🧵YES. It is. I debunk this ridiculous piece in this thread. 1/ the lie (from the usual source):
2/ He conflates freshwater with potable water to get at his stat and leaves out gas turbine cooling in order to decrease the amount of water most AI datacenters require by about 70%.
3/ As an example, a planned AI datacenter in Ohio could consume about 100 million gals of POTABLE water per day.
In 1953, a 29-year-old lawyer got divorced. Lost his house. Lost everything.
A year later, his son was diagnosed with leukemia. Incurable.
He would hold his dying boy in the hospital. Then walk the streets of Pasadena crying.
His son died at 9. He was 31. Broke. Divorced. Burying his child.
He never turned to alcohol. He said: "Self-pity is always counterproductive."
He built a framework of mental models from every field. Said 80 models could solve nearly any problem in business or life.
Warren Buffett called him "the architect" of Berkshire Hathaway. Now worth $1 trillion.
His name was Charlie Munger. Died at 99. Worth $2.6 billion.
I turned his philosophy into 12 prompts.
Here are all 12:
1. Inversion Thinking
Munger borrowed a line from the mathematician Jacobi: "Invert, always invert." Instead of asking how to succeed, ask how to fail. Then avoid those things. He applied this to every decision at Berkshire Hathaway. As he put it: "All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there." Most people chase success. Munger systematically eliminated stupidity.
PROMPT-
"I'm facing a major decision and I want to avoid catastrophic mistakes. Here is my situation: [describe]. Using Charlie Munger's Inversion Thinking framework, analyze my position:
1. Instead of asking how this succeeds, what are the top 3 ways this could fail or blow up? Munger said to invert the problem first.
2. What would a fool do in my position? What is the most common path to disaster for someone in my exact situation?
3. What am I assuming will go right that I have no control over? Which of those assumptions, if wrong, would be fatal?
4. If I were advising my worst enemy to destroy themselves in this situation, what would I tell them to do? Am I doing any of those things?
5. Give me one specific action I can take this week to eliminate the single biggest risk you identified above."
2. The Latticework Method
Munger's signature concept. He said you need a "latticework of mental models" drawn from every major discipline. Psychology, physics, biology, economics, history.
In his 1994 USC speech he explained: "80 or 90 important models carry about 90% of the freight in making you a worldly-wise person."
One model gives you a hammer. A latticework gives you the whole toolbox.
PROMPT-
"I'm trying to solve a complex problem and I need to think across multiple disciplines. Here is my situation: [describe]. Using Charlie Munger's Latticework Method, analyze my position:
1. What are the 3 most relevant mental models from different fields (psychology, economics, biology, physics, history) that apply to my situation? Name each model and explain how it maps.
2. Where am I using only one mental model like a hammer looking for nails? What am I missing because of my single-discipline lens?
3. Munger said 80 to 90 models cover 90% of problems. Which models from my blind spots would change my entire analysis if I applied them?
4. What historical parallel from a completely different field matches my situation? What happened there, and what does it predict for me?
5. Give me one specific way to combine two of these models this week to produce an insight I could not get from either one alone."
OK - now at presser by U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton, NYPD Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch and Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI New York Field Office James Barnacle "to brief the media on recent cases" - Inner City Press will live tweet, thread below
1:03 pm
Commish Tisch: I want to thank Jay Clayton... The extremist who moves to real-world danger, those cases demand more than one office. The World Cup and 250th Anniversary of our country is coming. We partner, as we'll discuss
Commish Tisch: NYPD does the work on the ground, SDNY prosecutes on Federal charges. We have acting on guns from South Carolina. I began my career building out the NYPD's counter-terrorism work. Just last week, the defendant brought in from Iraq...
Steve Baker, Joseph Hanneman, and their company Veritas Regnat LLC have failed to respond to the libel and slander lawsuit brought against them over their erroneous claims that former Capitol Police officer Shauni Kerkhoff was responsible for the J5 Pipe Bombs.
The judge has ordered the clerk to file an entry of default against them and for the plaintiffs to file a motion for default judgment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Blaze Media, which was also sued, has filed an unopposed motion for more time to respond to the suit. The judge gave them until June 11, 2026.
In public responses to the lawsuit, Baker has put on a "bring it on!" act, as if he were eager to fight it, to show what evidence he supposedly has, and to use the discovery process to expose some conspiracy to frame Brian J. Cole for the J5 pipe bombs when all along it was Shauni Kerkhoff who planted them as part of a sinister "fedsurrection" plot... or something.
It wants to control people, complicate Ukrainian intelligence work, and prepare society for serious decisions that may be unpopular or hard to explain. That is why it cuts off alternative information. 1/
Budanov: Russia is replacing reality. In Moscow, there is a whole “museum of Ukrainian Nazism.”
It has nothing to do with reality, but it is built logically and professionally. A person who sees it can believe it — that is the danger. 2/
Budanov: Civil resistance under occupation must continue.
Every Ukrainian flag, every sign, every act is a connection with identity, state, history, culture and tradition. It is risky, but without it there will be full colonization. 3/
@AlexRMcColl @Prominent_Bryan strawman, basically all walking distance areas within transit transit are developed to condos not townhouses
We are talking about places 15 min *drive* from train stations or unis
@AlexRMcColl @Prominent_Bryan I've managed a lot of files where it's small condos without dedicated parking as long as it is within a rapid transit thing
What is the issue is when the developer gets greedy and then tries the same in areas without
@AlexRMcColl @Prominent_Bryan there's an informational asymmetry thing - given the GP / LP structure for most developments you can have LP in the dark about this who committed their $ to a white elephant 🐘 project
We used the keyword "process server" 68 times on one page
People hear that and assume its keyword stuffing. Its not
If you actually look at what ranks on page one of Google, the top results are using their target keyword hundreds of times. Sometimes thousands. Most businesses are still under-using their keyword on their own pages because some blog 10 years ago told them to keep it under 5
But the keyword count isnt the only thing we did
We also added geographic keywords. Fort Worth, Texas. Specifically. In the body. In the headers. In the meta. So Google knows exactly where this client serves
If someone in Fort Worth searches for a process server, Google has a hundred ways of figuring out who in that area to show them. The page that explicitly says "Fort Worth, Texas" in the right places is going to come up before the page that just says "process server" with no location
And then we added the license number on the page
Two reasons. The first is for the visitor. Someone landing on the page can see this is an actually licensed business. Thats a trust signal that takes 5 seconds to register and removes one objection before they even ask
The second is for Google. Google reads everything on the page. When it sees a license number formatted correctly, thats another data point telling it this is a real, verified business. Not just a marketing page hoping to rank
Three things
Keyword frequency. Geographic specificity. License number
None of these are exotic SEO tactics. Theyre things most agencies skip because they sound boring
Our clients rank because we do the boring things while everyone else is looking for shortcuts
if you want this run on your business, drop your site in the comments or message us
🤔🐍Tsss ¿Se acuerdan de la iniciativa de @M_OlgaSCordero y @Javier_Corral sobre la reforma de la reforma judicial? ⚖️
La iniciativa de Cordero-Corral buscaba "despolitizar" al entregarle la facultad de emitir la convocatoria al INE mientras que la Presidenta lo mantiene en el Senado. 🙄
🧵 Hice este comparativo y también encontré …
⚖️🎓Mientras la Presidenta le apuesta a la capacitación con o sin la Escuela de Formación Judicial posterior a la elección judicial, Cordero-Corral proponían la certificación obligatoria de competencias a través de la Escuela Nacional de Formación Judicial como requisito indispensable para que un candidato participe en el proceso electoral.
📑La Presidenta propone la creación de una Comisión Coordinadora responsable de verificar el cumplimiento de los requisitos constitucionales y legales de las personas participantes, establecer criterios y metodologías homologadas de evaluación, selección y exámenes de conocimientos, y emitir acuerdos que regulen los trabajos de los tres Comités de Evaluación que actualmente existen.
En tanto en la iniciativa Cordero-Corral proponen la eliminación de esos Comités y el establecimiento del Comité Único de Evaluación.
In 1953, a 29-year-old lawyer got divorced. Lost his house. Lost everything.
A year later, his son was diagnosed with leukemia. Incurable.
He would hold his dying boy in the hospital. Then walk the streets of Pasadena crying.
His son died at 9. He was 31. Broke. Divorced. Burying his child.
He never turned to alcohol. He said: "Self-pity is always counterproductive."
He built a framework of mental models from every field. Said 80 models could solve nearly any problem in business or life.
Warren Buffett called him "the architect" of Berkshire Hathaway. Now worth $1 trillion.
His name was Charlie Munger. Died at 99. Worth $2.6 billion.
I turned his philosophy into 12 prompts.
Here are all 12:
1. Inversion Thinking
Munger borrowed a line from the mathematician Jacobi: "Invert, always invert." Instead of asking how to succeed, ask how to fail. Then avoid those things. He applied this to every decision at Berkshire Hathaway. As he put it: "All I want to know is where I'm going to die, so I'll never go there." Most people chase success. Munger systematically eliminated stupidity.
PROMPT-
"I'm facing a major decision and I want to avoid catastrophic mistakes. Here is my situation: [describe]. Using Charlie Munger's Inversion Thinking framework, analyze my position:
1. Instead of asking how this succeeds, what are the top 3 ways this could fail or blow up? Munger said to invert the problem first.
2. What would a fool do in my position? What is the most common path to disaster for someone in my exact situation?
3. What am I assuming will go right that I have no control over? Which of those assumptions, if wrong, would be fatal?
4. If I were advising my worst enemy to destroy themselves in this situation, what would I tell them to do? Am I doing any of those things?
5. Give me one specific action I can take this week to eliminate the single biggest risk you identified above."
2. The Latticework Method
Munger's signature concept. He said you need a "latticework of mental models" drawn from every major discipline. Psychology, physics, biology, economics, history.
In his 1994 USC speech he explained: "80 or 90 important models carry about 90% of the freight in making you a worldly-wise person."
One model gives you a hammer. A latticework gives you the whole toolbox.
PROMPT-
"I'm trying to solve a complex problem and I need to think across multiple disciplines. Here is my situation: [describe]. Using Charlie Munger's Latticework Method, analyze my position:
1. What are the 3 most relevant mental models from different fields (psychology, economics, biology, physics, history) that apply to my situation? Name each model and explain how it maps.
2. Where am I using only one mental model like a hammer looking for nails? What am I missing because of my single-discipline lens?
3. Munger said 80 to 90 models cover 90% of problems. Which models from my blind spots would change my entire analysis if I applied them?
4. What historical parallel from a completely different field matches my situation? What happened there, and what does it predict for me?
5. Give me one specific way to combine two of these models this week to produce an insight I could not get from either one alone."
And here is a longer academic journal article I wrote about this episode, including digging into what Zucman altered to put his thumb on the statistical scale. independent.org/wp-content/upl…
1. Histórico pronunciamiento de la Corte Internacional de Justicia en defensa del derecho de huelga. Tiene proyecciones globales y nacionales. En nuestro caso, las restricciones contenidas en la reforma laboral (servicios esenciales) pasan a estar muy cuestionadas. Hilo
2. La discusión arrancó hace muchos años en la Organización Internacional del Trabajo. Los empleadores decidieron avanzar contra el derecho de huelga. Básicamente sostuvieron que no estaba incluido el convenio 87 de la OIT, por lo que no estaba protegido en ese ámbito
3. Los sindicatos pusieron el grito en el cielo. La actitud de los empleadores no solo era absurda, también iba en contra de décadas de trabajo donde se entendía que el derecho de huelga formaba parte del derecho a organizar sindicatos
It is ridiculous to blame anyone other than Thomas Massie for his own loss. He was shellacked and he blames rural Jews of Kentucky. There is no way that rural Jews cost Thomas Massie his election. There are not enough Jews in Kentucky to make a difference.
1)
Regular Kentuckians rejected Thomas Massie. A reasonable estimate is that Thomas Massie’s district has on the order of a few thousand Jewish voters at most, and likely closer to the low thousands.
2)
In Massie's district, the Jewish share of the electorate is probably well under 1%. With a congressional district population of roughly 700,000 people, that would usually translate to something like 1,000 to 5,000 Jewish residents,
3)
🚨Claude can now simplify research at a whole new level.
It transforms stacks of academic papers into clean, structured insights in minutes.
No confusion. Just clarity.
Here are 9 prompts to make it effortless 👇
Save this 🔖
PROMPT 1 - The Contradiction Finder
Most researchers miss this. This prompt doesn't:
"Across all papers uploaded, identify every point where two
or more authors directly contradict each other.
For each contradiction:
- State both positions
- Name the papers
- Explain WHY they likely disagree (methodology, dataset, era)
Format as a table."
PROMPT 2 - The Citation Chain
"Pick the 3 most-cited concepts across these papers.
For each concept:
- Who introduced it first?
- Who challenged it?
- Who refined it?
- What's the current consensus (if any)?
Show me the intellectual lineage like a family tree."
This one alone saves 6 hours of backward citation digging.
🧵 In August 2025, Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen wrote an email explaining the real goal of the "millionaire's tax":
"I would like to force the Washington Supreme Court to reconsider its caselaw that considers income to be property."
Not "fund schools." Force the court.
Pedersen's bill included a "necessity clause" that blocked voters from challenging it via referendum.
They knew voters would reject it, voters have rejected income taxes 10 times, so they made sure you couldn't vote on it.
Then they sent it to court.
Enter Colleen Melody and Theo Angelis.
Both appointed by Governor Bob Ferguson after the income tax passed. Both endorsed by Pedersen, the same person who wrote the strategy to "force" the court.
Both endorsed by Indivisible and the unions that lobbied for the tax.
NEW: Former Israeli soldier Jonathan Kestenbaum has resigned as a director of Labour Together.
Last month, I uncovered the “IDF diary” of the Labour peer. Now, he’s stepping down.
Here’s what happened:🧵
On May 14th, the think tank of Morgan McSweeney fame relaunched with a new website and name: “Think Labour”.
The organisation claimed to be “more than a new logo”, but they retained the same company number as Labour Together Ltd., still registered as active on Companies House.
According to Companies House, former Israeli soldier and current Labour peer Jonathan Kestenbaum was still a director when Think Labour launched.
So were current CEO Alison Phillips and former Tony Blair press officer Mike Craven.
The DNC finally released the full 192 page 2024 election autopsy today.
I haven't read the whole thing, but I did read "What Happened" and it's very clear why the DNC did not release it. It's not Gaza/Palestine - that is not mentioned once in any capacity.
It's just a horrible document. The most incompetent thing I've seen in a very long time. It provides essentially no information of any value. I'll give some examples in the thread.
First off, it's missing the "national overview" and the introduction for the electoral review section.
It's insanely obsessed with Josh Stein, for some reason. I'm serious, nearly all of the battleground analysis is a comparison between Harris and Stein.
Is GenAI causing the relative decline in early-career hiring? Our latest research finds that these effects may be conflated with another important driver: the rise of WFH arrangements (1/N)
The decline, which has been widely documented, has seen a large fall in the share of new hires going to early-career / junior workers. We find a near 10pp decline in junior-share of new hires in US, UK, Canada, Australia
This has been shown to be concentrated in routine-cognitive white collar occupations. The challenge we highlight is that GenAI exposure is super strongly correlated with WFH exposure, posing a challenge for empirical analysis.
14 mars 2026. Moments difficiles : un mercenaire britannique documente la brutalité de l’occupation contre des affamés à Gaza.
Une vidéo publiée par le mercenaire britannique David McIntosh montrant des soldats israéliens tirant sur des civils palestiniens french.palinfo.com/actualites/202…
qui attendaient de l’aide alimentaire dans la bande de Gaza a ravivé le souvenir de ce que certains décrivent comme un crime brutal contre des Palestiniens affamés.
Selon ce que McIntosh a publié sur sa page sur l’application Instagram, les images qu’il a filmées durant sa…
sa période de travail au sein d’une force conjointe chargée de sécuriser les points de distribution d’aide de la fondation « @GHFUpdates » montrent des soldats israéliens positionnés sur des chars tirant en direction de civils rassemblés près des sites… instagram.com/p/DVj86pJiIly/