Dr. N.R. Luke

@TheCinesthetic It would be like telling a painter: "You must use AT LEAST 15% blue in your paintings and a minimum of 20% red, or no galleries will display them." He's right. Art is art. Once you start legislating it, it's not art anymore. It's paint by numbers.

wtf? Did you know about this? theguardian.com/games/2026/mar…

Went down the rabbit hole on this. Your brain treats a physical book like a landscape. It builds a spatial map of the text, the same way it maps trails, rooms, and city blocks. When you scroll on a phone, that map breaks apart. Seven large-scale research reviews and direct brain scans confirm what you already feel. A 2023 study in PLOS ONE attached brain-activity sensors to children’s heads while they read the same text on paper and on screen. Paper reading produced fast brain waves, the pattern linked to focused attention. Screen reading shifted the brain into slow waves, the pattern linked to mind wandering and daydreaming. Same kids. Same words. Measurably different brain states. A separate 2022 study from Showa University in Japan scanned the front of the brain, the area that manages focus and comprehension, during phone versus paper reading. Smartphones sent that region into overdrive, meaning the brain was straining just to keep up with basic processing. Paper reading produced a moderate load that triggered natural deep breathing, which helped regulate brain function and sustain focus. The phone suppressed that breathing pattern entirely. Since 2017, researchers have published seven major reviews combining hundreds of individual studies. Six of seven reached the same conclusion: people understand less on screens. A 2018 review of 54 studies and 170,000+ participants, literally titled “Don’t throw away your printed books,” found paper outperformed screens across the board for non-fiction. A 2024 follow-up with 49 more studies confirmed it. The gap has grown steadily every year since 2001. Being a “digital native” doesn’t help. The best explanation is how your brain tracks where you are. Your short-term memory can only juggle about 7 things at once. A physical book gives you constant location cues: the weight shifting from right hand to left, where a paragraph sits on the page, how thick the remaining pages feel. Your brain hands off the “where am I in this text?” job to those physical signals, leaving more room for actually understanding what you’re reading. On a phone, every screen looks identical. Your brain has to track position and process meaning at the same time, and something gives. A Norwegian eye-tracking study analyzing 25,000+ individual eye movements found screen readers processed text more shallowly. The students had no idea they were reading differently. In 2019, nearly 200 reading scientists from 30+ countries signed an open letter warning that screen reading was degrading deep comprehension. Since then, Scandinavian countries, among the most digitized school systems on Earth, have started putting physical books back in classrooms.

@unusual_whales In lieu of that, can that same group just stop trying to vote the rest of us straight to hell?

40% of American women, ages 15-44, would like to permanently move overseas, if possible, per Gallup.

@AP In grade school, most of us were taught "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." So when you slap "CONTROVERSIAL" on there, you just sound like teenage girls trying to be edgy.

A statue of Christopher Columbus has been placed on the grounds of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House, the latest effort by President Donald Trump's administration to recognize the controversial explorer. apnews.com/article/trump-…

AI is telling me that Genesis Chapter 1… from the Bible (KJV even!) … is “100% AI generated text.” Let that sink in. How “intelligent” is “AI”?

Age yourself with something kids today wouldn’t understand 🤔 I’ll start: Installing a game across 6 floppy disks.

@JuMofool @avidseries Thanks. I guess my question then is whether this is something we have on video (so we could verify that it actually went down like this) or if it's being "reported" by someone (in which case, it has to be treated as suspect, given the long track record).

@_LukeCSkywalker @avidseries A press gaggle he did over the weekend

A steady hand on the reins of power.

@adamscochran Or it's just the PPT doing what it's been doing since the 1990s.

5 minutes before Trump’s announcement: * $1.5B notional worth of S&P500 (ES) futures are bought in a single clip. * $192M notional of oil futures (CL) sold. More than 4x-6x any other trade size during the market close. Insiders profited from his lies in broad daylight!

@SwipeWright That doesn't look like it was even written by a dyslexic. Shouldn't the title be "Brian, My Evol Dyslexic I"? 😂 x.com/SwipeWright/st…

Now the New York Times is running pieces about dyslexia and Newsom presenting Trump as an abelist bully. I told you they were going to go all-in on the dyslexia angle! "Disabled" and/or "neurodivergent" are the only intersectional "identities" he can claim, and they're going to milk it for all it's got.

Did you know that Gavin Newsom was "dyslexic" before he brought it up last week? It's obvious what he's doing. He knows that the woke left is going to heavily penalize him for being a straight, white guy. He desperately needed to surface some "oppressed" intersectional identity. He's going with "disabled" and will start "calling out" his opponents for "abelism" now. The only other option he had was some "trans" identity like "nonbinary." But he knows he couldn't pull that off, and gender ideology is increasingly cringe and politically unpopular. Although I wouldn't totally write off the possibility of him flirting with this. His best bet was "disabled." You could tell he was itching to bring it up, as his recent call-out was a serious stretch. The last time he mentioned it on X was 10 years ago. Expect to see him bring it up more and more during his presidential campaign.

@CrackerBill67 @InternetH0F Okay, see the debris here? Nothing had run over the wall prior to this. Storms often generate rogue waves. So yes, heavy surf *within which* was a rogue wave. Whether we want to argue the exact terminology, either way, it's clear it was more powerful than the others.

@_LukeCSkywalker @InternetH0F I grew up 2 blocks from there, the street runs downhill from that wall. It sucks that 8 looky loos got knocked on there ass. There was a fire truck parked right there to inform people of the danger. True rogue waves are not predictable but I don't want to play semantics.☮️

They were filming on the beach when suddenly this happened 😳

@CrackerBill67 @InternetH0F lol, no, that's not a "decent set." When 8 people get injured, one critically, and the surf runs down the street for half a mile, that's not "heavy surf." That's a rogue wave. But hey, I've only lived oceanfront for 17 years, wtf do I know.

@_LukeCSkywalker @InternetH0F The street side of the wall was already wet from previous waves breaching it. By rogue wave if you mean a decent set, you are correct.

@CrackerBill67 @InternetH0F It's a rogue wave during heavy surf at high tide. The streets were dry, so this wasn't the normal surf.

@_LukeCSkywalker @InternetH0F It's just heavy surf at high tide. The wet sand is because the waves had already made it that far.

@akafaceUS Gene Simmons auditioning for the role of Unhinged Serial Killer...

In 1983, the band KISS appeared in public without their signature makeup for the very first time, revealing their faces to fans.

@NoContextHumans After paying the Federal Cow Tax, the Local Bovine Fee, and the Climate Cow Farts Consumption Tax, you lost $89.6 million. x.com/NoContextHuman…

This is terrible news. Trump announced the "Witch will continue throughout the week," which means we all need to keep our magic defenses on full alert at least until Saturday. Damn witches! 😂

@MattWalshBlog Hi Matt, I'd like to take a moment to talk to you about Paragraph Breaks.

I've said before that ship captains during the age of discovery were some of the most impressive human beings to ever live. We have trouble appreciating just how unimaginably great these men were. They had to play the role of navigator, cartographer, astronomer, logistics manager, military commander, judge, police captain, diplomat, CEO, recruiter, accountant and governor, all at the same time, and all under extreme duress, out in the middle of the ocean, cut off from the rest of the world where the penalty for one wrong decision was the death of everyone on board. These are some of the most brilliant and gifted human beings the world has ever known. Nobody on Earth today can come close to matching them. They had a level of both skill and physical courage that just doesn't exist on the planet today.

Christopher Columbus is the ultimate IQ test. You immediately know that someone is a retarded halfwit if they start screeching some nonsense about how Columbus was a genocidal maniac or whatever. Intelligent students of history understand that he is one of the great men of western civilization. This is an awesome move by the White House.

Ah yes, 2026, where proud public displays of paranoid schizophrenia become viral videos.

@henrydavidmoses @Stealthy_GCoach @LivingTricks_ Exactly! "Theresa woman..." isn't proper grammar.

@_LukeCSkywalker @Stealthy_GCoach @LivingTricks_ Your answer makes 100x more sense than the “correct answer”. Theresa woman on a boat? There’s a woman Ana boat makes. The sentence collapses the “right way”

Read it again carefully. The answer is literally right in front of you 😏