Beth Matuga

.@GovRonDeSantis appointee says women should pick motherhood over higher ed Reporting by @AP flapol.com/4fUQND7 #FlaPol

Lmaooo best video I’ve seen in a while

Remember when TNG was like what if Picard had a cool suede jacket he rocked from time to time

Patrick Stewart says his biggest regret is the things he never said to the people he loved and not being vulnerable sooner. “Being brave, being open, being sensitive to other people, tuning into them, becomes more and more important to me.” He regrets the things he never got to say to his family. “I wish I could go back, There are things I would like to say to my parents and my brothers that I never said. That makes me very, very sad.” He’s learned the power of vulnerability. “Being vulnerable is the primary objective in my life now, with those I care about.” Rip patrick Stewart 🕊️🤦🏽‍♂️

Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, and Liam Neeson in “Excalibur” (1981).

I do think people don’t really understand how rapidly people in their 80s diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia can decline in a short amount of time.

five-card stud, nothing wild and the sky's the limit

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‘THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL’ has returned with a new Christmas commercial for Walmart. Starring Walton Goggins as Ebenezer Scrooge.

This paper answers why confident idiots run the world. Cornell University published a psychological paper that explains every terrible boss, every loud influencer, and every broken corporate hierarchy. It’s called “Unskilled and Unaware of It.” they tested participants across logic, grammar, and humor to measure the gap between actual performance and self-perception. And the results are wild. participants scoring in the bottom 12th percentile consistently believed they were operating in the 62nd percentile. they were not lying. they were literally incapable of recognizing their own incompetence. the paper revealed a brutal paradox: the exact skills required to master a domain are the exact same skills required to accurately evaluate your own competence in that domain. if you lack the skill, you inherently lack the cognitive capacity to realize you are failing. this creates a dangerous systemic loop. the incompetent are blessed with absolute, blinding certainty. their brain protects them from their own ignorance, allowing them to speak first, demand authority, and never second-guess their decisions. meanwhile, the actual experts suffer the exact inverse. top performers in the study consistently underestimated their rank. because a task was easy for them, they falsely assumed it was easy for everyone else. they hesitate. they obsess over nuance. they assume they have nothing unique to add. we are biologically wired to confuse confidence with competence. the loudest person in the room gets promoted, gets funded, and gets the microphone, not because they know what they are doing, but because they are physically incapable of seeing what they don't. the only defense mechanism is building systems that stop rewarding absolute certainty and start demanding proof of work.

This new Elizabeth Holmes film is killing me. She is manipulative as hell. I don't think she's crazy. She's actually really smart and conniving. That new man/baby daddy of hers is also a special case. Spoiler: there's a random frontal of a flaccid 🍆 for no damn reason

Spoiler ycse So it’s not the norm for documentary subjects to get paid??? I can’t imagine committing to that sort of time expenditure & incredibly intrusive filming, with no control over the product, and not getting compensated at all

just saw 'you can see everything' for a second time and had an entirely different reaction to the first half of the film goddamn art is freaking cool sometimes

It really can’t be overstated how [REDACTED] is the heart of You Can See Everything—in part because she is the *only* character who openly wrestles with her own actions and potential regrets, expresses anger & uncertainty, and admits to lying sometimes. She’s a real human being!