Elizabeth C. Pagé @ECPPage

@TimurNegru Would love the listing, svp, Tim, merci 🌻

after 9/11 the CIA built a team whose only job was to find holes in their own thinking. they called it the Red Cell. the playbook they used is now public. 40 pages. free. almost nobody reads it. I turned their 4 best techniques into 4 prompts you paste into Claude: → prompt 1: what hidden assumptions is my plan built on? → prompt 2: it's 18 months later and my idea failed. walk me through what went wrong. → prompt 3: a competitor with $100M wants to crush me in 90 days. what's their plan? → prompt 4: write the 1-star review from the customer who felt cheated. 30 minutes. your idea either dies here or comes out stronger. both save you 6 months. all 4 prompts are in this article. try them on your next big decision. before reality tries it for you.

Nav Toor @heynavtoor

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Where is the billionaire line following her?

Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07

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A young woman named MacKenzie Tuttle graduated from Princeton in 1992 with a degree in English. One of her professors was Toni Morrison, who later described her as one of the finest creative writing students she had ever taught. After graduation, MacKenzie took a job at the New

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USA sings Ohhhhh Canada On y va!!

Audric Moses 🇨🇦 @audricmoses

2 days ago

WOW, absolute 🔥 from @canmnt's coach, US citizen Jesse Marsch. Americans who think like this: we still love you guys ♥️! #uspoli

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satire

When Emily Wilson published her translation of The Odyssey, it quietly but decisively shifted how many readers understood one of the foundations of Western literature. For centuries, English versions of the poem had been shaped by male translators who often filtered Homer’s Greek through Victorian, Edwardian, or mid-20th Century assumptions about gender, class, and morality. Wilson approached the text with a different aim: fidelity not to tradition, but to the language itself. Her translation pays close attention to what the Greek actually says, rather than what earlier translators assumed it meant. Where previous versions softened Odysseus into a noble hero or exaggerated the moral failings of female characters, Wilson strips away editorial judgment. Words that had long been rendered with moralizing or misogynistic overtones—especially when applied to women, servants, or the enslaved—are reexamined and translated with consistency and precision. A term describing women as sexually suspect, for example, is no longer quietly upgraded to “faithful” or “pure” when it suits male sympathy. Equally important is what Wilson avoids. She resists anachronistic language that romanticizes violence, hierarchy, or domination. Her Odysseus is clever and ruthless, not automatically admirable; Penelope is intelligent and strategic, not merely patient and chaste. Enslaved women are named as enslaved, not euphemized into “maids,” forcing modern readers to confront the social realities the poem assumes rather than smoothing them away for comfort. Wilson’s choices don’t modernize Homer—they clarify him. By refusing to insert gendered judgment or inherited bias, her translation reveals how much earlier versions reflected the values of their translators rather than the ancient text. The result is an Odyssey that feels sharper, more unsettling, and more honest: a poem about power, survival, and storytelling itself, finally allowed to speak without centuries of moral varnish. © Reddit #archaeohistories

Elon Musk built one of the largest AI compute clusters on earth. Yann LeCun just explained why xAI now rents it out to rivals instead of winning with it. Musk has antagonized so much AI talent he structurally cannot hire the people he needs. LeCun is not a critic on the sidelines. He won the Turing Award and ran AI at Meta for a decade. When he talks about who can and cannot build a frontier lab, he is describing his own world. His verdict on xAI was blunt. He called it kind of a failure and did not soften it. His reasoning had nothing to do with money. The founding team left or was fired. There is some uncertainty about which. Either way, the people who started the company are gone. That is the part that matters. A frontier lab is its researchers. Lose them and the compute is just hardware. By March, all eleven co-founders Musk recruited in 2023 had walked out. Researchers who came from DeepMind, Google, and OpenAI. Musk himself posted that xAI was not built right the first time and had to be rebuilt from the foundations up. So Musk is left with one of the biggest clusters on earth and no way to win with it. He rents it out to other companies to recoup the cost. The most expensive infrastructure in AI, built by someone who can no longer staff it. Asked directly if xAI can compete at the frontier, LeCun gave a one word answer. No. What do you guys think about this? Source: CNBC International Live

ABC News Australia: The global leader that Australians have the most confidence in is actually the Prime Minister of Canada. Prime Minister Carney's speech in Davos and then here in the Australian Parliament has clearly cut through.

When innovation and atrocity live in the same body, we don’t get to look away. Accountability shouldn’t pause for stock prices.

Scary ! France's most famous weather presenter @EvelyneDheliat presented a landmark prediction in 2014 on TF1 of what French weather could be like in a 2050 heatwave Here she runs the tape back on her 2014 self and compares it with 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲'𝐬 actual figures👇 My English s/t

In the spring of 2011, a forty-one-year-old software engineer from Fredericton, New Brunswick, named Marcel LeBrun sold the company he had co-founded five years earlier to Salesforce of San Francisco for approximately three hundred and twenty-six million dollars in cash, plus another fifty million dollars in stock. The company was called Radian6. It had become, in five years, one of the largest social-media monitoring platforms in North America. The sale was, at the time, one of the largest acquisitions in the history of the Canadian Maritimes. LeBrun, who had grown up in the province and earned his electrical and computer engineering degree at the University of New Brunswick, did not move anywhere else. He stayed in Fredericton. He drove an exotic car for a while. He took some racing lessons. He worked for Salesforce for a few years, then for a venture firm, then for a small automotive software company. Then he looked around his own city. By the late twenty-tens, the Canadian housing crisis was no longer an abstraction in his hometown. Fredericton, population around sixty-five thousand, had begun to see a significant rise in the number of people sleeping in cars, in tents along the river, and in temporary shelter beds. Most of them were not addicts. Many of them had jobs. They could not, on those jobs, cover what rent now cost in the city. Marcel LeBrun was a wealthy man living in a community where his neighbors were sleeping outside in the New Brunswick winter. He decided that this was a problem with a solution. He and his wife Sheila, an occupational therapist, spent the next several years researching what worked. They visited social enterprises in American cities, in Calgary, in Winnipeg, and in Ghana. They concluded that what people coming out of homelessness needed first was not a bed in a shelter, but a door of their own that locked. In 2021, LeBrun bought a stretch of land on Fredericton's north side, near a Walmart parking lot. He converted a former building-supply warehouse into a small factory. He and Sheila put four and a half million dollars of their own money into a non-profit they called 12 Neighbours, and they began building tiny houses. Each finished house was two hundred and fifty square feet. Each had a small porch, a private bathroom, a compact kitchen, a sleeping area, solar panels on the roof, and walls of tongue-and-groove pine. Each was painted a different bright color. The factory could produce one of these houses, in completed and inspection-ready form, every four days. Each one cost approximately fifty-five thousand dollars to build. The current average cost of a new affordable housing unit in Canada, by LeBrun's own measurement, was around three hundred and fifty thousand. The first residents, a couple named Melissa and Payton Armstrong, moved into 12 Neighbours in February of 2022. They had been living in a tent on the same north side of Fredericton for the previous ten months. The community grew from one house to forty-five by the end of that year, and to ninety-six by April of 2024, when the last home was strapped to a custom hydraulic trailer at the warehouse and lifted onto its foundation a few kilometers away. Randy Burtch, a fifty-seven-year-old construction worker who had been living for about a year in his 2004 Chevy Impala because pandemic-era rents in Fredericton had outpaced what his odd jobs could cover, was among the first to move in. A month later, he was hired full-time as one of the carpenters building more tiny houses at the same factory that had built his. He told the Globe and Mail, when a reporter asked him what the difference had been, that if he wanted a shower he could have a shower, and if he wanted something to eat he could go cook it. In early 2023, the provincial and federal governments contributed thirteen million dollars in additional funding to the project. LeBrun had not asked for the money to start an idea. He had asked for it after he had already demonstrated, in his own backyard, that the idea worked. In April of 2025, with 12 Neighbours fully occupied, LeBrun launched a second non-profit. He called it Neighbourly Homes. Its product was a smaller and more rapidly deployable transitional housing unit, designed in courtyard clusters of fourteen, costing approximately seventy-five hundred dollars per unit to build and capable of being assembled at one a day. He intended to scale the model across the Maritimes. By January of 2026, the first Neighbourly Homes site, with twenty-seven units, was operating in Fredericton. Marcel LeBrun is fifty-six years old. He still shows up at the warehouse on the north side of Fredericton every day. He knows the residents of 12 Neighbours by name. When asked, in a Maclean's profile published in early 2024, how he understood his own role in the situation, he said he had won the parent lottery, the education lottery, and the country lottery, and that it would have been arrogant of him to claim that any of the rest of it had been entirely earned. If his story moved you, drop one word in the comments — Marcel, Fredericton, neighbours, anything that comes to mind. Tap the like button so more people find this story. The page is small. Every reaction helps us keep telling stories like this one.

@CrazyVibes_1 Gratitude

Un père a dit à son fils : « Tu as obtenu ton diplôme avec mention. Voici une Coccinelle Volkswagen que j’ai achetée il y a de nombreuses années... Il a plus de 50 ans, mais avant de te le donner, emmène-le dans une concession en centre-ville et demande combien ils te proposent. » Le fils est allé chez la concession, est revenu voir son père et a dit : « Ils m’ont proposé 10 000 $ parce que ça a l’air très usé. » Le père a dit : « Emmène-le dans un prêteur sur gages. » Le fils est allé au prêteur sur gages, est revenu et a dit : « Ils ne m’ont offert que 1 000 $ parce qu’ils disent que c’est trop vieux. » Finalement, le père a demandé à son fils d’emmener la voiture dans un club de voitures classiques pour la montrer là-bas. Le fils a pris la voiture jusqu’au club, est revenu et a dit : « Des gens au club m’ont proposé 100 000 $ ! car c’est une voiture très rare et recherchée parmi les membres. » Le père dit à son fils : « Je voulais que tu comprennes que le bon endroit t’apprécie de la bonne manière. S’ils ne te valorisent pas, ne sois pas en colère ; ça veut juste dire que tu n’es pas au bon endroit. Ceux qui connaissent votre valeur sont ceux qui vous apprécient vraiment. Ne reste jamais dans un endroit où ils ne reconnaissent pas ta valeur ! »

Rumi: « Real growth often feels more like disorientation than mastery. »

Dr. Bob Beare @DrBobBeare

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He abandoned status. Questioned old identities. Fell apart emotionally. Allowed himself to be changed. Real growth often feels more like disorientation than mastery.

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Trump The Peacemaker. JonathanPie.com

The tough as nails, Giorgia Meloni delivers her message to the European Parliament. Ending with a message to working mothers. Children will make women stronger in the work they do, they do not limit you.

Living in a box of paints 🎨 Revisit “A Case of You” at the link in bio.

I told you, Bob leaves for a month and the next thing you know… That indoctrinated echo chamber isn’t in your ear and you start thinking for yourself…

Here is a prime example of the USA vs Canada. Trump complaining that he had a low chair because it looks bad in photos, and can’t figure out how to raise it. PM Carney brings over his chair to swap it with him. 🇨🇦

Mark Carney, "Together we - Canada, Ireland, and the EU - are one of the largest economic, cultural, technological, financial blocks in the world" "But to what purpose? Well, we are and can be a force for good because we safeguard the values of human rights, of dignity and pluralism that are people hold dear" "Just as Irish monks centuries ago preserved, copied and taught classical knowledge amid the Dark Ages. We must preserve and defend our values, our traditions, our interests. During this rupture" "Building true sovereignty cannot be achieved in isolation. It requires diversification. It requires partnership" "Coalitions that work issue by issue with partners that share enough common ground to act together" "And that's why Canada was the first non European country to join the EU's Safe Defence Procurement Program" "It's why we're championing efforts to build a bridge between the Trans Pacific Partnership and the European Union" "Something that would create a trading bloc of one and a half billion people, a rules based trading block of one and a half billion people" "With these shared values, we have developed a unique worldview, transatlantic worldview, if you will, rooted in a simple but profound conviction that we are stronger when we are connected, that our prosperity grows when it's shared, and that we are the stewards of our lands" "Canada, Ireland and Europe can be pivotal, powerful and purposeful, a force for good." "The EU maintains preferential access to over 80 partner countries, making it the top trading partner for 80 nations globally" "Together, we are powerful because we have the capacity to act together" "Combined, the population is more than twice that of the United States" "We have a larger cultural export industry and a more diverse one, I might add, a similarly sized GDP, comparable R&D spend"