Todd Armstrong

If you will it, Dude...it is no dream.

[Cleveland Guardians @CleGuardians]

This dude is so awesome.

#GuardsBall

[Todd Armstrong @armstrongtodd]

@michaeljkellyjr @atrupar 🤣

[Todd Armstrong @armstrongtodd]

@TMZ Great Scott!

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Here's what the world looked like a century ago - thread 🧵

1. Kids on the streets of England in 1901

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

honestly wild

[Dogan Ural @doganuraldesign]

We're stepping into a new reality (!)

Introducing EMO: a groundbreaking AI that creates expressive portrait videos from just an image and audio!

🧵 More in the thread:

[Marc Benioff @Benioff]

Blown away by @sama's visionary take on AI's future at Davos. It feels that GPT-5's upcoming leap in sophistication signals a transformative era. The full panel offers a brilliant glimpse into tomorrow's tech: Watch the full panel here: https://t.co/pqn4bYAAb9

[Baseball Quotes @BaseballQuotes1]

The greatest prediction in sports history

[On3 @On3]

BREAKING: Alabama head coach Nick Saban is retiring, per @ClowESPN🤯

https://t.co/FaR5wYEVZs

[Empire State Building Observation Deck @EmpireStateBldg]

Shining for the @ColumbusCrew for the next hour in honor of their MLS Cup victory

[George Mack @george__mack]

My favorite Charlie Munger story:

In 1953, Munger was 29 years old.

Recently divorced. Lost the house. Huge social stigma of divorce back then.

His 8-year-old son, Teddy, was diagnosed with cancer.

The leukemia was incurable.

No medical insurance - Munger paid for all his medical care.

Charlie would visit Teddy in the hospital every day -- and then walk the streets crying.

Teddy died at the age of 9.

Charlie was broke, divorced and just lost his child.

99.9% of people would've turned to alcohol, drugs, or suicide. (And you'd understand why)

Munger never did.

Fast forward to 52 years old, a failed surgery left him blind in one eye with the potential of going fully blind one day.

Charlie was an obsessive learner who read every book he could get his hands on.

When confronted with the possibility of going blind and no longer being able to read he said:

"It's time for me to learn braille!"

The only thing that might be more impressive than his intellect was his actions.

RIP.

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Munger on Self-Pity:

"Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought.

Self-pity gets pretty close to paranoia…

Every time you find your drifting into self-pity, I don’t care what the cause, your child could be dying from cancer, self-pity is not going to improve the situation. It’s a ridiculous way to behave.

Life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows, it doesn’t matter. Some people recover and others don’t.

There I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every mischance in life was an opportunity to behave well. Every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something and that your duty was not to be immersed in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion. That is a very good idea."

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

Each time I see this chart I ask myself what’s wrong with the US health system?

[Todd Armstrong @armstrongtodd]

@JimDaily @LinksDAO

[Adam Nash @adamnash]

If you haven't watched the @Humane demo video, you should.

The odds against a new company launching a scale new hardware product are long, but it's like they went to 2035 and tried to rebuild what they saw in 2023. 🤯

Hat tip for going bold. 🫡

https://t.co/sa5pMjtCr5

[Scott Van Pelt @notthefakeSVP]

Long Brooks Robinson story I believe I told on radio:

When the Orioles played in Memorial Stadium, the PA announcer was named Rex Barney. When a fan made a great catch of a foul ball, he'd say, "Give that fan a contract." At a game with my dad and Brooks fouls off a pitch. Dad makes a leaping catch, everyone cheers, Rex does his thing. I'm over the moon. I got a Brooks Robinson foul ball. Can't believe it.

Next day at school, I tell everyone. Obviously. After school we have to play catch with this ball. Obviously. I figure I can throw a major league curve ball with it. I can't. I throw it low, my friend can't catch it. Now is when I mention we lived at the top of a hill. Ball rolls down the street and into a sewer.

The Brooks ball is gone. I never told my dad when he was alive. I always look up to the sky at this point and say, "Sorry 'bout that, Pop."

I tell this story decades later at a charity event in Baltimore. Turns out a man at our table did some work with Brooks. A week later a box arrives at my house with this and a note:

Hope this makes up for the one that got away, Brooks.

Indeed it did, Brooks. What a man.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

I saw this ad for WWF Germany today. It blew me away with its creativity

The copy says:

"Protect our wildlife, before it’s too late.”

Genius marketing.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

The situation in the Japanese city of Nara during a downpour 😍

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Just another normal day in Brazil 🤩✨

https://t.co/SPUvwFKgSu

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

A female GPS-tracked falcon flew from South Africa to Finland. In 42 days she flew over 10,000 km. That's 230 km per day. What have you achieved in the last 42 days? Source: https://t.co/5vsQb4LR5x

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Watch the amazing and timeless JAMES BOND THEME played by a FULL ORCHESTRA.

John Barry/Monty Norman