Brandon Wood

This YouTuber, Benn Jordan discovered that a surveillance company named Flock Safety who currently has over 90K camera deployed throughout the US, is severely compromised. He found that many cameras are live-streaming directly to the open internet.

Scientists put kids through 100 hours of reading, then scanned their brains. New wiring had physically grown inside the language regions. Communication between brain areas sped up by a factor of 10. Kids who didn't read showed zero change. That was a 2009 Carnegie Mellon study. It gets wilder. In 2013, Emory University scanned 19 students every morning for 19 straight days while they read one novel chapter each night. Mornings after reading, the brain areas responsible for understanding other people's emotions lit up with new connections. So did the region that processes physical sensation. Their brains were simulating what the characters felt, as if it were happening to them. Those changes stuck around for 5 days after they finished the book. Now flip to scrolling. A massive review published in Psychological Bulletin last September pulled together 71 studies covering 98,299 people. Heavy short-form video use (TikTok, Reels, Shorts) showed a clear pattern: worse attention, weaker self-control, and more anxiety. Consistent across teenagers and adults, across every platform tested. Oxford didn't name "brain rot" its 2024 Word of the Year for nothing. A 2024 brain wave study found that people hooked on short-form video had weaker activity in the front of the brain, the part that controls focus and impulse control. Separate brain scans showed the same thing: heavy scrollers had less activation in the exact regions that deep reading strengthens. UCLA neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf has been studying this for decades. Humans were never born to read. There's no gene for it. Reading is something we invented, and it hijacked neurons that were originally meant for recognizing faces. Over time, it built entirely new brain circuits connecting language, vision, and emotion. But those circuits only survive if you use them. Stop reading, and they fade. Wolf's conclusion is simple: screens built for speed produce a speed-wired brain. Books built for depth produce a depth-wired brain. One honest caveat: most of these studies are snapshots, not long-term tracking. People who already struggle to focus might just prefer short videos. But the same pattern showing up across nearly 100,000 people is hard to shrug off. The tweet repeats the line seven times. The research backs it up with brain scans, EEG data, and white-matter imaging across tens of thousands of people.

This is the sweetest. New dad Brock Purdy working out with his baby watching. Children aren’t burdens that ruin your life. They’re gifts meant to be woven into it.

@JamesMontanus Cold plunging for clicks

Yikes! I came across this guy yesterday going for a swim in Irondequoit Bay. Would you do this? After he came out of the water he told me he does this every day for health purposes. Cold-water swimming is surging in popularity, particularly in northern Europe and elsewhere.

@THErealDVORAK 🤮 can’t use those coffee makers in hotel rooms anymore. I don’t use the standard coffee maker either after I heard a disturbing story a few years ago.

OMG!!!!

Well said

I can't believe businesses actually pay for this. Just save the recordings to a cloud storage provider like Google Drive, or better yet, upload them to Loom, where you get unlimited storage and transcripts.

@Zoom's pricing for additional storage in 2026 is absurd.

🚨 My Tesla literally saved my life yesterday. What started as a normal drive turned terrifying fast. I unintentionally fasted for 17 hours, took some medicine, and had a severe allergic reaction. My body shut down—I passed out while driving on the freeway, mid-conversation with my wife on the phone. Thank God my Tesla had Full Self-Driving engaged. It detected I lost consciousness (thanks to the driver monitoring system), immediately slowed, activated hazards, and safely pulled over to the shoulder. No crash. No danger to anyone else on the road. My wife heard me go silent and knew something was wrong. She used @Life360 to alert emergency services—they located me within 5 minutes. They attended to me enough for me to tell them, 'I don't want to abandon my truck here on the freeway.' So the Tesla autonomously drove me the rest of the way to the ER. I walked in, got admitted, and they stabilized me overnight. I'm being discharged today—levels back to normal, feeling grateful and alive. Huge thanks to my incredible wife for staying calm and acting fast, and to @elonmusk @Tesla @tesla for engineering cars that literally protect lives when the driver can't. This isn't just convenience—it's life-saving tech. 🙏⚡❤️

@wxbywilliams Yeah, sort of. The excess energy generation from our solar last year paid for the heat this winter.

Hopefully you're not counting on these guys to stay warm this weekend.

@GovKathyHochul I can’t believe this.

Secretary Noem offered assistance to New York ahead of the impending snowstorm.

I shared that the fastest way to help is for ICE to back off so people feel safe accessing warming centers, shelters, hospitals, and houses of worship.

When did it become normal for everyone to bring their dog to @HomeDepot? Maybe it is just my local store

@Scobleizer @elonmusk This a great idea.

Just got out of a San Francisco AI poker party. Lost all my money. So am bitter at @elonmusk for taking the freebie autopilot away from people. On various Tesla audio spaces learn there are other bitter people and others who wonder how to get Tesla customers to buy Self Driving (costs $100 a month). Learned from NY’s biggest drug dealer once that you gotta give some away for free. So if I was @elonmusk I would announce a free tier of FSD. The first five miles of your drive is free. After that you either have to drive manually or put $100 into the subscription. Waymo’s customer research shows it takes three rides and then you change to hating driving.

When it comes to demographics, you can buy time, but no country has cracked the code to getting back above replacement levels once they drop under 2.1 births per woman.

@elonmusk @cb_doge ☝️this is how everyone should approach things.

@cb_doge I’m started off knowing nothing about rockets, satellites, cars, etc, but I learn fast

In the early days, people said Elon Musk knew nothing about cars. Years later, people said cars without LiDAR could never achieve true autonomy. And here we are today. Elon proved everyone wrong!

@NFL_DovKleiman As a Bills fan, I have watched this over and over again. It is not a catch, BUT it isn't an interception either. It is an incomplete pass.

𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴: NFL Films has released new footage that shows Bills WR Brandin Cooks CLEARLY caught the ball. The refs somehow ruled this an interception essentailly giving the Broncos the win over Buffalo. One of the worst calls in NFL history...

This is just my take. The engagement numbers they report say I am wrong.

@LinkedIn seems to be a hot mess. I pay for Premium, and I just don't see much engagement on the platform when scrolling through my feed and looking at people's posts, even from others in other industries.

@AdamSchefter Not a good decision

Bills fired HC Sean McDermott, per source.

Crazy