not a robot

[Fernando 🌺🌌 @zetalyrae]

Good news everyone: you can now hire my services.

Today: Rust, compilers, weird and hard problems.

Tomorrow: space elevators, magsails, and orbital weapons platforms.

[Financial Physics @FinancialPhys]

Boomerism linked to dementia

[Trad West @trad_west_]

Luke is such a W dad

[Insane Reality Leaks @InsaneReality]

Bro got so much experience he sound like a fed himself 💀

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Footage of Trump and Zelensky arguing in front of the press.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

WATCH: “@AOC is 6th from the bottom in net worth in Congress, and hasn’t traded a single stock since being in Congress.”

PSA: Anyone who won’t back a ban on congressional stock trading is unworthy of your vote, regardless of party.

[Insane Reality Leaks @InsaneReality]

Serving his country, but the one person he truly wanted to protect… he wasn’t there for..

[KᗴᒪᒪᗴY ✰ @Patriotmom717]

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THOSE PEOPLE THAT NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS‼️

[BSOLZ @BSOLZ_]

Omfg Im crying 😭😭😭

[Insane Reality Leaks @InsaneReality]

The peak conversation between two mens🗿

[2S7 Pion @Trotes936897]

Maintenance = pain in the ass

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

so real

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Footage released showing a Tennessee security guard calmly taking down an attempted mass sh**ter in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

A gunman had started firing at a group of people outside of the Dream nightclub when the guard jumped into action.

The man who fired into the crowd was hit by the security guard before he could take any lives.

Head of security Joe Reed thinks the attack was planned, revealing security footage of the 24-year-old suspect parking his car down the road before attacking.

"It was quick action by our licensed security guard who did what he had to do to protect innocent lives," said Reed.

The suspect was injured with non-life-threatening injuries.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Any corrections or comments about these numbers?

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Don’t think fathers are essential?

Think again.

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:

Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.

A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.

A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.

(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).

More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”

Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.

Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.

“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.

This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.

That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

I thought bro was doing a whole lot of nothing until I saw the paper float 😧