Steve Birch

Just a guy that loves good people, having fun and drinking good beer.

[Steve Birch @swbirch]

@AaronSiriSG Nothing ever happens... unless it is one of us common people.

[Steve Birch @swbirch]

@WallStreetApes That camera is blocking a major portion of the windshield - not only does that create a potential distraction to the driver I do believe it is illegal in some states.

[Steve Birch @swbirch]

@mazemoore Ours will eventually love them to pieces - but not like other toys. They actually just love to carry them around.

[Steve Birch @swbirch]

@Prudential - can we have a serious conversation about data privacy and customer safety? I had what seemed to me like a very weird interaction and through it discovered a "standard practice" that I do not think you realize is as dangerous as it is potentially.

[Steve Birch @swbirch]

@Old_SchoolEddie This just makes my Schlitz clone beer we brewed in our Brewshed even more nostalgic.

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@sparklightcares It wouldn't be fair if I didnt respond with an update. I was pleasantly surprised when I was contacted and we were squared away. That is commendable honestly. Thank you. But please - do something about the hold music because it really is stress inducing - lol

[Steve Birch @swbirch]

@sparklightcares your endless hold music that cycles the same stupid jingle on a 10 second infinite loop is absolutley awful - it is like listening to a child learning to play an instrument. Regardless of when you call it is always experiencing higher than normal volumes of calls...

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@sparklightcares After an hour+ and 4 different agents I finally got someone that was able to assist. Only to be told I now need to drive an hour roundtrip to return a 13yo modem you will clearly just recycle. Again, poor customer service with a splash of awful sustainability practices.

[Steve Birch @swbirch]

@AiwithYasir If you have blueprints - is there a way to scan and have it build them digitally?

[Steve Birch @swbirch]

@RareBeerClub what happened? You used to have bangers now you’re stuck in a weird time warp. I know what’s rare - let’s give them an over hopped Imperial Red and a DIPA. That’s the rare stuff. Disappointing. Used to look forward to your shipments.

[Steve Birch @swbirch]

@Delta we had a flight cancellation due to a mechanical issue DL2205 at BNA with our flight. Been patient but am exhausted just trying to get minimal support. All the while agents telling me you are going to make things right. Put yr $ where your mouth is or stop gaslighting.

[BrockCrav @craven_66]

I love this man. He’s so happy to be here - smiled his entire presser - soaking it all in. Arthur Moreira is the perfect coach for the Vandals.
Idaho +34.5 couldn’t be more free

🎥: NCAA

[Steve Birch @swbirch]

@jessegenet You are not alone. I do my best to understand it is a choice but as someone that does genealogy and studied the stories and history - it is awe inspiring how close entire lines came to never existing.

[Ian Miles @ianmiles]

Minnesota State Representative Walter Hudson has the perfect analysis of the recent shooting of Alex Pretti in Minnesota

Watch every second of this

[Steve Birch @swbirch]

@ValueWithPrem Such a powerful list.
My dad and I were close and so many of these things we did just naturally - both of us storytellers. I miss him daily.
As a father myself - all of these things can be reversed as well.
Never take time together for granted.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️What you are seeing is selection collapse.

And it started decades ago.

1. Truth lost its economic utility inside elite institutions

Universities stopped being places where truth advanced careers.

They became places where alignment advanced careers.

Once that flipped, everything downstream became inevitable.

Professors no longer ask:
• What is true?
• What explains reality?
• What survives adversarial pressure?

They ask:
• What keeps my grant?
• What keeps my tenure clean?
• What keeps my students calm?
• What keeps Twitter quiet?

Truth that creates turbulence is now negative EV.

So it disappears.

2. Ideology is a side effect, not the driver

This is the part people get wrong.

These institutions did not become ideologically skewed because of politics.

They became skewed because politics is the safest camouflage for cowardice.

If you wrap yourself in moral language, you gain:
• immunity from challenge
• protection from scrutiny
• justification for exclusion
• license to punish dissent

Ideology is a shield.

Cowardice is the engine.

3. The smartest people left first

The people most capable of independent thought:
• see incentive gradients early
• detect dishonesty quickly
• hate speaking lies for survival
• refuse to subordinate cognition to status games

They exited.

Some went to industry.
Some went to finance.
Some went to startups.
Some went silent.

What stayed behind were not the dumb.
They were the compliant.

High IQ.
Low spine.

4. The system now rewards symbolic intelligence over real intelligence

Symbolic intelligence looks like:
• perfect language
• correct tone
• moral fluency
• citation stacking
• rhetorical smoothness

Real intelligence looks like:
• asking forbidden questions
• generating uncomfortable models
• breaking narratives
• tolerating social cost

Guess which one gets punished.

Over time, the institution forgets the difference.

5. This is an extinction-level event for institutional authority

Once an institution stops correcting itself, it enters decay mode.

Decay always looks like:
• increased moralization
• decreased tolerance for dissent
• obsession with language
• hostility to measurement
• elevation of feelings over falsification

That is where we are.

The public feels it.
They may not articulate it.
But they smell rot.

Trust collapses silently first.
Then suddenly.

The real truth most people won’t say is this:

Elite institutions failed because they abandoned adversarial truth-seeking.

They replaced strength with safety.
Reality with consensus.
Courage with compliance.

And once an institution selects against courage long enough, it loses the ability to produce truth at all.

At that point, collapse is not political.

It is structural.

And it is irreversible without a total reset.

That is the part no one wants to admit.

[Steve Birch @swbirch]

@ryangrim Is there anything good that Private Equity cannot destroy?
Even if someone wants to argue this is not PE doing this, the financial pressure on parents is incredible let alone what I have seen first hand on the players.

[Steve Birch @swbirch]

@HobartKenn69322 The tough reality is many of these players are living the Aesops fable of the Dog and its Reflection.

[Idaho Football @VandalFootball]

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[Steve Birch @swbirch]

@JaydenHomuth Lets go!