Venus Barak

Just Curious

[Onihei @0niheei]

The biggest sex symbol of the 90s now shows up to Paris Fashion Week with zero makeup, on purpose.

"I've been playing characters my whole life. Cartoon characters I created for protection. I wanted to remember who I was."

- Pamela Anderson calls the blonde bombshell image a mask she hid behind
- half the internet calls it brave, the other half says it's easy for a woman who looked like her

bookmark & watch - the bare face that split the beauty world in two

[Aporia @aporia9n]

Notice how they gravitate towards endurance sports that basically only require grind/discipline (marathons, cycling, lifting, Ironmans) vs skill-based ones (golf, tennis, sailing, etc)

They want a clean effort → outcome relationship. If you train consistently, your 10k time, deadlift or HYROX time will usually improve linearly.

Golf and tennis are much more psychologically tough. You can practise for years and suddenly play worse. Progress is nonlinear, technique-sensitive, and often exposed directly against another person. You can’t simply brute-force your way into feeling competent.

Same for the modern high-agency / ambitious professionals looking for achievement outside work. As their careers become increasingly nonlinear and probabilistic (working twice as hard won’t guarantee you the promotion, building twice as good a product won’t guarantee anyone buys it), they increasingly pick sports where progress is linear-ish, quantifiable and attributable to effort. Basically the meritocracy they thought their career would be.

[Oliur @UltraLinx]

Humans are designed to create. This is why you get depressed if all you do is consume.

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

Nine Lives, Zero Fucks!
Alley Cats on Netflix August 7

[Atelier Missor @AtelierMissor_]

In a few days, Prometheus will stand 50 ft tall, holding high the torch of the West.

Starbase, Texas.

[Tesla Owners Silicon Valley @teslaownersSV]

“I was raised by books. Books, and then my parents”
― Elon Musk

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

The curse of discipline is that every day looks the same. The curse of indiscipline is that every year does.

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 Bengaluru’s 5-star hotels and resorts, including Four Seasons and Shangri-La, were found with expired milk, rotten meat, and fungus-covered vegetables. 🙏

- At The Lalit Ashok (Annex South), officials seized and destroyed 76 kg of meat, 200 kg of vegetables, and 32 liters of expired milk.

- At Shangri-La, 15 kg of meat were seized.

- At Four Seasons Hotel, officials confiscated 19 kg of meat.

- At Vivanta Bengaluru Whitefield, three kg of expired bakery products were destroyed.

- At Taj Yeshwantpur, officials seized 72 kg of meat and fish.

- At Radisson Blu (The Atria), authorities seized and destroyed 105 kg of expired food articles.

[Amit Schandillia @Schandillia]

If Punjab Grill can do this, they all can. Can’t trust any. Northern Tadka, Copper Chimney, Haldiram, none. No more dineouts. India isn’t conducive to such lifestyles. Beyond tragic.

[Yadu @Yaduvam]

India Through the Eyes of Hiroshi Yoshida, 1931–1932.

[Atelier Missor @AtelierMissor_]

Starbase, Texas.

[Venus Barak @Venusbarak]

Trust

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 Bengaluru’s 5-star hotels and resorts, including Four Seasons and Shangri-La, were found with expired milk, rotten meat, and fungus-covered vegetables. 🙏

- At The Lalit Ashok (Annex South), officials seized and destroyed 76 kg of meat, 200 kg of vegetables, and 32 liters of expired milk.

- At Shangri-La, 15 kg of meat were seized.

- At Four Seasons Hotel, officials confiscated 19 kg of meat.

- At Vivanta Bengaluru Whitefield, three kg of expired bakery products were destroyed.

- At Taj Yeshwantpur, officials seized 72 kg of meat and fish.

- At Radisson Blu (The Atria), authorities seized and destroyed 105 kg of expired food articles.

[soli @solisolsoli]

One final symphony by Luca Ponsato

[Nicolas Berggruen @NBerggruen]

“The false ‘hard problem of consciousness’ assumes upfront that there exists a metaphysical gap between mind and body. This contradicts everything we have learned about nature.”

Carlo Rovelli for @NoemaMag
https://t.co/gGJijJkRm5

[The Knowledge Project @TKPPodcast]

"There's only two things a manager manages: return on capital and return on time."⁣
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Brad Jacobs on The Knowledge Project