This guy explains why everything we know about addiction is actually wrong

The future is here. PBIT at room temperature.

The 3 Rules of Adult Friendship

A Country of Particular Concern: The Fulani, Faith, and the Failure of the Nigerian State, by Elnathan John open.substack.com/pub/elnathanjo…

Happy to share this detailed study on jihadist expansion and difussion in Nigeria, which will be featured in the January vol. of CTC Sentinel A lot of fieldwork across Nigeria went into trying to understand this complex phenomenon (Thread to follow) ctc.westpoint.edu/kachallas-and-…

I saw Grant Lee post this on Linkedin and thought it was VERY good: Slack’s founder noticed something weird as they grew. Every young PM they hired immediately wanted to hire someone. When he asked why: "That person would do the product management, and I would do

🚨 Why is the British Empire in full panic mode? It's not about missiles. It's about a "boring" document that just ended their financial control over America. NATO generals are screaming for war. MI6 is coming out of the shadows. Russia is calling them out.

A massive new study on peak performance included 34,000 international top performers: Nobel laureates, renowned classical music composers, Olympic champs, and the world’s best chess players. It shows early specialization is a trap, and the road to greatness is long and varied.

Your brain might be tapping into universal intelligence. What is the true origin of intelligence? One provocative proposal comes from biophysicist and mathematician Douglas Youvan, who contends that the brain does not generate intelligence—it merely accesses it. Youvan posits

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Let's talk about Carl Stewart. If you were a high-level criminal in Europe around 2020, you didn't use WhatsApp. You used EncroChat. It was a bespoke, encrypted network sold specifically to organized crime. Costing thousands of dollars a year, these modified Android phones had

I highly recommend this article for anyone who still thinks that LLMs are still "only predicting the next token". It's long and unsettling but worth the read.

Billionaire Kenn Ricci is open with his kids about his wealth—and even has quarterly meetings with his family to talk about their finances. Watch the full interview with WSJ’s Gunjan Banerji: on.wsj.com/4szf3lO

It is with profound sadness and a heavy heart that we announce yesterday's passing of Erich von Däniken on January 10, 2026. Our thoughts are with his family. EvD is also mourned by his friends around the world, the millions of readers of his books, and the many colleagues who

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Seedance made this MV ft. Kayne West. It’s so well made that it’s going viral on Chinese internet.

Say goodbye to DEI in the sky with White Flight racial support pilots!

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild. He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already