‘THE WHITE LOTUS’ star Theo James says raising a son today is scary due to the rise of misogyny and incel culture online:
“It’s terrifying having a son because people get lured into this idea very easily. It’s a lot about deep seated insecurity, ultimately. Men who feel they need to be performative or misogynistic, it’s about them not feeling good enough essentially, but it’s hidden with meaningless bravado. With men there’s this toxic masculinity thing about forming identity through your body and you have to be bigger and more muscular. There’s obviously this epidemic with steroids and performance enhancing things, with younger and younger kids. And it’s not just movies and TV, but it is part of that… A lot of toxic masculinity comes down to unclear identity, they feel untethered, reduced.”
(Via: Great Chat Show)
We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
🚨 Do you understand what just happened..
five minutes before Trump announced he's halting attacks on Iran.. someone bought $1.5 billion in S&P 500 futures and sold $192 million in oil..
five minutes.. not five days.. not five hours.. five minutes..
the trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else hitting the market at that time..
someone knew the exact words the President was going to say before he said them.. and turned that information into the biggest single trade of the day..
they tell you the stock market is a "free and fair market".. that "anyone can build wealth".. that "the system works for everyone"..
the system worked for someone today.. five minutes before you even knew what happened.. they already got paid..
this isn't insider trading anymore.. insider trading implies they're hiding it.. this is broad daylight.
Watched the Dinosaurs documentary on Netflix this weekend. Highly recommend, especially with kids.
Dinosaurs ruled this planet for 165 million years. Then an asteroid they never saw coming ended it all in a geological blink.
Put that in perspective.
Humans with abstract thinking, art, and complex language, what we'd call truly modern humans, have existed for maybe 50,000 to 100,000 years.
Civilisation as we know it? Writing, cities, organised society? Maybe 5,000 years.
The version with industrial-scale technology, global trade, and the ability to reshape the planet? Barely 200 years.
And the version with nuclear weapons, AI, and the ability to end all of it? Less than 100 years.
We solved the asteroid problem, by the way. NASA can now track and deflect them. The thing that wiped out 165 million years of dinosaurs, we've figured that one out.
And yet billions are being spent daily on war and destruction, making an already bad climate situation even worse.
The threats coming from the universe are becoming manageable. The ones we're creating ourselves, not so much.
The dinosaurs had no choice. The asteroid just came.
We do. That's what makes what's happening right now so much harder to watch.