So fire ants, those f*%ckers that always bite you in the leg.

They often have their nest in the sun because it helps them regulate the nest temperature. Good for birth rates etc.

But eventually a tree or plants grows and then the nest in shadow and their numbers decline.…

Pretty much sums up the problems of today The New York Times 🤣

I've seen this before...
nytimes.com/2023/07/07/wor…

Interesting idea

But, for a new amendment, it would require extreme bi-partisan support (unlikely) - two-thirds of both chambers of Congress and ratification by three-fourths of the states

👍

theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…

Heard from VC LPs this week. Some sound bites from LPs in a 🧵👇

“90% of the people doing VC have no real chance of achieving real alpha. Historical DPI shows this”

“And most forget how much price matters. The whole strategy is built around cheap option bets w/ massive upside”

Adidas's sole female executive board member quits, adding to the exodus of top women at the helm, which has previously come under fire for its handling of diversity issues.
ft.com/content/04c89e…

Two thumbs up 👍👍

Saves gas, reuses clothing, taps on unsold inventory

asia.nikkei.com/Business/Trave…

One of the great entrepreneurs of our time. The Establishment lives to critique him, but he’s not going away. 💪 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

wonder if Elon Musk will prevent linking to 3rd party socials again, and if Paul Graham will leave again 🤦‍♂️

#Threads

Baller!
Gov. Evers took language that originally applied the $325 increase for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years and instead vetoed the “20” and the hyphen to make the end date 2425. 🤣

pbs.org/newshour/polit….

Ohh, hell no!

Riders stuck for 3 hours upside down in Wisconsin!!

foxnews.com/us/wisconsin-r…

ESPN just showed a leaderboard for most wins in a single event.

Joey chestnut was #1 for 14 wins at the Nathan’s hot dog eating competition.

#2 was Rafael nadal for 13 titles at the French open.

I’m not sure i will ever forget seeing that.

Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship

Dunbar’s Number is a Lie
There is a repeated lie that a person can only maintain and manage social connections with 150 people. That’s a lie. It was never true and it is certainly not true today.

But the number of people that everyone keeps track of is certainly growing. Back…

This is absolutely bananas.

There is NOTHING like this on the instrumental record. Its likely impact is probably immeasurable.

But is it leading our news bulletins & on newspaper front pages?

Nope.

Y’all wanna hear the TRUE story of Nikki Haley?

A thread

If a seventeen-year old asks me today what technology field they should be studying at university, I would say 'cybersecurity'.