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[Iwan @Iwan_Shinobu]

@Nona_xai Para descargar música con calidad excelente, está Qobuz, auténtico 24 bits hasta 192khz:
https://t.co/GhST0wcBQd

[Nona @Nona_xai]

"Pagas 11,99€ al mes para alquilar música que no te pertenece."

Alguien acaba de hacer eso obsoleto.

Un desarrollador publicó en open source una herramienta llamada Spooty. Le das la URL de una playlist de Spotify y descarga cada canción en tu máquina. En MP3. Con los metadatos completos, las portadas, todo.

Sin algoritmo que elimine una canción sin avisarte. Sin "este contenido no está disponible en tu región". Sin suscripción mensual para seguir accediendo a lo que llevas años escuchando.

Lo que hace en concreto:

> Se conecta a la API oficial de Spotify para leer tus playlists.
> Descarga cada canción en alta calidad.
> Etiqueta todo automáticamente: título, artista, álbum, portada.
> Funciona completamente en tu máquina, tus credenciales nunca salen de tu dispositivo.

Es Python. Tres pasos para instalarlo. Clonas el repo, instalas las dependencias, conectas tus claves API de Spotify.

Una biblioteca permanente por 0€, frente a 11,99€ al mes por alquilar exactamente lo mismo.

100% open source.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. After 40, stop guessing about your health. These numbers tell you whether you're building a long, vibrant life — or quietly declining without knowing it.

I run these on myself. I run them on every patient I care about. Most are cheap bloodwork. All are available now. And together, they paint a picture no standard annual physical will ever give you. Print this. Bring it to your next appointment. Your 60-year-old self will thank you.
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𝗙𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗶𝗻
Target: below 5 μIU/mL. Ideal: 3-4.
This is the 10-year warning bell your standard panel completely misses. Your glucose and A1c can look "normal" for a decade while your pancreas is working overtime to keep them there. Fasting insulin catches insulin resistance 5-10 years before your A1c moves. By the time A1c rises, the damage is already extensive.

𝗛𝗢𝗠𝗔-𝗜𝗥
Target: below 1.0.
Calculated from fasting insulin and fasting glucose. The single best measure of insulin sensitivity. Above 1.0 and your metabolism is already under strain. Above 2.5 and you're insulin resistant — even if every other number looks fine.

𝗛𝗯𝗔𝟭𝗰
Target: below 5.4%.
Not below 5.7% — that's the threshold where medicine calls you "prediabetic." By then you've been metabolically compromised for years. Optimal is below 5.4%. Blood sugar mastery is longevity mastery.

𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗹𝘆𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲 : 𝗛𝗗𝗟 𝗥𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼
Target: below 2. Ideal: below 1.
Your metabolic health crystal ball. This ratio predicts insulin resistance, cardiovascular risk, and metabolic syndrome better than any single lipid number alone. A ratio above 3.5 is a red flag regardless of what your total cholesterol says.

𝗔𝗽𝗼𝗕
Target: below 80 mg/dL for moderate risk. Below 60 for high risk.
I've written about this extensively. ApoB counts every atherogenic particle hitting your artery walls. A 2024 analysis found 54% of patients had dangerous levels that standard LDL testing completely missed. If you only know your LDL, you're driving with one eye closed.

𝗟𝗽(𝗮)
Test once in your lifetime.
100% genetic. 1 in 5 Americans are elevated. Triples heart attack risk independently of everything else on this list. Diet and exercise cannot lower it. The 2026 ACC/AHA guidelines now recommend everyone be tested. Most never have been.

𝗵𝘀-𝗖𝗥𝗣
Target: below 1.0 mg/L.
You can have perfect cholesterol and inflamed arteries silently preparing to rupture. hs-CRP measures the fire behind the plaque. The JUPITER trial proved that finding and treating inflammation saves lives — even when lipids look fine. If this number is elevated, your mouth, your gut, your metabolic health, and your visceral fat are the first places to investigate.

𝗩𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻 𝗗
Target: 50-80 ng/mL.
Not the bare minimum of 30 your doctor accepts. Suboptimal vitamin D is linked to higher inflammation, weaker immunity, increased cardiovascular events, worse mood, and poorer outcomes across nearly every disease I treat. Supplement D3 with K2 — without K2, calcium deposits in your arteries instead of your bones.

𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗲 (𝗧𝗼𝘁𝗮𝗹 + 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲)
Men: optimal range 600-1000+ ng/dL total.
Declining testosterone is an independent predictor of cardiovascular death in men. It's tied to insulin resistance, arterial stiffness, visceral fat accumulation, and systemic inflammation. DHEA-S drops 10-20% every decade after 30. Tracking these isn't about vanity — it's evaluating your body's systemic resilience.

𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲
Target: below 120/80. Aim closer to 110/70.
Every point above optimal is cumulative arterial damage. Buy a home cuff. Measure morning and evening, seated quietly for five minutes, arm at heart level. White-coat readings in the office miss what's really happening. The smartest $40 investment in cardiac self-care.

𝗩𝗢𝟮 𝗠𝗮𝘅
Men over 40: above 40 mL/kg/min. Women over 40: above 35.
Cardiorespiratory fitness is the single strongest predictor of all-cause mortality — stronger than smoking, diabetes, or heart disease as individual risk factors. A landmark study in JAMA found that extreme fitness was associated with the lowest mortality with no upper limit of benefit. You can estimate VO2 max with a timed mile, a rower test, or a wearable. Get faster every year.

𝗡𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
Target: as few as possible.
Every medication you're on should be earning its place. I just wrote about five commonly prescribed drugs that do more harm than good with long-term use. Bring your full medication list to every appointment. Ask: "Do I still need this?" Deprescribing is one of the most powerful and underused tools in medicine.
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Thirteen numbers. Most available through cheap bloodwork and simple tests. Get them once or twice a year. Here's what I want you to understand: these numbers don't just tell you where you are. They tell you where you're heading. A fasting insulin of 8 today becomes diabetes in five years. An ApoB of 120 today becomes a heart attack in ten. An hs-CRP of 3 today means your arteries are inflamed right now — regardless of how healthy you feel. The standard annual physical checks a fraction of these. It was designed to find disease that's already there. This panel finds the disease that's coming — years before it arrives.

What gets measured gets improved. Optimize with the foundation I write about every week on this platform:
Zone 2 cardio plus resistance training 3-4 times per week. High-protein whole-food nutrition. Sleep 7-9 hours — non-negotiable. Morning sunlight. Stress management. And the targeted supplements I've covered in detail — creatine, magnesium, CoQ10, D3+K2, glycine, omega-3, psyllium husk.
The breakthroughs coming in the next decade — gene editing for cholesterol, cellular reprogramming, senolytics that clear senescent "zombie" cells driving inflammation and aging, GLP-1 drugs rewriting metabolic medicine — will be most powerful for people who've already built the metabolic foundation to receive them.

The future of medicine is personalized. But it starts with knowing your numbers today. Print this list. Book the bloodwork. Own the data. Prevention isn't passive. It's the most aggressive thing you can do for the decades ahead.

[Bull Runner @TheViewBox_Tv]

Así conducía Ayrton Senna en el G.P. de Mónaco 1990.

Su McLaren MP4/5B tenía una caja manual de 6 velocidades en forma de HA en lugar de las levas detrás del volante de los coches actuales.

Cambiaba de marcha unas 3,600 veces por carrera a más de 250 km/h por calles estrechas con una sola mano.

El auto no contaba con dirección asistida ni suspensión activa. Toda la tracción y corrección en los saltos de Montecarlo dependían puramente de su sensibilidad y fuerza muscular.

Era otra época para la F1.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

A developer in China named tw93 got tired of his laptop dying.

He would open Slack and watch 524 megabytes of disk space disappear. He would open Discord and watch another 265. He would open Notion and watch 800 megabytes of RAM evaporate before he had typed a single word.

He looked into why.

Every "desktop app" on his computer was the same thing. A website wrapped in a full copy of the Chrome browser engine. The framework is called Electron. An empty Electron app starts at 150 megabytes of RAM before you click anything. With twelve of them open, his laptop was running twelve copies of the same browser.

He thought there had to be a better way.

So in 2022, he started building one.

He called it Pake. Two characters in Chinese mean "packaging." He wrote it in Rust on top of a framework called Tauri. The idea was simple. Point Pake at any webpage. Get a desktop app. Without dragging an entire browser engine into the binary.

The first version of Slack he wrapped with it was 8 megabytes.

Not 524. Eight.

That is what 20 times smaller looks like.

Four years later, his repo has 50,594 stars. 6,144 forks. The license is MIT. The last commit was yesterday.

The bio on his GitHub reads: "Anything added dilutes everything else."

Today the Pake releases page contains pre-built apps for ChatGPT, Discord, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Twitter, YouTube, Excalidraw, Flomo, WeChat, and twelve more. All under 10 megabytes. All native. All free.

Or you point Pake at any URL you want and it builds one for you in one command.

Slack's desktop app: 524 megabytes.
Pake-built Slack: 8 megabytes.

Discord's desktop app: 265 megabytes.
Pake-built Discord: 9 megabytes.

ChatGPT for Windows: 260 megabytes.
Pake-built ChatGPT: 9 megabytes.

tw93 is one person. He has 11,305 followers on GitHub. He runs a blog at https://t.co/WZoyHop8Id. He has shipped 39 public repos. He still pushes commits to Pake every week.

He did not start a company. He did not raise money. He did not write a Medium post about how Electron is dead.

He just shipped the thing that made it true.

(Link in the comments)

[Skint Eastwood @Skint_Eastwood1]

🚨 “WOW!” Joe Rogan Was Absolutely Mind-Blown By This iPhone/iPad Addiction Hack 🔥

His guest, Chase Hughes, dropped the ultimate parental (and personal) life hack:

“I did it on my 2-year-old’s iPad… and nothing is addictive anymore. She won’t sit there and stare at it for more than 3 or 4 minutes anymore.”

Joe’s reaction? A shocked “Whoaa!”

The trick? A simple red color tint filter in your device’s Accessibility settings. It strips away the bright, colorful, dopamine-spiking visuals that keep us (and kids) glued to screens, while also cutting blue light for better sleep.

One quick change. Massive difference in screen time and focus.

Try it yourself:

1Settings → Accessibility → Display & Text Size → Color Filters

2Turn on Color Filters → Color Tint

3Slide Hue all the way to red + max Intensity

Works on iPhone and iPad. You can even set a triple-click shortcut to toggle it instantly.

[Davey @TheRealDavey2]

Under Labor's new capital gains tax, if you're on the top tax rate, have a 6% mortgage and 2.5% inflation, you need to earn 9.1% investing - no small feat - just to break even with putting your money in a mortgage offset account. That's before you are compensated one cent for the risk you took, the double taxation, the time and effort.

Say you want to make at least 3% after tax above putting money in your offset account. A modest benefit. You would need to make 14.76% in the market. Do that consistently and you would be ranked amongst the greatest investors of all time. That's right - Labor's hurdle for investing as an Australian is you need to be amongst the greatest investors of all time. So if you're John Templeton or Walter Schloss, no worries.

[Robin Dods @toy59496]

What to do with the new tax settings.

I've been trying to figure out what you should do as an investor with the new tax settings. I'm going to consider a falling hierarchy of scenarios. This is not advice this is discussion, some of it may be wrong, but together we will form a plan....

1. The family home - unlike a number of countries Australia does not tax capital gain on your principal place of residence. You do not get land tax on your home. You do pay council fees. You do not get deductibility of your mortgage interest but that no longer matters as neither does it happen with investment properties unless they are newly built. Overall the compounding benefit mandates that you should find the largest and most valuable home available to you. It is the only remaining untouched investment class. As a passing note I've always found it ridiculous that our tax system discriminates if you are married, two single people can have two CGT free assets, whereas as soon as you get married your opportunities halve. It's discriminatory against your choice to choose love over money. The only sensible thing to do really is to tie that one CGT free asset per individual. However this gets no airtime at all. But moving on, the best thing is to invest in your home, a very very very very big home. This is not a new idea and many of us realised this many years ago.

2. Superannuation - I would say the next most valuable asset is your superannuation which is favourably taxed. You still get the 50% discount on CGT, which is already favourably taxed which would bring it down to 10% on capital gains anyway. There are two problems, the first is that you cannot access it until you are old, with a few rare exceptions such as misadventure. The second is that the government has attempted to pillage superannuation recently with taxing unrealised gains and has been successful in chipping away at the benefits, as their target audience is middle income. If you are higher than the median income earner you are probably going to hit the $3 million threshold. Incidentally based on historical returns I would suggest an SMSF should hold one asset which is the S&P 500 which has historically outperformed almost every other index. This is what I do. I caution that it does look very expensive at the moment but you can't choose your timing. You can also do an industry fund with the ability to select ETFs which may be more cost-effective. Because of balancing stock within the fund, and the automatic balancing that occurs with ETFs weighted on market capitalisation, you don't have the same extreme taxation of portfolios as would occur for a diversified portfolio in a private name. Even with these advantages superannuation is not as advantageous as your primary residence. However one hidden benefit is that nobody can take it away, if you get sued or bankrupted or have some other misadventure, you're superannuation is safe. Untouchable. Something to keep in mind.

3. Stocks or ETFs? We now get to the tricky area of investments. I think having a portfolio of shares is now dead in a personal name not only because of mandatory loss ordering but the fact that the skew of the returns in a portfolio may expose you to tax of 70%+ in real terms. The only sensible approach now is to have an ETF where all of this is done at the ETF level and not exposed to pernicious taxation. I'm doing some modelling to try and establish which ETF, whether high dividend paying or still high growth, with others saying go for high dividend growth but I am not so sure. More on that soon.

4. Companies- The company shield for any stock is now mandatory, as it will eliminate your 47% tax drag as a high income earner, and you will be restricted to 25% as long as you can argue that you are below 50 million and that you are not just passive income, you will have to figure out how to do that. Even in the worst case it's 30%. It effectively halves your tax burden which allows you to compound the difference between the top tax level and the company rate. The ATO has certain requirements for doing this and that's one for the accountant. Keep in mind that is the tax drag of getting money cut out each year or it's 3 months by the government that kills long-term returns and anything you can do to avoid that will increase the amount that you have in your pocket at the end. You still get screwed by the government taking 47% of your equity at the end while contributing nothing.

5. Fixed term deposits- this is insane in a high-tax, high inflation environment with the exception of those that need money and accept that the real value of that money will deteriorate with time. I used to have a significant fixed term deposit which was taxed as a BAS every 3 months which interferes with compounding, and the real return was negative. I don't have that anymore. The banks also screw you and give you headline rates which are not retained. You can buy bonds or listed entities that do high yield bonds, but in an high inflationary environment the realisable value wil go down. Most think inflation will grow and interest rates will rise. Avoid unless you have to....

6. Trusts - I'm finding it very difficult to imagine any scenario where trusts now have a purpose. I think that was by intention by the government to remove trusts and the various advantages that go with them. That's unfortunate to the million plus people who have family trusts. It's a disaster for those currently on testamentary trusts for the disabled. The killer on trusts is the mandatory 30% taxation. This is still better than 47% but less than the 25% on offer with a company structure. I recognise that with a company you still need to distribute to shareholders at some point but the assumption here is that it is held for some time so a smaller tax drag will advantage capital gain.

7. Charitable donations - we live in a more hostile world and you do not get the tax benefit that you used to given the 30% mandatory tax on capital gains through a trust or directly. It used to be you could donate half that capital gain pay no tax and the charity would get the full benefit. Any charitable donation you make needs to be reduced by 60% if you use this method.

8. Investment properties - I think this is the dead end these days. The current yield is less than you would get on risk-free returns. Legislation places all the benefits for the tenant, Eg in NSW you can't raise your rent more than once every 12 months. You have a land tax burden. Your interest payments are only deductible against rent and you cannot negatively gear. There is unlikely to be capital appreciation in the next few years in fact it's likely to be depreciation. People will say you can buy a new property and obtain these benefits, well, I've got the capacity to build 70 of these new properties and it's not sensible either to build or to own. The build doesn't give a yield, to own you lose on rapid depreciation relative to any benefit from the tax incentives. The only advantage in this investment class is if you build, not if you own, not if you develop, because you can still get a good return while others make a loss. It's a dead investment class which was the whole purpose of the legislation.

9. Tax residency - you only pay tax as a tax resident. When you eventually realise all of this money on a one hit it might be a good time to go live overseas for a year or two so you are no longer an Australian tax resident. That won't allow you to avoid the tax drag each year but it will allow you to not be taxed to the full extent on the eventual realisation. I suggest Singapore, Hong Kong, or Dubai. This does get a little complex with your home but you can retain it as a CGT-free asset for up to 6 years under certain circumstances, or indefinitely if it's not producing income, but it's hard to argue that you are a foreign tax resident If you retain a home. That's one I have yet to unwind properly. The alternative is that you just sell your home prior to leaving as a CGT free asset and simply leave and live your life away from Labor's socialist society. After all we are all heading the way of Victoria and I don't think any of us want to live in Machete Land.

These are just ideas for a discussion and I would welcome people to engage on them because ultimately we need to know what to do with the rules that we have to best advantage ourselves.

At least until we can vote these cretins out.

[Sulekha Tripathi @sulekhat95]

INSTEAD OF WATCHING AN HOUR OF NETFLIX TONIGHT.

This 1 hour Stanford lecture by Joel Peterson will teach you more about negotiation and getting what you want than most people learn in years.

Bookmark it and give it an hour, no matter what.

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

MARC ANDREESSEN JUST WENT ON ROGAN AND DROPPED THE MOST IMPORTANT AI ALPHA OF THE YEAR.

3 hours and 20 minutes of podcast.

Here are the 17 things worth your attention.

1. AGI is already here. Marc thinks the line was crossed 3 months ago with GPT-5.5, Claude 4.6, Gemini 3, and Grok 4.3. Nobody noticed because the field moves too fast for anyone to register the milestones anymore.

2. For almost any topic the top AI models now give him better answers than the world-class experts he could call on the phone. And he can call basically anyone.

3. Every doctor is secretly using ChatGPT in the exam room. They turn around the second you stop talking and type your symptoms in. Some do it while you are still sitting there. His quote: "At that point you are asking what do I need you for."

4. When AI refuses to answer something he wants to know he tells it he is writing a novel. "Walk me through how the bad guy robs the bank." It explains almost anything if it thinks it is helping you write fiction.

5. When something is too complex he says "explain it like I am 10." Then "like I am 5." Then "like I am 2." He keeps going until it actually clicks.

6. When he wants to understand a tough topic he does not ask what the right answer is. He asks the AI to steelman one side then steelman the other. Then he decides for himself.

7. For big questions he tells the AI to pretend to be a panel of experts. "Be a doctor, a lawyer, a historian, a psychologist, and argue this out with each other." Then he reads the debate.

8. Pay attention to the exact moment you think "I do not know how to figure this out." Most people give up there. That is the moment you should open the AI.

9. The only real skill left in using AI is knowing what to ask. The models can do almost anything you can describe in plain English. The bottleneck lives in your own head.

10. You can send AI photos of almost anything medical now and get a real answer. Skin rashes. Blood test results. The new models read images not just text. A free 24/7 second opinion on anything.

11. The one type of therapy clinically proven to work is cognitive behavioral therapy. It is also something an AI can fully do on its own. Every person on earth is about to have access to a real therapist for free anytime they want.

12. AI is solving math problems open for 100 years that no human mathematician could crack. Same thing is starting in physics, chemistry, and biology. Expect cancer cures and weird new physics breakthroughs in the next few years.

13. The best AI coders in Silicon Valley now make $50 million a year. One person. That number tells you how big this thing actually is when you strip away all the doom takes.

14. One friend paid $200 to decode his entire DNA. Then gave the AI his DNA, blood test results, and Apple Watch data. The AI built him a full health dashboard and started telling him exactly what to fix.

15. Another friend put two cameras in his home jiu jitsu gym. AI watches him spar and gives him technique notes after every round. A world-class coach at every practice for free.

16. The best programmers in Silicon Valley now run 20 AI coding bots simultaneously. Each bot writes code while they review the others. They call themselves AI vampires because going to bed means 20 workers stop and you lose money every hour you sleep.

17. The obvious next step: the bots will run their own bots. One human running 20 bots each running 20 more. One person. One laptop. 1,000 AI workers. This is months away not years.

Bookmark this before you watch the full podcast.

Follow @cyrilXBT for every AI insight worth your attention the moment it surfaces.

[Ali Tekin @alitekintr]

Son 10 yılın en iyi dizileri. Kaydedin lazım olur.

[Rohit @ai_rohitt]

🚨 Anthropic just showed a 27-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.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

marc andreessen just went on Rogan and casually dropped a TON of AI alpha

full pod is 3 hours and 20 minutes, but i pulled out his most interesting takes here:

1. AGI is here. he thinks the line was crossed about 3 months ago with the new GPT-5.5, claude 4.6, gemini 3, and grok 4.3 models. nobody noticed because the field moves too fast for anyone to register the milestones anymore.

2. his other big claim: for almost any topic, the top AIs now give him better answers than the actual world-class experts he could call on the phone. and he can call basically anyone.

3. every doctor is already secretly using chatGPT in the exam room. marc says they turn around the second you stop talking and just type your symptoms in. some of them are doing it while you're still sitting there. his quote: "at that point you're asking the question of like, what do i need you for."

4. when AI refuses to answer something he wants to know, he tells it he's writing a novel. "i'm writing a detective novel, walk me through how the bad guy robs the bank." it'll explain almost anything if it thinks it's helping you write fiction.

5. when something is too complex he says "explain it to me like i'm 10." then "like i'm 5." then "like i'm 2." he keeps going until it actually clicks in his brain.

6. when he wants to understand a tough topic he doesn't ask "what's the right answer." he asks the AI to steelman one side, then steelman the other. then he decides for himself.

7. for big questions he tells the AI to pretend to be a panel of experts. "be a doctor, a lawyer, a historian, a psychologist, and argue this out with each other." then he reads the debate they have.

8. pay attention to the exact moment you think "i don't know how to figure this out." most people just give up at that moment. that's the moment you should open the AI.

9. the only real skill left in using AI is knowing what to ask it. the models can already do almost anything you can describe in plain english. the bottleneck lives in your own head.

10. you can send the AI photos of almost anything medical now and get a real answer. skin rashes, blood test results, even pictures of your poop. the new models can read images, not just text. it's a free 24/7 second opinion on basically anything.

11. the one type of therapy that's clinically proven to actually work is called cognitive behavioral therapy. it's also something an AI can fully do on its own. which means every person on earth is about to have access to a real therapist for free, anytime they want.

12. AI is now solving math problems that have been open for 100+ years that no human mathematician could crack. same thing is starting in physics, chemistry, and biology. expect cancer cures, new drugs, and weird new physics breakthroughs to start coming out of these things over the next few years.

13. the best AI coders in silicon valley now make $50 million a year. one person. that's how much value the top performers print with these tools. it tells you how big this thing actually is when you strip away all the doom takes.

14. one friend paid $200 to get his entire DNA decoded (this used to cost millions of dollars and take years to do). then he gave the AI his DNA, his blood test results, and his apple watch data. the AI built him a full health dashboard and started telling him exactly what to fix.

15. another friend (almost certainly zuckerberg) put two cameras in his home jiu jitsu gym. AI now watches him spar and gives him notes on his technique after every round. like having a world-class coach at every practice for free.

16. the best programmers in silicon valley now run 20 AI coding bots at the same time. each bot writes code while they review the others. they call themselves "AI vampires" because they've stopped sleeping. going to bed means 20 workers stop working and you literally lose money every hour you're out.

17. the obvious next step: the bots will start running their own bots. one human in charge of 20 bots, each in charge of 20 more bots. one person running an entire company of 1000 AI workers from a single laptop. this is months away, not years.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Japanese neuroscientists spent years working out how to put a crying baby to sleep. They wired 21 babies to heart monitors, tested different ways of being held, and landed on a 13-minute routine. The grandma in this video has been doing it for three generations.

Three labs working independently arrived at the same answer from different angles. The first piece came from a pediatrician named Harvey Karp who published it in 2002 after years of studying how parents around the world calm their babies. Babies are born with a built-in calming switch in their brain. The switch flips on whenever something mimics the womb: warmth, snug pressure, gentle movement, a steady whooshing sound. Once it flips, fussing stops and sleep takes over. Karp called it the calming reflex. Every parent has set it off dozens of times without knowing it has a name.

The second piece comes from a sleep lab in Geneva. In 2019, researchers there put adults on a bed that rocked gently, about one sway every four seconds, and watched their brains all night. People fell asleep faster. They also dropped into deeper sleep, the kind where the brain locks in memories from the day. The part of your inner ear that senses motion is wired directly into the parts of your brain that handle sleep. Rocking syncs your brain waves.

The third piece is the most direct. A 2022 study put tiny heart monitors on 28 babies at home and watched how their bodies reacted to different kinds of touch. Only four kinds of touch worked: rocking, patting, bouncing, and stroking. Each one triggered the calming response within seconds. Heart rate dropped. The body shifted into rest mode.

The 13 minutes came from a team at RIKEN, one of Japan's biggest research institutes. They tracked how different ways of holding babies affected their heart rates and figured out the exact recipe. Walk around with the baby in your arms for five minutes. Then sit, still holding them, for another five to eight minutes. Only then put them down. The wait was the surprise finding. Put the baby down too early and they wake up. Give them eight full minutes of held sleep first, and they stay asleep.

All of this lived inside grandmothers' arms for thousands of years before anyone hooked a baby up to a sensor. Passed quietly from mother to daughter to granddaughter. The neuroscience just caught up.

What you're watching is roughly the same protocol a Japanese lab might publish in 2026. Grandma already knew. The citations are optional.

[christopher joye @cjoye]

Labor’s new capital gains tax of up to 46% to 47%, which is far and away the highest in the world, hammers all businesses, including small companies, harder the more successful they become. By applying the most expensive CGT regime in the world, Labor is taking almost half of the upside of any successful firm, encouraging owners and executives who own shares in the business to look at relocating overseas. The question, however, is how many small businesses will actually pay this tax in practice. We prepared the following simulation to highlight the impact. We took the long-term 20 year returns from Cambridge Associates for smaller venture capital companies, which grow by 12.2% pa. We adopted the ASX equity market volatility of 15% pa, which would understate the true volatility of small firms (and thus lead to a lower proportion of very high growth companies paying 46-47% tax in our analysis). We then ran a simulation to estimate the proportion of businesses paying CGT of more than 40%. We find that within 10 years more than half of all Aussie small businesses will be hammered by CGT over 40%, which rises to 78% of all small businesses by 20 years... By giving Australia the most uncompetitive business valuation tax in the world, this policy will crush innovation, entrepreneurship, spending, productivity, growth and our global competitiveness. We already have among the lowest productivity growth rates in the world: by reducing productivity further, we could raise the cost of living, inflation, and interest rates.

[The Frugal Mogul 🏡 @realfrugalmogul]

Imagine being 80 years old and having the opportunity to spend one day as your 40 year told self:

Your kids are young, all living at home and full of energy. Begging you to play and spend time with them. Your spouse is young and vibrant, full of energy. The house is alive with that familiar chaos of raising children and working. You feel so needed, and important.

You get in the car and go somewhere as a family. The kids are making a mess and screaming, but you don’t mind for you’ve come to miss these moments. You feel the deep love between all of you.

You call your parent, who is still alive, and talk for hours. You haven’t heard their voice in so long and now you get to tell them just how much you love them.

At the end of the day, the kids do not want to go to bed and just wanted you to read to them. Not wanting the day to end, you sit there and read to them for hours.

☝️ If this is your life today… know that so many people wish to be back in what you consider a tiresome chaos. This may just be the golden era of your life. Love your kids. Call your parents. Enjoy this limited edition of your life ❤️

[Clint Teeples @TeeplesCY]

"If I told you there was one free thing you could do every Sunday that would make your kids happier, healthier, smarter, and closer to you, you'd think I was selling something."

Take your kids to church regularly. I don't care if you believe. The data is so lopsided that skipping it is the parenting equivalent of refusing vegetables because you don't like the taste.

Grades. Religious teens get As at almost twice the rate of nonreligious teens. In a class of 100, that's 24 A-students instead of 14. Church gives a kid the same academic boost as being born rich instead of poor.

College. Working-class religious kids earn bachelor's degrees at double the rate of their nonreligious peers. Middle-class kids do it at 1.5x the rate. For families without a trust fund, this is one of the most powerful forms of upward mobility social scientists have measured.

Character. Religious teens are far less likely to lie, cheat, or do things they hope their parents never find out about. They're more likely to care about racial equality, the elderly, and the poor. They reject the idea that morality is whatever works for you in the moment. That kind of kid doesn't happen by accident. It's built.

Closeness. 60% of parents of religious teens say they feel "extremely close" to their kid, compared to 50% of nonreligious parents. The kids report the same thing back. They get along better with their parents, talk about hard stuff, and actually want to spend time with their family.

Despair. Religious teens are dramatically less likely to be depressed, anxious, lonely, or feel that life is meaningless. 90% of devoted religious teens never binge drink, compared to 41% of the disengaged. Economists named the modern epidemic "deaths of despair." Regular church attendance is one of the strongest known buffers against it. Parents are spending fortunes trying to solve teen mental health. The most evidence-backed intervention is free.

Purpose. Religious young adults report higher purpose, gratitude, life satisfaction, and resilience. These are the exact traits every parent says they want their kid to have.

Here's why it works. Affluent families already surround their kids with networks of stable, accomplished adults through neighborhoods, schools, and parents' colleagues. Working and middle-class families usually don't. A congregation is often the last institution in American life that puts your kid in weekly contact with dozens of stable, employed, sober adults who know their name. It used to be called "a village." Now it barely exists outside of churches.

"But I don't believe." Your kid doesn't need your theology. They need you to show up.

"But church is boring." So is sitting through a kindergarten music recital. Parenting is the deliberate choice to be bored on purpose for someone you love.

There's a church within 15 minutes of nearly every American home. You don't need money, connections, or credentials to walk in. Nothing else in this country will surround your kid with engaged adults, teach them moral seriousness, and give them a stable weekly rhythm at zero cost.

You already drive them to practices that produce far less. The free thing on Sunday produces more, on more dimensions, than almost anything else you do as a parent.

You don't have to believe anything. You just have to take them.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your brain treats your own kid's first taste of blueberries the same way it treats winning money. Watch a stranger's kid do the same thing, and nothing happens. Brain scans proved it.

Researchers have run dozens of experiments on this. When parents look at a photo of their own child, the dopamine reward areas light up. The same areas that fire when you eat sugar, fall in love, or get a promotion. For a stranger's child, those areas stay quiet. The reward circuit is wired specifically for your kid.

The boss is dealing with the opposite problem. Scientists call it hedonic adaptation, which is a fancy way of saying your brain gets bored fast. A Dutch study tracked 1,530 people before and after a vacation. Most came back no happier than people who never went away at all. The biggest happiness boost was actually before the trip, from looking forward to it. A Korean study found post-vacation happiness lasts about a month, then fades back to normal. Vacation length between 4 and 14 days made no difference.

So the boss has to keep upgrading. Bali in year two feels like Tuesday in year two. The brain adjusts to the new normal in weeks, so the next trip has to be bigger and more expensive to feel anything new.

Kid firsts skip this entirely. Each first is brand new because your kid is brand new. A 2025 USC study scanned new fathers watching videos of their own baby. Their brains lit up across three areas at once: reward, emotion, and the regions that try to read what someone else is thinking. None of this happened for a stranger's baby.

A four dollar box of blueberries can hit a parent's brain harder than a five thousand dollar dinner hits the boss's brain. Different brains, different rules.

[Mega-Politics @_MegaPolitics]

Breaking:

Norway says Israel must be isolated globally to punish it for creating unrest and chaos in the world

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

While the world focuses on the destruction in Iran, we must not ignore what Israel is doing in Lebanon.

1,461 have been killed.
4,430 have been injured.
1.2 million have been displaced.

Israel now occupies 14% of Lebanon.

Enough is enough. No more US military aid to Israel.