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[Ben Word @retlehs]

@natmiletic I gotta plug a new caching plugin on the block that’s worth looking at (it does require your server having Redis though, and is less of an all-in-one solution like WP Rocket)

https://t.co/YqLneOdhyS

[Fraser Nelson @FraserNelson]

Significant.

Lawyers for Reform UK donor Ben Delo say that referring to his criminal conviction is a breach of privacy law, with no "public interest".

If highlighting the criminal records of those bankrolling UK political parties is not in the public interest, what is?

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@alexdotgs @UnlearnDev Thanks Alex

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@UnlearnDev @alexdotgs Hello, is there a recording available from yesterday’s video call? The chat said there would be and I checked but couldn’t find anything. Thank you!

[Ben Word @retlehs]

WP Composer vs WPackagist:

• ~17x faster dependency resolution (metadata-url)
• Package updates every 5 min (vs ~1.5 hrs)
• Full package metadata (author, description, homepage)
• CDN-cached metadata

https://t.co/EgOOLNhCQB

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨BREAKING: MIT hooked people up to brain scanners while they used ChatGPT.

What they found should concern every single person reading this.

ChatGPT users showed 55% weaker brain connectivity than people who didn't use it. Not after years. After just four months.

Here's how they tested it. 54 people were split into three groups: one used ChatGPT to write essays, one used Google, and one used nothing but their own brain. They wore EEG monitors that tracked their brain activity in real time across four sessions over four months.

The brain-only group built the strongest, most widespread neural networks. Google users were in the middle. ChatGPT users had the weakest brains in the room. Every time.

Then the memory test hit. Participants were asked to recall what they'd just written minutes earlier. 83% of ChatGPT users couldn't quote a single line from their own essay. They wrote it. They couldn't remember it. The words passed through them like they were never there.

It gets worse. In the final session, ChatGPT users were told to write without AI. Their brains were measurably weaker than people who never used AI at all. 78% still couldn't recall their own writing. The damage didn't go away when the tool was removed.

Meanwhile, brain-only users who tried ChatGPT for the first time? Their brains lit up. They wrote better prompts. They retained more. Their brains were already strong enough to use AI as a tool instead of a crutch.

The researchers also found that every ChatGPT essay on the same topic looked almost identical. More facts, more dates, more names. But less original thinking. Everyone using ChatGPT produced the same generic output while believing it was their own.

MIT gave this a name: cognitive debt. Like financial debt, you borrow convenience now and pay with your thinking ability later. Except there's no way to pay it back.

The question isn't whether ChatGPT is useful. It's whether the price is your ability to think without it.

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@dhicking @IanLandsman 🤌

[charlota @0xCharlota]

Design is about finding a solution to a problem.
Art is about making you feel something.

But if AI is now very good at jumping straight to solutions, maybe design needs to lean a bit more into art — to make us actually feel something again.

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@stolinski Mvoe fsat berak tnighs x

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@thesefootytimes Hi again, I DM’d my details on 12.11 as requested but have not received any response, or a replacement delivery. Please advise. Thank you. @JoshisButler90

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@thesefootytimes I emailed 10 days ago about a damaged delivery but had no response. Can someone get back to me please.

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Hi, reaching out as had no response to email sent to support on 01.11 re a damaged delivery. Also tweeted a few days ago but no response. Can someone ask the right person to get back to me please? 🙏 @omar_saleem @JoshisButler90 @yad_williams @loxleymisty44 @thesefootytimes

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@thesefootytimes I emailed 10 days ago about a damaged delivery but had no response. Can someone get back to me please.

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@thesefootytimes Thanks

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@thesefootytimes Just realised I can now do a rolling sub, so will that always stay at £36 if I sign up today? Or am I better off buying multiple individual subs @ £36? Thanks 😊

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@FutbolShIrTALIA @thesefootytimes @ASRomaEN @adidasoriginals @Dadidassler @Rumanist @VivereRomanista @indoroma_ @Simone_asr1927 @Luca100celleASR @Flying_Scotty @RevistaPanenka Today i feel Roman

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@EzraCollective You were all outstanding! Big ❤️ to everyone, was so nice to see the whole stage and crowd filled with so much joy. Number #1 act of the whole weekend, absolutely killed it. Where to buy tshirts?!

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@thesefootytimes 😅