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Conspiracy Analyst. That's it!

[The Fourth Musketeer @IV_Musketeer]

.@Apple Planned Obsolescence

The “Truth” about why the headphone jack was removed.

I wonder how much damage has been done to the human brain with bluetooth tech?

[Alternative News @AlternatNews]

The Russian attack on Ukraine was unprovoked? No, that is a full lie!

Kiev sent the Azov batallion to Donbass to kill ethnic Russians who lives there as proper Ukrainians.

The world has reported this, seen it and decided to quickly forget it.

Lest we forget, here is a reminder. To all my haters: l found someone to summarise ...

The terrible Ukrainians are doing unspeakable things.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The infinite art of Jesse Martin

📹 jesse_martin_

[Tyler @TylerDurden]

They just accidentally told everyone Global Warming was bullshit.

Absolute cinema.

[Jacob in Cambodia 🇺🇸 🇰🇭 @jacobincambodia]

Six Nigerians Ran an AI Deepfake Romance Scam from a Nonthaburi Riverside Condo. A Cocaine Bust Led Thai Police to Them.

Thai police raided a luxury condominium on the Chao Phraya River in Nonthaburi on May 22 and arrested six Nigerian men running a romance scam ring built on AI-generated faces and fake video calls.

The trail started with cocaine. In April, police arrested a Nigerian man named Patrick and three associates on trafficking charges and seized 2.5 million baht in assets. The money trail led to foreign nationals on student visas living five or six to a unit in a high-end riverside condo near Phra Nangklao Bridge, none enrolled in school, none working.

Police executed three warrants on three units, forcing entry after the suspects refused to open. One man tried to climb over a balcony. Another lay hiding on a bathroom floor, texting the other units to warn them. Officers seized 18 phones, three laptops, and three bank passbooks, the phones still open to active romance scam chats.

The group posed as pilots, US military officers, doctors, and engineers, built relationships with older Thai women, then claimed a valuable package was stuck in customs requiring a transfer fee. Investigators recovered AI-generated Western faces used to produce fake video calls, and "sexy chat" scripts written to push older women toward transferring money. Police said a single well-crafted line could convince a victim to empty her account.

All six face initial charges of illegal association (อั้งยี่) and immigration overstay. Fraud and romance scam charges are pending.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

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.

[Dead Wrong History @deadwronghist]

Richard Pryor in 1977: capitalism needs racism to function. Keep people separated by race and they never figure out who the real problem is.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Outdated CPR training is putting women’s lives at risk.

Women who suffer cardiac arrest outside hospital are significantly less likely to survive than men, and one overlooked reason is that CPR training almost never accounts for female anatomy.

A Duke University analysis across 47 U.S. states found women are 14% less likely to receive bystander CPR. In the UK, the gap is similar: only 68% of women get CPR from bystanders compared to 73% of men, with many people citing fear of inappropriate touching or concern about injuring a woman’s chest.

The problem is compounded by the tools we train on. A global survey revealed that roughly 95% of CPR manikins are designed with flat chests; only one widely available model includes visible breasts. As a result, most trainees never practice the slight technique adjustments needed for women and often hesitate in real emergencies.

Research published in the Journal of Emergency Medical Services offers hope: when trainees used manikins equipped with realistic silicone breasts, they were almost twice as likely to feel confident performing chest compressions on a woman.

Experts say updating training manikins to represent both male and female anatomy could eliminate hesitation, close the gender survival gap, and save thousands of lives.

[Jah 🎭 @KyleMcCordMuse]

Went from “Nigger” and “Chimping out” to “Yes sir” 😭

[Awakening @CMufucka]

@lavidaNOTA Very Ike Khumalo-esqe post with the all caps

[Awakening @CMufucka]

@ntsikimazwai You can't just stir up a hornet's nest and cry later on after getting stung.

[Daniel McAdams @DanielLMcAdams]

You killed 175 little girls in a double-tap strike meant to kill all survivors. Don't talk to me about God. Your "god" is satan.

[soothsayer @iamasoothsayer]

2023: Corona ended
2026: Hantavirus

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When he zoomed in 100× he spotted the leopard only to realize it had been watching him the whole time.

[redpillbot @redpillb0t]

This is the real reason why they replaced DVDs with streaming. Listen carefully.

[Awakening @CMufucka]

@CrimeWatch_RSA I'm not sure if you actually saw the account is based in Nigeria ?

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

You’re not the victims.

[Amir @AmirAminiMD]

Blowing up an effigy of a war criminal = “anti-semitism”

Blowing up over 300 actual semitic people in Lebanon in a single day = “fighting anti-semitism”

We truly live in the worst of times.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Hazel Scott masterfully plays two pianos at once in 1943

[Iran Embassy SA @IraninSA]

Hey Trump, if you don’t have a leash for the rabid dog, Israel, should we get one for you?