Grateful. "History would be a wonderful thing – if it were only true." (Tolstoy) “Who controls the past controls the future..." (Orwell)
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The ruminant family, and the one job each of them does that nothing else on earth can.
The cow turns a wet hillside into beef and milk, and leaves the soil better than she found it.
The sheep grows a fireproof, waterproof, compostable coat every year, out of grass and rain, and then gives it away for the price of a haircut.
The goat eats the bramble, the scrub and the invasive weed that strangles everything else, and asks only for a weak point in the fence.
The water buffalo makes the milk that becomes real mozzarella, standing in marsh a cow would sink in.
The yak gives milk at an altitude that would kill a lowland animal in a week, and carries your bags up there as well.
The reindeer feeds and clothes entire peoples above the Arctic Circle, on lichen and moss, in the dark, for months.
The bison built the deepest soil on the planet by walking across it and eating.
Seven animals, one gift each, and not one of them can be replaced by a crop, a machine or a sachet.
Every one of them is classed, this decade, as a liability on a spreadsheet by somebody who has never been cold.
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Tesla is celebrating Halloween this year by having a Cybercab autonomously drive around Austin with skeletons inside haha 🎃
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🚨🇨🇳 A Chinese glass company just turned the RIOTS in France into FREE advertising!
Hengxinfeng filmed NOTHING, just posted a video of its unbreakable windows on social media, and went VIRAL.
EPIC TROLLING!
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negative thinking destroys your brain
being a silly goose and delusionally optimistic is the ultimate longevity hack
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Jennifer Armstrong, MD:
"It’s always the eyes, isn’t it? The highly requested Susan Dell is finally here. What stands out the most to you? Let me know"
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🔥🚨DEVELOPING: The Red Hot Chili Peppers 1999 song “Californication” has started going viral after fans began uploading videos of their lyrics on TikTok that truly appear to prophesied life in 2026. This is one of the craziest things I’ve seen this year.
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JUST IN: Elon Musk unveils the Tesla Roadster by launching it off a ramp before the car flipped in midair and safely landed on the ground.
The car is a collaboration between Tesla and SpaceX.
One of the most insane things I've ever seen.
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BlackRock and Private Equity Firm housing scam EXPOSED
- They are buying up entire new housing developments, sometimes 500 units
- They’ll buy the houses at $300k per home
- They won’t sell it right away, they’ll keep the area looking like a construction zone for a year
- Let’s say there are 3 different models of homes in the community they bought, then a year later they’ll sell 3 of those houses that they bought for $300,000 to themselves in another fund for $700,000
- That creates 3 comps in the neighborhood
- They do one of each of the models, and now the entire neighborhood, each house is valued at $700,000
- Then they're going to turn them into obscene rentals and simultaneously they're going to have a 2.5x value on that portfolio to borrow against
“And every American in that community was just priced out of everything around that community.”
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if you carefully watch where studer’s eyes focus as she is performing, you will understand something about what makes “genius” qualitatively different from “really really really good”
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During the beginning of the “pandemic”, SIDS deaths dropped EXPONENTIALLY.
Why?
Well baby visits were canceled.
I feel like we should be talking about that more.
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50 legendary internet rabbit holes you can spend hours exploring 👇🏼
1. zoom.earth — Watch the world via live satellite imagery
2. flightradar24.com — See every plane currently in the sky
3. marinetraffic.com — Track all ships at sea in real time
4. windy.com — Live map of winds and storms
5. lightningmaps.org — Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time
6. earthquake.usgs.gov — Live list of recent earthquakes
7. submarinecablemap.com — Ocean cables carrying the internet
8. globalforestwatch.org — Watch forests disappear from space
9. worldometers.info — The world's statistics, second by second
10. internetlivestats.com — Current number of tweets and searches being posted
11. thetruesize.com — Compare the true sizes of countries
12. oldmapsonline.org — Maps from centuries ago
13. davidrumsey.com — Archive of 150,000 historical maps
14. openstreetmap.org — World map drawn by volunteers
15. window-swap.com — Look out the window of a random person around the world
16. virtualvacation.us — Virtual walks through cities
17. mapcrunch.com — Teleport to a random spot on Earth
18. atlasobscura.com — Catalog of the world's strangest places
19. neal.fun — Interactive knowledge experiences
20. htwins.net/scale2 — Scale journey from atom to universe (Updated HTML5 link)
21. eyes.nasa.gov — Explore the solar system in 3D
22. stellarium-web.org — Real sky map in your browser
23. apod.nasa.gov — NASA's astronomy picture of the day
24. images.nasa.gov — NASA's entire visual archive, free
25. pudding.cool — Visual articles told through data
26. ourworldindata.org — The state of the world with real data
27. gapminder.org — What we mistakenly think we know about the world
28. informationisbeautiful.net — Visualizing complex data
29. data.worldbank.org — World Bank's open data
30. data.tuik.gov.tr — Turkey's official statistics database
31. archive.org — Archive of millions of books, films, and software
32. gutenberg.org — 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired
33. openlibrary.org — Record of every book in the world
34. loc.gov — U.S. Library of Congress digital archive
35. europeana.eu — Europe's cultural heritage archive
36. dp.la — America's digital library collection
37. artsandculture.google.com — Tour museums from home
38. rijksmuseum.nl — Download artworks in high resolution
39. wikiart.org — Archive of 250,000 artworks
40. publicdomainreview.org — Forgotten visual treasures of history
41. openculture.com — Free archive of culture and education
42. metmuseum.org — Met Museum's open collection
43. musicmap.info — Family tree of music genres
44. radiooooo.com — Pick a country and decade to listen to that era
45. listen.hatnote.com — Turn Wikipedia edits into audio
46. wikipedia.org — Random knowledge well
47. timeanddate.com — Time, sunrises, and sky events
48. sciencedaily.com — Live stream of science news
49. arxiv.org — Free preprints of scientific papers
50. observablehq.com — Visualize data with live code
Save this list. You’ll probably come back to a few of these later. 🔖
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The problem here is, believing in myth rather than reality is what has the modern Western civilizations confused. Building statues of fake heros and reminiscing of historical times that ended due to relying on mythical beliefs is only going to end in empty promises...
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🦔The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association says insurers paid out nearly $1 billion more than usual from AI-assisted hospital documentation in 2024-2025. Hospitals use AI to scan records and find secondary diagnoses that human reviewers missed. More diagnoses means higher reimbursements. But treatment levels haven't gone up.
BCBSA's SVP of data science said AI is "identifying more billable conditions, not sicker patients." Insurers now deploy their own AI to deny those same claims. Patients pay for both through higher premiums.
My Take
This might be the most American healthcare story I've ever read. Hospitals bought AI to find more things to bill for. Insurers bought AI to deny those bills. The technology cost money on each end and the tab went straight to patients through higher premiums. A billion dollars moved and no one got any healthier. The only thing that changed was the size of the invoices.
Two sides of a trillion-dollar industry found a new tool to fight over the same pool of money and the person in the hospital bed pays for all of it. Premiums go up, denials go up, and the AI vendors collect from everyone. If you want to know who AI works for, stop reading the press releases and look at where the money goes. In healthcare it went straight into the billing department.
Hedgie🤗
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On paper, I’m in my 50’s & it’s really confusing…
In my head, I’m 35.
At a concert, I’m 25
After 10pm, I’m 72.
Getting up off the floor, I’m 93.
When someone makes me mad, I’m 2
BUT-
When an 80’s song comes on,
I’m 17, drunk in a field, & my mom thinks I’m at a sleepover
🤪
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Hours before Trump was declared winner of the 2024 election, Charlie Kirk’s “secret weapon,” Blake Neff, made a costly rookie mistake that got them immediately kicked off YouTube on a pivotal election night livestream.
What followed was painfully awkward. Here’s 2:43 of it. 🥴
Thanks to @n_rossmiller for the tip! 📺👀
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I absolutely love everything about this video😂
The A-team sitting there buried under approximately 47 Hawaiian leis, completely unfazed, somehow looking like an old married couple and siblings at the same time.
The interruptions. Finishing each other’s sentences. One barely gets a thought started before the other already knows exactly where it’s going. And they’re both completely in their element here.
It’s just so obviously them. No performance. No effort. Just Charlie and Candace being Charlie and Candace.
They really did speak the same language.
Brilliant. Ridiculous. Completely in sync. ❤️
@RealCandaceO #CharlieKirk #CandaceOwens
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Okay we finally got there. Next time try “Candace told the truth”.
This was a school assembly. Students therefore did not OPT-IN to it, at all.
Parents were informed late in the day via a weekly newsletter. In effect, TPUSA is now forcing its ideas on students administratively and trying to PR spin it as though students are willfully supporting their clubs.
Mandated assemblies was NOT Charlie’s vision for Club America.
