Ignacio

Software engineer

[Beaver 🦁 @beaverd]

"you're absolutely right! I shouldn't have launched those nukes -- that's on me."

[PsyPost.org @PsyPost]

A new neuroimaging study reveals that teenagers who "outgrow" ADHD share the same brain chemistry development as teens who never had the disorder, while those with persistent ADHD show abnormal, rising levels of the neurotransmitter glutamate. https://t.co/hLGMeZiTRY

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

They never stood a chance.

[Jason - macro & investing @MacroJason]

Those who are new to real estate might make the mistake of watching American youtubers and think what they say about real estate is applicable globally. It is not.

There are hundreds of real estate markets worldwide - each with it's own independent dynamics.

In some developed markets, real estate has turned into a hyper financialized speculative asset. In selected emerging markets, real estate is still very much a hard asset.

E.g. Romania where 95% of their households own their own homes without any mortgage is a fundamentally different real estate market to Netherlands - where only 8% of the population own their property mortgage free.

[Dr Alexander D. Kalian @AlexanderKalian]

The AI bubble reveals a deeper problem: there aren't enough people doing tangible real-world work.

VC funds pouring money into AI is a symptom of too much idle capital desperately looking for places to park itself.

The explosion of AI vibe-coded apps and B2B SaaS tools - which almost nobody actually downloads or finds useful - shows there are too many people building software to "help" businesses, compared to people actually running those businesses.

The same pattern appears in AI drug discovery: for every founder genuinely trying to discover drugs with AI, there are 20+ VCs, incubators, conferences, consultancies, CROs, patent lawyers, and marketers all trying to take a cut - while bearing almost none of the real risk.

This extends across AI in general. For every person actually building AI, there's an army of project managers, executives, marketers, and consultants talking about it in meetings.

We have a chronic shortage of people willing to take real risks: developing new drugs, opening new mines, building factories, inventing machines, constructing homes, or growing food.

Everyone prefers the safer, more reliably compensated roles - finance bro, consultant, tech bro, lawyer, salesperson, marketer.

Traditional white-collar work is necessary for coordination and efficiency. But do we really need this many people whose main job is planning, streamlining, and negotiating with each other?

[Uzi @uzairansar]

So Codex has a bug that could kill your SSD in under a year...

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

KYC soon required to use a computer

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Think I found the worst Product Hunt comment of all time

[Hirbod @hirbod]

It’s so crazy how hard we got greenwashed and brainwashed in Germany to believe it’s normal and healthy to sit in your office at 32°C (~90°F) and just sweat your butt cheek soup into your chair until you collapse. I ordered three AC's today. Can't wait for Friday.

[Brandur @brandur]

I just found Brave's "Force Paste" option that bypasses the work of sordid retards who prevent pasting into form fields. This might have just endured me to this browser for life.

[Sean @sean_from_earth]

Very surprised by such a naive take. I am constantly surprised by how many otherwise smart people have such a strange blind spot when it comes to sovereignty and liberty, especially given European history.

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

you can do this by going to a meditation retreat or similar, it's easier than it sounds. the first few hours are the hardest part and then at some point you exit the matrix and re-enter physical reality out of zombie screen daze and it's fine

[Morayita @moriah_bridges]

The most manipulative but effective thing I’ve ever done in my life was when I read an article about how children moderate their behavior to protect their self-identity, so if a child believes he’s smart, for example, he’ll intentionally study and try to do well to protect his image of himself.

Anyway, I would pull kids aside with behavioral issues at church and tell them, “David (obviously fake name), you’re such a kind person and such a good listener. I can see that in you. Thank you for always listening.” “Little Annie, thank you for taking such good care of the babies around you. You’re going to be such a good big sister. Can you be in charge of watching Sally?”

They would ALWAYS behave afterward. ALWAYS. Worked like a charm. Morally questionable because it wasn’t initially true, but I kind of willed it into existence. Tbf, I did think that they had that in them or I wouldn’t have tried.

Will publish longitudinal results of this method once my kid is old enough to report back.

[Avi Roy @agingroy]

The eye doctor has been taking a photo of the back of your eye for years. You glance at it for two seconds, they file it, you go home.

Turns out that photo was holding onto something nobody was reading.

The retina is the one place a doctor can look straight at your blood vessels and nerve tissue without cutting you open. It’s brain tissue, pushed to the surface. For a long time we knew the signal was probably in there. We just couldn’t pull it out.

A new study in Lancet Digital Health shows an AI can. Feed it that same routine retina photo and it reads out a picture of how the brain is aging.

A photo they were already getting, turned into an early look at the brain.

[Amanda Askell @AmandaAskell]

The view that we shouldn't do more medical scans because incidental findings cause a lot of harm doesn't sit well with me. It seems like the issue it points to isn't the scan but the response to it. If you see something on a scan but have no other symptoms, you could ignore it.

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

A high-protein breakfast improved concentration scores before lunch compared with skipping breakfast.

A carb-heavy breakfast didn’t.

The protein breakfast was simple: skyr + oats (32g protein).

[Hugo Lowell @hugolowell]

NEW @WIRED: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos sought to ingratiate themselves to Trump after the 2024 election — who in return mocked them behind their backs, per new book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

— Zuckerberg sent Trump a photo of a letter one of his grade-school kids wrote that looked forward to the “golden age of america”

— Bezos denigrated The Washington Post to Trump and described the newspaper as one of his worst financial investments

— Trump showed off texts from Zuckerberg and Bezos to other guests, including to Elon Musk, who mocked them as “Firstclass groveling”

— Months after their dinner, Bezos tried to get a favor from Trump, telling him it was a risk for SpaceX to dominate govt space contracts

— Bezos suggested Trump tell Deputy Defense Secy Feinberg to ensure“contractor diversity,” opening the door for Blue Origin to get contracts

— But Trump ultimately screwed over Bezos after he reconciled with Musk, and instead expanded SpaceX’s access to US space launch sites

— WIRED obtained the details from “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump” by @maggieNYT and @jonathanvswan ahead of June 23 release

[“paula” @paularambles]

okay midjourney, now make my spine more studio ghibli

[Rille @rillau144]

Bin im Krankenhaus und die Ärztin benutzt KI??????????

[Anna Riedl @AnnaLeptikon]

When reading @wolftivy's “Don’t Learn Value From Society,” I was struck by an eerie sense of déjà vu, as if I’d read the opening word for word somewhere else. The piece begins with personal tragedy: many of Wolf’s childhood friends are dead—victims of drugs and social collapse. Fentanyl may have been the immediate cause, but the deeper rot was ideological and cultural.

Then it hit me, the introduction reads uncannily like the Author’s Note to Philip K. Dick’s “A Scanner Darkly”. Both are meditations on the seduction of false values, cultural self-destruction, and the slow, disbelieving realization of consequence.
Few lines capture the phenomenology of our current cultural and political moment better than this one from Dick:

“They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed--run over, maimed, destroyed--but they continued to play anyhow. We really all were very happy for a while, sitting around not toiling but just bullshitting and playing, but it was for such a terrible brief time, and then the punishment was beyond belief: even when we could see it, we could not believe it. [...] And nature cracked down on us. We were forced to stop by things dreadful.[...] If there was any "sin," it was that these people wanted to keep on having a good time forever, and were punished for that.”

And when I say it describes the current moment, I don’t mean the playing in the street, I am talking about the car running over the children and nature cracking down on them.

After the friends he lost to drugs and culture, Wolf’s essay goes on to discuss the problem of deriving a trustworthy social perspective. How not to fall for being a child playing in the street when many do: a problem too large and complex to build alone, when it has not been maintained by tradition, family, and shared wisdom. Without this, individuals flail, and so do nations and humanity as a whole.
“Don’t Learn Value From Society” concludes with a call to rebuild value clarity and revive a real social fabric for ourselves and those close to us. This is urgent, difficult and subversive and requires studying hard sources of value, like ancestral wisdom, tradition, and direct engagement with reality. I wish I could share the optimism; the times do feel pressing these days. Either way, the article is well worth your time, I’ll link to it in the first comment.

But Dick was wrong, there IS a moral to the story. Don't get hit by cars if you understand the cause-and-effect, for one.