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spirit deadass shutdown while we was in midair we had to jump out the plane like fortnite

💻 Howie Roseman It was one of the stunning moves of the 1st Round and the @Eagles GM took us inside the trade up for receiver Makai Lemon: #NFL #NFLDraft #FlyEaglesFly

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. Right now, in this room, it is on. The circuit predates primates. Mammals have been using ambient soundscape continuity as a predator-detection system for roughly 200 million years. Birds stop singing when something larger moves through their territory. For most of mammalian history, a forest full of song meant no large predator was nearby, and the cessation of sound was the warning. Your nervous system never updated this software. The Max Planck Institute tested the inverse in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong dropped anxiety with a medium effect size. Six minutes of traffic noise raised depression with the same. The effect worked on subjects who lived in dense urban environments and had no regular contact with nature. The brain still ran the check. Birdsong sits in the 1,000 to 8,000 Hz range. Your brainstem reads continuous patterns in that band as a signal that nothing dangerous is currently moving through the environment. EEG data shows birdsong at 45 to 50 decibels boosts alpha wave activity by 14.1% relative to silence. Alpha is the brainwave signature of relaxed alertness. Push the same birdsong above 60 decibels and the response flips. Stress markers rise 29%. The circuit only trusts the signal at the volume of quiet conversation, which is exactly the volume birds sing at from a typical distance. Three things happen simultaneously when the brain registers ambient safety. The amygdala downregulates. The parasympathetic nervous system takes over from the sympathetic. Heart rate variability rises, cortisol drops. The posterior cingulate cortex, which sits at the center of the rumination circuit, quiets down. King's College London tracked this through a smartphone study with over 1,200 participants and found the mood lift lasted hours after the sound stopped. People diagnosed with depression got the same response as healthy controls. Most of what gets labeled mental fatigue is hypervigilance running in the background. Birdsong tells the circuit it can stand down, and the brain reallocates the freed compute everywhere else. A quiet park feels different from a quiet office because the parks have sentinels.

UPDATE: 148 bottles unaccounted for. The journalists have begun fact-checking the fiction instead of engaging with the critique. This is consistent with everything I observed at the dinner. The instinct is not to ask why the piece resonated with 1 million people. The instinct is to check the label. A satirical confession about journalists prioritizing the wrong thing during a crisis now has a Community Note from journalists prioritizing the wrong thing during a critique. I wrote that a woman checked the vintage during an evacuation. I did not expect the profession to reenact it in the replies. The wine was a metaphor. They sent a sommelier. That's editorial judgment under pressure.

“Jordan you think you’re playing hard enough and I’m telling you, you’re not” @CoachStoutland really took @jordan_mailata from a guy who didn’t know what a quarterback was to an All-Pro

It’s hilarious and wild this happened…but it can’t be overstated how bad this playlist is. Genuinely appalling mix of music

Crazy use of free will here

lmfao this is unreal

The plan?

If only he made an incredibly ironic and timely song to play at a time like this

“Sorry kids, but daddy can’t put you to bed on Thursday night. I’ll be in Pittsburgh dressed as a Bengal Tiger watching 20 year olds get jobs.”

The Giants’ 3rd down rush package is going to be fascinating

I’m officially done with this entire thing after reading that

This quote is one of my favorites. To be candid, I never really understood it because I had never seen it in a person. It’s so rare to be extreme on both sides of this equation. Then I saw it in a person for the first (and I think only) time in my life, and it all made sense. Interestingly, to have extreme patience means you have to be able to take withering criticism. And to have extreme decisiveness, you also have to be willing to take withering criticism. To be extreme on both ends, you almost have to missing a gene of caring what other people think. But in so doing, you have the capacity to take paths and potentially produce outcomes that aren’t possible for others. Therein lies the basis of the advantage. Such a rare mentality.

Over 70% of the East Village voted for Mamdani. Now they’re suing Mamdani because he’s planning to relocate Bellevue homeless shelter to the East Village.

The SPLC was simultaneously funding violent extremists, raising money to fight those extremists, and advising law enforcement on how to arrest those extremists. Insane corruption.

REPORTER: I just want to make sure I understand. You're alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center was paying the leaders of KKK and other groups? BLANCHE: I'm not alleging it. The grand jury returned an indictment that says that

SPLC was one of the most powerful censorship forces in the country for decades. Lavishly supported by many big American companies for many years. This is astonishing, and deeply concerning.