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denominate in #bitcoin Time is on our side. Memento Mori . Views my own.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Daniela Amodei, cofounder of Anthropic on why curiosity beats specialization:

“The ability to be curious, to learn across a lot of disciplines and to have a strong foundation of wanting to have impact, regardless of the area that you're working in, I think that is an underrated quality.”

[Donald Mills @DonaldMills142]

One thing I learned at SpaceX. Good ideas aren’t worth anything. Lots of people have good ideas, and they are willing to share them. What actually is valuable is the implementation. If you can make a good idea a reality, that is the secret sauce.

There were several times when someone felt guilty about getting credit for implementing someone else’s good idea. Good ideas aren’t worth took 5 seconds to spout out, implementation took 6 months of 12 hour work days and blood sweat and tears. Full credit always goes to the implementer

[Molly O’Shea @MollySOShea]

Data centers in space are a "no brainer."

SpaceX's 1st employee Tom Mueller (@lrocket) on @elonmusk's plan to move compute into space:

"It makes the most sense of anything to move to space. All you need as an input is power, and all you have as an output is data."

"You move it to space, you have all the power you would ever need, and you transmit that data back down on a terawatt laser beam—it's solved. It's just so simple."

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

This is a gray Ezo squirrel, a subspecies of the Eurasian red squirrel found on the Japanese island of Hokkaido

[Amy Tam @amytam01]

Making a model useful means making its outputs trustworthy: verifiably true, or at least grounded in sound reasoning. But for many important domains (non-verifiable or long-horizon tasks), correctness is hard to define when there's more than one right answer and no feedback loop tight enough to verify it worked.

Training to produce truth (instead of the appearance of truth) is hard.

[Pete Lee @kungfupete]

You could see Jackie Chan making up an entire fight scene out of the thin air while Ratner was on the phone from the Rush Hour DVD extra.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

There is this guy on youtube name GAKHED who films his cats with a 1999 camcorder and in this time of brainrot and toxic internet it's the most calming and soothing thing i've seen.
This is what spring felt like as a kid. ❤️

[Jack @Jackkk]

Cristiano Ronaldo shares the mindset shift that changed how he sees life

“Sometimes we give so much energy to situations that don’t go well in our lives but when you have a health problem you just stop and your priority is the cure to resolve the sickness. The other things are not important”

“We put everything in the same package trying to solve so many problems when sometimes this isn’t a problem. This is just situations of life, daily things”

“We focus on so many things and we forget to focus on the main thing. Focus on your priorities, don’t focus on so many things”

“This is what I learned over time. You start to see life in a different way”

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

Christopher Nolan admits he’s never used email or owned a smartphone.

[Καλός @realKalos]

The story of young Alexander taming his horse Bucephalus is one of my favorite because it reveals so much about the future king's character and why he'll be called the Great.

“My son, you must seek out a kingdom equal to yourself—Macedonia is not big enough for you!”

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Did you know we find birdsong relaxing because our brains associate it with safety since birds stop singing when predators are near?

On top of this, their songs are particularly pleasant to your ear also because of the striking similarities between theirs and human music.

[Governor's Office - St Helena, Ascension & Tristan @GO_ASHT]

Dear David Attenborough,

Congratulations on reaching your 100th lap around the sun, young man!

Thank you for sharing the wonders of our world with such care and curiosity.

Here’s to many more years, slow and steady wins the race!

With admiration,
Jonathan the Tortoise

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starlink on Singapore Airlines! 🇸🇬

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Singapore Airlines has just announced that it is adopting SpaceX's @Starlink. The rollout will begin in Q1 2027 and be completed by end of 2029.

"With more than 10,000 satellites launched to low Earth orbit, Starlink can deliver multi-gigabit connectivity to aircraft using its Aero Terminal, which can support up to 1 Gbps per antenna. This means customers in all cabin classes will enjoy faster, smoother, and seamless connectivity from take‑off to landing for activities such as video streaming, sharing content on social media, gaming, and sending large files." - SIA

[roobz 🌙 🌸 @tishray]

One of the earliest and most heartbreaking depictions of the relationship between man and dog is in the Odyssey:

- Argos is the only one who recognizes Odysseus immediately, even in disguise.
- He is too weak to stand, but he wags his tail and drops his ears when he sees him.
- Odysseus can't reveal himself or openly acknowledge him
- Instead, he asks the swineherd about the dog, indirectly praising him.
- He sheds a tear, and turns his face so no one notices.
- After seeing his master one last time, Argos dies.

Nearly three millennia, and this simple human moment is something everyone can relate to.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Japanese engineers developed a “Sword Tip Visualization System” for the Fencing World Championships, and it makes fencing look absolutely incredible to watch.

[Darshak Rana ⚡️ @thedarshakrana]

You think you're unhappy because life is hard.

Wrong.

You're unhappy because you're still operating at infant-level selfishness with adult-level expectations.

Happiness isn't found in gratitude journals or positive thinking.

It's found in the INVERSE relationship between your talent stack and your need to be selfish.

When you're born, you're 100% selfish, 0% capable. Perfect equilibrium. Society expects nothing from you.

They age chronologically but not competency-wise. They hit 30, 40, 50...still operating from scarcity, still locked in survival mode, still taking more than they give.

The stress you feel?

That's the cognitive dissonance between where you ARE (high selfishness, low talent) and where you SHOULD BE on the developmental curve.

Your path to meaning is mathematical:

Accumulate talents → Eliminate personal scarcity → Reduce selfish need → Turn outward → Experience meaning

Every moment you stay below the curve...high selfishness, low capability....you're in psychological debt. The interest compounds as stress, anxiety, emptiness.

The solution isn't to "be less selfish." That's premature morality.

The solution is to BUILD POWER through talent acquisition until selfishness becomes *optional*, not necessary.

Only then does happiness become accessible. Only then does meaning emerge.

You can't transcend selfishness through willpower.

You transcend it through competence.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Every February, 70% of the commercial honey bees in the United States, roughly two million colonies, are loaded onto lorries and driven to California. They are going to pollinate the almonds.

80% of the world's almonds come from one valley in California. Over 1.3 million acres of nothing but almond trees, blooming for three weeks in monoculture, requiring more pollinators than the state can produce on its own. So the bees are trucked in from every corner of the country. Florida. New York. Montana.

The bees are fed sugar water for the journey because their own honey has been removed to lighten the load.
They arrive in the Central Valley to a landscape that is, for three weeks, pink and white blossom, and for the other forty-nine weeks of the year, dead. Nothing to eat. No forage. No diversity. Just almond trees and bare dirt, sprayed regularly with fungicides and insecticides that were deemed bee-safe in adult bees but turn out to be lethal to larvae when combined.

In February 2025, commercial beekeepers reported the worst die-off on record. Around 60% of commercial honey bee colonies in the United States dead in a single pollination season. Financial losses estimated well over $139 million. Some beekeepers lost 90 to 100% of their colonies.

The almonds are marketed as plant-based. Clean. Ethical. The preferred alternative.

The preferred alternative requires the single largest managed pollination event in human history and it is quietly killing the pollinators faster than they can be replaced.

Every glass of almond milk is, statistically, a small contribution to the largest pollinator die-off on record.

This is not in the advertising.

[Kris Luckenbach @KrisLuckPhoto]

I found out none of my photos won wildlife photo of the year, but it was fun to participate! The 3rd photo of the Brown Bear Cubs riding their moms back did receive an honorable mention in the “water as an element” category of the Pangolin photo challenge though 😃

[Jeremy White @jeremywhitefx]

Hippo fluid scene pushed to 100M particles made with HydroFX. Foam, bubbles, and spray all simmed together in one system for a cohesive result, fully GPU accelerated. Meshed + extra sand interaction in Houdini, final lookdev/render in Blender. Get HydroFX https://t.co/1aKDxmZK9V