🚨 My dad was diagnosed with Stage 4 Prostate Cancer out of nowhere.
Just a few months ago, he was completely fine. His physical 5 months earlier showed normal labs. Then suddenly he started feeling achy and exhausted.
They ran bloodwork and his PSA came back at 141. It had been 3.4 just months earlier.
Scans showed Gleason 9 Prostate Cancer with widespread bone metastases. Stage 4.
We didn’t waste time. Along with the hormone blockers and chemo, his oncologist started adding:
- Ivermectin 24 mg/day
- Fenbendazole 222mg / day
Three months later, his PSA dropped from 141 to 0.25.
That’s a 99.8% drop.
He’s feeling much better, has more energy, and the numbers are moving in the right direction fast. His oncologist is very happy with how he’s responding.
We’re still waiting on the next set of scans, but right now, we’re extremely grateful for how well things are going.
This isn’t medical advice, just sharing what happened with my dad. If you or someone you love is going through something similar, I hope this gives you a little hope.
A British biologist looked at 200,000 years of human history and found that the entire reason humans broke out of poverty was not intelligence, not language, not even agriculture, but one mechanism so simple a 6-year-old could explain it.
His name is Matt Ridley.
He is a zoologist by training, an evolutionary biologist by career, and in 2010 he wrote a book called The Rational Optimist that quietly argued the most important fact about human progress had been hiding in plain sight for the entire history of economics.
Naval Ravikant has been telling people to read everything Ridley has ever written for the last 15 years. The reason is the argument inside this one book.
For 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans walked around with the same brain you have right now. Same skull size. Same neural architecture. Same raw capacity for language, planning, and abstract thought.
For roughly 190,000 of those years, almost nothing happened. Generation after generation lived and died inside the same Stone Age toolkit their great-great-grandparents had used. Then somewhere around 50,000 years ago, the line on the chart of human progress started to tick upward. Then it bent. Then it exploded.
The question Ridley spent years on was the only question that mattered. What changed.
It was not the brain. The brain had been the same for 190,000 years. It was not language, which had existed long before the takeoff. It was not even agriculture, which arrived only 10,000 years ago and was actually preceded by the upward bend, not the cause of it.
What changed was that humans started trading with strangers.
This sounds too small to be the answer. Ridley argues that it is the answer to almost everything. The moment one human exchanged a useful object with another human from a different group, something happened that no other species on earth had ever done.
Two ideas that had developed in isolation came into contact. The flint knapper learned what the spear maker had figured out. The fisherman from the coast learned what the hunter from the forest had figured out. The two pieces of knowledge fused into something neither side could have produced alone.
Ridley calls this ideas having sex. The phrase sounds frivolous and it is meant to. The point is that ideas, like genes, get better when they combine with other ideas from different lineages.
An idea sitting inside one head, no matter how brilliant the head, eventually hits a ceiling. The same idea exposed to ten thousand other ideas does something genes do under sexual reproduction. It mixes. It recombines. It produces offspring nobody planned.
The cleanest proof of this argument is the most uncomfortable case study in the book. Tasmania.
Around 10,000 years ago, rising sea levels cut Tasmania off from mainland Australia. A population of roughly 4,000 humans was now isolated on an island, with no possibility of contact with the rest of humanity. They had the same brains. The same language. The same starting toolkit as their cousins 150 kilometers north. The natural experiment was now running.
What happened next is something no economist or geneticist had ever predicted.
The mainland Australians kept inventing. Boomerangs. Spear-throwers. Fishing nets. Bone needles for sewing fitted clothes. Watercraft with paddles. Their technology compounded slowly across the centuries.
The Tasmanians went the other way. They did not just fail to invent the new tools their cousins were developing. They started losing the tools they already had. Fishing was abandoned within a few thousand years. Bone tools disappeared. Fitted clothing disappeared. They forgot how to make fire from scratch and started carrying lit firebrands from camp to camp instead, relighting their fires from a neighbor's whenever their own went out.
By the time European explorers arrived in the 17th century, the Tasmanians had the simplest toolkit of any human society ever recorded. Their material culture had gone backward for 8,000 years.
The archaeologist Rhys Jones called it a slow strangulation of the mind.
Joseph Henrich at Harvard later proved with formal mathematical models that there was nothing wrong with Tasmanian brains. There was something wrong with their network. A toolkit requires a critical mass of people exchanging skills to maintain itself.
The act of teaching a skill is imperfect. Every generation loses a small percentage of what the last generation knew. If your population is large enough and trading widely enough, those losses get caught and corrected by someone else who still remembers.
If your population shrinks below a certain threshold and stops mixing with outsiders, the small losses compound until entire technologies disappear.
This is the part that should haunt anyone reading this in 2026.
Intelligence is not a property of the individual brain. Intelligence is a property of the network the brain is connected to. A genius in isolation will produce less than a mediocre thinker inside a dense exchange of other mediocre thinkers.
The thing your ancestors needed in order to break out of 190,000 years of stagnation was not better brains. It was better connections between brains they already had.
The implication for any individual is direct and uncomfortable. If you are smart and isolated, you will be outproduced by people half as smart who are connected.
The most successful people in any field are almost never the smartest people in it. They are the ones positioned at the intersection of the most idea flows. They are reading more authors than their competitors. They are talking to more people from more disciplines. They are in the rooms where ideas from different lineages bump into each other.
Ridley ends the book on the line that sounds optimistic but is actually a warning its this "The future will be invented by people who connect ideas, not by people who guard them."
This man is about to change the dollar forever.
But almost nobody's watching...
He's moving a bill through Washington with a July 4th deadline.
And when it passes, America's entire financial system gets rewired: (1/8)
🚨 THE NEXT 72 HOURS. DAY BY DAY. BOOKMARK THIS.
📅 TODAY — May 13
→ Air Force One lands in Beijing with 12+ named CEOs aboard — Tesla, Nvidia, Apple, BlackRock, Boeing, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, GE, Qualcomm, Micron, Blackstone, Cargill
→ Jensen Huang boarded during the Alaska refueling stop — last-minute addition
→ Trump confirms "many other" undisclosed CEOs also on the plane
→ The largest corporate delegation ever to accompany a sitting U.S. president touches down in China
📅 MAY 14 — Day 1 of Summit
→ Trump and Xi sit down for formal talks
→ The ask: Xi opens China's market to U.S. business — directly, officially, on camera
→ 12+ of the most powerful CEOs in the world are in the room or the building
→ Combined market cap of companies represented: over $10,000,000,000,000
📅 MAY 15 — Day 2 / Outcomes
→ Deal announcements expected — or silence that speaks louder
→ Every CEO on that plane needs something specific from Beijing: chip licenses, manufacturing access, supply chain agreements, financial market entry
→ If Xi says yes to even half of it, the trade war framework changes overnight
→ If Xi says no, 12 CEOs flew to China for nothing — and markets will price that immediately
72 hours. Every step has precedent. Every prediction has math.
Nothing like this has ever happened in the history of U.S.-China relations.
The outcome of this trip will move markets more than any Fed meeting this year.
Bookmark this. Come back May 15.
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¿Sabías que un paraguayo de 19 años le daba clases de mecánica cuántica a doctores en Brasil? 🤯
La trayectoria de Elvis Agüero es de película de @OMAPApy a el @CERN en Suiza y ahora en @BrownUniversity de EEUU.
Un cerebro brillante que cumple 27 años.
📹: https://t.co/aSTqUaE9bG
El 99% de la gente escribe igual.
Frases largas. Palabras de relleno. Párrafos que no dicen nada.
Y la diferencia entre alguien que escribe "bien" y alguien que escribe BRUTAL no es talento.
Son estos 10 prompts de Claude que uso cada día 🧵👇
(Guárdalo)
🇵🇾✝️ Viernes Santo en Paraguay: fe que ilumina la noche.
Hoy, en Tañarandy (San Ignacio, Misiones), la “Tierra de los Irreductibles”, miles de fieles recorren el Yvaga Rape (Camino al Cielo) iluminado por más de 20.000 candiles de apepú y miles de antorchas.
La procesión de la Virgen de los Dolores se encuentra con el Cristo Crucificado en La Barraca, donde el legado de Koki Ruiz cobra vida a través de impresionantes cuadros vivientes de la Pasión.
Una mezcla única de religiosidad popular, arte y tradición guaraní que enciende el alma del país más católico de América 🔥🙏
#ViernesSanto #Tañarandy #SemanaSantaParaguay #FeParaguaya
💦🌊22 de marzo. Día Mundial del Agua. El agua no solamente resulta fundamental para la producción de alimentos, la salud, los medios de vida y los ecosistemas. En el caso de Yacyretá, es un recurso crucial para generar la energía eléctrica que ilumina miles de hogares de paraguayos y argentinos.
El caudal medio de la represa es de 12.000 m3/s. A través de cada turbina pueden pasar 2.630 millones de litros de agua cada 60 minutos. Por las 20 de ellas surca por hora lo que en su momento equivalía al consumo de agua potable de 13 días de la ciudad de Asunción o de 2 días de la ciudad de Buenos Aires.
Además, colaboramos en toda nuestra área de influencia (Itapúa, Misiones, Ñeembucú y Caazapá) para democratizar el acceso al agua potable, creando pozos y sistemas de distribución que permitan a sectores vulnerables de la población contar con este líquido vital, sobre todo mujeres y niñas de áreas rurales.
A medianoche, el régimen allanó la casa de la joven de 18 años Melika Azizi y la arrastró hasta la prisión de Lakan en Rasht. La han golpeado, la han aislado de su familia y la han condenado a muerte. En el tribunal, miró al juez a los ojos y gritó: «Habéis derramado la sangre de tantos jóvenes, ¿cómo puedo quedarme callada? Me da igual, matadme también a mí». Esta es una adolescente cuyo «delito» fue el coraje. No podemos dejar que la ejecuten en silencio. #MelikaAzizi #StopExecutionsInIran
RT @kusha_alagband
Tu teléfono no te está escuchando “por accidente”. Es una función, no un fallo.
Hablé de una marca específica de comida para perros una vez, y 10 minutos después ya tenía un anuncio.
Se llama “shadow-logging” (registro en segundo plano), y está ocurriendo a través de 5 configuraciones que probablemente nunca has tocado.
Aquí te explico cómo eliminar ese espionaje de una vez por todas:
Latin America stands to benefit from President Trump’s greater involvement, said Paraguay President Santiago Peña, who has emerged as one of the staunchest US allies in the region https://t.co/Jw3QkGQoFJ
Este documental es impresionante por que presenta información muy completa respecto a los #EpsteinFiles, ágil y verídico que ahora con los documentos y videos dados a conocer se entiende la dimensión de podredumbre de las elites mundiales, se merece #RTMasivo#UrgenteCOMPARTAN
#TrumpEpsteinPedoCoverUp 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇