John Luebbe

Carpe Diem

[Sterling Snow @sterlingmsnow]

I reread this every year.

I cry like a baby every year.

Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero.

Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.

Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?

Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.

Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.

Lisa: Are you okay?

Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.

Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?

Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.

Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.

Lisa: I promise.

Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.

Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)

Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.

Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.

Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.

Lisa: What are you going to do?

Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.

Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.

Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.

[John Luebbe @JLubs65]

@MicahhParsons11 0! That’s look sick

[Jay Cuda @JayCuda]

In the college football playoff era (2014-present)

[Hunter Miller @MillerHHunter]

Rory McIlroy gets divorced the same weekend that Scottie Scheffler is arrested?

[John Luebbe @JLubs65]

@WallStreetSilv At least 1/3 of the GDP listed as China’s is “man made” according to their own former Premier Li KeQiang as well as several other studies on GDP that used lights seen from space or stats that the Chinese can’t ‘massage’ to look good

[John Luebbe @JLubs65]

@ParkGgeeG @pewglobal Yes because Aritrea and Solomon Islands are global policy setters so we must know what they think. Cmon the top 20 economies are in this poll and almost 60% of the global population

[John Luebbe @JLubs65]

@chenweihua @pewglobal You’re a joke and your belligerent wolf warrior attitude is increasingly seen with contempt globally. Enjoy the bed you’ve made

[John Luebbe @JLubs65]

@profoundlyyyy @AnthropicAI How do you manage existential dread associated with the coming singularity? Hoping for a positive outcome seems downright impossible with all the doomers out there, with the e/acc ppl making things even worse imo

[John Luebbe @JLubs65]

@TheFrankDomenic Here’s an acronym for you… POS

[John Luebbe @JLubs65]

@thedefiedge What’s it like never being able to drink the tap water? I’ll take 25 dollar door dash for that

[John Luebbe @JLubs65]

@Jimmy2Tired Does Ye count in that category now?

[Melissa Tate @TheRightMelissa]

Wow. Civil Rights leader leaves Dr. Phill & his audience speechless after rejecting the idea of “systemic racism” & reparations.
👏🏾 Beautifully said.

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

Another May Day meme

[Science Is Strategic @scienceisstrat1]

Great clip from @chamath describing who the ultimate financial winners may be from the generative AI revolution

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

1981 Steve Jobs with the best analogy I’ve heard to understand what AI might do to humans:

[John Luebbe @JLubs65]

@FT @gideonrachman this piece by you is such an absolute joke of Chinese propaganda. How can it be moral to invest in a regime committing genocide? Go lick Xi’s shoes, maybe then he’ll pat you on the head and say good boy

[John Luebbe @JLubs65]

@BarstoolBigCat PS5 codes imminent?

[Aaron Sibarium @aaronsibarium]

The theme of my reporting this year was ideological capture and its consequences. From hospitals and nonprofits to corporations and the courts, “wokeness” isn’t just stifling free speech or inventing dumb neologisms; it is determining policy that affects millions of people.🧵