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- Dr. Christina Maher combines software engineering, finance, and neuroscience backgrounds to develop brain-computer interfaces for enhanced human communication
- Free Will research by Sam Harris and Behave by Robert Sapolsky suggest humans may lack true Free Will due to subconscious brain processes
- Personalized medicine will enable disease prediction and treatment before symptoms appear, addressing individual brain chemistry differences
- Your nervous system chooses your partners before your mind does - chaos can feel like chemistry
- The Citrini article caused market panic that reminded Haydek of 1984 - 'just science fiction' creating Orwellian-style fear
- The Hot Hand was released March 10, 2020 — the book party was Tuesday, and 'the world shut down on Wednesday,' making for a uniquely strange launch experience.
- The 'learning budget' strategy involves dedicating 1-10% of monthly income to skill acquisition and business experiments
- Tracy Letts lived through 1976 at age 11, getting a Honda 50 dirt bike for his bicentennial birthday while his parents ran a disastrous grocery store experiment
- Medical professionals acknowledge limits of science: 'There's just some things that medicine can't answer'
- Communication and education help average people access medical wisdom and research they wouldn't otherwise have
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Hollywood, The CIA & UFOs: The History Beyond Spielberg
A man claiming to be from the Office of Naval Intelligence crashed the Dark Skies premiere party in 1996, offering Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman access to classified UFO information in exchange for n
The Biggest Pivot In AI History Is Happening Right Now | Jordi Visser
Recursive self-improvement in AI — predicted by Situational Awareness The Decade Ahead for 2027-2028 — may have effectively arrived early, with Anthropic's Fable-5 (Mythos) jailbroken within 3 days of
How Substack Creators Are Covering This Strange Markets Era
James Van Gielen received two credible death threats after publishing his viral AI jobs doom scenario, underscoring how charged the public debate has become.
The Career Trap That Makes Women Miserable - Suzanne Venker - #1113
80% of women who reach menopause without children didn't intend to be childless — only ~10% are childless by choice, per Suzanne Venker
Why Kalshi's John Wang Says Perps Are 'the Most Pure Trading Instrument'
Kalshi's crypto prediction markets have grown 15x since the start of the year, generating $2-3 billion in monthly volume as the platform's second-largest category.
Your Company Doesn’t Need an AI Strategy
Satya Nadella's viral post A Frontier Without an Ecosystem Is Not Stable argues the real AI opportunity is building a learning loop where human capital and token capital compound together.
The data black hole at the center of AI
Frontier AI models are trained on tens to hundreds of trillions of tokens — nearly a million-fold more data than a human absorbs from birth to adulthood (~200 million tokens).
UFO Researcher Details The STRANGEST Alien Encounters - Preston Dennett | DEBRIEFED ep 93
Preston Dennett conducted hundreds of formal interviews and estimates 1 in 40-50 people have had onboard ET experiences, consistent with the 1991 Roper Poll finding of 1 in 50.
The Resurgence of Decentralized AI | Roundup
Anthropic's Fable model is inaccessible in Canada and other regions, and a team of Amazon researchers jailbroke it quickly after launch, exposing real limits of centralized AI control.
Anthropic's Co-Founder and Top Economist on Doing Research at the AI Frontier
Anthropic engineers write ~8x more code in 2026 than in 2021-2024, with some colleagues no longer programming at all — just directing Claude agents.
Why Pandl Calls Gold and Bitcoin Buys Here
Gold's megatrend started in 2022 with Russia's invasion of Ukraine and sanctions on Russia's central bank, driving prices from ~$4,000 to $5,500 before speculative excess set in.
The Models Trying to Fill the Fable Gap
ZAI's GLM-5.2 ranks #1 on BridgeBench and reasoning, beating Fable-5 at 1/10 the cost and 300 tokens per second output
#2516 - Rowan Jacobsen
Sunlight triggers opiate release in the brain — 'your body wants it and your body rewards you when you get it' — and extends lifespan rather than shortening it
From Memecoins to Markets: Solana’s Next Trade
Backpack's one-for-one fungible tokenized equities allow direct transfers between on-chain and traditional brokerages, marking a major step toward real-world crypto integration.
Ben Cohen - The Hidden Art of Making Things Better (Ep. 319)
The Hot Hand was released March 10, 2020 — the book party was Tuesday, and 'the world shut down on Wednesday,' making for a uniquely strange launch experience.
Carmen Li's Plan to Build a Futures Market for Compute
GPU futures and options will launch on CME in a couple months pending CFTC approval, marking the first tradable compute derivatives
The Mental Frame & Specific Daily Actions to Succeed | Andy Stumpf
Drown Proof introduces the influence versus concern exercise: draw a line down paper, list concerns on left, influence on right - most people find only themselves on the influence side
#396 ‒ Breast cancer screening: understanding risk, deciding when to start and how often to screen, and choosing the right imaging strategy
Women who screen regularly are up to 40% less likely to die from breast cancer, with 10-year survival over 96% when caught at stage 1
679. Germany: The Song Hitler Stole (Part 3)
Germany's anthem 'Das Lied der Deutschen' was written in 1841 by poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben on British-owned Heligoland island
This Week in AI in 5 Minutes: Fable Chaos Edition
US government directed Anthropic to cut off foreign national access to Fable-5 and Mythos-5, forcing complete shutdown
Fable 5 Shut Down by US Government
US government ordered Anthropic to suspend Fable-5 and Mythos-5 access for all foreign nationals citing national security concerns
Anjney Midha's Plan to Radically Lower the Price of Compute
Anjaney Middha wrote the first check for Anthropic after 25 VCs initially rejected the company in late 2020
How The Partner You Choose Reveals Your Self-Worth - Quinlan Walther - #1110
"Your nervous system will always choose a familiar hell over an unfamiliar heaven" - Cathy Overman
The AI Chart Everyone Is Getting Wrong
SpaceX IPO priced at $135 per share with $1.8 billion valuation, making it the 7th largest company globally ahead of Tesla and Meta
BONUS | Not Everything Has To Be Productive (with Chris Guillebeau)
A man named Jan spent 30 years flying from Amsterdam to random European cities every Wednesday, never leaving the airport terminals
SpaceX IPO Day, We Won The Iran War Again, & US Tops Oil Export List | The Tom Bilyeu Show Live
Trump announces Iran deal for the 38th time with 14-point agreement including $24 billion in unfrozen assets and $300 billion reconstruction plans
Eddy Deep Dive
Network tokens enable decoupled pricing and growth spending through 'buy and burn' revenue capture while separately minting tokens for growth investments
Blockworks Acquires Messari
Blockworks acquired Messari to combine complementary approaches: Blockworks' deep protocol analysis with Messari's broad 40,000-asset data coverage
Revealing The Nordic Alien Prophecies - Michael Horn | DEBRIEFED ep. 92
Michael Horn claims Billy Meier has published over 250 error-free prophecies spanning decades, including predicting the World Trade Center destruction in 1987 - Horn
How to Forge Masculinity Into Manliness | FRIDAY FIELD NOTES
Masculinity is raw biological force that's amoral - neither good nor bad - while manliness is masculinity disciplined and aimed at righteous purposes
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