Jamie B

Also Seneca: “they say let’s go visit desolate lands - but why - for everyone always flees himself, but what good is it if he doesn’t escape.”

The most hilarious part is that he banged both the current and ex wife of some of the cops who robbed him. Brought the ex wife of a cop to trial as a witness. There's nothing like autism hell bent on a multi year revenge strategy against the system. Most US cops are crooked.

Basically every news story you read about will be forgotten within a human lifetime, if not sooner. If they pull this off, it will be remembered forever. Nothing else from our time will matter:

they blasted mice with the same frequency the cell towers use and the ones who got the most blasted lived longer lmao

for a while i've had a slight fear that the bluetooth from my airpods could be frying my brain this weekend i pulled the raw data from a $30m government study of 1,679 mice blasted with cell phone radiation and reanalyzed it what i found was...not what I expected? 🧵

Iran is a country where if you destroy infrastructure you get better internet.

Your brain peaked musically somewhere around age 16. Everything since then has been a dopamine echo. Between the ages of 12 and 22, the mesolimbic dopamine pathway, the same circuit that processes cocaine and sex, fires at levels in response to sound that it will never reach again for the rest of your life. A 2011 McGill study used PET scans and fMRI simultaneously and found that music triggers dopamine release in the striatum at peak emotional arousal. The caudate nucleus lights up during anticipation of the good part. The nucleus accumbens lights up when it hits. Your brain is treating a guitar riff with the same reward architecture it uses for food-seeking and pair bonding. During adolescence, that response is dramatically amplified. Pubertal hormones are flooding the system. The prefrontal cortex is still wiring itself. Memories formed during this window get encoded with a density of emotional tagging that nothing in your 30s or 40s can replicate. Researchers at the University of Leeds identified this as the “reminiscence bump”: the period when your sense of self is forming, and the music playing during that formation becomes structurally integrated into your identity. A 2025 longitudinal study from the University of Gothenburg analyzed 40,000 users’ streaming data across 15 years. Younger listeners explored broadly across genres. Older listeners collapsed into increasingly narrow loops, almost entirely anchored to music from their teens and early twenties. Your brain stopped losing interest in new music years ago. It’s running a cost-benefit analysis. Familiar songs deliver guaranteed dopamine with zero processing cost. New songs require pattern recognition, expectation-building, and repeated exposure before the reward circuit kicks in. Past 25, most people stop paying that tax. The one variable that predicts whether someone keeps exploring: the personality trait “openness to experience.” Score high, you keep seeking. Score average, you default to the familiar forever. The fix, if you want one: deliberate exposure. Three listens minimum before your auditory cortex builds enough predictive models to generate a reward response. One passive listen on a playlist will never get there. Your brain needs repetition to find the pattern, and it needs the pattern to release dopamine.

Why don’t they just tokenize the oil in the Middle East and transport it across permissionless financial rails, thereby avoiding the Strait of Hormuz altogether

"I just thought it was funny, but it was terrorist content" is such a Peak UK sentence.

Influencer's fleeing Dubai right now.

Called my dad to pick me up from this sleepover i didn't like and he said no You're 30 and that's your wife and kids

if this was linked in I'd say maybe agile is useful dude needed to spike saving civ as this seems like the obvious choice vs mars although I guess it's impossible to create an atmosphere on the moon but who needs an atmosphere did the customers even ask for it?😵‍💫

Are you still using Statim for Super Bowl @TempusExMachina is our old Go code still living for another down💗🩶💙 😍

@Object_Zero_ Just need a few Marathon watches for the Tritium 😅

What makes Fusion hard? Nuclear fusion is obviously difficult, and people have been working on it for a long time. There used to be 4 unsolved problems that made nuclear fusion unachievable with existing technology, but 15 years ago we solved 1 of the 4. The 4 big problems are: • Magnet too weak • Tritium scarcity • Plasma ignition • Neutron damage The one that got solved was the magnets, as industry figured out how to manufacture REBCO magnets which were 3-4x stronger than the old tech. The development of REBCO magnets created a surge of new fusion companies all with new fusion reactor designs, but the other 3 big problems persist. Tritium is still scarce. We still haven’t ignited a plasma. We still don’t have a material that can survive the neutron flux of a plasma. In France, an international consortium is dropping $130 billion to build ITER. ITER is not a reactor. It is not a power generating machine. It is a plasma experiment. ITER is a machine that scientists believe WILL ignite plasma. It’s just progressing very slowly because it’s big, and the design is very old and predates the new magnetic field technology. It’s not really possible to design a fusion power generating machine with first having a mathematical and engineering model for burning plasma. But humans have never achieved a burning plasma. All fusion machines to date do the fusion equivalent of rubbing two stick together, the sticks getting very hot, but never actually igniting into a fire. All measurements so far are essentially “oh the sticks are hot”. Hot sticks do not release much energy. Burning sticks release a hell of a lot of energy, plasma is the same. Sub-ignition is not interesting. Not a thing. The other two major problems are tritium scarcity and neutron damage. There is hardly any tritium on earth. We make it inside a few nuclear reactors and most of it immediately goes to various nuclear weapons programs. So there isn’t actually much fusion fuel on Earth. The final problem is neutron damage (see pic on right), this is by far the biggest and most pernicious problem. Plasma creates a huge neutron flux, neutrons have no charge and cannot be contained by the magnets… so the neutrons go whizzing out of the plasma and hit the inner wall of the reactor and they knock the atoms out of place, literally creating deletions and inclusions. This destroys the reactor from the inside out. Even a working fusion reactor would only last about 6 months before it destroys itself and has to be replaced with a new reactor vessel. This destroys the economics. One proposal is a lithium blanket, a wall of liquid lithium as lithium can absorb neutrons and produce Tritium. It kills two birds with one stone, tritium scarcity and neutron damage. Bizarrely, almost no fusion company is developing a lithium blanket. Or are they? Finally all the fusion machines people build are too small. A tokamak should have a major diameter of maybe 80 meters, this would dramatically reduce the neutron flux, the neutron damage and extend the commercial life of the machine to something worthwhile. Now are all of these problems solvable? Yeah, they probably are.

@visegrad24 There was a lithium fire in forest hill (south London) at a long established ski and e bike store a few months ago that happens to sit right next to the fibre optics serving the city.

China embassy’s hidden basement in London The Telegraph has uncovered unredacted plans showing that China intends to build a concealed underground chamber beneath its proposed London “super-embassy,” located directly beside fibre-optic cables carrying highly sensitive financial and internet data for the City of London. These cables are part of the London Internet Exchange, a central hub handling bank transactions, market data, and digital communications for millions of users. Access to them could expose financial systems, government communications, and commercial secrets. The chamber is one of 208 hidden basement rooms planned beneath the former Royal Mint site. Plans indicate it would sit just over a meter from the cables, require rebuilding a basement wall adjacent to them, and include hot-air extraction systems, raising concerns that it could house advanced computing equipment. Security experts warn that the close proximity could allow the cables to be tapped or monitored without detection, a long-established espionage technique. 🇨🇳🇬🇧

@KoshkaChap @BasilTheGreat You just complied with the new law - you could have added affiliate links for the swimwear though

The UK Government have just announced new laws making it illegal to create 'non-consensual intimate images' of others using AI It's amazing how they did this in just days Yet it's been 209 days since they announce a grooming gang inquiry and no progress has been made at all

@KoshkaChap @BasilTheGreat I guess the new law actually works then!

This “fictional” explanation seems relevant to the ongoing conversation on the northern flank, Greenland, and US military presence in the Arctic. From The Diplomat (season 2, episode 6) - Netflix

We should insist that all data centers that are built are architecturally beautiful in the neoclassical style

None of the people I know taking weight loss peptides care much about this ICE shooting either way, even if they used to be huge politics freaks “So it’s like, a weight loss drug, but also it cures alcoholism drug addiction and political activism” Inject everyone immediately

@dmitriid @david_nix I’m sorry if you were lied to and think seniors start as juniors.

@jamiebrough @david_nix Ah yes. Because software is this unique snowflake of a job where junior positions don't exist and never existed. Got you.

I need your advice. Should I fire this junior dev? They don't remember anything from one story to the next. They need constant hand holding. They often make changes outside the scope I gave them. They never question anything. Just blindly do what I say. I have to spend a ton of time detailing EXACTLY what they need to do. They never improve. See what I'm getting at... This isn't a human. This is AI. If a human behaved like this, I'd fire them in a heartbeat. Yet many hail AI as "you don't need juniors anymore" That's nonsense. In a sick twist of irony, human juniors learn to become autonomous over time. AI doesn't. I could be mentoring a junior dev who will stand on their own two feet and not need me one day. That's real productivity.