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In 1980, the US Olympic hockey team defeated a socialist regime with repressive speech rules and intrusive restrictions on personal freedoms. 46 years later....we did it again! #Olympics2026


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🇺🇸 For bringing home the gold and delivering an overwhelming sense of pride throughout America, we hereby grant FREE CRABCAKES FOR LIFE to all members of the 2026 USA Men’s & Women’s Olympic Ice Hockey Teams! This applies to both dine-in and shipping for all time. God Bless

JimmysSeafood's tweet image. 🇺🇸 For bringing home the gold and delivering an overwhelming sense of pride throughout America, we hereby grant FREE CRABCAKES FOR LIFE to all members of the 2026 USA Men’s & Women’s Olympic Ice Hockey Teams! This applies to both dine-in and shipping for all time. God Bless

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There’s almost no media stories about the 2 sets of brothers being on the USA Olympic hockey team. In my opinion this is awesome. To the media this is nothing apparently.

ccmembersonly's tweet image. There’s almost no media stories about the 2 sets of brothers being on the USA Olympic hockey team.  In my opinion this is awesome.  To the media this is nothing apparently.

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The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet. 1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them

🚨: Scientists mapped 1 mm³ of a human brain ─ less than a grain of rice ─ and a microscopic cosmos appeared.

forallcurious's tweet image. 🚨: Scientists mapped 1 mm³ of a human brain ─ less than a grain of rice ─ and a microscopic cosmos appeared.
forallcurious's tweet image. 🚨: Scientists mapped 1 mm³ of a human brain ─ less than a grain of rice ─ and a microscopic cosmos appeared.


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LLMs process text from left to right — each token can only look back at what came before it, never forward. This means that when you write a long prompt with context at the beginning and a question at the end, the model answers the question having "seen" the context, but the

burkov's tweet image. LLMs process text from left to right — each token can only look back at what came before it, never forward. This means that when you write a long prompt with context at the beginning and a question at the end, the model answers the question having "seen" the context, but the

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the honest reality is that organic social interaction has basically collapsed for a lot of society, especially in cities where paradoxically everyone is surrounded by ppl but nobody talks to each other. 50 years ago, you couldn't have predicted this at all.


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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has become the country’s preeminent funder of humanities research, @Tyler_A_Harper writes. Is it saving American arts and letters—or killing them? theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…


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One of my favorite charts in the entire economics literature. Price discovery and information technology are good.

AlecStapp's tweet image. One of my favorite charts in the entire economics literature.

Price discovery and information technology are good.

Kerala fishermen used to sail to shore, pick a market, and hope for the best. On any given day, 5-8% of the catch was thrown away — fish rotting at glutted beaches while neighboring beaches had none. Then they got cell phones. Waste dropped to nearly zero.



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After reading Matt Shumer’s “Something Big is Coming” yesterday, which has hit 55M views, I started searching high and low for any and all counter arguments. Not because I believed he wasn’t being honest. Or revealing valid a tectonic shift coming. But because there is always


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In 1887, Mark Twain was asked what books every boy and girl should read. He responded with a list of seven. It's a list of Great Books, and they're not just for kids. I think adults should read them, too -- or, at least, read this thread about them: 🧵

CoffeewClassics's tweet image. In 1887, Mark Twain was asked what books every boy and girl should read.

He responded with a list of seven.

It's a list of Great Books, and they're not just for kids. 

I think adults should read them, too -- or, at least, read this thread about them: 🧵

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If your position at The Washington Post was recently eliminated, please consider applying to write for The Babylon Bee. We are seeking applicants experienced in writing fictional content presented in the tone and style of a legitimate news organization.


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Remember a few weeks ago when someone assassinated the top fusion energy researcher at MIT after doing some other killing at Brown? Then the guy killed himself inside a storage unit? Or something? Then we found out he was just unhappy? Or something? Press really digs in these


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Real.


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I left the Washington Post 12 years ago. An editor told me Jeff Bezos would gut the paper and I wouldn’t have a job very long. The motto when I left, before they changed it to ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness,’ was “For and about Washington.” They changed it to communicate the


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ChatGPT prompted to "create the exact replica of this image, don't change a thing" 74 times

From SynCronus

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Please enjoy this Cheeky Pint / @dwarkesh_sp crossover with @elonmusk. Dwarkesh was most interested in how Elon is going to make space datacenters work. I was most interested in Elon's method for attacking hard technical problems, and why it hasn’t been replicated as much as you


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A few thoughts about PayPal, nearly 12 years after I left. I woke up this morning to dozens of messages from former PayPal colleagues. It pushed me to finally speak up. I never spoke publicly about the company after I left. Part of that was loyalty to John Donahoe, who gave me


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