California is one of the most dynamic places on the planet. But it is a case study in how a rich society can spend more and more while producing less and less of what its ordinary citizens need. My take:

It's impossible to parody the UN at this point - the reality is already too ridiculous.

🚨 Unbelievable bravery of Iranians: Projecting the flag of Israel in Ekbatan neighborhood in Tehran 👇

There are no words

President Reagan once reflected on the resilience of the Jewish people, saying: “No people have fought longer, struggled harder or sacrificed more in order to survive, to grow and to live in freedom.” On this first night of Hanukkah, we mourn with those grieving after today’s horrific, antisemitic attack in Bondi Beach and extend our heartfelt condolences. Over the next 8 days, families and loved ones around the world will gather to light the menorah, an enduring symbol of the triumph of good over evil. To all who celebrate, we wish you a peaceful and hopeful Hanukkah.

To recap the past week: Hamas films themselves executing over 100 Palestinians. The media is silent. Hamas launches RPGs at Israeli troops, murdering two. The media is silent. Israel responds by striking a Hamas commander. The media says Israel violated the ceasefire.

Here is Epic’s new strategy for giving customers choice over how to pay for things, and passing on savings when they use our cost-effective direct payment system. Competition is a wonderful thing!

Tomorrow, Apple will lose power over mobile phones, as developers will now be able to accept payment outside the app store without having to hand over the 30% vig. This will be the first time we'll see a real world impact from an antitrust remedy against a big tech titan.

Dear founders, We’re excited to announce Susa Ventures V – a $175M fund to help you launch and scale your company. Since 2013, we’ve dedicated ourselves to pre-seed and seed-stage company building. Every company starts at day one, but only a few become category-defining businesses. The winners find momentum early and compound it for decades. Our job is to help you build momentum early – by providing capital, customers and talent. Susa founders are on average more successful and own more of their companies than industry peers. Susa companies become unicorns ~10x more often than the average venture-funded startup. 10% of Susa I and II companies have become unicorns – compared to a 1%* industry average. Susa-backed companies raise Series A rounds at ~2x higher valuations than industry average*, resulting in lower founder dilution. Susa founders tend to own more of their companies at exit. How we work: We invest $500k-$5m at the pre-seed and seed-stage. We invest pre-idea all the way through early product-market-fit. We build independent conviction – we don't care who else is in the round. We’re very selective – each partner invests in just 2-3 companies per year. We're sector-agnostic, focused primarily on software, and believe AI is underhyped. We’re founder-first – in 12 years, we’ve never voted a founder out of their business. In short, we’re a purpose-built seed specialist. We’re living in the most exciting technology shift in human history. Artificial intelligence has the potential to change the way humans live in a more profound way than anything we’ve seen before. We’re energized by optimism and motivated by the determination to help build a future we’re excited about. We’ve outlined areas of investment interest here. Choosing Susa means your success drives impact beyond your company. We manage capital from US-based institutions, including non-profit foundations, education endowments and leading healthcare providers. If you’re an early-stage builder, please reach out. Chad

Two teams entered, one left standing alone atop the #LCS #TLWIN

We just took down the #1 ranked team in the world and all the casters can think to say is NaVi didn't show up. We clawed our way back from 48th in the world by BUILDING a talent pipeline the whole scene memed on. Step out of the echo chamber and pay attention.

#CallofDuty #Warzone was an explosive start to the #EsportsWorldCup 💥 Relive all the jaw-dropping moments 👇

Perspective.

Congratulations to entire team—players, coaches @TeamLiquidLoL . Back in first where you belong in LCS. Also congrats to @LiQuiD112 and @LiquidNazgul for all your hard work!

Great game TL. Main alpha player @Impact and @Yeon looking strong! GG guys!

The moment @Twistzz & @NAFFLY reunited 🇨🇦

for a long time i said that antisemitism, particularly on the american left, was not as bad as people claimed. i'd like to just state that i was totally wrong. i still don't understand it, really. or know what to do about it. but it is so fucked.

An absoloute honor to have you back @Twistzz. The total class act, the champion, the highlight machine, returns. I cant be more happy and proud for you to write a new chapter in the Team Liquid Legacy.

As Arabs, our message to the world cannot be restricted to eliciting global sympathy for the children of Gaza. We cannot depict ourselves as helpless children, behind whom we hide our failure to control our Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 non-combatant Israelis. This is a moral failure that the world sees but that we try to hide behind the “rights of the Palestinian people,” rights that none of us are willing to articulate. Free Palestine can mean anything, from an Arab Palestinian state living in peace next to Jewish Israel to an Arab Palestinian state instead of Jewish Israel. For Arab Israeli peace to happen, and since Palestinians are either children, or Hamas thugs, or useless corrupt Mahmud Silicon-Face Abbas, non-Palestinian Arabs should step up to save the Palestinians from themselves and save the region ongoing sorrow. We, Arabs, have to show the world that we are at peace with the idea of a Jewish state, that we are willing to concede what we believe – rightly or wrongly -- is ours (1948 territory), that we genuinely want bygones to be bygones, without secretly holding grudges and passing them to our children. We must seek a better future for ourselves and our kids, as well as for Israelis and their kids. The Palestine disaster (nakba) is not a disaster of land loss or military defeat. It is a disaster of absence of leadership that can articulate the Arab alternative to war and death. We ask the world to stop the Israeli war on Hamas, but what do we offer as an alternative to stopping the war? Just let those Hamas thugs who massacred 1300 Israelis get away with their crime (because there is a history of dispute)? Ask Israel to go back to October 6? Knowing that Hamas can break out of the Gaza fence and repeat its massacre any minute? Hamas must go. We Arabs must help get rid of it, and most importantly, we must show that we have a plan for the day after Hamas. Let’s learn from the mistake of Iraq and Arab Spring countries, that once what we have is gone, what comes next looks worse. Let’s preempt the worse by offering the better. As long as we, the Arabs, do not have answers to all these questions, the world will manage things without us. It does not matter if all of us, 1.3 billion Muslims, think that Israel is at fault. What matters is global perception, which clearly thinks that Islamist terrorism is the problem, not Israelis dancing at a music festival. And we, the Arabs, are not even talking to the world. We are talking to each other, patting ourselves on the back for being utopian and principled on Palestine, while we are in fact idiotically out of touch with reality. We insist on our backward message, then act surprised why many of our states are failing and why we are migrating in droves. Please stop treating Palestine like religion, like we have to stick to our principles to win credit in the afterlife and to garner social acceptance among each other (Arabs and/or Muslims). Please think of Palestine like a problem that requires troubleshooting, compromise, pragmatism, and most importantly, looking toward the future, not the past.

Definitely think there's a lot to gain from aim training since the essence of aim training is just focused practice. I personally don't think age is a big deal like a lot of people seem to think. I think you can make great strides by being efficient and focused with what you need to work on. Main thing is knowing WHAT exactly you should be spending your time on. That either comes down to a lot of hours everywhere so you just gain it by pure grinding and you learn it, having someone teach you exactly what to grind, and/or having a good circle that you can learn from eachother. I think anything can be learned if you are smart about how to work on things and if you are ever in doubt if where to put your main focus and attention on to help your game, that is where you can ask your peers or someone that really knows what they are doing for some guidance. Inconsistency as a whole just means that the bottom part of your game is wayy too disproportionate if you think about it as a bell curve. Learned a lot about his topic specifically from my sports psych Jared Tendler called the inchworm concept that I would recommend looking into. The goal is to make it so all parts of your game are getting better, not just when you are having a really good game that it is really good. You want it so when you are even having a bad game, your worst games are getting better and better. That is when you are building consistency where you can identify that the back part of your range is keeping up with your average and top end of your game. So my advice is to take into account what mistakes / fundamentals are you messing up when you are even having an "off day" because those are the concepts / fundamentals you need to put more time and effort into. When you are having a "good day" you don't see them as often because you could be just feeling it, putting more mental effort into it, but when you are having a "bad day" those weaknesses are exposed. Don't chalk up mistakes you are making on a bad day to just being a "bad day" and make sure you learn from it and make your bad day better than someone's good day over time. Back to the mouse inconsistency part, I definitely have seen people make great strides when they have focused practice and know what they need to improve in regards to aim training so if you need any help with that @sinizap can lead you in the right direction for sure. Fundamentally though, tacFPS isn't all about aim and the most important progress will come down to decision making and giving yourself good fights that you have higher % of winning. Add in some good focused aim training as a supplement to your normal DM / MM games and I can't see a world where you don't see progress and feel better about your game 👍