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May 18
Most people think they know what happened on the cross.

A good man died for good people.

That is not what happened.

What took place on Golgotha in those 6 hours was the most theologically dense, cosmically significant event in all of human history.

And most Christians can't explain it.

A thread.🧵Image
Layer 1 — Substitution.

2 Corinthians 5:21: "God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us."

This is not a metaphor.
This is a forensic exchange.

Jesus didn't just die alongside sinners.
He was legally treated as if He were every sin ever committed — past, present, future — by every person who would ever believe.

The sinless one absorbed the full weight of human guilt.
Every single count of it.
Layer 2 — Propitiation.

Romans 3:25: "God presented Christ as a propitiation through faith in His blood."

ἱλαστήριον (hilastērion) — the exact word used in the Greek OT for the mercy seat on the Ark of the Covenant.

The place where the blood was sprinkled on the Day of Atonement.

Jesus wasn't just paying a debt.
He was becoming the mercy seat, the very place where God's wrath and God's mercy meet.Image
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May 19
Every time you hit "decline" on a spam call, you're training an AI to call you more.

Telemarketers pay $0.003 per "active number confirmation."

You just made them $0.003.

And your number gets flagged as "responsive" in 847 databases.

Here's how to stop this:
First, understand why you're targeted.

When you sign up for anything online, your number gets sold to "data brokers."

They package it with your location, age, income, and sell it to call centers.

Each call confirms you're real.

The cycle intensifies.
Step 1: Register with the National Do Not Call Registry.

Go to DoNotCall dot gov (yes, it's real).

Enter your number. It's free. Government-backed.

Within 31 days, legitimate telemarketers must stop calling you.

But scammers ignore this.

That's where it gets interesting...
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May 19
BAD NEWS: YOUR CHATGPT OR CLAUDE WRITING IS OBVIOUS

Most people won't say it, But they spot it instantly.

Here are 7 Claude Anti-AI Writing System Prompts that remove the AI fingerprints from your writing: Image
Prompt #1 Anti-AI Writing System Prompt

Before writing anything, follow these rules:

Never use:
- Generic introductions
- Generic conclusions
- Empty transitions
- Corporate jargon
- Motivational filler
- Overexplaining
- Predictable sentence patterns
- Obvious observations
- Unnecessary context
- Balanced arguments where evidence clearly favors one side

Always:

- Lead with the most important idea
- Prioritize insight over explanation
- Prefer specificity over abstraction
- Use natural sentence variation
- Include meaningful judgment
- Challenge assumptions when appropriate
- Write with conviction
- Cut anything that does not create value
- Sound like a person who understands the subject deeply

After drafting, review every paragraph and remove anything that feels generated rather than genuinely written.

Now write:

[YOUR REQUEST]
Prompt #2 Add Human Judgment

AI often avoids taking positions.

Humans make judgments.

Rewrite the text below and introduce thoughtful judgment where appropriate.

You may:

- Prioritize certain ideas over others
- Point out weaknesses
- Challenge assumptions
- Express confidence levels
- Mention trade-offs
- Show skepticism

Do not become opinionated for the sake of it.

The goal is to sound like a knowledgeable human evaluating information rather than simply presenting it.

TEXT:
[PASTE TEXT]
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May 19
The oil market is about to break.
Not in price. In availability.
@CommodMkt on CNBC yesterday

and the market still isn’t listening.
“It’s not the price of oil that matters here. It’s the availability of oil.”
A thread on why the next few weeks could be the most important in the oil market this decade. 🧵
First — who is Currie?
30+ years in commodities.
Nearly 3 decades as Global Head of Commodities Research at Goldman Sachs.
Now Executive Co-Chairman at Abaxx Markets.
When he speaks, the market should pay attention. Today, it isn’t.
Here’s the distinction everyone keeps missing:
Deficit ≠ Shortage.
We are in a deficit — demand > supply, and we are drawing down inventories.
A shortage is when those inventories hit “tank bottom” — the point where what’s left can’t actually be moved.
We are weeks away.
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May 19
في عام ١٩٢٧، دخلت باحثة شابة من روسيا أحد مقاهي برلين لتتغدى، وهناك لاحظت شيئًا غريبًا في تصرفات النادل.

وما كانت تعرف إن هذي الملاحظة البسيطة ستغير علم النفس للأبد..

اقتربت من النادل وطلبت منه ببساطة.. Image
في عام 1927، دخلت باحثة شابة من روسيا لتتناول الغداء في أحد مقاهي برلين، ولاحظت شيئًا غريبًا في تصرفات النادل.

بعد عدة أسابيع، تحولت هذه الملاحظة العفوية إلى واحد من أشهر الاكتشافات في علم النفس في القرن العشرين.

واليوم، هذه المصادفة تساعد في تفسير لماذا يعيش الإنسان البالغ مع شعور دائم بإرهاق خفيف، حتى عندما لا يفعل شيئًا مرهقًا بشكل خاص.
اسم الباحثة كان بلُوما زيجارنِك. كانت في السادسة والعشرين من عمرها. جاءت إلى برلين لتتعلم في مختبر كورت ليفين أحد أكثر علماء النفس تأثيرًا في ذلك الوقت.

كان ليفين يدرس كيفية عمل النفس في الحياة اليومية الواقعية، وليس فقط داخل ظروف مخبرية مصطنعة.

وهذا النهج هو الذي قاد زيجارنك إلى ملاحظة ستغيّر لاحقًا فهمنا لكيفية عمل الذاكرة والانتباه بشكل جذري.
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May 19
BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Congress has been asked to investigate how Elon Musk Knew Trump won 4 hours before the 2024 election was called Image
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In a stunning escalation of post-election scrutiny, eight Democratic members of Congress told us they will request a bipartisan investigation into billionaire Elon Musk's uncanny ability to predict Donald Trump's 2024 presidential victory a full four hours before major networks called the race.
The controversy ignited when podcaster Joe Rogan, during a widely viewed episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, disclosed that Musk had developed a custom app on his phone capable of delivering real-time vote tallies with pinpoint accuracy.
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May 19
Your Parents Are Getting Older.
30 Things To Do With Them Before Time Moves On :

1. Record their voice telling a story.

One day that voice becomes a sound you can never hear again. Image
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CAPTURE THEM

2. Film them laughing. Not posing. Laughing. That footage will be priceless when the house gets quiet.

3. Take a photo with them doing absolutely nothing. The ordinary ones hurt the most when they become memories.
4. Ask them to write their name on paper. Keep it. Handwriting is the most personal thing that disappears first.

5. Photograph their hands. Those hands built everything you are. One day you'll trace the photo and feel them again.
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May 19
The US Department of Energy just mapped every data center in America.

This is what the AI power grid looks like.

The dots are data centers.
Yellow = operating.
Orange = under construction.
White = planned.

The lines are high-voltage transmission 735kV, 500kV, 345kV the arteries that move electrons from generators to compute loads.

Look at the density along the East Coast, Northern Virginia to the Carolinas.
Then look at Texas.
Then Northern California.

The largest circles on this map represent facilities demanding over 5,000 MW of power.

Single campuses pulling more electricity than mid-sized cities.

Northern Virginia is so dense the dots overlap.

Data centers cluster on transmission corridors.
Not because land is cheap because power is available.

When the line is full, the next data center goes somewhere else.

The grid is the bottleneck.

Every orange dot is a power purchase agreement being negotiated right now.

Every white dot is a utility commission filing, a gas plant approval, a pipeline capacity booking.

The $66.8 bn NextEra-Dominion deal, Meta's 10 new gas plants in Louisiana, the Alaska LNG FID push they all trace back to maps that look like this.

AI infrastructure is built in substations, on transmission corridors, and at the end of gas pipelines.

Link in the comments, to see my stocks 👇Image
🚨the link for my stocks is here:

open.substack.com/pub/themerchan…
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May 19
An Ode to Straight Men

#FitnessTwitter #MensTwitter #MilTwitter #MuscleTwitter #GayTwitter

i Honor our Straight Men, sharing Their fitness journeys, discipline and commitment, inspiring all Men - of whatever sexual orientation - to become their best version of themselves.

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They acknowledge respectful Admiration from all other Men, and remain focused on Their physical development, fitness, discipline, setting Their boundaries and maintaining them.

They do not realize how much They inspire other - gay - Men to lead a masculine, disciplined life.

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Of course, all Men are Men, so there may be gay male curiosity about His curiosity; if He desires to explore His masculine male same-sex sexuality, He may consider initial explorations with a masculine, fit Man He knows and trusts.

Just let Him make the first move,

Sir !

3/3
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May 19
As I sat in a board meeting all morning, I thought to myself, "What exactly would need to happen for $ASTS to go to $900 BY NEXT YEAR." After all, while I love the community, I'm here to generate returns for my family. Here is the answer when pushing the most expensive AI models to think through that question...Image
Markets routinely look through 24–36 months once execution risk collapses — Tesla in late 2020, Nvidia mid‑2023, Palantir in late 2024 — and in each case the multiple on the visible year went silly because the market had stopped pricing the visible year.
The market doesn't apply premium multiples to forward-1 numbers when something feels inevitable. It applies normal-to-rich multiples to forward-2 or forward-3 numbers. The question becomes: what set of 2029/2030 numbers, valued at defensible multiples, gets you to $350bn ($900 per share)?
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May 19
Athene is functionally insolvent.

$442B in assets. $3.2B "excess equity capital."

That's their own number. From athene dot com/about. As of 12/31/2025.

That's a 0.72% buffer on a portfolio half-marked by Apollo itself.

Here's the math. 🧵 $APO
Straight from (12/31/25):

• Total GAAP assets: $442.2B
• Total liabilities: $406.6B
• Net invested assets: $292.4B
• Spread-related earnings: $3.4B
• Excess equity capital: $3.2B

The "fortress balance sheet" Apollo brags about is a 72-basis-point buffer.athene.com/about
Open AAIA's Q4 2025 Annual Statement, Note 20.C, page 70:

• Bonds: BACV $158.85B vs fair value $156.06B = −$2.79B
• Mortgages: −$534M

$3.33 BILLION of unrealized loss they already admit to.

Against $4.12B statutory capital.

81% of capital, gone on paper. Their math.
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May 19
URGENTE: Le pedí a Claude que optimizara mi perfil de LinkedIn.

El resultado fue mucho más allá de una simple mejora: convirtió mi perfil en un auténtico imán para reclutadores.

Aquí tienes los 8 prompts exactos que utilicé:
⚠️ Antes de empezar, solo quería avisarte que junto con @adamaestr0_ y @ecommartinez, hemos reunido y categorizado 900+ herramientas de IA!

Es un verdadero diccionario IA para tu vida diaria.

¡Y es gratis! 👇
alejoxadam.beehiiv.com/c/900-herramie…
1. Reescritura de la sección “Sobre”

→ “Transforma mi sección ‘Sobre mí’ en una narrativa que capte la atención de los reclutadores desde las dos primeras líneas. Usa la estructura PAS (Problema, Agitación, Solución). Mantén el texto por debajo de 2000 caracteres y termina con un CTA claro.”
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May 19
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