Jacob F.

[Gracie 🥰 @uandmeplz]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

ALL OF THIS IS TRUE…

“Keep your eye on how much the Government is spending because that is the true tax…as
there IS NO SUCH THING as an unbalanced budget. You PAY FOR IT either in the form of taxes…or indirectly in the form of inflation or debt…” -Milton Friedman

[Valor Mental 🧠 @valormental]

Este artista interpreta con su acordeón una de las piezas más difíciles de Vivaldi, una obra que normalmente es interpretada por una orquesta completa.

[Jack @jackunheard]

🚨BREAKING: A Canadian politician loses her mind because the 2026 budget doesn’t include money for the…

MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ community.

"They provided $0 to deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+”

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A community college professor taught the same study skills lecture for 30 years, and the video quietly became one of the most watched educational recordings on the internet.

His name is Marty Lobdell. He spent his career as a psychology professor watching students fail not because they were lazy, but because nobody had ever taught them how their brain actually works under the pressure of learning something hard.

The lecture is called "Study Less Study Smart." Over 10 million views. Passed around in Reddit threads, Discord servers, and university study groups for over a decade. And the core insight buried inside it has been sitting in cognitive psychology research for years, waiting for someone to explain it in plain language.

Here is the framework that completely changed how I think about effort.

Your brain does not sustain focus the way you think it does. Studies tracking real students found that the average learner hits a wall somewhere between 25 and 30 minutes.

After that, efficiency doesn't just decline. It collapses. You're still sitting at your desk, still looking at the page, but almost nothing is going in.

Lobdell illustrated this with a student he knew personally. She set a goal of studying 6 hours a night, 5 nights a week, to pull herself out of academic probation. Thirty hours of studying per week. She failed every single class that quarter.

She wasn't failing because she lacked effort. She was failing because she had confused time spent near books with time spent actually learning. The 25-minute crash hit her at 6:30pm every night. She spent the next five and a half hours sitting in the wreckage of her own focus and calling it studying.

The fix sounds almost too simple. The moment you feel the slide, stop. Take five minutes. Do something that actually gives you a small reward. Then go back. That five-minute reset returns you to near full efficiency. Across a six-hour window, the difference is not marginal. It is the difference between thirty minutes of real learning and five and a half hours of it.

The second thing he taught destroyed something I had believed about how memory actually works.

Highlighting feels productive. Going back over your notes and recognizing everything feels like knowing. But recognition and recollection are two completely different cognitive processes, and your brain is very good at making you confuse them.

You can see something you've read before and feel completely certain you understand it, even when you couldn't reconstruct a single sentence from memory if the page were blank.

He proved this live in the room. He read 13 random letters to his audience. Almost nobody could recall them. Then he rearranged the same 13 letters into two words: Happy Thursday. The whole room got all 13 without effort.

Same letters. Same count. The only thing that changed was meaning.

The brain stores meaning. Not repetition. The moment new information connects to something you already understand, the retention changes entirely.

This is what the cognitive psychology literature calls elaborative encoding, and it is the mechanism underneath every effective study technique.

The third principle was the one that hit me hardest, and the one almost nobody applies.

Lobdell cited research showing that 80 percent of your study time should be spent in active recitation, not passive reading. Close the material. Say it back in your own words.

Teach it to someone else, or to an empty chair if no one is around. The struggle of retrieval is where the actual learning happens. Reading your notes again is watching someone else do the work.

His parting line has stayed with me longer than almost anything else I have read about learning.

He told the room that if what he shared didn't change their behavior, they hadn't actually learned it. It would just live in their heads as something they had heard once and felt good about.

He was right. And most people leave every lecture exactly like that.

The students who remember everything aren't putting in more hours.

They stopped confusing the feeling of studying with the fact of it.

[Britta | NoSoup4Knowles @nosoup4knowles]

😂

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🐣 Terminator saves Jesus, an instant Easter classic.

Happy Good Friday y’all!

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

A HARVARD psychologist says: “if you’ve achieved nothing by 25, you’ve avoided the most destructive illusion of youth”

> In 2021, a Harvard psychologist surprised a lecture hall with an unexpected statement:

“If you haven’t accomplished much by 25, you may have escaped one of youth’s biggest illusions.”

At first, the room laughed.
She wasn’t kidding.

> The illusion of early success.

In your early 20s, the brain seeks quick proof of worth ~status, attention, rapid achievements.

But psychologists warn that chasing recognition too soon can lock people into roles or paths they never consciously chose.

They decide too early… and spend years trying to undo it.

> The exploration phase.

Research on career development suggests that people who explore more before 30 often build stronger long-term directions.

Testing ideas.
Making mistakes in public.
Changing course.

At 25 it looks like confusion ….but by 35 it often turns into clarity.

People who feel “behind” in their mid-20s frequently gain something others miss:

Perspective.
Patience.
And a clearer sense of what truly matters to them.

That foundation often leads to better decisions later on.

At the end of the lecture, the psychologist left the students with one final thought:

“You’re not meant to have life fully figured out at 25.”

“You’re meant to discover who you’re not.”

[𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒐𝒌 @xvipxp]

😚😍

[Mark Gadala-Maria @markgadala]

This is wild.

143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history.

Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots.

Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget.

Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard.

The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being assembled in data centers. They're being built by people who have no idea they're building them.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Lmao. Perfect explanation for a 5 yr old.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

According to Neuroscience, if you repeat these 3 phrases each morning, you will start to rewire your brain to become more positive, confident, and grateful

1. “Show me how good today gets.”
This activates your brain’s R.A.S to notice more opportunities.

2. “I’m grateful for…”
Gratitude increases dopamine shifting your nervous system into a more regulated, positive state.

3. “I can handle anything that comes my way today.”
This builds self efficacy and reduces threat response to your brain.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

ADAM CAROLLA: “If Hollywood thought Trump was a real dictator… they would shut their cowardly f*cking mouths IMMEDIATELY.”

“They got big problems with Israel. They got big problems with Catholics. They got no problem with Islam. Wait a minute. Hold on.”

“You guys love women... and you hate oppression, right? But you’re gonna storm into Catholic churches and… you’ve got nothing to say about the group that actually does all the oppressing and subjugates women and treats women horribly? You love gay rights? These guys throw gay guys off the tops of buildings in a burlap sack.”

“Don Lemon… Don’t go to the mosque and start fcking around. Someone’s gonna get you with a machete, and you f*cking know it.”

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

True

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jim Carrey drops a cosmic bombshell:

"Jim Carrey is a great character, and I was lucky to get the part. But I don't think of that as me anymore."

"I used to be a guy experiencing the world… now I feel like the world and the universe experiencing a guy."

19-sec clip — reality just flipped

Who are you really? The character… or the one experiencing it?

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jim Carrey's profound reminder:

"We get up, open our eyes, and the show begins... But a couple times a day, stop & go: This is just as real as those thoughts. I am bigger than these thoughts. I am bigger than this body."

"Every cell is God. When you do good, you are the heart of God. Baking bread? That's a Eucharist."

1:24 clip — beautiful perspective shift

When do you pause & remember you're bigger than the story?

[Bridgett Fertig @LightOnLiberty]

Why is why the birds start chirping an hour before Sunrise? 🐦

"The chirping of the birds emits a Frequency that helps open up the plant cell stomata on the bottom of the leaf and it helps the plant start breathing in the morning and acts as an alarm clock."

"He discovered that same Frequency is found in music. It's found in classical music quite a bit. So he started playing classical music to his corn Field..."

Amazing how in Tune nature is, RESONATING with each other in symphonic harmony. We're part of that rhythm too, you know.

Nikola Tesla:
"If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of Energy, Frequency and Vibration."

Those aren't 3 separate things, btw.
They're a unified one.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Mel Blanc created the voices of the main Looney Tunes characters.

In this video, he performs all of them at once.
https://t.co/dT5eePFtjk

[Jacob F. @Joshua7677]

@elonmusk When Christmas shopping, grok was the only ai with up to date prices.