Every picture of JP Morgan published in his lifetime (and thus nearly every picture published since) was heavily retouched. This is what he actually looked like.
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In Gaza, 10 year old children are making wills.
🚨 HEARTWRENCHING: A will found beneath the rubble of Rasha, a child only 10 years old, who was killed by the Israeli army in #Gaza:
“Please don’t cry for me, as it would make me sad. I hope my clothes can go to those in need, and my accessories to Rahaf, Lana, and Batool. The bead boxes should go to Batool. As for my monthly allowance of 50 shekels, I want half to go to Rahaf and the other half to Ahmad. I’d like Batool to have my toys. Lastly, please don’t shout at my brother Ahmad. Please follow these wishes.”
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I don't have to tell you what happened to these three boys. You already know. How awful is that?
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It's remarkable how many people who've never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who's run Tesla and SpaceX.
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65 doctors, nurses, and paramedics told the New York Times what they saw in Gaza. What they saw was a pattern of children being shot in the head.
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A Palestinian child's life is worth as much as an Israeli child's life.
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Which of America's bold new cohort of Republican leaders is bold enough to answer this?
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Don't do this. No matter how much you dislike Trump, don't do this. Half the people in America voted for Trump. If you think voting for Trump makes people evil, then you have to believe half the people in America are evil, and that's just deluded.
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My God. Each pair of shoes is a child's life.
Today in Utrecht a grim milestone was marked; for the 2nd year in a row, a Dutch activist group laid out children’s shoes & read aloud the names & ages of the children who have been killed by the Israelis in Gaza.
Today they read 19k names. It took almost 6 hours.
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She's eight.
🚨Eight-year-old Mira Mohammed was found asleep from exhaustion at the gate of Al-Shifa Medical Complex, clutching an empty pot in her hand, searching for something, anything, to eat because there is no food at home. Too tired to continue, she collapsed right there on the concrete, still hungry due to the Israeli total blockade on the Gaza Strip
To contact Mira and her family: +972595189511
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I used to think <person> was smart. Then I discovered that he disagrees with me about <political issue>, and I realized he couldn't be, because no one who disagrees with me about <political issue> could be smart.
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Unless there's some technical glitch or weather problem, the first privately developed supersonic aircraft will go supersonic in about 4 hours.
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I don't think I've ever seen a Twitter dispute that was so one-sided. All the people who understand tech, on both right and left, are on one side, and the other side is just anonymous accounts and political commentators.
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When you're dealing with exponential growth, the time to act is when it feels too early.
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When you think of a witty reply to a tweet, instead of replying (or worse still, quote-tweeting) with it, look at the existing replies and like the one that's there already.
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Wokeness will seem such a joke in retrospect that many people won't believe it was ever a serious problem. Even many of the participants will forget. But it really was a big problem.
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No one realized it at the time, but the accident at Three Mile Island cost thousands of lives. Not directly, but by making nuclear power unpopular in the US, and thus causing us to switch to more dangerous power sources.
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This actually gives me some hope that Trump will reconsider his tariff plans. Low oil prices hurt Russia, and he never seems to do anything contrary to Russia's interests.
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If you haven't decided yet who to vote for, here's why I think you should vote for Harris.
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"They should be ashamed of their silence." This is not a bunch of student protestors. This is the editorial board of the Financial Times.
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This may be the most inspiring sentence I've ever read. Which is interesting because it's not phrased in the way things meant to be inspiring usually are.
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Till I saw this picture I hadn't realized how long it had been since I saw anything related to politics that made me happy.
Hypothesis: We should elect people who can read to a group of little kids without seeming unnatural.
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Cigarette sales and lung cancer deaths are the same curve, shifted 25 years.
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Remember when we were told children were being killed in Gaza because Hamas was using them as human shields? Now we know the real reason. When Israel wanted to kill someone, they waited till he went home, then dropped a bomb on the building, killing the whole family.
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A friend who's a former British military officer told me that when he was training soldiers in jungle warfare they were taught that if they got lost in the jungle, the first thing they should do was to brew a cup of tea and think about what to do next.
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This UN vote shows how completely isolated we are from world opinion. Is it because only America is smart enough to understand the Israeli point of view? Or because America's most powerful lobby has dragged us onto the wrong side of history? The answer to that is obvious.
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It's strange how many people there are who both worry that Elon will do a bad job of running Twitter, and also clearly hope that he does.
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It's a very exciting time in tech right now. If you're a first-rate programmer, there are a huge number of other places you can go work rather than at the company building the infrastructure of the police state.
ICE Signs $30 Million Contract With Palantir to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’
ICE has awarded Palantir Technologies a $30 million contract to develop a new software platform to expand its surveillance and enforcement operations, building on Palantir’s decade-long collaboration with ICE.
Key features and functions:
➤ ImmigrationOS will give ICE “real-time visibility” into visa overstays, self-deportation cases, and individuals flagged for removal, including foreign students flagged for removal for protesting US-Israeli genocide.
➤ ImmigrationOS will integrate data from multiple government database systems, helping ICE track immigration violators and coordinate with agencies like Customs and Border Protection.
➤ The platform is designed to streamline the entire immigration enforcement process—from identification to removal—aiming to reduce time, labor, and resource costs.
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"Cancelling student debt" is a misnomer. All that money still got spent. The only thing that changes is who pays. What "cancelling student debt" really means is that people who don't have student debt pay off the debt of those who do.
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I feel like someone killed a background process that had been consuming 5% of my CPU for the last 4 years.
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At this point, you should be default skeptical of any news story about Twitter. Many journalists have an agenda, there are a lot of angry ex-Twitter people ready to tell them what they want to hear, and there are a lot of readers eager to consume negative stories.
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Trees make towns look rich, and towns that look rich become rich.
Lancaster, CA transformed its downtown in just 8 months by redesigning it's main street from a mini-highway to a tree-lined boulevard.
For the cost of just $11.5M, the project has generated $273M in economic output since 2010, creating 800 jobs, and nearly doubling tax revenue!
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A company asked why it was so hard to hire a good writer. I told them it was because good writing is an illusion: what people call good writing is actually good thinking, and of course good thinkers are rare.
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That is in fact what has happened. Since the 90s the right has moved a little further right, but the left has moved a lot further left.
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Steph Curry makes 858 times the median US salary. Are we really supposed to believe he does that much better than the average person would in his place?
The ratio of CEO pay to worker pay is almost 300 to 1. Are we really supposed to believe CEOs work 300 times harder or create 300 times more value than us?
jacobin.com/2023/11/ceo-perf…
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One advantage of having many distinct sovereign nations instead of a single world government is that they can try different policies and we can see which work best.
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One startup today needed a new name. In ten minutes we found a five-letter .com name that wasn't taken. It felt like 2005.
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I asked a friend who's a criminal defense lawyer what he'd change about the world to fix the most problems. He specializes in death penalty cases, so he's seen a lot. I expected him to say drugs, but he said if he could change one thing, it would be to make people better parents.
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ChatGPT's answers are like journalism: they sound fairly convincing unless they're about something you understand well, in which case you realize they're full of mistakes.
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So it should be. That's the point of ethics: to stop you from doing something you'd like to do, but that would be wrong.
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Wow, I didn't realize the difference between cars and motorcycles was this big. Motorcycles are 29x more dangerous.
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This was funded by a group started by three rich Americans who became concerned about climate change after their houses in Malibu were threatened by wildfires in 2018. I'm not making this up.
NOW - Climate activists defile Van Gogh's Sunflowers at the National Gallery and glued themselves to the wall.
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If you go to chrome://settings/adPrivacy you can turn off the spyware that got inserted into the latest version of Chrome.
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Something I explained to 13 yo: There is no intrinsically fair price for any commodity, just the market price. Most people have no problem understanding that. Until the commodity is labor. Then suddenly it becomes hard to understand.
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"I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time."
— Charlie Munger
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A grim month: 31 Israeli and at least 3600 Palestinian children have been killed since October 7.
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"I don't want to have to pay for Brain Premium to avoid getting Coca-Cola ads in my sleep."
— 12 yo on why he won't get a Neuralink implant
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Men commit 95% of homicides. I don't consider it a slander if someone says men are inherently more violent. It seems obviously true.
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If you didn't speak out against *both* woke censorship and Trump's attempts to suppress criticism of Israel at universities, you're not a genuine free speech advocate. You're just a partisan hack who pretends to care about free speech when it suits you.
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It just occurred to me that (a) AI is probably the biggest story happening at the moment, (b) I'm following the story on Twitter rather than in the press, and (c) I had till now taken this for granted.
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I wonder if the reason he thought it would be faster is that he thought at first that all they'd have to do was make a new version, and now he realizes they'll have to fire a lot of people first.
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Took me a long time to realize solutions aren't always what people want. Sometimes they just want someone to empathize with them.
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When I was a kid, I genuinely believed this was where we'd all be living by now. Do kids today have some sci-fi vision of the future, or was that just my generation?
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Australian doctor in Gaza:
"The bombing is ongoing, and every half an hour to an hour we have another mass casualty that arrives in huge numbers because the whole building is destroyed on top of patients."
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The ridiculous images generated by Gemini aren't an anomaly. They're a self-portrait of Google's bureaucratic corporate culture.
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In 99% of startups, failing to execute is a much bigger danger than being copied. So it's a mistake to risk the former in order to avoid the latter.
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If anyone is wondering why we need that boring-sounding thing called "due process," it's because if you don't have it you're depending entirely on the word of the guy on the left.
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Founder Mode: paulgraham.com/foundermode.h…
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After years of puzzling over Elon Musk's behavior, a theory is gaining ground within the SEC that it's due to a previously unseen phenomenon known as a "sense of humor."
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It looks like The Guardian is hoping that Elon will do for their subscriber numbers what Trump did for the New York Times's.
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A study of 1452 undergrads at Northwestern and Michigan between 2023 and 2025 found that 88% pretended to hold more left wing views than they actually had in order to succeed socially or academically.
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If you're socially awkward, people will mistakenly think you dislike them, and that will make them actually dislike you.
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There's certainly a list of people who wired large amounts to Epstein. Banks keep records of those. Let's start with that.
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You can tell just by looking at this progression that this was a labor of love for a lot of very smart people.
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It's hard to imagine a country both arresting the founder of Telegram and being a major startup hub.
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Prediction: Wokeness will recede significantly in 2024. There were always more people against it than there seemed, but many were afraid to say so. Now that it's safer to criticize it, more will.
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The survival curve inflates like a sail, but the far end of it doesn't move much.
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The deprioritization of tweets with links in them is Twitter's biggest flaw. It bothers me more than all the new right-wing trolls. Trolls I'm used to, but what draws me to Twitter is to find out what's going on, and you can't do that without links.
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In both those companies, people die if the software doesn't work right. Do you really think he's not up to managing a social network?
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Something I explained to my 12 yo: When you're a little kid, your parents create your environment. Then there's a second stage where your peers do. Then for ambitious people there's a third stage where you create your own environment by choosing your own peers.
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Don't drop out of college to start or work for a startup. There will be other (and probably better) startup opportunities, but you can't get your college years back.
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If you're inexperienced, don't try to pretend you're not. It will fool no one and make you look ridiculous. Instead just be openly curious. This will seem natural instead of awkward, and you'll learn a lot more.
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Nine former CDC directors who served under Republican and Democratic presidents warn that the damage RFK Jr is doing to America's public health system is "unlike anything our country has ever experienced."
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When people talk about using "real" human body shapes in ads, they're talking about body shapes determined by processed foods and sedentary lifestyles, which are both quite unreal.
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Idea: Before writing an essay, have ChatGPT write one on the same topic to show you what would be the conventional thing to say, so you can avoid saying that.
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This looks like a shot from a dystopian movie. The symmetry, the shininess, the flags that look like cones, the guards with capes. Everything says dictator.
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Reddit is unique in social media. 15 years after launching, it still hasn't peaked.
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Explained to a rather surprised English woman that Elon isn't actually evil — that evil people can't survive long as founders of tech cos, because they need smart people to work for them, and smart people can work anywhere.
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Technologies often reach a remarkable level of perfection just before they become obsolete.
Building a Mercedes-AMG G63 V8 engine.
[📹 Mr. Benz]
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America's enemies could not in their dreams have hoped for anything better than for the country to get embroiled in a pointless beef with their neighbor and arguably closest ally.
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If you care about money or power, stay close to AI, because for the foreseeable future this will be the big source of change in both.
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