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@itsalexvacca How can I measure whether I have a “strong cognitive baseline?”

Because session 4 of the study revealed something interesting: People with strong cognitive baselines showed HIGHER neural connectivity when using AI than chronic users. But chronic AI users forced to work without it? They performed worse than people who never used AI at all.

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

@DougHenwood Hi Doug, you were always my favorite podcaster, along with Chuck Mertz, and I notice you’re not on Spotify. I hope this can be addressed. All the best and thanks for your work!

Zohran is driving you hacks to say the most preposterous things

@HumbleFlow I joined, just on the merit of your comments on Boethius. Looking forward to joining you

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Most people discover The Consolation of Philosophy too late. "Why didn’t I read this sooner?" A thread on the most important book written in a prison cell (you'll want to bookmark this):

Big if true

@RedPandaKoala I found a talk he did on the book youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Nick Refern’s Final Events is worth reading According to the book Final Events by Nick Redfern Aliens are not ETs, they are from another dimension. More specifically the fallen Angels mentioned in the Book of Enoch. The Govt, occultists and secret societies have known about them for a long time and commune with them. They work with the cabal. does he still do interviews? Have you read it, what were your takeaways?

the leftist position is that people’s positions, even if horrific, have roots in their material reality. the liberal position as best i can tell is that 20-30% of the country has an irredeemably evil soul. i guess im going with the one you could actually do something about.

People in Missouri voted for policy that helps them but then voted for republicans who oppose that type of policy? A thing that used to shock me or seem hypocritical. Actually, the voters just want nice things for themselves but they are, above all else, bigots.

11/ There are not just no guardrails now. The American people have just told the two worst men in the United States—Trump and Musk—that the world is their oyster and they can do whatever they like. And because they are the worst of men, they will take that offer. And *then* some.

@DanielTutt We have the same father it seems. Victims of Fox News and boomerism. I mourn with you, I know how much it breaks the heart

The richest man in the world: is one of the biggest political donors in the world. and one of the biggest government contractors in the world. while owning one of the biggest social media platforms in the word. While warning about a cabal of elites ruining the world.

@_gaijinsama @StallAlan @VividProwess Ok THAT is interesting! Perhaps a similar argument can be made in most cases of war making. Violence becomes an option precisely at the moment that abstract thinking ends. Does this scan?

@StallAlan @VividProwess You give them waaaayy too much credit, that kind of abstraction are beyond them. That's why they don't learn. We think so that our ideas die instead of us. They just die themselves.

Rafah. ☕️

@StallAlan @VividProwess I’ll give you one guess….

@VividProwess The question I always wonder, do the Gazan people think the war was worth it? I think Japan regretted Pearl Harbor. Will Gazans regret the war with Israel. Or will they dream of winning the next war, and then the next one. Meanwhile Israel gets smarter and stronger.

@AnarkYouTube Just wanted to tell you I’ve been working through all your videos and I am learning SO MUCH! your work is very inspiring and important and I’m sharing it widely. Thanks for your efforts and for sharing your thoughts with us.

This is one of the most incredible photos I have ever seen. Everything about it: its composition, its subject matter, the tone and depth of the black and white, even the framing. A somber moment frozen in time. Here the spectacle prefaced a revolution.

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then and now: far right performative labor

@Yiddish_Liberty Instant unfollow

We all heard Cheeseburger Chuck's "rabbi's" message from RH (because it was recorded and she was holding a microphone) . Fuck that kapo

Which coffee is the best coffee of the year? Morning after Yom Kippur? First coffee in the sukkah? Simchas Torah morning after hangover? First snowfall on the porch? Shavous morning (up all night) cheesecake coffee? Shushan Purim It’s first coffee in the Sukkah for me

@Jason_Jorjani Can you open your dms for me? I’d like to connect. Read many of your books and watched all your interviews since 2010

It turns out that the head of the Islamic Republic’s most elite IRGC unit, the Qods Force, previously led by Qasem Soleimani, was a Mossad agent working for Israel. Imagine how penetrated this regime is, and what is coming soon.

@aufgehenderRest Sold! Since I am an Orthodox Jew utterly devoted to the teachings of Heidegger, it’s probably time to dive into Reb Franz! Which one should I start with?

I just don't understand how anyone would want to read Heidegger at all after reading Rosenzweig on Existence and death! Rozenzweig has literally said more interesting and profound things in two books than Heidegger could have ever said in 100 volumes of the Gesamtausgabe.