JD Baggett

Former Naval Flight Officer sub hunter and I-banker.

[Sunil Gurjar, CFTe @sunilgurjar01]

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[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

July 14, 1881. Sheriff Pat Garrett shot Billy the Kid dead in a pitch black bedroom in New Mexico, and turned a 21 year old into the most famous outlaw America has ever produced. Here is the whole story.

He was not born a cowboy. He was born Henry McCarty, most likely in New York City, to a poor Irish immigrant family. His mother dragged him west chasing a healthier life and died of tuberculosis when he was about 14, leaving him an orphan drifting around mining towns with no money and no one. His very first arrest was for stealing clothes out of a laundry, and he escaped that jail by shimmying up the chimney. He was a fugitive before he could grow a beard.

By 17 he had killed his first man, a bully of a blacksmith who kept shoving him around in an Arizona saloon. He ran to New Mexico, picked up the name William Bonney, and rode straight into the middle of a war. Lincoln County was being torn apart by two rival business factions fighting over money, cattle, and control, and Billy hired on with a young English rancher named John Tunstall who actually treated him decently.

Then they murdered Tunstall. That killing broke something loose in Billy. He joined a posse called the Regulators and went hunting for revenge, gunning down the county sheriff in an ambush and shooting his way out of a five day siege while the house he was in burned down around him. He was a teenager in the middle of a private war.

Here is the part people forget. Billy was charming as hell. He spoke fluent Spanish, was genuinely loved by the Mexican families around Fort Sumner, loved to dance, and was known for laughing and joking constantly. The territorial governor, who was busy writing the novel Ben Hur at the time, secretly met with him and offered him a pardon. The deal collapsed, and Billy slipped away.

That is when Pat Garrett came for him. Garrett caught him, a jury sentenced him to hang, and Billy responded by pulling off maybe the greatest jailbreak in western history. Still in shackles, he somehow got a pistol, killed both of his guards, blew one of them away with the man's own shotgun from a courthouse window, then calmly had someone free his legs and rode out of town singing while the whole city watched. Nobody lifted a finger to stop him.

Three months later Garrett tracked him to Fort Sumner. Late that night Garrett sat in the dark bedroom of a man named Pete Maxwell, quietly asking about Billy's whereabouts. Billy walked in barefoot, carrying a knife, having just gone out to cut some meat. He sensed a shape in the blackness and asked in Spanish, quien es, quien es. Who is it. Garrett answered with two shots. Billy went down without ever knowing who killed him.

The legend detonated instantly. Garrett rushed out a book cashing in on the story and helped sell the myth that Billy had killed 21 men, one for every year of his life. The truth is closer to a handful. But it never mattered. Dime novels, then Hollywood, then a hundred years of American imagination took a scrawny orphan from the New York slums and made him immortal. People refused to even believe he was dead, and imposters claiming to be him popped up for decades. As for Garrett, the man who ended him was himself shot in the back and killed years later, and that case was never really solved.

[Mastering Life Path @Mastering_life_]

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[AskLivermore @asklivermore]

This will make you millions in the stock market. Save this so you ALWAYS know what will happen.

One of my secrets is always monitoring HEAVY truck sales.

When the economy turns weak, companies are the first to react by lowering spending and procurement, causing heavy logistics to decrease. Conversely, when economic conditions improves, the purchase of trucks would rebound. It's that simple.

When truck sales are above 0.47M (top quartile):
1. economy is running hot
2. start playing a bit more defensive
3. raise quality in your portfolio

When truck sales are between 0.25M and 0.47M:
1. normal range
2. stay the course
3. hold your winners

When truck sales crash below 0.25M:
1. the economy is bottoming
2. get aggressive
3. this is where generational wealth is built

Right now?
Truck sales are at 0.43M. 73rd percentile. Not in the danger zone yet.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just proved every sighted person on Earth is blind.

Your eye captures 0.0035% of the electromagnetic spectrum.

You are not seeing the universe. You are seeing the sliver your biology decided was enough to keep you alive.

That was never vision. That was a survival filter bolted onto your perception four hundred million years ago.

No one has ever removed it.

Musk: “Blindsight will enable those who have total loss of vision to be able to see again. Including if they have lost their eyes, or the optic nerve.”

No eyes. No nerve. The entire optical system physically absent from the skull.

Neuralink does not rebuild what broke.

It routes around biology entirely. It streams synthetic signal straight into the visual cortex.

Your eye never saw anything.

Your brain did.

Your brain sits in total darkness inside a vault of bone.

It has never seen the sun. It has never seen anything.

It builds reality out of whatever electrical signal the eye allows through.

The eye is the bottleneck between your mind and the universe.

Neuralink removes the bottleneck.

Musk: “Maybe have never seen, were even blind from birth.”

A human who has never perceived a single photon of light.

Given sight for the first time.

Not through medicine. Through engineering.

Musk: “You can see in radar, you can see in infrared, ultraviolet.”

Infrared is pouring off every surface in the room around you.

Radio waves are passing through your body right now.

Ultraviolet is painting patterns across everything you have ever looked at.

You cannot see any of it.

Your biology locked you out before you were born.

Musk: “Superhuman capabilities.”

The person born blind would not be restored to human sight.

They would see more of the universe than any sighted person who has ever lived.

The blind would out-see the sighted.

You will not pity them.

You will envy them.

Musk: “Cybernetic enhancement.”

Every human sense is a sensor converting the world into electrical signal.

Replace the sensor and the brain does not care where the signal came from.

It just processes.

Your senses were never built to show you reality. They were built to show you just enough of it to survive.

Evolution built a keyhole. We called it sight.

Elon Musk is not fixing blindness.

He is fixing sight.

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫 @ThePreserverofU]

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[Aleix Roig @astrocatinfo]

This is our home for several nights under the pristine skies of Namibia.

We’ve rented the incredible Stella Observatory at Tivoli Astrofarm to capture deep-sky images from one of the best astronomical sites on Earth. Spending night after night beneath these dark skies gives us the opportunity to collect hours of data and reveal the faint beauty of the Universe.

This single frame also captures the observatory itself beneath the spectacular Milky Way—a place where unforgettable astrophotography begins.

📍 Stella Observatory, Tivoli Astrofarm, Namibia
📅 July 2026

📷 Image details:
• Single 30” exposure
• ISO 12,800
• TTArtisan 11mm f/2.8
• Sony A7S III

Very little processing.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

YouTuber Dan Schaeffer says he “completely cleared” his sinuses by combining DMSO, purified water, and colloidal silver into a nasal spray.

One squirt up each nose twice a day, and the results were “amazing.”

“No pressure, no nothing.”

Dan’s experience is not an isolated one.

In 1992, Russian researchers found that treating children with sinusitis using a 10% DMSO solution followed by local oxygenation provided complete relief in 49 of 52 cases.

DMSO is a cheap substance you can typically find online for under $30.

Turns out it can do much more for your respiratory system than just clear your sinuses. 🧵

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[AskLivermore @asklivermore]

This is all you need to time the stock market. Save this. Screenshot it. You will need it.

The put/call ratio tells you when everyone is panicking and when everyone is too comfortable.

Every single time the put/call ratio spiked above 1.0 since 2000, it marked a generational buying opportunity:
- Dot-com bottom (2002)
- GFC bottom (2009)
- COVID bottom (2020)
- Tariff crash (2025)

Every single time it collapsed below 0.70, a pullback followed:
- Pre-GFC top (2007)
- Pre-COVID top (2020)
- 2022 top
- Pre-tariff top (2025)

Right now? The put/call ratio just hit 0.61, the lowest since December 2020. That means options traders are the most bullish they've been in nearly 6 years.

Does that mean sell everything? No.

But it means this is the time to stay balanced, not all-in into one sector. The best buying opportunities will come soon, stay patient.

When everyone is greedy, be cautious.
When everyone is fearful, be aggressive.

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

David Kessler: "The U.S. has been exposed to something that our biology was never intended to handle… Ultra-processed foods have altered our metabolism and resulted in the greatest increase in chronic disease in our history."

[André Rieu @superrieu]

Die ersten 30 Minuten 👇 Vorlesungsgesprächs zu Einsteins Relativitätstheorie sind didaktisch wirklich brillant und man kann sie nur jedem empfehlen, der die Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie eher intuitiv verstehen will. 1/10

[power of books @Powerofbooks3]

4 books you must read in July

1. Strategy for life

[Aleix Roig @astrocatinfo]

Almost straight out of the camera. ✨🌌

This image required very little processing—proof of just how extraordinary the night sky is over the Kalahari Desert in Namibia.

A single 30-second exposure was enough to reveal the breathtaking richness of one of the darkest places on Earth.

📍 Kalahari Desert, Namibia
📅 July 12, 2026

Image details:
📷 Sony A7S III
🔭 TTArtisan 11mm f/2.8 Fisheye
⏱️ Single exposure: 30 s
📈 ISO 20,000

🎥 The final timelapse from this unforgettable night will be available very soon... Stay tuned!

The fifth PHOTOTRIP NAMIBIA with @parcastroprades continues under pristine Bortle 1 skies, where the Milky Way shines so brightly that it almost feels unreal.

#Astrophotography #Nightscape #MilkyWay #Namibia

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

One of the most dangerous ideas in politics is that good intentions create prosperous societies.

Bernard Mandeville, in one of the most scandalous and important books in intellectual history, argued almost exactly the opposite.

In his 1714 book The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits, Bernard Mandeville told the story of a prosperous beehive where every bee was driven by vanity, greed, luxury and self-interest. The hive flourished with industry, trade, innovation and wealth precisely because of these private vices. Then, one day, the bees suddenly became virtuous and frugal. Demand collapsed, workers lost their jobs, and the once-thriving society descended into poverty and stagnation.

Mandeville’s provocative thesis was that what was often thought of as private vices often produce public benefits. Self-interested behaviour - when channelled through markets - creates far more prosperity and social cooperation than deliberate attempts at collective virtue or moral perfection.

This insight was revolutionary. It showed that the pursuit of personal gain does not lead to chaos, but to order and abundance. People working to satisfy their own desires end up producing goods and services that benefit others. Greed for profit drives innovation. Vanity fuels demand for quality and beauty. Self-interest, not altruism, powers the division of labour and economic progress.

Adam Smith would later refine this idea into the famous “invisible hand”. But Mandeville stated the uncomfortable truth more boldly: a society that tries to suppress self-interest in the name of virtue usually ends up poorer and less civilised.

The Fable of the Bees is a powerful defence of commercial society which reminds us that what left-wing moralists condemn as vice is frequently the engine of human flourishing.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

Four musket balls tore through George Washington's coat at the Battle of Monongahela. Two horses were shot dead beneath him. He rode back and forth across the worst of the fighting rallying broken men, and when the smoke cleared he did not have a single scratch on him. An Indian chief later said he ordered his men to fire at Washington again and again, then stopped, certain the Great Spirit was shielding him.

He was 23 years old. He wrote to his brother a few days later, almost puzzled by it, and said he had been protected beyond all human expectation by the miraculous care of Providence.

And here is the part people forget. That was not the one time. That was the pattern.

At Princeton he rode his horse to within thirty yards of the British line and told his men to hold as the muskets opened up. An officer who was there covered his eyes because he was sure he was about to watch the general die. When he looked again Washington was still sitting tall in the saddle, waving his hat, completely unharmed. For eight years of war he stood where the fighting was heaviest and the bullets simply refused to find him. His enemies started to talk about it. His own soldiers started to believe it.

He was not being reckless. He just never seemed to believe it was his time.

This is the thread that runs through nearly every great man in history. They lived like the date had already been written and no enemy on earth could move it up by a single hour.

Caesar stood on the bank of the Rubicon, looked at everything he was about to risk, and said the die is already cast. Then he walked into it.

Cromwell rode into battle after battle convinced the outcome had been settled long before either army woke up that morning, and he fought like a man who had nothing left to fear because the ending was not his to decide.

Andrew Jackson stood on the Capitol steps while a man walked up and pulled a pistol on him at point blank range. It misfired. The man drew a second pistol. That one misfired too. The odds of both failing were so small that people argued about it for years. Jackson just raised his cane and went after the man himself.

Stonewall Jackson would ride calmly through a storm of gunfire while everyone around him flinched, and when someone finally asked how he stayed so steady he said it plainly. My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has already fixed the time of my death, so I do not trouble myself about it. I am always ready, no matter when it comes.

That was the whole secret. Not that they loved danger. Not that they did not feel fear. They simply believed their steps were already numbered by a hand higher than any king, and a man who truly believes that walks through fire like it is a hallway.

You cannot kill a man before his work is done.

And when you line their lives up side by side, the escapes, the misfires, the bullets that passed through the coat but never the man, it gets very hard to call all of it luck.

[Aleix Roig @astrocatinfo]

Three Natural Lights Under One of the Darkest Skies on Earth, NAMIBIA 🌌 9th July 2026

Night four of our PHOTOTRIP Namibia at Tivoli Astrofarm, where I’m guiding another incredible group from @parcastroprades beneath one of the finest dark skies on the planet.

This panorama captures three different natural sources of light sharing the same sky.

Dominating the horizon is an exceptionally bright Zodiacal Light, with brilliant Venus shining almost at its center alongside the bright star Regulus. Zodiacal Light is sunlight scattered by countless microscopic dust particles distributed throughout the inner Solar System, concentrated near the plane where the planets orbit the Sun. Under truly pristine skies, it appears as a luminous pyramid rising from the horizon before dawn or after dusk. Although it can be brighter than the Milky Way, light pollution hides it from most populated areas on Earth.

To the left, a persistent green airglow softly illuminates the horizon. Unlike auroras, airglow is a permanent natural phenomenon produced high in Earth’s upper atmosphere. During the day, solar ultraviolet radiation excites oxygen atoms and other molecules. As they release this stored energy during the night, they emit a faint glow that can appear green, red or even orange. It is usually invisible to the naked eye, but under exceptionally dark skies and with long-exposure photography, its delicate structure becomes spectacular.

Towering overhead stretches the magnificent Southern Milky Way, revealing some of the richest star fields visible from Earth. Among them lies the remarkable Eta Carinae Nebula, one of the largest and most active stellar nurseries in our galaxy, home to the unstable supermassive star Eta Carinae and countless young stars hidden within vast clouds of glowing gas and dust.

Experiencing all three phenomena simultaneously is a reminder of why Namibia is considered one of the world’s premier destinations for astronomy and nightscape photography.

Details:

Panorama: 5 × 30 seconds
Camera: Sony A7S III
Lens: TTArtisans 11 mm f/2.8
ISO 20,000

Tivoli Astrofarm, Namibia
Aleix Roig, 9th July 2026

#astrophotography #astronomy #namibia