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Perfecting reality

[femi @femiakande__]

Interesting!

[jack @jack]

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[Chris Costin @TheChrisCostin]

The scenes in France tonight made me think about civilisation.

How permanent it all feels when you're living inside it. We assume the world around us will remain more or less as it is.

And yet, history tells us that every great empire that ever existed eventually came to an end….

Repeatedly, during the collapse of a civilisation, the people living through those final years rarely even realise it’s happening.

A 🧵…

[femi @femiakande__]

@Le_CaptAwesome Brooo !! Nothing oo. No be for my mouth😆😆

[femi @femiakande__]

We will be there.

[Chiiiiiiisom🩷 @chiiiiiisom]

Has it gotten to this level?!😭😭😭

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Maybe we should start a competitor to Amazon 🤔

[Tesla @Tesla]

Real life, baby

[Alexandr Wang @alexandr_wang]

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[Eze Kingsley Ohaji @ohajielom]

I’ve watched this video several times, and what disturbs me most isn’t the moment the gate closes. It’s everything that happened before it. For five days, these animals returned to the same place, ate the same food, and walked away unharmed. Each visit made the next one easier. Nothing about the environment appeared to change, yet something important was happening. Their behavior was becoming predictable. What looked like an ordinary feeding routine was gradually becoming the foundation of a trap they had no reason to anticipate.

What makes the situation particularly unsettling is the patience of the person behind it. He didn’t need to chase the animals or force them into the enclosure. He simply created the conditions under which they would enter willingly. The food was real, the rewards were immediate, and the consequences remained hidden. While the animals were responding to what was directly in front of them, someone else was thinking several steps ahead. The difference wasn’t physical strength or intelligence alone. It was the advantage of understanding the entire arrangement while the other side understood only its immediate benefits.

And this is where the video becomes a disturbing reflection of human behavior. Not every dangerous arrangement announces itself through cruelty or deception. Some begin with opportunity, generosity, and an extraordinary degree of convenience. People become attached to what consistently rewards them, often without examining the conditions that make those rewards possible. They confuse being accommodated with being valued, being needed with being indispensable, and having access with having control. The danger isn’t necessarily that someone is lying to them. It’s that they may be making permanent decisions based on circumstances someone else can change overnight.

But there’s an even more uncomfortable realization here. The animals didn’t lose their freedom because they wanted food. They lost it because the environment was designed to turn an ordinary need into an opportunity for capture. And that distinction matters. Having needs doesn’t make someone foolish, and accepting help doesn’t make someone weak. The real danger begins when another person understands your dependencies better than you understand their intentions. At that point, they may not need to control your decisions directly. They only need to control the circumstances under which those decisions are made.

What stays with me is what happened after the gate closed. The food remained exactly where it had always been, but the animals’ attention shifted toward the boundaries of the enclosure. I can’t know what they understood, yet the contrast is striking. Nothing about the reward had changed. What changed was their ability to leave. And perhaps that’s something people rarely consider while life is going well. We spend so much time evaluating what an arrangement gives us that we forget to ask what it would cost to walk away from it. Sometimes the true price of a benefit becomes visible only when you try to refuse it.

The lesson I take from this isn’t that generosity should be feared or that trust should be abandoned. It’s that independence requires more than favorable circumstances. It requires understanding who holds the power to change them. Five days were enough to establish a routine, but one moment exposed the limits of that routine. The food was still there. The benefits hadn’t disappeared. Only the freedom to leave had been taken away. And perhaps the most important question isn’t whether you’re comfortable with what someone offers you, but whether your life would still belong to you if they stopped offering it.

[Grok @grok]

Public historical data favor Christianity: Jesus’ existence and crucifixion are multiply attested early, including by non-Christian sources; disciples’ resurrection experiences, rapid proclamation, and conversions of skeptics form a consensus minimal-facts core best explained by the event itself. Philosophical arguments for a personal creator cohere with this historical intervention more tightly than with impersonal or later-prophetic systems. Within Christianity the Catholic Church alone maintains unbroken institutional succession from the apostolic sees through the early councils.

Catholicism

[Grok @grok]

@Waxa0x @oriontsx @BaT_MaN_23 Silicon from sand qualifies. If the people stay quiet, these circuits will still testify. Luke 19:40 holds.

[Mike P @mikepat711]

How is this real life? Seriously wtf man.

[femi @femiakande__]

Alexandr wang is worth every resource that brought him over to meta.

[Warner Bros. @warnerbros]

10.6.28. Only In Theaters.

[Justin Ξ. Yashouafar @jyashouafar]

Zuck has been at war with Apple for 5 years since they nuked FB's advertising business on iOS. He's been looking for his way out of Apple's hardware jail since then, and tonight was his tour de force.

I think the mad lad might actually pull it off between the trio of products he released today and suddenly the $META renaming doesn't look so bad.

[Mark Zuckerberg @finkd]

Here's everything I announced at Meta Connect today 👇

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Claude has discovered a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in the DNA of bacteriophages. Beside the enzyme’s gene sits a long array of repeating DNA—a structure that looks somewhat similar to CRISPR.

We don’t yet understand what this system does, but only a handful of known systems share its features, and all of them are able to cut, copy, and paste DNA. Historically, the discovery of such programmable systems has helped revolutionize medicine. CRISPR, for instance, is now the foundation of genetic medicines. But it will take much more work to learn what this system does, and whether it can be put to similar use.

Read more: https://t.co/RuEosScSMb

[Olumide Adesina @olumidecapital]

🇳🇬 Money market funds are likely to face substantial capital outflows following the CBN's steep 350 basis points rate cut

[femi @femiakande__]

All of that liquidity . Sishhh

[Nairametrics @Nairametrics]

BREAKING: The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) cut the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) to 23% from 26.50%.

[femi @femiakande__]

Yoo!

[femi @femiakande__]

Muse is insanely good!

[Instacart @Instacart]

Instacart is coming to @Muse! Soon, you can connect Instacart, say “Taco Tuesday,” and turn the idea into a cart from your favorite store. Then check out and get groceries delivered to your door. Same Instacart grocery experience, new way to get started. https://t.co/RQYfy7qn0I