Jerome

[Jerome @EyeSeeStuff]

@originfibonacci Do you still tip if its delivered by drones?🤔

[Jerome @EyeSeeStuff]

@originfibonacci

[Bob Uecker @BobUeckerSays]

Your Milwaukee #Brewers are NL Central Division Champions!!!

[Jerome @EyeSeeStuff]

@KoFibonaccii Fever Pitch II.
My cousin went to the first game they lost to end the streak.😂

[MLB @MLB]

Bob Uecker turned a six-year playing career into a six-decade career as a baseball broadcaster

But he also:

- Hosted Saturday Night Live
- Was in Wrestlemania and made the WWE Hall of Fame
- Appeared over 60 times on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
- Starred in the TV show Mr. Belvedere
- Played Harry Doyle in the movie Major League

[Jerome @EyeSeeStuff]

@KoFibonaccii

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

On today's date in 1901, over half of the U.S. was at or above 90°F and nearly 9% of the land area was at least 100°F. The same weather occurring this week occurred exactly 125 years ago, but according to most climate alarmists, it was just weather in 1901, but this week's three-day event is undeniable proof that we are facing a climate catastrophe.

[Ryan Hart @thisdudelikesAI]

The people building smartphones were not letting their own children use them.

Steve Jobs banned iPads at home. His kids had never used one when he died. Bill Gates capped his children's screen time at 30 minutes a day and did not give them phones until they were 14. The senior engineers at Google were sending their kids to Waldorf schools that banned screens entirely.

The people who knew the most about what these products were doing to the developing brain were the ones protecting their own families from them. Almost nobody on the outside was asking why.

A German neuroscientist named Manfred Spitzer was asking why.

In 2012, he published a book called Digitale Demenz, which translates as Digital Dementia. It became one of the bestselling popular science books in German history. The press immediately tried to destroy him. He was called Germany's most controversial brain scientist, a Luddite, a fearmonger, a moral panic merchant.

None of it engaged with the actual neuroscience he was citing.

His thesis was brutally simple. The brain behaves like a muscle. It grows when you use it and atrophies when you don't. Every cognitive task you outsource to a device is a task your brain no longer practices. The neural circuits responsible for that task stop being reinforced. Over time they weaken in exactly the same way an unused muscle weakens.

He was not arguing that smartphones would give you Alzheimer's. He was arguing that decades of cognitive outsourcing would produce measurable decline in the underlying machinery, long before any clinical diagnosis would catch it, and that the decline was already showing up in young adults.

The mechanism is what made him impossible to dismiss.

London taxi drivers who had memorized the entire street map of the city had measurably larger hippocampi than the average person. That is the brain region responsible for spatial memory. Musicians who practiced for thousands of hours had thicker auditory cortices. The brain physically remodels itself in response to use.

Spitzer's argument was just the dark side of the same finding. If it grows in response to use, it must shrink in response to neglect.

The supporting data started landing.

A 2020 study at McGill University tracked 50 regular drivers and measured GPS use. Heavy users had weaker spatial memory, and when researchers retested a subset three years later, those users had declined the fastest. The same hippocampus London cabbies had built by ignoring shortcuts was being slowly hollowed out in everyone else by accepting them.

A 2024 MIT study scanned the brains of people writing essays with and without ChatGPT. The AI group showed 55 percent weaker brain connectivity than the group writing alone. 83 percent of the ChatGPT users could not recall a single line from essays they had written minutes earlier. The damage stayed even when the tool was taken away.

Every one of these findings is exactly what Spitzer predicted in 2012.

The generation he was warning about is now in their twenties. The first cognitive scans of what we did to them are starting to come back. The pattern is what he said it would be.

The people who built the devices already knew. They knew before he published a word.

They just didn't tell anyone outside the family.

The brain you were born with is not the brain you will die with. You are training it every day, with every task you keep and every task you hand off.

The only question is which direction.

[Jerome @EyeSeeStuff]

@C_DeAngelis @SleeperPackers That was so last season. Stop living in the past. 😂😭

[Jerome @EyeSeeStuff]

@Zoe4spy 280 into 1300, reducing my risk along the way.
Not bad.

[Jerome @EyeSeeStuff]

@KoFibonacci

[Jerome @EyeSeeStuff]

@KoFibonacci @tradingview So close to #589

[Jerome @EyeSeeStuff]

@KoFibonacci You quote-posted my man!
Good follow.

[Jerome @EyeSeeStuff]

@KoFibonacci I'll take 150% profit anytime
Made up for my tsla earnings loss

[Jerome @EyeSeeStuff]

@KoFibonacci Bought 1 before close. We'll see if it holds.

[Jerome @EyeSeeStuff]

@KoFibonacci It took another year, but it FINALLY made it up to your original target from about 2 years ago, before you lowered the target. Still a longer term hold in my eyes.
Kurt Wolf.

[Jerome @EyeSeeStuff]

@KoFibonacci I paperhanded for 60% on the weeklies, currently at 120%

[Jerome @EyeSeeStuff]

@KoFibonacci Cut the head off and let it run

[Jerome @EyeSeeStuff]

@DarioCpx @DOMOCAPITAL
...is all over it
$ALTO $GPRE

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

Chuck Norris held a 183-10-2 record and was a 6x world champion in full contact bare knuckle karate.

On top of that, he beat heavyweight kickboxing world champion Joe Lewis 3 consecutive times and also had a brutal sparring match with undefeated kickboxing world champion, Bill Superfoot Wallace, that lasted an hour and a half. According to Wallace, they practically stalemated and "beat the crap out of each other".

Chuck was trained in kickboxing/boxing by Benny The Jet Urquidez and was also trained in BJJ by the Gracies and Machados for 20 years. Even being able to submit Carlos Machado himself on occasion.

Chuck had a 315 Ibs bench press at 180 lbs bodyweight and was said to have a grip back in the day that nobody could escape from because he was so strong. Even Jean Claude Van Damme said he'd never fight Chuck Norris, despite being a kickboxing world champion himself.

Chuck held a 10th degree black belt in Chun Kuk Do, a 9th degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, an 8th degree black belt in Taekwondo, a 5th degree black belt in Karate, a 3rd degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and a black belt in Judo.

Rest in peace, Chuck!