Mark

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Every famous death in The Odyssey is the same crime.

The Trojan War? Started because a houseguest stole his host's wife. The cyclops? Blinded for eating his visitors. The suitors? Slaughtered for overstaying their welcome in another man's home.

Nolan read it correctly. Homer wrote 3,000 years ago about one thing: how you treat strangers decides whether civilization holds.

Here's why the Greeks were obsessed with it. Ancient Greece had no hotels, no cops, no ID. If you traveled anywhere, you knocked on a stranger's door and hoped.

So they made hospitality sacred. Feed the stranger. Give him a bed. Don't ask his name until after dinner. Zeus himself enforced the rule, and any beggar at your door might be a god in disguise. So you treated every stranger like a king.

Break the rule and the gods break you. That's the entire plot.

We still carry the proof in our mouths. Guest, host, and hostile all come from the same ancient word. A stranger at your door was always both things at once.

Nolan bet $250 million that after 3,000 years, we still need the reminder. $257 million opening weekend, his biggest ever, says he was right.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

notice how "the bloodthirsty enemy of mankind" iran has let in a us journalist as it's currently being bombed by us, but our "most moral ally" israel hasn't let in western reporters in to gaza. makes you think.

[yammi @sighyam]

I think a lot of people would benefit a little from Buddhism because the actual benefit of being good isn’t that the world rewards you (it often does in ways you haven’t shown gratitude for) but It’s actually that you don’t have to live with the chaos that comes from acting out of akusala

In Buddhism, you’re taught “kusala” (skilful, intelligent, wholesome) and “karma” (intentional action) so kusala karma = intentional action rooted in compassion and clarity that leads to less suffering.

So the opposite of kusala is “akusala” action that is unskillful, unwholesome and rooted in mental chaos

People attach too much of their identity around being “nice” and think they’re automatically good people, but I’d argue that you are actually more naive than good and need to act with more discernment. Kusala karma.

Being “good” and then causing more harm to yourself doesn’t make you noble, it makes you unwise and then bitter later on.

If people started seeing goodness not as an identity but rather a concept rooted in cause and effect they’d have more confidence in their ability/identity because they’d generate proof that they’re being good.

[Mark @MarktheLarkk]

@HVNYrefugee There definitely are mosquitoes tho

[Dave Peasant, Aspiring Lorax @aspiringpeasant]

They deported a 5yo US CITIZEN to Honduras.

This is child trafficking.

[🪲 @frankvnstein]

"that is always the prelude to fascism... well if it's that easy, and if it's that unimportant, why the fuck do they want it so bad? and the answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human."

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

@_anupa this shit took me forever

[Gainesville Tournaments @gnvtournaments]

Thank you to everyone who attended Gator Stock Exchange Street Fighter 6 #84 bracket and congratulations to top 8!

🥇 @UltraSnance
🥈 @MarktheLarkk
🥉 @Kp2k6
🏅 @GamerG_1_
5⃣ @blazegoat / @not_Loddidadeee
7⃣ @Timbslian / lucid

[Gainesville Tournaments @gnvtournaments]

Thank you to everyone who attended Run The Clock 55's Street Fighter 6 bracket and congratulations to top 8!

🥇 @blazegoat
🥈 @UltraSnance
🥉 @MarktheLarkk
🏅 @not_Loddidadeee
5⃣ @GamerG_1_ / @rtckingnothing
7⃣ faith / Mungis

[Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp]

If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

[sara @casuaIcritique]

“i’m taking therapy with chatgpt”
“i’m creating art with chatgpt”
“AI is better than any partner because it knows more and agrees with what you say”
i fear this is dante’s inferno and this is the ninth circle: treachery against the soul itself.

[Mac @GoodPoliticGuy]

grabbed off the street by plain clothes agents thrown into an unmarked car and disappeared with no charges simply for criticizing a foreign government. Textbook fascism.

[Gainesville Tournaments @gnvtournaments]

Thank you to everyone who attended Gator Stock Exchange 66's Street Fighter 6 round robin and congratulations to top 3!

🥇 @rtckingnothing
🥈 @MarktheLarkk
🥉 Mungis

[Daniel Swain @Weather_West]

The U.S. #NationalWeatherService, housed within #NOAA, is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. It costs only ~$3/yr per taxpayer, & yields ~10:1 return on investment--saving economy 10s-100s of billions, not to mention thousands of lives.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

A montage of Trump repeatedly bragging about banning TikTok is now surfacing online.

Can’t make this up.

[🟡 The tumboy 🟡 @TheTumboy]

It makes me feel insane that the idea underpinning every pitch for AI is that we all hate everything we do. We don’t just hate our jobs, but we hate our hobbies, we hate talking to other people, we hate expending any kind of effort. It’s so nasty

[fontaines, district of columbia @cantsmokehere]

so much of modern conservatism revolves around a strange fascist nostalgia that is ultimately rooted in wanting to be 18 years old forever and wishing that every aspect of your life was like a john hughes movie set in an ethnostate

[octopus/caveman @octopuscaveman]

Buc-ee’s is truly a monstrosity. A convenience store so large it becomes the most inconvenient shopping experience imaginable. Even the name defies convenience. Autocorrect almost begs you not to find one or speak of this Godless temple of man’s excess. 5 stars