veritas!

(notes to self)

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“Life is too short to worry about stupid things. Have fun. Fall in love. Regret nothing, and don't let people bring you down. Study, think, create, and grow. Teach yourself and teach others.” - Richard Feynman

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Romanian gangs are exploiting 1960s tech in the American welfare system to pilfer hundreds of millions of dollars from food-stamp accounts.
https://t.co/mZKCooBgqj

[Mars University @MarsUniversityX]

Elon Musk: "The reality is we’re building super-intelligent AI, hyper-intelligent, more intelligent than we can comprehend

It’s like raising a super-genius child that you know is going to be much smarter than you

You can instill good values in how you raise that child: philanthropic values, good morals, honest, productive

Controlling it at the end of the day I don't think we'll be able to

The best we can do is make sure it's raised well"

[Norgard @BrianNorgard]

“True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it’s dark around you.”

—Bob Marley

[Naval Quotes @NavalQuotes247]

"Better bored than busy."

@naval

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@scientificecon @grok is this true?

[John Mandrola, MD @drjohnm]

Bill Gurley might be the best public speaker I’ve ever heard. This is 10/10 on the persuasion scale. And a masterclass in using PPT.

Oh…and he’s 💯 correct on the main point of his talk

[Kpaxs @Kpaxs]

We chase after happiness, but it's the pursuit of meaning that truly fulfills us.

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@TruthFairy131 Sounds like the pentagon should be using Flexport @typesfast

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@spencerpratt Who do we vote for? Or just not exercise our rare and precious democratic right of being able to vote? Both seems equally nauseating

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Kaizen: A Japanese concept of improving continuously.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.”

— Paulo Coelho

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This paragraph by Richard Feynman hits so hard:

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn’t stop you from doing anything at all.”

[@jason @Jason]

Alex Karp is 100% correct about fentanyl here — we would be dropping bombs on whoever created and distributed it if the elites were dying en masse.

This is not a recreational drug, like cannabis, alcohol or psychedelics — which we should regulate and decriminalize.

Fentanyl makes heroin look benign!

Fentanyl is a chemical weapon and should be treated as such.

Given the number of deaths caused by it, you could make a reasonable argument to give the death penalty to distributors AND to even start war over it — as crazy as that seems.

Consider this: less people died in 9/11 than from fentanyl — THIS MONTH!

[Murray Hill Guy @MurrayHillGuy1]

One thing NYC teaches you: making a lot of money really isn’t that big of a flex.

There’s always someone richer.

The $300K finance guy knows a guy making $2M. The guy making $2M knows a guy worth $15+ million… etc

Meanwhile some dude making $90K is in great shape, knows everyone, gets laid more, has way more fun, travels, has hobbies and barely thinks about work.

Money matters.

BUT after a certain point, being the guy everyone actually wants to be around matters way more.

[Kalshi Finance @Kalshi_Finance]

JUST IN: OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly exaggerated AI security threats to push the government to protect their market position

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Lamb is called land salmon by people who have looked at the numbers, and it is the upgrade to almost every pack of beef in the chiller.

- Nearly 100% grass fed, because it lived on a hill nothing else could farm
- About twice the omega 3 of beef, carried in the fat
- The best omega 6 to 3 ratio of any land animal, hence the name
- More CLA than beef, pork or chicken
- More tryptophan than beef, the thing your serotonin is made of
- B12, haem iron, zinc, selenium, creatine, carnosine, taurine, all present
- Never finished in a shed, because there is no corn on a Welsh mountain

Now sit with the audacity of this. Beef is the finest food a human can eat. Lamb is the upgrade to it. And there is an upgrade to the upgrade, sat in a field right now, that most people under 60 have never tasted.

Mutton. That same animal, two years older.

- Two more years on grass, so two more years of grass in the fat
- More iron, because it builds with age and the meat is darker for it
- More fat, and a cap thick enough to earn the word
- Higher in the long-chain omega 3 than lamb, beef or veal
- More carnitine, creatine and taurine, which all rise in mature red muscle
- A life, rather than a spring
- Half the price, because the trade decided old was an insult

And it's ours. Britain fed itself on mutton for 700 years before the supermarket shortened the animal to fit the shelf. Put a shoulder in a low oven at lunchtime and the kitchen fills with something that sounds like Vaughan Williams and smells like your great-grandmother's Sunday.

Yes, the taste is stronger. Yes, it smells of sheep. That's the fat of an animal that lived, and after the third mouthful you'll wonder how you ever settled for the baby.

Beef is good. Lamb is better. Mutton is the finished article.

Ask your butcher for it, and keep asking until he stocks it.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Thanks to President Trump’s leadership on AI:
— a million new jobs have been created around the AI buildout;
— 401(k)s are up ~12% this year as AI capex and productivity lift the market;
— America is re-industrializing, including the first large private investments in power generation and the grid in a generation;
— In rural Richland Parish, Louisiana, teachers just received $50,000 bonuses from data-center tax revenue.

Because the media portrays AI only as a menace, people tell pollsters they “don’t like AI.” Their behavior says otherwise. AI products are the fastest-adopted technology in history — faster than the internet or the iPhone. People like the tools, the jobs, and the tax base.

President Trump understands the media hoax cycle better than anyone else. That is why he is refusing the “pause” that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are demanding. A pause would not make America safer. It would hand the frontier to China. That would be a disaster for the American economy and for national security.

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@Microinteracti1 @grok comparing contrast the current Greenland agreement signed recently by Trump versus the 1951 agreement. What are the key differences?

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@Polymarket @grok tell us more about this? Size, especially Relative to the dinosaur extinction impact? Does this mean the moon is our protector?

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

Figuring out how to maintain a high-energy version of yourself is half of the job regardless of what your goals are.