Harsh🫀

That IT guy. 🤓

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

Absolutely incredible.

In an unprecedented move, South Korea's stock market just collapsed -44% in 40 days, erasing -$2 trillion in market cap.

Now, South Korea's finance ministry has announced plans to "stabilize" the market.

What is happening? Let us explain.

(a thread)

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

https://t.co/GyqOzLDW21

[shirish @shiri_shh]

Palantir AI + Claude was used to detect, prioritize, and strike over 1,000 targets in the first 24 hours of Operation against IRAN.

The success was so ridiculous, so game-changing, that the Pentagon didn’t even wait.

What used to be just a pilot project, just something they were testing out… suddenly became official, permanent, and everywhere.

Palantir is now the core AI brain of the entire U.S. military. It’s getting rolled out across ALL branches.

[n x d @nxd1979]

what every day feels like now

[@levelsio @levelsio]

One thing I learnt living all around the world for the last decade is that there really is no perfect place

Some places have clean air like Portugal and Spain but that's also because they don't really have industry and their economies are in many ways broken

Then you have the booming South East Asia where everything seems to be growing at all times, you can live in skyscraper penthouses with infinity pools for less than you pay rent in Europe, but then you also just have really bad air quality and the highest traffic deaths in the world

You can go live in Japan and Korea where people are so polite and it's so safe, silent and tidy but then you realize they're also some of the most socially isolating places on Earth, kinda because of it

You can move to the US, have the most functional economy in the world, with the largest product and service offering, where people actually want to work, but then in general most places aren't walkable and you're driving everywhere because that's just how most of the country was designed

You can then live in Europe where you have actually do have walkable streets, a pace of life that's more about life than work, but then you have the issue everything is slow and many things don't really work properly and you're lucky to get a plumber to come, because people don't really care about work (how's that slow pace of life, huh?)

So yes there's no perfect place, and the longer you are in one place, after the honeymoon of a new place is over, you often start getting annoyed with all the things that are wrong about that particular place

One solution to this that me and my friends have found is to mix at least 2 places to live (and we even have friends with many kids that do this), this is kind of a brain hack: you let your brain never adapt to one place by switching to the other place every 6 months or so. Your brain keeps thinking it's getting the novelty of a new place (honeymoon vibe) and you can have the pros/cons of two places that are counter in many ways to complement each other:

For example Portugal and Thailand:
- Portugal has clean air and mellow lifestyle near the beach, but services and gov stuff doesn't really work well
- Thailand you can have the 10 million people big city lifestyle in skyscrapers with amazing convenience and everything works, but you have really bad air quality much of the year

There's lots of combos that can complement if you think of it like that

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

I find Gmail’s new “write this for me” feature deeply sinister. They’re trying to convince you that you are dumb and helpless. Don’t let them steal your ability to formulate thoughts and communicate. You were capable of writing an email in 2022 and you’re capable now.

[adam chase @adamhchase]

"pretty" carrying a crazy amount of weight in this sentence

[orph @orphcorp]

STOP ASKING CHATGPT THINGS YOU CAN GOOGLE (index culture)

STOP GOOGLING THINGS YOU CAN LEARN FROM THE TV (spectacle culture)

STOP WATCHING TV FOR THINGS YOU CAN READ IN BOOKS (literate culture)

STOP READING BOOKS ABOUT THINGS YOU CAN HEAR FROM THE TOWN BARD (oral culture)

STOP LISTENING TO THE TOWN BARD ABOUT THINGS YOU CAN PERCEIVE DIRECTLY (embodied culture)

[The Secret @thesecret]

You can be happy right now, despite what is happening around you.

[Ruturaj @rutu_3]

DON'T USE AI TO BUILD PERSONAL PROJECTS
DON'T USE AI TO BUILD PERSONAL PROJECTS
DON'T USE AI TO BUILD PERSONAL PROJECTS
DON'T USE AI TO BUILD PERSONAL PROJECTS
DON'T USE AI TO BUILD PERSONAL PROJECTS
DON'T USE AI TO BUILD PERSONAL PROJECTS
DON'T USE AI TO BUILD PERSONAL PROJECTS

[Alcuin Press @AlcuinPress]

Absolute GOLD from Marcus Aurelius here

[Tommy Siegel @TommySiegel]

what’s happening online in 2025? a guide

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Accurate

[TBPN @tbpn]

"Do you never notice that devices and screens aren't in your dreams?" – @bchesky

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Smarter people tend to be more outgoing and happy, to have fewer problems falling to sleep and staying asleep, to be less manic, and to be less psychotic, prone to ADHD, etc.

Our best genetic predictors now reflect these things!

[ταῦ @taustw]

“The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost.”

Hits hard

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Source: https://t.co/XeMDWuoq9G

[Harsh🫀 @HipsterEngineer]

@IncomeTaxIndia @nsitharamanoffc @officeofPCM @FinMinIndia @PIB_India @MIB_India Sent, please check and action asap. Thanks.