🔭Elsa VMSD

30smthg Luso ⚓

Vérité, Bonté, Beauté

Maman^3- oui je 😴

🕵️MataHari x BlaiseCendrars📑

[NO1ennn @N01ennn]

A 21-YEAR-OLD FROM CHINA RUNS 300 AI AGENTS AT ONCE. THE PART THAT MATTERS ISN'T THE SPEED, IT'S THAT NONE OF THEM CAN LIE TO HIM

he opens the dashboard and shows the swarm live, 300 Kimi K2.6 agents firing in parallel, then Opus 4.8 checking every single output against its source. this is not just a faster swarm. it is a loop that refuses to stop while anything is still wrong

he pointed it at 100 EV-market companies. first pass: 12 failed. wrong revenue, dead citations, empty fields. second pass: 3 failed. third pass: zero

this is not another agent demo. it is a system that catches its own mistakes before he reads a single row

[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

apprendre le mandarin c'est sans doute la meilleure décision que j'ai prise de ma vie, ça m'a ouvert des portes que j'aurais même pas osé imaginer

vous avez plein de gens qui débarquent en chine persuadés qu'ils vont parler anglais et signer des deals, sauf que les chinois s'en battent les couilles de l'anglais, ils s'en foutent de l'occident, ils ont rien à faire de nous des américains et encore moins des européens, ils avancent à une vitesse qu'on mesure même pas et ils le font sans demander l'avis de personne

sachez que le rapport de force a basculé, aujourd'hui c'est le reste du monde qui a besoin de la chine, de ses usines, de ses ingénieurs & de son capital

et c'est là que le mandarin change tout, apprendre leur langue ça prouve que vous faites l'effort d'entrer dans leur monde au lieu d'attendre qu'ils viennent dans le vôtre, ça envoie un signal de respect profond envers leur culture et dans un pays où une relation de confiance pèse plus lourd que n'importe quel contrat signé c'est exactement ce respect là qui vous ouvrira des portes que vous décrocherez nulle part ailleurs

le futur il se construit là-bas, soit vous apprenez leur langue soit vous regardez le train passer en parlant anglais à un mur

[🐝 @beha_hun]

Who would’ve thought that forcing ads every 15 minutes would make young people look for ad-free alternatives?

[Fahdou Marconi @FahdouMarconi]

Des hôpitaux scotchent des couvertures de survie aux fenêtres pour se protéger contre la chaleur.

[ginger spice @chloefor3]

true

[Jonas @jonaasw1]

cool internet things pt. 8

https://t.co/UsMqthpWbW — retro FM radio
https://t.co/7Q4c71lyVh — library of love letters
https://t.co/FnhqarAUXF — online lofi café
https://t.co/b4wFF88TiT — infinite zoom painting
https://t.co/pFz7iNLsYR — finger paint on screen
https://t.co/O9OodMhYSJ — turns text into a generative melody
https://t.co/LL5svcpRwd — visual index of humanoid robots

the legendary people behind these - @marty, @lychkel, @elissafied, @nikbaumg, @jad2222222, @itsjessyin, @jonofyi

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated.

His name is Qing Li.

He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea.

The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason.

Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005.

He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest.

Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty.

The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected.

The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly.

Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty.

Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month.

Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet.

The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation.

The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall.

When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab.

Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system.

This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress.

A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower.

The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down.

Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks.

They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone.

The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk.

After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature.

What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care.

But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free.

The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish.

Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens.

Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

— Marcus Aurelius

[🔭Elsa VMSD @ideospire]

@Kristinartz Yes 100%

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen

[🔭Elsa VMSD @ideospire]

@uncledoomer You know eating fennel (looks like an eye when you cut it) makes your eyesight better?
And walnuts (tiny brains) are good for your brain

[doomer @uncledoomer]

youre telling me that eating a fruit that has robust skin makes your skin more robust?

[🔭Elsa VMSD @ideospire]

@paraschopra Looks a lot like cells up close

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

I asked Fable to generate a completely new fractal that looks gorgeous but hasn’t been explored by any human before.

It generated what it called “The Mirage Set”, and it does look beautiful.

[Veronica, Collagen Scientist 🇵🇱 @celestialbe1ng]

Went to a Polish pharmacy in Warsaw and said: “my face gets a little puffy because I keep overdoing champagne with my friends, what would you recommend?” The pharmacist goes: “nettle tea.” Bought the nettle tea, drank the nettle tea and lo and behold… face depuffed. Incredible country.

[smoky 🛒 @losethewar]

i genuinely think about this every night

[Chandra @NCResq]

Who is Claude's brand designer.. they really cooked with the Fable 5 launch. Also, interesting how for a company at the cutting edge of tech, imagery used is explicitly more historical / hand drawn.. Open AI is explicitly futuristic by contrast

[𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 @Be_like_legend]

Scientists confirm that adults with ADHD use physical objects as external memory storage far more than neurotypicals.
That random receipt, old concert ticket, or shirt you haven’t worn in years isn’t clutter.
It’s your brain’s backup drive.
The object holds the memory, the context, the feeling.
Throwing it away feels like deleting a file your brain can’t access anymore

[🔭Elsa VMSD @ideospire]

@JezziiB Yupsies

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This sentence by Van Gogh hits hard:

“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”