i had a conspiracy theory about why every iphone user hates getting texts from android and i finally actually checked it and YES
the contrast ratio between the green and white is lower than the blue and white, which makes green messages genuinely more annoying to read. apple 100% did this on purpose and i kinda respect it
My "Roman Empire is the realization that my life is a lottery win. Somewhere in Sudan, Pålestine, iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or Congo, there is a boy smarter than me. He is more disciplined, more resilient, and holds more potential in his single finger than I do in my entire career.
The only difference? I am siting in a train and he is sting in the rubble of his dreams.
My "bad days" are his wildest dreams.
My "burnout" is a luxury he can't afford because his only job is staying alive.
It's geographical luck and it's a haunting injustice that we all refuse to acknowledge and look away
I said this I forgot to who but I said it
BigTech will eventually come for all apps / startups / companies because they can fill the niches now that before could not because they were too small
Those niches is where entrepeneurs hung out, nice parts of the market people could build a little SaaS with $100K/y to even $100M/y, notjing like the $100B/y revenue BigTech was doing, but worth it
With AI now BigTech can fill those niches + they are the ones training and owning the best models, and keeping the best models for themselves they can outcompete anyone who doesn't own them (everyone except other BigTech)
End game for their survival is simply trying to take every business, it's just capitalism
This completely changes the prospect for entrepreneurs as there won't be much left, because BigTech is financially incentivized to have to take everything
Because if they don't, their competitor will!
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En 1984, un periodista alemán en París explicaba cómo cruzar la Plaza de la Concordia: "Cruza con paso firme y nunca mires a los conductores. Si lo haces, pensarán que los has visto y no se detendrán".
Back in 2011, I went into computer hardware repairs. I started with laptop chargers. I remember peeling back the rubber, soldering wires, and always staring at that weird plastic bulge on the cable. It didn't look like it did anything, but it was on every single high-end charger I fixed. I used to wonder if it was a hidden battery or just a weight to keep the cord from tangling.
It turns out, that little lump is the unsung hero of your workspace.
It's called a Ferrite Bead, and its only job is to act as a silencer for your electricity.
See, every electronic device is naturally noisy. They send out invisible electromagnetic signals. Without that cylinder, your charger cable would turn into a giant antenna, broadcasting interference that would make your Wi-Fi slow, your TV flicker, or your speakers buzz.
Inside that plastic shell is just a chunk of magnetic iron. It catches all that electrical noise and kills it before it can escape the wire.
It’s basically a muzzle for your cable so your gadgets can live in peace.
INALEGWU.
If your father or mother is above 67, please pause and read this slowly.
At that age, life begins to feel different for them. The world moves faster, but their bodies move slower. The things they once did effortlessly now require effort. Their strength is not what it used to be, and even if they don’t say it, they feel it.
What they need now is not pressure. Not stress. Not arguments about money or past mistakes. They need stability. They need reassurance. They need to feel safe.
If they have savings, protect it. This is not the stage for risky investments or “let’s try this opportunity.” It is the stage for preservation. Capital safety matters more than high returns. Peace of mind matters more than profit.
If they depend on you financially, don’t see it as a burden. See it as a privilege. The same hands that once carried you are now weaker. The same voices that defended you now speak softer. Support them with dignity, not pity.
And beyond money, give them something deeper.
Call them without being in a hurry.
Sit with them without checking your phone every two minutes.
Let them repeat stories you’ve heard before. One day, you will wish to hear those stories again.
At 67 and above, what they truly fear is not death. It is loneliness. It is feeling forgotten.
Take care of their health. Help them organize their documents. Make sure they are not being financially manipulated. Protect them from stress. But most importantly, protect their heart.
Because one day, the chair they sit on will be empty.
And no amount of money will buy back one more conversation.
there’s way too much fomo around AI tools and whether designers should still use figma (again).
thing is, it doesn’t matter that much. ai is just another tool. clients don’t care if you use figma or anything else, as long as the results are great.
it’s good to stay updated, learn new stuff, and improve workflows. just don’t get paralysed by the noise.
fundamentals don’t change - get clients, overdeliver, and move fast without compromising quality.
I bet the team at Zapier is watching in disbelief as people spend thousands of dollars in tokens automating processes that can be done with zaps on a $20/mo sub
The 22M+ people who saw this tweet are missing the real story here.
This research is from 2019. Dr. Eva Ramón Gallegos at Mexico’s National Polytechnic Institute published these results six years ago. It went viral then too. Salma Hayek posted about it on Instagram. ABC News ran a fact check. It resurfaced in January 2025 across Mexican media. And now it’s recycling through your feed again as “BREAKING” with 22 million views, because an engagement account slapped a siren emoji on six-year-old science.
The actual study treated 29 women in Mexico City using photodynamic therapy, a technique where you apply a light-sensitive chemical to the cervix, wait four hours, then hit it with a laser. HPV cleared in 100% of patients who had the virus without lesions. In patients with both HPV and premalignant lesions, it cleared in 64.3%. Those numbers are real and published in peer-reviewed journals.
Here’s what 22 million people aren’t asking: why hasn’t this scaled in six years?
Three reasons. First, the sample size. Twenty-nine women is a pilot study. The FDA requires thousands of patients across multiple sites before approving a therapy. Gallegos ran earlier studies on 420 women in Oaxaca and Veracruz with similar clearance rates, but nobody has funded the Phase III trials needed to move this toward approval.
Second, PDT has a physics limitation. The light that activates the drug can only penetrate about one centimeter of tissue. That means it works on surface-level cervical HPV, but the virus also hides deeper in tissue and in other parts of the body. The National Cancer Institute flagged this exact constraint years ago. You can clear what you can see. You can’t guarantee you’ve cleared what you can’t.
Third, 50% of high-risk HPV infections clear on their own within one to two years without any treatment. A 100% clearance rate in 29 patients with no lesions, measured at six months, sits in a window where spontaneous clearance is already happening. Without a proper control group, which this study lacked, you can’t isolate how much the therapy did versus what the immune system would have done anyway.
A separate Chinese study in 2024 randomized 60 patients and found PDT hit 100% HPV clearance at six months versus conventional treatment. That’s more rigorous. Multiple research groups worldwide are now publishing PDT results for cervical HPV. The science is real and progressing.
The gap between “promising pilot results in 29 women” and “successfully eliminates HPV” is about a decade of clinical trials and a few hundred million dollars in funding. Gallegos has been doing this work for 20 years. The bottleneck was never the science. It’s that nobody writes the check for Phase III trials on a non-patentable therapy that competes with a multibillion-dollar vaccine market.
That’s the actual story worth 22 million views.
The longer I am alive the more I realize happiness is an extremely dumb concept because if you have it, it is fleeting (like creativity) and you can't grasp it for long
I guess the definition of happiness in our language is the problem too, and everyone trying to get something so fleeting and ungraspable is the other problem
I agree that purpose/meaning is much better to aim for because that's systemic and becomes part of your daily routine
And ironically that gives you happiness
People looking for happiness are usually unhappy!