Duke Breeze

Magnetized to magnificence • I attract the attractive • Neva been called ugly • Moms love me • I StayDopeOutchea 🤙 • RDU 🔁 ATL 🧞‍♂️🙏💛✨✨✨

[bears 🧸 @wydbear]

Can you imagine the level of pimpery your grandfather was on to own a gold toothpick.. let that sink in🗣

[Wild Clips @JCFights]

The second John Wick tournament just happened where two guys in suits throw martial arts moves at each other to get to a gun on the floor and the first to shoot wins.

[Momo🥵🇨🇦 @Momoreoluwaa]

She just canceled everyone’s relationship podcast schedules for the rest of the year

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[Duke Breeze @dat_dopamine]

Thought this was the Mandy girl before he picked her up 😅

[sos @SilkNHeels]

The happiest man in the room right now. Bro knows he’s lucky

[That Rabbit Guy @Son_ImSleep]

Bro

[Duke Breeze @dat_dopamine]

If I had to see it so do you

[Rapid Report @RapidReport2025]

JUST IN: 21-year-old dies after workers forget to attach safety rope and push her off 40-meter bridge in São Paulo’s Limeira, Brazil

[TOP DOG LAW @DejahNoVu]

pussy on the ground journalism 😭

[Parlay Papi @KobesAndJordans]

https://t.co/7IkAmXHYQg

[Redd @ReddCinema]

i am actually crying real tears right now

[kofie.substack.com @Kofie]

$13 at Cookout? 10 years ago, that would give you some equity in the company

[Kyra Rising💫 @KYRA_RISING]

IT’S POPPING. THIS IS NOT A DRILL, IT’S ACTUALLY POPPING

[marcus @marcusyul]

> la IA contaba mal el inventario en Starbucks

> Microsoft bloqueó claude code para sus propios ingenieros

> Uber no encuentra el ROI después de gastar miles de millones en IA

3 derrotas de la IA esta semana en el sector laboral.

WE ARE SO BACK

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Tua Tungasahur @OchoReacts]

Future: I have crippling anxiety and depression mostly stemming from my years in poverty and doing unspeakable things to escape my situation. I find it hard to maintain deep connections with others due to my trust issues and cope by sleeping with copious amounts of women who I will never commit to and I shower them with material possessions so they will stick around and provide me with instant gratification. I have many children that I fail to provide with the necessary nurturing for their development. Sometimes I question whether I even want to continue living

Me:

[xbox 360 @xbawxbaws]

Cam Newton Looks like a guy that controls how time works in a scary movie for kids

[That Rabbit Guy @Son_ImSleep]

This caption is smoking me lmfao

[Duke Breeze @dat_dopamine]

@GroggGreg Preciate cha 🤝

[Duke Breeze @dat_dopamine]

Did Crodie have any smoke for any Canadians on those albums that came out? If so, which songs/lines? If not, why not? Didn’t somebody get popped on his property in drive by that imitated American style violence? Just askin questions as civilian fan of music. Idc that much lol.