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[NaN 🇱🇧🇵🇱☦️🍉 @heyjupiter__]

- wanna go out?
- sorry I have a lot to do this weekend.

The to do in question👇
#Firsttechnicset @LEGO_Group

[Kino Alert @KinoAlertPL]

Epicka saga o 100-letnim facecie, który przesiaduje nocą w pokoju nastolatki i patrzy jak ona śpi - nowa zapowiedź na antenie TVN.

Saga "Zmierzch" wszystkie części tydzień po tygodniu od 29 czerwca o godz. 22:00 w każdy poniedziałek.

[shirish @shiri_shh]

Anthropic with frontend devs right now:

[courtenay lou who 🩵 trinity island @svviftlet]

it’s been two days and i keep randomly thinking about this and laughing. oh no, gray card again.

[Rosary Quotes @RosaryQuotes123]

A bulbul created a snug nest for its babies in the hood of a Franciscan friar's habit. The friars also put up a little flyer cautioning everyone to not disturb the birds.

St. Francis of Assisi is also the patron saint of birds and animals.

Video: jkurianmoolayil

[Willie Stewart @Lindsay04555896]

Dear Scottish twitter, please stick to this kind of material

[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%.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Andrzej Sapkowski sold the rights to his Witcher novels for $9,350. He turned down royalties and took a one-time payment instead. The company that bought those rights spent $81 million building the game and won over 800 awards. Sapkowski later demanded $16 million back. They settled.

The photograph at the top of Mount Gorgon shows everyone who made it. All 1,500 of them.

CD Projekt Red started in Warsaw in 1994 selling games from a storefront. For The Witcher 3, they built a team of 240 developers from 18 countries, with 500 voice actors recording across 15 languages. The full script came to 820,000 words, 300,000 more than the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy. The playable world covered 136 square kilometers, 3.5 times the size of Skyrim.

The game came out in May 2015. It has since sold over 60 million copies, and Netflix adapted Sapkowski's novels into a series that ran for three seasons.

In 2016, the team was finishing Blood and Wine, a paid expansion for the base game. Quest designer Danisz Markiewicz used a developer camera to move his view outside the playable area and spotted a flat plateau on Mount Gorgon, the highest peak in the expansion. He placed a canvas there. His thinking: players would try to climb that mountain, and they deserved something for it. The photo on the canvas was from the team's summer picnic, shot right after the main game shipped.

You need a mod (a player-made tool) to reach it. The mountain has no path.

Most gaming easter eggs hide a logo, a weapon, or a nod to another title. This one hides the faces of the people who worked across 18 countries, recorded lines in seven languages, and built 136 square kilometers of world. The photo lives on a mountain you were never supposed to reach.

[ARC Radar @ARCRaidersNews]

Even freaking Max Verstappen is a Rat 😭

[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

[Felps @felpswonts]

> ser empresa big tech
> demitir funcionários pra economizar usando IA
> dar Claude Code pros engenheiros
> engenheiros começarem a usar IA
> pra literalmente tudo
> geração de código
> debug
> automação
> documentação
> workflows inteiros
> conta mensal começar a parecer orçamento militar
> descobrir que milhares de funcionários usando IA
> ao mesmo tempo custa absurdamente caro
> entrar em pânico
> mandar todo mundo voltar pro GitHub Copilot

a parte mais engraçada da era da IA é que as empresas talvez tenham criado uma tecnologia tão útil…

que agora nem elas conseguem pagar direito pra usar em escala

[shirish @shiri_shh]

most GenZ thing a CEO has ever said:

“We had an HR team, and that HR team was creating problems that didn’t exist. Those problems disappeared when I let them go.”

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your brain has a circuit that doesn't know you live in a city. Its only job is to monitor whether birds are still singing. When they stop, something dangerous is nearby. When they continue, the coast is clear. This wiring predates primates. These kids are being sedated by the oldest safety signal in the mammalian nervous system.

The Max Planck Institute tested this in 2022 with 295 participants. Six minutes of birdsong reduced anxiety and paranoia with medium effect sizes. Six minutes of traffic noise increased depression by the same margin. The effect worked on people who had never left dense urban environments. Their bodies responded to a signal their conscious minds had never learned.

King's College London ran a larger study. 1,292 participants, real-time mood tracking through a phone app, 26,856 assessments over three years. Hearing or seeing birds improved mental wellbeing for up to eight hours afterward. The effect held for people diagnosed with depression. Trees, plants, and waterways didn't explain it. The birds themselves were the variable.

Now here's where Italy connects to Finland. 95% of parents in the Finnish city of Oulu let their babies nap outside starting at two weeks old. A 2008 study confirmed the children took longer, deeper naps outdoors. Parents reported letting them sleep in temperatures as low as -15°C. 66% said their babies were more active afterward compared to indoor naps. The practice started as a public health initiative from Nordic maternity clinics in the early 1900s and became cultural infrastructure.

The Italian kindergarten in this video is running the same program the Nordic countries have been running for a century. Outdoor naps, natural soundscapes, no white noise machines, no blackout curtains. Meanwhile, American kindergartens have been eliminating nap time entirely to squeeze in more instruction. A UMass study showed that children who skipped naps forgot 12% of what they learned that morning. The nap itself was the learning.

The irony is that the countries spending the least on sleep technology for children are producing the best sleep outcomes. No sound machines. No apps. Just birds.

[Michael(Poltfan)((JapanDayTripper)) @PoltFan69]

Gen Z boss in a bread line!
Gen Z boss in a bread line!

[Antoine @TROOVY]

Introducing Hanta Virus

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

Saw a patient today with a hemoglobin of 1.9 g/dL. For context, a level that low is almost incompatible with normal consciousness, but she walked right into the clinic on her own feet.

For three long years, she lived with crushing weakness and since last 6 months breathlessness from just walking across a room. Why didn’t she get help sooner? At first, it was because the kids had crucial school exams and later her husband was reluctant to deal with the hassle of a hospital admission.

Her health was treated as a background inconvenience.
When we dug deeper, it got worse. A year ago, her Hb was 6.4 g/dL. A doctor explicitly told them she needed immediate admission. The family refused, walked out with a basic strip of iron tablets, she took them for two weeks, forgot about them, and nobody in the house ever bothered to check on her or remind her.

She didn't even come to the hospital today because of the air hunger. She came because her periods had completely stopped for months. Her body was so profoundly starved of iron and oxygen that it literally shut down her reproductive axis just to divert what little blood she had left to her heart and brain.

It’s completely heartbreaking. A woman will literally bleed her body dry, gasp for air for years and keep working silently, only to be brought to a doctor when her normal functioning stops.

Please check on the women in your homes. Stop letting them normalize chronic exhaustion.

[M.E🪻 @Emmys]

There are so many worlds we don’t even know about

[NaN 🇱🇧🇵🇱☦️🍉 @heyjupiter__]

😭😭😭

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Kids dying of cancer almost always figure it out before anyone tells them. A 1978 study followed 40 children with leukemia, ages three to nine, and found that every single one of them had worked out they were dying. Most kept it secret, to protect their parents.

The researcher was an anthropologist named Myra Bluebond-Langner. She spent nine months living on a children's cancer ward, watching the kids put it together for themselves. Even the three-year-olds figured it out.

The most popular book on the ward was Charlotte's Web. When the kids understood what was coming, it became the only book they wanted read to them. They always picked the chapter where Charlotte dies.

There's a name for what was happening between those kids and their parents. Two sociologists, Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss, wrote about it in a 1965 book called Awareness of Dying. They called it "mutual pretense." Both sides know the truth, both pretend they don't, and nobody says the thing out loud.

The kids pick it up from their own bodies first. The fatigue gets worse week by week. They watch the nurses' faces tighten when they walk in. They see the kid in the next bed disappear one day and never come back. A pediatric psychologist named Barbara Sourkes calls this "the wisdom of the body," the part where your body can't lie to you about how sick you are.

The biggest study on this is from 2004. The New England Journal of Medicine published a Swedish survey of 449 parents whose children had died of cancer between 1992 and 1997. The researchers asked them whether they had talked to their child about death. Of the 147 parents who said yes, not one regretted it. Of the 258 who said no, 27 percent did. Among parents who could tell their child knew but stayed quiet, the regret rate climbed to 47 percent.

When a story like this goes viral, with the "beautiful lie" framing of a mother protecting her son, it sounds like the protection only goes one way. The data says it almost never does. The parent thinks they're shielding the child. The child has usually been shielding them right back.

[Ian Zelbo @ianzelbo]

“Flagship specs and proudly American”

Bro it’s a midrange chip and made in china