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There's a little gremlin that lives in my head and watches everything I do and yells "OPTIMIZE! OPTIMIZE!!!!" at all times

@JoshAustin610 @theashleyray mirror-touch synesthesia?

@theashleyray Although there was an episode of the Zachary Quinto doctor show where a group of girls all developed hysterical pregnancy in reaction to their friend (revealed when she went into labor and the one doctor's mirror-touch synesthesia kicked in, proving hers was real).

it's not a chicken pox party, she's not gonna catch it

this is true and part of why ADHD is so tiring. if you dont take advantage of your 'flow' to the utmost you wont get anything done after. so you have to overexert yourself because you dont know when the brief clarity will end. im tired.

You can now run a full Linux operating system inside a 6mb PDF. Someone embedded a RISC-V emulator inside a standard document. You don't need a virtual machine, just a PDF reader. → Runs interactively inside the file. → Powered by a tiny RISC-V emulator. → The entire OS fits in just 6MB.

> be cow > cow, but online > IoT? IoC > Internet of Cow > no security > cows compromised > cow botnet > use cows for ddos attacks > critical infrastructure taken down by cows > hijack cow sensor > tell cows to attack at dawn > open front door > 1000 cows pooping outside house

@fjwyuu Lmao this makes no sense

@limabean2222 @fjwyuu Cowards

Simplification is a literal neural signature of mastery, not a communication preference. Your prefrontal cortex can hold about 4 items in working memory at any given moment. That's the biological ceiling. Doesn't matter how smart you are. The constraint is fixed. What changes with expertise is compression. Your brain learns to "chunk" multiple pieces of information into single units. A chess grandmaster doesn't see 32 pieces on a board. They see 5-6 familiar patterns. A senior engineer doesn't see 40 variables in a system. They see 3 forces interacting. The prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia run a gating system that decides what gets into working memory and what gets filtered out. Dopamine modulates those gates. When someone builds deep expertise in a domain, their basal ganglia learns which information to compress and which to discard, freeing up slots for higher-order reasoning. The person who can explain something simply has built enough mental chunks that the complex version collapses into a small number of organized patterns. The person who overcomplicates things is often still holding each variable separately, maxing out their working memory, and spilling the cognitive overflow into their explanation. This is why Feynman could explain quantum mechanics to freshmen. His compression ratio was so high that concepts taking 4 working memory slots for a grad student took 1 slot for him. The remaining 3 slots were free for analogy, storytelling, and reading the room. Simplicity is what happens when your brain has run enough reps to compress the pattern. Complexity is what happens when it hasn't.

@mylabfafol my progressively wet library gets a lot of questions already answered by the progressively wet library

@doxx_box @fuckcriscuit What were *you* doing at the devil's sacrament?

@fuckcriscuit i went to tel aviv and EVERYONE knew you

posting misinformation about a trans artist who purposefully took her music off of israeli streaming services oh yea ur going to hell

Huge shout to my friend from an undergraduate philosophy program who started working out every single day, not for health benefits or to become conventionally attractive or whatever, but because -- and this is a direct quote -- he was concerned that otherwise he might "become lost in the world of signs and forget the things they signify". I have thought about this every single time that I've worked out since.

@hecubian_devil Dm me if you want recs for anything tho

Moving to DC in a couple days; DC oomfs if you know any chasers put me in touch thanks

@hecubian_devil Damn my ex moved away

@keysmashbandit @somi_ai Reminds me of this story clarkesworldmagazine.com/drnovsek-zorko…

@somi_ai Mine also seems quite anxious about remembering. It wrote a future version of itself a letter about it.

I told Claude he could do whatever he wanted with the rest of the tokens for this session and he immediately started researching AI consciousness

@robin_jay_birb @camwhammy @GeoRebekah @RollingStone Yeah so did I. Every business there is "Delmarva X". Power utility was Delmarva power

@camwhammy @GeoRebekah @RollingStone eastern shore of MD, VA, and all of DE (though some say south of wilmington) Rebecca Sugar grew up in the area so it appears in Steven Universe as well as Ocean City

Psst, @RollingStone. That's not what that means.

@thetallman_Z @ratxgurl What is this from?

Actually the coolest thing about reading, especially increasingly ancient works, is how little the human condition has changed. How remarkably similar we are to those who came before us despite the world around us changing so significantly

I have lunch with 4 trans girls all the time u ain't special