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The new Neuralink is wild!

JUST IN: Humanoid robots have begun chasing wild boars out of Warsaw, Poland after city officials have struggled to control them.

Your body replaces 98% of its atoms every year. Within five years, every single one is swapped out. The you from 2021 is physically gone. Not "mostly gone." Gone. The atoms that used to be your face are now part of the air, the ocean, somebody else's lunch. Oak Ridge National Laboratory proved this in 1953. Your skin right now is about a month old. Your liver, six weeks. Your stomach lining regrows every five days. Your skeleton is completely different from ten years ago. A few atoms do stick around for life, buried in some brain cells, in parts of your heart, and in your tooth enamel. Scientists at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden tracked them using leftover radiation from 1950s nuclear bomb tests. The oldest surviving piece of "you" lives in your brain, your heart, and your teeth. Your brain is also erasing you. On purpose. A neuroscientist named Ron Davis at Scripps Research found that the brain has cells that release dopamine, the same chemical you feel after a good meal or a win, and use it to dissolve memories. When his team shut these cells off in test animals, they remembered twice as much. The chemical behind your best feelings is the same one shredding your past, and it never stops running. Ebbinghaus proved this back in 1885. You lose about half of everything you learn within one hour. A 2020 study from Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute had people live through a real experience and then checked how much they kept. At best, about a quarter. 75% of the details of your own life are being actively wiped by the organ that is supposed to be keeping track of it all. The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Squeeze all of it into one calendar year, with the Big Bang on January 1st, and humans show up at 11:52 PM on New Year's Eve. Your whole life, every birthday and breakup and boring Tuesday, lasts 0.17 seconds on that calendar. Not even long enough to blink. Stars will keep burning for about a hundred trillion more years, then the fuel runs out and the lights go off everywhere. The last things left will be black holes, places where gravity is so strong not even light can escape. Even those slowly leak away over a number of years so large you would need a hundred zeros to write it. After the last one is gone, nothing is left. No light, no warmth, nothing bumping into anything else, ever again. The universe reaches total stillness and stays there. Forever. Brian Cox once described the window where life can even exist as one-thousandth of a billion billion billionth, billion billion billionth, billion billion billionth of a percent of the universe's total run time. You are in that window right now. Built from borrowed atoms, running on a brain shredding its own records, here for a fifth of a second on a cosmic calendar that ends in permanent silence. Anyway, hope your Tuesday is going alright.

@CLTMayor Will it help us find the stabbings?

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@BrianBalfourNC We should just give them more money! That will solve all our issues.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools increased total spending by 44% over the past 8 years, while the number of students fell by 4%. Per pupil spending increased by 50%. #ncpol #nced

@BNONews Why is everyone in Congress absolute garbage?

BREAKING: Tony Gonzales (R-TX) says he will leave Congress after admitting to an affair with a staffer who later died by suicide

@mattvanswol WTF, Charlotte?!

🚨#BREAKING: A 25 year old woman has been beaten UNTIL SHE WAS UNCONSCIOUS on a PUBLIC TRANSIT BUS in Charlotte NC. Police have not released ANY details on what the suspect looks like but are asking the public for help... WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@lady_valor_07 Yes.

Even if an intruder is unarmed, should you still be allowed to shoot them for breaking into your house?..

@ArthurMacwaters No doubt.

population has grown ~9x in 200yrs, while poverty trends to 0 people act as though capitalism is a zero sum game, but it’s actually the only system that creates positive sum outcomes the average person today is far richer than most kings in days past

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JUST IN: Uganda’s military chief demands $1 billion from Turkey & “the most beautiful woman in that country for a wife,” threatens to close embassy if demands not met.

@TechLayoffLover I’d hire 5 of them right now.

Stanford CS graduating class of 2026 just got their final placement statistics Out of 312 graduates: 18 have full-time offers That's a 5.8% placement rate from the most prestigious CS program in the fucking world 2019 placement rate was 94%. 2022 was 78%. 2024 was 31%. Now this. The other 294 are fighting over 47 internships that require "3+ years production experience" Career services is telling them to "consider adjacent fields" while the department just took a $50M donation from a company that replaced 2,400 engineers with Claude One kid showed me his rejection tracker: 1,247 applications since September. 12 phone screens. Zero offers. His parents refinanced their house for his tuition The career fair had 8 companies and 300 desperate students in $180k of debt Meanwhile the CS department just announced they're expanding their PhD program because "industry demand for AI research has never been higher" The same week they sent acceptance letters to 89 new undergrads These kids thought they were learning to be engineers. Turns out they were training to be obsolete.

Marco Rubio finding out he’s leading peace negotiations.

@PaulMarcoe And AIDS.

@PaulMarcoe Getting home after the street lights came on. Freddy. Nukes. Cocaine.

4 things I think most GenX was afraid of. Acid Rain Quick sand Bermuda Triangle Amnesia What else?

@JohnnyBuzzkill I’m in.

This

This company is going to make a bajillion dollars.

@Samsonlevbo @USAO_WDNC Yes please.

@USAO_WDNC Public execution in a similar fashion in which murdered this beautiful girl. Stream it on X, stab him in his throat and let him bleed out while Suffering. No time in a prison cell. Straight to death.

DeCarlos Brown is in federal custody on a federal indictment. The state proceedings, including any competency finding in those proceedings, are completely separate.

@BNONews @Kalshi This equates to less than a dollar a barrel.

UPDATE: Iran says it will limit the number of ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz, with tolls up to $2 million in crypto. Traffic at the Strait of Hormuz is unlikely to return to normal by May 15, according to @Kalshi.