I'll need to see all those books from the past ten years, bank statements, and a complete list of clients and vendors.
Hard copies printed out, my eyes only.
Questioner: How do you recognize the truth when it is upon us?
Carl Sagan: “A simple question: How can we recognize the truth?
It is, of course, difficult. But there are a few simple rules. The truth ought to be logically consistent… It ought to be consistent with what else we know… We should also pay attention to how badly we want to believe…”
…“Nobody says it’s easy. I think those three principles at least will winnow out a fair amount of chaff… It doesn’t guarantee that what remains will be true, but at least it will significantly diminish the field of discourse.”
Carl was wise, as I've stated, perhaps even the wiest of us all. However, perhaps, he was constrained by the "order of 3," as that's natural to us.
The number "3" appears across cultures and spiritual traditions to represent harmony (mind, body, spirit), luck ("third time's the charm"), and divine concepts such as the Holy Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) in Christianity, signifying perfection and wholeness. In numerology, it's linked to self-expression, optimism, and sociability, while in folklore, it's common in tales like "three wishes" or "three little pigs."
But what if we needed a 4th principal (or rule), a variable (placeholder), or a dimension (or category)? Like Perspective, to fully understand (comprehend) the truth of a message? As a perspective on the sender of a message, surely it must play into its validity, and how it should (reasonably) resonate with the intended recipient(s)?
Once again, let's ask Carl about "Perspectives."
Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.
The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.
What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.
Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.
In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.
It’s another level of fucked up that myself and millions of other people are now having to rethink our entire lives because of AI technology that we didn’t want or ask for.
Lemme get this straight - on America’s 250th Anniversary year we have:
1) Section 702 of FISA enabling warrantless spying on Americans
2) Section 224 of the ‘27 NDAA near irreversibly integrating Israel into our military tech and systems
3) Section 602 of the NDAA integrating Israel into US intelligence, making it very difficult to disentangle without clearing significant legal hurdles
4) Antisemitism speech laws in 38 states preventing speech against Zionism and criticizing the Israeli government’s genocide?
Sincerely, what the fuck is this?
One of man's deepest desires is not to be a burden on anyone and to earn his way. Burdening others brings him shame. He aspires to self-sufficiency so he can be one that gives rather than takes. He does not pursue independence out of vanity, he covets self-reliance out of honour.
I don’t really think it’s about me Karoline. I think it’s about the idea that we all have fallen down and that we all wish we could be a little kinder to each other. And we all hope for a little grace and understanding when we get honest with ourselves and the world. And we all have that friend or brother or parent or son that has fucked up but fought to get back on their feet. Or that may be you. Or it may be the one that lost the battle and we are mourning them every day- and asking why couldn’t he fight for himself. Whatever it is- it’s not about me. It’s about all of us. So I genuinely ask you to forget about me- and reach out to someone you love who is struggling and tell them you’ll fight alongside them if they will fight for themselves.
Gratitude isn’t just for the good times. The real practice is finding it in your worst moments.
And I promise you, it’s there.
Gratitude can turn what you thought broke you into the very thing that made you whole.
WTF timeline are we on. Someone called me the MAGA whisperer and I’ll gladly take the title. Left, right, D or R we all want the same things. We’re being divided on purpose by the Epstein Elite Oligarch class because as long as we’re at each other’s throats, they get fat and rich off of our misery. The second we figure out we agree on more than we disagree, they’re done. Love your neighbor. Be yourself. Radical honesty. No fucks given, no fucks taken. Everything else is just noise. (But still fuck Jake “Brick Tamland” Tapper on any time line)
The psychotic push for AI is literally the biggest mass delusion of our lifetimes.
I saw a guy on LinkedIn telling people if they become an "AI dev" they will make 700,000 and up. There are signs plastered all of the streets and subways in NYC advertising "AI startups".
There is no return on investment. There is no real value compared to the resources it exhausts. It simply exists so that billionaires can amass an insane amount of wealth while everyone loses their jobs.
⛔️Breaking news ‼️
⛔️ Billionaire Les Wexner, founder of Victoria’s Secret, is now unredacted and listed as a co-conspirator.‼️
⛔️He gave Epstein power of attorney and a Manhattan mansion. Redactions had been protecting him‼️
hrm.
Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF)
major institutional investors like BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street, AQR Capital, and Wellington Management, alongside significant hedge fund activity (e.g., RenTech, Marshall Wace).
Bath & Body Works (BBWI)
major institutional investors: Vanguard, BlackRock, State Street, FMR, and Victory Capital.
Victoria's Secret (VSCO)
major investors are institutional holders like BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, while activist investors like Barington Capital Group
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Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz was one of the names released on the Epstein Client List who had forced sex with an underaged minor, Jane Doe #3.
This is the Harvard Professor Martin Nowak who emailed Jeffrey Epstein “Thank you for your hospitality I’m happy I did not kill anybody” which likely means he was implying that he didn’t end up killing the girl he we was with & Harvard knows about all of it & did nothing at all.