Emre Eroglu

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Recent studies in neuroscience and psychology are reframing ADHD not merely as a set of cognitive hurdles but as a powerful driver of breakthrough creativity and innovation.

Long stereotyped for difficulties with focus, attention, and impulse control, individuals with ADHD traits often exhibit superior divergent thinking—the capacity to generate a wide array of novel ideas by connecting distant or unrelated concepts. This stems from reduced adherence to rigid mental frameworks, enabling freer conceptual expansion and the production of more original, unconventional solutions than neurotypical counterparts. Heightened mind-wandering, especially when deliberate (purposefully allowing thoughts to drift), acts as a fertile source for this creativity, bypassing conventional boundaries to yield abundant "outside-the-box" insights.

Complementing this cognitive flexibility is a neurological drive for novelty rooted in lower baseline dopamine signaling. This creates a chronic need for stimulation, translating into exploratory, risk-tolerant behavior and a propensity for adventure—qualities that can disrupt routine settings but prove invaluable in dynamic fields. Impulsivity, often reframed as rapid action initiation, becomes a catalyst for pursuing bold ideas and seizing opportunities in high-stakes environments.

These traits align closely with the profiles of many successful entrepreneurs, inventors, and pioneers. In fast-evolving creative and innovative economies, the ADHD brain's wiring for quick associative leaps, tolerance of uncertainty, and motivation through novelty-seeking provides a distinct edge, turning potential challenges into engines of originality and progress.

Emerging evidence from 2025–2026 research reinforces this view: studies link stronger ADHD traits to elevated creative achievements via mediated mind-wandering, intuitive insight-driven problem-solving, and higher real-world inventive output, highlighting neurodiversity's role in fueling societal advancement.

[Maisano, H., et al. (2026). ADHD Symptoms Predict Distinct Creative Problem-Solving Styles and Superior Solving Ability. Personality and Individual Differences (February 2026)]

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Just a friendly reminder that Sarah Connor was committed to a psychiatric institution after attempting to destroy AI data centers, a decision made because authorities believed her warnings about the future were the result of delusions.

[Philosway @philosway]

“If you kill a cockroach you are a hero; if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. Morals have aesthetic criteria."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This ultrasonic chef knife vibrates 40,000 times per second to make slicing effortless.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

MATH QUIZ DUJOUR
@bryan_johnson (a.k.a. Draculino) takes 100 pills a day plus other crazy interventions. A very sad story.

1) How many possible interactions between pairs of drugs?

2) How many for 3 drugs?

3) And generalizing, how many higher order interactions (n drugs)?

[Pirate Wires @PirateWires]

A new gene therapy dramatically, and permanently, reduces LDL cholesterol. If approved, it could eliminate one of the leading causes of heart disease with a single infusion.

Most heart attacks are the result of years of exposure to this ‘bad cholesterol’ your doctor might’ve told you about. Since the late 80s, the solution has been statins — pills you have to take daily.

Now, a new gene therapy called VERVE-102 is showing promise at finally tackling the underlying cause of high cholesterol... all with just one round of treatment.

@cremieuxrecueil explains 👇

[Unsloth AI @UnslothAI]

GLM-5.2 can now be run locally!🔥

The 2-bit model retains ~82% accuracy after we shrunk it from 1.51TB to 238GB (-84% size).

Run on a 256GB Mac or RAM/VRAM setups.

GLM-5.2 is the strongest open model to date.

Guide: https://t.co/bI7FeeKHDd
GGUF: https://t.co/BMkxswdj5N

[nature @Nature]

Evidence suggests that AI-driven ‘deskilling’ is starting to happen in medicine, computer science and other fields

https://t.co/0xCHVAroP4

[Çetin Cem Yılmaz @cetincem]

Vancouver’da bu yaşandı bu arada. Türk ve Avustralyalı taraftarlar birlikte Sweet Caroline’ı söyleyip dans etti. Hayatımda yaşadığım en eğlenceli ve sürreal anlardan biriydi.

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

SOMEONE BUILT A CLAUDE CODE PLUGIN THAT REFUSES TO WORK UNTIL YOU DO PUSH-UPS OR SQUATS

its called workout gate and it is exactly as cursed as it sounds

when the hook fires, it blocks your prompt, opens your webcam, and makes you exercise to keep coding

> it counts your reps live through the webcam with mediapipe, no honor system rounding down
> only releases your prompt once you actually finish the reps
> quit halfway and the leftover reps get saved as debt for your next session
> chill, demo and hardcore presets, plus prompt based, time based or random triggers
> tracks stats, streaks and personal records right in the claude code statusline

we automated the coding, now we're automating the part where we actually take care of ourselves

[Polymarket Money @PolymarketMoney]

JUST IN: Andrej Karpathy, a top AI scientist at Anthropic, is reportedly barred from accessing the company’s most advanced AI model because he is not a U.S. citizen.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Some of those who were against cancel culture were genuinely against cancellation. The rest just wanted to cancel different people.

[Cohere @cohere]

When you rent your artificial intelligence, you have no control, and no choice. This is why sovereignty and ownership matters.

Whether it means using your own hardware, open source, or deep customization. Own your AI, own your future.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️This is a monster signal.

This is the moment frontier AI stops being treated like software and starts being treated like controlled strategic capability.

The key phrase is not “customers.”

The key phrase is “foreign national Anthropic employees.”

That means the state is no longer only controlling chips, model weights, or overseas access. It is moving into cognition access by nationality. That is the real threshold. The U.S. government is saying the highest models are sensitive enough that even people physically inside the United States, working inside the company, may be barred from touching them if their nationality creates deemed-export risk.

That is weapons-control logic.

This is ITAR logic for intelligence.

The corporate language about a “misunderstanding” is probably diplomacy.

Companies say that when they need to preserve customer trust, employee morale, and regulatory room. But national security authorities do not force emergency suspension of top model access because someone made a minor paperwork mistake.

Something about Fable 5 and Mythos 5 crossed the line: cyber capability, autonomous R&D acceleration, AI-improving-AI utility, bio/security planning, code exploitation, or some blend of all of it.

The U.S. state just showed that Anthropic does not fully control Anthropic’s frontier layer.

That is the phase change.

Labs can brand themselves as public-benefit AI companies. They can talk about safety. They can sell enterprise plans. They can publish model cards. But once the models become national capability, the sovereign arrives. The state does not need to own the company to control the access surface. It only needs legal authority over export, security, procurement, and liability.

This confirms the arc we’ve been tracking:

Frontier AI becomes state-supervised strategic infrastructure.

Public AI splits from strategic AI.

Foreign access gets restricted.

Labs become quasi-defense contractors.

Model access becomes a national security perimeter.

Enterprise customers learn that API access is not property. It is revocable permission inside a sovereign-controlled stack.

The most important implication is organizational.

If foreign national employees can be cut off from frontier systems, AI labs now have to reorganize internally around citizenship, clearance, compartmentalization, and controlled access. That breaks the old Silicon Valley assumption that global talent can freely collaborate around the frontier. The next AI lab structure looks less like Google in 2015 and more like a defense prime crossed with a classified research facility.

For markets, the winners are the national champions with U.S.-aligned infrastructure, cleared customer channels, government relationships, compliance capacity, and domestic compute. The losers are open access, foreign-dependent AI wrappers, offshore model distributors, and any enterprise whose moat depends on unrestricted access to frontier APIs.

For geopolitics, this is escalation. China will read this correctly. Allies will read this correctly. Every serious state will understand that frontier models are now part of national power.

The AI race just moved from “who has the best chatbot” to “who controls cognition as a strategic asset.”

[Emre Eroglu @emreero]

Ellerinden geldiklerinde vardiracaklari nokta burasi => yabancilara kontrol edebildikleri limitli yapay zeka

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

🚨Devastating to a lot of overclaims about AI as scientist. 🚨

[Steven Eugene Kuhn @StevenEKuhn]

Germany invited Turks to rebuild their country after WWII.

Then spent 60 years treating them as outsiders.

Now, with America pulling back, energy insecurity growing, and Ukraine on their doorstep…

Europe suddenly needs Türkiye.

The country they spent years trying to isolate is now indispensable.

History has a sense of irony and a lesson.

You don’t wait for permission to matter.

You build. You show up. You take the seat.

https://t.co/oPMlK6ZsBF

23 May 2026

#IStand #TakeAmericaBack #Turkiye #Germany #LeadWhereYouLive @joerogan @ShawnRyan762 @patrickbetdavid

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Harvard Business Review research reveals that excessive interaction with AI is causing a specific type of mental exhaustion ( or "AI brain fry"), which is particularly hitting high performers who use AI to push past their normal limits.

A survey of 1,500 workers reveals that AI is intensifying workloads rather than reducing them, leading to a new form of mental fog.

While AI is generally supposed to lighten the load, it often forces users into constant task-switching and intense oversight that actually clutters the mind.

This mental static happens because you aren't just doing your job anymore; you are managing multiple digital agents and double-checking their work, which creates a massive cognitive burden.

The study found that 14% of full-time workers already feel this fog, with the highest impact seen in technical fields like software development, IT, and finance.

High oversight is the biggest culprit, as supervising multiple AI outputs leads to a 12% increase in mental fatigue and a 33% jump in decision fatigue.

This isn't just a personal health issue; it directly impacts companies because exhausted employees are 10% more likely to quit.

For massive firms worth many B, this decision paralysis can lead to millions of dollars in lost value due to poor choices or total inaction.

Essentially, we are working harder to manage our tools than we are to solve the actual problems they were meant to fix.

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hbr .org/2026/03/when-using-ai-leads-to-brain-fry

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

In this letter, the CEO of Coinbase talks about non-technical teams shipping production code. Honestly, I don’t think he knows what he’s talking about.

Using AI agents makes it possible for teams who are not deeply technical in the syntax of a language to ship production code. But that team had better be very deeply technical in managing the structure and quality of the code that is produced.

What the agents give us is the ability to disengage from deep syntax. But they do not give us the ability to disengage from modular design and architecture. You still need to be deeply technical in those topics in order to produce good production quality code.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Bob Fosse in Little Prince movie, 1974 had a massive influence on Michael Jackson.