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[Rock History Live! @KTrain939913]

Today in Rock History

June 6, 1960
Steve Vai is born in Carle Place, Long Island, New York.
He is a virtuoso guitarist known for his technical skill and innovative style. He’s collaborated with Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth, and led a successful solo career. Vai studied guitar under Joe Satriani as a teenager and joined Frank Zappa’s band in 1980 at age 20. He went on to play with David Lee Roth on the albums Eat ‘Em and Smile and Skyscraper.

[Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives @dom_lucre]

🔥🚨BREAKING: A new Bible analysis has uncovered thousands of clues that suggest scripture was written by God. A vast network of more than 63,000 connections woven throughout the Bible is drawing renewed attention from believers, with some arguing the intricate links point to divine authorship.

The connections, identified by a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and a Lutheran pastor in Germany, stretch across all 66 books of scripture, linking people, events and themes scattered throughout the Old and New Testaments.

Thousands of curved lines stretch between books to link related passages, with darker lines highlighting verses that share the greatest number of connections. The arcs form a rainbow-like pattern that visually reveals how extensively the Bible is woven together from beginning to end.
One example ties Genesis 2:9, which describes the Tree of Life in Eden, to Revelation 22:2, where the symbol reappears in the Bible's final vision of paradise. 

Another connects Exodus 12, describing the Passover lamb, to John 1:29, where Jesus is referred to as the 'Lamb of God.' 
Prophetic passages in Isaiah 7:14 are also linked to Matthew 1:23, which connects the verse to the birth of Jesus centuries later. 
The network spans books believed to have been written by more than 40 authors over roughly 1,500 years. It also bridges three continents, Asia, Africa and Europe, and three languages, Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek.

[KAT @reallKAT]

“Can you prove the resurrection of Jesus scientifically?”

Mehn I’m saving this response 🔥🫶

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

A Disney artist demonstrates how animations were once created entirely by hand.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Why didn’t we learn this in school

[📹 rosewaldrup98]
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[Alex Groberman @alexgroberman]

Stephen Colbert just got hired to write the next Lord of the Rings movie.

He is not a screenwriter, just a late-night host who used to be funny.

Here's the real reason why Colbert got this job:

He has been the most publicly recognized Tolkien authority in the world for over two decades. He reads and speaks Elvish. He has referenced Tolkien lore on his shows hundreds of times. He moderated a Hobbit panel at Comic-Con in full costume. Peter Jackson gave him a cameo in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, a cameo his wife and sons appeared in too.

And when Jackson put Colbert head-to-head against Philippa Boyens, the franchise's own resident Tolkien expert, in a trivia contest on set, Colbert won.

Jackson literally said it himself: "I have never met a bigger Tolkien geek in my life."

So basically Colbert has two decades of genuine authority, built publicly, recognized by the people who control the biggest fantasy franchise in film history. A franchise that has grossed nearly $6 billion at the box office across six films.

And it matters right now because of what happened when someone tried to do Lord of the Rings without that authority.

Amazon spent over $1 billion producing two seasons of The Rings of Power. Another $250 million just for the rights. Biggest budget in television history. The production quality was undeniable. But the audience response was polarized. The most common criticism: it felt like it was made by people who had the budget but not the depth. Beautiful to look at, but missing the thing that made the original films resonate.

Now the next major LOTR film is being co-written by a talk show host whose only qualification is that his authority on the source material is deeper than anyone else's in the room.

Now here's why this story stuck out to me.

This is exactly how AI decides which businesses to cite.

(If you want to see where your site stands across Google and AI search, start here: https://t.co/Pn764BHwyL)

When ChatGPT answers a question, it does not cite the source with the biggest ad budget. It does not cite the source with the most followers or the slickest website. It cites the most authoritative, most structured, most genuinely useful content it can find.

When Google's AI Overview selects a page to reference, it selects based on content depth, trust signals and extractability. When Perplexity assembles an answer, it pulls from the sources that actually answer the question best.

No ad budget influences that. No social following affects it. No campaign calendar determines the outcome. The channel itself selects for the best answer.

Most businesses are doing the Rings of Power version of marketing. Massive budgets poured into paid ads, social media, email campaigns, influencer deals, PR placements. The production quality is fine. The spend is real. But the authority is not there. And the audience, whether it is a human searching Google or an AI assembling a recommendation, can tell the difference.

The businesses that AI cites and recommends are the Colbert in this story. They built genuine authority over years. Content that actually answers the question better than anything else in the category. Backlinks from trusted sources that signal real expertise. Structure that AI systems can read, parse and confidently cite to a user.

You cannot buy that with ad spend, the same way Amazon could not buy authentic Tolkien authority with $1 billion.

That is the gap SEO Stuff was built to close.

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Stephen Colbert spent two decades building the deepest public expertise on Tolkien that anyone in entertainment has ever seen. He did not do it for a job. He did it because the subject genuinely mattered to him. And when the biggest franchise in fantasy needed someone to co-write its next chapter, the authority he built is what got him chosen.

The question is whether your business has built the kind of authority that gets it chosen when AI is deciding who to recommend.

[Disney Dreamlight Valley @DisneyDLV]

Rebuild the ranch of your dreams, forge bonds with your horses, and befriend new Villagers as you saddle up for a new Disney adventure!

Tune-in for the full reveal on October 15!

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

One of Einstein’s students asked him: “What does logic mean?”

Einstein said: “I will answer you with a question.”

“Suppose two workers enter a chimney to clean it. One comes out with a dirty face and the other with a clean face. Who will go wash their face?”

The student immediately and without hesitation replied, “Of course, the one with the dirty face.”

Einstein said: “Your answer is incorrect. The one who will wash their face is the one with the clean face, because he looked at his colleague’s face and assumed that his own face was as dirty as his colleague’s. The one with the dirty face will not wash his face, thinking it is clean like his colleague’s.”

The student said: “That is correct and logical.”

Einstein replied: “No, it is not correct, because the question itself is illogical. It is not logical for two men to enter the same chimney at the same time and for one to come out clean and the other dirty.”

In a few words, logic itself can collapse, so sometimes the problem is not in the answer but in the flawed question itself.

- @GlobalIJournal

[O’Shea Jackson Jr @OsheaJacksonJr]

In 40 years, it had never rained during the Super Bowl. On the day of 41st the heavens opened up and poured down hard.

Because everything on the stage were live instruments and the stage floor was slick with water for he and his dancers, they asked Prince what did he want to do about the performance.

Prince replied, “can you make it rain harder?”

Long live Prince. The greatest halftime performance in Super Bowl history.

[Emir Han @RealEmirHan]

Heath Ledger never publicly named a specific real life person for his Joker inspiration in The Dark Knight.

But the most convincing theory points to Tom Waits.

His gravelly voice, strange cadence, restless mannerisms, and chaotic presence feel very close

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

🤣🤣

[WeedleTwineedle @WeedleTwineedle]

I found it

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

She's a psychologist & it took her 10 years to learn this ‼️‼️

[Interesting AF @interesting_aIl]

I’ve never seen as much body control as this

[Black Edge @BlackEdgeFund]

This quote will change your life:

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

The problem with our thoughts is that they’re often wrong—sometimes preposterously so. Epictetus said we had to put our impressions to the test, to really look at them, so they don't lead us astray or into embarrassment.

[NFL @NFL]

This overhead angle @Bijan5Robinson's one-handed catch and touchdown is WILD.

(via @AtlantaFalcons)

[MrBeast @MrBeast]

I messed up.. I bought a random grocery store and told a random person I’d give him $10,000 everyday he lives in it and it’s been weeks and he shows no signs of ever leaving. I’m gonna go broke 😭

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

"Our life is what our thoughts make it." — Marcus Aurelius