Arturo Setim

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[goma @soigomaa]

There was a recent study where they took the smartphone capacity away from adults for four weeks and so they still had their flip phone they could text and call but they couldn’t get online. They couldn’t be on social media. And what they found is that after four weeks of being away from a smart phone the happiness scores went up as if they had treated these people with an antidepressant and when they looked at these individuals and spoke with them they found that these people were getting better sleep because they weren’t under screens at night so that’s a point of joy that is measured in the research they were actually socialising more another point of joy they were spending time in nature another point of joy eating their food and tasting it not like just staring at a screen and shoving it in their mouth so they were losing all of these natural points of joy just by being on their screen

[Arturo Setim @setim_arturo]

@Israel 😆

[Arturo Setim @setim_arturo]

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[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

If you are truly ruthless, people won't attempt to play the victim with you, because they know it won't work with you - they know trying to morally shame you, appeal to your generosity or otherwise tug on your heartstrings will not get you to give them what they want, so don't bother coming at you in that way.

So if someone keeps trying to guilt you into helping them by victimising themselves, what can you infer? They don't actually believe you're a bad person, because they believe you're receptive to pity and shame, and that these emotional levers can be used to direct your behaviour towards their desired goals.

Nobody believes a "bad person" will be overcome by guilt if only you morally lecture them, and position yourself as the especially aggrieved due moral restitution. Nobody believes the wicked will act kindly if only you make them aware of how they harmed you. Literally no one at all. You run to your mother (or a caring or protective figure) with stories about how you've been hurt and wronged, not a conqueror or an enemy - the enemy does not care for your lecturing about their moral conduct, because they do not care about you, your condition or your opinions.

So if someone is trying to appeal to your kindness by telling you a sob story, or uncharitably reframing your past actions without the proper context and balance to make you believe you're a bad person or that you owe them something, it means deep down they think you're a good person who can be manipulated into helping them, *even if* on the surface level they're telling you you're a bad person that owes them. Because again, if they did not believe you had a strong moral conscience that would compel you towards rightful action, they would not be wasting their time trying to exploit that very mechanism to extract concessions from you.

When a less ruthless and more vulnerable looking man goes to jail and he gets bullied and accused of some random bullshit, let's say because of the tone he spoke in or the way he looked at someone or any other jumped up grievance, do you think they press him and try to make him feel guilty because they think he's a truly bad person who has a wrong to right, or because they think he is prey they can gaslight, bully and pick on with false moral claims into serving them?

This same dynamic applies throughout society, albeit in a slightly different form.

Bad people tell good people they're bad people all the time, so good people will give them things they otherwise would not, and do things for them that they should not.

This is why you must stand up to bullies pretending to be victims. Being a good person is not something you have to convince others of, but yourself and God. If you know you act with integrity and some cry-bully claims you haven't, you recognise them for the predator that they are and punish them. Let them know their manipulations have no moral currency with you, and you will cause them pain and humiliation if they keep pressing you - and they will stop - fast.

[Joseph Tsar @joseph_tsar_]

Full Course on How To Be Articulate (by Joseph Tsar)

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

HOW TO RAISE SIBLINGS WHO ACTUALLY LIKE EACH OTHER.

By age, from a mother who grew up in a rivalry and refused to host one:

1. Ages 3 to 6:

[Carolyn Rockey @CarolynWRockey]

Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

-Wilderness Whisper

[Arturo Setim @setim_arturo]

@benshapiro Jus say you want Marco to run

[Arturo Setim @setim_arturo]

Bingo!

[Guillo @codiguillos]

@nayibbukele @gerardbey En ninguno de esos países el presidente o primer ministro tiene control total sobre todos los poderes públicos. No hay comparación entre un sistema presidencialista con uno parlamentario.

[Arturo Setim @setim_arturo]

@nayibbukele Suena mal xq usted fue el que cambió la constitucion de su pais para seguir en el poder, agradecemos su trabajo en temas de seguridad pero democrata no lo es!

[Arturo Setim @setim_arturo]

Brilliant.

[Lionel Mora @lionel_mora]

Following the amazing reaction to the Marble Curriculum yesterday, we've decided to make it open source 🛰️👇

Everything a child learns in primary school. 1,590 concepts. 3,221 connections across 8 subjects, from Math and Science to Computing and Life Skills. Anchored in the US and UK curriculums, standard by standard (NGSS, Common Core, DfE).

What you will find in the repo: every concept as structured JSON with its age band and the evidence a child must show to master it. Every prerequisite link marked hard or soft, with a written rationale. It's a true DAG you can compute learning paths on. Open license, you can build whatever you want with it.

Now is a unique time in history to be building in education. Getting AI and kids education right is likely one of the hardest and most important problems to crack over the next decade and we need as many smart and creative minds behind it.

We think a common solid basis, accessible to all and that can be built upon, is critical to move fast. That's why we're making this curriculum open source.

It's not perfect but we know it's a robust basis, and we believe that sharing it openly is the fastest way to progress in this field. If you're building in education, share this around you and tell us in comments if you find this useful and if you want to contribute.

We'll keep working and investing on it @withmarbleapp. Credit goes to @guillaume_boni for building this. I just made it look pretty.

Links below 👇

[Arturo Setim @setim_arturo]

@Osint613 Thank you. Hopefully we can see the embassy open again in Caracas.

[Arturo Setim @setim_arturo]

Well said!

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

To the Americans:

I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.

And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:

You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.

This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.

Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.

This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.

But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.

This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.

And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:

Thank God for the United States.

Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.

Long may your admirable country dominate the world.

Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.

May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.

Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.

Thank God for the USA.

Happy 250th.

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

For 250 years, America has been the greatest nation on Earth — and with God’s grace, it will be for 250 more.

Happy Independence Day!

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

John Adams, writing to Abigail, about the Continental Congress' vote in favor of independence on July 2, 1776:

"The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. -- I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. -- Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not."

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Bill Ackman literally gave a 44-minute masterclass that explains money better than any business school.

1. Starting early is the single biggest advantage you have. If you save $10,000 at age 22, never add another penny, and earn 10% a year, you have $600,000 by retirement. wait until 32 to start, and the same money only grows to $232,000. The decade you lose at the beginning costs you more than any decade later because compounding does its heaviest lifting at the end.

2. The return rate matters even more than most people grasp. That same $10,000 at 22 earning 10% becomes $600,000. At 15% it becomes over 4 million. At 20%, the rate Warren Buffett has achieved, it becomes 25 million. Einstein called compound interest the most powerful force in the universe. Ackman's lecture is essentially a demonstration of why.

3. Avoiding losses matters as much as chasing returns. if you reach for a 20% return but lose half your money every 12 years from bad decisions or a rough patch, your 25 million collapses to 1.8 million. Buffett's rule one is never lose money. Rule two is never forget rule one. the math of recovery is brutal, so protecting the downside is not caution, it is strategy.

4. Debt is safer, but the upside is capped. Equity is riskier, but the upside is unlimited. In the lemonade stand example, the lender who put up $250 earns a steady 10% and gets paid back first if the business fails. the equity investor who put up $500 earns over 100% if it succeeds but gets wiped out if it fails. The equity holder earns more precisely because they took the risk the lender refused.

5. The risk that matters is permanent loss, not price movement. most people think risk is the stock price bouncing up and down every day. Ackman says ignore that. the real risk is whether you will permanently lose your money. Short-term volatility is noise. the question that matters is whether you get your capital back with a return over the long run.

6. Avoid startups and complicated businesses. You do not need 100% a year to build a fortune. you need 10 to 15% over a long period. so skip the lemonade stands and unknown ventures. Invest in public companies that are established, liquid, and have to clear real hurdles before going public. If you cannot understand how a business makes money, avoid it no matter how good its track record. Ackman cites Enron, a business almost nobody actually understood.

7. Invest in a business you could own forever. if the stock market closed for 10 years, you should not be unhappy holding it. Coca-Cola is his example. easy to understand, sells a syrup and earns a profit on every drink, the population keeps growing, and it is nearly impossible to disrupt with new technology. McDonald's is another. People have to eat, the food is cheap, and they keep growing. find a business you would be comfortable holding through anything.

8. You want products people are loyal to and will pay a premium for. People buy generic flour and sugar without caring about the brand. but they want the Hershey bar, the Cadbury bar, the see's candy specifically. you do not want to sell a commodity that anyone can sell cheaper. You want something unique that customers refuse to substitute even at a 20% discount.

9. Low debt is a safety feature. In the lemonade stand example, $250 of debt was manageable. But if it had been $1,000 and the business hit a rough patch, it could have gone under and wiped out the shareholders. Find companies with little debt or so much profit relative to their interest payments that a bad year cannot sink them.

10. Barriers to entry protect your returns. You want a business that is hard for someone to compete with tomorrow. Coca-Cola's market presence is so strong that you expect to get a Coke at any restaurant. Pepsi has coexisted with it for decades, but neither can put the other out of business. If a competitor can show up next year with a better version and steal the customers, the business is not worth owning long term.

11. The best businesses are immune to outside factors you cannot control. Coca-Cola has survived 120 years through world wars, nuclear weapons, and every kind of crisis, and each year it makes slightly more money. You want companies that do not depend on commodity prices, interest rates, or currency moves. A business that keeps earning regardless of what is happening in the world is the kind you hold forever.

12. Low capital intensity is one of the most underrated qualities. The worst businesses require massive reinvestment to grow. The auto industry has to build enormous factories and buy machine tools before selling a single car, and those tools wear out. GM's stock barely moved over 40 to 50 years for exactly this reason. Coca-Cola, by contrast, sells a formula and collects a royalty. American Express takes a few percent of every dollar spent on its card. a business that earns a royalty on other people's capital is one of the best things you can own.

13. Pay down debt and build a cushion before you invest. If you have high-interest credit card debt, paying it off is a guaranteed return equal to the interest rate. same logic, to a lesser degree, with student loans at 6 or 7%. and you want 6 to 12 months of expenses in the bank so that losing your job tomorrow does not force you to sell. You can only handle market volatility if you do not need the money.

14. Be a buyer when everyone is selling and a seller when everyone is buying. The natural human tendency is the opposite, a lemming-like instinct to sell in a crash and buy in a bubble. people sold into the 1987 crash when they should have been buying. The only way to resist this is to be financially secure enough that the money at risk does not affect your life, so you can withstand the swings without panicking.

15. The stock market is a voting machine in the short term and a weighing machine in the long term. Ben Graham's idea, which Ackman repeats. short-term prices reflect the whims and emotions of investors. long term, prices reflect the actual value of the underlying businesses. If you buy good businesses at reasonable prices and hold them while they grow, you make money over time as long as you are never forced to sell at the wrong moment.

16. A stock is just a bond where you do not know the coupon. Flip a price-to-earnings ratio over, and you get an earnings yield. A stock at 10 times earnings is a 10% earnings yield, which you can compare directly to a 3% treasury. the difference is the bond's coupon is fixed and the stock's coupon, its earnings, moves up and down. Ackman wants an earnings yield higher than a treasury that will also grow over time, so he does not need to be right about explosive growth to earn a good return.

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

Thomas Paine publishes an open letter in the Pennsylvania Evening Post, under the name “Republicus,” which advocates for the name “United States of America” for the new nation now emerging.

This is the first time such a term has been used.

[The Moderate Case @TheModerateCase]

Venezuela's official earthquake death toll: 1,430.

Total missing is reported by some agencies at 69,000 people.

But the government says it's only hundreds that are missing.

[Arturo Setim @setim_arturo]

Marc 👏

[Marc Stogaitis @marcsto]

Overwhelmed by the kind notes about the Android earthquake alerts in Venezuela. Thank you! I’m passing your kind words along to the incredible team behind the scenes who build this system.

We're grateful it could provide some help. Thinking of everyone in Venezuela right now.

[Arturo Setim @setim_arturo]

@samuel_leo16 @ElGeorgeHarris @conlanoticia Bingo!