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[@alux] 15 Tax Loopholes Rich People Use That You’ve Never Heard About

· 8 min read

@alux - "15 Tax Loopholes Rich People Use That You’ve Never Heard About"

Link: https://youtu.be/YeF8IeKLFGs

Duration: 32 min

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This Alux video walks through advanced U.S. tax strategies—from Section 121 home sale exclusions and the Augusta Rule to Section 199A, oil and gas deductions, Donor Advised Funds, Section 1202 startup gains, dynasty trusts, and PPLI—framing them as a ladder keyed to net worth. It cites dramatic examples (a $2M tax-free flip strategy for an Austin couple on $180K W-2 income, Peter Thiel's $5B Roth IRA) and ends with a contrarian note that quality of life matters more than chasing every tax break, including relocating to Puerto Rico or Dubai.

[@JesseMichels] Hollywood, The CIA & UFOs: The History Beyond Spielberg

· 24 min read

@JesseMichels - "Hollywood, The CIA & UFOs: The History Beyond Spielberg"

Link: https://youtu.be/yJUBSuPh1pM

Duration: 220 min

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Writers Bryce Zabel and Brent Friedman, co-creators of NBC's 1990s series Dark Skies and hosts of Sound, Light, and Frequency, discuss their contacts with a man claiming to be from the Office of Naval Intelligence during the show's production, Brent's 1981 disclosure from Reagan-era Under Secretary of the Navy John Harrington, Spielberg's Disclosure Day film, and Brent's personal paranormal experiences including a near-death episode, a Scandinavian "Witch Rider" encounter, and a Nordic alien sighting on Orcas Island. The conversations tie Hollywood, Navy intelligence, Majestic 12, and slow-drip UAP disclosure into a single narrative that also references David Grusch's 2025 push to bring Harrington before Congress, the Coulthart/Nimitz Tic Tac dispute, and a mysterious "formula" document given to the writers on September 21, 1996.

[@Area52Investigations] UFO Researcher Details The STRANGEST Alien Encounters - Preston Dennett | DEBRIEFED ep 93

· 23 min read

@Area52Investigations - "UFO Researcher Details The STRANGEST Alien Encounters - Preston Dennett | DEBRIEFED ep 93"

Link: https://youtu.be/Mz3MBWz8R-o

Duration: 189 min

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This episode features UFO researcher and author Preston Dennit, who has documented hundreds of ET contact cases and personally experienced a fully conscious onboard craft encounter on May 6, 2022. The wide-ranging discussion covers his and others' close encounters, out-of-body experiences, ET healing cases, theories about radiation-damaged humanoid grays, crash retrievals, schoolyard and drive-in theater sightings, mantis-type encounters, military and nuclear whistleblower accounts, levitation phenomena, Bigfoot/cryptid connections, and government cover-up allegations.

[@alux] 15 Questions Every Adult Should Answer

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@alux - "15 Questions Every Adult Should Answer"

Link: https://youtu.be/vTLQhPK28GI

Duration: 15 min

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This Alux episode poses 15 uncomfortable reality-check questions about money, relationships, and the future that the channel argues every adult should be able to answer. The narrator frames life as the compound product of daily habits and a few path-changing decisions, arguing that financial security is really resilience, that most outcomes are surprisingly predictable over a decade, and that fixing one neglected area in the next 12 months is the practical takeaway.

[@hubermanlab] Improve Flexibility with Research-Supported Stretching Protocols | Huberman Lab Essentials

· 6 min read

@hubermanlab - "Improve Flexibility with Research-Supported Stretching Protocols | Huberman Lab Essentials"

Link: https://youtu.be/syJYZm5OZhE

Duration: 32 min

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Andrew Huberman, a Stanford professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology, hosts this Huberman Lab Essentials episode on the science and practice of flexibility and stretching. The episode covers the neural and muscular mechanisms behind stretching—including muscle spindles, Golgi tendon organs, and von Economo neurons—and presents evidence-based protocols for static, dynamic, ballistic, and PNF stretching to improve range of motion.

[@thegiantsshoulder] Two Greatest Living Psychedelic Scientists Discuss The Insane Future Of Drugs

· 11 min read

@thegiantsshoulder - "Two Greatest Living Psychedelic Scientists Discuss The Insane Future Of Drugs"

Link: https://youtu.be/CV6u2OPN59Q

Duration: 110 min

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A long-form interview with David Nichols, a retired Purdue medicinal chemistry professor who spent 38 years studying psychedelics and co-founded the Heffter Research Institute, alongside Brian Roth, a serotonin receptor expert who invented DREADDs. The conversation covers psychedelic history, receptor pharmacology, the search for non-hallucinogenic 5HT2A therapeutics, and culminates in a discussion of chemogenetics, mind-machine interfaces, and AI-driven neuroscience. The episode weaves drug-development pragmatism with speculative claims about near-term radical capabilities in brain circuit control.

[@alux] The 10 Most Profitable Side Hustles in 2026

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@alux - "The 10 Most Profitable Side Hustles in 2026"

Link: https://youtu.be/e4MsQmIKEbg

Duration: 18 min

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The Alox channel ranks the 10 most profitable side hustles expected to thrive in 2026, from niche digital products and creator services up through cybersecurity, email marketing, reputation management, and AI automation. The episode blends income ranges and labor-market data (creator economy sized at $252.3B in 2025, BLS projecting 29% growth for information security analysts, Upwork showing AI skills up 109% year-over-year) to argue that distribution and specialized infrastructure work beat generic prompt-engineering gigs. The overarching message is that real money comes from turning AI, email, and data into business infrastructure rather than treating them as toys.

[@RenaissancePeriodization] The Most Attractive Body Fat Percentage for Men (SHOCKING NEW STUDY!)

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@RenaissancePeriodization - "The Most Attractive Body Fat Percentage for Men (SHOCKING NEW STUDY!)"

Link: https://youtu.be/xAEbFzUT3fI

Duration: 30 min

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Dr. Mike reviews a cross-cultural study by Fan Jia and colleagues on male body attractiveness, which found a peaked (inverted-U) relationship with body fat percent, BMI, and shoulder-to-waist ratio. The most attractive male bodies clustered around 13-14% body fat, BMI 23-27, and a shoulder-to-waist ratio of ~1.57, with results consistent across China, Lithuania, and the UK. Dr. Mike argues that body fat explains only a fraction of real-world attraction and recommends aiming for roughly 12-15% body fat with added muscle, style, and grooming rather than chasing stage-lean levels.

[@DwarkeshPatel] How Machiavelli's Florence bargained with Cesare Borgia for survival – Ada Palmer

· 10 min read

@DwarkeshPatel - "How Machiavelli's Florence bargained with Cesare Borgia for survival – Ada Palmer"

Link: https://youtu.be/U1FrhkLQnCI

Duration: 128 min

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Historian Ada Palmer delivers a sweeping lecture on Niccolò Machiavelli and The Prince (1513), situating the work within the turbulent world of Italian city-states, the papacy, and Cesare Borgia. The talk reframes The Prince not as a cynical guide to seizing power but as a patriotic manual for keeping power stable and protecting lives, while tracing surprising connections to the origins of copyright, censorship, and the Inquisition. Palmer also covers Machiavelli's diplomatic career, his forced exile, and his political philosophy of competing parties.

[@JesseMichels] “My Gifted Education Was a Cover For UFO Research!” [EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW]

· 16 min read

@JesseMichels - "“My Gifted Education Was a Cover For UFO Research!” [EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW]"

Link: https://youtu.be/PiFbeWfA3LM

Duration: 148 min

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Jordan Jose, a serial entrepreneur in treecare and agentic AI, describes spending two years as a child in a classified psychic development program at Baker Victory Services, where he claims to have trained on UAP piloting via the telepathic "Prometheus" system and encountered a sentient crystal orb called "Sylvia." Now working alongside David Grusch and Jake Barber on UAP disclosure, he frames UAPs as transdimensional, consciousness-based phenomena rather than extraterrestrial craft. The wide-ranging discussion covers directed energy weapons, Goethe's "cognition by identification," group coherence experiments, and the host announcing that American Alchemy is hiring an editor.