Novak Djokovic: “Federer and Nadal come from two Western powers. I showed up from Serbia and said out loud that I was going to be number 1. The whole system didn't like that: media, sponsors, tournaments. I felt like an unwanted guest crashing their party. It really hurt me back then. They wanted me to play to their tune — be politically correct, fit into their script. It hurt me so much that I even changed my behavior, hoping they'd accept me. In the end, I understood that I had to stay true to myself and accept that some people will never like me. And that's fine. I am who I am and I sleep peacefully.”
Mathematician Terence Tao:
Training and running LLMs isn't mathematically difficult; any math undergrad could understand the basics
The mystery is that we have no theory to predict why models excel at certain tasks and fail at others
"we can only make empirical experiments"
A friend traveling in Japan sent me this, she took it at an vintage records shop and asked the owner said it's not for sell, she asked me why put them up in the shop then, I told her great things are meant to kept and good taste are meant to be shown ofc. Blended in perfectly btw 😎👍🏻
#NewJeansNeverDie
#BunniesAreEveywhere
GOOGLE HIRED A GENIUS, NOW THEY WANT HIM GAGGED
Google paid nearly $3B to bring Noam Shazeer on board - and he’s delivered, pushing Gemini forward in critical ways.
But now leadership is trying to muzzle him over a personal post saying he doesn’t believe in gender ideology or child sterilization.
This isn’t about workplace disruption - it’s about whether one side gets to dominate the conversation while others are silenced.
Google has a choice: back Noam, or prove that free thought has no place inside Big Tech.
Source: The Information
⚡️This email is one of the most quietly revealing artifacts of the entire post-2008 era.
Peter Thiel isn’t predicting socialism here. He’s diagnosing the terminal logic of late capitalism: when ownership becomes inaccessible, belief in the system dissolves.
He’s mapping structural inevitability.
The key insight is in that last line:
“If one has no stake in the capitalist system, then one may well turn against it.”
Every economic order survives only as long as its participants believe they have a stake in its rewards. When that belief breaks, when capital accumulation is delayed beyond a generation, the feedback loop collapses.
In plain terms:
•Boomers owned.
•Gen X still managed to buy in.
•Millennials rent the world their parents own, and Gen Z is now locked out entirely.
The result isn’t ideological socialism. It’s resentful capitalism - a system where people still chase wealth but no longer trust the architecture that allocates it. That’s the precursor to all great systemic transitions - Rome, Weimar, post-Soviet Russia, even 18th-century France.
Thiel’s email is almost tragic in tone because he’s speaking to the very class - Zuckerberg, Andreessen, Sandberg - who became the gatekeepers of the new digital feudalism. They turned “ownership” into platform access, and “opportunity” into subscription. The economy was financialized, then digitized, then moralized - and in each step, capital got lighter, faster, and further removed from the people whose lives depend on it.
What he’s really saying is this:
Capitalism doesn’t fail when the rich get richer.
It fails when the poor stop believing they can join them.
That’s the pivot we’re living through right now. The “Millennial socialism” he mentions is the immune response of a generation whose time horizon was stolen.
The irony is that Thiel, the ultimate capitalist contrarian, saw it first.
And he was right.
The generation that couldn’t buy the system will end up rewriting it.
쵸비 마인드 들을수록 너무 건강해서 눈물남
🐱 제가 자기 자신감이 뛰어나서 롤모델이 없다 한 건 아니고 그냥 저의 인생을 사는 마인드가 살아가다 보면 언제 어디서나 배울 게 있고 그냥 나라는 사람이 다른 많은 사람들의 장점을 흡수해서 그걸 나의 장점으로 살고 싶어서, 살아가고 싶어서 '우승할 수 있게 최선을 다하자'를 항상 기본으로 잡고 살아왔던 것 같아요
I am big on “spirituality,” whatever that word even means anymore, but I am not big on theology. I try not to make any religious statements. I prefer to stick to psychological and causal principles that actually manifest in physical reality in observable ways.
But I can say with 100% certainty that you are being judged on your willingness to do the right thing, even when it costs you personally.
To a large extent, reality is mathematical. What you do has results that are predictable along causal lines. Like if you lay in bed on the phone, your future will not grow, but if you get up and work, it probably will.
This is why the story of Christ on the cross is the most meaningful story of all time: God [the greatest possible being] lived as one of us [the greatest possible act of unity] and died [the greatest possible sacrifice] willingly [the greatest possible degree of choice] to forgive the mistakes of his people [the greatest possible gift].
This is a model for how you should behave. I am doing it as much as I can. I am moving as fast as I can from explaining girls and dating to explaining the psychological war we're currently losing, in the hopes that we don't lose it.
This is drawing the attention of a lot of hateful, sick, soulless bug-people who don't want me to do this. I don't care because anything less would be self-protective. “The world doesn't matter, my safety and my bank account matter.” That life is not for me, and you should leave it behind, too.