Be a jacked, handsome businessman who trains martial arts, has friends in all places, is a social genius, has a beautiful, feminine girlfriend, reads philosophy and power dynamics, and has a group of friends obsessed with winning.
besides the stunning filmmaking, what makes this hit is how it's a massive set-piece about a superhero risking his life to save civilians, something that has barely happened in any of these movies in years. if anything, it makes the scene more powerful today than it was then
$10M Investor @kevinxu on Iced Coffee Hour on how to trade:
"Follow a couple of people on X and see what stocks they mention. Turn on the bell for certain influencers".
He names @amitisinvesting, @michaelsikand, and @aleabitoreddit as the best follows.
Congrats @kevinxu!
The average traveler has only been to 5 of these places! How many have you visited?
Eiffel Tower 🇫🇷
Great Wall of China 🇨🇳
Kremlin 🇷🇺
Leaning Tower of Pisa 🇮🇹
Louvre Museum 🇫🇷
Statue of Liberty 🇺🇸
Hoi An Vietnam 🇻🇳
Golden Temple 🇮🇳
Colosseum 🇮🇹
Times Square 🇺🇸
Forbidden City 🇨🇳
Notre-Dame 🇫🇷
Taj Mahal 🇮🇳
Machu Picchu 🇵🇪
Sagrada Familia 🇪🇸
Acropolis 🇬🇷
Buckingham Palace 🏴
Sydney Opera 🇦🇺
Golden Gate Bridge 🇺🇸
Burj Khalifa 🇦🇪
St. Peter's Basilica🇻🇦
Pyramids of Giza 🇪🇬
Alhambra 🇪🇸
Mt. Fuji 🇯🇵
Petra 🇯🇴
Stonehenge 🏴
Grand Bazaar 🇹🇷
Niagara Falls 🇨🇦
Big Ben 🏴
Berlin Wall 🇩🇪
Central Park 🇺🇸
What you do in private always shows in public. Reading shows in conversations. Your workouts show in your physique. Your diet shows in your energy. Your discipline shows in your confidence. Your focus shows in your results. You are what you cultivate when no one is watching.
In Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man 2, there was a scene where Peter gets fired from a job and Aunt May gives him her last $20 as a birthday gift. To me that was a Peter Parker that hit rock bottom
btw anthropic's internal document on this literally said "we don't want it to be known that we are working on this.”
it was called project panama.
here's exactly what happened:
1: anthropic concluded that books were the cheapest way to build a world-class model because they gave claude curated facts, structured arguments, compelling stories, and writing “an editor would approve of.”
2: once anthropic decided it needed books at enormous scale, its first solution was piracy.
it downloaded 7m+ books from online libraries including libgen. the judge later wrote that although anthropic had legal ways to buy them, it chose piracy to avoid what dario amodei called the “legal/practice/business slog.”
3: that piracy created a massive legal risk.
so in february 2024, anthropic hired tom turvey, the former head of partnerships for google books, to find a legally safer way of obtaining “all the books in the world.”
4: turvey first contacted major publishers about licensing their catalogs.
those attempts didn’t produce agreements, so anthropic chose a route that required no publisher permission: buying millions of physical books through distributors and used-book retailers.
5: within about a year, anthropic spent tens of millions acquiring and scanning millions of books, including many rare and 1/1 titles. one vendor proposal targeted 500,000 to 2 million books in six months.
6: to scan that many books within months, the vendors physically dismantled them.
a hydraulic cutter removed each spine. the pages were trimmed to size, fed as loose sheets through high-speed industrial scanners, and converted into searchable PDFs. the paper remains were then sent for recycling.
7: these PDFs were fed into claude as training data.
the complete collection became a private, searchable anthropic library that the company planned to “store forever.” the scans aren’t available to the public and were never open-sourced.
You are absorbing more in a single day than your grandparents processed in a month. Notifications, opinions, outrage, disasters, advertisements, noise. Your nervous system was not built for this. The reset you're looking for isn't a supplement or more information. It's a walk without your phone. Dinner with no screen.
A bedtime that respects your body.
A pause for fresh air, sunshine, and laughter
Here's what 100% will happen, bookmark this:
>Gov subsidized grocery stores open at 30% lower prices
>Local grocery stores cannot compete
>They go out of business
>City store becomes the only option
>No competition
>The "food desert" they set out to fix is now worse
>Demand is high, supply is low
>Empty shelves become the norm
>City responds the only way it can: purchase limits "2 per customer"
>Rationing occurs
>A rush every day, hoarding, lines
>To control the bleeding, the city quietly shrinks the basket or lets quality slide
>Wilted produce, thinner cuts, fewer options
>Budget balloons anyway, because the subsidy never shrinks, only grows