Addiction is a progressive narrowing of the things that bring you pleasure. Happiness is a progressive expansion of the things that bring you pleasure. The former emerges passively. The latter takes work.

first AI came for the em dash—the single most versatile and stylish punctuation mark in the english language—and i did not speak out because i am not a punctuation mark

borders - which are really just the 1949 armistice, since the Palestinians pave insisted on the delusion of never knowing your “enemy”, even once in the past 100 years. And this is a Christian, now understand the brain rot of Palestine.

Citing plastic surgery journals in my NIH SBIR grant, lol

Sitting in a grungy bushwick coffee shop digitally signing a $150K contract

Why burn the Qur’an and provoke over a billion Muslims, when you can burn its sanctity in their hearts simply by knowing the truth and speaking it plainly, with no tolerance for the intolerant.

August 29th. amélie.

i love how a festival built on the ethos of “radical love, communal vibes, and eco-consciousness” decides their big contribution is a diesel-hauled steel billboard screaming at the world’s leading decarbonization engineer to fuck off peak performance art, i'll give em that

The better the founder, the more unemployable they become.

1970-1972: Why did an unprecedented wave of Palestinian 🇵🇸 terror sweep the world? Including an attempted 🇵🇸 coup in Jordan, leading to 🇯🇴 bombing UNRWA ghettos. Even tanks of Arafat's Palestinian National Army fought. The campaign was to *stop* a Palestinian state (WB + Gaza)

Last 3 months to escape the permanent underclass

random observation evaluating GPT 5 and Claude Sonnet, side by side with identical prompts. GPT is more sycophantic, Claude is kind of cuter prose, in a charming way.

My 5 year manifestation currently includes a goal to have a 40th birthday Kendall Roy “too much birthday” levels of hype

Jane Street brought in $10B of revenue this Q with 3000 employees. That's $13.5M/yr of revenue per employee. Only OnlyFans ($37M), Valve ($19M) and Craigslist ($14M) are higher.

If you’re struggling to get back up, it’s going to be more miserable on the ground. You’ve got this.

Manifesting is about truth

Some will ask, why level the building? Why not clear room by room? Wouldn’t that be more proportional than dropping the whole thing? The answer is that the building will, 100% guaranteed, be riddled with booby traps, IEDs and suchlike. This is a well established Hamas tactic.

we ask for longer lives, we get labubus

How to spot high agency people: You can never guess their opinion.

epidemic of people living lives that exceed their ancestors’ wildest hopes and dreams and having a distinctly terrible attitude about it