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Each and everyone of us can be a force for Good!

[Wim Hof @Iceman_Hof]

Dedication is LOVE! A great idea for an advent calendar that unleashes your creativity. All you really need is your power of imagination and a bit of time and dedication. ❤️

[Vrillon @Vrillon0]

@DestinyTheGame this is the best iron banner experience to date! really enjoying it!

[Vrillon @Vrillon0]

@dshramek @SWTOR thank you for the great work! ❤️

[Vrillon @Vrillon0]

@MikeScottNewEn1 @teslaownersSV i’m in the same boat and happy. there are many pathways to happiness.

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

The prevalence of anti-science sentiment in public discourse is sad. Humanity wins when we celebrate great scientific & engineering innovation.

Not blindly, of course. Scientists, like all humans, can be corrupted by money, power, fame. But most are amazing humans.

[Vrillon @Vrillon0]

@SWTOR goodspeed to the team and the servers^^

[Vrillon @Vrillon0]

@CultureCrave they will obviously do a pc release. even if its a bit later. its coming.

[Vrillon @Vrillon0]

Marilyn Manson is my number 1 artist of 2023. Who topped your list? #SpotifyWrapped https://t.co/UHXb5vcPVZ

@marilynmanson

[Vrillon @Vrillon0]

@JohnWWarnerIV @MissSpookyMoo the usual

[Vrillon @Vrillon0]

@akacaitlin @SWTOR can’t wait to jump in!

[Vrillon @Vrillon0]

@SWTOR the graphics look so much better with the new lighting system!

[Vrillon @Vrillon0]

@CultureCrave @CNN he was amazing as Kylo Ren!

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

I thought @elonmusk’s interview with @andrewrsorkin was one of the great interviews ever. Musk is a free speech absolutist which I respect. I think he is entirely correct that he and @X are treated unfairly and inconsistently by advertisers.

@tiktok_us @instagram @facebook and others have enormous amounts of problematic content, antisemitic and otherwise, but the advertisers don’t boycott those platforms.

Musk is targeted because the other media organizations view @X as a competitor and any time his name is in an article about controversies, it draws clicks. MSM is incentivized to attack him as it actually drives attention to their sites and therefore more revenues. It is these attack articles by other media organizations that put pressure on the @Disney’s of the world to stop advertising on X.

If Bob Iger would carefully examine the facts, he would likely continue to advertise on X, but Disney caves to public pressure rather than do the right thing. Meanwhile Disney invests heavily on TikTok, likely alongside videos of kids teaching other teenagers to be anorexic and worse. I am sure Nelson Peltz can fix this when he joins the Disney board.

X presents the opportunity for advertisers to access an incredible global audience that is not available elsewhere. And it is cheap compared to other alternatives because of current circumstances.

On Musk and antisemitism:

After examining the facts, it was clear to me that Musk did not have antisemitic intent when he responded with the ‘actual truth’ tweet, and further clarified thereafter.

I thought he made what he meant extremely clear in the @andrewrsorkin interview, namely, that Jews are drawn to support ‘oppressed’ groups and causes through various non-profits due to our history of being an oppressed minority.

Musk points out correctly that a number of these organizations and their members support Hamas. And he is correct in saying that Jews should rethink support for organizations that seek their elimination.

Many Jews are doing that right now.

To use a Muskism, Earth is fortunate that @X is owned by an individual that is largely insulated from financial and other influence. That said, perhaps some form of very carefully governed trust would be a better forever owner than any individual.

@PershingSqFdn invested in the Twitter privatization in support of free speech. Whether we make a profit on our investment is not important to us as we never intend to sell our interest.

I am more inclined to like and support companies that advertise on the platform because I appreciate their support for free speech. I have actually bought products I learned about from ads on @X. I can’t think of another example of my responding to direct advertising other than on X.

Unfortunately, recent (and society’s long-term experience) with non-profit governance, see @OpenAI, certain private universities etc. should not give anyone confidence that a traditional non-profit would be a better owner of X than Musk.

Perhaps some day the ownership of X should be distributed to each American, one share for each American during their lives and one for each person born, with a charter which permanently vests the free speech principles by which it operates.

Until then, we all should be grateful that X is owned by Musk.

[Vrillon @Vrillon0]

@destinytrack it the season with the best weapon and ornament designs ever and i cant wait to farm them all.^^

[Vrillon @Vrillon0]

@RobertIrwin Such an amazing job of handling that near-bite and hand constriction! Love the content. :)

[Robert Irwin @RobertIrwin]

Near miss! Definitely had a good laugh with this grumpy carpet python - but great to get him reacued off the road and relocated to a much safer spot!

[John Cena @JohnCena]

Minimize the shame you feel for your boundaries. They exist to keep you running right and in most cases we maybe could all use a few more.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

The Longyou Caves were discovered in 1992 when farmers drained 5 local ponds that turned out to be 2000-year-old man-made cave structures.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

How the world has evolved over the last century in terms of:

- Child mortality
- Life expectancy
- GDP
- Women's education
- Basic water source
- Basic sanitation

[charts by @toddrjones]

[Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab]

Once we understand that meditation, NSDR: non-sleep-deep-rest (deliberately lying still & relaxing the body while remaining awake) & breathwork are perceptual exercises, their science supported effects (reduced stress, sleep loss offset, improved concentration etc.) make perfect sense. It’s not mystical.