Zilda

Capetonian. Fan of the funny. My ma se mooiste dogter & so skerp soos 'n lepel. Gen X.🤙 Faith.

[Zilda @Zilda_S]

"Nothing f*#ks you as hard as time" Ser Davos not missing a beat 😉 #GoTS7 #GameOfThronesS7

[Zilda @Zilda_S]

Bafana Bafana is playing like the ANC. #CZERSA

[Lucy @TheLucyShow1]

Buddy said.. oh yeah 😆🏄‍♂️🐶🐾 let’s GO!!

[Sheila of the Most High @sheilatebra]

I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, “Never play fair in a game where others cheat.” It doesn’t mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they’ll throw dirt. Sometimes wisdom is not revenge. Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Before cameras, fishermen printed fish to prove the catch.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Leonardo da Vinci's greatest paragraph

[Zilda @Zilda_S]

@be_like_ice There’s absolutely no scale for measuring this. Fokkol.

[Zilda @Zilda_S]

@NeelsBohr1204 Jy is korrek. Hierdie is ‘n aardige anglisisme.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Impossible is nothing.

[The Dark Side @FantasyGalaxies]

Me and my son have been sneaking out in the middle of the night in our Ewok and Chewbacca costumes just to mess with our neighbor's trail cams.

[Isabel Fernández @isafernan]

Novak Djokovic acaba de decir que el aburrimiento es el estado más creativo que un niño puede experimentar.

Su hijo tiene 10 años y su hija 7.

Cuenta que cuando su hijo le dijo que estaba aburrido después de una mañana de ping-pong, kayak y fútbol, ​​se sentó con él para tener una conversación que la mayoría de los padres evitan.

"Está bien aburrirse a veces. Cuando te aburres, no significa que tengas que coger un libro o una pantalla inmediatamente. También necesitas aprender a conectar con tus pensamientos".

Djokovic afirma que es en el aburrimiento cuando la creatividad finalmente aflora, y también cuando todo lo que has estado reprimiendo con el móvil sale a la superficie.

La mayoría de los padres protegen a sus hijos del único estado que los hace crecer.

[Zilda @Zilda_S]

@CityofCT Just yes or no would’ve been lekke 🤙
Thank you anyway.

[Zilda @Zilda_S]

Morning @CityofCT
Are Border Patrol vehicles allowed to travel in the MyCiti bus lane?

[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.

[Medwyn Williams @medwynsofangles]

I couldn’t possibly leave Chelsea without shooting this small video of the South Africa display, truly beautiful.

[Sir Lebona Cabonena @LCabonena]

Pieter Groenewald have built 12 Bakeries in 1 year for the prisoners and saved R77 million in the process.

[Zilda @Zilda_S]

@4KobusWiese En as mens, is dit seker ons grootste hartseer.

[Zilda @Zilda_S]

@namcios @grok summarize this post factually in point form

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Utopia is not the standard. Reality is.

Every civilisation has sins if you judge it by today’s moral standards. You can build an entire career doing nothing but listing them. That is easy.

The harder question and the only one that matters is this: compared to actual, existing alternatives, who has done better?

I am not claiming the West is perfect. It is not. No society is. But if you are honest about measurable progress on rights, equality, and self-correction, it is still ahead of every other major system in the world today.

So stop asking "is it perfect?" That is a childish question.

Ask: "compared to what?"

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

A beautiful person who is in the right place at the right time. 🙌

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A ladder that expands in seconds