CrazyTailedGirl

Woman Writer, Producer of the Provocative and Director from Denver. Degree (and debt) from Spelman College. MarieinNYC.

[troythedesigner 🦂 @troythedesigner]

to this very day I do not know how he got away wit this 😭😭😭😭

[@redaction @redaction]

The full story is about 10x crazier than even this headline implies

They were actually, fully gangstalked on the direct orders of eBay executives

I am not misusing the word "gangstalk" here. It's the only true, verified case of gangstalking that I know of.

[Rita Repulsive @myc0latt]

If i ever get back into dating and discover that someone i thought I'd really clicked with was using an ai assistant to manage our relationship the whole time i would kill myself in a way that redefines how the world thinks of suicide

[VeryStableGeniusProgrammer @stablegeniuspro]

Before mass culture you *could* have interesting exchanges on network TV.

[Redacted @redactedobscure]

this probably the best example I could provide for grasping “manufactured consent”

[jica @jicapal]

basically

[Michael Foster @realmfoster]

This is gonna sound weird: but I kinda believe in a version of the anthropic principle that says America produced so much wealth and population growth globally that any conscious being is disproportionately likely to have emerged in a universe where American was founded, so certain inexplicable events happened specifically to bring America into existence.

[Joel D. Anderson 🆓 @byjoelanderson]

In the sweep of history, admittedly not all that long, this is likely the most pathetic and most captured generation of black athletes there’s ever been.

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”

[fooler initiative @metroadlib]

this man's legacy is so much more than Disney. SO much.
Show and Tell. Closer than Close. Can You Stop the Rain. If Ever You're in my Arms Again. Feel the Fire. I Wish You Love.

A whole quiet storm LEGEND.

[Torraine Walker @TorraineWalker]

Just remember their killers' demographic got a hate crimes bill passed in 6 months while we can't get one after 2.5 centuries.

[Daughter of Wolves @Alicia_Bittle_]

We have data to show that a baby’s epigenetic profile is extremely fragile and altered by all sorts of strange variables, even the stress level of its father.

We now even have evidence that eggs live in “communities” inside ovaries and the ones with better/more robust communities are healthier.

What influence would living frozen and alone for 30 years have on your genetic psyche?

[rush @420joke]

Can only imagine how many celebs end up agreeing to work with them

[Hannah Zchokkei @nebelcanal]

Imagine a world in which not only you but everyone you knew was so deeply embedded in the reality of the natural world that miracles like the below were almost quotidian.

Where a fact like "while processing an animal for food you may occasionally discover its body spontaneously produced a single precious gemstone that you will be the first and probably only human to ever see or comprehend" is at least as widely known, understood, and respected as something like "while looking up at the sky you may sometimes see a shooting star ..."

[𝓃𝔞𝔯𝔞 𝓋🕊️ 𓋹 coaching :: dm 𓆃 @naravv__]

I keep tryna tell yall that time isn’t linear, everyone exists everywhere all the time.

[aimee 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @basic_chanel]

I actually love the way she handles this. we need to all actively disengage Instagram reels slopgorithm. You’re not entitled to my attention you’re not entitled to my image.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

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.

[♋︎ @LUXURY0RN0THING]

she goin through something

[MASTER STUDENT🤲🏾 @MUSICANDBUILDS]

THE CAPITALISM HUMAN CONSUMER MIND ONLY FINDS THINGS VALUABLE
WHEN POOR PEOPLE CAN’T HAVE IT

I THINK THAT’S A FORM OF MENTAL ILLNESS AND INSECURITY

[nina lee @NinaSerafina]

Oh he’s a real artist