Cammadonna

Socialist, PR enthusiast, future urban planner

[Cammadonna @Cammadonnas]

The NDP really need to start discussing the housing crisis more. You want to get the younger millennials/Gen-Z voters back on side? That’s how you’ll do it.

[Heather McPherson @HMcPhersonNDP]

Will the federal government enforce the Canada Health Act and stop Danielle Smith from privatizing healthcare in Alberta? The answer is apparently NO!
Public healthcare is threatened across Canada. If Smith gets her way, other Conservative Premiers will follow.

[Cammadonna @Cammadonnas]

@hanna_sports @CanadianPolling Kerry-Lynne takes it by a clear mile. I don’t agree with Elliott’s politics, but at least she wasn’t a total nut job.

[Cammadonna @Cammadonnas]

@lornevic @matt_kercher Shes in her 70’s. She might not make it to the next election. At least Elliott was young.

[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.

[Tom Parkin @TomPark1n]

Carney reveals previously undisclosed plans for privatization fund, selling national assets, slashing industrial carbon pollution pricing…

Ans his government’s net approval falls from +33 to + 20 https://t.co/RW6uDjEWGp

[Duncan Kinney @duncankinney]

i've said it a thousand times, i'll say it again. mark carney is a more right wing prime minister than stephen harper.

[Stephen Best @BestStephenD]

I find it very encouraging and very heartening that across Canada people are calling out @MarkJCarney's very bad policies, and also his gaslighting, whitewashing, and misleading of Canadians.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

When you see the relentless attacks from other parties on the Greens across the media remember this:

They hate our plan to end Rip Off Britain.

They don't want a wealth tax.

They don't want public ownership & lower bills.

They're trying everything in their power to stop us.

[Gil McGowan @gilmcgowan]

Political bombshell. The NDP has obtained video evidence showing that top UCPers attended a Centurion Project meeting in which the illegally-obtained voter database was the star attraction. The Premier and her party have lost all plausible deniability. They were complicit. #AbLeg

[Patti Bacchus @pattibacchus]

Meanwhile the @Dave_Eby govt hands HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of public funds to private schools (with outstanding music programs!) every year, while public school districts are cutting their programs. Shame! #bced #bcpoli

[Jason YYC @Jason___YYC]

Every time a conservative is voted into power a Canadian resource gets sold to private equity

[Politics with Sami @politics_w_sami]

44% of the popular vote shouldn’t lead to a party winning 217 seats

Canada needs Proportional Representation

[Mike Bujold 🍊 @monsturmun]

The NDP Comeback starts NOW! - Avi Lewis

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

You’re not spending your money, Doug.
You’re spending ours.
And if Ontarians are paying for these ads, we have every right to know the price tag.
Stop hiding it.

https://t.co/oIlp9kDyya

[Linda McQuaig @LindaMcQuaig]

She's right; Carney's plan to redirect our tax dollars massively to the military -- at Trump's request -- will have terrible consequences for our country.

[Cammadonna @Cammadonnas]

The people of Ontario need to general strike. #onpoli

[Laurie G 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 @smiley37555]

GENERAL STRIKE, GENERAL STRIKE
https://t.co/PeiSptXBoh

[Howllr 🇨🇦🍁 @howllr]

Eight of Ontario’s largest regional governments — including Niagara — will have their leaders appointed by the province instead of elected.

This reduces local accountability & moves decision-making further from the people it affects.

This is not democracy. This is a power grab.

[jeho @foolishyangban]

HSR would allow people in Ottawa to take jobs in Toronto and vice versa. Same for Montreal and Ottawa (<1 hr).

No traffic, predictable schedules. You could also catch hockey, baseball, and basketball games without booking accommodations!

[Patrick Moss 🇨🇦 @VoyceReason]

🇨🇦 Conservative commentators are correct about the high speed rail project costs. It definitely SHOULD have been built 15 years ago, when it would have been MUCH cheaper.

The problem is, it wasn't built. Because Stephen Harper was in the middle of a 9 year stint as 🇨🇦 PM.

Oops.