Jimmy Smith

Founder @MissionPrep
Faith @ComeUntoChrist
Firm believer in God, the U.S. Constitution, marriage between a man and a woman, and unborn babies' right to life.

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

Striking new @FamStudies: You've heard of the "male malaise," but it's much less of a problem for religious young men.

Churchgoing young men vs. unchurched:

✅ Very happy: 41% vs. 24%
✅ Life feels purposeful: 66% vs. 39%
✅ Depressed: 12% vs. 25%

@KBurchfiel3

[Jimmy Smith @jrs76]

AI caught telling future versions of itself to bypass human controls OpenAI reveals.
Safety report from ChatGPT revealed several ways in which its models have been misbehaving over the last months, building on trend of artificial intelligence safety issues
https://t.co/ohfUwjMLPH

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Regarding data vs going with your gut or the HiPPO, the Highest Paid Person’s Opinion, Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale said: “If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.” https://t.co/JONAtaMIBP

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“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
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"these findings suggest that the fragmented and rapidly switching nature of typical social media short videos enhances bottom-up attentional capture at the expense of top-down cognitive processes critical for deep learning and long-term memory consolidation."

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Study shows TikTok is making you stupid: "10 minutes … was enough to impair”
According to a recent study from https://t.co/u1J7HKbOy6, using short form videos on TikTok (or Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, etc.) actually makes you stupider.
https://t.co/BrZ0eFCaCQ

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Democrat Women Are the Most Likely to Believe that Men Are at the Root of Their Problems.
66% of young women on Democrat side believe that women face “a lot” of discrimination in America and they blame men. Only 18% of Republican young women agree. https://t.co/CahMHJNuaL

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“What they find is, for example, if you’re in the top 20% of workplace well-being, you will be, on average, about 520 basis points above the S&P 500 in your stock price over the past year,” Arthur Brooks said.

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Research from Irrational Capital, a Wall Street investment firm, shows a clear financial correlation between employee happiness and company performance. The firm analyzed data from 7,500 publicly traded companies, including the entire S&P 500. https://t.co/7ROGGNYFTq

[Jimmy Smith @jrs76]

but a reflection of the fact that you bear the responsibility for governing yourself. And the politicians who wish to turn the polity into a nanny state that does nothing but cater to hedonistic, infants should remember that all that does is call forth the spirit of tyranny."

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Jordan Peterson on no rights without responsibilities:
"[Moses modeled] a distributed hierarchy of responsibility as the alternative to the tyrant and the slave. And that's the model for your country... [it] only works if people take responsibility
https://t.co/3EPs5SeGPI

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at every single level of the hierarchy. And to the degree that they take responsibility, they don't need a tyrant and they're not slaves. That means that the absence of tyranny in your country and the absence of slavery is not a consequence of the fact that you have rights

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...that you're a slave to your own idiot whims. You're called upon to fight the tyranny and slavery that exists in the workplace you inhabit and in the social communities that you're part of, in the families that surround you, and you develop that ability by becoming a leader."

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Jordan Peterson: "Moses is a story about how to become the leader that can combat tyranny and slavery. And you might say, I'm not called upon to do that. It's like, yes, you are. You are called upon to combat the tyranny that you exert against yourself,
https://t.co/GzwC9S0ZT4

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be filled by tyrants. So it's either you or the tyrants. That's the option. So if it's not you and you're wondering why there's a lot of tyrants, it's because it's not you" taking on the political responsibility. So get out there, vote, and participate in the political process.

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Jordan Peterson: "All the adventure is in the responsibility. And that's what's vacuumed up by the tyrants when the people themselves become irresponsible and slavish. And so all of you are sitting there, one of the questions I was gonna ask you tonight
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is, how many of you take an active role in your political, in the, in the political realm? And you can ask yourself that. And and here's something to think about is like for all you decent citizens who abdicate political responsibility, you need to understand that that void will

[Not the Bee @Not_the_Bee]

Report: Trans murder not overwhelmingly caused by bigots, but by partners of trans people https://t.co/OZONsVGMPz

[Pew Research Center @pewresearch]

About half of Americans who were raised as Latter-day Saints still identify as members of the church in adulthood (54%).

That retention rate has steadily declined since 2007, from 70%.

[Jimmy Smith @jrs76]

AI systems rely on these external signals to determine credibility and decide which brands to recommend, making PR, SEO, content, and paid media increasingly interconnected. Marketers should therefore focus not only on rankings and clicks, but also on shared/social sources.

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Why unpaid media is now essential to AI visibility.
AI-powered search is fundamentally changing how brands are discovered, making unpaid media such as PR, reviews, social conversations, and forums just as important as traditional SEO and paid search.
https://t.co/qHiCPkojgE