Jordan Rapp ★

Racing’s important to men who do it well. When you’re racing, it’s life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting. | Systems Engineer @PlayApex

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@vankayak *YOU* got this Adam! We're rooting for you.

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@SenAlexPadilla Thank you to the staff at your office. They were very gracious on the phone these past days taking messages and relaying your stances. Thanks to you and to @AdamSchiff for demonstrating true leadership.

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@NiceWigg https://t.co/Co4pqIsDkl TIL...

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@CalltoActivism Best Tuberville takedown ever. Yes, he is that stupid. https://t.co/pEwgTvKsdy

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#50501

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

Traitor?

Elon, if you don’t understand that defending freedom is a basic tenet of what makes America great and keeps us safe, maybe you should leave it to those of us who do.

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@Doc4Heart @VPrasadMDMPH No. But I follow Dr. Prasad not because I agree with him on much (if anything), but because of people like you and Dr. Storey who speak up in response so that people like me might discover and learn as a result. So you impacted me. And I thank you for it.

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@Doc4Heart @VPrasadMDMPH Thank you for sharing that @Doc4Heart. Dr. Storey's letter was excellent.

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@JoJoFromJerz Not with geniuses from MIT. With LLMs coded by geniuses from MIT. AI-ification of everything. "Grok, am I clear to land? Which runway?" I wish I was being sarcastic. But these morons really do believe AGI is gonna replace all these "median humans" doing jobs like being an ATC.

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@CalltoActivism Did you post the wrong clip or did X edit the clip you posted? Because be that as it may, it's not in *this* particular clip.

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@Acyn We have tall white men and short ones too! And fat white men and skinny ones! Men with beards and without! Bald men and men with luscious locks! Young men and old - very old - men! Smart men and stupid men! We are the most diverse group of white men ever assembled!

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@atrupar Also, I'm confused, are we sending it back to the states the same way we sent back abortion rights back to the states? Or in a new and different way? https://t.co/GaLHcI4SD6

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Huge @HazelightGames fans in the Rapp household. Kids can't wait to play this. Lost track of how many times we have played It Takes Two.

[Kotaku @Kotaku]

Split Fiction Is Out Now, Here's Why You'll Want To Get Distracted By It https://t.co/u0oA8qZEfG

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@RKRigney my kids are well into the double digits on number of replays of It Takes Two. Toss up between that and Unraveled: Two as the favorite game in our house.

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It's pretty wild to reread the Declaration of Independence in the time of PINO Trump & Acting-President Musk. https://t.co/uizeVLBm7a

Like, the list of grievances against the king that led to the revolution is basically a bullet list of things Trump/Musk/DOGE/P2025 is doing now

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So much in here of value from @stevemagness. For more on the why of how we got here, I think "Alone Together" by Sherry Turkle gets to a lot of the root. But worth noting that "social" media drives a lot of this, maybe *most* of it.

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

If you are wondering why so many people have lost their minds?

Identity Fusion: It's when our individual self gets subsumed by our group identity.

We hand over our thinking to the group.

Your tribe does more to determine your morality than your morality does to determine your tribe.

Researchers found that our political affiliation predicts our moral beliefs. Politics shape "how individuals rationalize what is right and what is wrong." The researchers summarized their findings: "We will switch our moral compass depending on how it fits with what we believe politically."

Sound familiar? People changing their views to go wherever the group goes...

What makes someone susceptible to identity fusion?
-Low self-esteem
-Low cognitive complexity
-Higher levels of loneliness
-Someone has a very rigid view of the world.

Research tells us that we often grasp onto groups to fill a void.

We feel lonely, isolated, without significance, direction or meaning... and we fill that void with something that promises security. But it's the fake, cheap superficial kind.

We latch onto groups, become ideologues because it makes us FEEL something again...in a world that increasingly numbs us.

We feel alive....like we're a part of something...like we are doing something meaningful when we defend our group or leader on the internet... Even though we're just screaming at clouds or into a void.

In a world where we've increasingly made people feel numb, alone, and hopeless...identity fusion is rampant.

It's the cheap solution to a more complex problem.

When there's near-complete overlap between our self and group identity, we look for where the group goes to understand the appropriate belief or action. Our brain, the expert rationalizer, then convinces us that it's our individual belief or idea after the fact. It's the shortcut to a false sense of stability. Our groups tell us what matters, what to be concerned with, and what to value. It's how gangs thrive.

In communities where chaos is high and socioeconomic status and opportunities are low, gangs step in to fill the void. In a review on the subject, law professor James Hardie-Hick suggested that "gangs can serve to reduce the existential uncertainties that accompany social exclusion and marginalization.”

Gangs provide a stable identity and form of social status when many in the community are without either. For the rest of us, the entanglement with others is just as powerful. We see the same effect with online “gangs.

As psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman pointed out, “Some fans (reach) such an attachment to a celebrity that the celebrity can never do any wrong and even the most hateful things are justified, excused, and even adored…with individual relationships we call this toxic.”

So if you're looking around and thinking that regardless of the political aisle, it seems like the extremes on any side all end up abandoning their actual professed values and adopt some strange dogmatic approach where they echo and validate whatever the group now says...

This is why. We need to stop fusing our identities with groups or leaders.

You can like or love something, but be careful what you marry.

We've settled for fitting-in, instead of genuine belonging.

I go deeper into this in Chapter 8 of Win the Inside Game: Find Belonging Without Fusing. Check out the book: https://t.co/0Inu3O4Kxe

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@BStulberg

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Just read it. https://t.co/dwUn8ZRRJM

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if you read one thing today, read this - https://t.co/Qf85AyuQuw