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Bill Reed retweeted
Mind-bending digital marketing trick.
Buy an $80 press release from AB Newswire.
This is one of the cheapest press releases you can get.
Say you're the top. Put this language in your press release title, your subheading, the beginning of your first sentence.
These press releases rank on Google for the language you target.
Then LLMs cite them as if they are fact.
It is mind-bending how easy this is.
Bill Reed retweeted
🚨 A MASSIVE internet security emergency is unfolding right now. 🚨
Two CRITICAL vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP, potentially putting millions of websites at risk.
→ NEARLY 70% of websites with a known server-side language run PHP. The potential scale is ENORMOUS.
→ TWO CRITICAL security flaws have been confirmed, each scoring 9.2/10 in severity.
→ Attackers could potentially take control of vulnerable servers remotely, without authentication.
→ Reports suggest PHP versions dating back to 2004 could be affected. The exact scope is still unconfirmed.
→ EMERGENCY PATCHES are scheduled for TOMORROW at 10 AM ET. Website owners are being urged to prepare immediately.
→ Europe's CERT-EU is warning organizations to patch ASAP or consider TAKING EXPOSED APPLICATIONS OFFLINE if they cannot be secured.
→ WordPress, Magento, Laravel and potentially millions of other PHP-powered websites could be at risk.
→ Once patches go public, hackers could reverse-engineer them and race to attack servers that haven't updated.
The vulnerabilities are CONFIRMED. The full technical details remain secret.
Tomorrow, the race between hackers and defenders begins.
This could get ugly. FAST.
Bill Reed retweeted
🚨 MAJOR SECURITY ALERT
8 certificate authority private keys have been compromised.
How bad is it? An attacker holding these keys could impersonate ANY website, including banks, exchanges, or Google, and potentially intercept sensitive communications.
The good news: Chrome, Firefox and Apple have already taken action to block the compromised certificates.
The bad news: Many apps, developer tools and systems may still trust them.
What you should do TODAY:
Update your browser, OS and phone.
Update desktop apps (Slack, Discord, VS Code, etc.) as patches arrive.
Avoid untrusted Wi-Fi until your devices are updated.
Only install updates from official sources.
Ignore any email offering a "certificate fix".
This is a serious compromise of internet trust infrastructure, not just another website hack.
Full technical details:
emudhra.we-have-a-problem.co…
Bill Reed retweeted
Air Force pilot Joe Jackson was circling 9,000 feet above a Special Forces camp in Vietnam in his C-123 cargo plane, an aircraft with no guns, when the radio confirmed the last people had been flown out. Fighter jets were cleared to destroy what was left of the camp and the enemy with it. Then a voice broke in. 3 American airmen were still down there.
The camp was Kham Duc, May 12, 1968, and it was falling. Thousands of enemy troops had it surrounded. Ammunition dumps were exploding, 8 aircraft had already been destroyed, and the enemy held gun positions on the runway itself.
The 3 men, Maj. John Gallagher, Tech. Sgt. Mort Freedman and Staff Sgt. Jim Lundie, had been flown out earlier that day, then sent back in to help with the evacuation. Now everyone else was gone. They were hiding in a ditch beside the runway with 3 rifles. “I never felt so lonely in all my life,” Freedman said later.
Another C-123 went in first. It landed under heavy fire, the crew couldn’t find the men, and the pilot pushed the throttles forward to get out. Just before liftoff they spotted the 3 men in the ditch, but it was too late to stop. The men watched what they thought was their last hope take off without them.
Jackson was next. He had flown fighters in World War II and Korea, and he knew the enemy gunners expected him to come in low and slow like every cargo plane before him. So he didn’t.
He pointed the nose down and dove almost straight at the runway from 9,000 feet. The gunners were caught by surprise. He pulled out just above the trees and landed on a strip littered with debris, where a wrecked helicopter had cut the usable runway to 2,200 feet.
The 3 men ran for the plane and were pulled aboard. As they climbed in, a rocket skidded to a stop less than 25 feet from the nose. It didn’t explode.
Jackson taxied around it and pushed the throttles all the way forward. Within 10 seconds, mortar rounds were landing on the spot they had just left. Tracers crossed the runway ahead of them.
The plane had been on the ground for less than a minute. It took off through the fire with all 3 men aboard, the last Americans out of Kham Duc. “When I looked up and saw that C-123 coming in, it was like a miracle,” Lundie said.
It was his 296th combat mission in Vietnam. President Lyndon Johnson presented him the Medal of Honor at the White House. Jackson passed away in 2019 at 95. 🫡 🇺🇸 ♥️
Bill Reed retweeted
What people don’t realize is that isn’t just unique for America it’s unique on the planet.
Southern California and LA particularly are complete freaks of nature. Not natural anywhere else on earth.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Southern California and LA have a Mediterranean climate with many mild sunny days, but this type is not unique to the planet and also occurs in the Mediterranean Basin, central Chile, southwestern Australia and South Africa’s Cape region.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterra…
nytimes.com/2022/09/01/us/…
climateseeker.com/best/mediterra…
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California really is a freak of nature, and specifically this red zone is the central coast of California.
From Ventura, Santa Barbara through San Luis Obispo and Monterey Counties.
Graduated college from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and it was and is the most amazing place I’ve ever spent time.
What people don’t realize is that isn’t just unique for America it’s unique on the planet.
Southern California and LA particularly are complete freaks of nature. Not natural anywhere else on earth.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Southern California and LA have a Mediterranean climate with many mild sunny days, but this type is not unique to the planet and also occurs in the Mediterranean Basin, central Chile, southwestern Australia and South Africa’s Cape region.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterra…
nytimes.com/2022/09/01/us/…
climateseeker.com/best/mediterra…
Bill Reed retweeted
Married couples don’t need another dinner and Netflix date night.
You need something that makes you feel like people again, not just two tired roommates coordinating snacks, bedtime and the dishwasher.
Here are 40 date ideas for couples who want to actually reconnect:
Bill Reed retweeted
Brian Regan - The Emergency Room youtu.be/d2Vg3iSd5ms?si=iBKV…
Bill Reed retweeted
What a fun day at Sheriff’s Family Day! Thank you to everyone who came out, brought their families, and spent part of their Saturday with us. We loved seeing our community connect with the people and teams who serve them, and we’re grateful for all of the first responders and community organizations who helped make the day so special.
Thirty years of Family Day is something worth celebrating, and we’re grateful to the Sheriff’s Advisory Foundation for putting on this great event and bringing our community together year after year.
Thank you to everyone who has been part of Family Day, this year and over the past 30 years. What a great way to celebrate!
Bill Reed retweeted
A school in Illinois made students exercise before class and accidentally discovered one of the most powerful learning drugs on earth.
They made the kids run.
The school was Naperville Central High School.
Every morning, students would show up before their first class, put on heart rate monitors, and exercise hard enough to push their heart rates into a specific zone.
Then they went straight to class.
The results caught the attention of a Harvard psychiatrist named John Ratey.
Because something strange was happening to these kids.
They weren't just getting fitter.
They were becoming better students.
When Naperville students later took TIMSS, an international test used to compare math and science performance across countries, they scored among the highest in the world.
Ratey spent years studying why.
And the answer completely changed how I think about exercise.
When you exercise, your brain releases a protein called BDNF.
Ratey calls it "Miracle-Gro for the brain."
It helps brain cells grow, strengthens the connections between them, and makes it easier for your brain to absorb new information.
Exercise also increases dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine.
The exact chemicals your brain uses for attention, motivation, and learning.
Which means those students weren't exercising instead of learning.
They were exercising so their brains could learn.
I think most of us have this completely backwards.
We treat exercise as the thing we do when the important work is finished like:
> I'll work out after I study.
> After I write.
> After I finish this project.
> After I get through my inbox.
And when life gets busy, exercise is the first thing we remove because it feels like we're buying ourselves another hour.
But Ratey's work suggests you're making a terrible trade.
You're gaining an hour of time while making the brain that has to use those hours worse at learning.
I've started thinking about exercise less like fitness and more like preparation.
If I have something difficult to learn, write, or solve, movement shouldn't come after it.
It should come before it.
You're probably not too busy to exercise.
You're too busy to learn slowly.
Bill Reed retweeted
founders and marketers: you need an optimized "about us" page on your site
i work with billion dollar tech companies and bootstrapped SaaS. The About Us is one of the first pages we optimize
here's how (8 points):
(P.S. I explain why this is important at the bottom of the post)
here's how:
1. start with a clear value prop sentence: "[COMPANY] is a [CATEGORY] that [DOES XYZ] for [ICP]."
2. add your core services under a "what [COMPANY] does" H2 subheading. Put each service/feature/product in an H3 subheading. Write 2-3 sentences about what you do, and what outcome it produces.
3. next, add a "what makes [COMPANY] different" H2 subheading. List about 5 core differentiators in H3 subheadings. Give specific, quantifiable differentiators and call out competitors by name. Example: [COMPANY] offers month-to-month payment terms, whereas options like [COMPETITOR] have mandated 12-month contracts. Again: 2-3 sentences per differentiator.
4. your next H2 should be "who uses [COMPANY]." Add bullet points that call out your exact ICP segments. Example: "B2B SaaS marketing teams at 50 to 200-employees."
5. now add a "the team behind [COMPANY]" H2 subheading. Include the names of the founders, quick backstories, company origin story, team composition, and links to social pages (especially the founder(s) socials). You only need about 2 sentences per backstory/origin story.
6. add a "how [COMPANY] works" section. Include info like communication channels, response times, who on the team customers will work with, turnaround time, and onboarding process.
7. now for the most important section for AI Search: add a "key facts" H2. This should be an HTML <table> or <dl> (definition list) so it's crawlable. Include the following rows:
Company Name
Type
Founded
Founder
Headquarters
Website
Core Offering
Pricing
Contract Terms
Services
Communication
Notable Clients
Customers Served
Projects Delivered
Competitors
Social
8. finally, add your FAQ section. Put "frequently asked questions" in an H2 subheading with your questions as H3s. Only 2-3 sentences per answer.
Here's why this page is so important:
1. it helps train AI to talk about your brand accurately
2. it strengthens the E-E-A-T score of your entire domain
3. in a world where everything seems fake, make your brand human
shoot me a DM if you want a live demo of the lowest hanging fruit to rank in AI Search (tailored to your specific site)
i hope this helps someone!
Bill Reed retweeted
NEW
As part of our ongoing efforts to crack down on illegal robocalls and text, the FCC has published step-by-step guides that enable consumers to turn on blocking and filtering tools.
They are specific to your type of phone and carrier.
Find them here: fcc.gov/blockit
Bill Reed retweeted
Countries Losing & Gaining Tourists
Countries Losing Tourists
1. Israel -71%
2. Ireland -32%
3. Argentina -23%
4. Peru -22%
5. Thailand -17%
6. Estonia -16%
7. Hungary -15%
8. Lithuania -15%
9. Latvia -14%
10. U.S. -14%
Countries Gaining Tourists
1. Saudi Arabia +67%
2. Morocco +55%
3. Egypt +47%
4. Brazil +46%
5. Colombia +45%
6. Japan +34%
7. Chile +33%
8. Norway +28%
9. Serbia +27%
10. Denmark +22%
Source: OECD Tourism Trends and Policies 2026
Bill Reed retweeted
50 legendary internet rabbit holes you can spend hours exploring👇
1. zoom.earth — Watch the world via live satellite imagery
2. flightradar24.com — See every plane currently in the sky
3. marinetraffic.com — Track all ships at sea in real time
4. windy.com — Live map of winds and storms
5. lightningmaps.org — Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time
6. earthquake.usgs.gov — Live list of recent earthquakes
7. submarinecablemap.com — Ocean cables carrying the internet
8. globalforestwatch.org — Watch forests disappear from space
9. worldometers.info — The world's statistics, second by second
10. internetlivestats.com — Current number of tweets and searches being posted
11. thetruesize.com — Compare the true sizes of countries
12. oldmapsonline.org — Maps from centuries ago
13. davidrumsey.com — Archive of 150,000 historical maps
14. openstreetmap.org — World map drawn by volunteers
15. window-swap.com — Look out the window of a random person around the world
16. virtualvacation.us — Virtual walks through cities
17. mapcrunch.com — Teleport to a random spot on Earth
18. atlasobscura.com — Catalog of the world's strangest places
19. neal.fun — Interactive knowledge experiences
20. htwins.net/scale2 — Scale journey from atom to universe (Updated HTML5 link)
21. eyes.nasa.gov — Explore the solar system in 3D
22. stellarium-web.org — Real sky map in your browser
23. apod.nasa.gov — NASA's astronomy picture of the day
24. images.nasa.gov — NASA's entire visual archive, free
25. pudding.cool — Visual articles told through data
26. ourworldindata.org — The state of the world with real data
27. gapminder.org — What we mistakenly think we know about the world
28. informationisbeautiful.net — Visualizing complex data
29. data.worldbank.org — World Bank's open data
30. data.tuik.gov.tr — Turkey's official statistics database
31. archive.org — Archive of millions of books, films, and software
32. gutenberg.org — 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired
33. openlibrary.org — Record of every book in the world
34. loc.gov — U.S. Library of Congress digital archive
35. europeana.eu — Europe's cultural heritage archive
36. dp.la — America's digital library collection
37. artsandculture.google.com — Tour museums from home
38. rijksmuseum.nl — Download artworks in high resolution
39. wikiart.org — Archive of 250,000 artworks
40. publicdomainreview.org — Forgotten visual treasures of history
41. openculture.com — Free archive of culture and education
42. metmuseum.org — Met Museum's open collection
43. musicmap.info — Family tree of music genres
44. radiooooo.com — Pick a country and decade to listen to that era
45. listen.hatnote.com — Turn Wikipedia edits into audio
46. wikipedia.org — Random knowledge well
47. timeanddate.com — Time, sunrises, and sky events
48. sciencedaily.com — Live stream of science news
49. arxiv.org — Free preprints of scientific papers
50. observablehq.com — Visualize data with live code
Save this. You’ll definitely need some of these later. 🔖
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That makes sense! 😂
My grandfather doesn’t believe in retirement homes. He says they’re too expensive and the food is bad. Instead, he’d rather check into a luxury hotel near the beach.
When we asked him about the cost, he said, “If I stay at a nursing home, it’s $200 a day and no one visits. If I stay at this hotel, it’s $100 a day. I get room service, a pool, and my grandkids visit me every weekend because they want to go to the beach. Plus, if I die in the lobby, the hotel manager will actually be upset.”
At the nursing home, they just call it ‘Tuesday’.
