This is your daily reminder that language in children's books is significantly richer than language in our daily conversations with children. If you want your kids to have a large vocabulary going into school, you must read to them.
— Karen Vaites (@karenvaites) October 7, 2026
🚨 BREAKING: In an incredible moment, Sec. Marco Rubio just WALKED OUT in front of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece to demand a resurgence of Western Civilization values and against mass 3rd world migration And he's doing it at the BIRTHPLACE of the West. Inject this into my veins. 🔥🔥 "The imagination of the western world. GENERATIONS of our statesmen...have looked to [Acropolis] with wonder, with awe." "2.5 centuries after the founding of the American Republic...I stand here today as a Secretary of State of that republic...I stand here to testify to a debt that no lapse of time, no distance of space can ever extinguish." "The history of America, of my country, is covered with the fingerprints of antiquity. Greece is literally carved into the architecture of our government." This speech is pure gold.
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 7, 2026
Honey badgers are Irish?
— William M Briggs - Statistician to the Stars! (@FamedCelebrity) October 6, 2026
Blocking gas infrastructure in New England hasn’t caused renewables to magically sprout, it just means that electricity is expensive to “electrify everything” is unattractive. We need a better strategy. https://t.co/7fUfWGcT0S https://t.co/TxALQdbh58
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 6, 2026
This is real footage of Claude Monet painting beside his famous water lily pond in Giverny https://t.co/nScavg6ar2
— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) October 7, 2026
The most jacked I’ve ever been was when I trained at this gym full of guys on steroids. I’ve been told that some of them were bikers. From looking at them, not particularly hard to believe. At the time, I estimated that on any given day, one out of four guys was on gear. I had a few friends openly on it, so I knew what to look for: traps and shoulders blowing up suddenly, skin texture, acne, etc. Despite being natural, I got good gains because everyone trained hard. If you trained like a wuss, you felt out of place. Overcoming resistance was the path of least resistance. From this experience, I implicitly understood that the most important part of any human system was the people in it. I’ve trained at better-equipped gyms, but I’ve never gotten as jacked as I did training there. This gym had a culture of hard work because the people in it were hard. There’s individual-level advice everywhere about what you should do to get ahead in life, but the best advice I can give you is collective-level: work among people whose goals you share, people who will reward you for your commitment and shame you for your lack thereof
— William Meijer (@williameijer) October 6, 2026
Shiny new shoes 🦆🐾💙 https://t.co/mYSR95IX7L
— Cosmic Gaia (@CosmicGaiaX) October 6, 2026
Facilities did an office inspection and found the mini-fridge under my desk. “Personal appliances are prohibited.” They put a red removal sticker on it. I removed the sticker. Put on an IT asset tag. Ran an Ethernet cable from the back of the fridge into the wall. Updated inventory: DEVICE: SRV-THERMAL-04 TYPE: Auxiliary cooling appliance OWNER: Infrastructure CRITICALITY: High Facilities came back. Saw the asset tag. Saw the network cable. Wouldn’t touch it. Three months later Security found SRV-THERMAL-04 during an audit. They asked what business service it supports. I opened the fridge. Six Diet Cokes. Two Red Bulls. String cheese. I told them it maintains temperature-sensitive IT assets. Security asked why it has never transmitted a single packet. “Air-gapped.” They nodded. The fridge passed the audit. It is now officially classified as critical infrastructure.
— Derek Devicemanager (@IT_unhinged) October 6, 2026
The median age for first marriage in 1975 was 24 for a man and 21 for a woman. Today it is 31 and 28, respectively. Roughly 70% of adults at the time were married. Today, only about half are. One reason for both changes is the prevalence of non-marital cohabitation. In the 1960s, the typical husband and wife met, married, and moved in together within three years. Sharing a home happened after marriage because living together with an unmarried partner was not a widespread social phenomenon. But couples today are on a very different relationship timeline, argues @DelanoSquires
— The Institute for Family Studies (@FamStudies) October 6, 2026
In 1606, Caravaggio killed a man in Rome and went on the run to Naples. His commission called for 7 separate canvases—one for each act of mercy. Caravaggio refused. He decided to cram all 7 into a single frame. The challenge? How to do it without making it look like a mess. His solution: The Seven Works of Mercy, using real beggars and prostitutes as models. 1️⃣ Feed the hungry: A woman secretly breastfeeds her starving father through prison bars 2️⃣Visit the imprisoned: Same scene. 3️⃣ Bury the dead: A priest guides a corpse-carrying party. 4️⃣ Give drink to the thirsty: Samson chugs water straight out of a donkey’s jawbone. 5️⃣ Clothe the naked: St. Martin slashes his cloak in half for a cripple on the floor. 6️⃣ Shelter the homeless: An innkeeper offers a room to a pilgrim with a seashell on his hat. 7️⃣ Comfort the sick: St. Martin’s scene doubles up for a crippled man on the ground. Above it all? Angels dropping out of nowhere like stuntmen. It still hangs on that exact altar in Naples.
— Art Gallery (@X_ArtGallery) October 7, 2026
Why men -- especially conservative men -- won't go to therapy: The weird thing about the American Psychological Association (APA) is that every objective observer has known that it's been ideologically captured by the Left since the 1970s. That's the main reason why the Association for Psychological Science split off back in 1988, to form a more-scientific, less-politicized version of APA. Yet, here we are, 40 years later -- with APA still the main accrediting body that gives its seal of approval to PhD programs that train the vast majority of licensed clinical psychologists in America. APA sets the agenda. It determines what gets covered in graduate courses. It runs the most influential journals and conferences. It sets the whole political and ideological tone for psychological research. For decades, it has pushed political correctness, 'affirmative action', wokeness, DEI, and Leftist political causes. APA also ignores, censors, and/or demonizes the psychological research areas that are politically incorrect, but that replicate well (e.g. intelligence research, behavior genetics, evolutionary psychology, sex differences). There are alternatives. For example, the Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System (PCSAS) focuses more on the real science -- evidence-based treatments and interventions -- rather than on the Leftist activism of APA. But, for the moment, the APA's ideological agenda still dominates American clinical psychology. This partly explains the feedback loop between clinical psychology becoming so feminized (with women getting about 80% of clinical psychology PhDs), and clinical psychology becoming so radical-Leftist in its politics. And it explains why it's pretty difficult to find licensed clinical psychologists who are actually sympathetic to men, conservatives, and/or Christians. This is one big reason why men won't go to therapy -- they don't want to deal with a (probably female, probably liberal) therapist who has been indoctrinated into wokeness for 5-6 years throughout her graduate training.
— Geoffrey Miller (@gmiller) October 6, 2026
Women kept sending death threats and hate mail to the wrong Winston Lee so he emailed their employers with copies of their messages lol What a stud https://t.co/WkEhAhlODx
— Kangmin Lee | 이강민 (@kangminlee) October 6, 2026
When Obama lost the 2014 midterms, he blamed it on the country's alleged racism... Race relations cratered by 21 points in just two years...and theyve never recovered. Vanity over everything. https://t.co/gNmAI6YFtO
— Andrew Follett (@AndrewCFollett) October 5, 2026
Oct 6, 1780. London. Henry Laurens, the former president of the Continental Congress, is marched into the Tower of London on suspicion of high treason. He's the only American ever held prisoner there. Laurens was one of the richest men in South Carolina, a merchant and planter from Charleston. He'd served as president of Congress in 1777 and 1778, right through the Valley Forge winter. His son, John Laurens, was one of Washington's aides and Alexander Hamilton's closest friend. In 1780 Congress sent him to the Netherlands to try to get a loan and a treaty with the Dutch. In early September, off Newfoundland, a British warship caught his ship. Laurens saw it coming and threw his secret papers overboard in a weighted bag. It didn't sink fast enough. British sailors fished it out of the water. Inside was a draft of a possible treaty between the Americans and Amsterdam. That bag of soggy papers helped push Britain to declare war on the Netherlands that December. Laurens had accidentally helped start a new war. He was taken to London and locked in the Tower, the same fortress where English kings had imprisoned traitors for centuries. He was in his mid-50s and suffering badly from gout. He was kept under close guard, and for long stretches he wasn't allowed visitors, newspapers, or even pen and paper. He had to pay the cost of his own imprisonment, including the warders' fees. The British kept pressuring him to give up the cause. He refused. He sat in the Tower for more than a year. Then the war turned. In late 1781 he was let out on bail, and he was finally exchanged for a prisoner the Americans had just captured: Lord Charles Cornwallis. Laurens went straight back to work. He joined Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay in Paris and signed the preliminary peace treaty with Britain in November 1782. But he never got to share the win with his son. John Laurens was killed in a minor skirmish in South Carolina in August 1782, one of the last American officers to die in the war. When Henry Laurens died in 1792, he left orders to have his body cremated, something almost unheard of in America at the time. He was reportedly terrified of being buried alive.
— Echoes of War (@EchoesofWarYT) October 6, 2026
Heard this today from a smart European: Europe has subcontracted security to America. Its economy to China. Energy to Russia and its labor force to the Islamists. This model now has completely collapsed.
— Mark Dubowitz (@mdubowitz) October 6, 2026
Imagine being at a banquet when a silver stag starts moving across the table and stops in front of you. Made in Augsburg around 1620 by goldsmith Joachim Friess, this automaton shows Diana, goddess of the hunt, riding a stag. The stag’s body is hollow, its head comes off, and the whole figure was designed to carry wine. When it stopped in front of a guest, that person was expected to lift the stag and drink what was inside. I can see why people might have laughed. But I also wonder how comfortable it felt to be the one singled out, with the whole table watching. The machine made it look like chance had chosen but someone had built the game, and everyone knew what the "winner" had to do. That’s the part I find more interesting than the clever mechanism. It turned an awkward demand into entertainment, so nobody at the table had to say, "I chose you." We still hand decisions over to spins, draws and algorithms. Sometimes that's fun. Sometimes it just makes it easier to pretend no one was responsible. Visual: AI-generated reconstruction inspired by Diana and the Stag; not a photograph of the original. Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://t.co/YMPF8tj5Yq
— HerodotusWave (@HerodotusWave) October 6, 2026
It's common knowledge that "almost all men are stronger than almost all women" but did you know that almost all men are more tolerant than almost all women? If you're a libertarian, a male communist will be more tolerant of your views than a female libertarian. https://t.co/UNaW2nSwUt
— Yaril Foxears (@YarilFoxEren) September 30, 2026
In all the movies and shows I have seen about the Salem witch trials, the accusers were always men, and women were burned alive. Nobody was burned alive. 25 people were killed, 6 of them men, and the accusers were all women and girls. We have been lied to. https://t.co/s2rkkVly8G
— Richard Poole (@Richard80024379) October 5, 2026
I don’t remember Somali clan wars in American suburbs when I was growing up… There is no magic soil. A nation is simply it’s people.
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) October 6, 2026
Meet Miguel Rojas. He studied all 100 citizenship questions. He wanted no special treatment because he’s a professional baseball player. And when he passed, he said he was prouder of that perfect score than his World Series home run. What stood out to me most was his gratitude. He talked about America opening its doors to him 21 years ago and said he’s never taken that opportunity for granted. Preparation. Respect for the process. Gratitude for the country that gave you an opportunity. Wanting to contribute and be judged by your character, not your status.
— The Undercurrent (@NotTheirScript) October 7, 2026
I suffer from a rare condition where I keep thinking people will change their minds when presented with facts.
— Mr. Nobody (@MmisterNobody) October 5, 2026
Here is the population pyramid for all of Japan. Births are down 75% from the peak. Tokyo alone is still growing even though has the lowest fertility in Japan, because it pulls in young people from everywhere else. Pyramids thanks to wonderful Japanese demographer @yz7sha. 3/3 https://t.co/92u3ovyqHi
— More Births (@MoreBirths) October 1, 2026
This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology
— Alison Fisk (@AlisonFisk) October 5, 2026
this is pretty amazing discovery AI agents just found two room temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates A team of Claude Opus 5.5 agents designed one entirely new material and rediscovered another made in 1999 that could enable next generation spintronic memory, potentially combining semiconductor behavior, spin sorting, near zero stray magnetic fields, and operation above room temperature. "In 3 days, 90+ Opus 5.5 agents helped us uncover two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates in simulations: YBaMnFeO₅ and KV[Cr(CN)₆]." One candidate remained magnetically ordered up to 376 K (103°C) experimentally. AI is starting to search the materials universe for technologies humans may have overlooked for decades. AI will revolutionize materials science
— Dr Singularity (@Dr_Singularity) October 5, 2026
The British Mandate is now three territories. Palestine: 98% Sunni Muslim Jordan: 94% Sunni Muslim Israel: diverse mix of religions and races The two areas that are almost 100% Arab Sunni Muslim, claim Israel is an "ethnostate". https://t.co/7MPrEx3qFB
— SK Tedeschi (@skedeschi) October 4, 2026
The historical study regarding the inherited intellectual and professional achievements of the Bulkeley-Edwards family line is famously captured in A.E. Winship’s 1900 sociological and genealogical work, Jukes-Edwards: A Study in Education and Heredity.The Context and PremiseIn the late nineteenth century, American educators, scientists, and social reformers became intensely fascinated by the debate over nature versus nurture (heredity versus environment), largely sparked by Francis Galton's pioneering work on hereditary genius.To test these theories, researchers looked at multi-generational family trees:1. The "Jukes" Study (1877): Sociologist Richard L. Dugdale had published a notorious study on a pseudonymous upstate New York family—the "Jukes"—tracing over 1,000 descendants characterized by poverty, criminality, institutionalization, and illiteracy.2. The Edwards/Bulkeley Counterpoint: Seeking a contrasting case study of exceptional hereditary achievement, American educator and journalist Albert E. Winship decided to trace the descendants of Reverend Jonathan Edwards (great-great-grandson of Peter Bulkeley via Elizabeth Bulkeley Edwards) and his wife, Sarah Pierpont.
Analysis of satellite imagery reveals a series of previously unknown Roman military camps from Jordan to North Arabia. They are probably related to the AD 106 Campaign of Trajan which conquered the Nabataean kingdom and constituted the province of Arabia Petraea. https://t.co/KKxPKMPZ9e
— LiorLefineder (@lefineder) October 3, 2026
“Self-inflicted diesel crisis” in Europe.
— Velina Tchakarova (@vtchakarova) October 2, 2026
The share of children who died before they were 5 years old in 1950 and 75 years later. Africa: 33% ↘ 6% Asia: 25% ↘ 2.5% Oceania: 9.3% ↘ 2% Latin America: 21% ↘ 1.5% Northern America: 3.8% ↘ 0.6% Europe: 10.5% ↘ 0.4% Globally: 23% ↘ 3.5% https://t.co/QMO6XHjp52
— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) October 6, 2026
Abdul you're not going to believe this but SpaceX alone made 4,400 millionaires, including welders and cafeteria workers https://t.co/JE48UJL2lB
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) October 2, 2026
A Sidonian prefect was traveling in a carriage. When the mules were exhausted and unable to go any farther, the driver unhitched them so they might graze and rest up a bit. Now, as soon as they were released, they ran off. The prefect said to the driver, ‘Idiot, do you see now that the mules are running just fine, and that it’s the carriage that’s stuck and can’t move?’
A 747 passenger jet is flying from LA to New York when the captain comes on the intercom to announce that one of the engines has failed:Pilot: "Ladies and gentlemen, we've lost one of our engines. We can still fly fine on the remaining three, but it's going to delay our arrival by a couple of hours."A little while later, a second engine sputters and dies:Pilot: "This is your captain again. I'm sorry to report we've lost a second engine. The plane is still safe on two engines, but we'll be delayed by another couple of hours."A bit later still, a third engine goes out:Pilot: "Folks, we've just lost our third engine. Don't worry, the aircraft can safely fly on a single engine, though we will be delayed yet again."At that point, a nervous passenger in first class throws up his hands and yells:"This is ridiculous! If that last engine goes out, we're going to be stuck up here all day!"
Childhood self-control predicts adult health, wealth, and crime. This holds even after controlling for IQ and family background. Researchers followed about 1,000 children from ages 3–11 into their early 30s. Self-control was rated by parents, teachers, and the children themselves. By age 32, lower childhood self-control predicted worse physical health, more substance dependence, lower income, and higher rates of criminal convictions. Self-control shows significant heritability. One meta-analysis puts the estimate at about 60%, with little or no shared-family-environment effect. These findings are more robust than the single-session marshmallow task, which lacked sufficient controls.
— Hitchslap (@Hitchslap1) October 2, 2026
An Abderite sees a eunuch talking with a woman and asks him if she’s his wife. The guy responds that a eunuch is unable to have a wife. ‘Ah, so she’s your daughter?’
This Byzantine necklace was created during the sixth century, when jewellery could express wealth, faith and social identity simultaneously. Its decoration was pierced directly into thin sheets of gold using a technique known as opus interrasile. The result made solid metal appear almost as delicate as lace. Suspended from the necklace is a cross—evidence of how Christian imagery gradually became part of personal dress in Byzantine society. What fascinates me is that the goldsmith removed material to create beauty. The empty spaces are as important as the gold surrounding them. We usually associate value with having more: more gold, more jewels and more decoration. This artist created elegance by carefully taking parts away. Perhaps beauty is not always produced by addition. Sometimes it appears when someone knows exactly what should be removed. Visual: AI-generated historical reconstruction inspired by surviving Byzantine gold necklaces. Authentic source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://t.co/rX3QpnFZ1w
— HerodotusWave (@HerodotusWave) October 3, 2026
This is one of these things where you get what you think you want (a frictionless life) and then realize you had it all wrong
— Marc Porter Magee 🎓 (@marcportermagee) October 2, 2026
One really good idea as an employer is to say what genders and races you won't hire, because it gives you general counsel some practice
— Andrew Fleischman (@ASFleischman) October 1, 2026
25 Largest Cities In The Americas By Population (Residing Within City Limits) Surprised New York is only #4 credit: @brasilemmapas Full list: https://t.co/Zz60RjDKap https://t.co/oxJsyjwxCO
— Brilliant Maps (@BrilliantMaps) October 2, 2026
In 1939, archaeologist Basil Brown opened a burial mound at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England—and discovered the ghostly outline of an enormous ship beneath the soil. Inside was an early seventh-century burial chamber filled with weapons, silverware, gold ornaments and objects brought from distant regions. Among them lay a royal helmet—but it was not found standing majestically as we see it today. It had collapsed into hundreds of corroded fragments. For years, specialists studied and assembled those pieces like an impossibly complicated puzzle. The reconstruction eventually revealed one of the most extraordinary objects to survive from Anglo-Saxon England. Its iron skull was covered with decorated panels showing warriors and mythic scenes. The eyebrows ended in tiny boar heads, an animal associated with protection and courage. When viewed together, the eyebrows, nose and moustache also form the shape of a flying creature across the wearer’s face. The man buried inside the ship has never been identified with certainty. Many historians have suggested Rædwald, a powerful king of East Anglia, but no inscription confirms his name. That uncertainty makes the helmet even more haunting. What stays with me is that the helmet survived while the face inside it disappeared completely. We know the status of the man, the craftsmanship he commanded and the symbols meant to protect him—but we cannot say with certainty who he was. Perhaps that is one of history’s strangest ironies: a person can possess enough wealth to be buried inside a ship, yet centuries later, the world remembers the helmet more clearly than the king. The Sutton Hoo discovery changed the old image of early medieval England as culturally empty or primitive. Its craftsmanship revealed a world of skilled artists, powerful rulers and connections extending far beyond Britain. Sometimes one broken object is enough to repair an entire civilisation’s reputation. Visual: AI-generated historical reconstruction inspired by the surviving Sutton Hoo helmet. Authentic source: The British Museum https://t.co/V38NAnCW2h
— HerodotusWave (@HerodotusWave) October 2, 2026
"We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."
— Seneca the Younger (@SenecaQuote) October 1, 2026
The Swiss Valais Blacknose sheep brushed against the red feeder while eating, staining their wool pink https://t.co/e0aAmUgo1J
— Science girl (@sciencegirl) October 2, 2026
This will never get old 😂 https://t.co/jD56FixjcG
— Daniel Jones 🇦🇺 (@DanielJonesAus) October 1, 2026
Map of countries that use British (type G) AC power plugs & sockets
— Brilliant Maps (@BrilliantMaps) September 17, 2026
Explanation: https://t.co/gNnevNUNb3 pic.twitter.com/QIeHpZaoEm
The greatest archaeological museum you’ve never seen! Here’s a short intro to the Tripoli archaeology collection - and why I’m in Libya this week! @AncientRomeLive project, of course! https://t.co/QLqwIPaGBs
— Darius Arya (@DariusAryaDigs) October 2, 2026
Amazing. These researchers found that there's a spike in Bitcoin activity around the time foreign aid money goes out. Somewhere between 2 and 6 cents of every dollar of World Bank foreign aid disbursements got siphoned off into crypto wallets: https://t.co/GXlnm5P6kM
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) October 1, 2026
NEW: Captain Smit Machchhar has spoken from his hospital bed about the attack aboard the Israel bound Flydubai flight. Machchhar said he was injured and being assaulted on the cockpit floor as the aircraft descended. With 17 years of flying experience, including 11 as a captain, he said he could tell the plane was going down even with his eyes closed. Despite his injuries, he made what he called “one last push” to reach and open the cockpit door from inside, allowing others to rush in and intervene. “I was being assaulted at that time; I just opened the door and all the others came; all of them too had an equal role.” “I was telling everyone that I was doing it to save my own life, but I also knew that I could not let the others die either.” More than 170 people including 30 children were aboard. “It is God who has saved me” he said
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) October 2, 2026
Happy Friday 🙂 https://t.co/OAZKX6QGJh
— MedievalistMatt (@medievalistmatt) October 2, 2026
My long-held opinion that "test anxiety" is fake: confirmed. You're anxious because you don't know the material! The anxiety is called not having studied hard enough!
— Emma Camp (@emmma_camp_) October 1, 2026
More than 2,600 years ago, an Egyptian craftsperson created a replacement big toe for someone who had lost their own. Made from wood and leather, the prosthetic was carefully shaped to resemble a real toe. Holes and straps allowed it to be secured to the foot, while visible signs of wear suggest that it was actually used during the person’s lifetime. Researchers have tested replicas of ancient Egyptian prosthetic toes and found that they could make walking in traditional sandals more comfortable. This means the object was probably not created merely to complete a body for burial—it had a practical purpose in everyday life. Ancient history is often told through pyramids, pharaohs and golden treasures. Yet this small wooden toe feels more meaningful to me than many royal objects. Someone noticed another person’s daily struggle and used the knowledge and materials available to make life a little easier. We may never know the craftsperson’s name, but their quiet act of care survived for thousands of years. Sometimes the most human part of history is not a grand monument—it is a simple solution made for one person. Visual: AI-generated historical reconstruction inspired by surviving ancient Egyptian prosthetic toes. Authentic source: The British Museum
— HerodotusWave (@HerodotusWave) October 1, 2026
Sir Thomas More is a collaboratively written play that survives only in a single manuscript. The play is thought to have been written primarily by Anthony Munday, perhaps, some scholars think, aided by Henry Chettle, in the 1590s, with somewhat later contributions from Thomas Dekker, perhaps from William Shakespeare, and just possibly from Thomas Heywood. Politically controversial passages have been censored by Edmund Tilney, a government official known as the Master of the Revels.[snip]On the basis of poetic style, many scholars believe that a three-page revision to the play is in Shakespeare’s handwriting.[snip]The riot that the play references took place on May 1, 1517 and is referred to as Evil May Day. Thomas More, the then under-sheriff of London, was sent to calm the rioters and persuade them to go home. According to the chronicler Edward Hall (c. 1498–1547), a fortnight before the riot an inflammatory xenophobic speech was made on Easter Tuesday by a preacher known as “Dr. Bell” at St. Paul’s Cross at the instigation of John Lincoln, a broker. Bell accused immigrants of stealing jobs from English workers and of “eat[ing] the bread from poor fatherless children.”
You’ll put down strangers,Grant them removed, and grant that this your noiseHath chid down all the majesty of England;Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage,Plodding to the ports and coasts for transportation,And that you sit as kings in your desires,Authority quite silent by your brawl,And you in ruff of your opinions clothed;What had you got? I’ll tell you: you had taughtHow insolence and strong hand should prevail,How order should be quelled; and by this patternNot one of you should live an agèd man,For other ruffians, as their fancies wrought,With self same hand, self reasons, and self right,Would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishesWould feed on one another…Say now the king,As he is clement if th’offender mourn,Should so much come too short of your great trespassAs but to banish you, whither would you go?What country, by the nature of your error,Should give you harbor? Go you to France or Flanders,To any German province, to Spain or Portugal,Nay, anywhere that not adheres to England,Why, you must needs be strangers: would you be pleasedTo find a nation of such barbarous temper,That, breaking out in hideous violence,Would not afford you an abode on earth,Whet their detested knives against your throats,Spurn you like dogs, and like as if that GodOwed not nor made not you, nor that the elementsWere not all appropriate to your comforts,But chartered unto them, what would you thinkTo be thus used? This is the strangers’ case;And this your mountainish inhumanity.
People imagine national population declines as there being fewer people around, but that's not what happens. What happens is that towns like Yubari City become ghost towns, while your megapolis, Tokyo, continues to grow. https://t.co/vDNx4AvlZ3
— molson 🧠⚙️ (@Molson_Hart) October 1, 2026
Je ne sais pas si vous mesurez ce qui est en train de se passer. Alex Karp, le patron de Palantir, ne va plus chercher ses talents à Harvard. Il les forme lui-même. Des jeunes de 18 ans, sans diplôme, choisis sur leur seul talent, qui codent sur de vrais projets et lisent de la philosophie politique entre deux sprints. Il appelle ça « le diplôme Palantir ». Et aujourd'hui le New York Post titre que les boîtes tech lancent leurs propres programmes parce qu'elles ne peuvent plus compter sur l'Ivy League. Ce n'est pas une anecdote RH. C'est un basculement de civilisation. Pendant des décennies, les entrepreneurs ont confié à l'université la mission la plus sacrée qui soit : former les esprits. Ils comprennent aujourd'hui que cette mission a été trahie. Les institutions censées produire des penseurs libres produisent des conformistes. Le mérite a été remplacé par des critères opaques. L'enseignement est devenu catéchisme. Paul Graham l'avait vu avant tout le monde. Alors ils font ce que font les bâtisseurs quand un système les trahit. Ils ne le réforment pas. Ils en construisent un autre, à côté. Elon n'a pas attendu que la NASA se réveille, il a fait SpaceX. Il n'a pas réformé les médias, il a racheté la place publique. Les entrepreneurs ne cherchent plus à convaincre l'État. Ils font l'État, partout où l'État a abdiqué. Relisez La Grève d'Ayn Rand. Nous y sommes. Les bureaucrates gardent les titres, les budgets, les bâtiments. Mais ils perdent la seule chose qui compte : la confiance. Aux États-Unis, à peine 28 % des gens font encore confiance aux médias. Un plus bas historique. Plus personne ne croit ceux qui prétendent nous dire quoi penser. On entend partout que l'école est finie. Je pense exactement l'inverse. Ce n'est pas l'école qui est morte. Ce sont les institutions qui l'ont confisquée. L'école, la vraie, celle de l'Académie d'Athènes, des ateliers de la Renaissance, du maître et de l'apprenti, va renaître. Plus exigeante. Plus juste. Sans dette, sans dogme, sans diplôme comme rente à vie. Une école qui ne fabriquera plus des diplômés, mais des polymathes. Des esprits libres, capables de coder, de penser, de construire et de douter. Ce sont eux qui créeront la valeur des cinquante prochaines années. J'ai appris à coder seul à 12 ans. Aucun amphi ne m'a appris ce que j'ai appris en construisant. Je sais ce que devient un talent quand on le laisse respirer. L'université a eu des siècles pour former les meilleurs esprits. Les entrepreneurs vont le faire en une décennie. La grande reconstruction a commencé.
— Brivael Le Pogam (@brivael) October 1, 2026
Translation:
I don’t know if you realize what’s happening.
Alex Karp, the head of Palantir, is no longer recruiting his talent from Harvard. He’s training them himself. Young people of 18, without degrees, selected solely on their talent, who code on real projects and read political philosophy between two sprints. He calls it “the Palantir degree.” And today the New York Post headlines that tech companies are launching their own programs because they can no longer rely on the Ivy League.
This isn’t an HR anecdote. It’s a civilizational shift.
For decades, entrepreneurs entrusted universities with the most sacred mission there is: to shape minds. They now understand that this mission has been betrayed. The institutions meant to produce free thinkers are churning out conformists. Merit has been replaced by opaque criteria. Teaching has turned into catechism. Paul Graham saw it before anyone else.
So they’re doing what builders do when a system betrays them. They don’t reform it. They build another one, right alongside.
Elon didn’t wait for NASA to wake up; he created SpaceX. He didn’t reform the media; he bought the public square. Entrepreneurs no longer seek to convince the state. They become the state, wherever the state has abdicated.
Reread Ayn Rand’s *Atlas Shrugged*. We’re there. The bureaucrats keep the titles, the budgets, the buildings. But they’re losing the only thing that matters: trust. In the United States, barely 28% of people still trust the media. A historic low. No one believes those who claim to tell us what to think anymore.
Everywhere you hear that school is over. I think exactly the opposite.
It’s not school that’s dead. It’s the institutions that hijacked it. School, the real one—that of the Athenian Academy, the Renaissance workshops, the master and apprentice—is going to be reborn. More demanding. More just. Without debt, without dogma, without a degree as a lifelong annuity.
A school that will no longer produce graduates, but polymaths. Free minds, capable of coding, thinking, building, and doubting. They’re the ones who will create the value of the next fifty years.
I taught myself to code at 12. No lecture hall taught me what I learned by building. I know what happens to talent when you let it breathe.
The university had centuries to shape the best minds. Entrepreneurs will do it in a decade.
The great rebuilding has begun.
30 seconds. You aren't shocked enough. This is the data from the FlyDubai flight yesterday. According to a report the plane was 30 seconds from impact. If anyone had doubts at what an absolute miracle it was that the passengers overtook the controls & saved the flight, I don't think you can doubt it anymore.
— Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll (@skjask) October 1, 2026
My latest article is about how a rogue Wikipedia editor confabulated and misattributed thousands of inventions and concepts to Muslims This trolling made its way into blogs, articles, books, and TV programs. You might even believe some of his lies! Link: https://t.co/4wYDCYPMm3 https://t.co/yFOIaXqrSs
— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) October 1, 2026
After the first Falcon 1 rocket exploded 33 seconds after launch in March 2006, Elon Musk did something that his employees did not expect. He personally called the family members of the engineers who had worked on the rocket. Not the engineers. Their families. The engineers were at the launch site. They had watched their work explode in the sky. They were processing the failure in real time with their colleagues. They had each other. Their families were at home. Their spouses and parents had watched on a livestream or heard the news secondhand. They had no colleagues. They had no context. They just knew that the thing their husband or wife or child had spent 3 years building had just been destroyed in 33 seconds and they didn't know if anyone was hurt. Elon called to tell them everyone was safe. That the failure was a known risk. That the team would try again. That their family member had done extraordinary work and the explosion was not a reflection of their ability. One engineer's wife said the call lasted 4 minutes. She said Elon sounded tired but calm. She said he didn't minimize the failure or exaggerate the optimism. He stated the facts and said "your husband is brilliant and we are going to fly again." The engineers learned about the calls later. Several described it as the moment they decided to stay at SpaceX. Not because the CEO called their families. Because the CEO understood that the family at home absorbs the weight of the failure without any of the camaraderie that makes it bearable for the team. The rockets get the headlines. The families hold the weight in the dark. He called the families.
— Race 🕊️ (@multiplanet1) September 30, 2026
One important detail from yesterday’s story I’m not sure I mentioned: After the captain was stabbed by the Omani co pilot, 4 passengers subdued the attacker using headphone cords and other means. Yaniv Hayun then realized there was nobody flying the plane and that the aircraft was in a steep dive. He rushed into the cockpit, got into the pilot’s seat and grabbed the controls. Hayun grabbed the control yoke, pulled back and helped level the aircraft while other passengers helped the captain and others were holding down the Jihadist co pilot attacker. When Yaniv was asked how did he know what to do? Yaniv said he knew what to do because he had seen it on TV. He regularly watches “Mayday: Air Crash Investigation,” a documentary series about aviation disasters. Another FLYDUBAI pilot who by chance happened to be traveling aboard then entered the cockpit, took control and ultimately helped land the aircraft safely in Saudi Arabia.
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) October 1, 2026
🛫 New pre-flight safety announcement via @tertman1 https://t.co/m8r1Sjx9f2
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) October 1, 2026
And the wealth of the bottom 50% MORE THAN DOUBLED Sure, it's a smaller number, but the TOTAL AMOUNT OF WEALTH IS NOT FIXED
— Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉 (@jmhorp) October 1, 2026
[We behave like] the Poseidonians in the Tyrrhenian Gulf, who although of Greek origin, became barbarized as Tyrrhenians or Romans and changed their speech and the customs of their ancestors. But they observe one Greek festival even to this day; during this they gather together and call up from memory their ancient names and customs, and then, lamenting loudly to each other and weeping, they go away.
Athenaios, Deipnosophistai, Book 14, 31A (632)
Poseidoniansby C.P. CavafyTranslators Edmund Keeley and Philip SherrardThe Poseidonians forgot the Greek languageafter so many centuries of minglingwith Tyrrhenians, Latins, and other foreigners.The only thing surviving from their ancestorswas a Greek festival, with beautiful rites,with lyres and flutes, contests and wreaths.And it was their habit toward the festival's endto tell each other about their ancient customsand once again to speak Greek namesthat only few of them still recognized.And so their festival always had a melancholy endingbecause they remembered that they too were Greeks,they too once upon a time were citizens of Magna Graecia;and how low they'd fallen now, what they'd become,living and speaking like barbarians,cut off so disastrously from the Greek way of life.
At first I thought this crown was wrapped in embroidered cloth. Look closer—the entire pattern is hammered into metal. Even the seams are imitated with gold lacing. Made on Peru’s north coast around 900–1100 CE, it turns something rigid into the illusion of soft, patterned fabric. That small deception is what makes it unforgettable to me. Gold was not merely wealth here. It was a material made to behave like everything else. 📷 Sicán crown, The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Public Domain
— HerodotusWave (@HerodotusWave) October 1, 2026
Young people are actually getting dumber. We actually did lose the capacity to impart basic skills upon which functional citizenship depends. The decay actually is showing up at highly selective colleges.
— Wesley Yang (@wesyang) October 1, 2026
Actor John C. McGinley proudly raised his son Max, who was born with Down syndrome in 1997, firing his agent who advised him to hide the diagnosis and instead making Max a visible, cherished part of his life and a catalyst for disability advocacy... A reporter once asked him if he ever wished his son were “normal.” His answer was simple: Max was normal. The problem wasn't his son's condition—it was society's narrow definition of what "normal" is supposed to look like. In 1997, actor John C. McGinley welcomed his son Max into the world. Shortly after Max was born with Down syndrome, John sat down with his talent agent to discuss his career. The agent offered a piece of advice meant to protect John’s Hollywood career. He suggested keeping the situation completely private, warning that studios might hesitate to hire him if he spoke out. John looked at him and said, "You're fired." Instead of hiding his family away, John chose complete openness. He took Max everywhere with him. They walked red carpets together, appeared on talk shows, visited movie sets, and attended public events side by side. At a time when individuals with developmental disabilities were often kept out of public view, John made sure his son was visible. He introduced Max to the world with total pride, deep love, and no apologies. What started as a father loving his child turned into decades of passionate advocacy. John became a leading voice for Down syndrome awareness. He used his public platform to advocate for inclusion, fighting for equal opportunities so people with disabilities could work, contribute, and live meaningful independent lives. During one public interview, a reporter asked John if he ever wished his son were normal. John did not hesitate. He replied that Max was normal, and that the question itself was what was flawed. His response challenged the idea that human value depends on fitting into standard social expectations. Years have passed since then, and Max has grown into an adult who works, participates in his community, and demonstrates what is possible when given a fair chance. John often reflects on how his son shaped his perspective, stating that Max never held him back for a single moment. Through Max, he learned valuable lessons about patience, love, acceptance, and commitment. When Max was born, the world suggested he should be tucked away out of sight. John spent decades making sure people saw him, heard him, and recognized his worth as a person. Some parents protect their children by shielding them from the world. Others protect them by teaching the world to make room for them. True inclusion begins when we stop seeing differences as limitations. Max didn’t need to change to belong. The world needed to change to include Max. Looking back on every red carpet, film set, and quiet moment at home, John knows one thing for certain: Max was never a challenge to be overcome, but a gift to be cherished. True love doesn't ask a child to fit the mold of the world; it reshapes the world so the child can shine exactly as they are. #drthehistories
— Dr. M.F. Khan (@Dr_TheHistories) October 6, 2026
This is a sentence that should literally never be written. Fairfax County taxpayers are paying someone more than 3x the national median household income to run and office whose sole purpose is to racially discriminate against students. If that doesn’t radicalize you, I’m not sure what will.
— ROOZ (@ROOZVA) September 30, 2026
I don’t care about Navier-Stokes. I want to see AI solve the Voynich manuscript. pic.twitter.com/RsXQTkysmw
— Noah Giansiracusa (@ProfNoahGian) September 16, 2026
There's a story that if AI destroys jobs and you give everyone a universal basic income, they will spend each day joyfully doing wonderful, creative things.
— Keith Humphreys (@KeithNHumphreys) September 16, 2026
The truth is most of them will stare at screens, take drugs, and suffer from loneliness and anomie.
The Romans never conquered Ireland, but they did have trade outposts there. Archaeologists at one, the site of Drumanagh, discovered a 2,000-year-old burned fig. Someone had brought it from a warmer clime—perhaps someone who missed the flavors of home.https://t.co/yuq6bsr8j8 pic.twitter.com/Um47MfMIDb
— Archaeology Magazine (@archaeologymag) September 16, 2026
The complete absence of anyone pointing out that this isn’t Rachel Maddow, but - in fact - Jacob Soboroff, is the funniest thing ever. https://t.co/MvkkA1Gyp6
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) September 14, 2026
"The only American families reproducing well above the replacement rate of 2.1 babies are those w/ a married mom at home who works either part-time or not at all." 👇🏽 pic.twitter.com/XGPcuDAR5d
— Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS) September 8, 2026
>Be Godfrey of Bouillon
— Trad West (@trad_west_) September 16, 2026
>Fights a bear alone and win
>Leave Europe for the First Crusade
>March thousands of kilometres toward Jerusalem
>Survive hunger, disease and years of warfare
>Reach Jerusalem in 1099
>Take part in the final assault on the city
>Be offered rulership after… pic.twitter.com/ggSzwFHXOY
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These are the "journalists" writing hit pieces on Sydney Sweeney. Class is dismissed. pic.twitter.com/zw3A6J6L1H
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 15, 2026
One of the first interesting experiences I had in this project at Princeton was meeting great men. I had never met very many great men before. But there was an evaluation committee that had to try to help us along, and help us ultimately decide which way we were going to separate… pic.twitter.com/DNVsO6GbUy
— Prof. Feynman (@ProfFeynman) September 16, 2026
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This vulture waits for the dog to die to eat it, but the dog is just enjoying some sun.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 15, 2026
[📹 tombirchy] pic.twitter.com/qOmQgzfOYI
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