I turn 50 today. This is a message to my kids but I offer it to you in case any of it rings useful. I was born in Sri Lanka in 1976 in a country that, at the time, was about to enter a decades long civil war. My father was able to get stationed at the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada for four years in the early 80s - when some of the fighting was most severe - and which from our vantage point in Canada gave us some respite from an otherwise omnipresent conflict. He came as a diplomat but then my father filed for refugee status after four years when his life was threatened by militants. We stayed in Canada as refugees. My dad never really landed on his feet and we grew up on welfare. My mom stepped up. She did an incredible thing and put our family on her back and kept marching forward. Sometimes the steps were very small but she always tried to keep moving forward. I worked at Burger King starting at 14, giving my paycheck to my mom and dad to support our family in the role that I was assigned - earn enough to pay for our bus passes because we couldn’t afford a car. I was a loser growing up. Some friends, some good memories but mostly forgettable and lonely. I wasn’t very studious but did get my act together in my final year and got into a great university. I immigrated to the US soon after graduating and found an opportunity. Things clicked and I have been traveling a path to find myself ever since. Only in America is this possible… I worked hard, followed the rules, paid my taxes and stayed in California out of loyalty for the opportunities it has given me despite its dysfunction. I found my wife here. Had my kids here. Found my tribe here. There have been some very hard times as well - deaths, divorce, financial pain, mistakes of omission and mistakes of commission. You can’t dwell on these things - they are weights that will pull you down if you’re not careful. Learn from them. Respect them. BUT MOVE ON. To think 50 years ago I could have ever gotten a chance to meet the people I’ve met and have had the experiences I’ve had would have been mind boggling to my parents. It’s mind boggling to me now. We forget often and try to convince others it’s not true but America truly is the best country in the world. Everything and anything is possible here. I can testify. Be grateful to be here. This is the only place that gives EVERYONE a chance to live a great adventure. The first 50 years have been that for me - an incredible adventure. Notice there is nothing here about accomplishments or money. Because it doesn’t matter and it won’t matter. You will be dust in less than 100 years from now and the decision to be remembered won’t be yours so stop sweating it. It’s not in your control. So what is in your control? Be kind. Have fun. Work on something meaningful to you. Find your tribe. Try to find perspective. Find an incredible partner. Have a bunch of kids. Live an adventure. Forgive your parents - they were doing the best they could even if that wasn’t what you deserved. I will do what I can to make my next 50 years a wild ride. You should too. I love you and thank you. ❤️ 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Elimination of capital gains tax on primary residences would spur more sales, especially Boomers.

da Vinci is my man.

Becomes more and more true every day…

If tolerance means the end of Western Civilization, then we cannot be tolerant

“One of the bittersweet things about growing old is realizing how mistaken you were when you were young. As a young political leftist, I saw the left as the voice of the common man. Nothing could be further from the truth.” — Thomas Sowell

I think we’ll look back in 2 years and find that @DrDominicNg to be one of the greatest science communicators of our time. He actually goes deep into the papers, while still boiling down the main takeaway for a broader audience. There’s something for everyone (I have a PhD in computational biology and still learn from his threads). If you take the extra 20 seconds to read the thread beyond his main post, you will learn a lot about how science interpretation makes or breaks the news headlines for a scientific study. Keep it up!

Statins Slash GLP-1: (~10-minute Data Digest for @X) Human trial data published in a major journal show that statins cause insulin resistance and deplete GLP-1 levels in humans. This should have been breaking news... But no one talked about it. Why don’t doctors know? Why aren’t patients being informed about the risks? PLEASE really listen to what I’m saying and why I’m upset. It’s more nuanced than scaremongering about medications or economic conspiracy theories. 🔁If you care, share (retweet and tag your favorite, or least favorite, health influencer) 🔗Links to the YouTube video, Substack article, and Instagram posts in first comment. - @Cell_Metabolism (PMID: 38325336)

Consider that government, especially here in the USA, used to be just a bunch of us guys getting paid to organize things for the general welfare of the society. Doing the necessary stuff. Water & hygiene, trash, defense, things like that. Along with the introduction of a central bank currency, so no longer, money is common to all of us, but now is exclusively created by a single entity, the Federal Reserve, we get this shift of the conception of government from a common effort to get the dirty jobs done over to the idea of Government as Authority. The Federal Reserve was the gatekeeper, the authority, on money, and the Government, became the authority on everything else. This means there will be NO DISCLOSURE of UFOs. Government can't maintain the illusion of being Authority when they can't answer so many of the questions raised by the existence of UFOs. It wouldn't work for Government to present a bunch of information proving UFOs exist only to then say "we don't have a fucking clue about what they are, or what they are doing". So, no Disclosure. Government can be relied upon to always choose the option that preserves their power.

Col. Karl Nell: "Esotericism actually drives Scientific advancement..." 🚨 This clip is fking wild. Full video below on Polarity2.0 👇

A Probiotic-Protein Prescription for Depression? Exploring the New Evidence (🔗 in 8/8) @Cell_Metabolism 1/8) What if a simple combination of probiotics and amino acids could help relieve depression? I wouldn’t joke about this—and new science provides serious hope for those struggling with mental illness. Recent research reveals that a specific neurotransmitter, produced by the gut microbiome and capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier, is depleted in patients with depression—along with the microbes that produce it. Remarkably, the same study shows in an animal model that replenishing either the bacteria or the neurotransmitter can alleviate depressive symptoms. #mentalhealth #microbiome #depression #gutbrainaxis #probiotics #neuroscience #staycurious

With respect to our institutions in the west, I can’t stop seeing the fundamental division as being into two basic groups: A) HIGH TRUST: “Sure, they aren’t perfect; I myself like to think independently. But they are better than any of the crazy alternatives.” B) LOW TRUST: “I don’t get how anyone still listens to legacy institutions. They are over.” —— I bring this up because what I don’t see is C) C) DECLINING TRUST: “I cannot believe that our previously high quality institutions are being looted and/or crumbling at this rate. They are decaying from a very high height, so they are still working in many areas but they are already pure poison in others. We can’t live modern prosperous secure lives without them. So why are we exhibiting universal learned helplessness with respect to getting rid of the rot? Why the all or nothing thinking? What is going on? It’s like someone attacked us by convincing us to hollow ourselves out so you could knock us over with a feather.” I’m in C). And I find it much more helpful to replace Left / Right with High Trust / Low Trust as our dominant political axis. High Trust roughly correlating with Blue and Low Trust roughly correlated with Red. What are your thoughts on this? Thx.🙏

Klaus Schwab in 2017 at Harvard: "What we are very proud of, is that we penetrate the global cabinets of countries with our WEF Young Global Leaders."

He didn’t. I have uncovered a scandal that needs to be addressed asap because this is not what we voted for. @healpalestine_ has been accused of working with HAMAS. They shouldn’t be allowed to have access to State Department officials to get visas for GAZANS.

Respectfully. Here is what I think is going on. I) Independent breakthrough science is in a long wind down starting with the Mansfield amendment, and is being partially decommissioned. Why? Because it was found to be too powerful and redistributive. II) The National Security and National Interest folks now use science, journalism, academe etc to dump their cognitive sludge. Epstein cover stories, UAP cover stories, Assasination cover stories, COVID cover stories, Inflation/Money Supply cover stories, etc. That is, the organs that kept us partially free in 1975 are now used to attack our ability to think, every day of our lives. III) Anyone not going along with I) and II) sticks out like an absolute sore thumb and is targeted for “Image Cheapening”. This is abhorrent abuse of power. IV) @RepLuna isn’t stupid. If she can talk about Physical Law and “Interdimensional beings”, she can place a phone call or two to our physicists or differential geometers/topologists. I’m happy to help direct her to good folks. V) The UFO community is way too recreational. What ever is hidden behind the UAP curtain is serious business. It involved high level physics as recently as 50 years ago. Then that connection got buried. I just don’t know what this about. And I have *zero* proof it involves aliens or interdimensional beings. VI) Adults who would never discuss the Tooth Fairy in public should not discuss alien equivalents of the Tooth Fairy. Alien life and higher dimensions are both super serious subjects to me. And they would be too you too if this wasn’t made into a cheap farce. Space opera is just dumping cognitive sludge in the middle of a central scientific question. And I don’t take kindly to it. VII) I personally believe there are 4+6=10 =(d**2 + d)/2 for d=1+3 additional dimensions available for travel. But that would make **US**….humans….just as interdimensional as alien life. And we don’t evaluate any such ideas for our own travel. We just run out the clock listening to decades of the same 20 Octogenarians and Septuagenarians discussing how they are going to solve “Quantum Gravity” when they grow up. And we let them destroy all competitors so they can take down the field of theoretical physics and die in piece pretending they were the “Only Game In Town”. Which is total pure unadulterated anti-scientific bullshit. Think about it. VIII) Nobody but nobody is this dumb. Not even the government on its worst day. This is national security cognitive sludge being dumped into science. We are 40+ years into a string theory fairy tale about “Quantum Gravity” without asking “Is this all bullshit?” IX) Science needs to be in a dialogue with NatSec. And it needs to tell them to play nice and cut it out or we use our vast tools to figure out what is going on because this COVID level bullshit is too dumb to be believed. We are just one or two rogue billionaires away from being able to immunize our scientists from USG cutting off all funds and destroying their reputations. Breakaway science in the public interest. It can take as few as one personal fortune in the service of science to cure this. Just one. This whole post-WWII system of journals, peer review, grants, gatekeepers etc in fields like physics, economics and math is entirely vulnerable. We need to own X) Lying about COVID and UAP is a modified NIMBY issue for all scientists: Not in our back yard(s). I’m just tired of scientists and technical folks being fed cognitive sludge by NatSec and national interest types we can’t see. Interdimensional or otherwise.

Californians won’t stand for Gavin Newsom’s scheme to scrap the independent Citizens Redistricting Commission for his own political gain. His Sacramento power grab shreds constitutional safeguards and defies the will of the voters. politico.com/news/2025/08/14…

Who really decides what you and I are allowed to know? And with what right can they hide the truth from all of us? It’s time we start questioning who holds the keys to the information that shapes our world. #disclosure #uaptwitter #uapX

For years I limited eggs to a few a week, max. Now I eat at least 30. My triglyceride/HDL ratio is below 1. My energy is through the roof and I've never felt better. Eggs and cholesterol aren’t your problem. The inflammation you're so afraid of is being driven by blood sugar spikes and crashes from a diet built on cereal, beer, and processed junk.