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[ojsats⚡️ @ojsats]

@BenBankas That set up for the dragon ball punchline was elite

[Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday]

🚨: Whenever you feel sad, remember that there are tiny kinesin proteins doing their best to make you happy.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 California Passed "The Stop Nick Shirley Act":
This week the California Assembly passed AB 2624. This bill will criminalize investigative journalism involving the immigrant population. It would have made it illegal to expose the Somali "Learing" center if it were in California or the Armenian hospice fraud in LA if they claimed "reasonable fear."

The bill protects "immigration support services providers," which means services provided to immigrants, including health care. It has been proven that millions, potentially billions, of dollars in fraud has taken place in "immigrant support services” which includes nonprofits and NGOs the state funds.

California is trying to make it harder to expose fraud and scare individuals from investigating it as they could be forced and sued to remove the video, forced to pay attorney fees, and ordered to pay a minimum of $4,000 in damages.

This bill was created by Mia Bonta (the attorney general's wife). She has made 4 separate versions of this bill because each version violates the 1st Amendment and is extremely unconstitutional.

Plain and simple, California politicians need the fraud to continue because they depend on the fraud to push their agendas. END ALL THE FRAUD.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Chicago philosopher wrote one book in 1940 proving that 95% of the books you have read in your life, you didn't actually read, and Charlie Munger has been telling people to read it for 50 years.

His name was Mortimer Adler.

He spent 40 years at the University of Chicago, ran the editorial board of the Encyclopædia Britannica, and built his entire career on one uncomfortable observation about the people around him.

Most adults who called themselves well-read had not actually read a book in the real sense even once. They had run their eyes over the pages, registered the words, formed a vague impression, and put it back on the shelf.

The book had passed through them without ever entering them.

In 1940 he wrote How to Read a Book. It has stayed in print for 86 years.

Charlie Munger recommends it. Naval Ravikant recommends it. Fareed Zakaria recommends it.

Every serious thinker who builds a career on absorbing information eventually finds their way to this book, and the reason is that Adler had isolated something nobody else was naming clearly.

There are four levels of reading. Almost everyone is stuck on the second one. The fourth level is so different from what most people call reading that you have probably never done it in your entire life.

Level one is elementary.

You learn it as a child. You decode the letters into words and the words into sentences. You finish the sentence and understand roughly what it said. This is reading the way a 7-year-old reads, and almost every adult on earth has stopped developing past this point in some quiet way.

Level two is inspectional.

This is skimming. You move through a book quickly to figure out what it is broadly about. You read the back cover, scan the table of contents, glance at a few paragraphs, and form an opinion. Most adults who claim to have read 50 books a year are actually doing this. They are inspecting books, not reading them. They walk away with a vague sense of the argument and almost none of the evidence that supports it.

Level three is analytical.

This is the level Adler said most people have never properly experienced. You take one book and you wrestle with it for as long as it takes. You identify the question the author is trying to answer. You map their argument from front to back. You write your disagreements in the margins. You force yourself to articulate, in your own words, what the author is claiming and why. The point is not to finish the book. The point is to argue with it as if the author were sitting across the table from you. Most people never do this once in their life, because it is exhausting and slow and feels nothing like the reading they were taught as children.

Level four is the one almost nobody knows exists. Adler called it syntopical reading. The word means "across topics," and the technique is something closer to running a small private research lab in your own head.

You pick a single question that actually matters to you. How does power corrupt people. Why do civilizations collapse. What makes a marriage last. How does a person change their own mind. Then you assemble five or ten or twenty books from different authors, different centuries, different traditions, all of them taking a swing at the same question.

You do not read any of them cover to cover. You move between them. You find the chapter in book three that addresses the same question as the chapter in book seven. You force those two authors to argue with each other inside your own head.

The book stops being the unit of reading. The question becomes the unit. And the authors become voices in a conversation you are now hosting.

This is the level where reading stops being consumption and starts being construction.

You are no longer absorbing what someone else thinks. You are building a position of your own out of the friction between people who disagreed.

Adler argued that this is the only level of reading where you stop being a passive receiver of other people's ideas and start being someone who can produce ideas of their own.

The reason Charlie Munger has been recommending this book for 50 years is that this is exactly how Munger has always thought. He calls it building a latticework of mental models. The technique he is describing is just syntopical reading applied for a lifetime.

You take the strongest insight from psychology, the strongest insight from biology, the strongest insight from economics, and you stack them against the same problem until something new falls out the bottom.

The reason most people never reach level four is not that it is intellectually difficult. It is that it is logistically uncomfortable. It requires you to keep multiple books open at once.

It requires you to take notes that nobody is going to grade. It requires you to abandon the goal of finishing books and replace it with the goal of answering questions.

This is also why AI just changed everything Adler was teaching.

NotebookLM, Claude, and tools like them let you do syntopical reading at a speed that would have looked like magic to a Chicago philosopher in 1940.

You upload 10 books on the same question. You ask the AI to surface every place those authors agree and every place they contradict each other.

The technique Adler said almost nobody on earth had reached can now be run on a Sunday afternoon by anyone with a laptop and one good question.

The technique was always the unlock. The bottleneck used to be time. The bottleneck is now curiosity.

Most people will keep reading the way they always have. A book at a time. Eyes over the pages. No question driving it. No other authors in the room. Adler called that level two for a reason.

You are not behind on your reading list.

You are behind on the level you are reading at.

[Make L.A. Great Again 🇺🇸 @lalovestrump]

Man posts video explaining why he is voting for Spencer Pratt

Shows a huge encampment that takes up the whole freeway underpass

“Karen Bass knows this is here .. she doesn’t care!”

Vote Pratt .. let’s end this insanity

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

BUSTED on camera: Karen Bass and Nithya Raman spend millions of your tax dollars on these NGOs to hand out fentanyl needles, crack pipes, and DRUGS to addicts on your streets, to keep them high and homeless so they can profit off everyone's misery. VOTE NOW!!!

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

What do Scott Wiener and homeless drug addict encampments have in common?

They should both be prohibited from being within 1,000 feet of elementary schools. Right, Nithya?

[ojsats⚡️ @ojsats]

@DanSteele268155 @ViralVideos This is the dumbest thing I’ve read in a long while

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

WOW 🚨 Data shows that Gavin Newsom awarded $1 BILLION in contracts and grants to nonprofits involved importing illegals into America and provide them services

“These NGOs actually helped migrants cross the border”

Newsom literally gave our tax money away to import illegals

“These NGOs did everything. It was the kind of soup-to-nuts service for illegals, bringing them over the border.

One of these NGOs actually helped migrants cross the border. They set up shop in Tijuana. They provided services along the migration route. They had food, water, supplies, legal representation, and they actually physically brought people across the border. Once they got across the border, they were provided with a lawyer that was funded by taxpayers and other services”

I looked more into this and they did a lot more than that

Gavin Newsom awarded

- Over $250 million to Catholic Charities
- H85 million to Jewish Family Services
- Millions more to groups like Centro Legal de la Raza, Immigration Institute of the Bay Area and other

Several funded NGOs operate in Tijuana and along the US Mexico border

We also were forced to pay for HIV services for illegals

The investigation found ‘Oasis Legal Services’ received California state funding. Their reports showed a significant portion of clients, 1 in 5, are living with HIV. The group focuses on immigration justice for LGBTQ+ migrants and those with HIV

Lock up Gavin Newsom. He literally paid for illegal invaders to be trafficked here

[Natalie Brunell ⚡️ @natbrunell]

Did someone just publish the U.S. Constitution on the Bitcoin network? 👀 https://t.co/srggXnxp4E

[Jonathan Slater @slater57649]

She had no idea.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

When I was in my 20’s I was on a TV show. When Karen Bass was in her 20’s, she was training in terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare with communists in Cuba. Back when the LA Times was still in LA, and used to tell the truth…

[ojsats⚡️ @ojsats]

@tomselliott So is he taxing his wife and himself since she stole money through her nonprofit??!!