Alex

Occupational Safety & Health Professional | Fan of Hard Sci-Fi | Armchair Philosophy | Centrist

[Alex @alask_alex]

@caty_komal Garbage list.

[Alex @alask_alex]

@escapefrommelos According to GPT:

[The Last Homely House @AHomelyHouse]

The intellectual and imaginative landscape of a young-person's mind is properly formed by mythic landscapes like this. They need to understand the world as full of the dangerous and sacred wildlands, shot through with holy sites, ancient relics, and the footprints of bygone heroes who watch over them as they undertake their own quests of life.

[Hanem 🎄 هانم @LadyOnTheNile]

The magnificent thing about Zeitoun is that it happened. There's no debate over that. Every naturalistic explanation put forward for it came short. To think it's «mass hysteria» is just purposeful ignorance. Whether you think it was a supernatural phenomenon or not, it happened

[C. M. Kosemen @cmkosemen]

My head-canon with these events is that they were "memetic entities" that were made real by the belief & fear of people... Things like this may have been common around the world once. But as science dawned and made inroads around the world, they starved and disappeared.

[alexei @alexeixbt]

people really underestimate what working your brain every day does to you. the more you use it, challenge it, and figure things out, the quicker you get at recognizing patterns, solving problems, and making decisions. you really be training your brain without even realizing it. that mental speed ain't just something you're born with. some of it comes from putting in them reps.

[alexei @alexeixbt]

neuroplasticity quick hits menu:

- memorize something small
- switch up your daily routine
- take a different route home
- eat a protein-rich breakfast
- spend time in nature
- learn a new skill
- read a few pages
- practice a new language
- choose a different response
- write something by hand
- notice and label your thoughts patterns
- recall your day without checking your phone
- slow down something you usually rush
- use your non-dominant hand
- break a familiar habit
- listen to new music
- go to the gym
- eat walnuts or mixed nuts
- stay hydrated

[0x45 @0x45o]

do you realize how insane this is?

- we can solve crimes
- we can locate people who need rescuing
- we can expose fake location claims

and the gov can spy on us even more :)

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Scientists discover what appear to be fossilized red blood cells inside the bones of a 115-million-year-old dinosaur.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

> “we may imminently meet dramatically accelerated progress”

we are going to live through a Cambrian explosion of scientific discovery on a scale we can barely comprehend

and almost nobody is even remotely ready for what’s coming

[alexei @alexeixbt]

the power of your mind is great enough to manifest everything you desire in life.

feed your subconscious with affirmations, subliminals, and visualization.

if you do not feed your mind, the system will feed it instead and use your mental power for its own interests.

use your conscious mind to feed your subconscious.

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

Almost all spiritual growth, by the way, is finding a part of yourself that is basically Sloth from the Goonies, moving it up through levels of consciousness by integrating it into your life, and then re-arriving at the place you began, but wizardly

There is no skipping the Path of the Midwit

[JD Rockwell, Jr. @JDRockwellJr]

Later, she wanted to know why I was mad about it. I had to remind her that in 20 years, we wouldn't look back and wish we'd gotten them in bed on time. But we'd give anything to have one more hour out with our kids at that age, at that place, doing those things. She bawled.

[JD Rockwell, Jr. @JDRockwellJr]

A lot of moms do this. They never go to the movie late because "it's a school night." They leave the game with 8 minutes left in the 4th "to beat traffic." They just race through life to meet the schedule.

Look up from your highlightered and sticky noted planner, and live!

[Mitch @XombieMitch]

the pain begins

[Nanda @Smpcerta]

Peguei um livro pra ler e mais uma vez estou constatando que o vicio em telas fudeu com nossa forma de ler as coisas me peguei tão apressada,agoniada,0 concentração mesmo amando de paixão o livro às vezes eu parava pra ver o celular e logo me obrigava a voltar que merda isso

[shipra @shipranotes]

If you are bored you can always:

- Read one chapter slowly
- Journal your raw thoughts
- Underline a good line
- Question a bad habit
- Unpack an old memory
- Sit quietly for ten minutes

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Music during a walk upregulates brain beta waves.

Linked to more enjoyment and less focus on fatigue.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Music is a longevity therapy

> lowers heart rate
> lowers blood pressure
> lowers cortisol
> lowers anxiety and restlessness

Protocol: a song you love.

104 randomized trials
9,617 people