i hooked my whoop to my work calendar to find which coworker gives me the most stress 🚨
thanks to fable, I reverse engineered whoop to pull per minute heart rate. nd matched spikes with cal events and attendees
I now have a leaderboard and I think about it daily.
few info masked for obvious reasons ;)
🚨 | POLITICO publica en exclusiva:
La red que intentó evitar una postura fuerte de la administración Trump contra Maduro, y que hizo todo lo posible para que EEUU normalizara sus relaciones con Venezuela:
- El empresario asfaltero Harry Sargeant, amigo personal de Trump, recibió malas noticias cuando el presidente designó a Marco Rubio como secretario de Estado y a Mauricio Claver-Carone como enviado especial para América Latina.
- Si EEUU retomaba una postura fuerte contra el régimen chavista, podía perder uno de sus negocios más jugosos.
- Por ello, Sargeant empezó a conspirar para intentar imponer a alguien sobre Rubio y Claver-Carone: al diplomático Richard Grenell.
- Sargeant contrató a un excongresista de Illinois, Aaron Shock, para diseñar una estrategia que elevara a Grenell sobre Rubio.
- Juntos, Sargeant y Shock acordaron reuniones que le permitieron a Grenell negociar una liberación de presos políticos estadounidenses en Venezuela. Esto le daría puntos a Grenell que opacarían a Rubio.
- Como la operación de liberación de presos políticos para ayudar a Grenell no impuso la agenda de Sargeant, él, Shock y un consultor político, Benjamin Papermaster, organizaron a un grupo de inversionistas y tenedores de bono para financiar una campaña mediática que estuvo todo el 2025 presionando a la administración Trump para que negociara con Maduro y marginara su política de máxima presión: Shock enlistó a la “periodista” Laura Loomer (que intentó sacar a Claver-Carone).
- Por todo esto, el FBI está investigando a Sargeant. Según una fuente del Departamento de Justicia, los esfuerzos de Sargeant de amoldar la política exterior de Trump no quedarán “impunes”.
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- Sargeant vio sus múltiples negocios en Venezuela afectados por la política de presión y sanciones de Trump. Sargeant, quien se hizo amigo de Maduro y también era cercano a Trump, y donante de su campaña, empezó un esfuerzo para buscar que el presidente relajara su postura ante el régimen chavista.
- Sargeant se favoreció de la administración Biden, que estaba relajando la presión contra Maduro tras varias negociaciones que resultaron infructuosas.
- Llegó Trump en enero del 2025 y eligió como secretario de Estado a Rubio. En la esperaba estaba Grenell, quien quería el cargo.
- Luego, Trump designó a Grenell como enviado especial para varias misiones, entre ellas Venezuela. En ese momento se armó un conflicto inevitable: Rubio y Grenell, quien esperaba quitarle el puesto.
- Entonces, Sargeant contrató al excongresista Shock, quien se había hecho amigo de Grenell porque formaba parte de “círculos de republicanos gays”.
- Shock le decía a la gente que él había sido contratado como enlace con Grenell y que su misión principal era ayudar al diplomático a tumbarle el puesto a Rubio.
- Inmediatamente empezada la operación, Grenell logró concretar una tarea que normalmente tomaría mucho esfuerzo: la liberación de estadounidenses detenidos en Venezuela. Ello fue programado para el 31 de enero del 2025, para opacar el primer viaje de Rubio para América Latina.
- A Venezuela también viajaron juntos Shock y Sargeant. Discutieron con la entonces vicepresidente, Delcy Rodríguez, que Maduro liberara todos los presos estadounidenses a cambio de que Chevron volviera plenamente a Venezuela. Además, querían algo más: que Venezuela aceptara vuelos de repatriación.
- Sargeant luego organizó un encuentro entre Maduro y Grenell, donde se sellaría el acuerdo.
- Sin embargo, el “triunfo” de Grenell en Caracas no duró mucho. Los congresistas cubanosmericanos republicanos de la Florida exitosamente lograron que la administración volviera a imponer las sanciones a cambio de su apoyo a un proyecto de ley de Trump.
- Mientras, Rubio se iba poco a poco consolidando como el mejor funcionario de la administración. Y Grenell iba siendo marginado (encomendado a tareas menores como los incendios de California). Y Sargeant perdió su licencia en Venezuela poco después.
(SIGUE)
head of anthropic’s safeguards research just quit and said “the world is in peril” and that he’s moving to the UK to write poetry and “become invisible”. other safety researchers and senior staff left over the last 2 weeks as well... probably nothing.
More than three decades later, its message hasn't aged - it still hits with the same urgency, volume, and refusal to comply.
"Killing in the Name" Rage Against the Machine
The murder in Minneapolis by the government’s secret police this week has stirred something in me.
A mother was gunned down in the street by ICE, and the government doesn’t even have the decency to perform a scripted condolence. No matter which way the tires were pointing, this is a tragedy for her family, her children, and yet JD Vance, Palmer Lucky, and others instantly became the judge and the jury on twitter proclaiming the 37 year old white mother was a domestic terrorist and was trying to murder a federal officer; thus she *deserves* to be shot in the face. And you do too if you don’t comply.
Where is the humanity? How is everyone not terrified that this could happen to them, their mother, their sister? Isn’t it terrifying that the Vice President is immediately defending murder of american citizens?
I normally keep my politics quiet here because of how toxic twitter is and how annoying it can be to people who want a clean tech feed. Right now it just feels wrong not to say anything.
I haven’t quite been able to figure out the right words for how I feel. My first instinct is “fuck ICE” and “what the fuck is wrong with these people”. Those are my lizard brain reactions. But there’s something deeper that’s bothering me.
I can’t shake this feeling that the moral foundation that much of modern society stands upon is infected, and is festering. We teach kids that right and wrong exist, not to lie, that you don’t hurt people, and that you protect the vulnerable. And yet our highest elected officials encourage the burning and pillaging of these sacred lessons.
I could go on about how our current leadership just wants money and power, and they’re using immigrants as scapegoats to do so. Our economy is transforming rapidly, both with AI and because of greedy capitalist policies — the country is angry about legitimate things and democrats are not actually listening. Republicans are listening but are redirecting anger for their own power. The next 5 years are going to look a lot different because of technology; yet our heads are buried in the sand and we’re losing our way.
But maybe the only real thing we can do is to keep living and teaching the lessons of right and wrong, not to lie, that you don’t hurt people, and that you protect the vulnerable. Teach your kids these lessons in spite of Trump, Vance, Noem being lost beyond repair. Teach your kids that everyone deserves to be treated as a human being and not an object to be deported to a brutal prison cell.
I do believe that most people are still good, and that the best thing we can do to combat dehumanization by the government is more humanization of our neighbors. Go spend time with your republican cousins / neighbors and break bread with them. Don’t talk politics, play with their kids. Find common humanity.
But I don’t really have a call to action beyond this. I don’t really know what to do other than vote in November and refuse to pretend this is normal, publicly, even if it’s terrifying that you might get targeted and attacked. People in Nazi Germany stayed silent for this very fear, and we’re certainly living through a cosplay of that now.
The president called a 37 year old mother a domestic terrorist and that her 3 shots to the face by the gestapo was a tragedy of her own making.
The actual tragedy is that the Oval office propped up millions of people arguing about the direction of the tires of the car without having the humility to step back and ask if we want the government murdering civilians in broad daylight.
I am terribly sad for this country, our broken moral compass, and for hard working immigrants living in fear here. But I do believe we will eventually heal.