Intense emotions rarely last as long as we expect. In the heat of the moment, we overindex on our anguish today and underestimate our capacity to adapt tomorrow. Pain and sorrow are never permanent—they evolve over time. They can help us make sense, find meaning, and fuel

This gives me no pleasure, but given Elon Musk's history, claims, and behaviors, I can't let Richard's "welfare of the world at heart" line pass without comment. While watching Elon's rise to greater power (and the fawning of his fans), I started keeping notes. Thread (1)

“Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character. Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.” — Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang

Thank you The Thinking Atheist for participating in the Jimmy Snow fundraiser for the Secular Student Alliance. Always appreciate all that you do for our students. Live now: youtube.com/live/iIU1icHhw…

1. Satan isn’t real. Grow up, Governor. 2. Tulsa City Council should stop hosting official prayers. Not because of this “satanic” prayer, but because… 3. We have religious freedom in this country. 4. The city council cannot discriminate against non-Christian citizens.

What leads us to ignore experts isn't their knowledge. It's their arrogance. Evidence: Scientists are more credible when they admit what they don't know, acknowledge what they got wrong, and update their views. Trust is earned by expressing humility, not by asserting authority.

Alex Rosen Harry is a great dude with a great heart that really cares about our country and everyone in it! He is even respectful to assholes to pray on his downfall 24/7. A total class act!

NEW: Georgia Republicans have voted unanimously to expel former Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan from the party. His “sin”? Refusing to support Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election and choosing to put country over party by endorsing Vice President Harris. In a statement,

NOW: Before others claim they did it. Here's the news today from POTUS for veterans and their benefits.

Amen.

Many people mistake warmth for integrity. The fact that someone is nice to us doesn't mean they'll do right by us. Trustworthiness can't be judged in one interaction. It has to be observed over time. People with strong principles honor their commitments to us and to others.

This MAGA cultist got SILENCED 🤣

My God. Rachel Maddow: Today, a duck farm in operation since 1908 shut down to euthanize their entire flock of 100,000 ducks….Birdflu has killed more than 130 million U.S birds...and Trump ordered all information stopped including data for hospitals.

This isn't about school choice. Oklahoma has plenty of Catholic schools. This is about whether public schools can impose religion on your kids and you can be forced to fund religious public schools.

How to be a better critical thinker: 1. Be 10% more skeptical of people you agree with—and 10% more charitable to people you disagree with 2. Look for flaws in ideas you like—and strengths in arguments you dislike 3. Learn from sources that engage with competing ideas

Apple did more for AI than anyone else: they proved through peer-reviewed publications that LLMs are just neural networks and, as such, have all the limitations of other neural networks trained in a supervised way, which I and a few other voices tried to convey, but the noise

Adolf Eichmann murdered 6 million people from behind a desk. Then he vanished. 15 years later, 7 Mossad agents waited at a bus stop in Argentina. They weren’t there to arrest him. They came to kidnap him. This is how Israel hunted down the architect of the Holocaust:

Matrix multiplication is not easy to understand. Even looking at the definition used to make me sweat, let alone trying to comprehend the pattern. Yet, there is a stunningly simple explanation behind it. Let's pull back the curtain!