Krišjānis Grīnbergs

making knives and teaching classes at Karl Walter Tools

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

There’s no better way to bring out the best in people than to treat them as if what they do matters.

[Krišjānis Grīnbergs @KarlWalterTools]

"If you do not actively choose a better way, then society, culture, and the general inertia of life will push you into a worse way. The default is distraction, not improvement."

-@JamesClear

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

This is Richard Morgan.

He's a 93-year-old four time world rowing champion who has the fitness levels of a 40 year old.

Scientists studied him to find out his secrets to delaying the aging process.

Here's what they found:

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

BRAZIL IS ON THE BRINK

I’m reporting to you from Brazil, where a dramatic series of events are underway.

At 5:52 pm Eastern Time, today, April 6, 2024, X corporation, formerly known as Twitter, announced that a Brazilian court had forced it to “block certain popular accounts in Brazil.”

Then, less than one hour later, the owner of X, @ElonMusk announced that X would defy the court’s order, and lift all restrictions.

“As a result,” said Musk, “we will probably lose all revenue in Brazil and have to shut down our office there. But principles matter more than profit.”

At any moment, Brazil’s Supreme Court could shut off all access to X/Twitter for the people of Brazil.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Brazil is on the brink of dictatorship at the hands of a totalitarian Supreme Court Justice named Alexandre de Moraes.

President Lula da Silva is participating in the push toward totalitarianism. Since taking office, Lula has massively increased government funding of the mainstream news media, most of which are encouraging increased censorship.

What Lula and de Moraes are doing is an outrageous violation of Brazil’s constitution and the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights.

At this moment, Brazil is not yet a dictatorship. It still has elections and the Brazilian people have other means at their disposal to confront authoritarianism.

But the Federal Supreme Court and the Superior Electoral Court are directly interfere in those elections through censorship.

Three days ago I published the Twitter Files for Brazil. They show that Moraes has violated the Brazilian Constitution. Moraes illegally demanded that Twitter reveal private information about Twitter users who used hashtags he considered inappropriate. He demanded access to Twitter's internal data, violating the platform's policy. He censored, on his own initiative and without any respect for due process, posts on Twitter by parliamentarians from the Brazilian Congress. And Moraes tried to turn Twitter's content moderation policies into a weapon against supporters of then-president Jair Bolsonaro.

I say this as an independent and non-partisan journalist. I'm not a fan of either Bolsonaro or Trump. My political views are very moderate. But I know censorship when I see it.

The Twitter Files also revealed that Google, Facebook, Uber, WhatsApp and Instagram betrayed the people of Brazil. If such evidence is proven, the executives of these companies behaved like cowards: they provided the Brazilian government with personal registration data and telephone numbers without a court order and, therefore, violating the law.
When Twitter refused to provide Brazilian authorities with private user information, including direct messages, the government attempted to sue Twitter's top Brazilian lawyer.

When I lived in Brazil in 1992, I was very left-wing. At the time, Lula and the PT's slogans were “Without fear of being happy”.

In recent days, I have spoken to dozens of Brazilians, including professors, journalists and respected lawyers. Everyone tells me they are shocked by what is happening. They told me that they are afraid to speak their mind and that the Lula government is complicit in creating this climate of fear.

Brazil belongs to the Brazilians. It is not my country. As such, there are limits to what I am capable of doing.

But I can say things that many Brazilians do not feel safe saying: Alexandre de Moraes is a tyrant. And the only way to deal with tyrants is to confront them. It is up to Brazil’s senators to confront the tyrant. And it is up to the people of Brazil to demand that their senators do so.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The power of government grows ever stronger with each passing year

[Jānis Liksts @janisliksts]

Šo uztaisīju @KarlWalterTools uzraudzībā. Nu, vai arī nevis uztaisīju, bet viņš vadīja profāna rokas un prātu. Te ir viens labojums, bet jūs to neredzat. Citējot Krišjāni - nažu meistari nekļūdās, viņi taisa mazākus nažus. Iesaku. Rinda gara, dziļi mežos, bet tas tev nav jūtūbs.

[Krišjānis Grīnbergs @KarlWalterTools]

One of the great paradoxes of human development is that we are required to make crucial choices before we have the knowledge, judgment, and self-understanding to choose wisely. Yet if we put off these choices until we truly feel ready, the delay may produce other, greater costs.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

The Age 30 Crisis and Seasons of a Man's Life https://t.co/N9T8EJrXRU

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

This is important. Seasonal and circadian rhythms and their disruptions have a profound impact on mental health and yet, treating/restoring those aspects of our biology is not often appreciated as a key front end approach. Fortunately this is starting to change!

[Signe Gulbe @signegulbe]

Atcerieties, ka, ja citiem notiek kaut kas labs, Jums tas neko neatņem. Priecājieties, nevis klusiņām skaudiet.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

I think this was caused by climate change https://t.co/qDPM0c8VxR

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

Narcissism is not arrogance. It is the opposite of arrogance. Narcissism is inadequacy… dominated by envy.

Paul Conti, M.D. on the @lexfridman podcast. https://t.co/SAkKVFHOIQ

[Krišjānis Grīnbergs @KarlWalterTools]

@dzhonijs ar šo veikalu pēdējos gados ir pavisam bēdīgi. Pats sākums viņiem bija jēdzīgs. Un vēl labi, ka to pašu preci viņiem māsas kompānijā ksenukai var nopirkt dažreiz vēl izdevīgāk. Dažreiz otrādi.

[Steve Milloy @JunkScience]

Today's estimated global warming is 0.36°C (0.65°F) warmer than the 1979-2000 average for the date... despite 50% of total manmade emissions.

Given that 90+% of temperature stations are biased upward and not accurate to w/i 1.0°C (1.8°F), that warming is not even measurable.

[Ty Gibson @tyfgibson]

HOW TO THINK: Don't reason down from complexity, reason up from simplicity. There are countless complex ideas that became complex by diverging from logic in favor of biases. Begin with the simplest ideas you know to be true & reason as far up as you can go without contradiction.

[C. S. Lewis @CSLewisDaily]

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” -C.S. Lewis

[Krišjānis Grīnbergs @KarlWalterTools]

The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
-Mahatma Gandhi

[ingrīda 🌺 @vecaingrida]

nekad nekaunies par to kāds tu esi

tas ir tavu vecāku darbs.

[Ty Gibson @tyfgibson]

You can put things in your head, but you can’t put them out.