Ryan Ph. D

He/Him Ph.D. in School Psychology, Post Doc, APA 2018 Student Research Award, likes-research, creativity, video games, spaghetti. Dislikes- no sleep

[NES Professor @NES_Professor]

What are the best games made with NESmaker?

[Indie Game Joe @IndieGameJoe]

So I found this indie game where a boy & his husky are stranded in the Arctic in 1864 & you can play as either of them

- Switch between boy & dog at any time
- Uncover the mystery of a lost expedition
- Play solo or with a friend in co-op

It's called IKUMA: The Frozen Compass

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible."

— Frank Herbert, Dune

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

By Kimagure Buta

[Jim Musil Painter @JimMusilPainter]

My painting CALIFORNIA POPPIES

Learn to paint this! Doors close Sunday!

[SoldierDog @Kbronproyectado]

Japón tiene un problema enorme:
su población es tan vieja que necesitan 570,000 cuidadores que no existen.
El trabajo es físicamente brutal, mal pagado, y los hombres jóvenes nunca lo consideraban.

Solución de una empresa en Nagoya: contratar culturistas. Les pagan el gimnasio, les subsidian las proteínas, y a cambio usan esa fuerza para mover pacientes, asistir en higiene y cuidar ancianos.

Lo que empezó como experimento ya incluye luchadores de MMA y ex-luchadores de sumo.
Atletas con carreras cortas y pocas salidas económicas encontrando propósito en residencias de adultos mayores.

El dato más brutal: si no se resuelve, para 2030 el problema le costará a Japón 58,900 millones de dólares en productividad perdida.

Y el plotw twist que nadie esperaba: la mayoría llega por los músculos y se queda por las personas. Un culturista que cuida a una señora que pinta con la boca porque no puede usar las manos dijo: "Llegué por la musculación. Descubrí que los cuidados son mucho más que eso."

[Yasir Ai @AiwithYasir]

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now.

The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left.

Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops.

If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time.

The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.

The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy.

They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand.

The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker.

The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.

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[Ryan Ph. D @drryanholt]

@elementallis @nerdstakeover Yay!

[Elementallis - OUT NOW! @elementallis]

The day has finally come...
✨ELEMENTALLIS✨ IS OUT on PC and consoles!!

Master the elements today, elementalist! 🔥⚡️💧

Enjoy the launch trailer!

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Ever since I was a little boy, I knew I wanted to log into Microsoft Authenticator 47 times a day.

[Ryan Ph. D @drryanholt]

@BoundaryBreak Yes!

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

A New Jersey high school put on an ALIEN: THE PLAY production and even built a xenomorph suit that would lurk around the audience. The best part is Sigourney Weaver herself showed up to check out the production 🔥 so cool

[Danielle Baskin @djbaskin]

I learned that WD-40 supposedly contains vanillin which is why it smells vaguely like vanilla, so I tried making it into a candle scent and added notes of ozone, grease, and citrus for acidity

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

mandatory Ursula K. Le Guin quote

[7/11 Truther @DaveMcNamee3000]

Coming back to the Chili’s I was just kicked out of to see if they validate parking

[Mongy @aten_man_]

More Star Fox💫

[T-Hawk @THawkMedia]

*sigh*

Some day 💔

[🇺🇸 Nate Vance 🇺🇸 @VanceNate]

This dude had a school shooter arrive on his campus. This dude catches a round to the leg and still tackles and subdues the shooter because this dude is awesome!

Principal Kirk Moore

He’s already back at work because he’s also apparently Wolverine

[Brandon Yoshizawa @bay_photography]

The country of California

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

The FBI cut the phone lines during the 1977 disability rights sit-in. Then they turned off the hot water.

They locked the doors from the outside. One hundred and fifty people were trapped on the fourth floor. Half of them used wheelchairs. The government assumed they would leave.

Kitty Cone was thirty-three. She had muscular dystrophy. Her muscles were failing, but her logistics were flawless. She knew how to organize people.

The federal government had promised to sign regulations protecting disabled Americans from discrimination. The policy was known as Section 504. They printed the promise on paper. Then they stalled. Without a signature, it was just typography.

The protesters entered the regional Health, Education, and Welfare building in San Francisco on a Tuesday morning. They took the elevators to the director's office. They brought sleeping bags and catheters. They informed the staff they were not leaving until the law was signed.

By sunset, the police surrounded the exits. Kitty sat near the windows. She organized the floor plan. She assigned committees for security and sanitation. She kept her medication in a small cooler.

According to federal memorandums released decades later, the strategy to end the occupation relied on medical attrition. The building was not equipped for long-term habitation. The FBI calculated that a population requiring ventilators, specialized diets, and daily medical aides would voluntarily evacuate if the environment became sufficiently hostile. They instituted a blockade.

The blockade went into effect immediately. No food deliveries allowed. No medical supplies permitted through the lobby. Guards stood at the main doors checking identification.

Kitty's muscles deteriorated faster under the physical strain. She couldn't walk. When the phone lines went dead, the fourth floor lost contact with the press. The government waited for the quiet.

Kitty dropped to the floor. She realized the barricades were designed for standing adults. The police had blocked the hallways at waist height. They hadn't blocked the linoleum.

The floors were covered in cigarette ash and spilled coffee. She dragged her body through it. She crawled under the barricades to reach the restricted elevator shafts and unguarded offices.

She carried notes in her pockets. She found a single working payphone the FBI missed. She called the local news desks. She called the mayor's office.

She crawled back. When her arms failed, someone pulled her by her ankles. The Black Panthers heard the news reports. They crossed the police lines with hot meals. The FBI could not stop them without a riot.

They shut off the elevators, so she crawled.

The occupation lasted twenty-five days. It remains the longest non-violent occupation of a federal building in American history. On April 28, the Secretary of HEW signed the regulations without a single alteration.

The protesters left the building the next morning. They went back to their apartments. The Rehabilitation Act regulations laid the groundwork for every accessibility law that followed. The HEW building still stands on United Nations Plaza. The elevators run on a schedule. The doors are heavy glass.

Kitty Cone: the woman who crawled under the barricades.