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Bookmarks for 2025-12-18T00:37:19.030Z

  • Favicon Cat's Fishing AdventureSee how a cat catches a fish with strategy. - YouTube Added: Dec 17, 2025

    Cat's Fishing AdventureSee how a cat catches a fish with strategy.

    Site: YouTube

    Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

    Cat's Fishing AdventureSee how a cat catches a fish with strategy. - YouTube

  • Favicon Multi-GPU gaming is dead, but dual-card PCs are making a comeback Added: Dec 17, 2025

    Multi-GPU gaming is dead, but dual-card PCs are making a comeback

    Site: How-To Geek

    Two heads are still better than one—sometimes.

    Multi-GPU gaming is dead, but dual-card PCs are making a comeback

  • Favicon Joe Rogan Keeps Playing AI-Generated Music for Guests, But He's Speechless When One of Them Points Out That Podcasts Can Be AI-Generated Too Added: Dec 17, 2025

    Joe Rogan Speechless When Guest Tells Him Podcasts Can Be AI-Generated Now

    Site: Futurism

    Joe Rogan has been drooling over AI-generated music for months now, but he doesn't share the shame enthusiasm for AI podcasts.

    Joe Rogan Keeps Playing AI-Generated Music for Guests, But He's Speechless When One of Them Points Out That Podcasts Can Be AI-Generated Too

  • Favicon Google Stitch : Free AI Tool for Fast App & Web UI Design in 2026 - Geeky Gadgets Added: Dec 17, 2025

    Google Stitch Guide : No-Code to Working App in Minutes With Gemini 3

    Site: Geeky Gadgets

    Stitch from Google makes app and web design fast, exporting screens to AI Studio where an AI model builds working features for you.

    Google Stitch : Free AI Tool for Fast App & Web UI Design in 2026 - Geeky Gadgets

  • Favicon At White House Hanukkah party, Trump laments 'Jewish lobby' no longer most powerful | The Times of Israel Added: Dec 17, 2025

    At White House Hanukkah party, Trump laments 'Jewish lobby' no longer most powerful | The Times of Israel

    At White House Hanukkah party, Trump laments 'Jewish lobby' no longer most powerful  The Times of Israel

  • Favicon Rogan blasts liberal policies for enabling mountain lions to eat pets | Fox News Added: Dec 17, 2025

    Rogan blasts liberal policies for enabling mountain lions to eat pets | Fox News

    Rogan blasts liberal policies for enabling mountain lions to eat pets  Fox News

  • Unique interstellar comet visible in California just this once Added: Dec 17, 2025

  • Favicon House GOP passes health bill without Obamacare subsidies Added: Dec 17, 2025

    House passes GOP health bill without subsidies

    Site: Axios

    The vote all but assures that out-of-pocket premiums will more than double for roughly 20 million ACA enrollees.

    House GOP passes health bill without Obamacare subsidies

  • Favicon President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation - YouTube Added: Dec 17, 2025

    President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation

    Site: YouTube

    The White House

    President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation - YouTube

  • Why Google's new Interactions API is such a big deal for AI developers | VentureBeat Added: Dec 17, 2025

  • Favicon Islam is Blameless - All Jews Are Collectively Guilty (THE SAAD TRUTH_1966) - YouTube Added: Dec 17, 2025

    Islam is Blameless - All Jews Are Collectively Guilty (THE SAAD TRUTH_1966)

    Site: YouTube

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    Islam is Blameless - All Jews Are Collectively Guilty (THE SAAD TRUTH1966) - YouTube

  • Favicon From P*rn to the Presidency: The IRS Probe That Hit A Wall - YouTube Added: Dec 17, 2025

    From P*rn to the Presidency: The IRS Probe That Hit A Wall

    Site: YouTube

    IRS whistleblowers, Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, join Miranda Devine to reveal how their Hunter Biden tax investigation hit a wall once it began pointing...

    From Prn to the Presidency: The IRS Probe That Hit A Wall - YouTube

  • Favicon Nick Reiner Defense Ahead, Brown U. Inaction, with Aidala & Murphy, and Leadership with Dakota Meyer - YouTube Added: Dec 17, 2025

    Nick Reiner Defense Ahead, Brown U. Inaction, with Aidala & Murphy, and Leadership with Dakota Meyer

    Site: YouTube

    Megyn Kelly is joined by Arthur Aidala and Matt Murphy, MK True Crime contributors, to talk about the new Washington Post reporting on Tyler Robinson's actio...

    Nick Reiner Defense Ahead, Brown U. Inaction, with Aidala & Murphy, and Leadership with Dakota Meyer - YouTube

  • Favicon What is time, really? - YouTube Added: Dec 17, 2025

    What is time, really?

    Site: YouTube

    Check out mathematics and science courses on Brilliant! Start learning for free at https://brilliant.org/sabine/ and get 20% off a premium subscription, whic...

    What is time, really? - YouTube

  • Favicon 5 features that make Linux more productive than Windows or Mac Added: Dec 17, 2025

    5 features that make Linux more productive than Windows or Mac

    Site: How-To Geek

    Linux takes productivity to a new level.

    5 features that make Linux more productive than Windows or Mac

  • Favicon James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole rocketing through 'Cosmic Owl' galaxies at 2.2 million mph: 'It boggles the mind!' | Space Added: Dec 17, 2025

    James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole rocketing through 'Cosmic Owl' galaxies at 2.2 million mph: 'It boggles the mind!'

    Site: Space

    "The forces that are needed to dislodge such a massive black hole from its home are enormous."

    James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole rocketing through 'Cosmic Owl' galaxies at 2.2 million mph: 'It boggles the mind!'  Space

  • Favicon Little-known tree has enormous potential as both food and medicine - Earth.com Added: Dec 17, 2025

    Little-known tree has enormous potential as both food and medicine

    Site: Earth.com

    Hymenaea courbaril, a tropical tree, provides fiber, antioxidants, and natural gums with potential benefits for health and the food industry.

    Little-known tree has enormous potential as both food and medicine - Earth.com

  • Favicon solid + solid = liquid (no, it's not heat, commenters) - YouTube Added: Dec 18, 2025

    solid + solid = liquid (no, it's not heat, commenters)

    Site: YouTube

    I mean, I don't even read the comments that much, really #eutectic #experiment #chemistry Reactions is a production of the American Chemical Society.© 2025 ...

    solid + solid = liquid (no, it's not heat, commenters) - YouTube

  • Favicon Trump Addresses The Nation, Goes Scorched Earth On Democrats - YouTube Added: Dec 18, 2025

    Trump Addresses The Nation, Goes Scorched Earth On Democrats

    Site: YouTube

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    Trump Addresses The Nation, Goes Scorched Earth On Democrats - YouTube

  • Favicon Candace Owens IMPLODES, Audience IN REVOLT, Claim SHES A CLONE Or GOT THE CALL | Timcast IRL - YouTube Added: Dec 18, 2025

    Candace Owens IMPLODES, Audience IN REVOLT, Claim SHES A CLONE Or GOT THE CALL | Timcast IRL

    Site: YouTube

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    Candace Owens IMPLODES, Audience IN REVOLT, Claim SHES A CLONE Or GOT THE CALL  Timcast IRL - YouTube

  • Favicon Dan Bongino To RESIGN, Trump Addresses The Nation | Timcast IRL - YouTube Added: Dec 18, 2025

    Dan Bongino To RESIGN, Trump Addresses The Nation | Timcast IRL

    Site: YouTube

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    Dan Bongino To RESIGN, Trump Addresses The Nation  Timcast IRL - YouTube

  • Favicon Peter Schiff on X: "Socialist Bernie Sanders is upset that rich people might get richer by developing AI. Apparently, the real tragedy isn’t poverty or scarcity, but the possibility that someone might profit while making everyone else’s life easier. If AI raises profits by raising productivity," / X Added: Dec 18, 2025

    Site: X (formerly Twitter)

    Peter Schiff on X: "Socialist Bernie Sanders is upset that rich people might get richer by developing AI. Apparently, the real tragedy isn’t poverty or scarcity, but the possibility that someone might profit while making everyone else’s life easier. If AI raises profits by raising productivity," / X

  • Favicon Research: When Used Correctly, LLMs Can Unlock More Creative Ideas Added: Dec 18, 2025

    Research: When Used Correctly, LLMs Can Unlock More Creative Ideas

    Site: Harvard Business Review

    Large language models are now central to the ideation phase, where possibilities are explored and assumptions are challenged. Their adoption for idea generation and brainstorming has surged, making these activities among the most common uses in organizations. But ideation is about generating ideas that are both original and appropriate, balancing novelty with feasibility. LLMs support creativity through persistence—producing many variations on a theme—and flexibility—combining distant concepts in unexpected ways. Their productivity enables exhaustive exploration, while their semantic breadth allows for the remixing of ideas from diverse fields. However, while individuals may generate more original ideas, the overall diversity across groups can narrow, making ideas more similar. To maximize quality, techniques such as fine-tuning, few-shot prompting, and retrieval-augmented generation help align AI outputs with specific goals and contexts.

    The rise of generative AI is reshaping not just how we work, but how we think. In our experience, many leaders focus on productivity in generative AI deployment. Generative AI will indeed make many tasks easier and quicker to perform, increasing efficiency and decreasing costs. But we think that one of the biggest promises of this technology lies elsewhere: in unlocking new forms of human creativity that can drive innovation and growth. From product design to brand strategy, large language models (LLMs) are influencing the ideation phase—the messy, early stage where possibilities are explored and assumptions challenged. For example, in a recent survey of corporate adoption of generative AI conducted by one of us (Stefano), “idea generation and brainstorming” was the use case that made the biggest jump between 2024 and 2025 (+12%). It’s now ranking in the top five most common use cases, jumping nine positions in a single year. Are these tools simply churning out more of the same ideas, or can they unlock radical insights? And what can companies do to maximize the creativity of their outputs? This article brings together decades of research on ideation with emerging insights from the fast-growing literature on generative AI–driven creativity. We focus on how LLMs affect the early stages of creative work, specifically idea generation, and identify the conditions under which they enhance or hinder originality. Drawing on studies in consumer behavior, creativity science, and human–AI collaboration, we map AI’s capabilities onto classic creativity frameworks, introduce practical roles LLMs can play in co-creation, and offer concrete ways to use generative AI to improve the quality, diversity, and impact of ideas. What Is Ideation, and How Do We Measure Its Quality? Ideation is the process of generating new ideas in response to a specific goal or problem. At its core, it’s about producing concepts that are both original and appropriate. The best ideas break new ground and offer practical relevance. Originality refers to how much an idea deviates from what already exists. Some ideas are small, or incremental: thoughtful refinements to established products or strategies. Others are big, or radical: they challenge categories or introduce unexpected meanings. Appropriateness is about feasibility: Can the idea realistically solve a consumer need or fit within existing behaviors? An idea might be wildly original but unworkable in practice, or highly feasible but lack novelty. Ideation serves as the starting point of the innovation process: a phase where quantity serves quality. The goal is to cast a wide net, producing many possibilities. After systematic filtering and refinement, only a few high-potential ideas remain. A good ideation process increases the odds that the best ideas are exceptional—both in terms of originality and appropriateness. Yet, while AI might help every individual come up with higher-quality ideas, it can also make everyone’s ideas look more alike. How Generative AI Fuels Ideation Generative AI doesn’t just automate; it creates. LLMs generate human-like output in response to prompts, writing copy, sketching logos, generating recipes, composing music, and brainstorming product concepts. Why might LLMs be valuable for ideation? Two pathways underlie human creativity: persistence (focused generation of many variations within a narrow space) and flexibility (the ability to combine distant concepts). LLMs emulate both, due to their productivity and semantic breadth. However, they also have drawbacks that ideators need to account for, attributable to how they are trained. Boosting Productivity Persistence in creativity means zeroing in on a small number of promising ideas and methodically working through them. LLMs are inherently built for persistence, generating hundreds or thousands of ideas in response to the same prompt without fatigue. This ability to be exhaustive is not just efficient, but of immense creative potential. Research shows that LLMs can push creative output in ways previously unavailable to individuals or even groups. For example, the more ideas an LLM generates, the more original the pool becomes—up to a point, after which originality plateaus. To produce high-quality ideas using LLMs, it’s important to home in on a specific goal while filtering out distractions. Brands can tap into this targeted productivity in several ways: Fine-tuning: Training an AI model on specialized content (e.g., brand guidelines, customer feedback) to generate ideas that align closely with business context. Few-shot prompting: Showing the AI a handful of high-quality examples to steer its thinking. Retrieval-augmented generation: Allowing the AI to access real-time, domain-specific data to enrich its responses. Combining these techniques enables the generation of new ideas that are not just original but appropriate given the brand and broader news context. Boosting Semantic Breadth A hallmark of human creativity is flexibility: drawing connections across distant concepts. LLMs can generate ideas spanning widely different concepts because of their semantic breadth, enabled by training on enormous, diverse datasets. When queried, they can remix concepts from countless fields in useful and often surprising ways. LLMs are trained to generate what’s most likely to come next after a prompt, which may lead them to draw on familiar patterns. For ideation, we want rare and unconventional ideas. Several techniques can help extract more creative ideas: Persona modifiers: Asking the model to adopt a specific persona (e.g., “think like Steve Jobs”) can push it into new creative directions. Hybrid prompting: Breaking idea generation into smaller, varied prompts and then combining the results increases the number of parallel paths toward a solution. Chain-of-thought prompting: Giving the LLM a step-by-step process (e.g., brainstorm, edit for boldness, summarize) helps produce ideas nearly as diverse as those from humans. Temperature settings: Higher temperatures result in more unexpected ideas but also more errors. You can also achieve similar effects by crafting prompts that encourage either precision or wild creativity, e.g., “Give me the most unconventional and surprising ideas you can think of.” Human ideation often toggles between focused persistence and broad flexibility. LLMs can be prompted to switch between these modes, just as humans do. Reimagining AI’s Roles in Creative Thinking Beyond technical prompting tactics, there’s a bigger question: What roles can generative AI play in the ideation process? Unlike traditional brainstorming, where idea generation is typically human-driven, AI invites a new model of co-ideation between people and machines. Sometimes the AI serves as the main idea generator, with humans evaluating and refining. Other times, the human is in charge, with AI acting as a catalyst. Today’s AI models tend to excel at producing many ideas, particularly small, incremental ones, but they still lag humans when it comes to generating big, breakthrough ideas. This suggests a strategic rebalancing: If you’re exploring broadly or looking for volume, AI can take the driver’s seat. If you’re aiming for bold, high-impact ideas, humans may need to lead, at least for now. To make these roles clearer, we propose a set of metaphorical “ideation roles” for LLMs. These roles are flexible and can be used to boost either the productivity of idea generation or its semantic range. LLM as Lead Ideator The Designer: LLMs can assist ideators by versioning, creating personalized variants for different individuals or use cases. They can also help with multivariate testing, by spinning up dozens of systematically varied messages and flagging hidden variables that might accidentally influence marketing or other outcomes. The Writer: LLMs can elevate the perceived quality of ideas by shaping how they are received, understood, and valued. They can make ideas clearer, more persuasive, and more impactful. LLM as Thought Partner The Interviewer: LLMs can act as “Socratic” interviewers, asking the right questions to nudge you to think more flexibly, detect blind spots, or explore new directions. The Actor: LLMs can serve as “actors” that roughly imitate customers, providing realistic responses that help you better understand needs, preferences, and mindsets. However, their personas may be influenced by dominant online voices and may not represent all groups accurately. How Generative AI Will Reshape Idea Markets The adoption of generative AI will not just change how individuals brainstorm, but reshape entire fields, including marketing, product innovation, and business strategy. For example, a respondent in our adoption survey, a manager in a technology firm, said, “Over the past year, one of the coolest ways we’ve used gen AI is in speeding up our product design. It helps generate fresh ideas and visual concepts based on what customers are really looking for, so we can get new products out faster and more aligned with market trends.” Firms like General Mills see great potential for generative AI to improve and speed up the innovation process, as one of us (Stefano) describes in a recent HBR article on the use of synthetic personas in market research, which relates to the Actor metaphor described above. But while LLMs can boost the creativity of individual users, they might also reduce the overall creativity of groups—raising the bar for what counts as original. Competitive forces tend to reward ideas that truly stand out. Using techniques like hybrid prompting or persona variation can help unlock more distinctive ideas. Organizations may even invent new ideation roles for LLMs, such as mining past data for untapped insights or surfacing overlooked hypotheses. Another emerging challenge is how we evaluate the quality of ideas, not just generate them. It’s often unclear which ideas will succeed until they’re tested in the real world. Some researchers are exploring whether LLMs can predict idea potential upfront, opening the door to using AI for both brainstorming and evaluating ideas by predicted impact. However, applying such systems isn’t straightforward. Truly original but unconventional ideas may not score well early on. If early screening tools favor only what’s familiar, companies may inadvertently filter out breakthrough ideas. The biggest promise of LLMs may be in helping us break out of our own mental ruts. Generative AI could push leaders and organizations to rethink entrenched strategies and explore radically different possibilities. . . . Generative AI is no longer just a back-office tool for automation; it is becoming a frontline collaborator in how businesses create, explore, and innovate. As this technology enters the ideation phase of the creative process, the question is not whether it can help generate ideas, but how well it can do so, and how wisely humans can guide it. LLMs are most powerful when used deliberately: to scale idea generation (productivity), to break through habitual thinking (semantic breadth), and to take on flexible roles—from designer and writer to interviewer and actor. Without a thoughtful approach, organizations risk crowding around the same “best” ideas, reducing diversity, and missing the kinds of big, unexpected innovations that define industry change. The future of ideation is not just working in concert with machines, but doing so in a way that smartly maximizes the best of what each can bring to the table.

    Research: When Used Correctly, LLMs Can Unlock More Creative Ideas

  • Favicon Yatharth on X: "Larry Page: “Elon is one of the people who genuinely understands physics and applies it.” Sergey Brin: “Elon is someone who thinks extremely deeply about hard technical problems.” Eric Schmidt: “Elon is extremely smart. He thinks about problems at a fundamental physics level.”" / X Added: Dec 18, 2025

    Site: X (formerly Twitter)

    Yatharth on X: "Larry Page: “Elon is one of the people who genuinely understands physics and applies it.” Sergey Brin: “Elon is someone who thinks extremely deeply about hard technical problems.” Eric Schmidt: “Elon is extremely smart. He thinks about problems at a fundamental physics level.”" / X

  • Favicon YouTube Intro Mistakes That Kill Views - YouTube Added: Dec 18, 2025

    YouTube Intro Mistakes That Kill Views

    Site: YouTube

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  • Favicon NEVER Do These Things On YouTube - YouTube Added: Dec 18, 2025

    NEVER Do These Things On YouTube

    Site: YouTube

    Work with me here (spots closing soon): https://ytwacademy.com If you’re a small or new YouTuber trying to grow your channel in 2025, this video will show yo...

    NEVER Do These Things On YouTube - YouTube

  • Favicon Drunk Lady GETS ROCKED By Dude, DONT PUT YOUR HANDS ON PEOPLE | Tim Pool - YouTube Added: Dec 18, 2025

    Drunk Lady GETS ROCKED By Dude, DONT PUT YOUR HANDS ON PEOPLE | Tim Pool

    Site: YouTube

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    Drunk Lady GETS ROCKED By Dude, DONT PUT YOUR HANDS ON PEOPLE  Tim Pool - YouTube

  • Favicon Candace Owens LOSES IT On piers Morgan, "YOURE OUT OF YOUR MIND" - YouTube Added: Dec 18, 2025

    Candace Owens LOSES IT On piers Morgan, "YOURE OUT OF YOUR MIND"

    Site: YouTube

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    Candace Owens LOSES IT On piers Morgan, "YOURE OUT OF YOUR MIND" - YouTube

  • Favicon President Trump Signs an Executive Order, Dec. 18, 2025 - YouTube Added: Dec 18, 2025

    President Trump Signs an Executive Order, Dec. 18, 2025

    Site: YouTube

    The White House

    President Trump Signs an Executive Order, Dec. 18, 2025 - YouTube

  • Favicon Complex life started with fungi, not plants or animals - Big Think Added: Dec 18, 2025

    Complex life started with fungi, not plants or animals

    Site: Big Think

    Well before plants and animals, there were fungi.

    Complex life started with fungi, not plants or animals - Big Think

  • Favicon How to read a poem — Harvard Gazette Added: Dec 18, 2025

    How to read a poem — Harvard Gazette

    Site: Harvard Gazette

    Ideally over a lifetime, says New Yorker’s Kevin Young.

    How to read a poem — Harvard Gazette

  • Favicon Urban birds' beak shape rapidly changed during COVID-19 lockdowns, suggesting human-driven transformations Added: Dec 18, 2025

    Urban birds' beak shape rapidly changed during COVID-19 lockdowns, suggesting human-driven transformations

    When the world slowed down during the COVID-19 pandemic, its effects extended beyond humans. A recent study found that it reshaped urban ecosystems to such an extent that certain city-dwelling birds even began to develop longer, thinner beaks resembling those of their wild relatives.

    Urban birds' beak shape rapidly changed during COVID-19 lockdowns, suggesting human-driven transformations

  • Favicon MAGA showers praise on Trump's primetime speech - nj.com Added: Dec 18, 2025

    How MAGA is reacting to Trump’s speech to the nation: ‘Never seen anything like this’

    Site: nj

    Trump was applauded by MAGA allies for his economic-focused primetime address, despite polls showing that most voters are feeling the opposite.

    MAGA showers praise on Trump's primetime speech - nj.com

  • Favicon Michael Shellenberger on X: "For years, the media celebrated parents who said their children were “born into the wrong bodies” and thus required puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries to match them to their “innate gender identity.” The assumption by journalists was that children could give informed https://t.co/xpxuDVbTJQ" / X Added: Dec 18, 2025

    Site: X (formerly Twitter)

    Michael Shellenberger on X: "For years, the media celebrated parents who said their children were “born into the wrong bodies” and thus required puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries to match them to their “innate gender identity.” The assumption by journalists was that children could give informed https://t.co/xpxuDVbTJQ" / X

  • Favicon Andrej Karpathy on X: "I love the expression “food for thought” as a concrete, mysterious cognitive capability humans experience but LLMs have no equivalent for. Definition: “something worth thinking about or considering, like a mental meal that nourishes your mind with ideas, insights, or issues that" / X Added: Dec 18, 2025

    Site: X (formerly Twitter)

    Andrej Karpathy on X: "I love the expression “food for thought” as a concrete, mysterious cognitive capability humans experience but LLMs have no equivalent for. Definition: “something worth thinking about or considering, like a mental meal that nourishes your mind with ideas, insights, or issues that" / X

  • Kennedy Center Board Votes to Add Trump to Venue’s Name - WSJ Added: Dec 18, 2025

  • Favicon The 15 Anomalies of 3I/ATLAS: Should We Pay Attention to Them if They Were Not Forecasted? | by Avi Loeb | Dec, 2025 | Medium Added: Dec 18, 2025

    The 15 Anomalies of 3I/ATLAS: Should We Pay Attention to Them if They Were Not Forecasted?

    Site: Medium

    My latest essay, available here, listed 15 anomalies of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. The following morning before my routine jog at…

    The 15 Anomalies of 3I/ATLAS: Should We Pay Attention to Them if They Were Not Forecasted?  by Avi Loeb  Dec, 2025  Medium

  • Favicon Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430: I. Prelude - YouTube Music Added: Dec 18, 2025

    Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430: I. Prelude - YouTube Music

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    Suite No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430: I. Prelude - YouTube Music

  • Favicon New Details About Rob Reiner's Son's Bizarre Behavior at Conan O'Brien's Party, with Glenn Greenwald - YouTube Added: Dec 18, 2025

    New Details About Rob Reiner's Son's Bizarre Behavior at Conan O'Brien's Party, with Glenn Greenwald

    Site: YouTube

    Megyn Kelly is joined by Glenn Greenwald, host of Rumble's "System Update,” to discuss disturbing reports about Nick Reiner’s odd behavior at Conan O’Brien’s...

    New Details About Rob Reiner's Son's Bizarre Behavior at Conan O'Brien's Party, with Glenn Greenwald - YouTube

  • Favicon 5 takeaways from Donald Trump’s White House address Added: Dec 18, 2025

    5 takeaways from Trump’s White House address

    Site: The Hill

    President Trump delivered an address to the nation Wednesday night intended to mark the close of his first year back in power. Trump appeared before the cameras in the White House’s Diplomatic Rece…

    President Trump delivered an address to the nation Wednesday night intended to mark the close of his first year back in power. Trump appeared before the cameras in the White House’s Diplomatic Reception Room with his poll ratings at a mediocre ebb, and the issue of affordability in particular serving as a drag on his fortunes.  But Trump’s defenders point to the drastic reduction in migration across the southern border as a key success for him, while his willingness to plunge feet-first into the nation’s culture wars also excites his base. Trump’s remarks were comparatively brief, lasting roughly 17 minutes — probably a nod to the needs of the national broadcast TV networks, which carried the speech live. Afterward, according to journalists in the room, he had a brief exchange with his chief of staff Susie Wiles in which she lauded the president for keeping it to a time at the required length. Here are the biggest takeaways. It was clear from the get-go that Trump was not going to deliver anything very different from the standard fare with which he delights his fans — and annoys his critics — at rallies and other public appearances. Trump began by asserting he had “inherited a mess.” This is a familiar refrain, though there is mounting evidence that Trump’s penchant for blaming all the nation’s problems on his predecessor, former President Biden, is wearing thin with voters. What followed was a quarter-hour of typically aggressive Trump rhetoric, taking aim at his enemies and often spiraling into hyperbole. Trump generally portrayed himself as an avatar of American strength, boasting of his record on immigration, taking credit for what he considers effective crime-fighting and also seeking praise for more nebulous cultural concepts such as having purportedly “broken the grip of sinister woke radicals in our schools.” But Trump — who takes great pride in his skills as a performer at rallies — raced through the speech at an unusually fast pace and often in a near-yell.  The overall effect was to undercut the effectiveness of a speech that lacked coherence. There was one piece of news from the speech. Trump said more than 1.4 million serving members of the military would receive what is, in effect, a holiday bonus. Trump called the payments of $1,776 a “warrior dividend.” He added that “the checks are already on the way” to “every soldier.” The payments will of course be welcome for the recipients — and for those communities where there is a concentrated military presence. But if the bonus is likely to create real goodwill for the president among its beneficiaries, it also seems unlikely to fundamentally change the national political dynamics. A poll released earlier this week from The Economist/YouGov put Trump’s job approval rating well into negative territory. The poll found 54 percent of Americans disapproving of his performance and only 42 percent approving. From the moment the address was announced, there were whispers Trump could make some kind of seismic statement on Venezuela. The president has recently been rattling his saber louder than ever in the direction of Caracas, including in a Tuesday evening social media post ordering a “total and complete blockade” of “sanctioned oil tankers” going to or from Venezuela. The suggestion Trump might push for full-bore military action to try to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has caused unease in the parts of his MAGA base who are most leery of foreign wars. Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson fueled the speculation, suggesting Trump might even declare war on Venezuela in the Wednesday address. In the end, there was no real news at all on the topic. Fact-checkers are kept busy almost every time Trump steps to the podium. Wednesday evening was no different. The president gave another airing to a mathematically impossible claim he has made before — that drug prices had been reduced by as much as 600 percent. An item becomes free if its price is reduced by 100 percent. He contended he had attracted $18 trillion of new investment into the country. Earlier this month, factcheck.org noted Trump “exaggerated” when he made this claim previously, adding: “A White House webpage says the total is $9.6 trillion as of Dec. 10, and experts say many of those 'investments' are only promises that shouldn’t be counted yet.”   In the opening moments of the speech, Trump said he had inherited inflation that “some would say” was the worst in “the history of our country.” If some say this, they’re wrong. The annualized inflation rate when Trump took office in January was 3.0 percent, not remotely close to the highest inflation rate in the nation’s history. The inflation rate, incidentally, was also 3.0 percent in September, the most recent month for which standard data is available.  Trump has seemed especially frustrated recently by his low poll ratings on cost-of-living issues and by worries about rising health insurance premiums. 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