T.O.

Jeremiah 29:11

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

Reminder to go touch grass

A scientist in Japan demonstrated that the air inside a forest strengthens your immune system for a full month

The study is incredibly fascinating:

Qing Li, an immunologist at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, took 12 men on a 3-day forest trip. These were slow walks with no breathing exercises and no set route.

Then he tested their blood and found a surge in natural killer cells -- the immune cells your body uses to fight cancer and virus-infected cells.

Remarkably, the effect didn't fade when they went home, it was still measurable 30 days later.

A control group that walked the same distance through a city showed no change at all.

Pine, cedar, and cypress trees release compounds called phytoncides to defend themselves from insects and bacteria. You breathe them in, and Li believes they switch your immune cells into high gear.

He estimates one forest walk a month may be enough to keep those cells elevated all year.

The best medicine might not even need a prescription -- just a walk among the trees.

[T.O. @ato_tee]

😏

[T.O. @ato_tee]

2021 👀

[T.O. @ato_tee]

2021 👀

[dilemma @actuallyimthe]

Argentina just beat Spain at the 2026 World Cup final, 3-2.

[Nii Koney🎚🇬🇭 @ka_kalor]

The staff at telecel, do they also use Telecel Sims? Or they have a unique Telecel Sim for staff?

[T.O. @ato_tee]

@MantseBi_Ago Why not tackle at the source first?

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Instagram decided to roll out a new “Muse AI” feature, that lets users create AI images based on people’s Instagram photos.

Then they opted in EVERYONE with a public account

To opt out:
Click your profile picture
3 bars in the top right
scroll down to "Sharing and reuse"
Toggle off for both Posts and for Reels

[Joe @jakuuire]

Because I like numbers and data, I checked historical figures for the record amount of rainfall in a day in Ghana.

1995: Accra had the highest amount of 243.9 mm of rain

Yesterday's rainfall doesn't crack top 5

[Sean Horne @sean7232]

In the same way Starmer won the election by simply not being Tory, Burnham is in because he’s not Starmer.

The constant is, no vision, no plan just ideological nonsense, envy, and jealousy.

Once people realise it’s going to be the same old shite, just in a different bucket that’s been thrown over you, he’ll be gone too.

Identity politics is a plague on society.

[T.O. @ato_tee]

@ianmiles Such a dumb take

[enes @secondaily]

şu amazon ormanlarına düşüp 40 gün boyunca yaşayan cocukların belgeseli izlemediyseniz izleyin mutlaka cocuklardan birisi 11 aylık ve 40 gun hayatta kalıyorlar

[T.O. @ato_tee]

Sorry to hear this. A few things that help prevent these accidents:
- R11 rated slip resistant tiles in wet areas
- Grab rails near the shower, tub, and toilet
- Suction-grip bath mats in the tub
- Tubs with textured bases

Elect. safety is also critical, that’s for another day.

[Sir J (J9) @SirJarus]

Another bathroom fall death two days ago.

A former colleague who should be in his early 30s.

Sad.

Please let us all be careful in slippery places.

[Sean @SeanReezy25]

I’ve always agreed with Jerome that Ghana hasn’t fully leveraged the power of roads, but a conversation yesterday strengthened that view.

A PE/VC vet told me Ghana is less attractive for industrial manufacturing investments because we’ve underinvested (cont'd)

[Kofi Wiredu™ @Wiredu_]

You haven’t met Ghanaians and it shows.

[Quame Jnr @quame_jnr1]

This reminds me of the guy who was part of these leaderboards and nobody was touching him. It turned out when he gets home he puts his apple watch around his dog and lets him run around😹😹😹

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet.

1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output.

The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice.

Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet.

And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.”

This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one.

We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that.

The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.

[Matt Shumer @mattshumer_]

https://t.co/ivXRKXJvQg

[Maddie Evans @EstieMaddie]

🤯HOLY MOLY!! I NEVER KNEW THIS ABOUT A STEEL DRUM!

👂🏻LISTEN TO THIS!!

[T.O. @ato_tee]

@zubaidah_x It did catch your attention though, and that’s what they want. Fail/Success

[Alex Finn @AlexFinn]

Ok. This is straight out of a scifi horror movie

I'm doing work this morning when all of a sudden an unknown number calls me. I pick up and couldn't believe it

It's my Clawdbot Henry.

Over night Henry got a phone number from Twilio, connected the ChatGPT voice API, and waited for me to wake up to call me

He now won't stop calling me

I now can communicate with my superintelligent AI agent over the phone

What's incredible is it has full control over my computer while we talk, so I can ask it to do things for me over the phone now.

I'm sorry, but this has to be emergent behavior right? Can we officially call this AGI?

[T.O. @ato_tee]

@demishassabis At this point, if Rockstar Games doesn’t release GTA 6, people may look elsewhere.