Recent well liked threads

Apr 27
Dr. Alex Tatum just dropped one of the biggest interviews about peptides.

He broke down the 15 most important peptides and what each one actually does to your body on the Diary of a CEO podcast:

1) BPC-157 for injury and tissue repair
This peptide is for anyone recovering from a torn muscle, pulled tendon, or gut issues like ulcerative colitis.

It works by growing new blood vessels directly at the site of injury to speed up the healing process.

Injected under the skin near the injured area.
2) GHK-Cu

This is for men and women noticing fine lines, sagging skin, or thinning hair.

It boosts collagen and elastin production directly where applied. It's also the one anti-aging compound with real science behind it.

Used as a topical cream.
Read 17 tweets
May 7
On Hantavirus: a (non-technical) thread.

Disclaimer: I am a biology PhD, but not virology/epidemiology. Husbandman is a virology PhD. But I’m told I’m good at communicating science, so here’s my take.

#Hantavirus
Humans get hantavirus from rodents who carry it.

Some people went to Argentina birdwatching in a landfill, and were exposed to hantavirus because rodents like landfills.

Looks like one - if not two - people brought the virus onto their cruise boat.
So now we have an isolated boat with an index case: someone who is infected.

That’s not good for the index case. Hantavirus has a high fatality rate, and that’s scary.
Read 20 tweets
May 10
If Apple tells you your iPhone needs a new battery because it keeps dying, do this first.

I went from charging three times a day to 48-hour battery life in one night.

I hope this helps you as it has helped me:
The smartphone ecosystem is a heavily monetized data-harvesting machine designed to extract your telemetry. I spent the last month completely tearing down how iOS defaults drain your hardware.

Here are 18 rules to bypass the battery traps, lock down your device, and direct your own reality: ↓↓
First. The "Background Refresh" Trap

Situation: You close an app and assume it stops running. You think your phone is resting quietly in your pocket, conserving power while you go about your day. You treat the screen turning off as a hard stop to all processing. You assume you are in control of the interaction.

System: Realize that Background App Refresh allows dozens of corporate applications to silently wake up, connect to the internet, and download data while your screen is completely black. They are constantly pulling your battery and processing power just to stay relevant for the exact second you might decide to open them. It is invisible labor done entirely for third-party developers.

Why it works: Turn it off completely. You force applications to only consume power when you actively decide to open them. You dictate the exact terms of execution, shutting down the background hemorrhage of your hardware's finite power.
Read 22 tweets
May 11
🚨BREAKING: Anthropic just dropped free courses to master AI with certificates.

No tuition. No waitlist. No BS.

Here're 10 courses that will replace a $100K degree
1. Code in Action Accelerate development workflows using Claude Code

anthropic.skilljar.com/claude-code-in
2. Claude 101 Learn Claude basics for everyday productivity

.anthropic.skilljar.com/claude-101
Read 11 tweets
May 11
"I travel too much to stay in shape."

I've heard this 1,000 times.

I've coached hundreds of executives and parents who travel every week and are in the best shape of their lives.

Here's the exact hotel room workout I give them:

(No gym. 30 minutes. Dumbbells only.)
Why this works:

Hotel gyms can be terrible. Some have nothing.

But they do have dumbells.

Dumbbells and 30 minutes is all you need to maintain muscle, manage stress, and keep your metabolism firing on the road.

Consistency beats perfection. Every time.

Here is the workout:
1. DB Goblet Squat

Muscles:
⚬ Quads, Glutes, Hamstrings, Core

Tips:
⚬ Hold DB at chest height
⚬ Feet shoulder width, toes out
⚬ Sit deep — thighs below parallel
⚬ Drive through your heels
⚬ Chest tall throughout

2 x 10-15 reps
Read 12 tweets
May 11
Robert Sapolsky is a Stanford neuroscientist who proved chronic stress is the silent killer doctors ignore.

On Chris Williamson's podcast, he revealed 10 "normal" habits you do every day that wreck your sleep, mood, and nervous system:

1) Replay conversations in your head
Sapolsky's exact words: "ruminating about that weird thing you said to a teacher 15 years ago."

Your brain doesn't know the conversation isn't happening right now. It triggers the same cortisol surge as the original threat.

Notice it. Name it. Redirect.
2) Worry about scenarios that haven't happened

Sapolsky's signature line: a zebra reacts to a lion for 30 seconds, then grazes peacefully. A human worries about an imagined lion for 30 years.

When you catch yourself: ask "is this happening right now?"
Read 19 tweets
May 11
ALERT: Group of former Justice Dept employees, w/ Washington Litigation Group, files emergency suit to HALT Trump's re-painting of Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

Suit: "The grey, achromatic basin was not incidental to the design. It was the design"

washingtonlitigationgroup.org/wp-content/upl…
LAWSUIT challenging Trump's repainting of Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blasts Trump's gaudy reimaging:

"The 1999 National Park Service Cultural Landscape Report for the Lincoln Memorial Grounds specifically identifies the dark-tiled basin as a character-defining feature of the historic landscape, noting that 'the dark color of the tile created the illusion of greater depth and a more profound reflection"
(MORE) Suit challenging Trump changes to Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool:

"Defendants engaged a swimming pool contractor to resurface the Reflecting Pool.. a vivid blue coating.. Shockingly, Defendants started altering the historic character of the Reflecting Pool without following Congressionally mandatory procedures"
Read 4 tweets
May 11
Global pandemic of Kardashianism + poverty (material, cultural, and spiritual) of the Balkan lower classes = this horrific creature presented to me in a Romanian wig shop display window. Image
This is a sleep paralysis demon. Image
Read 2 tweets
May 11
Haven’t really TVed in years but listening to ep.s of Girls on 2X while doing busywork out of genderslop curiosity & find it interesting. eg the girls all just seem to hate each other & often say as much yet keep intimately hanging out. Nothing passes bechdel test, but feministly
Its morality & worldview feel more intriguingly & relevantly alien than almost any scifi. Every scene vibrates with feelings of intense stakes & views, but nothing ever has any consequences & nobody thinks/talks/acts propositionally, & somehow this stakelessness is what spirals…
I’m sure this is how girls feel seeing how guys bond/coordinate/compete by joshing each other. “How can you distinguish the insults etc that are meant for friends vs acquaintances vs enemies vs peers vs bosses vs inferiors vs enemies vs tests, & why?” Girls are different species.
Read 6 tweets
May 11
1/
The @nytimes just published one of the most serious sets of allegations imaginable against Israel – claims of systematic sexual violence, including a bizarre story about carrots and trained rape dogs. We checked the sources.

What we found is journalistic malpractice. 🧵 Image
2/
First, Sami al‑Sai, introduced by @NickKristof as a “freelance journalist.” What the NYT doesn’t tell you: al‑Sai has a long record of celebrating terrorists on social media.

Kristof repeats gruesome details of “vomit, blood and broken teeth” and lets al‑Sai claim he was arrested to pressure him into becoming an informant. In reality, al‑Sai had already been jailed in 2016 for incitement – and his 2024 arrest was again for incitement.

His own Facebook explains why.Image
Image
3/
On 23 March 2023 al‑Sai posted about Amir Abu Khadija, calling him “our martyred prince.”
Abu Khadija wasn’t some random victim. He was the founder and leader of the Tulkarm Battalion – a terrorist group behind multiple deadly attacks, including:
🔴30 May 2023 – Israeli civilian murdered near Hermesh
🔴19 Oct 2023 – 1 IDF officer killed, 10 wounded
🔴23 Mar 2024 – 4 Israeli soldiers killed
🔴1 Jul 2024 – 1 soldier killed, another severely injured

In December 2023 – just two months before his arrest – al‑Sai posted videos and photos celebrating armed fighters in Nur Shams camp.

16 Dec – “Moons of Nur Shams camp,” showing terrorists in tactical gear

18 Dec – cheering captured Israeli military equipment
The very next day, 17 Dec, Israeli forces raided Nur Shams, killing five terrorists. Al‑Sai had close access to the gunmen Israel was targeting. NYT’s due diligence on his background? Zero.Image
Image
Image
Read 10 tweets
May 11
self-verification (Outcomes) + self-learning (Dreaming) are two of the most interesting new features we shared at Code With Claude last week.

a few notes + video links to the talks ... Image
1/ Outcomes in Claude Managed Agents is just a "Ralph loop" to verify output vs a user provided rubric. it uses a grader sub-agent for the verification. some interesting points on the benefits of an isolated verifier here:
anthropic.com/engineering/ha…Image
2/ @jess__yan + i showed a toy example of Outcomes: i had an Managed Agent make a generative UI w/ metrics (charts, graphs) rendered as svg. i used an Outcomes loop to improve the render timing - Claude figured out various tricks (prompting, etc) to speed it up.
Read 7 tweets
May 11
Last week, the United States refused to participate in the UN’s review of the Global Compact on Migration.

The United States objects to the Global Compact on Migration and UN efforts to facilitate replacement migration to the United States and our Western allies.
UN agencies systematically facilitated mass migration into America and Europe, even as citizens of these nations called for restrictions on migration.

Now the Global Compact’s latest report urges nations to expand migration pathways and pursue “regularization” of migrants.
UN agencies – working with the NGOs they fund – established a migration corridor through Central America and to the U.S. border.

As the American people suffered under an unprecedented wave of mass migration, the UN was on the ground pipelining migrants to our southern border.
Read 8 tweets
May 11
En mi tienda hay una Switch 2 con la que la gente puede jugar cuando quiera.
El otro día vino un niño, tendría unos 7 años, con sus abuelos.
La abuela me preguntó si el niño podía jugar al juego de las carreras (el Mario Kart). Yo le dije que sí, pero que era un juego para Image
dos jugadores, así que tenían que elegir quién de los abuelos jugaba con su nieto. En un principio dijeron que ellos en la vida habían cogido un mando, pero al final, la abuela se lanzó a la misión para que el nieto pudiera jugar.
"Con esto acelera y con esto gira. A correr."
No necesitaba saber más.
Los siguientes minutos fueron ORO. La señora vio que sin tener ni idea, lo entendía todo. Empezó a reírse a carcajada limpia y así estuvo las 3 vueltas que duraba la carrera. Se la escuchaba desde fuera de la tienda partiéndose de risa mientras jugaba.
Read 6 tweets
May 11
Which reminds me.. 🤭

It was wild!🎶 Image
Image
🎶
Read 23 tweets
May 11
China fields a military where 70-80% of soldiers are only children. Every battlefield death risks extinguishing a family line. This demographic reality shapes Xi's strategic calculus in ways Western analysis should pay more attention to. My new piece explores this. 1/5 🧵mickryan.substack.com/p/one-child-on…Image
2/ China's one-child policy ended in 2015. Its military consequences are only beginning. By 2015, ~70% of PLA soldiers and 80% of combat troops came from one-child households. There is almost no historical precedent for a major military force comprised almost entirely of only children.
3/ The research is sobering. Only children are measurably less trusting, less resilient, less risk-tolerant, and less competitive than those with siblings. These are not ideal traits for combat. They are increasingly the defining traits of the PLA's human capital.
Read 5 tweets
May 11
Jesus' first miracle wasn't really about running out of wine.

It was about something theologians have argued over for 2,000 years.

The wedding at Cana contains one of the most layered symbols in all of Scripture.

Most people read right past it.

A thread on what it actually means.🧵Image
The story: John 2:1–11. A wedding in Cana of Galilee. The wine runs out.

Mary tells Jesus. He responds:

"Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come." (v.4)

That phrase — "My hour" — appears 7 times in John. Every single time, it refers to the cross.

He knew exactly what He was doing.
The jars matter enormously.

"Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding 20 to 30 gallons." (v.6)

Six jars. Not seven; the number of completion in Hebrew culture.

Six is the number of man. Of incompleteness. Of a covenant that hadn't yet been fulfilled.Image
Read 9 tweets
May 12
Magnesium + potassium combination lowered cortisol by ~45% and completely eliminated severe insomnia in a recent clinical trial.

(🧵1/7)Image
They gave type 2 diabetics with sleep disorders one of four treatments:

◇ Placebo (T1)
◇ Magnesium (Mg, T2)
◇ Potassium (K, T3)
◇ A combination of Mg and K (T4)

each at 250 mg - for 2 months. Keep in mind this is a puny amount of potassium.

The results were astonishing. Image
People taking either magnesium or potassium showed lower cortisol,

but people taking BOTH (T4) saw the biggest reduction - down from 41.57 ug/dL all the way down to 22.7.

That is a drop of 45.4%! Insane. Image
Read 10 tweets