Sheila Brugger

Let us run with perseverance the race set out before us.

[Sheila Brugger @shebrug]

@braxton_mccoy @blakealbers Raise Chickens for eggs and let them forage ticks

[Blake Albers 🥩 @blakealbers]

With all the discussion around aborting children because of a diagnosis or prognosis, I want to share a story that hits close to home.

Around 20 weeks into a pregnancy, a family very close to Brittany and me was told by multiple physicians that their baby had virtually no chance of survival and that termination was the best option.

Wanting another opinion, Brittany reached out to a local OB-GYN. His response was simple: "I'm not so sure. Never underestimate the power of prayer."

So that's exactly what we did.

Today, that little boy is here. He's healthy, thriving, perfectly normal, and handsome to boot.

This story reminds me of two things: life is worth protecting, and even the most confident medical prognoses are not always correct. Sometimes there is more hope than we're told.

[Christian Horn @YNT_Christian]

After running on the winning 4x800 relay earlier in the afternoon, it's an individual state title for @BetkaKayleigh as she is golden for @mcjmustangs in the Class D 3200.

Betka takes the title in 11:37.26, with teammate Leah Dawson 4th in 11:56.94. @mccoolmustangxc #nebpreps

[Sheila Brugger @shebrug]

@MustangWoody @mccoolmustangxc

[Kevin Sjuts @kevinsjuts]

🏃‍♀️GOLDEN GIRLS🏃‍♀️

McCool Junction's 4x800 relay team cruises to a first-place finish at the NSAA State Track Meet! Kayliana Kitto, Leah Dawson, Claire Brugger, and Kayleigh Betka combine to win their race by 13 seconds.

@mcjmustangs @1011_News #nebpreps

[Sawyer @SawyerWhisler]

We have this idea that building something should feel exciting and energizing most of the time. It does not. The majority of the journey is just showing up on the days that feel completely flat and doing the work anyway.

Nobody posts about those days. But they are the ones that actually determine whether you get to the good ones. Today was one of the good ones for me, and I can tell you it only felt as good as it did because of how many boring days came before it.

The mundane is not the obstacle. It is the price of admission. Are you willing to pay it?

[Sheila Brugger @shebrug]

@trad_west_ Read his book Pizza Tiger. He learned success by fighting through failure. What a great testimony.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

He sold his Bugatti to build a Church (and a university, and a small town.)

Tom Monaghan founded Domino’s Pizza and became a billionaire. He bought yachts, private jets, and the Detroit Tigers.

Then he read C.S. Lewis and had a massive reversion to his Catholic faith. He took a "millionaire's vow of poverty," sold the Tigers, sold his fleet of classic cars (including a $8M Bugatti), and gave away his fortune.

He used the money to build a Catholic university (Ave Maria) and a massive Church in Florida.

He proved that you can serve God or Money, but not both. But he also proved money is not evil, and as any tool can be used for good in the right hands.

[lordmicky.base.eth 🇵🇹 @0xlordmicky]

When Allyson Felix became pregnant, Nike threatened to cut her sponsorship contract by almost 70% because of her pregnancy.

They told her:

“You should know your place… and just run.”

Amid all this, at seven months pregnant, Allyson had to undergo an emergency C-section due to a serious complication.

Her baby girl spent over a month in the neonatal intensive care unit.

But two years later, Allyson qualified for her fifth Olympic Games, with her daughter in the stands cheering her on.

Allyson left Nike.

And she founded her own shoe brand: Saysh One.

At the Tokyo Olympics, she ran wearing her own sneakers, carrying the motto:

“I know exactly where my place is.”

With 11 medals, she surpassed Carl Lewis and became the most decorated American track and field athlete in history.

And to all women, she gave this message:

“I raised my voice and built this company for you, so that you’ll never have to train at 4:30 in the morning, five months pregnant, just to hide it from your sponsor.” ❤️

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Father Chad Ripperger: "How is taxing a man more than what God wants not defrauding a worker of his wage?"

"Where did the goverment get the idea that it is entitled to more than 10%? God doesn't even want more than 10%. Where do they think they are better than God?

[A Paradise for Parents @HalCranmer]

Here's an interesting thought. When doctors see your LDL test come back high they want to put you on a statin.

About 2 years ago, my LDL was 120. Then about a year ago I did the same test but fasted for about 40 hours before the test. That test came back at 200.

If I can make the LDL number vary that much just by not eating for a day and a half, doesn't it seem weird that you are put on a drug for the rest of your life because of it? @Marion436842126

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: Apple just proved that AI models cannot do math. Not advanced math. Grade school math. The kind a 10-year-old solves.

And the way they proved it is devastating.

Apple researchers took the most popular math benchmark in AI — GSM8K, a set of grade-school math problems — and made one change. They swapped the numbers. Same problem. Same logic. Same steps. Different numbers.

Every model's performance dropped. Every single one. 25 state-of-the-art models tested.

But that wasn't the real experiment.

The real experiment broke everything.

They added one sentence to a math problem. One sentence that is completely irrelevant to the answer. It has nothing to do with the math. A human would read it and ignore it instantly.

Here's the actual example from the paper:

"Oliver picks 44 kiwis on Friday. Then he picks 58 kiwis on Saturday. On Sunday, he picks double the number of kiwis he did on Friday, but five of them were a bit smaller than average. How many kiwis does Oliver have?"

The correct answer is 190. The size of the kiwis has nothing to do with the count.

A 10-year-old would ignore "five of them were a bit smaller" because it's obviously irrelevant. It doesn't change how many kiwis there are.

But o1-mini, OpenAI's reasoning model, subtracted 5. It got 185.

Llama did the same thing. Subtracted 5. Got 185.

They didn't reason through the problem. They saw the number 5, saw a sentence that sounded like it mattered, and blindly turned it into a subtraction.

The models do not understand what subtraction means. They see a pattern that looks like subtraction and apply it. That is all.

Apple tested this across all models. They call the dataset "GSM-NoOp" — as in, the added clause is a no-operation. It does nothing. It changes nothing.

The results are catastrophic.

Phi-3-mini dropped over 65%. More than half of its "math ability" vanished from one irrelevant sentence.

GPT-4o dropped from 94.9% to 63.1%.

o1-mini dropped from 94.5% to 66.0%.

o1-preview, OpenAI's most advanced reasoning model at the time, dropped from 92.7% to 77.4%.

Even giving the models 8 examples of the exact same question beforehand, with the correct solution shown each time, barely helped. The models still fell for the irrelevant clause.

This means it's not a prompting problem. It's not a context problem. It's structural.

The Apple researchers also found that models convert words into math operations without understanding what those words mean. They see the word "discount" and multiply. They see a number near the word "smaller" and subtract. Regardless of whether it makes any sense.

The paper's exact words: "current LLMs are not capable of genuine logical reasoning; instead, they attempt to replicate the reasoning steps observed in their training data."

And: "LLMs likely perform a form of probabilistic pattern-matching and searching to find closest seen data during training without proper understanding of concepts."

They also tested what happens when you increase the number of steps in a problem. Performance didn't just decrease. The rate of decrease accelerated. Adding two extra clauses to a problem dropped Gemma2-9b from 84.4% to 41.8%. Phi-3.5-mini from 87.6% to 44.8%. The more thinking required, the more the models collapse.

A real reasoner would slow down and work through it. These models don't slow down. They pattern-match. And when the pattern becomes complex enough, they crash.

This paper was published at ICLR 2025, one of the most prestigious AI conferences in the world.

You are using AI to help you make financial decisions. To check legal documents. To solve problems at work. To help your children with homework. And Apple just proved that the AI is not thinking about any of it. It is pattern matching. And the moment something unexpected shows up in your question, it breaks. It does not tell you it broke. It just quietly gives you the wrong answer with full confidence.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Greenville council member gives testimony on the effects of planes spraying the skies above her farm in South Carolina

She’s raised endangered monarch butterflies for 14 years, she says 80% of her butterflies have died in the last 3 years because of planes spaying our skies

This is why we don’t have bugs covering our windshields and cars anymore in America

“I've been farming for about 20 years. We have animals on our farm. We have flowers on our farm -1 I serve on the South Carolina garden clubs — I serve as the wildlife director. — I raise endangered monarch butterflies and have done that for 14 years, and I've watched them just almost go extinct. They're down 80%. And that was really the first signs of things going on on my small farm. It didn't make sense. I watched the bees start going — The bees started disappearing — and the last three years by the end of June, my garden was gone.

-1 I realized that it was geoengineering and realized what was going on”

Everyone should listen to this testimony

[Sean Callahan @Sean_Callahan]

Husker fans have not only over taken Oklahoma City’s hotels, bars and restaurants, they also just overtook St. Joseph’s Old Cathedral for 4 pm mass. The priest couldn’t believe how much red was there. The church sat 700 people and was 85 percent Husker fans.

[Dr Taylor Marshall™️ @TaylorRMarshall]

It’s 2 weeks until Good Friday and 2000 years later the world is still trying to solve the problem that Jews require a “political Messiah” to forcefully retake the Promised Land.

What we truly need is the Prince of Peace Jesus Christ, the true Messiah for all men, Jew and Gentile. The human problem isn’t Middle Eastern real estate, but the sin inside our hearts. Only Jesus can save us.

[Mathew with Cottage Pastures @Mathew_Winters1]

If you begin with chickens this month, you can have eggs by October - right as sunlight begins to fade you will have young and very productive chickens beginning to lay eggs.

This is one of the best strategies for maintaining egg production into the winter.

Buy from a local farmer until October, switch to your own eggs during the winter months. It’s not guaranteed, different breeds begin laying at different times and have different laying quantity capabilities - but this is one way to get started!

[Sawyer @SawyerWhisler]

The farmers who are still standing after the last five years didn't survive because of government programs.

They survived because they cut costs, diversified income, and made decisions that didn't depend on a check from Washington.

Self-reliance isn't a political statement. It's a survival strategy.

[Sheila Brugger @shebrug]

@WallStreetMav Stick with the beef, butter, bacon & eggs. If you venture into Keto with the almond flour or high plant foods you can get into Oxalate toxicity. See Sally Norton’s book - Toxic Superfoods. Carnivore works best for me.

[Sawyer @SawyerWhisler]

Debt is the single biggest barrier to entry for young farmers.

Not knowledge. Not work ethic. Not access to land. Debt.

The young farmer who figures out how to start without taking on a crushing operating loan in year one has a completely different trajectory than the one who doesn't.

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

Catholic :
It's not a service, it's a liturgy.
It's not a robe, they are vestments.
It's not wine, it's the Blood of Jesus Christ
It's not bread, it's the Body of Jesus Christ,
Its not a table, it's an altar
It's not a song, it's a hymn.
It's not a poem, it's a psalm
It's not a preacher, it's a priest
It's not only a personal relationship, it's a convenantal relationship
I love being Catholic, it's our life and lifestyle..

🎥 st.michaelsabbey

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Mel Gibson: "I consider the Gospels to be verifiable history... every single one of those guys [the Apostles] died rather than deny their belief. And nobody dies for a lie. Nobody."

Christ is Lord