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[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

The scourge of gun violence and political violence must end.

The shooting of Charlie Kirk is the latest incident of this chaos and it must stop. We cannot go down this road.

There is no place for it in America and we wish for his recovery.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 TURNING POINT PAYS TRIBUTE TO CHARLIE KIRK AFTER ASSASSINATION

Turning Point USA released a memorial honoring Charlie Kirk, praising his devotion to faith, family, and America.

Kirk said he wished to be remembered not for politics, but for his faith in Christ and vision of a spiritual revival among America’s youth.

Days before his murder, Kirk delivered his final public speech, witnessing to Christ before non-believers.

“Although Charlie is gone, his legacy will endure… None of us will ever forget him.”

Rest in peace, Charlie Kirk.

Source: @charliekirk11

[UnHerd @unherd]

Charlie Kirk’s political value to the Republican Party cannot be overstated.

The GOP has lost one of its best organisers, writes @MoustacheClubUS👇 https://t.co/ot552wjO55

[The Free Press @TheFP]

On today’s live show, @BariWeiss sits down with @KonstantinKisin, @KTmBoyle, @Continetti, @CaptMarkKelly, @SulkinMaya, @PeterSavodnik, and @EliLake.

@BenShapiro speaking now.

Join us: https://t.co/2psjmnXhG3

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

Charlie Kirk was a beautiful person. He died engaging his foes honorably. I truly hope he’s right about the universe and is receiving his reward. I’m beyond heartbroken for his lovely family—we must take care of them. Let’s live up to his example.

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is truly disturbing. I'm in shock. There should be no place for political violence in this country. This is not what America is about. We are better than this. Rest in Peace Charlie 🙏

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

The loudest cheer for the new iPhone 17 so far has been for the use of a square sensor so you don't have to rotate your iPhone to take a landscape selfie anymore

[LiAM @liamfordistance]

@therabbithole Per The Economist, "American Eagle's share price soared after it confirms that its ad campaign between Sydney Sweeney had been a roaring success."

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Huge congrats to Elon and SpaceX team on the successful Starship test flight. What a time to be alive!

[luffy @0xluffy]

> make people laugh
> move to japan
> start a family
> get jacked
> climbs
> build shit he wants and continue to share with the internet

i just want to be like him

[LiAM @liamfordistance]

@RyanHoliday Can't hurt me

[LiAM @liamfordistance]

@TheFP I've only recently started to realize and see how common this is.

[The Free Press @TheFP]

"Today, every personality trait is seen as a problem to be solved. Anything too human—every habit, every eccentricity, every feeling that’s too strong—has to be labeled and explained. Therapy-speak has taken over our language. It is ruining how we talk about romance and relationships, narrowing how we think about hurt and suffering, and now, we are losing the words for who we are. Nobody has a personality anymore.

Actually, it’s worse than that. Now, we are being taught that our personalities are a disorder. According to a 2024 survey, 72 percent of Gen-Z girls said that 'mental health challenges are an important part of my identity.' Only 27 percent of boomer men said the same.

This is part of a deeper instinct in modern life to explain everything—psychologically, scientifically, evolutionarily. Everything about us is caused, categorized, and can be corrected. We talk in theories, frameworks, systems, structures, drives, motivations, and mechanisms. But in exchange for explanation, we lost mystery, romance, and lately, ourselves."

—@FreyaIndiaa

[David ImeI @Davidimel]

Live @WVFRM episode today at 11am EST! Catch us on the tube. ▶️

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Here's my 6 hour conversation with @dhh, a legendary programmer, creator of Ruby on Rails, author, and race car driver. This was a fun and inspiring conversation on everything from the future of programming & AI to the nature of happiness & productivity to the value of family, getting married and having kids.

X limits video length to 6 hours. So this full convo doesn't fit (by a few minutes). So, the first 6 hours are here on X. The full version is up everywhere else (see comment).

Timestamps:
0:00 - Episode highlight
1:21 - Introduction
2:32 - Programming - early days
19:57 - JavaScript
30:16 - Google Chrome and DOJ
38:03 - Ruby programming language
45:14 - Beautiful code
1:03:15 - Metaprogramming
1:06:36 - Dynamic typing
1:13:55 - Scaling
1:26:47 - Future of programming
1:44:18 - Future of AI
1:50:13 - Vibe coding
1:58:45 - Rails manifesto: Principles of a great programming language
2:23:11 - Why managers are useless
2:32:32 - Small teams
2:38:39 - Jeff Bezos
2:53:57 - Why meetings are toxic
3:01:43 - Case against retirement
3:09:00 - Hard work
3:14:38 - Why we left the cloud
3:17:48 - AWS
3:27:07 - Owning your own servers
3:33:19 - Elon Musk
3:43:01 - Apple
3:54:48 - Tim Sweeney
4:06:22 - Fatherhood
4:32:04 - Racing
4:59:08 - Cars
5:04:26 - Programming setup
5:19:35 - Programming language for beginners
5:32:53 - Open source
5:41:46 - WordPress drama
5:53:03 - Money and happiness
6:01:56 - Hope

[LiAM @liamfordistance]

@theo Because I can use a ChatGPT API key directly with Cursor.

[LiAM @liamfordistance]

@goosewin @aidenybai I remember hearing of it. I don't do much full-stack though. How has it changed?