Sarah Dulaney

Welcome to Sarah Dulaney MacNeil's Twitter Geek feed. Here you'll find information about my addictions: Social Media, SEO, Marketing and Web Dev.

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

We all have our own fears. 😂😂

[Sarah Dulaney @GMDDesigns]

@frankiemuniz Just remember that you aren't alone and that many people can relate/understand what you're feeling and going through. No matter what, don't give up on yourself even when it gets hard or seem impossible to overcome... because you will win and grow ❤️

[Sarah Dulaney @GMDDesigns]

@ChewieWins @anishmoonka Exactly!!!!!! I gained genuine management skills by being a guild leader in World of Warcraft that I still use today.

[Sarah Dulaney @GMDDesigns]

I believe it! My husband was born with partial blindness and his doctor prescribed video games to boost his hand-eye coordination and IT WORKED!

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Playing Super Mario 64 for 30 minutes a day for two months physically grew the brains of the people who played it. A 2014 study in Molecular Psychiatry scanned participants before and after two months of daily play and found increases in grey matter in three regions involved in memory, planning, and fine motor control.

The study was led by Simone Kuhn at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. She gave 23 adults a Nintendo DS and told them to play Super Mario 64 for at least 30 minutes a day for two months. A control group played nothing. MRI scans taken before and after showed that the Mario group had measurable increases in grey matter in the right hippocampus, the right prefrontal cortex, and the cerebellum, and the increases were not found in the control group.

The hippocampus is where the brain stores spatial maps. Super Mario 64 is a game built entirely around navigating three-dimensional space, jumping between platforms, remembering which doors lead where, and building a mental model of a world that does not exist. The brain treats a virtual world the same way it treats a real one: it maps it, stores it, and grows to accommodate it.

The prefrontal cortex handles planning and strategy, which the game demands constantly. The cerebellum handles timing and coordination, which every jump requires. The brain was not just entertained. It was being trained, and the tissue responded the same way muscle responds to a weight: it got bigger.

Kuhn said the results suggest that video game training could be used as a therapy for conditions where these brain regions are reduced, including post-traumatic stress disorder, schizophrenia, and age-related brain shrinkage. The prescription is a plumber in a red hat, 30 minutes a day. https://t.co/8hKZMvh8VN

[Dean W. Perkins @deanwperkins]

🚨 Google's former CEO just came out and revealed the secret that will reshape the world over the next few years, all because of AI.

He said building wealth and your own business is now way easier, with one condition: you have to get into this field and actually understand the game.

If you only have the next 30 days to start, act on this advice and go all in, here's the full roadmap and every tool you'll need from scratch, all 100% free:

Phase 1: Understand the architecture and the fundamentals

Agent Architecture: learn how to build a smart, independent AI agent that makes its own decisions and carries them out.
🔗 https://t.co/bw0DVMjRhI
🔗 https://t.co/rsUiBuJXhz
Claude Code 101 Course: the basics of using Anthropic's insanely powerful coding tool right from your Terminal.
🔗 https://t.co/CWRrIyL2Ss
Hands-on (Claude Code in Action): live demos of the tool building real projects, so you can see what it can do for yourself.
🔗 https://t.co/Jt6oAwWuhX

Phase 2: Master prompting and context
Prompt Engineering (official): Anthropic's official guide to writing pro-level prompts that get the best quality out of the model.
🔗 https://t.co/MQGiYMMEpf

Interactive Prompting Course: hands-on, interactive training on GitHub to sharpen your prompting skills.
🔗 https://t.co/ylgRsU2vxD
CLAUDE.md and memory: the secret that makes Claude remember your project's full context and rules, and never forget them over time.
🔗 https://t.co/ecFCq0wAxa

Phase 3: Automation and connecting to the real world

MCP Protocol: the real revolution. Connect Claude to the tools and databases you use every day, like Slack, GitHub and Google.
🔗 https://t.co/Qo0Qms6F6L
Skills: teach Claude repetitive workflows and custom functions so it can reuse them intelligently across your project.
🔗 https://t.co/AFp1dhn2IC

Phase 4: Community guides and going pro
The Complete Claude Code Guide: a massive open-source guide from the developer community, packed with secrets and tricks.
🔗 https://t.co/8cBSriTOI6

Awesome Claude Code: a legendary collection of the best ready-to-use scripts, Skills and plugins.
🔗 https://t.co/uFA90eiVPv
Anthropic Academy: all 13 of the company's official courses, with certificates, completely free.
🔗 https://t.co/dxLUECXFPA

Full official documentation: the complete, definitive reference for everything in Claude, big and small.
🔗 https://t.co/UPWMAKxHVS

Save this and turn on the notis for more 🛎️

All of these resources are COMPLETELY free and won't cost you a single dollar, but they'll give you a skill that lets you do the work of an entire team on your own, at the same quality.

[Restoring Your Faith in Humanity @HumanityChad]

The homeowner saw on the security camera that a bear was playing on the outdoor swing every day, but couldn’t get on. So he had a bigger swing built, and this was the result.

[Debra Oliver @DebraOlive3szi]

From Karl Streed -

I BET YOU DIDN'Y KNOW ABOUT THIS: AFTER FLIGHT 77 HIT THE PENTAGON ON 9/11, THE FOLLOWING HAPPENED.

A daycare facility inside the Pentagon had many children, including infants who were in heavy cribs. The daycare supervisor, looking at all the children they needed to evacuate, was in a panic over what they could do.

There were many children, mostly toddlers, as well as the infants who would need to be taken out with the cribs. There was no time to try to bundle them into carriers and strollers.

Just then a young Marine came running into the center and asked what they needed. After hearing what the center director was trying to do, he ran back out into the hallway and disappeared. The director thought, "Well, here we are, on our own."

About 2 minutes later, that Marine returned with 40 other Marines in tow.

Each of them grabbed a crib with a child, and the rest started gathering up toddlers.

The director and her staff then helped them take all the children out of the center and down toward the park near the Potomac .

Once they got about 3/4 of a mile outside the building, the Marines stopped in the park, and then did a fabulous thing - they formed a circle with the cribs, which were quite sturdy and heavy, like the covered wagons in the Old West.

Inside this circle of cribs, they put the toddlers, to keep them from wandering off.

Outside this circle were the 40 Marines, forming a perimeter around the children and waiting for instructions. There they remained until the parents could be notified and come get their children.

The chaplain then said, "I don't think any of us saw nor heard of this on any of the news stories of the day. It was an incredible story of our men there.” There wasn't a dry eye in the room.

The thought of those Marines and what they did and how fast they reacted; could we expect any less from them? It was one of the most touching stories from the Pentagon.

It's the military, not the politicians that ensures our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It's the military who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag.

If you care to offer the smallest token of recognition and appreciation for the military, please pass this on and pray for our men and women, who have served and are currently serving our country, and honor the memory of those who have given the ultimate sacrifice!

God Bless The USA!

Never forget!!!

[ElaineStark. @ElaineSstark]

Dolly Parton casi chocó su automóvil la primera vez que escuchó a Whitney Houston cantar “I Will Always Love You”.

La canción había nacido casi 20 años antes, cuando Dolly decidió separarse profesionalmente de Porter Wagoner, el hombre que había impulsado su carrera.

Como él se negaba a dejarla marchar, ella escribió una despedida y se la cantó.

Porter terminó llorando.

Tiempo después, Elvis Presley quiso grabarla. Para Dolly era un sueño, hasta que su representante le exigió entregar la mitad de los derechos de autor. Aunque necesitaba el dinero, se negó.

Aquella decisión cambió su vida.

En 1992, Kevin Costner eligió la canción para “The Bodyguard” y Whitney Houston la convirtió en un fenómeno mundial. Dolly escuchó la versión por primera vez mientras conducía y tuvo que detenerse: estaba tan emocionada que temió sufrir un accidente.

“Tomó mi pequeña canción y la convirtió en algo enorme”, recordaría después.

La versión le generó cerca de 10 millones de dólares en regalías. Dolly invirtió parte de ese dinero en un complejo de oficinas situado en un barrio históricamente afroamericano de Nashville.

Lo llamó «la casa que Whitney construyó».

Dolly escribió la canción. Whitney la hizo volar. Y entre las dos crearon una despedida que el mundo nunca pudo olvidar.

Ahora las dos nos han dejado, pero juntas hicieron que una canción de despedida se volviera eterna.

[BILLIONAIRE UNIVERSITY® @TheBillionaireU]

Tony Robbins argues that the reason most people fall short of their potential has nothing to do with a lack of talent or ability.

The real bottleneck is something far simpler and far more powerful.
He puts it this way: “The Holy Grail between somebody taking action or not is one word: certainty.”

You can possess massive potential and still freeze in place if you don’t truly believe your effort will deliver the outcome you want. The sequence is straightforward: potential feeds belief, belief drives action, action produces results, and those results either strengthen or weaken the original belief.

When certainty is missing, the cycle turns destructive. Doubt leads to half-hearted effort. Half hearted effort yields weak results. Those weak results then get interpreted as confirmation “See, I told you this was a waste of time. I told you this wouldn’t work.” Belief shrinks further, action shrinks further, and the downward spiral accelerates.

The same mechanism works in the opposite direction. When you generate genuine certainty that a way forward exists, your sense of what’s possible expands. You take more decisive action. Better results arrive. Those results reinforce the certainty. Momentum builds.
This is why Robbins insists certainty outranks motivation. Motivation can spark a single burst of effort. Certainty keeps you moving long after the initial excitement fades and before the proof has fully arrived.

He points to Roger Bannister as living evidence. For decades the four-minute mile was treated as a physiological barrier. The moment Bannister broke it, the barrier dissolved in people’s minds. Within two years, dozens of other runners did the same. Human physiology hadn’t suddenly improved. Only the shared belief about what was possible had changed.

That’s the real cost of treating something as impossible. You don’t merely forecast failure, you reduce the action you’re willing to take, and in doing so you manufacture the very outcome you feared.

[MsMarvelDuckie @MsDuckie0616]

Yes, please!!

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

The way Kenny Rogers’ whole face lights up the moment he hears Dolly Parton’s voice coming from offstage.

I have always loved this performance so much.

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

Sesame Workshop mourns the passing of Dolly Parton, whose music and kindness inspired Polly Darton, a character featured on Sesame Street throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Dolly Parton was not only a musician, but a philanthropist dedicated to children's literacy. Sesame Workshop is forever grateful for her dedication to children's literacy and education. 💛💚

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

[George Ruman @georgeruman]

Here is old full version:

Dear Employer,

This morning, while checking my email, I came across your letter informing me that you are unable to offer me a position at your company. I have carefully reviewed your response and regret to inform you that, at this time, I am unable to accept your rejection.

Over the past several months, I have received a considerable number of employment rejections, so, as you can imagine, I have a wide selection to choose from. Unfortunately, I am simply unable to accommodate them all.

Despite your extensive experience and qualifications in personnel selection, I am forced to conclude that your rejection is poorly substantiated, conflicts with my interests, and, moreover, bears no relation whatsoever to my plans for the immediate future.

In light of the above, I consider it necessary to commence my duties at your company starting next week. I am confident that, under my leadership, the company will enter a fundamentally new stage of development and achieve unprecedented success in conquering new markets.

Please prepare the appropriate paperwork regarding my appointment at your earliest convenience and adjust my salary to bring it into line with my expectations. The matter of bonuses and a 13th-month salary can be settled in the normal course of business.

I would also like to remind you that your probationary period is three months, after which I will make a final decision as to whether I wish to continue working at your company.

Should my requirements not be met in full, I will unfortunately be forced to resume consideration of the rejection letters submitted by your competitors.

I look forward to a fruitful cooperation.

Sincerely,
…

[FairyCat @DeepStarts]

Bro rejected the rejection mail😭

[Gyo+ @gunnerxm]

Animal preaching kindness to humans

[Viora Tech @Viora_Tech_Ai]

A guy bought a $1,500 Samsung TV 3 years ago.

He watched Netflix. He watched YouTube. He watched sports on the weekends. He thought the picture looked fine. He assumed that's just what a modern TV looks like.

His friend, a home theater installer who's calibrated over 2,000 TVs for a living, walked into his apartment, looked at the screen for about 5 seconds, and said:

"You're watching everything in demo mode. The motion smoothing is on. The eco dimmer is cutting your brightness by 40%. Your TV is taking a screenshot of your screen every 30 seconds and selling your viewing data to advertisers. And you're watching a $1,500 panel in the same picture mode Best Buy uses under fluorescent lights to make TVs pop on a showroom wall."

He changed 9 settings in 12 minutes.

The picture looked like a different television. The soap opera effect disappeared. The colors became natural. The TV stopped spying on him.

He told him: "I install TVs in homes that cost $2 million. And I install TVs in apartments that cost $1,200 a month. You know what they all have in common? Nobody has changed the default settings. Every single TV I walk up to Samsung, LG, Sony, TCL, Hisense is running in a picture mode designed to look good in a store, not in your living room. And every single one is collecting data about what you watch and selling it to third parties. Out of the box."

He said TV manufacturers make more money from your data than they do from the TV sale itself.

"That's why a 65-inch 4K TV costs $400 now. The hardware is sold at a loss or near-zero margin. The profit comes from tracking what you watch, when you watch it, and how long you watch it then selling that behavioral data to advertisers. Your TV is a surveillance device that also shows movies. And the settings to stop it are buried 6 menus deep on purpose."

Here are the 9 settings he changed:

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[Sarah Dulaney @GMDDesigns]

@AndrewBolis YT :) TY

[Bexxy @Bexxy__19]

UPDATE ON GERALD AND THE CROW SITUATION:

Things have escalated.

I repeat.

THINGS HAVE FUCKING ESCALATED.

For those of you just joining us, yesterday I accidentally entered into diplomatic relations with a gang of crows after Gerald stole my good spoon.

Well.

This morning I walked outside and Gerald was waiting for me.

Alone.

Standing directly in the middle of my driveway.

No screaming.

No hopping around.

Just staring at me like a tiny feathered loan shark who had come to collect.

I said, “Morning, Gerald.”

He tilted his head.

I gave him a walnut.

He did not eat it.

Instead, this motherfucker picked it up, walked three steps to the left, PUT IT DOWN, and stared at me again.

Message received.

The offering was insufficient.

So I went back inside and got more walnuts.

When I returned…

THERE WERE NINE CROWS.

Nine.

Yesterday there were seven.

Gerald is fucking recruiting.

And they were arranged in a SEMICIRCLE.

This isn’t a bird friendship anymore.

I’m funding organized crime.

I distributed the walnuts because apparently I pay protection money now.

Everything seemed fine until one of the smaller crows tried taking two.

Gerald immediately screamed at him.

The little one dropped the second walnut.

I have accidentally created an economy.

Gerald controls distribution.

There’s a hierarchy.

There are consequences.

I’m pretty sure I witnessed a disciplinary hearing before breakfast.

Then Gerald flew away.

I thought we were done.

WE WERE NOT DONE.

Twenty minutes later I looked outside and there was something sitting where Gerald had been standing.

A bottle cap.

A shiny rock.

And…

MY FUCKING SPOON.

HE RETURNED THE SPOON.

Ladies and gentlemen.

I believe we have successfully negotiated a trade agreement.

Unfortunately, there is now a crow sitting on my mailbox.

So I still cannot get my fucking mail.

I tried approaching.

He puffed up.

I backed away.

That mailbox belongs to the organization now.

At this point I’m just a tenant.

Anyway, Gerald has officially been promoted to General Gerald, Commander of the Driveway, First of His Name, Keeper of the Good Spoon, Lord of the Power Line, Collector of Walnuts, and Regional Manager of Whatever The Fuck Is Happening Here.

I’ll keep everyone updated.

But if I suddenly stop posting…

Gerald found out I told you.

[Anatoli Kopadze @AnatoliKopadze]

OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman:

"You don't need to write prompts anymore."

In 38 minutes, he explains how to use LLMs better than 99% of people do.

This is the whole difference between using AI and having AI work for you.

Watch it, then read the guide below on how to build a system that prompts itself.