Dr Ben Evans

Addiction to short-form videos is associated with reduction of brain activity in the frontal lobe and weakened focus.

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Remarkable speech from @MarkJCarney, urging allies to stop playing along with great-power intimidation. Compliance won’t buy safety, he warns. Stop appeasing bullies. Carney draws applause. Citing Václav Havel, he says it’s "time for companies and countries to take their signs down." Under communism, ordinary people displayed slogans like "Workers of the world, unite!" even when they didn’t believe them, rituals of compliance meant to avoid trouble. Coercion, Havel argued, wasn’t always enforced through violence, but through quiet, everyday participation in a lie. Carney receives a standing ovation at the end of his speech. Extraordinary to see Canada asserting this kind of moral and strategic leadership, something we haven’t witnessed on the world stage in decades, especially at a moment when we have so much to lose if Trump chooses retaliation.

This has to be the over reach moment when Europe stops pretending this guy is normal or can be dealt with normally, and they get their act together and fight back. He is an enemy over Ukraine and an enemy over a NATO country, Denmark, whose defence of Greenland has been weakened not by them but by the USA. He is a narcissist who cares only for himself and his fellow grifters and cultists, and his deeply fragile ego. He is a bully who will respect nobody and nothing that fails to stand up to him. I have many American friends and am deeply sorry it has got to this but while he is leader it is not a place we can support in any way. And given the chaos he is causing home and abroad it might be about time his NBF at @FIFAcom Infantino thought about shifting the World Cup to a country that wants people to feel welcome. 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 among the many who could step in. But for now he just needs to be told DO ONE DONNY

Brexit has wiped 8% off UK GDP 👉almost a decade of lost growth, investment, jobs and stability. And yet the people who designed this disaster are now riding high in the polls, pretending they had nothing to do with it. Brexit didn’t just fail 👉it broke the country. And those who broke it are trying to finish the job. thelondoneconomic.com/politics/brexi…

Farage: epic grifter. Part 1 (Part 2 below 👇)

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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview in March 2025 with the understanding it would only be released after her death. This is her final message from it.

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One of the primary challenges of our time.

Kind words are never meaningless and can truly mean the world to somebody who really needs to hear them. #BeKind

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everytime i open a spreadsheet someone else made

It’s a hefty 206-page research paper, and the findings are concerning. "LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels" This study finds LLM dependence weakens the writer’s own neural and linguistic fingerprints. 🤔🤔 Relying only on EEG, text mining, and a cross-over session, the authors show that keeping some AI-free practice time protects memory circuits and encourages richer language even when a tool is later reintroduced.

Wow, what a stressful week of work. Time to relax by holding a phone beaming endless streams of horrific international news inches from my head