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Colin Johnson

@thebrainsmind

Cognitive Neuroscience. Atheist and Epistemophiliac.

Nottingham Katılım Ekim 2011
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Sama Hoole
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
Activist: "Beef uses an obscene amount of water. Fifteen thousand litres per kilo." Farmer: "Where did the water come from?" Activist: "What?" Farmer: "The fifteen thousand litres. Where was it before it was on the bill." Activist: "I don't know. A river?" Farmer: "The sky. About ninety-four percent of that figure is rain that fell on the field and got drunk by the grass. The cow ate the grass. The rain was on its way down whether the cow was here or not." Activist: "But it still counts as water used." Farmer: "By the grass. Which would have used it whether I farmed or moved to Spain. The cow isn't commissioning the rainfall. The rain isn't on the cow's payroll." Activist: "Then just don't have the cow." Farmer: "The rain still falls. The grass still drinks it. The water cycles back into the air anyway, just without anyone getting fed in the middle." Activist: "It's not that simple." Farmer: "It's rain, grass, cow, river. Or it's rain, grass, rot, river. Same circle, fewer dinners. Meanwhile every almond in your milk took a gallon of pumped aquifer water in California to grow. That one you might want to worry about. The rain in Wales is doing fine without your concern."
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Thingodonta
Thingodonta@rogermcevilly·
@Quazardragon @SecKennedy @US_FDA Dihydrogen monoxide kills you if you get too much of it into your lungs, but your body can't survive more than several days without it. Nature is more subtle than 'no, not, neither'.
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Secretary Kennedy
Secretary Kennedy@SecKennedy·
Huge MAHA win! We are raising the bar on food safety. Just because a chemical is widely used doesn’t mean it’s safe. @US_FDA will now continuously review chemicals in our food — and act faster when risks appear.
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WATCH Far-left antifa protestors surround and beat an Italian police officer with a hammer, during a 2026 riot this, after police attempted to evict leftist radicals from squatting illegally.
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Colin Johnson
Colin Johnson@thebrainsmind·
@MarinaPurkiss You have clearly never read Hayek.....you clearly have no understanding what human rights actually mean and do.
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Marina Purkiss
Marina Purkiss@MarinaPurkiss·
Dear Reform-voting ladies… Do you know you’re voting for a party that wants to: ❌ Scrap the Equality Act - your legal protection against workplace discrimination & unequal pay ❌ Kill the Online Safety Act - the law protecting you from revenge porn ❌ Vote AGAINST the bill to stop workplace sexual harassment ❌ Stack the party with anti-abortion politicians - some opposing termination even in cases of rape ❌ Push “pro-family” policies that put women back in the home I guess the question is… Do you hate immigrants more than you love your rights?
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Colin Johnson
Colin Johnson@thebrainsmind·
@vonderleyen You've mistaken what you stand for as for what Europeans stands for. We do not stand with you or for you.
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Ursula von der Leyen
Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen·
It's Europe Day! Today, we celebrate all that Europe stands for. And we celebrate all of us, the citizens of Europe. Because all together, we are Europe. Happy Europe Day!
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Colin Johnson
Colin Johnson@thebrainsmind·
@box_uk87917 @RupertLowe10 And you think standing two meters away from someone is a defense against infections for the immunocompromised? You're scientifically illiterate.
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UK Ballot Box Burn
UK Ballot Box Burn@box_uk87917·
@RupertLowe10 Serious question. What about the people who are immunocompromised or maybe having cancer treatment. Should they have to be locked away at home?
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Rupert Lowe MP
Rupert Lowe MP@RupertLowe10·
I want a national campaign to tear down these dreadful signs.
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Colin Johnson@thebrainsmind·
@iam_elias1 @jhillmd Another imaginary monster for people to try and terrify idiots with. What's wrong with these people who love the idea of armageddon.
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Elias Al
Elias Al@iam_elias1·
Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy. Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes. The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled. The conclusion is one sentence. "At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand." An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody. Here is how you get there. A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself. Because the workers who were fired were also customers. When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation. The loop has no natural exit. The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements. Every single one failed in the model. The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger. No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it. Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion." Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem. Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it. Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place. Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University · arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20617
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Colin Johnson
Colin Johnson@thebrainsmind·
@EU_Commission Fastest warming continent hey....really....convenient that's where the taxable people are too. How did we get localised warming??
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European Commission
European Commission@EU_Commission·
Europe is the world’s fastest-warming continent. We’ve seen record heatwaves from the Mediterranean to the Arctic, while glaciers have been shrinking and snow cover melting. The evidence is unequivocal: climate change is not a future threat. It is our present reality. ⬇️
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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
Stanford dropped an absolute masterclass on how LLMs work
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Colin Johnson@thebrainsmind·
@DrPlantel Medicine deals in weak linear models and statistics to treat a non linear self organising system. Hard stop drugs on pleiotropic pathways many of which are ignored or not researched because its not in the interest of drug companies to do so. There's enough ignorance to go round.
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Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM, CCMS
What some wellness influencers think are the root causes of disease: -Big Pharma -Parasites -Vague “toxins” -Adrenal fatigue -Seed oils 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️ What they actually are: -Genetics + environment + biology interacting over time -Insulin resistance and metabolic dysfunction -Chronic psychosocial stress -Sleep, nutrition, movement, and access, not perfection -Social determinants of health -Actual pathophysiology -And more Real medicine deals in complexity… which is a lot less marketable, but a lot more honest.
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Denis Daly
Denis Daly@DenisDaly·
Planet earth is now warming at 0.3C per decade, and this accelerating rate, may increase. We will hit 2C waring by 2040, 3C warming a few decades later. Meanwhile Trump conducts a war on science & knowledge. forbes.com/sites/johndrak…
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Colin Johnson
Colin Johnson@thebrainsmind·
@meljomur I suspect you dont notice a great deal. Its a symptom of thickness. My wife and I will vote reform. I'm white, she's a black Muslim, its got nothing to do with skin colour you retard....its to do with preserving British values.
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Mel 🕊️
Mel 🕊️@meljomur·
I’m really struggling to understand the appeal of Reform. Are people really that offended by black and brown people living in their communities? Has the UK always been this racist and I just never really noticed?
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Ken Blackwell
Ken Blackwell@kenblackwell·
Thomas Sowell is 95 years old. Let that number sit with you. Ninety-five years on this earth, and in all of them, he has never held public office, never had a viral moment, never begged for anyone’s attention. What he has done is write 30 books and spend 50 years of patient research building a body of work that has outlasted every fashionable idea his critics tried to bury him with. While the loudest voices in Washington were chasing polls and the cleverest minds on campus were chasing grants, Sowell was in the library reading the data, tracking the outcomes, and dismantling one bad idea after another. He doesn’t argue feelings. He measures results. He isn’t selling anything. His whole approach boils down to one line that every politician and activist in this country should be forced to recite before they open their mouths: “There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.” Sit with that, too. Every federal program, every mandate, every well-meaning crusade carries a cost, and somebody pays it. Sowell’s life work has been the simple act of asking who. Listen to him on the “help” our communities have been promised for two generations: “I’ve been doing studies now for 20 years of programs designed to increase equality. They increase inequality.” “Even when the programs are designed for disadvantaged groups, they help the affluent members of the disadvantaged groups, while the lower members of those groups fall further behind than ever before.” That is the whole affirmative action racket laid out in two sentences. The kids from the same zip codes as the Harvard faculty get the slot, while the kids from the neighborhoods that actually need a ladder are told to wait their turn. Sowell says it plain: “The vast majority of blacks who go to places like Harvard, Cornell, and Stanford are not blacks from the ghetto. They’re from the same neighborhoods as the whites there.” The race hustlers don’t want you to know that, because they need the grievance to stay in business. Sowell’s advice to young people cuts right through the hustle: “Stay away from the race hustlers.” “Equip yourself with skills that people are willing to pay for.” That is the whole ball game right there, a matter of skills, work, and accountability rather than slogans, hashtags, or another federal program designed to pad a consultant’s salary while leaving the South Side worse off than before. Here is the line I want every young person in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, and every other corner of America to read tonight: “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” That one sentence explains our schools, our cities, and why the neighborhoods the War on Poverty was supposed to save are in worse shape now than they were before the checks started flowing. Sowell has pushed a whole generation of us to stop reacting and start asking harder questions. What are the incentives? Who actually benefits from this policy? What do the numbers look like five, ten, twenty years later? Ask those questions honestly, and the illusion falls apart. The most dangerous man in America right now isn’t the one shouting on television. He is the 95-year-old professor in Palo Alto who doesn’t need you to agree with him, because he has the data on his side. Ninety-five years of telling the truth. Thank you, Dr. Sowell.
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Dr. Priyam Bordoloi
Dr. Priyam Bordoloi@DocPriyamMD·
A suspect is brought to your clinic claiming total blindness to prove he couldn't have committed a crime. He’s acting perfectly and has passed every basic test at the police station. He thinks he’s home free. But as a doctor, you definitely have the skills and knowledge to prove he's lying. If you were the one in the white coat, what would you do? The answer is actually quite interesting
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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea
Dr. Jonathan N. Stea@jonathanstea·
@JReinerMD And yet RFK Jr canceled $500 million in federal funding for mRNA vaccine research and development. He is a threat to public health and worsens health outcomes.
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Jonathan Reiner
Jonathan Reiner@JReinerMD·
Long term follow up of a phase 1 trial of an mRNA tumor vaccine shows that 7/8 patients with pancreatic cancer, who mounted an immune response to the vaccine, are still alive 6 years later. This is breathtaking data and shows the promise of mRNA vaccines. nbcnews.com/health/cancer/…
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Basil the Great
Basil the Great@BasilTheGreat·
Keir Starmer's Ukrainian Rent Boy Trial is in 17 days and not a single mainstream media outlet has said a word We all know why
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Dr. Priyam Bordoloi
Dr. Priyam Bordoloi@DocPriyamMD·
@docakx Poverty is actually the most important cause of mental health. Thank you sir for highlighting this very neglected but important link
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Dr. AK 🇮🇳
Dr. AK 🇮🇳@docakx·
Poverty is an important cause of mental health issues. Poverty and mental helath issues have a bidirectional causal link, with poverty raising risks of depression, anxiety, and other disorders 1.5–3 times higher via chronic stress, while mental illness can deepen economic hardship.
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