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[Svm @samvelavdet]

@CredibleCrypto Absolutely, Cred! I’d subscribed.

[Svm @samvelavdet]

Hey Cred,
Do we really need to wait for a test on the spot pair?

It’s already been tested twice on the perps, and the chart is looking pretty decent for continuation now.

Impulsive breakout of the downtrend on strong volume + a clean bull flag forming.

What do you think?

Thank you for sharing your work — always a pleasure learning from you.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

I did a 40 hr and then a 70 hr social media fast.
I’ve come to believe that social media is pollution. 

Not a vice or guilty pleasure.
It’s closer to water toxins, air pollution and microplastics.

Social media has been on my mind because I can feel how bad it is for me. For my health and agency. I am a professional rejuvenation athlete. For five years, I’ve engineered my life around biological renewal and the elimination of decay. After hundreds of experiments across food, sleep, exercise, therapies, and toxins, I’ve developed both data and intuition about what strengthens or degrades my system.

I can viscerally feel that social media is bad for me.  It erodes my autonomy and increases cognitive entropy.
Like other toxins, it accumulates. You can’t unsee or unfeel what you’ve consumed. It settles into mental tissue like heavy metals, producing chronic low-grade inflammation.  Evidence suggests even after you stop scrolling, attentional fragmentation and emotional priming persist. Your thoughts begin to mirror the algorithm’s incentives. Independent cognition quietly erodes and you don’t notice the loss.

Time away and getting lost in deep focus is the only remedy.

When something erodes your agency, the rational response is elimination. The problem is, elimination isn’t realistic. “Just put the phone down” is as practical as telling someone in 19th century London to stop breathing coal smoke.

You need to know what’s happening in the world, be in touch with your friends and be part of the tribe.

That necessity is what allows companies to harvest your emotions, intellect and time for their profit. You are their raw material they exploit. Then in an ironic twist, the system gets you to exploit yourself by engineering an environment where it takes more effort to stop than to continue scrolling.  Pollution exposure by default.

What specifically makes social media toxic is that value and poison are inseparable by design.  You go to hear from friends and you leave an hour later absorbed in outrage that serves no biological interest of yours. The water is real. The lead is in the pipes.

The performance metrics (likes, views, etc.) bleed you of independent thought. They create quantified social proof, triggering ancient hierarchy reflexes. You no longer evaluate signal from noise; the engagement metrics do it for you.

Like all toxins, the damage is cumulative. We live inside the exposure long enough that it feels normal.  The 40 and 70 hour social media fasts did that for me. Gave me just enough separation to feel and diagnose the poison. The obviousness of it feels like when I went to India and saw their humanitarian crisis of air pollution which no one sees anymore.

So what do we do?

Neither platforms nor individuals are likely to change on their own. AI may be the countermeasure. An AI layer between you and the feed. Filtering rage, removing vanity metrics and translating sensationalism into calm, factual language. Preserving signal and eliminating noise.

I want social media to become a longevity intervention, not a longevity threat. I never want to see the raw feed. I want an AI agent to read it for me, strip the engagement metrics that hijack my judgment, filter the rage, and return only what I actually came for.

Every generation faces its pollutants. When cholera spread through London's water, the answer wasn't telling people to drink less. It was building filtration. The same logic applies here. Best next move is to design the filter to avoid being the raw material.

[Svm @samvelavdet]

@SuperBitcoinBro Clean liquidity sweep followed by a reintegration of the HTF range, which makes it more likely to hold.
Next : Clear the liquidity under the the bull flag before another leg up?
Looking very good on LTF.

[Svm @samvelavdet]

@DunbarsCritic @sprott And the spread is digusting. Couldn't even buy at the real price during this dip.

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"The measure of wealth is freedom.
The measure of health is lightness.
The measure of intellect is judgment.
The measure of wisdom is silence.
The measure of love is peace."

@naval

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

Fast, lift, sprint, stretch, and meditate.

Build, sell, write, create, invest, and own.

Read, reflect, love, seek truth, and ignore society.

Make these habits. Say no to ETH else.

Avoid debt, jail, addiction, disgrace, shortcuts, and media.

Relax.
Victory is assured.
@naval

[Axel (fastr) @fastrlife]

The Sun is 400x larger than the Moon + 400x further away (same size).

Your brain has 100 trillion synapses.

If the cosmological constant was altered by 1 part in 10⁵⁰ (1 with 50 zeros) no atoms could form.

DNA copies with an error rate of 1 in a billion.

Water expands when it freezes (no other major molecule does that), if ice didn’t float, all ecosystems would die.

Electrons and protons have a perfectly balanced charge;

If they differed by even 1 in 10³⁷, matter would either explode or collapse instantly.

Maxwells equations, Euler’s identity, and the standard model (math that explains the universe) is aesthetic;

Symmetrical, elegant, and shockingly minimal (planets orbit in a perfect mathematical ellipsis).

Hemoglobin binds oxygen just enough to hold it, and just weakly enough to release it, if either was off by 0.0000007, humans would suffocate instantly.

Earths tilt is 23.5 degrees (any different and life on earth would be unsustainable).

Still, no one can explain why consciousness exists. The fact that atoms (lifeless particles) somehow generate a subjective “observer perspective” defies all known physics.

Matter woke up.

The probability of consciousness arising from pure randomness is mathematically undefined (impossible).

After reading all of this;

You get one conclusion…

The universe isn’t random;

Its engineered…

Acknowledge God today and give thanks.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This is the coldest life advice you’ll hear

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Everyone needs to hear this…

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

THIS:

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone."

@naval

[Naval @naval]

Stay healthy, get wealthy, seek truth, give love, and create beauty.

[Carnivore Aurelius ©🥩 ☀️🦙 @AlpacaAurelius]

no matter what AI and virtual reality creates, it will never top Italy

[Alex Becker 🍊🏆🥇 @ZssBecker]

If you’re in your 20s, someday you’ll be 37 like me. So read this.

I just turned 37. In my twenties, I thought my life would be over at this point lol.

Ironically, I’m in the best shape, mental state, wealthier than I could of ever imagined, healthiest, and imo most attractive I’ve ever been in my life (before you roll your eyes, I was gross in my 20s… not hard lol).

I literally have everything I ever wanted. Including a wonderful wife.

But only because I sacrificed.

No one I know personally growing up went to the extremes I did to learn about health, self-development, social skills (which I had zero of). No one tried as hard or as long as me to get rich.

I’m not saying look at me, I’m special.

I’m saying I sacrificed a lot, took a lot of risk, and was very uncomfortable all the time.

And what I’m trying to convey to you is that the sacrifices you’re taking or considering taking are 500x worth it. You should sacrifice more actually, and do it with glee.

Go live in a $500-a-month apartment in Thailand and burn everything at the altar of your character arc.

I literally wish I had just done that at 20, trained Muay Thai and BJJ, and built harder. Big life regrets.

Anyways.

People (losers) will tell you you’re being crazy and missing out. Stop being money-focused. Stop trying, being so vain. Live a little.

They are wrong. Really fucking wrong. So unbelievably wrong that I would literally jump off a bridge if I had to switch lives with them and suffer the consequences of their life of no sacrifice.

You are missing zero. You will regret zero. Proudly go psycho monk mode and become as great as you can be.

You won’t regret missing getting drunk at the same bar 500 times with people you don’t even talk to at 40. You won’t regret missing the pointless dating. You won’t regret taking risk and failing.

You will deeeeeply regret at my age not sacrificing. You will start to see the decade of choices deeply and permanently in your and other men’s—you knows—lives.

And you will see this post is the truth.

After your twenties, the lifestyle, women, and all that shit you want will figure itself out and just come to you.

Hell, it’ll probably come to you in your early 20s and try to distract you because you’re building up so much power.

Keep sacrificing. It’s all completely worth it, and you’ll realize it’s actually the most fun part.

I work and sacrifice more now than I ever did… because it’s awesome pursuing the best possible potential for yourself personally.

Anyways, eat the shit. Skip everything. Picture your perfect character arc and light everything else on fire to get it.

And when you are at an age in the future that seems terrifying now, you will actually be enjoying the best times of your life.

Move fast, young man. You will be an old man who’s about to become an even older man soon.

[Svm @samvelavdet]

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[@levelsio @levelsio]

Ask ChatGPT:

If you were the devil and wanted to keep an entire nation sick, what would you do?

[Naval @naval]

It’s the mark of a midwit to confuse education with intelligence.

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

Tom Cruise was right.

This interview was on June 24th, 2005.

Sometimes it takes 20 years for your argument to be proven right.