Luke E

I like tea. Don't tell young people this, they won't understand.

[Luke E @Eaglehoorn]

@AJA_Cortes Authenticity is going to be profitable.

[Pizza Pepe @PizzaPepe]

As a long time halo fan, it is really sad to see what they have done to the franchise.

It really breaks my heart. This guy explains it way better than I ever could.

[shadcn @shadcn]

Alright. I want you to read this.

Earlier today, I released a new component.

What you see is the finished result.

What you don’t see are the days of planning, research, testing, designing, simplifying, throwing ideas away, and trying again before I felt it was ready.

Within hours, it had been copied and ported to another framework by pointing an agent at my code.

Of course, it’s open source. They were allowed to do it.

And I’ve been around long enough, with multiple successful products, that I don’t care.

But what if this was someone’s first product?

What if they spent months building it, launched on Friday, and by Monday it had been cloned by agents, repackaged, and made free?

What happens when your second product is copied?

Your fifth?

Your tenth?

What happens when every new idea immediately becomes the next prompt?

What happens when your roadmap, your changelog, and your launch announcements become someone else input prompts?

What happens when models become good enough to copy bigger ideas?

What happens when “just execute better” stops being the answer?

What happens when “just build bigger” or “think wider” stops being enough?

What happens when both ideas and execution become cheap?

What happens when the creator pays the full cost of creativity but everyone else pays nothing to reproduce it?

What happens to creativity when AI makes copying effectively free?

What happens to the will to create when AI makes copying effectively free?

Look, copying is not new.

Copying at this speed, cost, and scale is.

People will tell you to think bigger.

But nobody starts "bigger".

Every one of us here started by making something small.

You keep going because, somewhere along the way, the work is rewarded.

Maybe people use it.

Maybe they pay for it.

Maybe they simply recognize the thought, effort, and care that went into it.

Copying once demanded effort.

You had to study the work and understand it to copy it.

That effort created appreciation for the person who made it.

Not anymore.

Creativity begins with small steps.

If we make those first steps feel pointless, we don’t just lose small products.

We lose the people who might have gone on to build the big ones.

We are uniquely positioned here.

We get to use and experience this life-changing technology before almost everyone else.

How we use it will set the default everywhere else.

That default will spread to writing, design, music, research, and every other field where someone still has to take the first creative risk.

We can use AI to build great things.

Or we can use it to strip every new idea for parts.

We decide.

[Luke E @Eaglehoorn]

@madtv_YT

[RazörFist @RazorFist]

2020: The Science™ is settled

2021: Trust the Science™

2022: Sorry you lost your job for not trusting The Science™

2023: We have recalled The Science™ from the market

2026: The Science™ pleads the 5th

[Arṭārèza @ArtaConworlder]

Timon and Pumbaa are TLK's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Their function in the story is to turn Simba (Hamlet) into an effeminate wastrel and lead him into spiritual death (or in the case of the source material, physical death).

Simba doesn't self-actualize until he realizes that his purpose is to embody the Father/Warrior-King archetype, and he abandons the duo's philosophy of comfort and degeneration, embracing struggle and hardship for the sake of others.

"Hakuna Matata" isn't the key to happiness, but the chains by which Simba is enslaved to perpetual childhood. It's a blindfold that prevents Simba from confronting and processing the death of his father, which prevents him from ever becoming a ma-... lion.

Holding up Timon and Pumbaa as positive role-models is about the most egregious sin against media literacy you can commit.

[ceciarmy @ceciarmy]

Está atrapado en un bucle temporal del que no puede salir.

[Alex Feinberg @Alexfeinberg]

Racism saw a revitalization in the US thanks to the intersection of elites interested in redirecting the class disaffection of Occupy Wall Street combined with the advent of web analytics that showed how popular these topics were, especially without the paywalls of traditional print media

[AJAC @AJA_Cortes]

The session you skip is never made up.
Time runs one direction.
Train the body you'll need at 70 while you still own the one at 40.

GO TRAIN

[chaotic memes @memechaotic]

For no reason at all 😭

[Komi @mitsuritwt]

90s anime just had a different kind of magic.

Anime:Serial Experiments Lain 1998

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated.

His name is Qing Li.

He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea.

The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason.

Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005.

He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest.

Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty.

The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected.

The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly.

Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty.

Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month.

Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet.

The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation.

The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall.

When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab.

Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system.

This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress.

A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower.

The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down.

Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks.

They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone.

The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk.

After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature.

What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care.

But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free.

The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish.

Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens.

Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

[Antidepressant Content @depressionlesss]

This is a Crab Riding a Jellyfish

[Luke E @Eaglehoorn]

@PenguinWeb3

[Luke E @Eaglehoorn]

@wrathofgnon I'm as uneducated as those he becries. It took me a long moment to realise the Charter he's referring to is the Magna Carter. But yes, we ought to remember the histories of the common man.

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

G.K. Chesterton already in 1917 noting that the way we write and teach history is fundamentally flawed and nearly deranged. We hear a lot about the history of other people before we hear a single word about the history of ourselves. This has to change. The ordinary person's image of their own history and that of the middle ages is bizarrely mistaken.

[Oliver @FrankHighgate]

Anti-racism IS racism.

It is anti-WHITE racism.

It should be illegal. It should be eradicated from our society.

I hate using the same words as the vile BLM movement. That’s why I did not jump onto parroting “White Lives Matter”, like many did.

But there’s a big difference here.

And if anything, it is the first time that phrase should have been used in that way. Not for the BLM movement.

This is because George Floyd was NOT targeted because he was black.

He was resisting arrest, and died of a drug overdose. He had a history of violent crime, including holding a gun to a pregnant woman’s stomach. Just for that act alone, he was a vile individual.

Henry Nowak was murdered because he was a white boy.

He was stabbed multiple times.

He was not believed and was arrested and restrained by the police whilst bleeding to death, because he was a white boy, and because his third world murderers cried “racist”.

For their combined actions, the whole of the murderer’s family are complicit in Henry’s murder. They should all face capital punishment.

Henry’s life mattered. He was let down by the police. He was let down by this country. He was let down by everyone who has contributed to install the malign anti-racist agenda into all of our institutions.

His last words must be remembered and burned into the collective memory of this country…

“Call an ambulance”

“I’ve been stabbed”

“I can’t breathe”

Henry was a good, completely innocent, much loved, 18 year old boy, with the whole of his life ahead of him.

Henry’s life mattered.

[Inevitable West @Inevitablewest]

🚨BREAKING: Henry Nowak's father speaks out on the murder of his son:

"He told officers he could not breathe NINE TIMES, he said he had been stabbed FOUR TIMES, but the officer replied saying' 'I don't think you have, mate.'"

What a brave man.

[まだ面白い @madaomoshiroi]

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