Koch

35 years young, my Kevin Durant year. Father to Cohen and Liam! Basketball junkie. Taxi Owner. Living in the PNW. #RipCity #GoHawks #GoMariners #GoBeavs.

[Torey Jones @ToreyJonesYT]

Not only did they get Ja, but they also paid for Nori's salary🤣

[Overtime @overtime]

All my real hoopers know how impressive this really is 🤯

(via @LeighEllis)

[zinzy°🐻 @zinzy_js]

Scoot Henderson randomly becoming self conscious of the fact he used to be in Wemby convos

[NBA Replays @NBAReplays_]

Blazers vs Nuggets INSANE 4OT game 3 2019 WCSF.

[Netflix @netflix]

UNTOLD: JAIL BLAZERS premieres April 14.

In the early 2000s, the Portland Trail Blazers were stacked with talent—and surrounded by controversy.

Through firsthand stories from Rasheed Wallace, Damon Stoudamire, and Bonzi Wells, this is an unfiltered look at a team caught between brilliance and notoriety—and the media storm that followed.

[Michael Redd @MichaelRedd_]

There's a lesson here.

A lot of people were questioning Clingan after a shaky rookie year. For solid reason. But now? Now, there is growing hype around the offensive rebounding machine who is providing massive value at both ends of the floor.

We (the press, Twitter, fans, ball knowers) need more patience. You can't bury (or crown) a guy after one season. You need a summer or two of off-season training, of body development, of mental adjustments.

I know because I lived it.

Year 1: I barely played
Year 2: I earned more PT than coach told me he planned on giving me
Year 3: They decided I would be the guy going forward

If you only saw my Year 1 numbers -- or Clingan's -- you would've assumed short careers. But you didn't know the adjustments we'd make, the work we'd put in, or the confidence we'd build.

That was my truth. That was his truth. And we're not the only ones.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

Half the people on this app melted down when they found out someone can buy a cookie with food stamps

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

There are 7 billion versions of Earth right now. One for every human nervous system rendering it.

Yes, your brain has never once, in your entire life, shown you the world as it actually is.

Every single thing you've ever seen, touched, smelled, or believed was real?
A construction. A highly convincing hallucination assembled inside roughly 1.4 kg of electrochemical tissue that has never directly touched reality and never will.

The deeper implication of this runs so far beyond philosophy that most people stop engaging with it the moment it starts threatening their comfortable assumptions. So let's go there anyway.

Neuroscientist Anil Seth calls conscious experience a "controlled hallucination." But that framing still doesn't fully land for most people because we treat the word hallucination as a malfunction — something that happens to people who are unwell.

Strip that stigma away and what remains is staggering: the brain iis a prediction engine. It doesn't wait for sensory data to arrive and then interpret it. It generates a model of what it expects to be there, sends that model out ahead of incoming signals, and then only updates when the prediction errors become too loud to ignore.

You are, at all times, living approximately 80 milliseconds in the past — and inside a story your brain wrote before your eyes even opened.

The color red you see isn't in the apple. The apple emits no redness. Photons at roughly 700 nanometers enter your eye, stimulate certain cone cells, and your visual cortex translates that signal into a subjective experience your particular nervous system calls red.

Someone with different cone receptors — or a mantis shrimp with sixteen photoreceptor types compared to your three — inhabits a genuinely different visual universe while looking at the exact same apple. Neither is seeing "the real apple." Both are seeing what their biology decided was worth rendering.

The philosopher Thomas Nagel once asked what it is like to be a bat.

The question sounds playful until you realize he was pointing at something structurally thought provoking:

"there is no view from nowhere."

Every consciousness has a species-specific, individual-specific interface with reality. And interfaces, by definition, are not the thing itself. A GUI on your computer shows you folders and icons. Behind it is machine code, electrical states, binary operations — none of which look anything like the folders. The interface was designed for usability, not transparency.

Your perceptual system was designed for survival, not truth.

Evolution rewarded useful perception. Ancestors who correctly modeled a rustling bush as a predator — even when it wasn't — survived longer than those who needed certainty before reacting. The bias toward false positives is baked into your biology. Which means you are structurally, neurologically, evolutionarily inclined to see threats, patterns, and meanings that may have no basis in external reality. Your anxiety isn't irrational. It's an overactive survival interface interpreting a modern world through ancient rendering software.

Donald Hoffman, a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine, spent years building mathematical models to test whether accurate perception of reality would confer evolutionary advantages. His conclusion: organisms tuned to perceive reality as it actually is consistently lose, in evolutionary simulations, to organisms tuned to perceive fitness-relevant information. Seeing the truth is expensive. Seeing what keeps you alive is efficient. So that's what got selected for — relentlessly, across millions of years.

What you're left with is a species that experiences a seamlessly rendered simulation of reality and has almost no intuitive access to the machinery generating it.

And yet, the simulation is consistent enough across human nervous systems that we built civilization inside it. We agreed, implicitly, on what tables feel like and what gravity does and what fire means. Shared hallucination became culture, became language, became science — which is, ironically, the only tool we've developed precise enough to start revealing the hallucination for what it is.

Meditation practitioners figured out a version of this without the neuroscience. Sit still long enough and observe the contents of your mind without identifying with them, and the constructed nature of experience starts to become viscerally apparent. Thoughts arise. The sense of "I" that seems to be watching them also arises. The boundary between self and world — which feels so absolute in ordinary waking life — starts to look like another rendering decision, not a metaphysical fact.

The self is part of the simulation too.

Most people stop at the philosophical discomfort this creates and retreat back into practical reality — bills to pay, emails to answer, a life to live inside the model.

That's fine. Functional. But there's a version of absorbing this that produces something closer to radical humility.

If your perception is an interface, your beliefs about other people are low-resolution renders.

Your certainty about what someone meant, what they intended, who they are — all of it filtered through a system that prioritizes your survival narrative over their actual inner life. Every conflict you've ever had lived, at least partly, inside mismatched simulations that neither party could fully step outside of.

Every opinion you hold with absolute confidence was formed by a brain that has never once had unmediated access to the thing it formed an opinion about.

That doesn't make truth impossible. It makes humility the only honest starting point.

W e live so deep inside the map that most people die never having questioned whether the territory looks anything like what they spent their whole life navigating.

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

The Portland Trail Blazers are signing two-way guard Sidy Cissoko on a new two-year deal, agents Max Wiepking and Nicolas Dos Santos of Gersh Sports tell ESPN. Cissoko used up his two-way days while averaging 6.5 points and 2.6 rebounds and starting 24 of 50 games for Portland.

[Toumani Buckets @ToumaniBuckets]

That shit says 47 inches bro

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Any updates JD?

[Lara Jean @saidadeumlivro]

o mundo vai acabar em breve. gastem todo o vosso dinheiro em coisas que amem

[UFO Hunter @iamufohunter]

🚨 WARNING : Iam scared that this footage may take my X account down. So download the video or retweet as much as possible.

Banned clip of 9/11 shows First responders reveal they saw planted bombs inside the towers.

Thoughts ??

[Rudy Fernandez @rudy5fernandez]

Wow Thanks 🙌🙌🙌

[Ernest Jones @ernestjones]

Ain’t you at home. Goofy ass

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

He’s really at the national prayer breakfast making fun of a guy for wanting to pray 💀 how did the Christian conservatives fall for this shit

[Today Years Old @todayyearsold]

It has never actually occurred to me that rainbows are full circles and you just can’t see the bottom half unless you’re super high up

[Netflix @netflix]

Take an epic journey into a lost world in THE DINOSAURS, a new documentary series narrated by Morgan Freeman, premiering March 6.

From executive producer Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment, and the award-winning team behind Life on Our Planet.

[China pulse 🇨🇳 @Eng_china5]

China has officially launched the era of flying taxis for the world.

Two Chinese companies have received commercial operating licenses for autonomous passenger drones from the Civil Aviation Administration of China.

[gal debored @ckayerawlings]

My fave part is when the lady on the right turns her head for a second and the insane beauty filter you’re using comes off 🤪