Free for 270 years. Nobody ever asks why. 🇬🇧
— Proudofus.uk (@ProudofusUK) April 4, 2026
In 1753 a British doctor called Hans Sloane died.
He left 71,000 objects to the nation.
On one condition.
It must be free. For everybody. Forever.
Parliament raised the money through a national lottery. And built the world’s… pic.twitter.com/GT5dIGsTNR
An increasingly coherent picture of the impact of AI on jobs, by @jburnmurdoch @ft:
— Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@lugaricano) April 12, 2026
1. New Fed paper by Crane and Soto now confirms with official labor force survey data what private payroll analysis was showing: roughly 500,000 fewer coders are working than pre-LLM trends would… pic.twitter.com/x05lmTv41y
I’m not asking you, I’m telling you.
— 📸🔭Brandon Berkoff🚀✨ (@spacebrandonb) April 4, 2026
Take a moment and listen to this 81 second response from Victor Glover after being asked if he had any thoughts leading up to Easter.
I don’t quite think it can be overstated how perfect this crew is for the job. pic.twitter.com/5tc9v3NkaL
This Classic is from 1999
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) April 12, 2026
Subscribe to see more Classic Dilberts pic.twitter.com/j3GIVpndAx
Top 3 use cases:
— Chris Laub (@ChrisLaubAI) April 2, 2026
Forget coding and business automation. Here's what 700M people actually do:
1. Practical Guidance (29%) - Learning, how-to advice, tutoring
2. Seeking Information (24%) - Replacing Google searches
3. Writing (24%) - Editing emails, documents, content
These… pic.twitter.com/6jMYPQpyzV
Here’s Ben Stein in 1979 describing television as an engine of cultural demoralization. He argues that a small clique of producers and writers pushed a left-coded inversion of reality onto the public. They despised traditional power centers and hated figures like Buckley. They… https://t.co/yeBN8o52es pic.twitter.com/ntfjdJyAHc
— Yuri Bezmenov's Ghost (@Ne_pas_couvrir) April 4, 2026
Ludwig von Mises was famously uncompromising. He’d call anyone who supported government intervention in the economy a “socialist.” At a Mont Pèlerin Society meeting in the late 1940s, he famously snapped at the room, “You’re all a bunch of socialists!”
— Philippe Lemieux (@NeoRothbardian) April 2, 2026
He refused to accept any… pic.twitter.com/XFcTzhckOt
Herd theory,
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) April 4, 2026
No need to convince everyone, just a few. pic.twitter.com/51cBNj8s7g
"A teacher shouldn’t have to marry a psychologist in order to learn that Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences is wrong."https://t.co/9yG8oVzJ7U pic.twitter.com/gUsya1HAqd
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) April 12, 2026
This blew my mind.
— Chris Laub (@ChrisLaubAI) April 2, 2026
OpenAI just published the first comprehensive study of how 700 million people actually use ChatGPT.
The results destroy every assumption about AI adoption.
Here's everything you need to know in 3 minutes: pic.twitter.com/c86GiYkLOu
John Nash's PhD thesis had only two citations, one of which was to himself. https://t.co/Vw1zG0s8DS pic.twitter.com/vnFoOLBoyb
— Robert P. Murphy (@BobMurphyEcon) April 3, 2026
.@AaronBMacLean: Americans often make the mistake of believing our adversaries think like we do—and want the same things.
— The Free Press (@TheFP) April 3, 2026
“When I served in Afghanistan…I was having tea with a Taliban commander…He had his 10-year-old kid standing next to him…
I remember saying to him, ‘Don't… pic.twitter.com/cxchMkYFJW
A juvenile Victoria's Riflebird performs his elaborate courtship dance to an unimpressed female.
— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) April 4, 2026
📽: wildlife.raynsue/igpic.twitter.com/4ApXMMoINM
The Kyoto Aquarium in Japan keeps a wall-sized flowchart tracking the romantic relationships, breakups, and drama between their penguins. They update it every year.
— Dr. Lemma (@DoctorLemma) April 12, 2026
Red hearts mean couples. Blue broken hearts mean it’s over. Purple lines with question marks mean it’s… pic.twitter.com/CIf0oqCItA
Interesting fact: avg debt at graduation is higher in Denmark, Norway, UK, Finland, Australia, Netherlands than the US, almost identical in Canada. Some differences in income based repayment but...US university debt is dominated by "low value Masters" + dropouts. 1/2 https://t.co/MENJvWTIsa
— Kevin A. Bryan (@Afinetheorem) April 4, 2026
26-year-old Rowan Atkinson talks about his transition from his electrical engineering studies to focusing on his comedy & acting while at Oxford University, 1981. pic.twitter.com/IVAMBpd17d
— Time Capsule Tales (@timecaptales) April 4, 2026
Roger Scruton, the ancestor duty pic.twitter.com/935dx35cLC
— Atlas Press (@realAtlasPress) April 4, 2026
Imagine winning this hard. Impossible https://t.co/FXVADv3JFD pic.twitter.com/uuygcxHiam
— Aaron Francis (@aarondfrancis) April 3, 2026
This is simultaneously the funniest and most relatable reel I’ve ever seen in my life pic.twitter.com/rhJ2pjJMje
— MERICA MEMED (@Mericamemed) April 4, 2026
People forget that in the 1990s, Britain was the fourth biggest manufacturing economy in the world.
— Tom Harwood (@tomhfh) April 4, 2026
Through the 1990s the number of jobs in manufacturing *increased*.
From 1993 to 1998, British manufacturing employment increased from 4.1 million to 4.3 million. Not unrelatedly,…
A 3,200 year-old painted scene of a lion and a gazelle playing a board game, probably senet.
— Alison Fisk (@AlisonFisk) April 2, 2026
From an ancient Egyptian illustrated papyrus showing animals taking on human roles in comic situations where they act against their natural instincts.
📷 British Museum… pic.twitter.com/3gb8s7CAp6
“The old churches of England are the story of England. They alone remain islands of calm in the seething roar of what we now call civilisation. They are not backwaters… but strongholds.”
— Mark W. (@DurhamWASP) April 4, 2026
Sir John Betjeman pic.twitter.com/soqb9YivJZ
After a journey lasting 9 years, 5 months, and 27 days, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft completed a flyby of Pluto, sending back these remarkable images. pic.twitter.com/1aDRhjrXyY
— aka (@akafaceUS) April 4, 2026
People went to Bluesky for a one-sided safe space but now they’re discovering that the radical version of their own censoriousness is causing it to collapse. https://t.co/pniO5lmdgl
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) April 4, 2026
Empathy is good
— Arthur MacWaters (@ArthurMacwaters) April 4, 2026
But fraudsters and embezzlers have hijacked our empathy
$81k/yr per homeless person
$52k/yr per capita income
This is insanity and is clearly untenable. https://t.co/LNC6VU1TCK pic.twitter.com/EYaQrdo7eZ
Market structure is one of several features of religion that resist easy explanation. Why does religion persist despite asking so much—time, money, behavioral constraint, belief in claims that resist verification? Why does the market fragment rather than consolidate? And what exactly does religion produce? The answers have something to say about American society.[snip]In the church I grew up in, people didn’t only show up for doctrine. They showed up with needs. A man might ask for help with his electricity bill. A woman would ask for wisdom in dealing with a prodigal son. The church provided more than belief. It provided mutual insurance: a network of people who, in moments of need, would show up for one another.Such systems have a familiar problem: free-riding. If the benefits of membership are available at low cost, people have an incentive to take without contributing. Over time, the system breaks down. The mutual aid degrades. The community hollows out. This isn’t unique to religion—it afflicts any organization that produces collective goods. But religion, across traditions and centuries, has converged on a remarkably consistent solution: make participation costly.This is the central insight of Laurence Iannaccone, whose paper “Sacrifice and Stigma” (1992) reframed how social scientists think about religious behavior. The demands religion places on its members aren’t barriers to participation. They are the mechanism by which participation becomes valuable.Muslims fast during Ramadan. Observant Jews set aside the Sabbath. Latter-day Saints tithe and serve missions. Christians gather, give and organize their lives around shared rituals like Easter. The details differ. The economics don’t.When participation requires visible sacrifice—time, money, behavioral constraint—commitment becomes observable. And observable commitment solves a deep problem of trust. In a community built on mutual aid, you can’t verify what a stranger believes. You can observe what he sacrifices. The person who shows up every week and gives regularly has demonstrated something about his willingness to contribute. That demonstration is the glue that holds the community together.
A rare but restored tinted photo of the Crown Prince Hirohito, visiting London in May 1921. He was aged 20. Five years later he would be sitting on the Chrysanthemum Throne. 昭和天皇 # ShōwaTennō pic.twitter.com/DnIb1EZtwk
— G M Thomas FRSA FRAS (@japanauthor) April 4, 2026
Lawrence Durrell, remarking the "unfailing sense of continuity" found all around the Mediterranean during the Easter Season — "This feeling is even stronger in an Orthodox church, because the Greek language of the service vibrates like the wind in the Aeolian harp of the mind." pic.twitter.com/aUKZua1TFt
— Durrell Society (@DurrellSociety) April 3, 2026
Over a century later, Belfast watches a full scale Titanic made of drones sail into the night. Titanic was originally built in Belfast, and launched there in 1911.
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) April 4, 2026
Reimagined in glowing drones, its
spirit, its echo into the future.
A powerful tribute pic.twitter.com/J36hms0YZp
Adding googly eyes to a pulverizer instantly makes the job better.. pic.twitter.com/KOhv32ieu7
— HOW THINGS WORK (@HowThingsWork_) April 3, 2026
The truth about global warming is that CO2 does not cause it. We are wasting £trillions trying to reduce CO2 https://t.co/pCHSXOzU5n
— Dr Jennine Morgan (@jemmm85517813) April 4, 2026
Footage of two tribal clans battling it out (1963).
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 16, 2026
A battle between the Willihiman-Wallalua clan and the Wittaia clan, West Papua.pic.twitter.com/95o1ErG7bh
We currently pay Norway £41 billion, annually, to import oil and gas from fields we share with Norway.
— DonKeiller (@KeillerDon) March 16, 2026
Genius. https://t.co/h8nGiUoPIH pic.twitter.com/2OsWy7hlmC
>American airman asleep on a train in France while on vacation with his childhood friends
— Trad West (@trad_west_) March 26, 2026
>Wakes up to the sound of screaming and breaking glass
>Sees a terrorist step into the aisle carrying an AK-47 and 300 rounds of ammo
>Doesn't look for an exit, doesn't hesitate
>Sprints 30… pic.twitter.com/SWvCCs44KB
French innovation at its best. And critics say France can no longer compete with the US. pic.twitter.com/sqDKSXPcLF
— Michael A. Arouet (@MichaelAArouet) March 17, 2026
One of the main reasons the public does not trust our institutions is because they are not worthy of trust.
— Peter Boghossian (@peterboghossian) March 17, 2026
They are not pluralistic. They are ideologically captured and that capture taints research, outcomes, methodology, and completely destroys trust. As it should. https://t.co/4ZnpKP34tj pic.twitter.com/TSSgyCjGkR
Martha Nussbaum on why Aristotle believed you are not made of matter.
— Big Brain Philosophy (@BigBrainPhiloso) March 15, 2026
In a 1987 interview on the Great Philosophers, philosopher Martha Nussbaum lays out Aristotle's three-part case against material reductionism, the idea that what you fundamentally are is just the stuff you're… pic.twitter.com/9LimSAx1Ic
In a world of Paul Ehrlichs, be a Norman Borlaug
— Jon is writing (@Jontalksgaming) March 16, 2026
I know you guys just adore the lush and exotic bougainvillea, so I went on a hunt to find the biggest.
— Flower Show (@TheFlowerShow) March 27, 2026
This is what I came up so far , somewhere in a small village in Mexico , this giant resides . pic.twitter.com/f6wPmHS10d
John Cleese has now reached the third panel of the comic. https://t.co/JXPEIbeSoe pic.twitter.com/asW9fpViMO
— Rick Davis (@TheRhetorRick) March 17, 2026
Conservatives and liberals are equally intolerant - but just toward different groups
— Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill) March 16, 2026
[Link below.] pic.twitter.com/9lbDTHD46D
An ancient Sarmatian dolphin-shaped fibula, a type of decorative brooch used as a fastener. pic.twitter.com/IBJBG4xxKH
— HerodotusWave (@HerodotusWave) March 26, 2026
"Multiculturalism is in its essence anti-European civilization. It is basically an anti-Western ideology."
— The Knowledge Archivist (@KnowledgeArchiv) March 16, 2026
— Samuel P. Huntington pic.twitter.com/IH7Efy6VNB
An awesome jump above Switzerland performed by Chris Finck and Troy Willmerpic.twitter.com/eqXuogJEIx
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) March 17, 2026
There won’t be a second date but at least she now knows why the Strait of Hormuz is a major choke point for global oil supply pic.twitter.com/vovkOSu6uc
— Boring_Business (@BoringBiz_) March 15, 2026
Colorado is a case study for this.
— schotts - U.S. Citizen and Patriot (@schotts) March 15, 2026
Since 2013, progressive democrats have passed 30+ new gun laws while always promising each one will make Colorado safer.
We went from a less than average murder rate in 2012 to the second most dangerous state in 2025.#copolitics #coleg https://t.co/W41qWKFnOx pic.twitter.com/8y75kD6IRF
Systematic thinking about unintended consequences, the third thing, commenced in the 1700s with the Scottish Enlightenment.
— Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (@DeirdreMcClosk) March 16, 2026
The other Enlightenment, the French, kept the old, personal blame and the top down.
The French Enlightenment loved reason, planning, design, the state.… pic.twitter.com/5eznYj7N2W
So any attempt at compromise or assimilation is strictly forbidden by Allah
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) March 15, 2026
Not a very good starting point for multiculturalism https://t.co/JCRAIsfZUN
Of recent discoveries:
— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) March 16, 2026
If you are in London, I very much recommend checking this bookshop (near Tufnell Park). It specialises on classics and has a very nice collection of Greek & Roman literature
I've been diving into Gibbon's footnotes and this place is an absolute treasure pic.twitter.com/aI96seGUtm
alternate timeline:
— el gato malo (@boriquagato) March 15, 2026
if sweden had had one more truant officer, germany's industrial sector might have been saved... pic.twitter.com/nd2AO5jhsr
Where, on this chart, is the evidence that Ehrlich's predictions of inevitable, imminent, worsening global famine, starting in the 1960s, were "premature" rather than wrong? https://t.co/juQ1aw6DNY pic.twitter.com/BqjfhS0Z2t
— Matt Ridley (@mattwridley) March 16, 2026
Cole Tomas Allen - Black, upper middle class, 31 years old Millennial, no criminal history. Possibly mildly autistic. First time crime - attempted assassination of President Trump.
Brian Cole, Jr. - Black, upper middle class, 30 years old Millennial, no criminal history. Claimed to be autistic. First time crime - planting pipe bombs just prior to Congress's certification of President Trump's loss in 2020.
A small percentage of workers is responsible for the bulk of the work...the top 10% of the most prolific elite can be credited with 50% of all contributions, whereas the bottom 50% of least productive workers can claim only 15%...the most productive contributor is about 100 times more prolific than the least.
Even in Nazi Germany, there were Germans who risked everything to help Jews by hiding them, feeding them, or helping them to escape. We call them Righteous Among the Nations.
— Shelley Blond (@BlondShelley) March 15, 2026
In Gaza, during the captivity of our hostages, not a single man or woman stepped forward to help them,… https://t.co/hoYopYqmau
"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."
— The Knowledge Archivist (@KnowledgeArchiv) March 15, 2026
—Friedrich Nietzsche pic.twitter.com/GxTkMSwt3W
The Grand Staircase inside the Palais Garnier, also known as the Opéra Garnier, in Paris, France. pic.twitter.com/HZ0NqTteGo
— HerodotusWave (@HerodotusWave) March 27, 2026
😁😁😁#archaeohistories pic.twitter.com/N9Kxaj1G3l
— Archaeo - Histories (@archeohistories) March 14, 2026
In 2008, 62% of teachers said they were very satisfied with their job.
— Steve Magness (@stevemagness) March 16, 2026
In 2022, that dropped to 12%.
We've got a serious problem brewing in education... pic.twitter.com/wzlFZkT72J
Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California, is currently in federal custody following an assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on the evening of Saturday, April 25, 2026.
The Incident
The Attack: Armed with multiple weapons—reportedly including a shotgun, a handgun, and several knives—Allen allegedly opened fire.At approximately 8:30 PM, while guests were being served dinner at the Washington Hilton, Allen allegedly attempted to breach a security checkpoint "right outside the ballroom" where President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and Vice President JD Vance were in attendance.
Casualties: One U.S. Secret Service agent was shot at close range but was saved by a bullet-proof vest. No other injuries were reported among the 2,500 high-profile guests.
Arrest: Allen was subdued by Secret Service agents and is currently at Howard University Hospital for treatment of unspecified injuries before his expected arraignment on Monday.
Background and Career
Education: He is a graduate of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), earning a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2017. He recently completed a Master’s in Computer Science from California State University, Dominguez Hills in 2025.Public records and social media profiles paint a picture of a highly educated professional with no prior public criminal history:
Profession: He was most recently a part-time teacher and tutor for C2 Education in Torrance, where he was named "Teacher of the Month" in December 2024. He also worked as an independent game developer and formerly held a research fellowship at NASA.
Personal Interests: His LinkedIn profile reportedly described him as a "teacher by birth" and listed "science and technology" as his primary causes. In college, he was involved in a Christian student fellowship and a robotics team.
Legal Status
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro has announced that Allen will face several initial charges, with more expected:
Assault on a federal officer using a dangerous weapon.Two counts of using a firearm during a crime of violence.
Authorities currently believe Allen acted as a "lone wolf" and was staying as a guest at the Washington Hilton at the time of the attack. While a specific motive has not yet been established, investigators are currently searching his residence in Torrance and the hotel room he occupied in D.C.
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