brent finley

Slacker: “In terms of their outlook on the future, slackers regard tomorrow with a studied cynicism or . . . don't even conceive of one" (Julie Caniglia).

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

This is the best thing I’ve ever watched

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Markets work best when governments set the rules and let firms compete.⁣
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The Trump trade agenda takes a different approach: it puts the White House at the center of decisions about who can do business with whom.⁣
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That changes the incentives—not just for companies, but for the economy as a whole.⁣

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

He drives a school bus in Dallas, Texas. But the kids on his route call him something else — Dad.

Every morning before the sun is fully up, Curtis Jenkins pulls his yellow school bus to the curb and waits. Not just to pick up kids. To see them.

For seven years, Curtis noticed things other people missed. The little girl who folded her paper lunch bag perfectly every day but left it on the bus — because there was nothing inside. The boy whose shoes were too small. The kids who got on quiet, eyes down, carrying weight no child should have to carry alone.

So Curtis did something simple. He made his bus a community.

He gave every child a job — a greeter, an assistant, a "police officer" keeping order in the aisles. Every morning he'd call out, "We're going to care about each other and love everybody, right?" And 50 small voices would answer back.

But it didn't stop there.

Over the years, Curtis spent thousands of dollars of his own money — money he saved by skipping his own Christmas gifts with his wife — on birthday cards, bikes, backpacks, turkeys at Thanksgiving, and 70 hand-wrapped Christmas presents. He didn't buy random gifts. He asked each child what they wanted. Then he went and got exactly that.

No donation page. No announcement. No cameras.

When the story finally got out and people questioned how a bus driver could afford it, Curtis just smiled.

"It doesn't take money. It takes discipline."

But here's the part that will stay with you.

When a reporter asked the kids what they loved most about Curtis — not one of them mentioned the gifts.

A fifth grader named Ethan, whose parents had divorced when he was four, looked up and said quietly:

"He's the father that I always wanted. In some ways, I wish my dad could have been like that."

Curtis heard it. Didn't flinch. Just nodded.

"That's the paycheck right there," he said later. "If I can get that, you can keep the money."

He wasn't looking for a medal. He wasn't going viral on purpose. He was just a man who decided, every single morning, that his bus would be the safest place those kids walked into all day.

Sometimes the person who changes a child's life forever isn't a teacher or a coach or a counselor.

Sometimes it's the person behind the wheel of a yellow bus at 7 a.m. — who chose to show up, and chose to care, when nobody was asking him to.

Tag someone who needs to read this today. 💛

[brent finley @brfski]

@PolitiBunny Loudoun County Public School board just emergency voted to make April 21st a student holiday so the employees can all work the vote.

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@LPDonovan LCPS Open on a two hour delay

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@UnSportsESPN I assume Pat is already tired of getting hammered about Shohei Ohtani at this point?

[brent finley @brfski]

@UnSportsESPN

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

A while back I put out these rules for the internet. 1. When we disagree, we fight. 2. We have a beer afterward. 3. When we agree, we unite. I got a lot of flack, surprisingly, for the line about the beer. People would ask, "Oh yeah, would you have a beer with Charlie Kirk?!"

Well, I did. And I'm glad I did, because now I won't get to. Yes, Charlie and I disagreed a lot and about really important things. But somehow we didn't lose our humanity. We were still fellow Americans.

We can all choose to hate each other now. That's a normal, human reaction. We can choose to blame each other, and I'm sure we will, endlessly. Or we can defy the voices of division in the country, and have a beer together. This time, in grief.

If you really want to strike back at whoever did this, listen to each other instead of hating one another. They want us to hate each other. Treating one another as brothers and sisters, as a united America, would be a historic act of defiance.

Since I'm on the left, I'll go first. For everyone on the right, and most especially the Kirk family, I am so sorry for your loss. I share your grief and I want you to know our hearts are with you!

[brent finley @brfski]

@UnSportsESPN

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@ChrisCanty99 Congrats!!! We used Pink Newborn Services. https://t.co/gVVhT8VILS

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@TaraBull808 It is Giddyap. https://t.co/5tsCgVJKpL

[Betsey Stevenson @BetseyStevenson]

And of course there is the Dunning-Kruger effect--failing to recognize our own limitations.

[Betsey Stevenson @BetseyStevenson]

People also mistakenly assume that outcomes that highly predictable when the event seems representative of something that is familiar. There is optimism bias (my favorite--it does help make life better!) which leads us to shrink the perceived range of possible outcomes.

[Betsey Stevenson @BetseyStevenson]

Why? Because we all have cognitive biases. We anchor on our initial thoughts or information and insufficiently adjust away from it. Confirmation bias leads us to give more weight to information that confirms what we believe. Other biases lead us to overweight familiar scenarios.

[Betsey Stevenson @BetseyStevenson]

People are overconfident. What I mean by that is precise: if you ask them to give a 99% confidence interval in response to a question, the truth usually lies outside their interval between 30-90% of the time (it should be 1%!). 🧵

[brent finley @brfski]

@TaraBull808 Heiferware

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@SouthernKeeks Don’t insult Featherstone!

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@DOGE @SocialSecurity @jessesingal

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@Martina They said exactly that yesterday. https://t.co/yK5qLqnLew

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@PaulHembo Learning Pains, Growing Curves?