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[The Vertlartnic @TheVertlartnic]

Most People Do Not Have Long Covid, Just A Mysterious Illness Since Covid, Says Study

[🏴‍☠️ @calvinfroedge]

So what we're supposed to believe is that a guy who only had 75 donations from Kentucky, an empty victory party, and nobody at his rallies, managed to double turnout from 2024 plus get all 10k mail in ballots

KY-4 may have been outright fraud

These numbers don't make sense

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

Here's an idea - let's pass a law that says if you're going to build a big data center, you have to also build enough solar panels and/or wind turbines to power it. I call it the "Bring your own damn grid" proposal.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Question: Why would the Super Bowl ever come to a Jim Crow state that intentionally strips representation from Black people?

cc: @NFL

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

In the past week, Donald Trump has threatened nuclear war against Iran, called for the genocide of 93 million Iranians, publicly attacked the Pope, and compared himself to Jesus Christ.

Recall July of 2024 when every pundit and reporter in American media were urging President Biden to step down due to concerns over his cognitive health.

Where are those voices now? Where are the demands for Trump to be removed? Where is the flood of op-eds and cable news panels and social media posts calling for the 25th Amendment to be triggered?

Why are you all so silent on this?

[🔻Rio Slade 🔻 @RioSlade]

My primary care physician was laid off.

She was told that she was spending too much time with her patients. They wanted her to see 100+ patients daily. She maxed out at 25.

She was the best doctor I've ever had.

[Person @GAkiddoc]

@drseanmullen Injuries, especially among pro athletes (baseball, basketball) but also in adolescents. Many Achilles tendon tears, shoulder strains and wrist/hand fractures.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Pope Leo XIV:

Enough with the idolatry of self and money! Enough with the display of power! Enough with war! True strength is manifested in serving life.

[Lady Chuan @LadyChuan]

Let’s define PANDEMIC.

Less than 10,000 cases per day for a period of 30-60 days per Dr. Fauci, CDC 2021.

The U.S. has never achieved that threshold. Even as of 30 days ago, cases exceeded 1,000,000.

“Although the PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY (funding) has ended, the pandemic remains….Covid continues to be a global emergency.”

Dr Tedros, WHO 2022, 2023

[Person @GAkiddoc]

@ncalcamper @TimothyDSnyder @FluteMagician The US never signed the treaty for the ICC and is not subject to any action from it.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A professor of engineering who failed math all through school built one of the most popular online courses in history by figuring out exactly why her brain had been working against her the whole time.

Her name is Barbara Oakley, and she did not teach herself how to learn until she was in her mid-twenties, after leaving the military with a head full of Russian and almost no useful science knowledge. What she discovered about her own brain eventually became a Coursera course that over 4 million people have taken, and the core insight she teaches has been sitting in neuroscience research for decades waiting for someone to explain it in plain language.

Here is the framework that changed how I think about every hard thing I am trying to learn.

Your working memory is an octopus sitting in your prefrontal cortex with exactly four arms. Those four arms reach out and grab pieces of information, hold them in place, and manipulate them while you are actively thinking through a problem. Four is the limit.

When you try to hold more than four things in conscious awareness at once, the arms start dropping things and everything becomes a scramble which is exactly what you experience as confusion when learning something genuinely difficult.

This is not a flaw. It is a design feature. And the entire game of becoming expert at anything is learning how to game this constraint.

The mechanism is something neuroscientists call chunking, and it is the most underexplained concept in all of learning.

When you practice something enough times that it becomes automatic a guitar chord, a grammatical structure, a mathematical procedure, a debugging pattern in code your brain compresses it into a single neural package stored in long-term memory. That compressed package now fits in just one of your four working memory slots instead of filling all of them.

Which means once you have built enough chunks, your octopus can reach down into long-term memory, pull up an entire complex procedure in a single grab, and still have three arms free to work with new information on top of it.

This is what expertise actually is. Not raw intelligence. Not natural talent. A library of compressed patterns that can be retrieved quickly and stacked together to solve problems that would overwhelm a beginner whose working memory is still occupied with fundamentals.

The finding that Oakley emphasizes most forcefully is the one that sounds backward until you understand the mechanism. People with smaller working memory capacity those who can only hold two or three items at once rather than four are often forced to develop stronger chunking habits earlier and more aggressively than people with larger working memories, because they have no choice. Their constraint becomes their training. Over time, that aggressive chunking practice can produce more robust expertise than a larger working memory that never had to be disciplined in the same way.

The most powerful practical implication is this: when you feel completely overwhelmed trying to learn something, that feeling is almost always your four-slot octopus running out of arms. The solution is not to concentrate harder. The solution is to stop, isolate one small piece of the problem, practice it until it compresses into a single chunk, and only then pick up the next piece.

You cannot learn everything at once because your brain was never designed to hold everything at once. It was designed to build libraries of compressed knowledge and retrieve them on demand.

Every expert you have ever admired is not smarter than you. They just have a bigger library.

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

when my 4-year-old’s daycare held a “lunch with mom” event, every single mom showed up. we all have other jobs, which is why our kids are in daycare. but we took off work or found a way to get there in the middle of the day. now, they’re doing an event for the dads … at 6:30 in the evening. it’s a small example, but the double standards are real.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Iran just dropped a LEGO parody video trolling Trump about the war.

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

For the amount of money the Pentagon is requesting for this insane war we could eliminate hunger in America for a decade. The problem in our country is not a lack of money, it’s a lack of moral clarity.

[Person @GAkiddoc]

@PardonMyPain @1goodtern Sascha was a young boy at the time. They are now a man.

[Person @GAkiddoc]

@adamscochran Thinking is not 47's strong suit. He picked Markwayne because he's been all over the TV spouting nonsense that backs up 47. I guarantee that a week ago 47 didn't have any idea who he was. I also guarantee he didn't consider the balance in the Senate.

[positive side of X 🌞 @positivityofx]

If it's brown, get down. If it's black, give it a little smoochie-poo

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Keith the Apocalypse Bringer is a three-year-old Anglo-Nubian goat in a field in Devon.

Keith should not be underestimated.

Keith has been systematically dismantling the ecosystem since approximately 7am, when he ate a bramble. This is significant because bramble is an invasive scrub species that outcompetes wildflowers, reduces biodiversity, and creates dense monoculture thicket that nothing else can use.

Keith ate it. Keith does this every day. Keith does not charge for this service.

8:15am - Keith ate a thistle. Thistles are also considered invasive scrub in managed pasture. Goldfinches eat thistle seeds, but Keith's grazing will ensure the pasture remains open enough for the ground-nesting birds that can't use dense scrub. Keith has not attended a conservation workshop. Keith arrived at this conclusion by being a goat.

9:00am - Keith dismantled a section of hedge. This was less helpful. Keith does not have a perfect record.

10:30am - Keith escaped the field. He was in the road for eleven minutes. He ate a neighbour's rose. This is not being counted in Keith's environmental impact assessment.

11:00am - Keith was returned to the field. Keith regarded the farmer with the specific expression of an animal that does not recognise the concept of property.

12:00pm - Keith ate more bramble. His digestive system: four stomachs, a rumen full of specialised microorganisms, the ability to extract nutrition from lignified plant matter that would defeat any other animal on this field, is converting scrub vegetation into milk with a fat content of approximately 4.5%. The milk will become cheese. The cheese will be sold at the farm shop. The farm shop is four miles away. The cheese food miles are: four.

3:00pm - Keith produced manure. The manure will grow the grass. The grass will grow the bramble. The bramble will be eaten by Keith.

This system has no inputs.

It has been running since goats were domesticated approximately ten thousand years ago.

Keith is not aware he is saving the planet.

Keith is thinking about whether the fence on the north side has a weak point.

It does. Keith found it at 4:45pm.

Keith got out again.

[Jay Black @jayblackisfunny]

A collection of the dumbest dudes you knew from high school felt emasculated when a black man got elected president, so, to compensate, we now have a semi-sentient pig’s stomach in a red hat starting an illegal war to distract the country from all the sex crimes he committed.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying [FBI Director] Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”