John Grinnell

#American democracy is so easily manipulated by bad actors; it is critical we #educate our people from kindergarten to the 12th grade in #CIVICS. #STEM-C.

@indyfor45th47th #STEM-C C=civics from kindergarten to 12th grad! #education

🚨BREAKING: Stephen Miller unveiled a bombshell plan to reform American education, emphasizing teaching children to love America and be patriots, while ensuring federal funds do not support "communist ideology." This is part of President Trump's agenda to counter "woke culture."

@RyptoCrypto Oh my. Whales are f’d now.

A whale protein that repairs DNA could help humans live to 200 and scientists are already testing it 🤯

CBS News Poll: Do you favor or oppose requiring people to show valid photo ID before they are permitted to vote? 🟢 Favor: 80% 🟤 Oppose: 20% —— • Dem: 65-35 (+30) • GOP: 95-5 (+90) • Indie: 79-21 (+58) • White: 80-20 (+60) • Black: 80-20 (+60) • Hispanic: 77-23 (+55) YouGov | 3/16-19 | 2,496 A

The hummingbirds are on the way!! I’m so excited! Check out Hummingbird Central for more info and to see the map and all that. We’ll be putting feeders out this weekend for any that show up early!😊 hummingbirdcentral.com

@otokyo__ Low self esteem.

Can you think of any ??

@Art0fThinking Quiet

What’s the first word that comes to mind?

SEE IT TONIGHT: Children use screens for school about 400 hours a year. They use the same screens to multitask and consume media for over 2,500 hours a year. By age 12, your child has spent 10,000 hours training their brain to do one thing on a computer. And it’s not learning. Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath on why the laptop on your kid’s desk might be the problem.

@sciencegirl Oreo

What would you name this kitten

Scientists put kids through 100 hours of reading, then scanned their brains. New wiring had physically grown inside the language regions. Communication between brain areas sped up by a factor of 10. Kids who didn't read showed zero change. That was a 2009 Carnegie Mellon study. It gets wilder. In 2013, Emory University scanned 19 students every morning for 19 straight days while they read one novel chapter each night. Mornings after reading, the brain areas responsible for understanding other people's emotions lit up with new connections. So did the region that processes physical sensation. Their brains were simulating what the characters felt, as if it were happening to them. Those changes stuck around for 5 days after they finished the book. Now flip to scrolling. A massive review published in Psychological Bulletin last September pulled together 71 studies covering 98,299 people. Heavy short-form video use (TikTok, Reels, Shorts) showed a clear pattern: worse attention, weaker self-control, and more anxiety. Consistent across teenagers and adults, across every platform tested. Oxford didn't name "brain rot" its 2024 Word of the Year for nothing. A 2024 brain wave study found that people hooked on short-form video had weaker activity in the front of the brain, the part that controls focus and impulse control. Separate brain scans showed the same thing: heavy scrollers had less activation in the exact regions that deep reading strengthens. UCLA neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf has been studying this for decades. Humans were never born to read. There's no gene for it. Reading is something we invented, and it hijacked neurons that were originally meant for recognizing faces. Over time, it built entirely new brain circuits connecting language, vision, and emotion. But those circuits only survive if you use them. Stop reading, and they fade. Wolf's conclusion is simple: screens built for speed produce a speed-wired brain. Books built for depth produce a depth-wired brain. One honest caveat: most of these studies are snapshots, not long-term tracking. People who already struggle to focus might just prefer short videos. But the same pattern showing up across nearly 100,000 people is hard to shrug off. The tweet repeats the line seven times. The research backs it up with brain scans, EEG data, and white-matter imaging across tens of thousands of people.

@tom_peters academia.edu/101073639/Tony…

@leedership Is/are there any particular paper/s you could guide me to?

I fervently believe in a woman’s right to choose. I am pro-life. My entire career has been pro-life, devoted to treating people more thoughtfully, and helping them develop beyond their wildest expectations. That’s pro-life. RREAL pro life.

@sciencegirl Penelope

What would you name this dog

@ElvinBox @tom_peters How do you measure a broad term like stupidity? Please explain.

@tom_peters Healthy levels of Testosterone in men enables energy, fertility, and stupidity. Of course the higher the testosterone, the higher the stupidity.

I am a civil engineer and business guy by training. I never took a course, or even a single class, in anatomy or brain science. So this is an honest question, do men have an inborn arrogance gene? (I sometimes think so.)

@tom_peters Negative leaders don’t get timely information they need. This serves to foster “decision lag” which creates avoidable unintended negative outcomes and greater lost opportunity cost.

negativism does not lead the recipient to fix the problem. It needs the recipient to avoid the situation in the future.(BF Skinner said this a jillion years ago.)

Negativism demoralizes at GREATER than the speed of light.

@heygurisingh Human intuition and judgment will be the gold of the future. Beyond Ai! Our schools need to foster that, as well as not let our memories deteriorate through easy dependance—so we can remember our values and maintain our self efficacy.

🚨 BREAKING: Apple has just published a paper with a devastating title: *The Illusion of Thinking*. And it's not a metaphor. What it demonstrates is that the AI models we use every day - yes, ones like ChatGPT - don't think. Not one bit. They just imitate doing so. Let me explain: 🧵👇

@tom_peters @AnitaBGreen @Anomalia_Log @Crislycai Can’t allow our kids to lose their self efficacy by over dependence on Ai making decision.

@Anomalia_Log @Crislycai “Our job is to protect the child’s right to struggle..”❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️❗️

help me here. What kind of future can a kid of 11 expect in the age of AI🪱🦀🦐v🕷️🦎🐌🐞

@tom_peters Sometimes asking “should we”instead of “can we” makes sense.

@otokyo__ Of course climate change is real. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Adaptation in nature is sign of a healthy system. And a strong focus on clean bioms, water, air and food is rational.

So I’m just gonna ask straight up

@AndreMongory @MarsUniversityX So you agree we should have safer streets?

But the risk in this binary is oversimplification. Empathy is not a finite resource that must be allocated exclusively to one side. A functioning justice system can acknowledge victims’ suffering while still recognizing the humanity of offenders. If “deep empathy” becomes a rhetorical tool to narrow moral concern, it may reduce complexity rather than deepen it. Real depth often lies in holding multiple perspectives without collapsing them into slogans.

Elon Musk: "We want to have empathy that is deep, not shallow. I strongly believe we should care about humanity and we should care about the future. But we need to have empathy that is deep, not shallow Shallow empathy is caring about criminals, but deep empathy is caring about the victims of the criminals.”

@DKH013 @CL4WS_OUT I don’t have enough information to determine that.

In light of the current circumstances, has your confidence in Pam Bondi been shaken?