Sarah Michelle

"If only by distorting events, tweaking them for more dramatic impact, exaggerating them to the point you forget your actual history - you forget who you are - is it possible to exploit your own life for the sake of a marketable story?" - Chuck Palahniuk

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The Grotto of the Nymphs — Willy Pogany, 1926

I have heard people claim that the reaction people are having against AI is the same reaction people had when the internet started to be introduced. And as someone who was there at the time, I can tell you NO IT FUCKING WASN'T.

Sebastian Stan says discrimination is "happening around all of us." "I’m not on the front lines, I’m not in an operating room, I’m not out there being shot out, but this is my medium, this is my lane and all I can do is involve myself in projects that I think bring up important conversations ... Art doesn’t have to solve a problem, it just has to embody it correctly. And I think as long as we can do that fearlessly, we can actually push back against these things." variety.com/2026/film/news…

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.

Detail from Frazetta’s oil painting titled “Night Winds”

#Photography by Tomohide Ikeya Breath #033, 2010

This happened in Norway as well.

@OnlyAmandaDoll Exactly!!! So fucked

@xSarah_Michelle I was talking to a family member about how random it is that its suddenly all online, when the phone has been the way for like 25/30 years. No mention about it until tonight (not even the app, which would just direct to a phone number in the UK anyway).

I'm calling bullshit just like last year with Isr*el seriously #Eurovision People literally booing

Syttende mai being the day after Eurovision is just cruel 😆 But I'm up and dressed & making waffles! 🇳🇴 Sorry [not sorry] to my followers not in Europe who had to scroll through all my tweets yesterday 🎶

Russia was banned from #Eurovision for invading Ukraine, and Belarus for repressing Journalists. Israel is given 2nd place with rigged votes amid the Gaza Genocide and Lebanon invasion while massacring journalists. Despite 5 European countries boycotting the contest. Clown show

@Kendrajames13 I just realized I forgot to add Croatia on my top 😭😭 I loved them, they were so good!!

@xSarah_Michelle I liked Croatia and Romania. It felt like a weak year though and Austria was a very bland host country

My #Eurovision Top 10 ✨ Was hard to decide this year & I came really close to putting most of my votes into Finland, but I really truly loved Serbia & I know I'm gonna listen to them often I gave them 6 then 1 each to Lithuania, Romania, Finland & Ukraine

@OnlyAmandaDoll It's so obvious. & they're trying to make it look legit, like oh you can only pay with one card to vote - but there also exists prepaid cards that can be used. & idk if everyone got to vote because of website issues, my husband didn't. Why did they change the app? It's sus

@xSarah_Michelle It's getting beyond obvious now isn't it? They need to do something. Losing 5 countries over one and clearly rigging things.

To be fair as someone who lives in a foreign country & isn't fluent in the language, I really be judging anyone whose first language isn't English

My husband & I were just saying him & Hannah Waddingham were awesome at hosting

Congrats so much to Bulgaria ❤️ #Eurovision