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You could take this further into the instant gratification debate, but everything takes time. Just like showing up at someone’s graduation got me a bit jealous about people having these big supporters because I want that too at mine.

18 years ago, Kim Kardashian failed to hit Khloe Kardashian with a purse after fighting over a Bentley in 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians'

@ednewtonrex As they should

“The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution” *audience boos* “Only a few years ago, AI was not a factor in our lives” *audience cheers*

Me finding out that my employer gets me access to a bigger library. LFG!!!!!!

@melhael Related read that talks about the concept I use a lot: Mindset by Carol Dweck

@melhael Connects up with how much I constantly complain about AI in education, the news are just starting to report it now but people took AI immediately as their crutch. I still think it’s important to find beauty in the analog, the journey that it takes to create something beautiful.

I definitely agree with the sentiment. Although I'm not sure how I would handle it as a parent. I was lucky enough that the timing of my birth meant I grew up analog then evolved at the same time as technology itself—and in retrospect, that was a relief. And a fun journey of discovery. I wonder how well I could reproduce that transition for my kids. They would have to homeschooled with a bunch of other kids whose parents feel the same way, probably... and gradually introduced to it. Like speed-walking them through a century of innovations, all the way to the final rite of the initiation: meeting the AIs. It would definitely be a fun and challenging experience as parents, to create that environment around them. But at the same time, wouldn't it be disingenuous and ultimately a disservice? Wouldn't it be best to let them dive right in and take full advantage of the opportunities that the AIs offer? Even if the cost is their brains will never work the same as ours? Exciting stuff to think about... but I still don't have kids, so... 🤷🏻‍♂️

Google did this so yall have to learn something new too! 😤😤😤 Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - fear of the number 666

@melhael BIOS error or bust 😤

The lock screen that strikes fear into the heart of the IT community.

I wish this cert training did not say I am sure when answering, feels so permanent

@EndWokeness If you’re gonna be in politics, at least study the history. If you don’t know it, just admit it

Presenting… history class by AOC:

@thedarshakrana Handwriting does allow the freedom to be more expressive. It’s important especially now in the GenAI age to use AI selectively because people will use it as a cognitive crutch

Your brain physically rewrites itself every time you pick up a pen. Neuroscientists at Norwegian University scanned students' brains while they handwrote letters versus typing the same letters on a keyboard. The results shattered decades of assumptions about how we process information. Handwriting activated massive networks in the sensorimotor cortex, the visual processing centers, and the hippocampus simultaneously. Complex neural symphonies lit up across multiple brain regions, creating rich interconnected pathways between motor control, visual recognition, and memory formation. Typing the same letters? The brain activity looked like someone had dimmed the lights across entire cognitive districts. The neural networks that flourished during handwriting simply went dark. The difference? When you form letters by hand, your brain constructs elaborate spatial maps of each character. The motor cortex learns the precise pressure, angle, and trajectory needed to create an 'A' versus a 'B.' Your visual system tracks the ink flowing from pen to paper in real time. Your parietal lobe integrates hand position with eye movement. Your hippocampus encodes not just what you wrote, but how the writing felt, where you paused, which words required more pressure. Typing activates almost none of that circuitry. You press a key, a letter appears. The motor movement is binary. The visual feedback is uniform. The spatial relationship between thought and symbol gets mediated by a machine that standardizes every character into identical fonts and spacing. Your brain treats these as fundamentally different cognitive tasks. The evolutionary context makes this obvious once you see it. Human hands developed for manipulation, creation, and fine motor control over millions of years. We painted on cave walls, carved bone tools, and shaped clay vessels long before we invented written language. When writing emerged 5,000 years ago, it built on top of existing neural infrastructure that already connected hand movement with symbolic thinking. Keyboards appeared 150 years ago. Touchscreen typing maybe 20 years ago. From an evolutionary timeline perspective, we started using them approximately yesterday. Our brains are still running ancient software that expects physical engagement with symbols. That software produces dramatically different learning outcomes. Students who take handwritten notes consistently outperform students who type the same information on memory tests, comprehension assessments, and creative applications of the material. The difference persists even when researchers account for typing speed, note length, and time spent studying. The act of forming letters by hand forces deeper processing at the moment of information encounter. You cannot handwrite as fast as someone speaks, so your brain must actively filter, summarize, and prioritize information in real time. The motor effort required to form each word creates additional memory traces that typing does not generate. Children who learn to write letters by hand develop reading skills faster than children who learn letters primarily through typing or screen interaction. The sensorimotor experience of creating letterforms helps their brains recognize those same letterforms when they encounter them in text. Adults who handwrite shopping lists, daily schedules, or meeting notes remember the information better than adults who type identical lists into phones or computers. The spatial memory of where you wrote something on a page provides retrieval cues that digital text does not offer. These findings collide directly with how education and work environments have evolved over the past two decades. Schools replaced handwriting instruction with typing classes. Offices converted from paper systems to fully digital workflows. Students take notes on laptops. Professionals draft documents on screens. We optimized for speed and efficiency while accidentally severing the neural pathways that evolution spent millions of years developing. The implications reach beyond memory and learning into fundamental questions about human cognition. If the physical act of forming symbols changes how your brain processes ideas, what happens to thinking itself when you remove the physical component? Digital text is infinitely searchable, instantly editable, and perfectly shareable. But it may be creating brains that process information more superficially, store memories less durably, and connect ideas more weakly than brains that regularly engage in handwriting. The neuroscience suggests we traded cognitive depth for technological convenience without realizing what we were giving up. Some of the most innovative thinkers across history were obsessive handwriters. Darwin kept detailed handwritten journals. Einstein worked through complex theories in handwritten notebooks. Virginia Woolf wrote her novels by hand before transcribing them. Steve Jobs famously took handwritten notes during Apple meetings even as he was building the most advanced computers on Earth. Perhaps they intuited something about the relationship between hand, brain, and insight that we measured in brain scanners but somehow forgot in practice. Your pen is literally a cognitive enhancement device that activates neural networks digital keyboards cannot reach.

Kudos to them. Fuck AI

@LaurenWitzkeDE Damn he filling all the way up. Salute 🫡

Real hardworking Americans are over the Fox News MAGA boomer excuses for why they're paying an arm and a leg at the pump.

And every time I have my moments I thank God for my little team that’s stuck with me since Day 1. Those two definitely won’t go away.

18 years ago, Tanisha woke up the house with pots and pans in 'Bad Girls Club'

@melhael Awesome!!! You should totally order a custom print of one of these and put it on the wall

I should probably go to bed instead of making posters. 🤣

You and me both girl…😂 youtu.be/hcqorclUQM0

@melhael @mephisto_696_ I think you can kind of reverse it. I mean I get back into that phase sometimes, but definitely takes a lot of getting out of the head. Stuff in the world is just killing it. 🤔

@mephisto_696_ Honestly, I do miss the unblemished face... and soul. I miss the relative innocence. I miss the ignorance, even. I miss being able to really do something for the first time. The excitement of freedom without the burden of responsibilities. I miss immortality.

Did a little seance of red-light therapy, to try and win a pointless fight. Now I’m gonna move some dumbbells, for another round against the same invisible enemy.

Briefly on my mind, but I always find it important to have a team. Whether that’s your team that challenge you to try new things, the team that changes your mindset, or the team that shows up to cheer you on. I’m unsure if you can have it all, but rebuilding is essential to me.

@wyrdwode I think people get too lost in politics. There’s better ways to lead just from amongst your peers, I.e honesty and learning from mistakes, etc. Leaders aren’t perfect and I think that’s the most important part too, the humanity