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[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Elite university students are now incapable of reading a book.

Instead of fixing this, universities are simply reducing reading requirements to shorter and shorter excerpts.

This is no mere literacy crisis. It is a civilizational one.

To fight back, we started an online book club to study the great texts of Western Civilization — if the schools and universities won't teach the great books, we must form reading groups to study them ourselves.

Every month, we read a new great work. We've covered texts like Augustine's Confessions, Dante's Inferno, The Count of Monte Cristo, Don Quixote.

We're now reading Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.

We must study the ideas upon which the West was built if we are to preserve it. It takes effort to read these texts, and even more to read them well. Thats what we're doing, slowly, in dialogue with each other.

If you'd like to be part of this, please join our reading group and consider a paid subscription. It makes a HUGE difference to the time and resources we can dedicate to this project. We are entirely funded by our members.

You'll get:

- Live book club discussions (biweekly)
- Access to our incredible community chat
- Essays to guide you through the Great Books
- All past recordings, essays, and podcasts
- Ability to vote on what we read next

https://t.co/efQaicNvay

Welcome!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Interesting

[每日大奶 @Meiridanai2026]

高颜值大奶妹，服从性测试，有这种丰满女人给你服务就偷着乐吧！

[Paul Graham @paulg]

How to Earn a Billion Dollars: https://t.co/WeWBUkKym6

[Anurag Shukla @Anuraag_Shukla]

Excellent article about how Chinese urban life turns every activity into a race.

The gym becomes a miniature version of Chinese capitalism: competitive, hierarchical, branded, monitored, and full of aspiration.

[Simon Russo @SimonRusso__]

"The part of me making these promises is not the part that keeps them. There is a stranger with your face in the mirror — the stranger's trades become your fate."

Markets are Mirrors (06 of 06)

(link below)

[Jack Meyer 🏛️ @Jackbmeyer]

Some reading for today

[Sinan @snndmr_official]

Dünya Edebiyatından mutlaka okunması gereken 20 Klasik Başyapıt

Anna Karenina - Lev N. Tolstoy
Bir Yaz Gecesi Rüyası - William Shakespeare
Don Kişot - Miguel de Cervantes
Monte Kristo Kontu - Alexandre Dumas
Fareler ve İnsanlar - John Steinbeck
Yüzyıllık Yalnızlık - Gabriel G. Márquez
Suç ve Ceza - Fyodor M. Dostoyevski
Oblomov - Ivan Gonçarov
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Faust - Johann V. Goethe
Gazap Üzümleri - John Steinbeck
İnsan Neyle Yaşar - Lev N. Tolstoy
Zamanımızın Bir Kahramanı - Lermontov
Martin Eden - Jack London
Çavdar Tarlasında Çocuklar - J. D. Salinger
İki Şehrin Hikayesi - Charles Dickens
Notr Dame'in Kamburu - Victor Hugo
1984 - George Orwell
Sonsuzluğun Tarihi - Jorge L. Borges
Sek Sek - Julio Cortázar

[Jake Brukhman @jbrukh]

Unlike many investors in crypto, I did not pivot to AI in the last few years. However, since 2020, I built some of the deepest understanding in this industry on the intersection of AI and decentralized networks (crypto, web3).

From the start, it was very clear that AI models are a centralizing force and the biggest target for government control. That point became market fact last night, with @AnthropicAI’s export control compliance.

As an investor in decentralized AI, I know that d-networks are a counterbalance to this state of affairs. In particular, the starting point of sovereign, open, public, decentralized AI is the seemingly insurmountable compute problem.

How are people supposed to source more industrial compute for frontier training than these huge trillion dollar companies? The answer is simple: there is enough commodity GPU compute in the world to compete on the frontier, but to make use of it we need new algorithms for training.

That’s what a few companies like @gensynai @PrimeIntellect @bageldotcom @Pluralis @NousResearch @MacrocosmosAI @covenant_ai set out to research, while everyone on the planet told them it was impossible.

The result is that it is not only possible, but it can be cheaper and nearly as efficient as the alternative process.

The second major problem is economic sustainability. Open source models are great, however, they are not economically viable as they don’t have a business model. So far in decentralized AI, only @Pluralis has an answer — by breaking up the weights of the model among participants, we create a business model for tokenized AI models.

This is the moment of truth — will AI become fully centralized and fall under censorship and unilateral government control? Or will the AI world realize the importance of public AI on open decentralized networks?

[Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo) @__paleologo]

This is one of the best books ever. Need to reread it. Super-recommend

[bodila @51bodila]

Scott Bessent traded with Soros and Druckenmiller against governments for 20 years - now he's Trump's United States Treasury Secretary

he generated $10 billion in total profits for Soros:

- $1B collapsing the British economy in one day

- then told Soros about Japan: "a once-in-a-lifetime market move is coming " - and made another $1.2B

Stan Druckenmiller personally mentored him

George Soros invested $2B in his fund when he left

Bessent launched one of the largest hedge fund in history - $4.5B in 6 months

Scott literally broke the banks of Britain and Japan - now he manages the finances of the United States

bookmark & watch today

[Atomic Analyst @midfield227]

Genius Mechanics of Pochettino's USA

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named.

The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river.

The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn.

Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound.

"Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever.

It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin.

"Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather.

I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet.

In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair.

And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge.

You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain.

The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste.

I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind.

Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again.

"Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up.

Discipline is a journey.

[International and Monetary Economics Network @int_mon_econ]

This looks like a must-read!

"Macro: The Economic Models That Shape Our World" by Greg Kaplan (available in November).

"In clear and engaging prose, Chicago economist Greg Kaplan demystifies how our everyday behavior, including how we spend and save, connects to the biggest questions in fiscal and monetary policy. Tracing the evolution of modern macroeconomics from Keynes to today, he guides readers through the models that are often used to explain our economy, uncovers their flaws, and reveals what cutting-edge research tells us about managing the economy in good times and bad. The journey culminates in HANK, a macroeconomic model co-created by Kaplan that is more consistent with reality. Macro offers a timely, new framework for understanding and shaping economics in the real world."

https://t.co/IxOWTajiak

[Umir Irfan @umirf1]

We've got this incredible feature on the BBC through the World Cup. For games the BBC cover, you can watch the games live (or back) in this 3D space, freely controlling the camera angle or viewing it in first person from any players' POV. Top for tactical insight. See here: https://t.co/jAqYFbSPBU

[Alexander's Cartographer @cartographer_s]

Harvard's series below is relatively short, with each volume about 300 pages on length
A much larger & more indepth series is Cambridge's History of China, which consists of 17 books (15 volumes). Each book is over 700 pages long

[The Icahnist @TheIcahnist]

You need to Elonmaxx this summer.

[Hardeep @hardeep_gambhir]

i have been a big article and essay enjoyer for 7 years.

i have probably read more than 10,000+ essays online

below is a thread of my favourite essays or articles of all time (that i remember)

pls drop your favourite ones below.

[Eliot @CDTEliot]

if you’re obsessed with long-form like i am, this thread is a goldmine of essays that will rewire how you think

[BIOHACKER.LOOKSMAX @looksmaxxerrr]

white girls have it easiest in life, they can be average and date chads.

There was a lot disagreement, some say it's asian girls who’s smv mogs or ethnics etc.

It’s been a few months since I did a Stacy Fish experiment, I was bored so I decided to do my blonde Stacy fish. And the results were….

12 THOUSAND PLUS FUCKING LIKES IN ONE DAY!!! HOLY FUCKING SHIT THAT HAS GOT TO BE A RECORD. NOT EVEN THE CHADDIEST OF ALL MEN TO EVER EXIST COULD EVER TO GET THIS MANY LIKES IN ONE YEAR LET ALONE ONE FUCKING DAY.

A cute high tier Becky. Every Chad I swiped left on I instantly matched with. I recieved over a hundred compliments on one day. With guys offering to give me money and take me out on expansive dates.

I had European male models, investment bankers and rich handsome frat boys all wanting to take out the blonde stacy. The quantity and quality of men crushed what the other Stacies attracted. The only area the other Stacy (Asian) did better in was attracting older rich men.

ITS OFFICALLY OVER. THERES NO POINT IN CONDUCTING THE OTHER STACY FISHES. YOUNG WHITE SKINNY BLONDE GIRLS WITH CUTE FACES HAVE THE HIGHEST SMV ONLINE.

EVERY TIME I GO CHECK MY ACCOUNT AGAIN THE LIKES JUST KEEP CLIMBING.

If even the Asian stacy couldn’t get close to these results, there’s no point in even trying the other races (mena, Hispanic, med). But anyone is free to try themselves and prove me wrong.

The worst part is this is who the Stacy fish is dating.

A normie. All she has to do is make a tinder account and she’ll have the top 1% of men the world in both looks and money begging to take her out. And you guys wonder why hypergamy is so bad.