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"Fine, fine. Fine. Just completely fine. No problem at all. The grinding? A tic. Likewise the eyelid." -- from David Foster Wallace or Don DeLillo, frgt whch

[Yasmine Khosrowshahi @yasminekho]

In 2009, Stanford professor Robert Sapolsky explained why depression is not a mental problem but a biological breakdown.

He revealed:

- Why “just be strong” is nonsense
- Why stress rewires your future
- How biology + psychology collide

15 lessons on the science of depression:

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@taotechic 👏🏼

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@daemon404 Any senior video engineers, please feel free to take a look at Eluvio. We have an opening for exactly this.

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@LVMandM9onPrime This, sadly, fucking sucks.

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@samriegel @matthewmercer This sadly fucking sucks

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@pitchfork @AphexTwin Nice

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@rameerez I pay $5/month at Linode, down from $10/mo. That’s it. Been doing it for a decade+. Easy!

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AWS is a cult

[Javi @rameerez]

I FINALLY got everything off the cloud

I'm now paying 10x LESS money for BETTER infrastructure

My AWS bill was ~$1,400/mo

I got it down to less than $120/mo for literally better, beefier servers

Fear of managing servers has a price: 10x your monthly infra bill

[Stewart Brand @stewartbrand]

I was involved in government (California) when this switch happened. I vouch for this thread’s explanation.

It was a hippie mistake, a notion that took hold. No one spoke up for asylums. It’s past time to reinvent them.

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Jeff Bezos explains the “releasing the work” framework he used to build Amazon

In the early days of Amazon, Jeff Bezos had too many ideas.

Then Jeff Wilke, a new Amazon executive at the time, told his boss, “Jeff, you have enough ideas to destroy Amazon.”

“This was just a shocking idea for me,” Bezos recalls. “As a founder, I had the great luxury of always being able to hire my tutors. I would hire these experienced, senior executives . . . And I would listen to them and they would teach me.”

When Bezos asked Wilke what he meant by this, Wilke responded, “You have to release the work at the right rate so that the organization can accept it.”

Bezos reflects on this point:

“Every time I released an idea, I was creating a backlog of work in process. And because it was just stacking up, it was adding no value. In fact, it was creating distraction . . . This sounds so obvious, but it was not obvious to me at the time. And this was a profound insight for me. So I started prioritizing the ideas better, keeping lists of them, and keeping ideas to myself until the organization was ready for the ideas.”

He continues:

“I also started figuring out how to build an organization that can be ready for more ideas. That’s about having the right senior team and leadership and giving those people the executive bandwidth so they could do more ideas per unit of time. And that is what we built. We built a company that’s very good at inventing and doing more than one thing at a time. And as the company gets bigger, you do want to be able to do more than one thing at a time. But that idea of ‘releasing the work’ was very profound for me. It made us operationally more effective while still being inventive.”

Video source: @Reuters (2025)

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@matthewmercer @dungeoncraft 👏🏼

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@kageiit Surprised y’all haven’t moved to Kotlin. Android did!

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'espresso' was based on a Splice sample!
https://t.co/nXhYIv58cG

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Also how you look out and suddenly realize you’ve tripped over the chasm from the camp of folks creating the scene, to looking like some shitty old (and probably rich) latecomer.

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https://t.co/j0so71nozA

Also tricky is not accidentally acting like you’re “part of the crowd” at an all-ages party, a bit drunk or whatnot, just not worried about it.. but the 20/30somethings want you far far the fuck away from them

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@StubHub @TeamStubHub Thanks. Looks like return is going through. I’d suggest you look at how you label these situations .. don’t make the same section have 2 different names! It was quite the battle getting the refund ($3000)

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StubHub has a scam running on the Dead and Company Golden Gate Fields concerts... see attached! There is no difference between VIP (Lower) and VIP. The seat map is designed to trick people into paying more for what look like stands.

@StubHub please respond

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@elvmichelle 🍾🥂👍🏼😎

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@AskHub_StubHub StubHub

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@AskHub_StubHub This is a scam message. Stuff doesn’t use WhatsApp impersonator trying to steal money beware.

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StubHub has a scam running on the Dead and Company Golden Gate Fields concerts... see attached! There is no difference between VIP (Lower) and VIP. The seat map is designed to trick people into paying more for what look like stands.

https://t.co/eqHuu3DsRL

@StubHub