Cormac Leech

Free speech should be embedded in the blockchain; ceo Voltaire: "No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking."

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

Elon Musk's first wife once described what it's like to watch him fail.

She said he doesn't react the way normal people react. When a rocket explodes, most people in the room go silent. Some cry. Some start calculating the financial damage.

Musk pulls out his phone and starts making calls. Not emotional calls. Engineering calls. "What failed. When can we fix it. When's the next launch." His voice doesn't change. His face doesn't change. The rocket that just cost $60 million is already in the past. The next one is all that exists.

She said it was the most unsettling thing she'd ever witnessed. Not because he was cold. Because he genuinely wasn't affected. The failure didn't register as failure. It registered as data. An experiment that produced results. Results that inform the next experiment.

This is why he wins. Not because he doesn't fail. He fails more spectacularly than anyone in history. He wins because failure occupies zero psychological space. It enters as data and exits as action.

Most people lose not because they fail but because they spend weeks processing the failure before acting again. Musk spends zero seconds. The gap between failure and next attempt is a phone call.

- @multiplanet1

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In Brazil, prisoners can reduce their sentences through a remarkable rehabilitation program called Remissão pela Leitura (Remission by Reading).

Under the initiative, inmates can shorten their prison term by 4 days for every book they read and write a report about, with a maximum of 12 books per year — allowing them to reduce their sentence by up to 48 days annually.

Launched in 2012 as part of Brazil’s Criminal Enforcement Act, the program focuses on carefully selected works of literature, philosophy, science, and classics. Prisoners must submit written reports that are rigorously evaluated to confirm they have genuinely understood and engaged with the material.

Beyond simply easing prison overcrowding, the program aims to foster literacy, critical thinking, and personal development. By encouraging constructive use of their time, Brazil is promoting meaningful rehabilitation and better preparing inmates for successful reintegration into society.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

If a lobby can buy an election, it's not a democracy, period.
And if an evil lobby can buy an election, it's far worse than any form of autocracy.
Let that sink in.

[🏴‍☠️ @calvinfroedge]

Be Thomas Massie

Grow up in dirt poor Appalachia
Go to MIT
Sell your first company
Retire in your home town and build a house with your own hands hewn from locally harvested materials
Get begged by locals to help them with government

The solitary America Only Congressman

[Cormac Leech @cormacleech]

@aakashgupta great talk

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: Palantir’s revolving door.

A new investigation by @thenerve_news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption.
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Link ⬇️

[Sarah Salviander @sarahsalviander]

As an astrophysicist, I was convinced of a Creator by the ingenuity of the observable universe; but I have to admit that biology is even more convincing. The incredible machinery of a living cell is far more complex than the structure of an entire galaxy of stars.

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

Potentially the most gangster interview response in the world of literature

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Small objects can show that gravity is real.

The Cavendish experiment proved that even tiny masses pull on each other, showing gravity works everywhere, not just between planets.

[Cormac Leech @cormacleech]

@WhyNotVeganism horrible

[Peter Daou @peterdaou]

Absolutely fascinating:

[Cormac Leech @cormacleech]

@SamaHoole Great story - good to see the goats and the population can co-exist. I bet it's good for tourism.

[Cormac Leech @cormacleech]

@PieterseMarc horrible

[Roy Drones Jr @chiweethedog]

THIS IS HUGE!!! Hope more nations folow suit.

[Cormac Leech @cormacleech]

@itsme_urstruly beautiful

[Cormac Leech @cormacleech]

@herbivore_club horrible

[Best Movie Moments 🍿 @BestMovieMom]

Kevin Spacey’s speech at the Oxford Union Society on December 1, 2025, addressing his situation. Worth watching all the way to the end.

[Queen Natalie 👑 @TheNorfolkLion]

OK M&S just dropped something actually genius: their new 'Only… Ingredients' range 😍

Everyday staples like baked beans, sausages, burgers, ketchup, yoghurts, cereals... made with 3–8 recognisable ingredients MAX. No weird additives, no artificial colours, no preservatives, no ultra-processed nonsense. Just proper food, back to basics. 👏🏻

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Did you know that in Romania, trucks loaded with beehives are rented out to flower growers?

These massive rigs become mobile "bee hotels," buzzing with thousands of bees that pollinate fields of flowers and crops.