Pretty hilarious 😂
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Two years ago I scrolled to the bottom of the ICLR rankings and found art.
This year I downloaded 125,680 ICLR 2027 reviews the day after they went public. There was more art 🧵
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No one could have predicted it except some of us who grew up up in latin America. The signs were there from the start!! Continues to follow the same path. Just missing a coup de etat by the military.
Who could have predicted that MAGA would govern like incompetent Latin American fascists and piss away their chance to change America?View quoted post on X
Not me, certainly. I am just totally surprised
Unbelievable.
The scariest guy on the start line of the New York City Marathon on Sunday had never run a marathon.View quoted post on X
He'd never even run 26.2 miles in practice. And he picked New York a full year ago for a reason that sounds completely backwards. It's one of the slowest courses in the sport.
He's Andreas Almgren, the Swede who won the world half marathon title in September, and slow was the whole plan.
Most of the big marathons like London, Berlin, Chicago and Tokyo pay pacemakers to drag the leaders through world record splits for most of the race. Those races basically turn into time trials. Whoever can hold the pace the longest wins, and that's usually a guy with 2:02 on his resume.
New York got rid of pacemakers in 2007. Then it throws five bridges at you. The Verrazzano climbs over 150 feet in the very first mile, and Fifth Avenue gains about another 100 between miles 22 and 23, right when your legs are toast.
So nobody runs fast there. The last two winners ran 2:07 and 2:08. The world record is 1:59:30, and New York's course record is 2:04:58. Almgren built his entire debut inside those five and a half minutes.
When nobody's chasing a clock, the pack stays bunched up for 20-plus miles and the whole thing comes down to who still has a sprint left in Central Park. Benson Kipruto won it last year by a hair at the line.
Almgren started out as an 800 meter runner. He ran 1:45.59 back in 2015, which is the kind of finishing speed marathoners almost never carry. He told Swedish TV in August his plan was to sit with the leaders and sprint for the win, and that he'd worry about a fast time on a flat course next year.
Honestly, it's a miracle he made it to a start line at all.
He played soccer for AIK in Stockholm until he was 18 and quit because he kept getting hurt. Running wasn't much kinder to him. He lost about four years to stress fractures, including a broken bone in his foot and a fractured sacrum in 2019, and in 2024 a shin injury knocked him out of the Paris Olympics the day before his 5,000 meter heat.
That sacrum injury ended up shaping how he trains. While he was rehabbing he copied the Norwegian double threshold method from another Swedish runner, Kalle Berglund, where you do two controlled hard sessions in the same day. He still does it every Tuesday and Thursday, and he writes most of his own plan. For this build he ran over 2,000 km in ten weeks with three runs out to 40K. He also spent months training his stomach to handle around 120 grams of carbs an hour, because you can't sprint in Central Park on an empty tank.
He was honest about the part he couldn't train for. He said he'd learned how to suffer for about an hour, and two hours felt like walking into a new world. When it gets bad, he tells himself "don't be a crybaby."
Going into Sunday, no European-born man had won New York since Giacomo Leone in 1996. The guy on his shoulder in this clip is Yeman Crippa, who won the Paris Marathon this year and picked New York because the hills reminded him of Paris.
What you're watching is the last four minutes of a race Almgren started planning last November.
Made it so
In 1987, Patrick Stewart refused to unpack his suitcase for six straight weeks.
My throat still tightens every time I read why.
Every Hollywood insider told the 47-year-old British stage actor that Star Trek: The Next Generation would be a disaster. Even his closest friend, Ian McKellen, begged him not to throw away his Shakespearean career on a television gamble.
Stewart kept his bags packed by the door, waiting to be fired and sent home to London.
That "six-week failure" lasted 36 years.
Watching him late at night here in Japan, we saw something Hollywood never expected.
In Japan, we call this quiet, unbreakable spirit "Fudoshin," an immovable heart under fire.
Most action heroes scream and fire weapons to look strong.
Captain Picard never needed to raise his voice.
Born into deep poverty in Yorkshire, terrified of a violent home, he left school at age 15 and lost all his hair by 19, convinced his life as an actor was over before it began.
Yet one English teacher, Cecil Dormand, handed that frightened 12-year-old boy a copy of Shakespeare, said "Read it out loud," and secretly paid for his first drama course.
Never forget what happened decades later.
On the morning Queen Elizabeth II knighted him as Sir Patrick Stewart, he invited that same retired schoolteacher to sit beside him at his knighthood luncheon.
No suitcase left unpacked.
No rage on the bridge.
Just a cup of Earl Grey tea, a tug of his uniform, and three quiet words that commanded the galaxy:
"Make it so."
He passed away at 86 surrounded by live music, prayer, tears, and laughter.
And this December, in Avengers: Doomsday, Professor X will grace the screen one final time.
A boy who thought he wouldn't last six weeks in Hollywood gave the world an eternity of nobility.
From Japan, with tears and our deepest salute:
Thank you, Captain. Engage. ✨🖖🇯🇵View quoted post on X
