Jimson442

Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.

Tao Te Ching

[Hannah - Apex Fitness Advisory @hannahapexfit]

You don't need a gym.

You need Dumbbells and a system.

I'm a professional athlete. I've built and maintained elite strength with nothing but dumbbells more times than I can count.

Here's 48 exercises, every muscle group covered:

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Tyler and I just published a list of the recipients of the New Aesthetics grants: https://t.co/aLhVgYXrbi.

Thank you very much to all who applied. There were far more applications than we expected. We funded 28 grantees and are excited to see what they create.

My reflections on the whole thing:

• Though there are clearly selection dynamics afoot, figuring out some route beyond the current aesthetic moment seems to be of wider interest in the art community than I would have guessed. Many applicants described their dissatisfaction with the status quo, some in strong terms. We had to close applications after a few weeks because there were so many.
• It's too early to call it, but it seems that both beauty as an unapologetic goal (contra much that is in modernist and contemporary approaches), and ways to channel pre-modern styles into something new for the present era, are of growing interest.
• The awards made me reflect on the perhaps obvious issue of how hard it must be for an artist to persistently do something new: schools, galleries, buyers, etc., all have structurally embedded preferences as well. These individual awards made me wonder what form supporting new clusters could take.
• Architecture seems to me like the discipline most ripe for new ideas. One correspondent observed: "American architects are somewhat constrained by the association with the academy, in addition to the well known regulation issues. There is a tendency to overthink things so that the designs are formally interesting to someone deep in the conversation, but lacking poetry and magic. There are more firms in Europe, South America and beyond that “just do things” (especially in places where it is easier to build)." This was evident in the submissions.
• AI seems to be making people rethink things in a quite fundamental way, just as urbanization/industrialization/popularization of photography did at the end of the 19th century. For some that will mean interesting new forms of AI-augmented art, but the effects of the rethinking will likely be wider.
• Arts funding is clearly as precarious and scarce as ever. That's unfortunate, but it probably also means that individual actors can have meaningful impact, and I encourage others to get involved if interested.
• There's a lot to know that is not written down, and I'm very grateful to those who have helped and advised me along the way.

[Gary Brecka @thegarybrecka]

Best sources of magnesium from food that most people undereat:

- Pumpkin seeds (156mg per ounce, one of the highest food sources available)
- Dark chocolate above 70% cacao (64mg per ounce)
- Almonds (80mg per ounce)
- Spinach cooked (157mg per cup)
- Black beans (120mg per cup cooked)
- Avocado (58mg per fruit)

Most Americans get roughly half the magnesium they need daily.

Supplement with glycinate before bed. Build the rest through food.

[Diane Swonk @DianeSwonk]

🔥The calculation that is coalescing hawks at the Fed and set the stage for dissents with a further pause in July are the inputs to the PCE index for June. Keep in mind that the Fed targets this at 2%.

Those inputs leave us with a much hotter & sticker inflation scenario than was suggested by the CPI data.

This is what our nowcast is giving us with the inputs that feed into the PCE from current CPI, PPI & import prices. The latter came out today and showed the highest levels of prices on imports from China since 2008. That was not the only problem; airfares abroad soared a staggering 12.6%, while domestic airfares jumped another 1.9%. Those are only month-on-month gains, and jet fuel is rising again.

Here is the break down

PCE in June 2026
Down 0.1% after rounding, much less than the 0.4% decline in the CPI in June. That puts y/y PCE at 3.7%, down from 4.1% due to lower energy prices - they are already reversing & that is way too hot.

The core PCE is poised to rise 0.15%, which puts it at 3.3% y/y, same as May. Sticky.

The super core services is poised to rise 0.2%, which is cooler than the super hot 0.5% we saw last month, but still way too hot & sticky. That translates to a 3.7-3.8% increase from a year ago, depending on rounding and is not markedly better than the 3.88% we saw in May.

There are a lot of inflation measures but the narrative has not changed. Inflation is a problem beyond the effects of the war in Iran. That is additive at a time we have already seen a lot of inflation and it has compounded. The level of prices are too high for too many. Hard.

The translation for PCE in June is:

PCE edges down 0.05% due to lower energy prices. That is much smaller than the 0.4% monthly drop in the CPI and translates to a 3.7% y/y down from 4.1% in May. That is still too hot & energy prices are reversing & rising, which will show up in July.

[Jimson442 @JimsonsHurst442]

@DiscGolfProTour Silva is throwing standstill forehands off the tee pad in July 2026...2 days before the final round...who could ever imagined? Ohh is the Dragon for sure, but I just love how the dynamics can change so wildly in FPO

[OddStats @OddStats]

BREAKING NEWS ON OUR SHOW:
Milton Berg, needing the publicity, not calling a market peak; just getting short.

[Remy @copy_paste23]

An injection process inside your body

what happens after a doctor gives you an injection?🧐👇🏾

[The Optimal Man @Human_Optimise]

A Harvard professor says "6-hour sleep can increase your chances of heart disease & cancer in 7 days".

On Jay Shetty's podcast, he revealed 10 "regular" habits that kills your sleep, mood, and mental function:

1) Using alcohol to "wind down."

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.

It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:

56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.

More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.

343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.

That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.

The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:

The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.

Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.

Now look at the individual leaderboard:

- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade

And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.

She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.

The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.

The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.

And the cruelest part is this:

A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.

But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.

They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.

The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

[Jimson442 @JimsonsHurst442]

@arielhelwani Yes! Let's do the next fight at the Aushwitz Memorial site...or Maybe just the Holocaust Museum. Are you OK with that too Ariel??

[Jimson442 @JimsonsHurst442]

@biancoresearch you are such a fucking douchebag Jim...fuck you.

[Heather Long @byHeatherLong]

Wow. I just got my latest electric bill.

Exact same daily usage as last year
Exact same daily avg. temp as last year
But... a nearly 30% increase in the daily avg. cost

(The official CPI report says electricity costs are up 6% in the past year. Obviously, it varies by region)

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

People can’t afford health insurance, inflation is through the roof, gas prices are soaring and immigrant children are locked in prison camps, but sure let’s do motorcycle flips on the lawn of the WH to celebrate an egotistical president‘s birthday.

[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

Social Security does not add to the national debt. It is even prohibited by law from borrowing money.

Politicians who talk about cutting or changing Social Security to address the debt are lying to you.

Here is how Social Security funding works:

Social Security is funded by payroll taxes. When more money comes in from payroll taxes than benefits that need to be paid out, Social Security is obligated to invest the surplus in Treasuries.

Treasuries are bonds. Governments and corporations issue bonds to generate money. A bond is a loan from the purchaser to the issuer.

A bond has a principal, a maturity date, and an interest rate. The principal is the value of the bond. When you buy a bond, you pay the principal. When the bond reaches its maturity date, the issuer is required to pay the principal back to the holder. The interest rate is the amount the issuer pays to the bondholder.

It is similar to how, when you take out a 30-year mortgage, you agree to a repayment schedule and to pay interest until the loan is repaid.

As Treasuries mature, if Social Security doesn't need that extra money, it rolls them over by buying new Treasuries.
When Social Security needs more money to cover benefits, it cashes out Treasuries.

The federal government has had a deficit for the past 25 years. This means that when it has to meet its obligations, it needs to borrow money.

This is how people claim that Social Security adds to the debt. That is ridiculous.

Companies and countries buy US Treasuries. You and I can buy them. Anyone holding a Treasury when it matures isn't increasing the debt. The government’s unbalanced budget is causing the debt.

Cutting Social Security will do nothing to get the US out of debt, but it would create hardship for millions of Americans.

Social Security currently has a shortfall, primarily because people are living longer and the large Boomer generation is retiring. In 1960, there were 5.1 people paying into Social Security. Today, there are only 2.7. The trust fund from past surpluses is keeping it afloat, but it is running out.

The easiest way to address the shortfall is to remove the tax cap on Social Security. Benefits do not have to be increased to do this. This is exactly what was done for Medicare in 1993. The tax cap was removed, and benefits weren't increased to better fund the program.

[Afshine Emrani MD FACC @afshineemrani]

I'm a cardiologist. I've held dying hearts in my hands in the cath lab at 3 AM. And I need to tell you something that changes everything about how we prevent heart attacks.

For decades, the entire field was built on one target: lower LDL cholesterol. Statins save lives — that's settled science. But too many of my patients did everything right — took their statins, hit their numbers, lived clean — and still ended up on my table with a ruptured artery.

We were treating the smoke while the fire kept burning.
The fire is inflammation. And the evidence is now overwhelming.

The CANTOS trial proved it first — lowering inflammation independent of cholesterol reduced cardiac events. But the newer data is what keeps me up at night.

AI-enhanced CT angiography can now detect inflamed arteries by measuring changes in the fat surrounding your coronary vessels — the perivascular fat attenuation index. Higher inflammation in the fat around even one artery independently predicts cardiac death. When multiple arteries show inflammation, the risk multiplies dramatically — even in patients whose cholesterol looks perfect.

This isn't theoretical. This is measurable. Right now. On a scan you can get this month.

Low-dose colchicine — a drug that's been around for centuries for gout — is now FDA-approved specifically for reducing cardiovascular events. It works by quieting the inflammatory cascade that destabilizes the plaque sitting in your arteries. A pill that costs pennies is saving lives the statins couldn't reach.

And the next wave is already in Phase 3 trials. Ziltivekimab — an IL-6 inhibitor — targets the central inflammatory pathway driving atherosclerosis. Phase 2 data showed a 90% reduction in hsCRP. The ZEUS cardiovascular outcomes trial is enrolling now, with results expected late 2026 into 2027. If positive, anti-inflammatory therapy will become standard in managing heart disease alongside lipid-lowering. The era of inflammation-targeted cardiology is arriving.
But it goes deeper than drugs. AI is now predicting heart failure and cardiac events 5+ years before symptoms — integrating CT imaging, electronic health records, and genetic data with accuracy that jumps far beyond traditional risk calculators.

And polygenic risk scores — a simple genetic test that flags inherited cardiovascular risk — are now formally recognized as a risk-enhancing factor in the 2026 ACC/AHA guidelines. A single blood draw can reveal risk that's been silently building since birth. Decades before the first chest pain.

Here's what this means for you right now — today:
Ask your doctor for a high-sensitivity CRP test. It's cheap, routine, and measures the systemic inflammation that standard cholesterol panels completely miss. You can have perfect LDL and inflamed arteries that are quietly preparing to rupture.
If your hsCRP is elevated, discuss low-dose colchicine with your physician. It's FDA-approved for exactly this.
Push for a coronary CT angiography with AI plaque and inflammation analysis if you have risk factors. This isn't the stress test your parents got. This is 3D visualization of your actual arteries — with AI quantifying not just how much plaque you have, but what kind it is and whether the surrounding tissue is inflamed.
Consider polygenic risk score testing — especially with a family history of early heart disease. It's now guideline-supported.

And the foundation that never changes: move daily, eat real food, sleep 7-9 hours, manage stress, and know your numbers — ApoB, Lp(a), hsCRP, fasting insulin.
I left Iran as a child with nothing. I rebuilt everything in a country that gave me the freedom to become a physician. I've spent twenty years watching patients get second chances.

The ones who haunt me aren't the ones who died on my table. They're the ones who survived but never acted on what the science was telling them — years before the event that didn't have to happen.

You can have perfect cholesterol and still have a heart attack. Inflammation plus genetics can drive plaque rupture in arteries that look "fine" on a standard panel.
The myth that normal cholesterol means you're safe has cost more lives than I can count.

We now have the tools to detect the fire — not just the smoke. AI to see it. Genetics to predict it. Drugs to quiet it. And the ancient basics — movement, real food, sleep, purpose — to prevent it from starting.

Prevention is the new cure. And the science to make it real is no longer coming.
It's here.

[OddStats @OddStats]

The government has tracked the Personal Savings Rate since the 1950s. It's the percentage of disposable income that Americans save, invest, or use to purchase real assets.

Today's reading was a terrifying 2.6%

Want to know all the times in the history of this stat it was this low?

▶ The 2.5 years running up to the Great Recession
▶ The first 3 quarters of the Great Recession
▶ The middle of 2022 (the 3rd worst year for markets in 50 years)
▶ Right now

[Bloomberg Opinion @opinion]

The US saving rate hit an almost four-year low in April. Households can't go on like this forever, @jonathanjlevin says https://t.co/lHwR42umbz

[Rahul @sairahul1]

Two Anthropic engineers spent 24 minutes exposing every Claude Code feature you didn't know existed.

Most people will scroll past this. Don't be most people.

[Jean Claude NIYOMUGABO @jcniyomugabo]

The Best Knot in the World.

[The Vigilant 🟢🙏4🇺🇸🦅 @BeerCan45]

@WallStreetApes @ElizabethForNV https://t.co/TTUmkFfgkX