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[barney @barneyxbt]

something i’ve realized watching all of this play out

a sandwich that jumps from $8 to $14 never goes back to $8. rent that climbs from $1,400 to $2,200 stays at $2,200 forever.

gas, groceries, insurance, all of it. prices only move in one direction

inflation becomes permanent the moment everyone accepts the new number.

and we always accept it because we have no other choice

then workers ask for raises just to survive the prices they had nothing to do with creating.

and suddenly they’re the problem. they’re “hurting the economy” by wanting to afford food

the economy for who exactly.

because whoever it’s working for it sure as hell isn’t us

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

When they called a library a 'biblioteca.'

Absolute banger of a word.

[GUNDAM NA Official @GundamInfoNA]

Game Day⚽

[Akira @a2dakira]

Almost two months since I've finished it and the opening is still living rent free in my head

[You @EGOD90_]

Just realized the mafty logo is the federation logo but upside down and crossed off

[Zack's Lab @zackslab]

the bird has landed. what an amazing morning!

event sensors are great for bullets AND humming birds (not surprising)

[𓆩❤︎𓆪 @ifhersaysso]

i might be at a jazz club this sunday idc

[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.

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada spoke about the contradictions of human nature:

“Some people dream of having a swimming pool at home, while those who have one hardly ever use it. Those who have lost a loved one feel a profound sense of loss, while others often complain about their living relatives. Those without a partner long for one, while those who have one often don't appreciate it. The hungry would give anything for a meal, while the satiated complain about the taste of their food. Those without a car dream of owning one, while those who have a car are always looking for a better one.”

The key to happiness is gratitude: truly seeing and appreciating what we already have, and understanding that somewhere, someone would give anything for what we take for granted.

[You @EGOD90_]

Movie was awesome & epic! My favorite scene was when they explained the way minovsky flight system worked. The Ξ dual beam saber my new fav weapon. For part 3 release I’ll have to be in Japan !

[You @EGOD90_]

Up, watching Chars Counterattack. Excited for the new Hathaway movie this week & I Pre ordered the metallic posters for both movies

[Nate🇭🇹 @Vallantsaf]

speed telling them to chill out in chinese because that's one of the like 5 phrases he learned from the china tour is actually so fucking hilarious this a special talent

[You @EGOD90_]

This is why I like learning about computer engineering

[Speedy HQ @IShowSpeedHQ]

🚨| WATCH: Speed is in the middle of nowhere in Antigua flying over the ocean with NO LAG 🤯🇦🇬

Only Speed has production like this 🔥🐐

[𝗁𝗈𝗈𝖽 𝗅𝗈𝗋𝖽 𝖿𝖺𝗋𝗊𝗎𝖺𝖺𝖽💂🏾‍♂️ @hoodfarquaad]

this basically the equivalent of trunks and goten going super saiyan at 8 and 7 years old

[You @EGOD90_]

Watching the John wick movies again. Need some documentary recommendations though

[You @EGOD90_]

Got my reserved seat for the new GUNDAM movie on Thursday.

[Crazy Ass Moments in Gundam History @GundamMoments]

Zanscare BESPA's Yellow Jacket officer Wattary Gilla crashes out after realizing the enemy they have been fighting was a kid (1993)

[マキシマム ザ おでん @MAXIMUM_ODEN]

Su-35の変態機動はいつ見ても凄い。ロシアは侵攻なんか止めてエアショーに力を入れてくれ。

[𝑆𝑖𝑏𝑦𝑙 𝑉𝑎𝑛𝑒 ౨ৎ @venus_weeping]

Kinda crazy how the concept of a Poser doesn't exist to gen z because they are all posers