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[Michael Elgort @just_whatever]

This person in the video has built a regression model on Lionel Messi’s (@TeamMessi) longevity and scoring ability and according to it Messi is about 8 standard deviations away from the curve (8 sigma). It is so rare in one tailed probability that the chance for someone like Messi to appear in this world is 1 in 1.61 quadrillion meaning Messi is virtually impossible and mathematically infinitesimally rare

To understand how small a 1 in 1.61 quadrillion chance is, compare it to this: Powerball Jackpot gives you a chance of winning the lottery with roughly 1 in 292 million chance. You are about 5.5 million times more likely to win the Powerball jackpot on a single ticket than to see an 8-sigma event

For comparison you can see image with @Cristiano Ronaldo in the next post, who is also an outlier, but the chance of seeing someone like him is way more likely

[F E E Z @Feeztm]

Every tournament follows the same script: a new star emerges, everyone hypes him up, then Messi touches the ball.

[blue @bluewmist]

pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing and making art got turned into skills instead of being seen as behaviors
so now it's like 'the point of doing them is to get good at them' and not 'this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives.

[𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑒 @purelivn]

Lake Como, Italy

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

I spent 4 hours yesterday updating my resume to apply for a mid-level PM role.

The listing said they wanted someone with 10 years of experience in a software that was invented 4 years ago.

I clicked apply and was immediately redirected to a third-party portal that asked me to upload my resume, which I did.

Then it asked me to manually type in every single detail of the resume I had just uploaded.

Why did I upload it if I have to type it again?

Is the uploaded PDF just a ceremonial offering to the HR gods?

I spent 40 minutes breaking down my career history into tiny mandatory text boxes.

The portal required me to list a start and end date for every job, but the calendar widget wouldn't let me type the year.

I had to click the back arrow month by month to get to 2002.

My wrist started cramping somewhere around 2018.

Then it asked for my high school GPA.

I'm 44 years old.

I don't even remember the name of my high school mascot, let alone my proficiency in AP European History.

After the history lesson, came the behavioral assessment.

It presented me with 75 statements and asked me to rate them from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree."

One statement was "I prefer to work alone but also thrive in team environments."

That is a paradox.

I'm being asked to evaluate a philosophical contradiction by a recruiting algorithm.

I just clicked "neutral" for everything out of spite.

The final step was a mandatory video cover letter.

I had to record a one-minute pitch explaining why my core values align with a B2B SaaS company that sells inventory management software.

My core value is being able to afford groceries and paying my internet bill on time.

I put on a dress shirt over my sweatpants, stared into my webcam, and lied for 60 seconds.

I said I've always been profoundly passionate about supply chain optimization.

Nobody is passionate about supply chain optimization.

I clicked submit and immediately received an automated rejection email.

The timestamp said it was sent zero seconds after I applied.

I was evaluated and deemed unworthy by a line of code at the speed of light.

Next time I'm just going to wrap my resume around a brick and throw it through their office window.

[Rahul Jain @rahulj51]

One of the most humbling aspects of writing code for ~30 years is that nothing that I wrote till 3 years ago exists anymore. Almost all of it has been deleted, thrown away or replaced. In fact, almost all the companies/clients/products I worked for are dead by now.

If I had built a bridge or a building, it would still be standing. If I had cured a human, maybe they would still be living.

But software is vaporware by definition. The "craft" is crafting ephemeral paper effigies. We are more akin to kite makers than bridge builders.

[Sun. @thechungkingltd]

You guys don't know how good Messi was.

[Ari🪷 @arikoyarii]

do you ever sit with a group of people and not say anything for the entire time so there's no reason for you to be there, you're just awkwardly listening to people converse and wonder how it's so easy for them to just talk or why its so hard for you to say anything

[Top Girl Keiko, J.D. ✝️🙏 @TopGirlKeiko]

Untalented men love to lament and reduce sports to “bread and circus” like it’s some kind of manly flex.

Sports is the oldest form of human storytelling. Competition, risk, mastery, tribal identity, heroes and villains all compressed into something people can feel in real time. That is culture.

The weakest men on the planet have no homegrown sports team. See UAE and Saudi. Zero talent. Zero athletics.

Athletes represent discipline, delayed gratification, public accountability, and excellence.

And if you wanna talk about dominance. Dominance is dominating other men, not women. If dominating women is how you feel dominant, it’s simply because you can’t dominate men.

In addition , sports create shared moments across class, race, and background in a way almost nothing else does. A game can unify people who otherwise agree on nothing.

And honestly, the only place I hear men seriously denounce sports is in that fake masculinity red pill space. That alone should tell you something. Every other man understands that at the heart of American culture is sports culture. The baseball game when the crowd starts stomping to We Will Rock You, the electricity of a football stadium, the energy in a packed basketball arena. Nothing is more American. Nothing is more culturally binding than that collective experience.

It’s a reason Ronaldo is the most followed person on social media and not world leaders. Excellence at that level commands global attention and admiration.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history.

An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose.

The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life.

In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food.

Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch.

In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable.

I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

[Jake Lundahl @LundahlHorses]

Civilization was built by people like this, and there is a stunning lack of gratitude in our culture for their work.

In this specific case, at least half of the apple varieties in Brown’s collection were considered “lost” until he personally tracked them down and saved them.

He literally went on quests where he did things like, tracking a lost variety back to a stump of a long-ago-cut-down tree near an abandoned homestead in remote Appalachia, took cuttings from the green shoots coming out of the stump, brought them back and planted them.

Absolute legend.

[Santiago @svpino]

You've been saying the same things since GPT-2:

• We can't release this
• We have god in a bottle
• We are all doomed
• This one is different fr
• AGI is here
• End of civilization next week

So spare me the grandiose speech, show us the model, and let people judge.

[PadiFrench 3x4 @Kvaratskhelism0]

El gol que mas grité en mi vida, probablemente sea el de Messi al Bayern, el 1-0 en 2015. Y hay una razón. Obviando que estaba cerradisimo el partido, yo de niño creia que nadie le podia meter gol a Neuer, lo veia como un superhéroe.

Hoy me revivió ese sentimiento, que arquero.

[Sann @san_x_m]

His name was Mukesh Chandrakar.

He was 28 years old.

He ran a YouTube channel called Bastar Junction from Chhattisgarh.

In December 2024 he exposed corruption in a Rs 120 crore road construction project in Bijapur.

Original project cost in 2010 was Rs 73 crore.

By 2021 it had escalated to Rs 188 crore.

Rs 116 crore paid for work that was incomplete and substandard.

Two PWD officials were suspended because of his reporting.

On January 3 2025 his body was found stuffed in a septic tank.

At the home of the contractor he had exposed.

The contractor was his own cousin.

He was killed for doing his job honestly.

India has a Whistleblowers Protection Act.

Mukesh Chandrakar never got its protection.

[Piper @Ticklesoul]

@TMT_arabic

[K’Bucko @KBucko7]

Reading Dune. Frank Herbert was cooking.

[Cosmic Earth ✨As below, so above ☭ @gallixsee]

@mcsquared34

[Ankur @AnkurMessi_]

No one was smiling😭😭
https://t.co/hx1PLICnyv

[Jack @Jackkk]

Pewdiepie reveals how to break free from the algorithm

“A lot of this is going to sound crazy but you’ve gotta hear me out, it’s a step by step process. I’m not saying you should do all of it but you should try some of it”

“Step 1 is creating friction. I put all social media and attention hungry apps in a second profile and I can’t understate how much this changed my life. Those 5-6 seconds it takes to switch profiles stops me every time and makes me think, is this what I want to be doing?”

“The second thing I did was self hosting. The effect that had on me is I’m not the product anymore. The things I use are mine and because they’re not free, I’m not paying with my privacy. I think the main difference is ads and news don’t reach me”

“Next thing I did was disable Shorts, I like YouTube but I hate how Shorts is everywhere I can’t escape it”

“Then I unfollowed everyone. You don’t have to do this, this is definitely a me thing, I just got really fed up”

“Next, get a DNS blocker. You can remove ads completely, most of it won’t even reach your device”

“I think you owe it to yourself to take some time today and start building your tech fence”

“These tech companies don’t care about you, so you’ve got to care about yourself. The cheat code is building some friction and filtering out the noise, that’s your defence and your cure”

[99 Majik @99Majik]

one thing i learned from video games is everytime you come across enemies, you're going in the right direction