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[Tim J @divinegreekwear]

All D9 quote this with a picture of you in your favorite paraphernalia. I’m trying to do some market research 🧐

[Pelagius 🦁 @pelagiusreborn]

Mussolini had a plan but you guys did not trust it

[Cheo Hodari Coker @cheo_coker]

This is incredible. And KIRK? Wow.

[Spectre @spectre0799]

DNA. but the beat is Toxic

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

HABITS I STOLE FROM HUSBANDS WHOSE WIVES LIGHT UP WHEN THEY WALK IN.

1. They come home mid-story.

[✒️ @Literariium]

Exulansis [ek-suh-lan-sis)

[Voices From Vietnam @VoicesfromNam]

Tom Chambers on bad officers in the Vietnam War

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

Palantir sells governments a war room that costs millions a year.

So, a guy named Elie just rebuilt it, put it on GitHub, and gave it away.

It's called World Monitor.

Open it and you get a live 3D globe with 500+ news feeds pouring in across 15 categories, all summarized by AI as they land.

> Military movements.
> Economic shocks.
> Natural disasters.
> Cyber incidents.
> Flight paths.
> Shipping lanes.

+ 56 different map layers you can stack on top of each other.

It scores 31 countries on a stress index and updates the number as things happen.

It watches 29 stock exchanges, commodities, and crypto in one panel.

It runs local AI through Ollama, so you can use the whole thing without a single API key.

Native desktop app for Windows, macOS, and Linux. 25 languages. Works out of the box after one clone.

[bum @BattleRapBum]

be in jenise hart’s dms like this

[Alvin @Alvin1492840]

A family paid for Disney+ for 3 years.

They watched Frozen twice. They rewatched The Mandalorian. The kids rotated between Moana and Encanto on a loop.

That was it. $575 spent. Same 10 titles.

Their uncle a former Disney streaming product manager who spent 4 years building the Disney+ interface sat down during a family visit, picked up the remote, and opened their account.

He went quiet for about 30 seconds.

"You're watching Marvel movies with 26% of the picture missing. There are R-rated films on this app you've never seen because a single setting is hiding them. You've never opened the Extras tab that has deleted scenes, bloopers, and behind-the-scenes footage for almost every major title. You're paying for Disney+ and Hulu separately when a bundle would save you $60/year. And your kids are on your profile destroying your recommendations while Disney literally built a kid-safe mode you never turned on."

He changed 10 things in 12 minutes.

The dad said "this feels like a completely different app."

The uncle said "it is. Disney ships the version that's safe for a 4-year-old by default. That means half the library is invisible, the best picture quality is turned off, and the features that make this a premium experience are buried 3 menus deep."

Here's everything he changed and how to do it yourself 🧵

[West Lord @MyWestLord]

Billionaire David Rockefeller came from the family that ran the world for 100 years and in 1995 he explained how, on camera, smiling.

His grandfather John D. Rockefeller was the richest American in history, and by the time David sat down with Charlie Rose, the family had spent a century inside banks, museums, universities and the White House itself.

He had no title and no office, just 35 years at the top of Chase Manhattan and a habit of knowing everyone 200,000 index cards on 100,000 people he’d met personally.

Then he started talking, and every answer was a demonstration of quiet power.

New York’s new deputy mayor for development turned out to be his old colleague, and Rockefeller admitted he “did have a little to say in persuading him to come” meaning he placed a man inside City Hall and mentioned it mid-sentence, like weather.

The mayor was now meeting 6 corporate executives every 2 weeks to discuss the city, in a room Rockefeller himself built through his New York City Partnership.

Then a museum needed a federal building, the Customs House, and the chairman told him only 1 person on earth could unlock it the President.

So Rockefeller saw the President and mentioned it, and the museum opened the very day of this interview.

City Hall, a federal building, the White House all in 1 hour of conversation.

Clinton was still 2 months from inauguration when this unelected 77-year-old laid out the agenda on air: cut capital gains, raise the gas tax, give business “a fair deal.” He’d founded the Trilateral Commission and chaired the Council on Foreign Relations, and presidents had taken his calls for 50 years.

People built entire conspiracy theories around him secret meetings, shadow governments, world control and 10 years later in his memoirs he answered them himself: “If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”

The strangest part was never the secrecy, because there was none.
He told you exactly how it worked, on television, and nobody could do anything about it.

He never ran for anything he never had to.

[Kristi Yamaguccimane @TheWapplehouse]

7th grade me in the middle of math class for absolutely no reason: