Reece Lufkin

[The Math Flow @TheMathFlow]

Taylor Series of the Exponential Function.

[Architecture & Tradition @archi_tradition]

Gdansk, Poland 🇵🇱

[Not Gaetti @notgaetti]

My most core personal Mike Ditka memory has nothing to do with football or SNL.

Ten years ago when my now-wife and I first moved in together, we were in our 20s and lived in a tiny apartment. We had different work schedules and the only time we could go to the gym together was super early in the morning, before anything else had a chance to compete for our time. We'd try to get in there around 5:00am, which is insane, because neither of us are especially "morning people."

So we would set the alarm for 4:15am, spend a few minutes moaning and groaning about how early it was, and then we'd blast this absolutely ridiculous auto-tuned motivational Mike Ditka rap about personal accountability while we made a pot of coffee and tried to get less groggy. It's completely absurd, but it got us out the door for SO MANY early morning workouts; it became like a ritual for us as we forced ourselves to leave the apartment while it was still dark outside. We are probably half of the views on this thing on YouTube. The neighbors had to absolutely hate us.

The funniest part, though, is that we will still randomly quote this to each other even though it's been years and years since it was part of the daily routine. Let's face it: it's quirky and catchy as hell, you can't go wrong with his advice, and you can't not laugh at the insane format it's delivered in.

You might wake up tired and grumpy, but you'll make yourself put the work in once you remember that Iron Mike says you have to make sacrifices today for the long-term good.

[roon @tszzl]

human cultures are not able to metabolize this amount of change this quickly. when you zoom back out to a big picture of history, it’s remarkable how glacially slow everything is. the first industrial revolutions took 80 years (very fast by the standards of previous revolutions), and the writings of Marx happen at the very end as working class politics arises. it takes about another 150 years after that for the great ideological struggles of post-industrial times to be completed in the 90s in what fukuyama called the “end of history”

today you see a compression of decades of technological change into a matter of months or years. there’s no wonder yann lecun (the respected inventor of the ConvNet and ex-chief scientist of Meta) wonder whether the hugging face incident was staged, and mathematicians whose minds are far more powerful than my own are nonetheless coping about training on their data or something while models begin to display superhuman mathematical capability

it would take a century or more to fully metabolize and legitimize the level of changes that have happened even in the past 20 years, to say less of the remarkable scientific revolution we will get over the next five should we avoid the doom of misalignment. I do not suspect any current form of science academia, or even political order will survive without great transformation, except through the course of slow evolution over decades - and of course, technology will keep moving too

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

his career swings

[culture @culturee]

Bill Murray.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

It's very odd that Democrats have a guy who's going to win in *North Carolina* by double digits... and the collective Dem media class views this as uninteresting, and would rather talk about how DSA candidates in D+80 districts are the key to the party's future

[MoundLore @MoundLore]

Point blank.
Native Americans built these places.

[Greg Harvey @BetweenTheNums]

Players in MLB HISTORY to have 12+ home runs, 6+ stolen bases & 16+ walks in a single calendar month:

Pete Crow-Armstrong - August 2026
Willie Mays - July 1955
Babe Ruth - May 1930, June 1920

That’s it.

[Macro Charts @MacroCharts]

They're curing cancer, and you're bearish?

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

Our understanding of what something is is just a snapshot—an ephemeral opinion. The universe is in a constant state of change.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

This graph I made the other day helps explain it. As a share of the total US population, the South has been rising, and the Midwest and Northeast have been falling, for 55 years now.

As the South's population and economy boom, they also gain cultural power.

[Brian Eno News @dark_shark]

"Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act." - Leonard Cohen #quote

[Charles Fain Lehman @CharlesFLehman]

It's simple: we put the data centers inside the Buc-ee's.

[justine @justinemach_]

an idiot in motion goes further than a genius at rest

[machine yearning engineer @confusionm8trix]

I can’t stop thinking about this guy’s performance in the chair company

[Koenfucius 🔍 @koenfucius]

Could Artificial Friction be what we need to reinvent ourselves, our country and our world?

@discoplomacy shares his framework for helping avoid getting stuck in the same old circular pattern, rooted in millennia of wisdom:

https://t.co/lPa36pzidY

[Grateful Dead @GratefulDead]

“Always a hoot” 🌹

On this day in 1995, the Grateful Dead played their final show ever. It was the second of two consecutive nights at Soldier Field in Chicago, with The Band opening each show. After closing with a rare double encore of ”Black Muddy River” and “Box of Rain,” the final notes rang out with a fireworks display set to Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner,” lighting up the Chicago skyline. No one in the crowd realizing they'd just witnessed the band's last concert, but as we all know, the music never stops 🌹

Photos by Philip Gerstheimer, Susana Millman, and Robbi Cohn