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[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Elon Musk on how to recruit the best talent in the world:

"For the really best people in the world, they'll want to know: is what they're doing going to matter? If they spend 10 years doing this, will it make a difference to the world? Will people notice? Will it matter?"

Elon breaks down recruiting talent into three core things:

As he puts it:

"If you want to recruit people that are really talented and driven, you have to state what's the mission, what's the problem we're trying to solve, and just be clearly willing to pour a lot of Blood, Sweat, and Tears into it. And have a convincing argument for why it matters."

The three major things for motivation:

"First of all, somebody's got to look forward to coming to work in the morning. Are they enjoying the work itself intrinsically? That's very important. And the right work environment can really make a big difference there."

Second:

"They also feel like they'll receive fair financial compensation. The financial rewards are good and fair."

Third, the one that separates good from exceptional:

"For the really best people in the world, they'll want to know... is what they're doing going to matter? If they spend 10 years doing this, will it make a difference to the world? Will people notice? Will it matter?"

The best talent wants impact, not just income.

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

Most people remember Socrates because he died for truth. But we remember Socrates because Plato refused to let him disappear.

When Athens killed Socrates, Plato was only about 29. He had watched his teacher question the powerful, expose weak thinking, and die rather than betray his conscience.

That death changed Plato’s life.

He left Athens for a while. Then he came back with a mission: preserve Socrates for every generation that would come after him.

That is why we have the dialogues.

In them, Socrates walks into ordinary conversations and slowly breaks open the mind of the person in front of him. He does not lecture. He asks. He does not flatter. He forces people to face the weakness of their own beliefs.

But Plato eventually went beyond his teacher.

His great question was simple and terrifying:

What if the world we see is only a shadow of what is real?

That idea became his Theory of Forms. Every chair, tree, law, act of justice, and beautiful thing in this world is changing, imperfect, and temporary. Behind them, Plato believed, stands a higher reality: the perfect form of beauty, justice, goodness, and truth.

Then he gave the world one of philosophy’s most unforgettable images: the cave.

A group of prisoners sit chained in darkness. They see only shadows on a wall and mistake those shadows for reality. One prisoner escapes, sees the sun, discovers the real world, and returns to free the others.

They laugh at him. Then they hate him.

Because truth often feels like an attack to people who have built their lives around shadows.

Plato understood one of the hardest facts about human nature: most people do not fear lies as much as they fear losing the world those lies created.

The cave was Plato’s warning. Most people spend life staring at shadows. My newsletter is for those who still want to turn around and look for the light.

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[Trad West @trad_west_]

Father Chad Ripperger on unfair taxation

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

The average medieval cathedral took generations to build

The men who laid the first stones would never see the finished work

Think about that

An entire society once existed where people spent their lives building things they knew they would never personally enjoy

Now we struggle to think beyond quarterly profits and dopamine hits

Civilizations are built by people willing to plant trees whose shade they will never sit under

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

"I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news."

— John Muir

[Laurent @scion_x_]

Ça fait un moment que je me pose des questions sur le bilan (provisoire) de Milei en Argentine. On lit tout et son contraire. Alors j'ai arrêté de lire les commentaires et j'ai regardé les chiffres bruts.

L'Argentine, c'est l'expérience grandeur nature que les économistes attendaient depuis 50 ans. Même pays. Même peuple. Même culture. On change UNE variable : la méthode économique.

Avant : des décennies de gestion étatiste et péroniste, "redistributive". Le résultat concret ? 211% d'inflation, 42% de pauvreté, un État en déficit permanent qui finance son train de vie en faisant tourner la planche à billets.

Puis arrive Milei. Méthode inverse, brutale, assumée : on coupe, on déréglemente, on arrête d'imprimer.

Deux ans plus tard (photo à son arrivée (fin 2023) vs aujourd'hui) :

Inflation annuelle : 211% → 31%
Inflation mensuelle : 25% → ~2%
Déficit public : −5% du PIB → +1,8% (excédent)
Croissance : −1,6% → +4,4%
Pauvreté : 42% → 28%

Sans débat. Jugez par vous-mêmes.

Et le point essentiel : ces gains ne vont pas "aux riches" ou "aux marchés". Ils vont d'abord aux plus pauvres.

L'inflation est l'impôt le plus injuste qui existe — elle frappe ceux qui n'ont aucun actif pour se protéger. La diviser par 7, c'est rendre du pouvoir d'achat à ceux d'en bas. Et 14 points de pauvreté en moins, ce sont des millions de gens, pas une ligne Excel.

Pendant un siècle, on a expliqué aux Argentins que l'État les protégerait en dépensant toujours plus. Résultat : un des pays les plus riches du monde en 1910, ruiné. On vient d'inverser la méthode. Regardez le résultat.

À un moment, il faut accepter ce que les faits racontent : sur le terrain économique, la méthode libérale a livré en deux ans ce que des décennies de socialisme avaient promis sans jamais tenir. Et ça profite d'abord aux plus modestes.

On peut détester le style de Milei — la tronçonneuse, l'outrance, les sorties improbables, il n'a rien d'un homme d'État classique. Mais on ne juge pas une politique économique au style de celui qui la mène. On la juge à ce qu'elle fait à la vie des gens.

Et les chiffres ont parlé.

[Travis Rex Andersen @AndersenRex]

Not surprised California would rather keep the fraud and penalize the truth tellers finding fraud.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 California Passed "The Stop Nick Shirley Act":
This week the California Assembly passed AB 2624. This bill will criminalize investigative journalism involving the immigrant population. It would have made it illegal to expose the Somali "Learing" center if it were in California or the Armenian hospice fraud in LA if they claimed "reasonable fear."

The bill protects "immigration support services providers," which means services provided to immigrants, including health care. It has been proven that millions, potentially billions, of dollars in fraud has taken place in "immigrant support services” which includes nonprofits and NGOs the state funds.

California is trying to make it harder to expose fraud and scare individuals from investigating it as they could be forced and sued to remove the video, forced to pay attorney fees, and ordered to pay a minimum of $4,000 in damages.

This bill was created by Mia Bonta (the attorney general's wife). She has made 4 separate versions of this bill because each version violates the 1st Amendment and is extremely unconstitutional.

Plain and simple, California politicians need the fraud to continue because they depend on the fraud to push their agendas. END ALL THE FRAUD.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 California Passed "The Stop Nick Shirley Act":
This week the California Assembly passed AB 2624. This bill will criminalize investigative journalism involving the immigrant population. It would have made it illegal to expose the Somali "Learing" center if it were in California or the Armenian hospice fraud in LA if they claimed "reasonable fear."

The bill protects "immigration support services providers," which means services provided to immigrants, including health care. It has been proven that millions, potentially billions, of dollars in fraud has taken place in "immigrant support services” which includes nonprofits and NGOs the state funds.

California is trying to make it harder to expose fraud and scare individuals from investigating it as they could be forced and sued to remove the video, forced to pay attorney fees, and ordered to pay a minimum of $4,000 in damages.

This bill was created by Mia Bonta (the attorney general's wife). She has made 4 separate versions of this bill because each version violates the 1st Amendment and is extremely unconstitutional.

Plain and simple, California politicians need the fraud to continue because they depend on the fraud to push their agendas. END ALL THE FRAUD.

[Ayanokoji @layeee09]

Le vieux du quartier m’a dit : « N’oublie pas que la boussole a été inventée avant l’horloge parce que la direction est plus importante que le temps. »

[Travis Rex Andersen @AndersenRex]

@Russia_X1 Yep

[Travis Rex Andersen @AndersenRex]

@JesusSavesUs777 I do

[Fight With Memes @FightWithMemes]

No luck so far.

[Giga Based Dad @GigaBasedDad]

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[Talk Church @churchtalkative]

By His stripes we are healed.

Isaiah 53:5

[AG @AGHamilton29]

The data is even more revealing when you remove suicides.

In 2024, America had 15,364 gun homicides.

The same year, Europe had around 62,700 deaths from summer heat.

America had ~2000.

That's a policy choice.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

One one of my favorite Tulsi moments.

When she nuked Kamala on live TV during the 2020 Democrat Debate.

It’s a work of art to this day.

[Christianity @Christians_era]

"I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved."

John 10:9