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Today we're introducing TRIBE v2 (Trimodal Brain Encoder), a foundation model trained to predict how the human brain responds to almost any sight or sound. Building on our Algonauts 2025 award-winning architecture, TRIBE v2 draws on 500+ hours of fMRI recordings from 700+ people to create a digital twin of neural activity and enable zero-shot predictions for new subjects, languages, and tasks. Try the demo and learn more here: go.meta.me/tribe2

thank you French Revolution <3

Not just a status symbol, each one is a poem, an ode to the object of study of its owner, a piece of art that looks at a sword through the prism of a particular field of science

@Que_Hill I’m proposing a simple theory: every other planet just looks like a ball

What’s the obsession with Saturn? Can anybody tell me? 🙇🏾‍♂️

Before we took ‘story’ from French, the Old English word was ‘spell’ – the very same word that now means a magic incantation. A parable was a byspell (bīspell), an old wives’ tale was an old queens’ spell (aldra cwēna spell), a tale of woe was a woe spell (wēaspell), and the gospel was the good spell (gōdspell, ‘good news’). If we stuck to Anglo-Saxon roots, we’d call the art of storytelling ‘spellcraft’, a fairy tale an ‘elf spell’, a sob story a ‘woop spell’, and a children’s story a ‘childerspell’.

@JackPerksPhoto I need a pond

One of the only reasons I stick on twitter is davids pond content if your not already following its worth a look

Obsessed with this plant

A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone. In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery. In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years. A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years. Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply. Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story. One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.

@anomalie_blue You might like “The rest is science” podcast, it’s like a warm ray of sun that reminds me of brighter times

You really don’t find people like this any more, especially at this man’s age. Full head of hair, vibrant disposition, eyes that light up, critical thinking skills intact. There’s not a bone of dogma in this man’s body. I feel like this archetype of man died off in the 1900s :(

sometimes, if you are lucky, there will be a tree outside your bedroom window, it’s important that you romanticise that tree as much as possible.

@fede_intern @alignedlayer @class_lambda wen slep

Great week: - multiple of our companies growing at two digits per week - @alignedlayer risc-v zkvm performance becoming top notch - @alignedlayer and @class_lambda find another riscv zkvm soundness bug - i finally finished the PoC and paper of what I consider a relevant finding in AI. the math lambda team already double checked things - concrete, our programming language is becoming better and better. i will soon explain why is it so good and important in an AI world

@R3DP1LLLL @Skriptkeeper17 is this where the tradition of throwing pennies into fountains came from?

@Skriptkeeper17 if you put copper pennies pre 1982 in your bird bath or dog water bowl it helps keep the water clean/clear and have to change out less often

Did you know that before chlorine became the gold standard, copper was the go-to for keeping water crystal clear? Long before modern filtration, ancient civilizations like the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans recognized copper’s powerful antimicrobial properties. They used copper vessels to store water and even threw copper coins into wells to keep the water “sweet” and free from pathogens. 🏺 In the early days of swimming pools, copper ionization was the primary way to sanitize the water. It works by releasing positively charged copper ions that naturally destroy bacteria and algae on contact—a method that’s still used today in many eco-friendly, low-chlorine pool systems.🛡️ It’s a perfect example of how ancient wisdom often aligns with modern science to provide a cleaner, more natural way to live. Did you know? • The Egyptians: Used copper to sterilize drinking water as early as 2400 B.C. • The Science: Copper ions (Cu^{2+}) disrupt the cell walls of bacteria, effectively neutralizing them without the harsh chemical smell of chlorine.🦠 Credit Ronnie L FACEBOOK

@SketchesbyBoze @LeahLibresco Ohhh is this the 2026 Count of Montecristo?

@LeahLibresco Just started Ivanhoe and I'm completely obsessed.

My entire new personality is telling people to read Ivanhoe. (I’m a third of the way through Ivanhoe)

@parachicaa @CamiRusso you get it

@CamiRusso imho it’s a snarky hit piece. the photography, perspective, camera angles & visual choices are all condescendingly mocking & diminishing ..

This VF photo and article ("Crypto’s True Believers Demand to Be Taken Seriously") feel so off to me and I was trying to figure out why. I think it's because it feels like something that was written in the 2018 era of crypto -- where belief was almost everything the industry had going for it. blockchains and tokens were live but mostly just to gamble with. so a photoshoot that portrays crypto people as this excentric rag tag group who somehow still hang on to their weird ideals even as prices crash made sense back then. But not today.

Swinging into spring 🎨 Kathy Lawrence

🚨 BREAKING: Someone just open-sourced a full suite for tracking satellites and decoding their radio signals locally. You don't even need the internet. It uses an SDR to pull weather images and raw data straight from space to your hard drive. 100% Open Source.