to you, and to everyone ever.

In my philosophy undergrad, I was lucky enough to have a prof named Litke who is one of the rare few philosophers that actively had classes taught about his works while he was still alive (and oddly enough, one of the best garlic collectors/cultivators in the world)

But his passion was the philosophy of self.

And one thing he spoke about frequently was this concept of “the long body of self”

He gave the example, that when he was in highschool, he was a top swimmer, and expected to go a top college on a swimming scholarship and do a degree biology.

However, in his last year of high school, he was in a car accident that severely damaged his shoulder, and broke both his legs leaving him in a wheelchair for months, and never able to swim again at his top form.

He had always defined himself as “a swimmer” with that internalized language. His friends were his swimming friends. His girlfriend was a swimmer.

He could no longer swim. He no longer spent time with his swimming friends, and eventually they and his girlfriend drifted.

His identity came crashing down.

Until he built it up into something new.

It was around then he discovered his love of botany and of philosophy.

But to each of us, these identity arks happen many times in our lives.

How you defined yourself as a child or a teen likely doesn’t match how you’d define yourself now.

We build up a new version of self, only for it to come crashing down, and we eventually build back up a new identity. In this on-going loop-de-loop pattern.

The thing is, none of these were really our “self”

They are externalities we defined ourselves as, and the self is what you see if you were to turn that set of loops 90 degrees and look through the collective snapshot of life.

Each one taught us something, and led to the next one, but none are defining.

After all, did you call yourself a mathematician because there was no one better than you at math, or did you think you weren’t good at arithmetic because a calculator could add faster than you?

No of course not.

You being good at math, and you understanding math, has in fact not changed.

The productivity output of math in the world has changed - but you have not.

(Plus let’s remember, even if people can output the math they can’t apply it if they don’t understand it)

You as a person are more than any one part or talent, and this is also a talent you still retain and do uniquely well; and those who are both top brass at their talents and apply it with unique perspectives are more likely to be more productive with AI rather than replaced by it.

Because the one thing that any system will struggle with is the same thing we humans do: originality.

And you are good at originality, and at a thirst for pursuing it.

So in your life, in a thousand little ways, and in a handful of large ways, you will redefine yourself, but it is only the collection of those experiences that are “you” and that is always a unique and valuable thing.

And know that after each crash, no matter how bleak it can seem - we always do redefine ourselves and often it becomes so natural that we struggle to remember the ways we identified ourselves in the past.

There will always be human experiences to have.

There will always be new ways we define ourselves.

There will always be new places we fit in the world, no matter how out of place we feel.

And you will always be good at math.

🫡

[positivity moon @arrtnem]

People say they want privacy until they meet someone who actually has it.

Not the performative “private” where you still post soft launches, vague captions, story replies, little curated hints so everyone can keep tracking the plot. I mean real privacy. The kind where your life doesn’t come with commentary. Where your phone isn’t a public window. Where your wins, your losses, your relationships, your breakdowns don’t get uploaded as evidence.

people get weird.

You can see the moment their brain hits the wall. They ask a normal question, “so what have you been up to,” and you give them a normal answer that is also a closed door. “Work’s been busy.” “Just been chilling.” “Nothing crazy.” You smile. You move on. And something in them doesn’t relax. Because they weren’t asking for facts. They were asking for access.

A lot of people are not used to not having access.

We live in a time where everyone is constantly narrating themselves. Posting their meals, their heartbreak, their therapy language, their gym progress, their new person, their new home, their new era. Even if they say “I’m private,” they still leak. They drop breadcrumbs on purpose because being fully unseen feels like death to them.

So when you don’t leak, they start filling the silence with stories.

They assume you’re hiding something. They assume you’re lying. They assume you think you’re better than them. They assume you’re judging them. They assume you’re mysterious in a calculated way, like you’re playing chess while they’re making small talk.

Sometimes they even get offended, which is hilarious.

Like your privacy is an insult. Like you owe them transparency to prove you’re “real.” Like you owe the room a plotline so they can orient themselves. And if you don’t give it, they start poking. Testing. Fishing.

“So are you seeing anyone?”
“What happened with that job?”
“Why don’t you post more?”
“Where were you last weekend?”
“Who were you with?”

They try to catch you. Not because they care. Because they’re unsettled by not being able to map you.

This is the part no one says out loud: a lot of people use information as control.

Not evil control. Everyday control. Social control. The kind where if I know what you’re doing, I know where I stand. If I know your relationship status, I know how to treat you. If I know your problems, I know what role to play in your life. If I know your weaknesses, I know how to win an argument later. If I know your plans, I know if you’re leaving me behind.

So when you’re truly private, you remove a tool they rely on.

u become unpredictable in a way that scares them, because they can’t pre-empt you. They can’t manage you. They can’t keep a running tally of your life and compare it to theirs. They can’t decide if they should envy you, pity you, compete with you, flirt with you, ignore you. They have to relate to you in real time, on what you actually say and do, not on the story they’ve been consuming from your feed.

that is rare now. It’s also intimate in a way people don’t expect.

Because if you don’t broadcast, then the only way to know you is to know you.

To ask. To listen. To spend time. To earn the details. To be trusted.

Most people don’t have the patience for that. They want the summary. The highlights. The quick scroll that tells them what category you’re in.

So they get odd. They start guessing.

They’ll call you “mysterious” like it’s either a compliment or a warning. They’ll joke that you’re “secretive” when what they mean is “I can’t track you.” They’ll project motives onto you. They’ll decide you’re arrogant. Or traumatized. Or sneaky. Or having an amazing life and hiding it. Or having a miserable life and hiding it. They’ll pick a narrative and treat it like fact because uncertainty makes them itch.

And sometimes - this is the sharp one - they’ll try to provoke you into revealing yourself.

They’ll say something slightly disrespectful just to see if you react.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

People sadly find this out the hard way.

1. DO NOT change your burn rate. Make it even lower.

2. Have a fallback position. When I lost everything in crypto in 2022, equities saved me. I built back from there.

3. Buy the house you will live in first—no real estate gambling.

4. Have a buffer of between 6 months and a year in case nothing happens. That is where low burn rate comes to save you later.