My mom fed a homeless man behind our house for 20 years.
Three meals a day, even when we couldn’t afford electricity.
I hated her for it.
The day after her funeral, that same man took my hands, looked me straight in the eyes, and said:
“Before she died, she begged me to stay silent.”
I honestly had no idea what he was talking about.
For 20 years, this man had lived in a makeshift shelter behind our rental house.
My mom brought him breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Every single day.
And the crazy thing was, we were poor too.
My sneakers had tape covering the holes. Sometimes we struggled to pay our bills, and there were days when we couldn’t even afford electricity.
But somehow, my mother always found enough food to feed him.
I never understood it.
I remember coming home two days before Christmas and finding a yellow eviction notice taped to our front door.
We were struggling to keep a roof over our heads, yet my mother was still preparing three meals a day for a stranger.
That night, I finally lost my temper.
Me: “Maybe if you stopped feeding strangers, we wouldn’t live like this!”
My mom turned around so quickly that I knew I had crossed a line.
Mom: “Don’t you ever DARE say that again.”
I had never seen her that furious before.
I didn’t understand why she was defending him so strongly when her own child was going without things.
I moved out when I turned 18.
We fought less after that, mostly because I stopped asking questions.
But the man stayed.
Year after year, his little shelter remained behind our house, and my mother continued feeding him.
Then my mom got sick.
Cancer made her small.
She became quiet, and it was the kind of quiet that scares you because you know something terrible is happening.
Two weeks before she died, she reached out and grabbed my wrist.
Her grip was so weak that it broke my heart.
Mom: “Promise me you’ll keep feeding him.”
I looked at her.
Honestly, I wanted to say no.
I wanted to ask why she was still worrying about that man when she was the one who needed help.
But you don’t lie to a dying mother.
So I promised.
My mom eventually passed away.
The day after her funeral, I prepared the best meal I could, put it on a plate, covered it with foil, and drove to her house.
I had promised her I would keep feeding him.
But when I got there, the man was gone.
His shelter had been completely cleared out.
Everything was gone.
The ground had even been swept clean, as if those 20 years had never happened.
I stood there holding the warm plate, wondering where he could have gone.
Then I noticed something.
A black SUV was parked at the curb.
Standing beside it was a man wearing an expensive wool coat.
He was clean-shaven, well-dressed, and looked nothing like the homeless man I had known for 20 years.
But the thing that caught my attention was what he was holding.
My mother’s old silver locket.
The same locket she had told me she lost when I was eight years old.
He looked at me and said:
Man: “I thought you wouldn’t come.”
I stared at him.
Me: “Wait… is that you? What’s going on?”
He smiled, but his expression was unsteady.
His eyes were already filling with tears.
Man: “Your mom hid something from you.”
I felt my stomach tighten.
Me: “What did she hide?”
He looked at the plate in my hands before responding.
Man: “Before she died, she begged me to stay silent.”
My blood went cold.
Me: “Silent about what?”
He gently shook his head.
Man: “Sit down. You shouldn’t hear this standing in the cold.”
We sat on the front steps.
The plate was still warm between us.
He turned my mother’s silver locket over in his palm as though it might break.
Then he began telling me something I never could have imagined.
Man: “My real name is Vernon Hale. Before all this, I owned a company. I had a big house in Connecticut, a wife, and a little girl. My daughter was six years old.”
I just stared at him.
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Great deals are done silently. 🤫
Stealth Bids: make an offer on an NFT you love, and only the owner sees it. No public bidding war to get outbid in.
Off-Market Asks: set your asking price privately. Only you see it, and when a bid meets or beats your price, it sells automatically.
Explore both on GONDI.
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Beta Updates
Surge Engine
• Added VLESS Encryption (mlkem768x25519plus), including share-link import and proxy editor controls.
• Added VLESS XHTTP transport with stream-one, stream-up and packet-up modes over HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 or HTTP/3, including VLESS Encryption and Vision.
• Reduced memory retained after QUIC downloads on lossy networks.
• Improved QUIC upload performance and reduced CPU usage when chained through a proxy's UDP relay.
• Fixed established VLESS gRPC, HTTP/2 CONNECT and TrustTunnel connections being incorrectly counted as connection setup failures when they ended with an error.
• Fixed WebSocket policies failing to connect when their ALPN list included h2 and the server selected it.
• Fixed Tailscale connections staying on a relay after a peer restarted because updated peer information was not applied.
Surge iOS
• The proxy editor now imports share links for all supported proxy protocols, as well as proxy lines copied from Surge profiles; unsupported settings are reported instead of silently omitted.
• Reorganized the proxy editor with an Advanced page that indicates settings in use, and added controls for more protocol, TLS, WireGuard, Tailscale and testing settings.
• Fixed Always use CONNECT not being saved for HTTPS policies, and corrected when TLS and Block QUIC settings appear.
• Updated list layouts and badges, and added member counts for policy groups in the proxy list.
Surge Mac
• The proxy editor now imports share links for all supported proxy protocols, as well as proxy lines copied from Surge profiles; unsupported settings are reported instead of silently omitted.
• Reorganized the proxy editor with a remembered Show Advanced Settings option and controls for more protocol, TLS, WireGuard and Tailscale settings.
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Dumb employees:
- Silent in meetings
- Craving for promotions
- Salary increase 3%-10%
- Resigns using official email
- Take sick day on Monday/Friday
- Don't befriend people getting fired
- Tells coworkers when they're leaving
- Use their work laptop for personal use
- Use work Wi-Fi on your personal phones.
- Forward work emails to their personal gmail
Smart employees:
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My husband had been unemployed for eight months. Every rejection email made him a little quieter.
Then one afternoon, he came home holding his phone with shaking hands.
Husband: "I got an offer. In another state."
I screamed and hugged him. Then he read the last line of the email, and the room went silent.
The company wouldn't pay a cent toward his move. Gas, a one-way trip, and a temporary place to stay would cost about $2,800.
Me: "We have $3,100 in emergency savings. Let's use it."
Husband: "No."
I stared at him. Then he told me why…
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She wears black, but her soul is painted in a thousand shades of sorrow.
In a world where beauty fades and memories turn to dust, she remains — silent, elegant, and beautifully haunted.
Some flowers bloom in sunlight. Others belong to the darkness. 🖤🥀
An AI cinematic creation, where Gothic romance meets dark fantasy.
Image : Midjourney 8.2
Video : Gemini Omni
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One week of Isoform 1.0. Here's what's next.
More platforms. Windows and Linux, and Android. Your memory should follow you, not your laptop.
Teams. Isoform is personal today. The plan is to distill what each person knows upward: personal SOPs to project, project to team, team to company. Open source stays open. Teams get a hosted plan. That's how a company stops losing what its people know every time someone leaves.
Agent of You. The names reserved this week are first in line when it opens.
Hardware. Here's the problem with a personal AI that lives on your computer: your computer sees a fraction of your life. Most of what you know never touches a keyboard. It happens in conversations, on walks, in the thing you said to yourself in the shower. So we're building a wearable that picks up silent speech. What you see on screen, how you move through the world, and what you say to yourself all land in the same memory. That's when the portrait is complete. It's further out, and it's the part I'm most excited about.
Everyone deserves an agentic version of themselves. We shipped the first piece this week.
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hiiiiiiiii :) stream is live!!
spooktober has officially started!! continuing my first EVER playthrough of silent hill (starting with 2)! come hang out! i'm also within 100 of 10K subs on yt, be sure to sub if you havent yet!! 💖 links below!
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hiiiya!! stream is live ^-^
finishing up bioshock 2 tonight (hopefully with no more crashes!!), maybe starting our silent hill marathon if we finish early enough!!! come hang out~ 💖 links below!!
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She walked in quiet… then this happened.
One block off the table. The arena went silent. She stuck it. 🔥