Important information for anyone, including @nicksortor, who may be on the ground tonight: a different group is reportedly organizing this evening’s Delany Hall protest activity, one with ties to DSA.
This is organized by Palestine Solidarity Working Group, not Cosecha. These are not the institutionally trained "nonviolent" activists like with the prior protests. These are far-left, revolutionary-minded activists who have foreign terrorism sympathies.
Of course, that it's being organized by extremists wasn't enough to deter other NGOs (we suspect National Lawyers Guild) from offering "jail support" to them. They always stick together.
Pray for the safety of all tonight.
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believe it or not, this wallet is completely driven by claude. it took a lot of prompt engineering and wiring to get here, and the sample size is still small, but i'm impressed!
Becoming a dad physically changes your brain. Scientists scanned new fathers before their baby arrived and again after, and the dads whose brains changed the most were the ones holding their baby the most.
Start with the mom, since hers changes first. During pregnancy the gray matter in her brain (the outer layer, where your thinking happens) actually shrinks a little, mostly in the spots she uses to read how other people feel. A 2017 study in Barcelona found the shift so clean that a computer could look at a brain scan and tell whether a woman had carried a baby. Every single time.
That sounds bad until you see where the shrinking lands. The exact spots that get trimmed are the ones that light up when she looks at her own baby. And the moms whose brains changed the most scored highest on how bonded they felt. The shrinking is her brain getting specialized, clearing out the noise so it can lock onto one tiny person, the same sort of tidy-up it ran when she was a teenager.
In 2024 a lab at UC Santa Barbara finally caught this happening live. They scanned one first-time mom’s brain 26 times, from before she got pregnant through to two years after the birth. The gray matter dropped about 4 percent across most of her brain, while the wiring underneath that links it all together got roughly 10 percent stronger, then eased off once the baby came. A full rebuild, tracked week by week for the first time.
Dads run a quieter version of the same program. New fathers in Spain and California lost about 1 percent in the parts tied to empathy and focus, and once again, the ones who lost more were the ones putting in more hours with their baby and feeling closer to them. Their hormones move too. In a study of 624 men in the Philippines, testosterone dropped sharply once they became fathers, and the hands-on dads, the ones doing three hours of care a day or more, dropped the furthest. Hold your baby against your chest and both of you, mom or dad, get a warm little rush of oxytocin, the body’s bonding chemical.
None of this is free. New parents do not get a proper night’s sleep back for about six years, and the first three months are rough, with moms losing close to an hour a night. The body rebuilds itself anyway, because it has one job now, and that job is turning you into a parent.
What I love most is the thing that happens between them. When a mom and her baby lock eyes and babble back and forth, their heart rates drift into the same beat, inside of one second. Two separate bodies, one rhythm. That dad in the drawing with his arms up has no idea his own brain started rearranging itself the second he first picked her up.
Corporation: "We made $4B but spent $3.9B so we only owe taxes on $100M."
Government: "Totally reasonable."
You: "I made $60K but spent $58K on survival."
Government: "You owe taxes on $60K."
You: "That's not—"
Government: "File by May 15."
When I was new to active investing (2010-2012 era)
I bought and sold $NVDA $TSLA $NFLX and $ADBE
All for small gains or small loss 💀
Watching them compound over the years since has haunted me - but also helped forge my diamond hands strategy
NOW I LET WINNERS KEEP WINNING🫡
my little potato is turning into a spud, and it hit me hard today. he’s nearing 5 months, wifey just ended her maternity leave, and we brought a nanny into the home. on top of that, things at solflare are, as usual, busy busy busy.
life is the most beautiful and bizarre thing, and it moves fast. i guess what i’m trying to say is: savor the little things. stop to smell the roses. take advantage of the moments you get with the people you love, whether family or friends.
life is a campaign that takes short-, mid-, and long-term planning, but don’t forget the answer is always love (and solana). and here’s a squirtle, who i adore because he reminds me of my potato, and i don’t want to forget the early days of his life.
solana will hit its terminal inflation rate of 1.5% in 5.7 years on the current schedule
simd-0550 doubles the disinflation rate to get there in 2.8 years
same endpoint, but cutting ~$1.5 billion in emissions
vote yes to simd-0550
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