NBPopulist

Sticking up for the youth, working and retired people of New Brunswick..Keep the Bureaucrats Accountable! The Map is NB it contains errors.. let's fix them!

[NBPopulist @NbPopulist]

@yarotrof No more escalation.. need an end to the war. Crimean bridge was an escalation, and then Ukraine loses 30% of its energy capacity. Ukraine had momentum two weeks ago, not they are on the back foot? The West supplies Ukraine, and Iran supplies Russia. Find a settlement!

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Second-generation North African migrants harass recently arrived Ukrainian teenage refugees on the streets of Zolle in the Netherlands.

The Ukrainians decide that they won’t just take it

[Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo]

🇺🇸‼️🚨 LINDSEY GRAHAM

To be clear, I have no clue what happened to him.

But here are some realities:

1) If Russia actually killed him, accidental or intentional doesn’t matter … then the U.S. would NEVER admit it (not instantly). That would create uncontrollable pressure for direct war with Russia. They would try to smooth it over somehow. Most likely pretending he died in a different way.

2) In the high-stakes geopolitical game Lindsey participated in, people can be gotten rid of. It’s about trillions of dollars and millions of deaths. People are ruthless. And Lindsey flew too close to the sun. He basically was involved in the regime change US foreign policy of 2026 and that went not so well … he wanted to push more and further.

Remember, Trump went through multiple assassination attempts. How many Kennedys died? Everything is possible in world power.

3) Of course it can be just a sudden heart attack. But the timing is wild. Hey, that’s the randomness of life sometimes.

[The Architect. @TheMarcitect]

The shooting in Montreal yesterday reaffirmed my belief that less than 100 moderately trained men could take Ottawa in a single day. The police are impotent, the military is impotent and the politicians are weak kneed cowards. This country is ripe for the picking.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A Hungarian psychologist raised three daughters to prove that any child could become a chess grandmaster through early specialization. He succeeded. Two of them became grandmasters. One became the greatest female chess player who ever lived.

Then a sports scientist looked at the data and found something nobody wanted to hear.

His name is David Epstein. The book is called "Range."

The Polgar experiment is one of the most famous case studies in the history of deliberate practice. Laszlo Polgar wrote a book before his daughters were even born arguing that geniuses are made, not born. He homeschooled all three girls in chess from age four. By their teens, Susan, Sofia, and Judit were dominating tournaments against grown men. Judit became the youngest grandmaster in history at the time, breaking Bobby Fischer's record. The story became the gospel of early specialization. Pick a domain young, drill it hard, and you can manufacture excellence.

Epstein opens his book by telling that story honestly and then quietly demolishing the conclusion most people drew from it.

Chess works that way. Most things do not.

Here is the distinction that took him four years of research to articulate, and that almost nobody who quotes the 10,000 hour rule has ever read.

There are two kinds of environments in which humans develop expertise. Psychologists call them kind and wicked. A kind environment has clear rules, immediate feedback, and patterns that repeat reliably. Chess is the cleanest example. Every game ends with a winner and a loser. Every move is recorded. The board never changes shape. The pieces never invent new ways to move. A child who plays ten thousand games will see most of the patterns that exist in the game, and pattern recognition is exactly what chess mastery is built on.

A wicked environment is the opposite. Feedback is delayed or misleading. Rules shift. The patterns that worked yesterday may be exactly the wrong patterns to apply tomorrow. Most of the real world looks like this. Medicine is wicked. Investing is wicked. Building a company is wicked. Scientific research is wicked. Almost every job that involves a complex changing system with humans in it is wicked.

The Polgar sisters trained in the kindest environment any human can train in. Their success was real and the method was correct. The mistake was generalizing the method to fields where the underlying structure of the environment is completely different.

Epstein's research is what made the implication impossible to ignore.

He looked at the careers of elite athletes outside of chess and golf and found that the pattern was almost the inverse of what people assumed. The athletes who reached the very top of their sports were overwhelmingly people who had played multiple sports as children, specialized late, and often switched disciplines well into their teens. Roger Federer played squash, badminton, basketball, handball, tennis, table tennis, and soccer before tennis became his focus. The kids who specialized in tennis at age six and trained year-round for a decade mostly burned out, got injured, or topped out at lower levels of the sport.

The same pattern showed up everywhere he looked outside of kind environments. Inventors with the most patents had worked in multiple unrelated fields before their breakthrough work. Comic book creators with the longest careers had drawn for the most different genres before settling. Scientists who won Nobel Prizes were dramatically more likely than their peers to be serious amateur musicians, painters, sculptors, or writers.

The skill that mattered in wicked environments was not depth in one pattern. It was the ability to recognize when a pattern from one domain applied unexpectedly in another. That kind of thinking cannot be built by drilling a single subject. It can only be built by accumulating mental models from many subjects and learning to move between them.

The deeper finding is the one that should change how you think about your own career.

Specialists in wicked environments often get worse with experience, not better. Epstein cites studies of doctors, financial analysts, intelligence officers, and forecasters showing that years of experience in a narrow domain frequently produce more confident judgments without producing more accurate ones. The expert builds elaborate mental models that feel comprehensive and turn out to be increasingly disconnected from the actual structure of the problem. They stop noticing what does not fit their framework. They mistake fluency for understanding.

Generalists do better in wicked domains for a reason that sounds almost mystical until you understand the mechanism. They have less invested in any single mental model, so they abandon broken models faster. They are used to being a beginner, so they are not threatened by the discomfort of not knowing. They have seen enough different domains that they can usually find an analogy from one field that unlocks a problem in another. The technical name for this is analogical thinking, and the research on it is one of the most underrated bodies of work in cognitive science.

The single most useful sentence in the entire book is the one Epstein puts almost as a throwaway.

Match quality matters more than head start.

A person who tries six different fields in their twenties and finds the one that genuinely fits them will outperform a person who picked one field at fourteen and stuck to it on willpower alone. The lost years were not lost. They were the search process that produced the match. Every field they walked away from taught them something they later imported into the field they finally chose.

The reason this is so hard to accept is cultural, not empirical. We tell children to pick a path early. We reward the prodigy who knew at six. We treat the late bloomer as someone who failed to launch on time, when the data suggests they were running an entirely different and often more effective optimization process underneath.

The Polgar sisters were not wrong. The conclusion the world drew from them was.

If your environment is genuinely kind, specialize early and drill hard. If it is wicked, and almost every interesting human problem is, then the people who win are the ones who refused to specialize until they had seen enough to know what was actually worth specializing in.

You are not behind. You were running the right experiment all along.

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk opened the federal budget and found what both parties spent decades making sure nobody would ever see.

The receipts.

Musk: “Most of the fraudulent government payments, especially to the NGOs, go to the Democrats. Let’s say 80%, maybe 90%. 10 to 20% of it does go to Republicans.”

He didn’t say one side was clean.

He said both sides were eating.

Musk: “The honest answer is the Republicans are partly… they’re receiving some of the fraud too. They’re getting a vig.”

A vig.

That’s the word you use when the house takes a cut of every bet at the table.

That’s not governance. That’s a rake.

And when DOGE shut off the fraudulent payments, the loudest screams didn’t come from Democrats.

They came from Republicans.

Musk: “When we turn off funding to a fraudulent NGO, we’d get complaints from whatever the 10% of Republicans who were receiving the money. And they would very loudly complain.”

You tell someone 90% of the fraud funds their political opponents.

And they still fight you to keep their 10%.

Musk: “I tried telling them, ‘Well, you know, 90% of the money is going to your opponents.’”

Rogan: “They want their piece.”

Musk: “Yeah, they want their piece.”

Rogan: “And they’ve been getting that piece for a long time.”

The uniparty was never a conspiracy theory.

Musk: “The whole uniparty criticism has some validity to it.”

It’s a revenue model.

Left and right aren’t opponents. They’re co-signers on the same account.

The theater is for you. The money is for them.

Every bank on earth runs AI that flags a suspicious $47 charge before you even notice it.

The United States government somehow can’t catch billions in fraudulent payments to shell NGOs.

The technology exists. It has for years.

An algorithm doesn’t care which party you belong to. It doesn’t take a vig. It doesn’t have a donor.

It just follows the money.

And that’s exactly why they’ll never willingly deploy it.

Musk didn’t expose a partisan scandal.

He exposed the operating system of American governance.

And the most dangerous thing he did wasn’t cutting the payments.

It was proving both sides would rather protect the fraud than lose their cut.

The system isn’t broken.

It was built this way.

[Alcuin Press @AlcuinPress]

"Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it."

— Leonardo da Vinci

[GeniusThinking @GeniusGTX]

Marc Andreessen just revealed how Harvard Business School was built on a broken 1941 theory, and how it's now collapsing...

Andreessen co-founded Netscape in 1994 and a16z in 2009.

He has sat on Meta's board since 2008.

He has spent 30 years backing founders and watching managerial CEOs lose to them.

The pattern traces back to one book: James Burnham's *The Machiavellians* (1941).

Burnham argued every great company had been founder-run.

Henry Ford ran Ford. Bob Noyce ran Intel.

Today, Elon Musk runs Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink.

Then, he said, something broke.

Between the 1880s and the 1920s, a new philosophy replaced the founder. It was called managerialism.

The professional manager would now hold a portable skill, usable across any business.

The consequences were:

- Harvard Business School
- Stanford Business School
- Management as a universal skill
- The 1970s conglomerate

"That assumes the managers are going to do a good job," Andreessen says.

For 30 years, they haven't.

Managers can run something static, he says. Soup is soup. A bank is a bank. A car is a car.

But when the industry changes, the manager freezes.

Look at SpaceX.

"Imagine being a professionally trained manager, trained at a top management school, working for a rocket launch company, competing with SpaceX."

Then Elon's rockets started landing on their butt.

"Your management skills ... what good are they at that point?"

Andreessen's conclusion:

"You're much more likely to build something important in the 21st century if you start with the founder and train them on management."

What "professionally run" institution in your life has quietly stopped working?

If you're new here, @GeniusGTX is a gallery for the greatest minds in economics, psychology, and history. Follow along for more similar content.

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— Marc Andreessen ( @pmarca ), co-founder of a16z, on David Senra's ( @FoundersPodcast ) podcast

[Samiejane @samiejane]

@newstart_2024 I don’t find this to be true. I’m more successful on paper when it comes to my closest friends who I’ve know since childhood, but their love and loyalty is hard to find. No wonder so many young people are lonely when they are listening to people like this

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Nayib Bukele: "What about the human right of the women who don't want to be r*ped? What about the human right of kids to play, or to be free? … But no, they were worried about the human rights of the k*llers."

https://t.co/7mfijCVuzQ

[Doug Billings @DougBillings]

Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 1965 — warning America decades ahead of his time:
“False compassion… is a pity shown not to the mugged, but to the mugger; not to the family of the murdered, but to the murderer.”
He predicted nations would be ruined not by wars, but by this twisted “mercy” that protects criminals and ignores victims.
Watch this prophetic clip. Still true. Still urgent.

#BishopSheen #FalseCompassion #Wisdom

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just exposed the one lie every modern nation tells itself.

Musk: “In 1969, we were able to send somebody to the moon.”

Rotary phones. Computers the size of rooms. Slide rules.

We put a human on the moon with less processing power than your watch.

Musk: “Then the space shuttle retired, and the United States could take no one to orbit.”

The most advanced nation in human history went from footprints on the moon to zero capability of leaving the atmosphere.

That is not a funding problem.

That is civilizational decay dressed up as a policy decision.

Musk: “People are mistaken when they think that technology just automatically improves… it will, by itself, degrade.”

That sentence should keep you up tonight.

We treat progress like gravity. Like it pulls us forward whether we try or not.

It is the opposite.

Progress is a boulder on a hill. The second you stop pushing, it rolls back over you. And it never announces itself.

Musk: “You look at great civilizations like ancient Egypt, and they were able to make the pyramids, and they forgot how to do that.”

They did not run out of stone.

They were not conquered.

They got comfortable. And the knowledge bled out so quietly that nobody noticed until it was already gone.

That is the real threat to everything we have built.

Not a nuclear flash. Not an asteroid. Not some dramatic Hollywood collapse.

A quiet forgetting.

Every chip we fabricate. Every rocket we launch. Every data center we power. All of it held together by a thin fraction of the population working at a pace that would break most people.

The moment that fraction gets tired or outnumbered by people who believe the machine runs itself, everything dissolves.

And here is the part nobody wants to say out loud.

We are not special. We are running the same operating system as every civilization that came before us.

Comfort is the sedative. Complacency is the flatline.

One generation that stops fighting is all it has ever taken.

You do not lose the future in a war.

You lose it in your sleep.

[NBPopulist @NbPopulist]

@MarkIssaTexts @michael_house9 The only Christian country that know how to deal with Islam is Russia.

[IMPERATOR @IMPERATORAUS]

This image is perfectly emblematic of the modern West.

Weak men, seated in the ruins of a civilisation built by better men.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌ @sappholives83]

When Sarah Barratt was threatened with rape by 3 men while poolside at the @MarriottIntl in Qatar, her husband Craig complained to the front desk, and they were told the men hd been kicked out.

It was a lie. Days later, coming off the elevator, the Barratts encountered the men again. Craig was furious, and posted a negative review on TripAdvisor.

Craig is a businessman who operates in the Middle East, and when he next returned to Qatar, he was arrested, detained, fined, and deported, having been convicted in absentia of damaging the Marriott’s reputation.

Worse, his inability to work in Qatar has destroyed his financial security. He and his wife are selling possessions online, and are considering selling their home.

Marriott International, a Western company, used the draconian laws restricting speech in Qatar in order to have Craig Barratt punished for leaving a negative review on TripAdvisor - a review that was fully justified and supported by the facts. This is appalling behavior on their part, and I sincerely hope that this story will be circulated as widely as possible. All Marriott had to do was apologize. Instead, they destroyed a guest’s life for daring to complain about having been lied to, and about having been made unsafe on Marriott property by the actions of Marriott staff.

https://t.co/bdwoTVlrID

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

TRANSLATION.

If you sell your bonds & shares US markets break.

We’d rather take your currency as collateral and print more dollars.

It’s our only choice, as we burden Americans with more debt.

We need to extract as much value from stocks and bonds for the transnational financial industrial complex whilst we can.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

Orwell described a nightmare you would recognize. You'd feel the boot. You'd know the cage. That tangibility is what makes resistance possible.

Huxley described something harder: a cage you'd furnish yourself, and call home.

The most dangerous tyranny needs no enforcement, because the population enforces it voluntarily.

Look around. Which dystopia are you living in?

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

In the 1800s, rape was a capital offence in Britain and rapists were hanged.

During those days, the state deemed it a necessary punishment in order to restore the honour of the victim.

Those were more humane days than now.

[SilencedSirs◼️ @SilentlySirs]

🚨 🇮🇷 BREAKING — FM Araghchi:

"Hormuz stays closed until $𝟭𝟭 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 in frozen Iranian assets are released."

Iran isn't asking for sanctions lifted.
Iran is demanding ���𝟲 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 of stolen money back
𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁.

[Ben Swann @BenSwann_]

Megyn Kelly: "There's no loyalty in return from Trump. Ever. If you have a principled disagreement with him, you're otherized, you're the enemy.

He's not a moral man. He's obviously not the greatest husband in the world. And he's extremely petty and thin-skinned.

He's turning on his most loyal supporters because they don't support this war and getting in bed with people who f*cking hate him, and have hated him from the beginning, and were the original Never-Trumpers."