William James believed self-image is the closest we possess to destiny. And self-image is alterable as an ethical and spiritual project. More so, altered self-image produces or comports with objective changes in outer life. It's a radical proposition for our generation to assume.
@nikitabier One downside is that my Promotions folder is so full of content that if I don't keep it whittled down, I'll have to start paying for the storage this excess content consumes.
@nikitabier With reservations, I'm using Alphabet's Gemini AI complement to Gmail. While not 100% perfect, it's doing a good job of segmenting spam emails into a Promotions tab. A bit of stuff that I actually want goes into that tab too, so I have to watch for that.
@maximumpain333 This report seems unreliable. There's no independent confirmation. Also a stark error appears in paragraph #1 :
"At 6:12 AM Rome time, Pope Francis ordered the immediate closure of the Vatican Secret Archives to all researchers, scholars, and diplomats."
Leo is now the Pope.
@argosaki@Kathleen_Tyson_ The text here is not quite 100% accurate, but it comes pretty close. Thylejren is a remarkable place.
https://t.co/hYpgEjvNBo
🚨BREAKING (Minneapolis): ICE/Border Patrol agents just took a toddler.
Around 1:00 PM today, agents smashed a car window, in what appears to be a residential driveway, and detained a father and his young child, on Chicago & 35th St.
The child is believed to be 2-year-old Chloe Renata.
As of now, it is said the mother has no information on where they were taken and is actively searching for answers.
And this isn’t random.
Over the past few days in Minneapolis, federal operations have been targeting families, children, and areas around schools… directly contradicting DHS claims that they’re only going after the “worst of the worst.”
Please share this, and related posts, so we can get answers before DHS tries to control the narrative with lies.
🚨BREAKING: ICE/Border Patrol agents are now hitting unaccompanied minors with their vehicles, detaining and disappearing them, even after being shown a U.S. passport.
Yesterday, agents rear-ended a car being driven by a 16-year-old, with her 15-year-old brother in the passenger seat.
Instead of calling a guardian, agents photographed the 15-year-old… and then took him.
The 16-year-old showed agents her U.S. passport…. But, that did not matter, they still handcuffed her and threw her into their unmarked car.
Both minors.
Both unaccompanied.
Detaining children, ignoring proof of citizenship, and hauling minors away, after rear ending the car they were driving, is not immigration enforcement.
That is child trafficking.
And it’s happening in broad daylight by the Trump administration.
Share this.
Document everything.
Demand accountability.
Because if federal agents can do this to kids with a passport, no one is safe.
"This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board." —@_david_ho_
https://t.co/YVuyoyunwQ
American says you can basically pick anything up at Walmart and walk it over to the scale and it’s weight will be marked high
So he picks up a ham and shows it’s marked 5.34 pounds
He walks it over to the scale and weighs it. It’s 2.24 pounds
Americans are being robbed blind
Be gentle with your heart, because it has known deep pain.
Be loving with your body... say kind words to it, as it has suffered pain.
Don’t be so hard on yourself, forgive all of you... you did the best you could at the time.
And know at the end of it all... you were brave.
What is driving massive job cuts in the US?
US-based employers have announced 1,099,500 job cuts in the first 10 months of 2025, the 2nd-highest since 2009.
20.9% of those layoffs were driven by "unfavorable" market and economic conditions.
7.0% of job cuts were made to reduce costs, while 4.4% were as result of AI.
In October alone, US companies announced 153,074 job cuts, the worst October in 22 years.
32.9% of October's cuts were due to cost-cutting, 20.3% due to AI, and 13.8% due to market and economic conditions.
AI automation is only part of the narrative for layoffs.
@davidsirota I'm okay with us having spent the research money; the net benefit to public health from Ozempic's potential to curb obesity is worth it.
But that pricing structure - geez, pure corruption.
I completely missed that Republicans introduced a bill to increase the endowment tax from 1.4% to 21%. If passed, Harvard would go from paying ~$35m to $525m/yr in federal taxes (that’s 8.2% of its current operating expenses)
Nvidia's, $NVDA, Q4 Revenue by Year:
1. 2015: $1.4B
2. 2016: $2.2B
3. 2017: $2.9B
4. 2018: $2.2B
5. 2019: $3.1B
6. 2020: $5B
7. 2021: $7.6B
8. 2022: $6.1B
9. 2023: $22.1B
10. 2024: $39.3B
Nvidia's Q4 2024 revenue of $39.3 billion is now nearly 8 TIMES higher than it was 5 years ago.
That's $427 million in revenue PER DAY for the entire fourth quarter.
Nvidia is MASSIVE.
Late yesterday, Trump issued an executive order that terminates HHS's Long COVID advisory committee.
The committee's focus was bringing perspectives from outside government to inform action of the Executive Branch on Long COVID and other infection-associated chronic conditions.
@freakziska @femmebitez I wouldn't worry. "Woke" means you're alert, aware, awakened ... attuned to the reality of things. The opposite is what's regrettable.
It's beyond me how "woke" has become regarded as an insult.