I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

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AYN RAND: it is Rational and in fact Noble to care only for one's self because who knows if anyone else is even Real with an inner life like you, plus you're the Main Guy so your happiness is like the whole world is happy
NARCISSISTIC SOCIOPATHS: wow what an interesting and totally New belief system

When people ask for a definition of "reactionary centrist" I just point them at any Thomas Chatterton Williams article. The most uncharitable caricature could not compete with his actual writing

The Cabinet this week
*RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat
*Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island
*Bondi “The Dow” / refuses to look at victims
*Noem blanket
*Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it
*Bessent “tariffs don’t cause inflation”

This view from Killington never gets old m amazing Bluebird day.

Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?

Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

It’s not just the kids: Only a third of US Jews 75+ call themselves ‘Zionists’ - Jewish Telegraphic Agency A new JFNA survey finds strong support for Israel but widespread discomfort with the “Zionist” label among the youngest and oldest Jews.

Only 37% of American Jews say they identify as Zionists. Seven percent call themselves anti-Zionist, 8% non-Zionist and 18% aren’t sure. Another 30% say none of the labels offered describe them.

www.jta.org/2026/02/11/i...

This is the key point - it's not about Moderna's flu vaccine, it's about sending a signal to the rest of the industry that vaccine development isn't viable in the US. It's all part of the larger anti-vaccine agenda.

U.K. government covered up dramatic spike in trans youth suicides, new report says - buff.ly/uiK7UnE

Anyone who cared to look at the empirical evidence that was literally gathering in the streets around the country could have seen quite quickly that a lot of ordinary people cared little about the punditry’s handwringing and got busy organizing.

The Myth of a Rightward Realignment Let’s discard some stubborn misconceptions about Trump’s support and what happened in the 2024 election that are obscuring our understanding of a profound de-alignment

The thing is: The argument that America had undergone a massive rightward shift was less a factual contention and more an ideological assertion, an article of faith. It has proven to be a stubbornly resistant myth that is exceedingly hard to kill – just like the idea that “there are no protests.”

The gleeful aggression with which pundits from across the political spectrum jumped on the chance to declare that the (liberal) resistance was dead / had been pointless to begin with should have been a clear indicator that there was quite a bit of score-settling going on.

The “Where are the protests?” lament after Trump’s inauguration was always based on a (willful) misperception – a myth propagated by a punditry vying for relevance, hellbent on presenting grandiose reckonings and sweeping narratives rather than careful empirical assessments.

[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

A personified AI agent submitted a github PR to matplotlib. The project maintainers closed the issue, then the AI (really, the developer controlling it) published a blog post on "its" blog accusing the project maintainers of discrimination, then the LLM (again, the developer) had to issue an apology

I feel about the ‘shoulda voted’ folk too. If only they viewed everything they do as votes & not just that l’il limited ballot the real decision makers hand them every few years.

They’d realize when they shop Amazon that’s a vote. Eat chick-fil-a? That’s a vote. Buying Harry Potter? Yup. A vote.

Comic in drei Panels, teilweise coloriert.
Erstes Panel:
Text: Keine Lust mehr auf die ganze Scheiße hier, aber auch zu müde für Realitätsflucht – Pokemon-Edition
Darunter ist eine Illustration einer Frau mit einem roten Basecap und einem schlafenden Bisasam auf der Schulter. Sie steht im hohen Gras und wirft desinteressiert einen Pokeball auf ein Vulpix, der Ball prallt mit einem POK vom Vulpix ab.

Zweites Panel:
Text: Keine Lust mehr auf die ganze Scheiße hier, aber auch zu müde für Realitätsflucht – Digimon-Edition Darunter ist eine Illustration einer Frau, sie hält müde ein Digivice in der Hand, vor ihr steht ein Gabumon. Sie fragt: Bock auf Digitation? Gabumon antwortet genervt: Nicht wirklich. Die Frau antwortet: Fühl ich.

Drittes Panel:
Text: Keine Lust mehr auf die ganze Scheiße hier, aber auch zu müde für Realitätsflucht – LotR-Edition
Darunter ist eine Illustration einer Frau mit einem grünen Umhang, sie hält einen Ring in der Hand. Eine Stimme aus dem OFF sagt: Der Ring muss vernichtet werden! Du musst… Die Frau unterbricht und sagt: Jajajajaja, wann gibt’s Lembas? Und zweites Frühstück!

Zu müde für alles. 😴 

(Wieder ein schneller Scribble-Comic, mag das Format echt gerne. So krieg ich schnell ein paar Ideen aus dem Kopf).

NUDE ELON MUSK: The invisible clothes I'm wearing are a product of xAthleisure, which will roll out self-dressing outfits within two years at the latest

THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again

Berlinale 2026 - Kino | ARTE Verfolgen Sie mit ARTE die Aktualität der 76. Filmfestspiele von Berlin und schauen Sie sich Filme an, die auf dem Festival Premiere feierten. Zu sehen sind dieses Jahr unter anderem Oliver Stones Vie...

Was für eine schöne Idee: Arte zeigt aus Anlass der Berlinale in seiner Mediathek 13 Filme aus den vergangenen Jahrzehnten, die auf dem Filmfestival Premiere feierten: von Gosford Park bis Das Lehrerzimmer.

Hier ist noch eine wichtige Petition, die bitte alle unterschreiben sollten:

"Keine Streichung der Lohnfortzahlung am ersten Krankheitstag"

Die wollen euch hart erkämpftes Recht wegnehmen und noch mehr ausbeuten.

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😭🥹

Disclose.tv @disclosetv NOW - EU Parliament votes to accept a report, that calls for "the full recognition of trans women as women" as part of the EU priorities for the UN CSW on "women's rights and gender equality." • • I| 0:14 12:31 pm • 12 Feb 2026 • 174K Views

The EU has just voted, by a VERY wide margin, for the full recognition of trans women as women…!

she probably told a male colleagues that incel isn’t a protected category

Ich wenn jemand #notallmen schreibt

Ich meine... ich wünschte das wäre eine ganz seltene Ausnahme.... Aber wow.

Was Palantir lieber nicht in der Zeitung gelesen hätte: Schweizer Armee evaluiert das System und entscheidet dagegen. Sie „fürchtete, dass ein Abfluss von Daten aus den Palantir-Systemen hin zu US-amerikanischen Geheimdiensten wie CIA und NSA technisch nicht verhindert werden könne.“

David gegen Goliath: Überwachungskonzern Palantir verklagt die „Republik“ Der Großkonzern Palantir geht presserechtlich gegen das Schweizer Magazin

Der Konzern #Palantir geht gegen das Schweizer Magazin „Republik“ vor. Das hatte in Recherchen nachgezeichnet, warum die Systeme des Unternehmens problematisch für Staaten und deren Souveränität sind. Das Magazin will sich von der Klage nicht einschüchtern lassen.

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Just a reminder that I'm hiring! Looking for an engineer/research for some fun projects (some building! some designing!)

Come build spectrographs at UW.

Rare, dangerous side effects of some COVID-19 vaccines explained “Groundbreaking” study uncovers why adenovirus-based shots caused life-threatening blood clots and bleeding in some people

Ok, I know promised a thread on the fascinating and important new research explaining what happened with the rare, serious side effects of AstraZeneca's and Johnson&Johnson's Covid-19 vaccines.
So, @science.org story is here and 🧪🧵 is coming:
www.science.org/content/arti...

Die demokratischen Kräfte in #Serbien gehen übrigens weiterhin gegen das autokratische Regime vor. Heute Abend ist hier eine Gruppe von Student*innen, die zu Fuß nach Valjevo marschieren, in Ub (ca. 6000 Einwohner*innen) empfangen worden. Es gibt auch nach über 1 Jahr weiterhin täglich Proteste.
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