Jānis Puriņš

Until death, all defeat is psychological

[Physics_ Lab @PhysicsExpvf]

The edge of the universe

[John F Kennedy Jr @John_F_kJr]

🚨 THIS IS GOING TO BREAK THE INTERNET!

Elon Musk just dropped Neuralink's craziest bombshell:

“In the next 6 to 12 months, we're going to implant the first vision devices. Even if you're 100% blind from birth, we're going to write directly to your visual cortex… and you're going to see.”

“And that's just the beginning. In the long term, you'll have ultra-HD resolution and real superpowers: you'll see in infrared, ultraviolet, and even radar. Literally like a superhero.”

The future is no longer science fiction. It's Neuralink.

[Whiplash437 @MrWhiplash_]

🚨 THIS IS GOING TO BREAK THE INTERNET!

Elon Musk just dropped Neuralink's craziest bombshell:

“In the next 6 to 12 months, we're going to implant the first vision devices. Even if you're 100% blind from birth, we're going to write directly to your visual cortex… and you're going to see.”

“And that's just the beginning. In the long term, you'll have ultra-HD resolution and real superpowers: you'll see in infrared, ultraviolet, and even radar. Literally like a superhero.”

The future is no longer science fiction. It's Neuralink.

[Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG]

It is likely we go to our doom….

[Jānis Puriņš @Janis_Purins]

@janisdombrava Kāpēc viņiem atgriezties???

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff of Starship!

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

SpaceX is a company whose mission is *axiomatically* the love of humanity

To extend the light of consciousness

The power of this kind of love is hard to quantify but clearly makes the impossible far more probable.

[ScienceInFocus @SciInFocus]

Reading glasses might be done.

The FDA just approved a once-daily eye drop called VIZZ that sharpens near vision in about 30 minutes and keeps it sharp for up to 10 hours.

One drop. Each eye. Per day.

That's it.

The active ingredient is aceclidine, a compound first used back in 1975 to treat glaucoma. Scientists figured out it could be repurposed to gently shrink the pupil, creating a "pinhole effect" that pulls close-up text back into focus, the same trick your eye does when you squint.

Unlike Vuity, the 2021 drop that came before it, VIZZ doesn't mess with your focusing muscles. So no blurry distance vision. No brow ache. No weird zoom effect.

It was tested across more than 30,000 treatment days with no major complications.

Cost is roughly $2 a day.

This matters because presbyopia, the age-related slide that hits most people between 40 and 45, already affects more than 120 million Americans. By 2030, the World Health Organization expects around 2 billion people worldwide to have it.

LENZ Therapeutics, the maker, started rolling out samples in October.

The squint era is ending.

Source: Ynetnews, FOX 26 Houston, Yahoo News

[Evan Applegate @youwillmakemaps]

Sweden’s AirForestry makes a 20 ft.-wide 6-prop electric drone that drops a branch-shearing tool on a tree, grips the trunk, and whisks it away

I think the tree it grabbed here is like 9" DBH?

[Adrian Dittmann @AdrianDittmann]

The shockwaves from the exhaust plume reflecting off the ground is such an incredible visual

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Liftoff of Starship!

[NL F$D Inside @TSLA_inside_]

🧵 THREAD: How one Tesla owner cracked European FSD bureaucracy (and caught Tesla off guard) 🇱🇹🔥

Part 1/5
Yesterday, @TeslaEurope officially announced that FSD (Supervised) is rolling out in Lithuania — making it the 2nd country in Europe after the Netherlands. But the real story behind this is wild. This wasn’t a top-down strategic move by Tesla HQ; it was the work of a single Reddit user: ⁠andriuslink⁠. 👇

[Tesla @Tesla]

Lithuania becomes second European country to approve FSD Supervised

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship stacked on the pad at Starbase

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Please Be Kind To Moles.

They are beneficial to soil health, acting as natural aerators and pest control by consuming lawn-damaging grubs, beetles, and larvae.

They do not eat plants, and their removal often leads to new moles occupying the vacant tunnel system, making it a futile effort.

Apart from that, it is CRUEL!

[IPO Newsroom @IPONewsroom_]

SPACEX IS GOING PUBLIC NEXT MONTH

Per Reuters:

- Listing venue: Nasdaq
- Ticker: $SPCX
- Pricing: As early as June 11
- First day of trading: June 12

One of the most anticipated IPOs in years is now four weeks away.

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

A fox who grew up with a dog and tries to bark..🐶🦊😅

[Max Evans @_MaxQ_]

B19 came out to play today!

Raptor 3’s chirping at startup and the overpressure from ignition are absolutely wild.

[Bambulu @Bqmbulu]

I think it was Dostoevsky that said, "It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently"

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.