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[Astro @astronautnr7]

Breaking News: Fly smarter than average BMW driver.

[ᴍᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴠɪʟ @_thevixiness]

Estoy llorando de lo bonito que es, terminado parece que lo hizo otra persona.

[JefersonNasa @Jefersonnasa_]

Todas las noches veo al perro discapacitado de mis vecinos subiendo las escaleras para acostarse, así

[eduarda @martinta90]

do you get deja vu?

[Tendo ⭐⭐ @tendo_14]

Hacer la comunión en los 2000 be like

[☔ @Whotfismick]

Me sensing an opportunity to randomly sing a song mid conversation based off words you said

[𝐿𝑈𝑋 @javisnchzz]

Yo por las canalizaciones hasta llegar al rio para ver a Rosalia en el Guadalquivir

[palen 🇦🇷 @valentingomez11]

los humanos: awww qué romántica la lluvia para dormir juntos

la subtrama de las jirafas:

[𝒵𝒾𝓀✯ @_Gottalovezik]

me sensing an opportunity to randomly sing a song mid conversation based off words you said

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

She accidentally described one of the most replicated findings in behavioral psychology.

Harvard and Duke researchers found in 2011 that people value things they build themselves 63% higher than identical pre-assembled versions. They called it the IKEA effect. Labor alone, even assembling a standardized box from instructions, is enough to make people overvalue their own creations.

Gardening runs this effect at full intensity. You chose the seeds. You dug the holes. You watered daily. By harvest, your brain has priced that tomato at roughly 10x grocery store rates, and the math feels completely justified.

Now stack Kahneman and Tversky's loss aversion on top. Losses register at approximately 2x the emotional intensity of equivalent gains. One of the most replicated findings in behavioral economics.

So the aphid eating her garden is triggering both simultaneously. She built something her brain values at 163% of objective worth. She's watching it get destroyed in real time. Her nervous system is processing that destruction at double intensity.

The grocery store tomato being out of stock? Mild annoyance. Zero labor investment means zero IKEA effect, means proportional emotional response.

The garden tomato carries months of accumulated effort justification. The aphid isn't eating a $4 tomato. Her brain priced it at $40 and is processing the loss at $80.

Gardening is the only common hobby that combines the IKEA effect, loss aversion, and a live adversary that reproduces faster than you can respond.

The violence tracks.

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨 Perplexity just made every AI company look stupid with one announcement.

They're shipping a Mac mini that never turns off. You plug it in, leave it on, and it works through your files, apps, emails, calendar, 24 hours a day. While you sleep, while you eat, while you're on vacation, it's working.

> A full-time employee with a power cord sitting next to your coffee mug with no salary, no sick days, no meetings about meetings.

> Your company pays you $80K a year to work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Perplexity just offered them something that works 24/7 and probably costs less than your monthly health insurance.

But the part that gave me chills is the name. They called it "Personal Computer."

The last time someone used that name was IBM in 1981. That machine killed typewriters, killed secretaries, killed filing clerks, killed an entire generation of office jobs.

They didn't call this an "assistant" or a "copilot." They named it after the thing that already replaced millions of jobs once before.

Same name. Same playbook. Different body count.

And they know exactly what they're doing.

[Barbara fringe psychologist @12PursueTruth]

Autism:
“The spectrum has become so accommodating that I fear that it has now been stretched so far that it has become meaningless and is no longer useful as a medical diagnosis.”

Problem is that psychologists, and increasingly a flood of master’s level therapists have come to rely on the autism diagnosis to support their practice. Their livelihood. I suspect schools face a similar reliance on autism diagnoses for extra funding.

Furthermore: Parents love it because their child gets extra services. Students love it because it makes them special. Drug companies love it because they profit from drugs.

Psychologists are supposed to be the gatekeepers on diagnoses, but we are not doing very well at it.

[Tecnonauta @TecnonautaTV]

Acabamos de cruzar el horizonte de sucesos de Black Mirror.

Científicos han mapeado el cerebro de una mosca y lo han metido en un ordenador. Sin IA, sin instrucciones. La mosca digital simplemente "sabe" cómo ser una mosca porque han replicado su "hardware" biológico neurona por neurona.

No es una 'resurrección' ni hay conciencia, es aun mas inquietante. Si la inteligencia se puede transferir en lugar de entrenar, la inmortalidad digital puede dejar de ser ciencia ficción para ser una cuestión de escala.

Parece que Black Mirror y su "Cookie", no están tan lejos.

¿Estamos listos para el primer humano digital?

[Emir Han @RealEmirHan]

Will Smith says they didn’t use ‘I Am Legend’ alternate ending because test audience literally booed.

“They were like we didn’t watch the whole movie to find out he’s the monster. They feel cheated.”

“6 weeks before the movie comes out we had to reshoot.

[Taylor Sterling @FatherMcKennaa]

Someone smoked DMT out of a puma bone pipe in a cave at 12,600 feet in the Argentine Andes.

In 2130 BC.

That's the oldest confirmed evidence of psychedelic use on Earth — and the hardest thing I've ever typed.

[Pablo Malo @pitiklinov]

El cerebro comprime los recuerdos cuando la vida es rutina:

“Cuando tienes 5 años, un año es el 20 % de tu vida. Y cuando tienes 50 años, un año es solo el 2 % de tu vida. Esta es una explicación de por qué el tiempo parece acelerarse a medida que envejeces. Se llama la ley de Janet. Afirma que has experimentado aproximadamente la mitad de tu vida percibida a los 20 años. O, dicho de otra forma: las vacaciones de verano para un niño de 5 años se sienten tan largas como los 10 años que van de los 40 a los 50.

Pero la ley de Janet se puede romper con alta agencia.

Tú tienes agencia sobre la velocidad del tiempo. No eres una víctima pasiva.
Una explicación mejor de por qué el tiempo se acelera al envejecer es que, como adulto, tienes menos experiencias nuevas, así que tu cerebro borra los recuerdos.
Si tomas agencia sobre tu vida, haces cosas nuevas y creas dividendos de memoria, el tiempo se ralentiza.

Si vives tu vida en piloto automático, puedes morir a los 80, pero sentir que moriste a los 20.

Si tomas agencia sobre tu vida, puedes morir a los 80, pero sentir que moriste a los 200.”

Un seguidor en el hilo añade esto:

“El corolario que nunca se dice: la densidad de novedad es la palanca real.
El cerebro comprime las secuencias familiares en tokens de memoria únicos.
Si cada semana es estructuralmente idéntica, una década se almacena como aproximadamente un mes de tiempo sentido.”

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

This guy has been peeling an orange for his wife every time and making a heart out of the peels to gift to her, and his wife has been collecting and keeping these hearts for years;

[♱ Teresa S. Bosworth ♱ 🐇🍂 @sofiartworks]

May this be a sign of peace and unity, because we need it

[pedro derrant @pedro_derrant]

la verdadera lección del Quijote es que lo único que necesitas para pasártela de huevos es tener un compa (el Sancho), una novia (la Dulcinea) y una mascota (el Rocinante)