$80M Series B startup vs. 4-hours Claude Code "Polish"... is this vague mystical quality that designers are obsessed with. Not because it's cool, but it influence perception way more than we are willing to admit. We as consumers are constantly "experiencing" things, products, visuals etc. It's the reason why you wouldn't rush to throw away that box the second you pull your new iMac out. It's that subliminal memory you had when you use iPhone for the first time, with that inertia scrolling across the magical glass. There is a place for extreme speed and affordability, but at a certain stage of your startup journey, there will also be a stage where details and perceptions are extremely expensive to get wrong.show more

THESE ARE FACTS (inconvenient to many): There is NO... EVIDENCE that Biden has anything to do with the Manhattan Conviction of Donald Trump. There is NO EVIDENCE that The FBI had any role in the activities around January 6th. But 12 independent jurors, partially selected out of a pool of 200 jurors by Trump’s own defense believed that there was enough evidence, 'beyond a reasonable doubt' to Convict Trump on 34 felony counts. You can keep attacking me for saying this, but your attacks are only coming because you have nothing to push back on and you are afraid to admit that you voted for a convicted felon. It's easy to get fooled by a former president when the media you watch pushes these lies. It's nothing to be ashamed about.show more

The rumors around the UFO topic are that the... others see us as containers for the soul. How will the masses react if they find out that there are higher-dimensional entities that can mess with your soul, read your emotions and thoughts, and manipulate you without you even realizing it? It's like you are alone in a room with an entity that you know nothing about, but it can read you like a book.show more

The Sabotaging Practice of Over Supply and Sameness in... the NFT Space. The current zeitgeist of the NFT space is that the same artists are doing the same kind of work five times a year, with project after project leaving a trail of disappointment and discontent among collectors and all of us watching in disbelief as huge resources are extracted from the space over work that feels like it could be left as an "artist study." I understand that you can do what you want with your money as collectors, but we are killing the whole space with this incestuous practice. No artist is that prolific to be able to do 5 collections of 100+ pieces each every year and actually deliver innovation and some kind of creative evolution. Of course, they can pretend play that the work has something new, but there is no precedent nor proof that that has ever happened in the speed that it happens in the NFT space. Again, people are free to through away their resources on whatever they want but with this way of doing things, we more and more are going to start seeing the consequences. Oh! There are consequences? Yes. Maybe unintended, but there are. Let's see. Let's start with the loss of belief in the NFT space as somewhere where emerging artists can come and find support for their experiments. Why even bother to bring experiments, innovation, and new ways to think of art on the blockchain if the same people have all the collectors hypnotized with their magical flutes? Why even try to come to a space where taking risks and challenging the status quo (the mission of art!!!) is overlooked? This makes the NFT space a social club and not a space for art. I guess it is fine, but IMO it is a recipe for disaster. New collectors stay away because the art will slowly but surely become stale and un-challenging. Why even bother to come and see what is happening here if you can't, as a collector, see new weird and up-and-coming artists? The amount of noise emitted by the same artists doing the same art over and over, drowns out any new voices. Again. A recipe for disaster. The NFT space is becoming a space of disappointment and doubt. We think that collections going to zero one after the other, over and over, is not damaging? I feel we are kidding ourselves. Disappointment piles up, and again, the people who will hurt are the emerging artists, the new blood, the ones who are willing to risk the most and, in return, put fire in this cold space of sameness. I love this space—don't get me wrong—it has changed my life, and I believe it has a ton of potential, but things need to change for it to become a beacon of light in art. But we need to support new voices. We need to support new ideas. The challenge is huge. I hope to contribute all I can to this change. I hope more and more see how exciting it is to go out and try to discover what else is out there and move this space forward. But again, I understand the leaps of faith needed, but if there is a space that is based on that, it's the NFT space...so there is hope. We will see. 📺by Boldtronshow more

The Catholic Church has been consistently AGAINST divorce and... separation for 2000 years. Marriage is not a wedding day, it is a death. The death of the isolated self. The death of the idea that your life belongs only to you. Before God, two people walk forward and allow themselves to be bound together, not with flowers or words, but with sacrifice. The same love that held Christ on the Cross was not soft. Iron tore through flesh and pinned Him to the wood, and He did not pull away. That is the image people do not want to see when they talk about love. Love costs blood. Love costs pride. Love costs the part of you that wants to run when things hurt. When a man and a woman become one flesh, it is not sentimental language. It is a joining that says, your suffering is now mine, your burdens are now mine, your future is now mine. You do not stand beside each other as spectators. You are fastened together and sent into battle. The world you raise children in will not be gentle. It will test you, divide you, try to convince you that commitment is a mistake and sacrifice is weakness. Marriage answers that lie with defiance. You stay. You endure. You forgive when it would be easier to walk away. You carry each other when one collapses. The vows are not promises made for the good days. They are spoken for the nights when everything feels broken and you choose each other anyway. This is why marriage is sacred. Not because it is easy, but because it mirrors something eternal. Christ did not abandon His bride when she failed Him. He stayed nailed there. So when you stand before God and bind your life to another, understand what you are stepping into. You are choosing covenant over comfort. You are choosing unity over ego. Catholic Weddings are auraful.show more

There are a lot of negative things in the... world. There’s a lot of terrible things that are happening all over the world all the time. There are lots of problems that need to get solved. So, lots of things that are miserable and kind of get you down. But life cannot just be about solving one miserable problem after another. That can’t be the only thing. There need to be things that inspire you. That make you glad to wake up in the morning and be part of humanity. Earth is the cradle of humanity, but you cannot stay in the cradle forever. It is time to go forth, become a star-faring civilization. I find that incredibly exciting. That makes me glad to be alive. I hope you feel the same way. — Elon Muskshow more

went to Puerto Rico to see if moving there... was a good decision (4% income tax vs 38%+ in the states) Puerto Rico is the only place where you can keep your US residency while getting a better tax rate had a great time but wasn't the right place for me it could be for you if you get a nice place in a safer area and stay the 6 months + 1 day required to be there ubers are fast and cheap, tourist areas and beaches are great, people are friendly housing is a bit scuffed there is bad areas and the good areas are behind gated communities for the most part I only went to Dorado and San Juan, which is the most common places people move but that was the experience back to streaming tomorrow see you thereshow more

WE EXISTED BEFORE OUR BODIES WERE FORMED… Can you... remember who you truly are? Before the first breath tore through the lungs, before bone remembered gravity and blood learned the rhythm of time, you were already here. You were not born into this world. This world was born around you. You were a pulse in the unmanifest, a knowing without a name, a flame that needed no wick. You moved through the great silence as light moves through water—formless, sovereign, whole. The stars were not above you; they were the glittering edges of your own remembrance. The dark was not empty; it was the velvet of your original home. Then came the descent. Not a fall. A choosing. Spirit folded itself into flesh like a secret being hidden inside a letter. Infinity consented to a heartbeat. Eternity agreed to wear a name. And in that sacred compression, most of us forgot. We woke inside the costume and believed the costume was the self. We called the garment “I.” We mistook the vessel for the voyager. But the memory never died. It only slept. It stirs in the strange familiarity of certain nights, when the sky feels closer than the ceiling. It flickers when you meet a stranger and something in you whispers, I have known you longer than this life. It rises in the sudden ache that has no earthly reason—the homesickness for a place you cannot point to on any map. That ache is not depression. It is recognition. You are not a body that grew a soul. You are a soul that consented to wear a body for a little while. The body is the temple. You are the Presence that entered it. Can you remember? Not with the mind that catalogs dates and names, but with the older intelligence that lives behind the eyes, the one that still knows how to speak in symbols, in silence, in sudden tears that feel like coming home. Close your eyes. Go back before the first cry. Before the first wound. Before the first story you were told about who you are. There. In that vast, unnameable stillness— you are still there. Waiting. Watching. Remembering. You have never been only this. You have always been more. And the moment you remember, the body itself becomes luminous. The flesh is no longer a prison. It becomes the altar upon which the infinite agrees, once more, to dance. You existed before this form. You will exist after it. And even now, beneath the noise of this brief incarnation, you are still that original fire. Remember.show more

“When you are flying on an airplane with your... loved ones - do you pray that your plane lands safely and gets you to your destination, or do you pray that the pilot has a certain skin color? I think we all know the answer to that question. And as President Trump said yesterday, it's common sense.” Wtf.show more

Seems like a lot of you are excited about... Wave Link 2.0, which is really cool! 🫶 Two more features that are worth calling out. The first is simple but just really nice. If you rename an input in Wave Link, the name of the virtual device you see across Windows will also be renamed. Second - you can now set up a Stream Deck action that automatically adds the foreground app to a pre-defined Wave Link input. Kind of a magical way to configure audio routing, especially with the new app grouping.show more

What a bunch of horse💩 Mark Carney: "We are... not spending that amount of money, we are investing that amount of money." No Mark, you are borrowing money, that will cost Canadian taxpayers interest and will need to be paid back, on programs that you hope will generate ROI. In finance, it's called a leverage. He is trying to call this a leverage except that the government won't own any assets with this but hopes to generate additional economic spending that will cover the cost of this spending and the borrowing that will need to be paid back.show more

To every Kenyan who showed up, spoke up, called... out, prayed, demanded, and refused to look away: you pulled me out of the lion’s den. Not with weapons. Not with money. With courage. With reason. With love for country over tribe. You chose Kenya. And that choice saved me. When the state thought silence would bury me, your voices became thunder. When power expected fear, you answered with principle. You proved that this nation still has a conscience and that conscience wears no tribe, no party color, no surname. You are my heroes. Not because you agree with me but because you stood for what is right when it was risky. You came out publicly. You raised your voices for my safety. You stared power in the eye and refused to blink. Let the state hear this clearly: we are a legion. Not hired. Not intimidated. Not owned. A legion of thinking citizens. A legion of courage. A legion of reason. You are the pioneers of change the ones history will remember for refusing to normalize injustice. You reminded this country that power still answers to the people when the people stand together. You didn’t just secure my freedom. You energized my spirit. You sharpened my resolve. I am more than motivated now.I am anchored, focused, and unbreakable. Kenya still breathes because of people like you. You are the voice of reason in a time of madness. And because of you, I rise stronger for the country we all deserve.show more

Universities and High Schools have not moved rapidly enough... to guide students to have skills for the next decade. THEY HAVE FAILED. It is a massive crisis that can be averted by understanding what AI and Robotics will bring about. Solutions are knowing how to use these tools and new industries that will rise. But this situation is also on ALL OF US. No “job” is safe from founder to entry level in most industries. You and I, by what we do, will be “replaced” ultimately. What to do? AI and Robotics are tools, the next decade is owned by those who know how to use them expertly, but this is also temporary. We have to understand that what we do for “work” will change giving ultimately a greater value to those that are: Creative Flexible Always learning Willing to be wrong Love being human Love being alive Know history Covet wisdom Knowing all tech has downsides Building strong family and friends Realize many institutions have failed The first four are required for you to be able to live through this period with your sanity intact. The rest will allow you to thrive. There are no true careers at this point anymore. There are advocation and vocations which will either earn you money or give life meaning. We will learn that we are not “what we do”, just like we knew for 99% of human existence. Let that sink in. — You and I are far, far ahead of knowing this and we can do two things: 1) Laugh at the “clueless” 2) Help people understand with grace Go to Reddit if you are 1, in fact don’t follow me because you will not like this next decade and what I post. You are 2 and thank you. Even if you and I have not solved this issue, we can help people understand what is ahead and with determination and creativity bound together to solve it locally. Or human family has done this millions of times. The evidence is: you are here. The Neo Luddite movement has not even begun and it will potentially rip apart society even more than all the fashionable moment in the recent past has. These Luddites will have a good point with the wrong answers cooked up by dying academics that cling to labels, “virtues” and victim hood. It will be readymade for some governments to enter in as “big daddy” to “help us”. You will not like what they do, but you will only know when it is too late. It will include YOU “volunteering” to “leave” by 60, to “help out” CanadaPod style. “Brian, I’m 24 what do I do?”. I hope to do much more here to help. But I do know this: 1) Learn a trade or vocation because it’s valuable. It may also be free to low cost if you do it right. 2) Learn everything you can about USING AI and TRAINING YOUR AI. Your expertise will be in the top 1% for a decade. But not forever. 3) Understand Bitcoin and how it will rise while other things sink. This is a short list for now. We will know more moving forward. When you see videos like this posted below, know one thing: Many of these folks had no real family of mental and physical support. Maybe no parent or one parent. Maybe only a broke system to prepare them for—nothing. This was not their doing. Now it is not your “job” to help them, it is your survival to help them if that is what you need. See some day after the dust settles these 20 year olds will be 40 year olds and running YOUR world. And at some point you may need them more than you think you do. You will need them, as they need you now. THIS IS WHAT PAST WISDOM KNEW. The elders of the past never found the need to piss on the youth and hope for the best. THE YOUTH ARE OUR BEST, let us all find ways to change it, even if every aspect of “the system” wants us to berate them into the ground.show more

“There is always a free man. Always. You know... why? Because there is always the solution to give the ball to the goalkeeper. When the match begins, we are eleven against eleven, but when you have the ball, there are ten of you that want to take it, not eleven.” — Xavi Hernández - Page 81, 'ball (2026) available from or Amazonshow more

How to stay sane VTubing for a living! (From... a full-time Vtuber and manager) 1 - Let people know you are in it full-time: Let your audience know this relies on their support without holding them hostage; Let them know you value their support, yes also to lurkers, yes also to people who can only be there for a few minutes a day. They are who made you. 2 - Be greatful: Don't whine about failures, celebrate the times you get back up. Nobody likes consistent negativity on their feed. Of course you can express when you are struggling, BUT consider building yourself AND your audience up, tons better for your MH. 3 - Budget properly: Yes, that new model or $300 background looks good, but surviving looks better, staying out of debt feels loads better. Keep aa 50-50 from your goals as a wage and only reinvest 50% of your VTuber stonks into VTubing, especially into projects that make very little back like music, skebs, etc. 4 - Be friendly, not a pushover: Risking your safety, mh, privacy is never worth it. Nobody should be making demands beyond the boundaries and timescale you set. Collab not comfortable for your schedule, don't do it. Friends pushing you to show your irl info, not your friends. Chat asking too much from you, you can give them a friendly no. It's your space, curate it to your needs. 5 - Work hard and reflect: Nobody wants to admit they have been lazy or could have done more, but sometimes it's good to admit to yourself that you were expecting too high a number for the content you put out. It sucks, but looking into your weaknesses as well as strengths is the only way to do better in the future. 6 - Make time: Don't spend 12h a day streaming when you get paid less than minimum wage per hour, stop burning yourself out for zero discoverability. Your time is better spend brainstorming and creating more off-stream content, looking at other streamers content and learning from those that came before you. Your time is so valuable, don't waste it. 7 - Finally: You are a person off-stream!!! Eat, drink, workout, socialize if you can. Have secrets. Have a life, friends and interests outside of stream. You don't need to share everything with your chat and community, and likewise you DON'T have to share your VTubing journey with your family if they don't need to know. If it's full-time, it's a job, there needs to be a step back at the end of the day, for your own sanity. Hope this reaches those that want to go full-time as a VTuber!!!show more

Every man lives two lives.⠀ ⠀ The second begins... when he realises that 2 sets of 6 reps builds more muscle than 4 sets of 12, while taking half the time and causing a quarter of the fatigue.⠀ ⠀ Because the only thing that causes growth is getting quality reps in close proximity to failure.⠀ ⠀ Heavy loads are the easier vehicle for achieving that.⠀ ⠀ There's less afferent feedback like lactic acid that could stop you before reaching true failure.⠀ ⠀ There's more focus and quality control because your sets are taking 20 seconds rather than 40-60.⠀ ⠀ There's more strength gains, because the loads are heavy enough to test your ability to move a weight explosively.⠀ ⠀ And there's less fatigue, so you're maintaining the growth stimulus across the exercise and session.⠀ ⠀ It's an easy choice to make, as long as you:⠀ ⠀ - Know that there is only one driver of hypertrophy⠀ - Understand that more isn't better⠀ - Accept that better is bettershow more

Our journey has always been challenging, but we persist... year after year. However, there are things that are beyond our control. As we start another year, it's time to let go of the negatives and appreciate all the memories we have shared over the years. 🌻 We are forever thankful for the love and support you have given us, especially with Kath and DJ. 💙 For all the love and loss we've endured, and the obstacles we had to overcome— May this new year be filled with Love and Healing. We will become stronger. ✨show more

Dear Africans. I know you think we are cowards.... You think we have allowed Mnangagwa to rule with impunity. This is is what we face. We have been facing this for the past 45 years. The problem is, we have been doing it peacefully but met with live bullets. SADC & AU are OK with us being killed. A time will come when we are going to pick matchets and guns and chop each other like what happened in Rwanda. SADC and AU will condemn us as barbarians. Millions of us have left our country not because we desire to be in your countries. We cannot live under this perpetual suffocation. Now we see that South Africans are tired of us. We don't want to be in your countries. We want to be in Zimbabwe. We have asked your presidents to restrain this rabid junta led by Mnangagwa but none of them has tried. We tried elections and we all saw what happened. We are at the end of out wits. and about to snap. If any of you can convince your governments to give us guns and a forest, you will see that we are not cowards.show more