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I was the first person born in Alaska to represent Alaska in the U.S. House of Representatives!

Would also effect 5 Republicans currently serving on Capitol Hill: Bernie Moreno, Juan Ciscomani, Carlos Gimenez, Young Kim and Victoria Spartz

A new batch of tapes came to my place, and then I stumbled upon this jarring recording:

It’s somewhat remarkable how the children of Ferdinand Marcos have not just conceded, but even defended, the People Power Constitution

⚡️BREAKING: The New York Times obtained autopsy reports for 14 of the 15 people killed in the March 23 Israeli attack on an ambulance and fire truck in Gaza. The reports show that most victims—paramedics and rescue workers—were killed by gunshots to the head, chest, or back. Four were shot directly in the head [executed]. Others had shrapnel wounds. Despite wearing medical uniforms and traveling in marked vehicles with sirens, they were shot multiple times at close range. Israel initially lied about the crime committed then later took responsibility once the lies were exposed. The 15 victims included 14 rescue workers and a UN employee. Israeli soldiers buried the bodies in a mass grave and crushed and buried the ambulances, fire truck, and UN vehicle.

Imagine having no clue who skeletor is or what Masters of the universe is, and seeing this outside your bedroom window

So they literally induced gender dysphoria in a cis person and idiots somehow think this helps their narrative that trans people aren’t real

On May 4, The Washington Post won two Pulitzers. To stream the announcement live, the paper had to bring back two of the video operators it had laid off in February. Nobody left in the building could run the equipment. They walked past the new opinion studio on their way in. The new opinion studio was built with $80,000 in video gear. Its flagship podcast has 515 YouTube subscribers after 186 videos and more than 20 episodes. Apple Podcasts users have given it 2.3 stars. The most positive review on record: "This is bad and the people making it should feel bad." Dave Jorgenson, the journalist who built WaPo's TikTok presence, left last year. His personal YouTube channel now has 358,000 subscribers. The opinion podcast has 515. A former WaPo journalist working with a small team has built more than 600 times the audience of the flagship new show. Bezos was warned by his own opinion editor that the rightward pivot would cost subscribers. His documented response, per the New York Times: "I don't care." The piece's own summary is the only sentence needed: "Bezos laid off the people who win the Pulitzers. He's funding the people who lose the subscribers."

🚨 NEW: A poll shows Labour could win a general election tomorrow if Andy Burnham was the leader 🔴 LAB: 30% (+8) ➡️ RFM: 27% (-2) 🔵 CON: 20% (+1) 🟠 LIB: 11% (-2) 🟢 GRN: 7% (-4) 🟡 SNP: 3% (=) Via @Moreincommon_, 2,599 people

The most influential openly gay American politician of the 20th century.

Pasig City to launch its own new College of Law, with former UP Law Dean and retired ICC Judge Raul Pangalangan as the inaugural dean. facebook.com/share/p/1bkrx3…

In the year 2040

What explains this? 1965.

The New York Times is hiring an International Investigations Correspondent for Asia. job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorktime…

I would have been one month old then, so this would have been my first major typhoon. My folks never talked about this typhoon (they did, often, about Typhoon Yoling in 1970), so I'm guessing we were not really affected, but I wonder how I reacted in the moment.

The Financial Times reports that during his talks with Xi Jinping Donald Trump floated the idea that the US, China and Russia should co-operate against the International Criminal Court.

Cynthia Lummis riding on the back of Jim Justice’s scooter

🤣 LMAO The time Rob Jenrick was teeing up for a big philosophical rhetoric in the oldest Parliament in the world. But the universe had other plans for him 👇

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.

The presentation of Magnifica Humanitas will take place on May 25, at 11.30 a.m Rome time, in the Synod Hall, in the presence of the Holy Father Pope Leo XIV, who will be speaking at the event. Also speaking: Christopher Olah, co-founder of @AnthropicAI Card. Parolin, Vatican’s Secretary of State; Card. Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith; Card. Czerny S.J., Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development; @AnnaRowlands1, and Dr. Leocadie Lushombo i.t.