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[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Steve Irwin was a dedicated Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner and enthusiastic MMA fan who regularly trained alongside his security guard, Kyle Noke, who later went on to compete in the UFC.

Steve Irwin was a devoted mixed martial arts enthusiast and accomplished grappler who built a private training cage at Australia Zoo, where he regularly sparred with his bodyguard, Kyle Noke, who would later compete in the UFC. After hiring Noke as security in 2002, Irwin soon turned him into a full-time training partner, immersing himself in boxing, wrestling, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. At 6-foot-2 and more than 220 pounds, years of handling powerful wildlife had given the Crocodile Hunter exceptional strength and a pressure-heavy grappling style.

His commitment to combat sports went far beyond a casual hobby. Before interviews and public appearances, Irwin would sometimes have Noke strike him in the stomach to raise his adrenaline levels. Convinced that Noke had the talent to reach the highest level, Irwin helped fund his trips to train in the United States, a step that eventually contributed to Noke’s UFC career. Although Irwin reportedly dreamed of competing in a professional MMA bout himself, network executives and publicists discouraged the idea, concerned that it could conflict with the family-friendly image that had made him a global star.

[0xDipper @Dipper_pol]

Nassim Taleb: pick two people at random

If their combined height is 4.1m, it's basically 2.05 + 2.05.
If their combined wealth is $36M, it's almost never 18 + 18 - it's ~$1,000 and ~$36M.

Height lives in "Mediocristan," where the average tells you everything.
Wealth - and markets - live in "Extremistan," where one event dominates the whole picture.

Ruin there never comes from a string of bad days.
It comes from a single one.

~1hr lecture, free. The Black Swan author at Cambridge on why the statistics you were taught break exactly where it matters.

Being right on average means nothing if one tail empties the account.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Shaq reveals “the most valuable thing” his drill sergeant father did that taught him to never be complacent.

Phillip Arthur Harrison wasn’t Shaq’s biological dad. But he’s the man Shaq considers to be his “real father.”

Shaq says Harrison was “super hard” on him and demanded “perfection.”

His stepfather wasn’t his coach of his basketball team, but that didn’t stop him from walking onto the court and calling a timeout after Shaq missed a finger roll trying to be “smooth.”

SHAQ: “He said, ‘What are you doing?’ And I said, ‘I’m working on my Magic Johnson.’ Whap! ‘F*ck Magic Johnson, you need to be Shaq.’ So that’s when I started dunking. And every time I dunk, I wanted to tear the rim off. Cause I was mad at him.”

Outside of teaching Shaq to play like Shaq and not one of his basketball idols, “the most valuable thing” his stepfather did was never letting him celebrate for too long.

He knew that if Shaq became too attached to past accomplishments, it would distract him from chasing “the next thing.”

SHAQ: “As a youngster, we used to have the trophies — you know how it was with the youth? We play on Saturday, championship game, we win. Sunday, TROPHIES BE GONE.”

The message to a young Shaq was invaluable: yesterday’s win is already irrelevant. The only thing that matters is what you do next.

[bu/ac @buperac]

When they said you could be anything when you grow up, I’m still blown away by how many people chose to be retarded.

[naiive @naiivememe]

Who says women are hard to understand ?

[Sparky777 @Potstirrer111]

Holy shit this is it! The smoking gun of why migration skyrocketed after 2011 and it’s pretty much exactly what I thought.

This Mark Cully guy put in restrictions for international students, then the Indian community and the international education industry pushed back hard and lobbied the government to backtrack and they sacked Mark.

The then brought in generous work rights for students once they finished studying (why are they even allowed this when they’re not here to work)

The numbers then skyrocketed as it essentially became a back door pathway to PR and a work visa and now we have 2.9 million temporary migrants in largely low or unskilled work who 2/3rds get paid less than minimum wage ( source - https://t.co/CRCuhCHf4S)

Then Joe Walker at the end essentially says what I’ve been saying for years. The international education sector is the fossil fuel industry of the left.

They used money and power to get governments to do what they want at the expense of the average Australian.

This really needs a full investigation by a journalist and why we let it happen

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

Bruce Lee spent the last 3 years of his life secretly writing a book that argued the entire system of martial arts he had built his fame on was a trap, and then died at 32 before he could decide whether the world was ready to read it.

The book is called Tao of Jeet Kune Do. It is the bestselling martial arts book in history. And almost nobody who quotes it has actually understood what Bruce Lee was warning them about.

The story most people know is the famous one. In 1970, at the peak of his career, Lee suffered a severe back injury during a training session. His doctors told him he might never walk normally again. They ordered him into bed for 6 months.

He was 30 years old, in the best shape of his life, and suddenly unable to throw a single punch.

What people miss is what he did with those 6 months.

He had a library of over 2,500 books in his home. He pulled them onto the bed and started reading. Lao Tzu. Krishnamurti. Alan Watts. Sun Tzu. Eric Hoffer. He filled 7 notebooks with quotes, diagrams, sketches, and his own arguments. He was not writing a fight manual. He was building a case against the entire concept of fight manuals.

The argument is the part almost everyone misses.

Lee had spent his early career mastering Wing Chun, then training in boxing, fencing, judo, and Western wrestling. He was a black belt in nothing because he refused to participate in the ranking systems.

He noticed something nobody around him was willing to say out loud. Every traditional style on earth teaches you a fixed set of responses to fixed situations. Block here. Strike there. Move this foot first. The styles were elegant. They were beautiful. And they were turning their students into robots.

A real fight does not run on a script. The opponent does not stand still while you execute your form. The moment you commit to a pre-rehearsed sequence, you have already lost, because you are responding to a situation that exists in your training instead of the one in front of you. Lee called this crystallization, and he believed it was the disease at the heart of every martial art ever taught.

He invented Jeet Kune Do as the antidote. The name means "way of the intercepting fist," and the central idea was formlessness. Use no way as way. Take what works for your specific body in this specific moment, reject what does not, and never let any of it harden into a system. He wrote the line that would define him. Be water.

Then he watched his own students start to crystallize it.

Within a few years, Jeet Kune Do had its own techniques, its own loyalists, its own dojos. His followers were learning Jeet Kune Do moves the same way the rest of the world learned Karate moves. The thing he had built specifically to destroy the idea of a fixed style was becoming a fixed style. He had created the cage all over again.

In 1970, he shut down his own schools.

Almost nobody talks about this. The man whose name is on the bestselling martial arts book in history closed the institutions teaching his own art, because he had decided that institutionalizing it was the betrayal of the entire point. He kept teaching privately. He stopped trying to make Jeet Kune Do scale.

The line from his notes that captures the whole project is four words long. Absorb what is useful. Reject what is useless. Add what is essentially your own. This is not a martial arts instruction. It is a learning method. It says do not copy a master. Do not pledge loyalty to a school. Do not let any single source own your development. Take what works for you, leave what does not, and make the rest yourself.

He hesitated to publish the book for exactly the reason you might guess. He was afraid people would treat his notes the same way they treated every other martial arts text. As gospel. As a sequence to memorize. As another style to crystallize around.

He died on July 20, 1973. He was 32 years old. The notebooks sat in a drawer for two years until his widow Linda Lee, his student Dan Inosanto, and editor Gilbert Johnson decided to publish them. They organized 7 volumes of unfinished thinking into a 200-page book and sent it to the world.

What happened next is the irony Bruce Lee saw coming.

A generation of fighters memorized Tao of Jeet Kune Do as if it were a manual. They quoted "be like water" without ever reading the chapter where he explained that water has no form precisely because it refuses to commit to one. They tattooed his face on their bodies. They built schools certifying Jeet Kune Do instructors. They turned the man who killed styles into a style.

The book is still the bestseller it has always been. The lesson inside it is still ignored by most of the people who buy it. He warned them on the first page. The truth in combat is that there is no truth in combat. The moment you think you have found the answer, you have lost.

The book is not a manual. It is a permission slip to throw away every manual you own.

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You better believe it...

1. IN the 1400s, a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb, hence we have 'The rule of thumb'.

2. Many years ago, in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled 'Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden', and thus the word GOLF entered the English language.

3 Each King in a deck of playing cards, represents a great 'King' in history;

Spades - King David

Hearts, Charlemagne

Clubs, Alexander the Great

Diamonds, Julius Caesar

4. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bedframes by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress support tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on, hence, the phrase 'Goodnight, sleep tight'.

5. It was accepted practice in Babylon 4000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son in law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the 'Honey month', which we know of today as the 'Honeymoon'.

6. Since 1966, English fans have said they are going to win the cup at the start of every football competition, hence the phrase, 'Deluded twats'.

[Andy Rawson @AndrewRawson11]

Lieutenant Frank Bethune objected when he was told to hold the Spoil Bank (south of Ypres) on 13 March 1918. He said it was ‘useless death trap’ but he was overruled. So, his whole section volunteered to join him. He issued each man with the following order: 1/3

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Ken Griffin went home on a Friday "fairly depressed" after watching AI agents at Citadel do work that used to take teams of PhDs in finance months to complete. Done in days.

His words: "These are not mid-tier white collar jobs. These are extraordinarily high skilled jobs being automated by agentic AI."

This is the head of one of the most successful hedge funds in history saying the people he pays seven figures to analyze markets and structure deals are being replaced by software that works in hours instead of months. Not theoretically. In his own office. Right now.

The Coatue deck we covered earlier this week called agents "the biggest unlock" in AI. Griffin just confirmed it from the buy side. The shift from copilots to agents is not a future event. It is already happening at the highest levels of finance.

[naiive @naiivememe]

The older I get, the more I understand this man.

[VisionaryVoid @VisionaryVoid]

The Man Who Got Rich by Failing at Everything.

In 1790s America, a barely literate leather worker named Timothy Dexter bought up mountains of worthless Continental currency, paper money from the Revolution that everyone treated like trash. His neighbors thought he'd gone mad. Then the new U.S. government honored the old notes. Overnight, Dexter was rich.

His rivals, furious and baffled, decided to bankrupt him through bad advice. They told him to ship bed warmers to the West Indies, a tropical region where no one needed heated beds. Dexter did it. His ship captain sold them as molasses ladles to sugar plantations. Massive profit. They told him to send wool mittens to the same place. Asian traders bought the entire shipment and exported them to Siberia. They told him to send coal to Newcastle, England, the coal capital of the world. His ship arrived during a miners' strike. He sold every last lump at a premium.

Dexter declared himself "Lord Timothy Dexter, First in the East, First in the West, and the Greatest Philosopher in the Known World." He built a mansion in Newburyport, Massachusetts, lined with 40 wooden statues of famous figures, George Washington, Napoleon, and himself. At age 50, he wrote a book called A Pickle for the Knowing Ones: 8,847 words without a single punctuation mark. When readers complained, his second edition included an extra page of nothing but periods and commas, with a note telling readers to "pepper and salt it as they pleased."

Then he faked his own death. About 3,000 people showed up to mourn him. When Dexter noticed his wife wasn't crying, he leapt from hiding and berated her for insufficient grief. He died for real in 1806, still wealthy, still ridiculous, still undefeated by every scheme designed to destroy him.

History's greatest proof that sometimes the universe just picks a guy and refuses to let him lose.

[Rock Solid @ShitpostRock2]

An entire movie about a Chinese guy trying to learn people in Congo how to build a road but they keep failing by either being too lazy or stealing from the work site

Highly reccomended

[Suryansh Tiwari @Suryanshti777]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Boom! Scientists Discovered a Hidden Superhighway Inside You That Might Finally Explain Why Acupuncture Actually Works!

How tattooed skin biopsies proved something over 4,000 years old.

Buckle up…research just dropped a bombshell that is rewriting the human anatomy textbook and high fiving ancient healers at the same time!

Deep inside your body lies an enormous, previously overlooked network called the interstitium. It is a vast, fluid filled web that acts like a secret third circulatory system alongside your blood vessels and lymphatics. It is not just empty space between tissues.

It is a dynamic, interconnected superhighway made of collagen bundles suspended in a shimmering hyaluronic acid gel that soaks up water and lets fluids, cells, and molecules flow slowly but surely throughout your entire body, from skin to muscles to organs and back again.

For over a century, scientists saw these spaces as isolated little pockets. But groundbreaking work starting in 2018 by pathologists revealed the jaw dropping truth: it is one giant, continuous network.

When researchers examined tattooed skin biopsies, the ink particles had boldly marched from the skin deep into the fascia below, traveling through the interstitium in ways that made scientists say, That was not supposed to happen!
Here is where it gets truly electrifying.

This hidden highway might finally give Western medicine the biological proof it has been craving for acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine.

For 4000 years, TCM has described chi flowing along 12 specific meridians. Acupuncture needles target precise points along those lines.

Skeptics have long asked for hard science. Now they have it.

Studies, including tracer injections and dye experiments in living volunteers, show that when you inject dye into an acupuncture point, it does not just sit there or race through veins.

It flows exactly along the traditional meridian pathways through the interstitial spaces between muscles, heading straight toward the heart. The dye follows the interstitium like a GPS guided river.

Rebecca Wells, one of the lead scientists, sums it up perfectly:

“I actually do think that the interstitium could be the link between Eastern and Western medicine”.

The implications are massive and mind blowing.

Cancer cells may hitch rides on this network to metastasize.

It could explain autoimmune flare ups where gut particles travel to distant organs.

It might even unlock better treatments for Type 2 diabetes by revealing how interstitial cells influence healthy fat production during weight gain.

This is not just a cool anatomy fact. It is a paradigm shift that could reshape pain management, chronic disease treatment, and how we think about the body as a whole.
Evolutionarily speaking, similar fluid systems appear in ancient creatures going back hundreds of millions of years.

The interstitium is not new. It has been with us since the dawn of multicellular life. We are only now catching up.

This discovery is pure science magic: ancient wisdom validated by cutting edge research, turning what looked like disconnected puzzle pieces into one breathtaking picture of how our bodies really work.

When reading this, be sure to send condolences to the “debunkers” that stole this 4,000 year old empirical science from your health. They were wrong.

Dive into the actual research papers:

The groundbreaking discovery of the interstitium: https://t.co/cqX5kzcVDZ

The study on continuity of interstitial spaces across the body: https://t.co/MeW2ZzPm3z

Research visualizing fluorescent dye migration along acupuncture meridians: https://t.co/C8juE92PA0

Your body just got a whole lot more awesome. The future of medicine is flowing through the interstitium right now, and it is going to be legendary!

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

56 years ago today, the Kent State massacre unfolded, where four students were killed and nine others were wounded for protesting the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War.

Instead of universal outrage at the murder of innocent students, there were voices saying that they were sorry “they didn’t killed more.” These weren’t one off, fringe voices. They were part of a broader climate that cast student protestors as threats rather than people exercising their right to dissent.

It’s hard not to hear echoes today. The language might be different, but the logic is the same: delegitimize dissent, frame students as dangerous, and make state repression seem like the reasonable and obvious solution.

Film: The Day the ‘60s Died (2015)

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

You can move a chicken's body in any direction and its head stays perfectly locked in place.

Evolution spent millions of years engineering that neck.

Camera companies spend millions of dollars trying to match it.

The chicken is still more advanced!