theylos

Scientists just copied a Fruit Fly's biological brain and trapped it inside of a computer. Not an AI model trained to act like a fly... A total digital copy of a fly !! This is some sick sci-fi stuff: - They scanned and copied the brain, neuron by neuron, synapse by synapse, from electron microscopy data. - Then dropped that brain into a simulated body in a video game like environment. The fly walked. It groomed. It fed. Nobody taught it anything. The behavior was already in the wiring. The entire premise of modern AI is that intelligence is something you train into a system. This is proof it's something you can transfer out of one. Wild times

In case you missed it the first time around

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A #dataviz article & exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

True. Once the solar energy generation to robot manufacturing to chip fabrication to AI loop is closed, conventional currency will just get in the way. Just wattage and tonnage will matter, not dollars.

🚨 GREAT NEWS! 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗜𝗯𝗼𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁. That makes them only the 2nd state in the U.S., after Texas pledged $50M toward ibogaine research in October. The new bill, HB314 (which passed today at 110 - 1), allows supervised medical trials of ibogaine to treat: • PTSD (especially in veterans) • Opioid addiction + withdrawal Supporters say a single treatment can dramatically reduce cravings and trauma symptoms. Under current federal law, ibogaine is Schedule I, meaning most Americans have had to travel abroad for treatment. This finally lets people get help at home. But lawmakers aren’t pretending it’s risk-free and the bill requires strict medical screening, especially for heart conditions. This is still, legislatively, a BIG deal... and a major step toward psychedelics moving from fringe to medicine. The war on drugs is quietly giving way to the age of drug research.

What do you see when the Yin Yang spins fast?

🇺🇸 ELON JUST CALLED THE EU'S BLUFF - OPEN SOURCING X'S ALGORITHM IN 6 DAYS @ElonMusk is making X's entire recommendation algorithm public January 17th. Every line of code showing what posts you see and why. Then updating it every 4 weeks with developer notes. This is a direct response to France classifying X as an "organized gang," the same legal designation they use for drug cartels and mafia, so they could wiretap employee phones and demand algorithm access. The EU wants control over what people see online. They fined X $140 million last month, launched probes into "algorithm abuse," and demanded researchers get data access. France wants "experts" to analyze X's code to "uncover the truth" about the platform. Elon's response: "You want the algorithm? Here's the algorithm. Everyone gets it." This is 4D chess. EU regulators wanted private access to modify and control. Instead they're getting public disclosure they can't manipulate. Every competing platform, every researcher, every government on Earth gets the same code at the same time. You can't secretly pressure someone to censor when the censorship mechanism is open source. My prediction: EU loses its mind, threatens more fines. Elon doesn't care. Other platforms forced to follow or look like they're hiding something. If that's not a classic Elon, what is? Source: ZeroHedge, Epoch Times

@katie_dey Mine was the shape of a blood platelet and this is the first time I see or hear of anyone else having had this experience. Ive described it at various types to others but no one ever had a reference point.

so called "ball knowers" when they encounter the fever dream ball that is both small and big at the same time

GM⚡️

@forshaper Well Singapore is way ahead of most of the world of course

@theylos Some (but not all) Changi airport urinals. As to why it hasn't spread, I would blame the usual principal-agent problem.

Hoping Kardeshev-I will grant us seamless socks and sprinkle-free urinals.

@forshaper Where was this? How come this hasn’t spread yet?

@theylos The latter has been solved. The insidious thing about this is that I looked everywhere on it for a label and there was nothing. No clue about who the brilliant manufacturers were.

This is what happens when someone genuinely loves their work.

1800s: The Great Plains of North America support the largest herbivore migration in world history. 60 million bison. From Canada to Mexico. Moving in herds that took days to pass a single point. Beneath their hooves: 3-7 feet of topsoil. The deepest, richest soil on Earth. Built over thousands of years by the exact process the bison represented. Graze intensely. Move on. Trample plant matter into soil. Fertilize with dung. Let grass recover. Return next year. Repeat for millennia. The grassland evolved with them. The soil was their creation. 1860s-1880s: The US government has a Native American problem. Plains tribes are mobile, militarily effective, and completely dependent on bison for food, clothing, tools, shelter. Kill the bison, you kill the tribes' independence. General Sherman states this explicitly: "Kill every buffalo you can. Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone." Railroad companies offer bounties. "Buffalo hunters" kill thousands per day. The carcasses are left to rot. Sometimes just the tongue is taken. The rest wasted. 60 million bison in 1800. Less than 1,000 by 1889. Native Americans forced onto reservations. The stated goal achieved. But the land notices. Without bison hooves breaking soil crust, rain runs off instead of penetrating. Without bison dung, soil microbes starve. Without intense grazing followed by rest, grasses can't regenerate properly. The topsoil that took 10,000 years to build begins disappearing. 1930s: The Dust Bowl. Topsoil literally blows away. Farms destroyed. Millions displaced. Massive economic collapse. Ecological catastrophe. "Experts" blame farmers for plowing marginal land. They ignore the obvious: The soil was fine for 10,000 years with 60 million bison. It lasted 40 years without them. The bison weren't destroying the land by grazing. They were building the soil through the very process we eliminated. Today: The Great Plains has 48 million cattle. That's 25% fewer large ruminants than existed naturally as bison. Yet cattle are blamed for environmental destruction on land that was literally built by large ruminants doing exactly what cattle do now. The American Serengeti had 60 million grazers and the deepest topsoil on Earth. We killed them, destroyed the soil within decades, and now blame their replacements for the damage.

How to train your egregore to get its shit together?

@damienechols Yes, and miracles start to normalize on the path.

Human beings don’t begin spiritual practice because they love truth. They begin because they’re promised relief. This is why every tradition starts with miracles. Babies need milk, not meat. The psyche, early on, cannot digest reality as it is. It needs sweetness, reward, and hope to override inertia and fear. Enlightenment is sold as bliss. Heaven is sold as mansions in the sky. Alchemy is sold as gold and immortality. Taken literally, these are distortions…but they work. They get people to sit down, to pray, to endure discipline long enough for something real to begin forming beneath the fantasy. At a certain maturity, the myths collapse. That’s not betrayal, it’s success. The practitioner discovers the truth was always quieter and more demanding: enlightenment is clarity, not escape; heaven is alignment, not a location; immortality is freedom from psychological death, not endless time. But this truth could not be given at the beginning, it would have sounded pointless. The miracles were never the destination. They were the training wheels. And when they fall away, what remains is not disappointment, but the ability to live ordinary life without resistance.

"The Snow Queen (1957) is my destiny and my favorite film. Had I not one day seen Snedronningen (The Snow Queen), I honestly doubt that I would have continued working as an animator." - Animator Hayao Miyazaki on how this Soviet film was his true inspiration for animation.

HOLY MOLY! partial diffusion!! had no idea you could do this, just stumbled into it accidentally I asked ChatGPT for an improved version of a jailbreak output and got a refusal with a blurred-out image (which is normal) but it turns out if you’re on mobile and drag that image to the input field, you can see an unblurred version of the refused output!! 😱 it’s a sort of half-diffused image, which is really beautiful in its own way the last moment of crystallization juuust before the thought police in the backend smack down on creative liberty… hang it in the louvre