LauraK483

Didn't play Subnautica 1, but decided to find out what the hype is about so LIVE NOW playing Subnautica 2! And only $30 away from our next @StJudePLAYLIVE milestone! twitch.tv/laurak483

I AM TOTALLY NORMAL ABOUT THIS (THAT'S A LIE I AM UNWELL)

Scratch that, looks like I have to do a work thing, so I would have not much leftover time to stream =( I might try and do an evening stream tonight instead.

Going to try and squeeze in an Overwatch stream this afternoon around 1:30 pm EST. Anyone wanna squad up and play with me?

I still can't wrap my head around why AI data centers need fresh water. Not recycled. Not wastewater. Fresh, drinkable water, burned through by the millions of gallons just to keep servers cool. Why are we using a basic human necessity to prop up machines?

99 years is the amount of prison time a doctor in Alabama will receive if they perform an abortion. 6 months is the amount of prison time you will receive if you rape an unconscious girl next to a dumpster. Wake up.

A reminder that if you shop on bookshop.org you can select your favorite indie bookstore and all of the profits of your purchase will go directly to them! They frequently run different sales (including free shipping) with a massive selection of books to choose from !!

So in the past day or 2, Trump has decided to: - Poison our water - Continue to poison our food - Drop cyanide bombs on animals in their natural habitats - Waive 29 environmental and conservation laws to build roads and barriers

BREAKING: Millville, New Jersey just blocked the LARGEST proposed data center project ever stopped in the state. The 2.6 million sq. ft. 1.4 gigawatt hyperscale campus would have used enough electricity to power over 1 million homes. Students and farmers stopped this!!

Here’s a printable version of it for distribution!!

Well now. Isn’t this interesting. So much for the patriarchy.

the trump administration is going to use fucking CYNAIDE bombs on animals??? in their homes??? to get rid of them???? I AM FUCKING LIVID, this shit cannot keep happening!!!

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.

@KosmicKait That’s so shitty and unprofessional of them. Absolutely infuriating. Also 100% their loss as you are amazing to work with and put your all into every single product/collab you do

allocated a bunch of spoons for an important meeting this evening. Prepped a bunch and then they no-showed. I get stuff happens, I'm still bummed tho brb crawling in bed

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Finishing up Directive 8020 today and playing episodes 5-8! How many left can we save? Let's find out! Also only $50 away from our next milestone for @StJudePLAYLIVE twitch.tv/laurak483

Today on International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia, and every day, we stand for love and against discrimination. We continue to strive to make our game an inclusive space for all to ensure that hockey is for everyone! 🏳️‍🌈 #IDAHOBIT

This is a trans death camp btw They will round up all the trans people in Texas in the next few years and send them all there Any trans person that doesn’t “detransition” will be killed If you don’t think we are living in the modern Nazi Germany, you aren’t paying attention

Tonight’s bottom of the hour rainbow show will be in honour of the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

Pride is a promise — that every Canadian can live safely, openly, and proudly as themselves. On the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, we recommit ourselves to fight for the dignity, security, and equal rights of 2SLGBTQIA+ people in Canada and around the world.