Julian Johnson

@MiamiHEAT Messi

Wade Wednesday: April 25, 2010 Lookin' back, witnessing greatness

@nikitabier One giant hot dog

Next week I’m headed to Tokyo to meet with the X Japan team. What is the most American thing I can bring them?

@CaleCrypto Ok

Reply and I’ll tell you what pokemon you remind me of

@MiamiHEAT Ronaldo and Messi

Your turn to recreate the iconic LeBron & D-Wade pic 👀📸 Reply with your creation 🔥

@ihtesham2005 Yes, this tweet is very likely AI-assisted or fully AI-generated (I’d score it ~85-90% probability).

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

@ihtesham2005 @grok summarize the Maine point conclusion in one sentence

@benshapiro Whose Fuentes? Shapiro is interesting when there’s an debatable topic not for regular news

All the haters can kiss my ass

@MiamiHEAT Dwayne Wade 3

HEAT Nation, who is the first player that comes to mind when you see this logo?👇

@elonmusk Elon: me and the boys

On my way to Beijing in Air Force One

@PokeTCGAlerts …and it’s sold out

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@WatcherGuru Found it

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Department of War releases UFO and potential alien life files.

@LordCharizard33 Kids rip modern packs, not unattainable vintage ones. They chase fresh Charizards they can actually pull, creating real demand. This excitement & new collector influx makes today’s hits worth more than abundant old unlimited copies.

Sorry but this should not be a thing.

The DOJ has ONE WEEK left to charge Anthony Fauci for the worst cover-up in modern medical history. He lied to Congress about funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan. Millions died. Trillions were spent. And Fauci walked away with book deals and fawning media coverage instead of handcuffs. I re-upped my criminal referral to the DOJ because the evidence is overwhelming, and justice has been delayed long enough. RT if you’re ready to see Fauci behind bars.

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@Nortier 151

Which set will people wish they bought more of in 3 years?

@GrahamStephan Grade: F (1st grade level) - AI written Why: Repetitive, simplistic sentences + basic fear-mongering list. Reads like generic AI slop, not insightful analysis.

For the last 40 years, the safe bet was simple: Put 100% of your money into the US stock market and wait. It worked because the US had an "exorbitant privilege." This is changing, and so should your investment plan. As we move into 2026, this is the new reality: The Western alliance now controls just 29.6% of global GDP (PPP), while the BRICS nations have climbed to nearly 45%! There are five specific mechanisms threatening to bypass the US dollar entirely. These are the "Dollar-Killers" you need to watch: 1. Bilateral Trade Settlements: China, India, and Russia are increasingly skipping the dollar entirely. By settling invoices in native currencies, they bypass US correspondent banks, avoid transaction fees, and eliminate the risk of Washington "flipping the switch" on their assets. 2. BRICS PAY: Think of this as an alternative to SWIFT. If SWIFT is the Western-controlled email system for international banking, BRICS PAY is a competing encrypted service that escapes US control. 3. Strategic Gold Stockpiling: Central banks are currently buying gold at the fastest rate in 50 years, even with prices crossing $5,000 an ounce. Gold is the ultimate neutral asset. It can’t be sanctioned, and it can’t be printed. It is sovereign insurance against a weakening dollar. 4. The mBridge Project: This is perhaps the most sophisticated threat. It’s a blockchain-based framework being tested by central banks in the UAE, China, and Thailand. It allows for settlement of payments in digital currencies in seconds, without ever touching a neutral third party like the US dollar. 5. The UNIT: A proposed digital currency backed 40% by gold and 60% by a basket of BRICS currencies. It’s designed to provide the stability of a hard asset with the utility of a digital one. If you think this is alarmist, look at what the world’s largest money managers are saying. Vanguard’s 10-year forecast projects US stocks to return just 3.9% to 5.9% annually, while they expect international markets to outperform at 4.9% to 6.9%. The easy money in a concentrated US market (where the top 10 companies make up 40% of the S&P 500) has likely been made. We are moving from a world where the US was THE superpower to a world where it is A superpower. To learn more about how to reinvest in this changed world, read today's post on my Substack. I'll drop the link in the comments.

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@RapidResponse47 There was an election in Virginia?

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