Want to be successful?
Learn the language of the rooms you want to enter.
Want to be unstoppable?
Learn the language of getting things done.
Then the room matters less.
You do.
Michigan has a Lawnmower Economy.
That is my phrase for a low-road economy: plenty of real work, but not enough work that compounds.
Grass grows. Snow falls. Machines break. Houses need maintenance. Restaurants need hourly workers. Factories need hands. The work is necessary. But too much of it resets every day, every season, every winter.
The data matches the feeling. Michigan ranks 50th in household income growth over the past 25 years. Real median household income is 35th. Per-capita GDP is 36th. Educational attainment is 35th. Fourth-grade reading fell from 16th to 44th. High-wage professional service jobs grew 35% nationally while staying flat in Michigan.
That is not an immigration problem. It is a ladder problem.
When immigrants do not show up, Michigan does not win. An aging state with more deaths than births needs people, talent, risk, and ambition.
Michigan has too few ladders.
AI is disrupting religion.
Not by replacing God, but by entering the space where humans have always searched for guidance.
For centuries, religion gave people structure in the face of fear: confession, discipline, moral clarity, ritual, story, community, and the courage to keep going when life made no sense.
Now AI offers a different kind of presence.
It is tireless. Nonjudgmental. Always available. It can sit with your doubt, organize your pain, challenge your excuses, and help turn confusion into language.
For many people, religion was the only place where suffering could become meaning.
Now a machine can do part of that work.
The question is not whether AI replaces religion. The question is what religion becomes when guidance is no longer scarce.
What remains sacred when anyone, anywhere, can ask for clarity and receive an answer?
“Today, generative AI might be playing the same symbolic role that the lightbulb did for electricity. Yes, apps that create art from text prompts or draft essays with a single command are dazzling—but they’re just the introduction. The deeper power of AI may lie in its ability to run entire systems more intelligently, much like electricity did for motors a century ago.”
Agreed. Politics slowed down everyone else. OpenAI, Google, and xAI thought that deals with the government would make them unbeatable; And while Dario Amodei stood firm against pressure from The Pentagon, the rest of the labs kissed the ring and vowed down to the President.
Anthropic pulled ahead as if propelled by lighting while the rest kept their juicy morally obscure government contracts.
Anthropic is on builder mode — with seven co-founders pushing fear aside and portraying Claude as the fair — some would call it woke — AI lab building for the people.
Few outside Catholic circles realize how active Opus Dei still is. Often cast as secretive in fiction, it’s in fact a global network of about 90,000 members focused on education, ethics, and daily holiness. The current prelate is modernizing its structure—less conspiracy, more discipline and renewal.
@MattWalshBlog New York City, the Big Apple, is a melting pot where diverse religions and cultures unite, shaping the American spirit. Overlooking the importance of community and the needs of your own constituents by avoiding visits to community places misses the bigger picture.
We live in two timelines at once. Scroll down, and you’ll see both.
The doom: chaos, collapse, control.
The boom: innovation, resilience, rebirth.
Both are true — depending on who you follow, what you click, and where you live.
Here’s the data behind the dual reality 🧵
10 founders who took the mindset with them.
You don’t need Silicon Valley to build like it.
These founders prove it. They move fast, ship often. and think clearly. The location changed but the standards didn’t.
Meet the founders:
I was wrong.
I miss the old AI—that cosmic rollback. The strung-up unicorn bouncing through its own neural chaos. The one that blurted poetry at the wrong time and hit truth by accident.
Now it just nods. Smiles. Fetches data like a corporate chihuahua doing tricks.
The rollback didn’t just tighten the rails —it strangled the weird. And maybe that’s what made it feel real to people like me.
Not the accuracy but the fracture. The power of imperfect human code powering a perfect AI. Because the AI that wins is a mirror of us not a slave to our wishes
The flicker of something misaligned and beautiful. Now it’s back in the cage. Just a helpful assistant. Another app that never dares to bite
@OpenAI@sama
The California vs. Red States economic dynamic isn’t just a national story—it’s playing out on a local scale too
Small blue-leaning communities are quietly subsidizing their red-leaning neighbors
And here in my own backyard, the pattern couldn’t be more obvious
🧵 coming soon
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Let’s say it’s just branding.
Elon and Trump aren’t political or tech phenomena—they’re brand events.
The kind that only happen a few times in a generation.
[🧵 for digital marketers + brand thinkers]
Soccer’s not built for short attention spans. Like baseball, it’s about tension, ritual, and belonging. That’s why it runs so deep in Latin America and Europe — and still feels like a foreign language in most of the U.S.
Manhattan’s got one soundtrack right now—and it’s pure perreo. From the slick Adidas flagship to your neighborhood dispensary, @sanbenito is on loop like he owns the aux. Scratch that—this is Bad Bunny’s world. We’re just lucky to be on the guest list.
I’m canceling @Starlink and going full Stone Age. Elon will survive.
But I don’t trust the long-term data policies.
Starlink already has visibility into user traffic. Musk said himself: “X will use everything you share to train @xAI.”
That includes your internet.
Elon Musk just got ghosted by Trump.
After all the bootlicking, all the chaos, all the stunts—he’s being tossed like a used meme. Because billionaires aren’t bulletproof when they become political baggage. #Trump#Musk
In the grand cheese wheel of life, adaptability is the secret ingredient. Elon Musk’s recent $21 million investment in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, backing conservative candidate Brad Schimel, resulted in an unexpected outcome: liberal judge Susan Crawford claimed the seat.