Psychic Hernia

Tweet: "fuck this brownie is so good rn" Ten immediate replies: "Well said. Brownies combine eggs, granulated sugar, and cocoa powder in a way that quietly elevates the culture. They're not just a snack, they're a vibe."

In 1995, 45% of British milk was delivered to the doorstep before seven in the morning by a milkman in an electric float. In 2026, it is 3%. The milkman has been effectively abolished inside one human generation. The supermarket walked in, undercut the cost by a few pence per pint, and the daily ritual of British household life, glass bottles clinking on the step at half past six, was gone by the time the children of 1995 had finished secondary school. The cost to the customer was a few pence per pint. The cost to the system was, in rough order: the glass bottle that was washed and reused hundreds of times, replaced with a plastic bottle that is used once and recycled imperfectly. The local dairy that supplied one town, replaced with a national processor that supplies half the country. The milk that arrived four hours after milking, replaced with milk that arrived three days after milking after a journey of 200 miles. The conversation on the doorstep, replaced with a self-checkout beep. The milkman himself, incidentally, had the lowest recorded rate of heart disease of any male occupation in Britain. He walked approximately 12 miles a day, finished work by 10am, and ate a cooked breakfast. He has been replaced, in the same delivery role, by a zero-hours Amazon Flex driver sitting in a Ford Transit. A small piece of British daily infrastructure was quietly demolished. Nobody was consulted. The milk is still being produced. It is just being produced further away, transported further, kept in plastic, and sold at a different margin, by a different business, to a customer who never sees who milked the cow. The milkman knew your name. The self-checkout does not.

@icantevenfilms fucking garbage

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can anyone recommend youtube channels by knowledgeable crackpots I’m so sick of overproduced garbage

God I hate this.

The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet. 1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output. The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice. Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet. And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.” This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one. We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that. The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.

You'll want to be sitting down for this bit. Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends. And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇

Centuries of human culture, stolen & fed to a machine so it can regurgitate AI slop for tech companies to force-feed the masses in an attempt rot our brains enough that we can be controlled via a surveillance techno-capitalist state.

@ThatTimWalker One needs a functioning forth estate for pertinent news to gain traction.

Startling that Palantir — and their cosy relationship with this government — isn’t getting more traction.

I wonder if people are aware how many seldom-seen and experimental films are just sitting on Vimeo, often uploaded by the directors themselves. Here's a thread of some interesting stuff:

Over 20% of YouTube is now "AI slop" and they’re making millions dexerto.com/youtube/over-2…

@Noah_Daren @TheCinesthetic So why did you use chatgpt to write your reply?

Cage is half right. And that half matters. The danger isn't AI itself, is surrender. Letting the machine dream for you because is faster, cheaper, easier. That's where the soul leaks out. But here's what I've learned: a tool is a tool. A paintbrush doesn't make you an artist. Neither does a keyboard. Neither does AI. What makes you an artist is having something to say and refusing to let anything human or machine say for you. I use AI sometimes. To brainstorm. To push past blocks. To see what I'm missing. But the moment starts writing my truth? I shut down. Because my scars are mine. My 3 AM thoughts are mine. My voice broken, imperfect, human is the only thing I actually have to offer. The risk isn't the technology. Is forgetting why you started creating in the first place. Protect the why. The how will figure itself out.

Nicolas Cage says "protect yourselves from AI." “There is another world that is also disturbing me, and it’s happening right now around all of us — the new AI world. I am a big believer in not letting robots dream for us. Robots cannot reflect the human condition for us. That is a dead end if an actor lets one AI robot manipulate his or her performance even a little bit, an inch will eventually become a mile and all integrity, purity and truth of art will be replaced by financial interests only. We can’t let that happen. The job of all art in my view, film performance included, is to hold a mirror to the external and internal stories of the human condition through the very human thoughtful and emotional process of recreation. A robot can’t do that. If we let robots do that, it will lack all heart and eventually lose edge and turn to mush. There will be no human response to life as we know it. It will be life as robots tell us to know it. I say, protect yourselves from AI interfering with your authentic and honest expressions.”

Bingeing TikTok reels may be hazardous to your well-being. 71 studies, >98k people: The more short-form videos teens and adults watched, the more they struggled with attention, self-control, and stress and anxiety. Read a book. Watch a movie. Long live longform.

EDM LABELS & ARTISTS: SELL. DIGITAL. DOWNLOADS. PLEASE!!! I moved off streaming entirely recently, and would be happy to buy your releases! Bandcamp, Gumroad, your website, ANYWHERE PLEASE. I get FLACs of your music, you get $10 (instead of $0.01 from streaming revenue). Deal?

@Morgan4201999 @khemikal1 @ClinicsIntegro Hi do you mind me asking which pharmacy you're with that's so cheap? I'm with curaleaf and all the decent strains like sourdough, pink diesel and electric honeydew are £85 for 10 grams.

@khemikal1 @ClinicsIntegro I saw it listed and straight away I requested it 😂😂😂 I don’t mess around you know 😂😝 I grabbed some more Electric Honeydew @£5 a g as that was a decent bargain for sure. Also grabbed some pink diesel at £4 a g 🙏🏼 pretty happy with this months selection 🔥

New batches of 4C Labs Mac 1 & Khalifa Mints 👀🔥 Yet to try, will update here when I have 👊 Both looking and smelling beaut, especially the Mac 😍 Slightly smaller nuggets with the Mac which was a slight let down but it weighed at 10.3g so can’t complain 🙏🏼😅 @ClinicsIntegro

Horrifying banger

Stellan Skarsgård on his worldviews "My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: 'Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.' It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it" "In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people" (via @vulture)

@SketchesbyBoze I don't get why someone would willingly read a book shat out by a computer. If you're desperate to escape to a fantasy setting that much just lie down, close your eyes and make up your own dream world. As many Starks with direwolves as you want.

Whatever your feelings on George R. R. Martin, I hate this mentality that fans are entitled to an author's life's work, I hate that we have so little respect for books that we demand AI write them, I hate the boorishness and ugliness of our tech-addled culture.