Gabe Rivas 📚

Media Relations Director at @TRBoxing. Lifelong learner. Team @WestsideBoxingC. UCLA & CSUN Graduate. “Quid est vīta sine philosophiā?“ 🥊📚 Opinions are my own

[Gabe Rivas 📚 @GabeJRivas]

Successful press conference in Mexico City on Tuesday with Rafael Espinoza and Emiliano Vargas 🥊🇲🇽

Nos vemos el 4 de mayo en la T-Mobile Arena de Las Vegas! 🙌

#TopRank #InoueCardenas

[Gabe Rivas 📚 @GabeJRivas]

20 years ago? Jeez.

Also, it's crazy how precipitously this show fell off.

[Blaze Binges @BlazeBinges]

20 years ago today, Heroes premiered on NBC.

Heroes Season 1 is still one of the greatest seasons in TV history.

[𝓚 @ifuliedownhere]

Dostoyevsky on the death of his infant daughter. A passage that has stayed with me years after I first encountered it

[Declan Warrington @decwarrington]

It largely went under the radar that Mike Costello retired at the end of the Commonwealth Games, finishing his celebrated career covering amateur boxing and, typically enough, without wanting any of the attention he could have courted. He also spoke, in @BoxingNewsED

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

10 minutes of TikTok was enough to impair people’s ability to remember and carry out intentions.

Twitter and YouTube didn’t show the same decline.

Rapid context-switching may be where most of cognitive cost is.

[yannispappas @yannispappas]

Socialism is NOT roads, firefighters, or public schools. Those are public services, and they have existed under every system. Socialism is collective control of the means of production: businesses, factories, land, and capital. Whether by the state, workers, or some theoretical public collective. DSA candidates are exploiting people’s ignorance of that distinction to rebrand ordinary public services as proof that America is already socialist. It’s bullshit bait and switch.

[daveed ✌🏻🌺 @daveedosan]

fall is here so i can really start dressing

[Cosmic Marvel @cosmic_marvel]

Rosemary Harris celebrating her 99th birthday.

[HalloweenVerse @HalloweenVerse]

🍂🎃 HAPPY FIRST DAY OF FALL! 🎃🍂

The BEST season of the year is officially here!

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First trailer for the Norm Macdonald documentary — directed by Judd Apatow.

Releasing October 16 on Netflix.

[Zineb Riboua @zriboua]

For those in the back

[Steve Clemans @Steve09812]

Jerry Seinfeld How Warren Beatty changed his mind on Kids

[Mike 📺 @michaelcollado]

The WB signed off 20 years ago on September 17, 2006.

[Gonzalo Ruiz Utrilla @gonzaloruizutri]

Veinte minutos de siesta después de comer hacen más por tu cerebro de lo que parece: bajan el cortisol, consolidan lo aprendido por la mañana y te devuelven concentración para la tarde. En los pueblos donde nunca se perdió la costumbre iban adelantados.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

3 interesting findings:

1. The largest predictor of “flow states” is the Big Five trait of conscientiousness. Flow seems to emerge out of hard work and discipline, and could be thought of as an internal reward for intense effort and focus on a single activity.

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

Sorry to interrupt your regular "the rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer" programming, we will return to the vibes-based whining shortly.

[Gabe Rivas 📚 @GabeJRivas]

It's a complex issue so I asked AI to explain (FWIW):

Why is LA housing so expensive?

• High demand: Jobs, climate and coastal amenities keep demand strong. (CA LAO)

• Supply is constrained: LA/SF housing stock grew ~20% from 1980–2010 vs. 54% in a typical U.S. metro. Geography, zoning, approvals and building costs all limit new housing. (CA LAO)

• High rates amplify the pain: At 6.76%, financing a ~$1.13M home with 10% down is about $6,600/month before taxes and insurance. (Freddie Mac/Realtor.com)

• High rates also shrink listings: Owners with 2–4% mortgages are reluctant to sell and replace them with 6–7% loans. FHFA estimates this “rate-lock” effect prevented ~63K LA-area sales from 2022–24.

Bottom line: Strong demand + inelastic supply = high prices. High rates make those prices even harder to finance.

Policy: Allow more housing, streamline approvals, and reduce unnecessary building barriers/costs. Lower rates or buyer subsidies can help buyers, but without more supply, they can also push prices higher.

[California Post @californiapost]

LA is the worst place in America to buy a home - scoring an 'F' on a new report card https://t.co/hlevywWTx0

[Gabe Rivas 📚 @GabeJRivas]

I know.

[California Post @californiapost]

LA is the worst place in America to buy a home - scoring an 'F' on a new report card https://t.co/hlevywWTx0

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

Crystallized vs. fluid intelligence.

[Gabe Rivas 📚 @GabeJRivas]

Reading evolutionary psychology is insightful. It helps you see morality not as some objective touchstone floating in the ether, but as something shaped by our biology, often serving the struggle for survival, status & reproduction. It’s not simply an abstract search for truth.

A lot of the criticism of the Sydney Sweeney ad appears to me to be unconsciously motivated competitiveness disguised as virtue lol.