Jordan D Sheppard

UAFS 22

[BearsShowYo @BearsShowYo]

Fuck the caption, this is the coldest shit I’ve ever seen in golf bro

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history.

An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose.

The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life.

In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food.

Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch.

In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable.

I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

[gabrielle @legitimatetiger]

how it feels to accept that reality is just a carbon-based simulation where your infinite consciousness gets to play as a human avatar and remember itself as the creator of all experience despite the inherent limitations of a fragile physical existence

[Vanja @VanjaPoker]

The sickest poker story I have ever heard.

Tropicana, early 2000s.

A guy at the table is slow-rolling, trash-talking, and making everyone miserable, especially the quiet older woman sitting across from him.

A big hand develops. He bets every street. Then on the river he shoves and talks her into calling.

He tables quads.
She turns over a straight flush, then quietly mucks it.
$300,000 bad beat jackpot—gone, on purpose.

Her only words:
"I'm folding because I know you need the money."

Did you hear about this story? Sounds fake but just insane.

[Fox News @FoxNews]

CLOSE CALL: A skier 'miraculously' avoids colliding with a child while performing a jump stunt on a trail in Durango, Colorado.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

I worked at Epic Games for two years. This is real, and the strategy behind it is smarter than most people realize.

Tim Sweeney has spent nearly two decades buying North Carolina forest land. 50,000+ acres across 15 counties. He’s now one of the largest private landowners in the state. The purchases started in 2008, right after the real estate collapse wiped out developers who had been planning golf resorts and luxury communities on biodiverse wilderness.

Sweeney paid $15 million for Box Creek Wilderness, a 7,000-acre stretch in the Blue Ridge foothills containing 130+ rare and threatened species. Developers had owned 5,000 of those acres before the crash. He bought them for conservation prices when nobody else was bidding.

He runs the acquisitions through an LLC called “130 of Chatham.” He buys the land, holds it for years, then either donates it to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, sells it at a discount to state parks, or hands it to land trusts. In 2021, he donated 7,500 acres in the Roan Highlands to the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. Largest private land donation in North Carolina history.

The part people miss: he told the News & Observer that since 2021, land got too expensive to keep buying. So he shifted focus to converting his existing 50,000 acres into permanent conservation status. He’s locking the land into legal structures that make development impossible regardless of who owns it in the future.

A billionaire worth roughly $6 billion is spending tens of millions acquiring wilderness specifically during economic downturns, then giving it away or placing it under permanent legal protection. The land will outlast him, Epic Games, and Fortnite.

That’s the part that separates Sweeney from billionaires who write checks to get their name on a building. The building depreciates. The forest compounds.

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨Nobody wants to hear this but it needs to be said.

> Scientists just copied a fruit fly's brain into a computer. Neuron by neuron. No training data. No machine learning.

> It woke up and started walking. No one taught it to walk. No one trained it. No gradient descent. It just... knew what to do.

A fruit fly brain has 140,000 neurons.
A human brain is around 86,000,000,000.
And we've gotten really good at scaling.

Meaning with this proof, the first digital human won't be built by OpenAI. It'll be copied from someone who's already alive.

Your consciousness is software. And someone just proved it can be copy-pasted.

Start your day with that.

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

BREAKING: New study finds that nobody is more stressed than a 25-35 year old male who thinks time is running out, per Tirana Post.

[ꪖꪀꪊ ꪮꪶꪊ᭙ꪖ @OluwaSoLove]

We do not talk enough about how weed aids the nervous system & brings people back to alignment through sleep, appetite & overall energy when the person is also DRIVEN.

So many people blame weed because they have no intrinsic motivation.

That isn’t weeds fault!

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

I love people with ADHD because they never actually forget anything. You just have to say the right words to activate them like a sleeper cell and then they awaken with all of the knowledge on a very niche subject they studied for 3 months straight 6 years ago.

[Jordan D Sheppard @JShepp3]

@theistinthought Just throwing it out there this was me 18-23, however I would always complain of my stomach hurting and I would lose crazy weight. When I was 23 we discovered I had a really bad case of ACNES even after going to doctors for years. You never know

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

This is the most white thing I’ve seen in a while and I totally approve.

[inmytinypants (tybg) @INMYTINYPANTS]

Kodak saying “I knew the Perc' was fake, but I still ate it 'cause I'm a gremlin” gotta be the most insane lyric ever said on a song that spent time in the billboard top 5

[JoeLongBalls @JoeLongBalls]

how it feels to say "stream that shit" to the guy in vc still playing a game

[Jordan D Sheppard @JShepp3]

@slotcoffee I believe

[Jordan D Sheppard @JShepp3]

@slotcoffee Jinx

[Jordan D Sheppard @JShepp3]

@joostienXD @Polymarket @PolymarketTrade Funniest thing ever would be if homie made the max bet if there is one on there and just move his bitcoin to another wallet lmao

[doomer @uncledoomer]

it would seem that the value of the raw chicken comes from its potential. a raw chicken's destiny has not yet been written, whereas a rotisserie chicken's fate is sealed.

[Jordan D Sheppard @JShepp3]

@AdamBLiv This post is giving the responsible me an inner collapse and it’s because he’s right. Dollar devalues at even half the speed it has since I’ve been alive in 2000. But at the same time it’s more than double interest payment. So what is the best case answer