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🚨 STUDENT CLAIMS SHE “SOLVED SCHIZOPHRENIA” DURING A RESEARCH PAPER — AND PEOPLE THINK SHE MAY HAVE JUST ACCIDENTALLY EXPOSED A MASSIVE COVER-UP A woman is going viral after posting a breakdown claiming modern psychiatry may be focusing on the WRONG part of the brain when it comes to schizophrenia. And the deeper she goes into her theory… the more intense the video gets. According to her: “It’s the f*cking thalamus… and the thalamus is being neglected.” She claims schizophrenia may not primarily be a dopamine disorder at all… but instead a failure in the brain’s sensory filtering system. Her theory centers around the thalamus, the part of the brain responsible for processing and relaying incoming information. And according to her, when that system becomes “leaky,” the brain starts trying to fill in missing information itself… creating hallucinations, paranoia, sensory overload, and distorted reality. “Your brain will always try to make sense of something… so if it’s missing information, it’s just gonna make up its own.” The video goes even further into claims that: • schizophrenia may be tied to glucose dysregulation in the brain • hallucinations are caused by a “leaky” thalamus failing to filter information properly • antipsychotic drugs only mask symptoms instead of fixing the root problem • low-carb diets could increase risks for dementia and Alzheimer’s • ADHD may also be connected to the same “leaky filter” mechanism • the brain creates hallucinations when it tries to fill in missing sensory information • current psychiatric research may be focusing on the wrong brain regions entirely But the moment hitting the hardest? When she said: “Maybe Big Pharma doesn’t want to fund it… because sick people make more money than healthy people.” Did this student accidentally expose a crack in the entire psychiatric industry… and is that why nobody wants to talk about the thalamus? 📹: TikTok/lilithmaraofficial

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This is the person who invented the plug that goes into the wall and secures the screw. His name is Artur Fischer, from Germany. The plug was invented in 1958. He also invented the flash that synchronizes the capture of the image. He has 1,100 patents, more than Thomas Edison's with 7. He died in 2016.

Someone built a fitness app using the same psychological mechanics as gambling This might work better than every normal fitness app 😭😭 You bet money on whether you’ll hit 10,000 steps today If you fail, you lose your money If you succeed, you split the money from everyone who didn’t So disciplined people literally profit off lazy people Most fitness apps try motivating you with streaks and notifications This one motivates you with financial fear Imagine realizing at 11:52pm you still need 1,700 more steps or you lose $30 Entire friend groups would be outside walking laps around their neighborhood before midnight trying not to lose their steppa challenge It sounds stupid but this would probably motivate people better than any other fitness product Would you use this yourself?

R.I.P. Ted Turner (1938–2026) 🕊️💔 A true television pioneer whose vision helped shape modern media and generations of animation fans around the world. From founding CNN to bringing Cartoon Network into millions of homes, his impact on entertainment and pop culture will never be forgotten. ❤️ Thank you for the memories, legend. #TedTurner #RIP #CartoonNetwork #Animation #Legend #Television

Hollywood has a dirty secret. That perfectly clean green screen shot in your favorite Marvel movie? A human being sat in a dark room for 6 hours fixing it frame by frame. The AI keyer got the body. A person painted every strand of hair. By hand. At 2 AM. For 400 frames. The software costs $5,000 a year. And it still cannot key hair. Nuke: $4,988/year. Cannot key hair in motion blur. After Effects: $264/year. Cannot key transparent glass. Boris FX: $1,865. Cannot key fine edges without haloing. The industry's solution for 30 years has been the same: pay for expensive software, then pay a human to fix what the software couldn't. The YouTubers behind Corridor Crew looked at this and asked a different question. What if the AI didn't try to remove the green? What if it figured out what color was actually there before the green contaminated it? They trained a neural network on synthetic 3D data. Not scraped footage. Not stolen clips. Perfectly rendered scenes where every pixel's true color was already known. Hair strands. Motion blur. Transparent glass. All simulated with known ground truth. Then they fed it real green screen footage. It worked. They called it CorridorKey. Then they open sourced it. → Feed it raw green screen footage → AI reconstructs the true foreground color for every pixel → Hair stays perfect. Every strand. → Motion blur stays intact. Every frame. → Transparent glass stays transparent. → 16-bit and 32-bit EXR output. Nuke-ready. Resolve-ready. → Handles 4K natively → Runs on consumer GPUs. 6 GB VRAM minimum. → Runs on Apple Silicon via MLX → Auto-detects green or blue screen → Removes tracking markers automatically → DaVinci Resolve plugin live → Standalone GUI for non-technical users → One-click installer. No Python setup. Here's the wildest part: Within 2.5 months: 13,000+ GitHub stars. 787 forks. Active Discord. Community built a cloud render farm so you can process footage without owning a GPU. DaVinci Resolve plugin shipped. Nuke and After Effects plugins in development. VFX freelancers are already offering CorridorKey-powered services to production companies. One person. One GPU. Hollywood-quality keys. A business built on free software. Nuke: $4,988/year. Still needs manual cleanup. After Effects: $264/year. Still needs manual cleanup. Rotoscope artist: $50 to $150/hour. For the cleanup. CorridorKey: $0. No cleanup needed. One honest flag: the license is CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Free forever for personal projects, students, indie films, and learning. Commercial use requires permission from Corridor Digital. They did not pretend it was MIT. A problem that plagued Hollywood for 30 years. Solved by YouTubers. Open sourced for free. 13,000+ stars. 787 forks. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Your footage. Your keys. No rotoscoping.

Spotted in the NYC subway. “Zero screen time.” An iPod Shuffle ad in 2026. When we built the iPod, the goal was the technology disappeared and you could have your music wherever you were. 1,000 songs in your pocket. Now we’re living through a moment where people are actively looking for ways to disconnect from the infinite feed, algos, and constant notifications. That doesn’t mean technology is bad. It means the best technology understands when to step back. Not every problem needs another screen, another menu, or another layer of complexity. Constraints create freedom (read: @DavidEpstein new book Inside the Box). And often removing features creates a better product than adding them. The future of technology shouldn’t just be more engagement. It should help us be more human.

Pretty sure there’s tons of compute in the water now

Laurel Supply opened in West Hollywood last Friday. No press release. No website. No opening party. They built it less than a block from Erewhon. This is the business they're competing for. Erewhon does $1,800 to $2,500 in sales per square foot. A typical supermarket does $450 to $600. Across 10 California stores, the chain posted $171.4 million in profit in 2023. Roughly $17 million per location. The Hailey Bieber Strawberry Glaze Skin Smoothie generated $10.6 million in revenue from a single drink. Forty thousand cups a month at $20 each. Erewhon launches a new celebrity smoothie every month. Sixteen branded drinks a year. Each one has up to five ingredient brands paying to be in the recipe. Then there's the membership. Roughly 60,000 people pay up to $200 a year for perks that include a free monthly drink. That's $12 million in revenue before a single avocado gets scanned. Erewhon stopped being a grocery store years ago. It became a celebrity collab platform with a juice bar attached. Phil Howard and Dean McKillen watched this for fifteen years. They own Laurel Hardware, the restaurant seven blocks east on Santa Monica. They saw a competitor turn produce into a luxury vertical and decided the market had room for a second one. The location was the strategic move. A block from Erewhon means the shopper doesn't have to choose. They go to both on the same trip. The TikTok haul gets twice the content. The Uber from LAX picks the same neighborhood. The flow stays inside the West Hollywood luxury grocery circuit. The no-marketing decision was the same logic. The customer Erewhon built doesn't respond to ads. They respond to "have you been to the new one." That post is free. Andrea just made it for them. So did everyone else who walked in on day one with a phone. The store is the marketing budget. An olive tree growing inside the building. An in-house flour mill for the pizza. Floor-to-ceiling wood shelving for a health and beauty section that runs an entire wall. Staff in white jackets. Every detail engineered to photograph. The olive tree is the marketing budget. The grocery is the cover.

Exploring Fibonacci patterns 🔄📐

To think I have a some real imax film from this scene

The reason every startup has merch is because Apple perfected it from 1984-1987. Now it’s all just logos on shirts (🗑️) (Below: 1984 Mac M0001 Note Cube)

This website is tearable.

The life of a millennial: - Graduated straight into a recession - “Entry level” jobs required years of experience - Pensions replaced by the 401k - Promoted at work meant a 2% raise & 200% more responsibility - finally felt stable… then a pandemic hit - Highest inflation in 50 years deleted pay raises - home prices doubled, renting became permanent - Childcare costs feels like another rent - Juggling aging parents, young kids, burnout from work & the cost to live - AI causing mass layoffs during peak earning years