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[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Puerto Rico imposes emergency water rationing after San Juan records its driest July in more than 120 years.

[Naval @naval]

What you really want is a challenge at the edge of your capability.

[ネットで話題の動画 @baypinar35]

姉がとんでもないもの作ってくれたの…出産の入院中お部屋に届けてくれて仰天した。孫まで引き継ぎたい家宝🥹

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

Joe Rogan: "I dont think anybody should have nuclear weapons."

Theo Von: "Israel gets to have them."

Joe Rogan: "Allegedly."

Theo Von: "Everything is allegedly with them. Except for the genocide."

[Saifedean Ammous @saifedean]

https://t.co/m7QurENTnF

[LPC @landpalestine]

Cardinal Zuppi read the names of every chiId kiIIed by IsraeI in Gaza

It took 7 hours

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Most people will read this and think optimists live longer because they eat better and exercise more. The study says something wilder.

Lee et al. controlled for smoking, diet, exercise, alcohol, depression, BMI, and socioeconomic status. The longevity effect still held. The most optimistic quartile lived 11 to 15% longer and had 1.5 to 1.7x odds of reaching 85 even after removing every behavioral difference.

Which means something is happening at the level of biology, not just habits.

Rozanski’s meta-analysis across 229,391 participants found optimists carry 35% lower cardiovascular event risk. Blackburn’s Nobel Prize-winning lab at UCSF found pessimistic attitudes are associated with accelerated telomere shortening. Cortisol suppresses telomerase, the enzyme that rebuilds the protective caps on your chromosomes. So chronic negative expectation literally erodes the structures that keep your cells from aging.

The loop runs: pessimistic cognitive style → sustained HPA axis activation → elevated cortisol → telomere degradation → accelerated cellular senescence. Optimists interrupt that loop at the top. They show less emotional reactivity to stressors, faster recovery from acute stress, and they default to reframing threats as challenges rather than catastrophizing.

The part nobody talks about from this paper: the authors explicitly state optimism is modifiable. This isn’t a personality trait you’re born with. Cognitive reappraisal training, morning sunlight for cortisol rhythm regulation, deliberate breathing protocols for vagal tone, structured gratitude practices. All of these shift the prefrontal cortex patterns that determine where you sit on the optimism spectrum.

A 35% reduction in cardiac events from a trainable psychological variable is a bigger effect size than most supplements on the market. That’s the real story buried in this abstract.

[Globe Eye News @GlobeEyeNews]

BREAKING:

U.S. Department of Homeland Security requests Google, Reddit, Instagram, and Facebook to provide names, phone numbers, and other identifying information of users who criticize ICE.

[Board of Peace @BoardOfPeace]

The Board of Peace welcomes Israel as a founding member of our growing international organization.

[K E N O @FKadoseneye_]

Deja que se enteren que hay argentinos tocando plena puertorriqueña.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

“Splurging on rotisserie chicken”

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

someone once told me “emotional intelligence is the discipline of sitting with a feeling long enough to understand it before you hand it to someone else” and that honestly changed how i move.

[Reggaeton Crave @ReggetonCrave]

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show officially becomes the most watched Halftime Show of all time with 135.4 million viewers, breaking the all-time record.

[smoothie @shedrinkswater]

https://t.co/dVgmmSIECr

[umami juice 🧃 @cleanlavenderf1]

Housing as a speculative asset core ❤️

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

"You may be able to use buy now, pay later for rent," per CNBC

[Middle Earth @_middleEarth]

If Bilbo asked ChatGPT