Brendan R.

Bears QB Caleb Williams was HYPED for PCA’s hit 😂 (📸: ayeeecaleb IG)

to the creator who feels like giving up: don't, we see you

You check your Apple Watch in the morning. Sleep score: 62. You decide it's going to be a foggy day. And then it is. A 2014 Colorado College study suggests the score itself causes the fog. 164 people walked into a lab. Researchers hooked them up to fake EEG equipment and told them the readout would show their REM percentage from the night before. Then they fabricated a number. Half the room was told 28.7%. Half was told 16.2%. The machine wasn't measuring anything. Participants took four cognitive tests. The Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test, where you add numbers spoken at increasing speed and hold your last sum in working memory while computing the next. And the Controlled Oral Word Association Task, where you generate as many words as you can starting with a single letter under time pressure. Both are gold-standard measures of attention and executive function used in clinical neurology. The 28.7% group outperformed the 16.2% group on both. Significantly. How rested participants actually felt that morning predicted nothing. The mechanism is mindset priming an executive resource. When you believe you slept well, you allocate cognitive effort more aggressively. You don't conserve. You don't pre-disengage. Belief about the resource changes how you spend it. Two control conditions ruled out demand characteristics. Participants weren't trying harder because they thought they should. Real measurable cognitive performance shifted with the number on the readout. The Apple Watch sleep score. The Oura ring readiness number. The morning ritual of checking either one is taxing the resource you're about to need. The performance gap from a fabricated REM percentage was larger than the gap from how rested participants actually felt. The number was louder than the night.

cardano is temporarily out of the top 10 because it’s the same people starting drama every 5 minutes acting like they want what’s best for the chain while constantly amplifying negativity and bringing others down and the community hyperfocuses on it instead of focusing on the people actually building and doing cool sh*t cardano is a great blockchain with a brilliant founder, and an extremely passionate and talented community but the narrative needs to shift massively here’s a reminder of why you’re a part of this community

According to a report by the WSJ, a crypto venture tied to men sanctioned in a major US scam-ring crackdown partnered with a Trump-linked firm weeks after the charges were announced. In October, the Justice Department and Treasury sanctioned more than 140 people and entities connected to the Prince Group, which US officials say ran large online fraud networks in Asia. The alleged operations included "pig butchering" scams from compounds in Cambodia. Less than a month later, World Liberty Financial, a Trump family-linked crypto company, announced a partnership with virtual-currency venture AB. One of AB's projects, a planned blockchain-themed resort in East Timor, had been led by two men sanctioned for alleged ties to the Prince Group.

Same area back in focus from 30 days ago for $BTC