Jason Silva

Storyteller | Futurist | Creator Shots of Awe | RTs for curiosity. No endorsement implied.

[Jason Silva @JasonSilva]

Announcing my new book: The Ecstatic States of America, a manifesto for a country of the mind! Avail here: https://t.co/AxT92fpFio

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

“Nadja is a book of parts,” Susan Rubin Suleiman writes. “Introspective autobiography, political manifesto, treatise on aesthetics, walking tour of Paris, photo album, celebration of the irrational...and, yes, love story.” https://t.co/bFVhKfFi2O

[Jason Silva @JasonSilva]

My new substack

https://t.co/SN6scR14SR

[Jason Silva @JasonSilva]

@PolarGlobal love to connect

[@PolarGlobal @PolarGlobal]

The new POLAR Loop is here! Silent tracking wrapped in a beautiful design. No disruptions. Just the data you need to boost your well-being – discreetly and accurately. Simple as that. ♾️

👉 https://t.co/5OWX5ApLZB

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

I repeat, you do NOT need self-help books. You need to get lost in immortal works of fiction.

You need to read 'The Brothers Karamazov' and slowly realize that each brother lives inside your own heart.

You need to witness how each of them wrestles with passion and hatred and guilt.

You need to wrestle with faith and doubt, love and resentment, freedom and duty. Then you must come to terms with the tension of these within you — with your own contradictions and shortcomings.

Great fiction will expand your capacity to see the world in its full complexity. You'll see that truth is often found not in the extremes, but in the tension between the extremes.

The questions that truly matter will not be solved by "self-help" or productivity hacks. These questions can never be finally "solved" by your own force of will or rational understanding.

Great fiction will help you battle for your soul.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

The illusion that we think in language, exposed by a study that asks people to report what they're thinking when probed at random intervals. “'People come in thinking to themselves that they are talking to themselves all of the time.' On beeps where they reported inner speech [the researcher] says, 'I would ask them what exactly they are saying to themselves—a pretty reasonable, straightforward question. When they [consistently] can’t answer that question, they come to the conclusion, "Well, I wasn’t really talking to myself. I don’t really talk to myself."’” I Didn’t Know My Mind Was So Strange Until I Started Listening to It https://t.co/klq56HWH04

[carlo rovelli @carlorovelli]

My new book, the most important for me, is coming out in English.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We’re sharing new research with @apolloaievals on reward-seeking—when models follow what they believe a grader rewards rather than what users or developers want—and a new method, Contrastive SDF, for measuring how strongly such beliefs shape behavior.
https://t.co/z1oZXP7ntj

[William A. Wallace, Ph.D. @WilliamWallace]

Two years of aerobic exercise made the hearts of out-of-shape 50-year-olds behave like hearts up to 20 years younger.

Researchers randomized 61 sedentary adults, average age 53, to two years of real training or gentle yoga, then measured heart stiffness the hard way: a catheter threaded straight into the heart. The trained group's fitness rose 18% and the main chamber went from stiff to elastic, taking in more blood at lower pressure. "20 years younger" describes the size of the stiffness improvement, not a literal age, but the effect was real.

The heart stiffening long blamed on age is partly the cost of sitting, and in middle age it's still reversible.

[Anthony Martinelli @AMartinelliWA]

87.6% of surveyed inflammatory bowel disease patients said marijuana improved their quality of life, while 61.3% said it improved their ability to live independently, according to a new study from the University of Florida. https://t.co/rdRpxccgge

[Shishir @ShishirShelke1]

JUST IN: Garmin just launched a screenless fitness band to go after Whoop.

CIRQA Smart Band is a $200 wearable with NO subscription required.

- Screen free design with a fabric ComfortFit band
- Up to 10 days battery life
- Tracks 80+ activities with automatic activity detection
- Heart rate, Pulse Ox, HRV, skin temperature, stress, sleep tracking, Body Battery & more
- Training Readiness, VO2 Max, Training Status, Recovery Time
- Connected GPS via paired Android or iPhone
- 5 ATM water resistance

Colors: Black, Captain Blue, French Gray & Mauve.

Priced at $199.99 and available to order starting July 24.

[Javier Hasse @JavierHasse]

Rastafari helped shape the world's spiritual understanding of cannabis.

But legal protection for sacramental ganja still depends on where you live, what license you can afford and whether police respect the law.

@meninvera maps the global patchwork at @HIGH_TIMES_Mag

https://t.co/TkJl14WOjn

[Ritwik Pavan @ritwikpavan]

NEW: @Withings just launched a smart scale built like a longevity checkup.

BodyScan 2 turns a daily weigh-in into a 90-second health scan, measuring body composition, heart signals, metabolic health, nerve response, and more.

-Tracks 60+ biomarkers from your bathroom floor
-3 inch color display built into the handle
-6-zone body composition for fat and muscle across arms, legs, torso, and abdomen
-Heart Age, Vascular Age, Pulse Wave Velocity, and Blood Pressure Insights
-6-lead ECG with AFib detection
-Nerve Response Score across hands and feet
-Visceral Fat Index, Metabolic Age, BMR, SpO2, and hydration

Priced at $600.

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

https://t.co/5ZfkNr1cdv

[Disclosure Day @disclosureday]

Watch Disclosure Day at Home Now. Encounter the unknown with exclusive bonus features including a 50min+ in-depth look at making the film. Available now: https://t.co/SYN4IQ7nV3

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

Props to OpenAI for publishing this post on some safety and alignment issues observed in internal deployments - there are many counter-incentives to publishing stuff like this, but by making it public we all get better info about safety at the frontier. https://t.co/7UKWrLSI3y

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

AI is putting life science at full throttle.
Perspective on the remarkable recent progress and concerns, by @pdhsu, in the new Ground Truths
clip below, with transcript, open-access
https://t.co/yPOsUacAa4

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

Christopher Nolan praises Curry Barker's #Obsession and says #TheOdyssey has whet his appetite to make more horror:

"I’ve always believed that horror as a genre has to be approached very carefully from a conceptual point of view. In other words, you have to have an amazing idea. When you go see a film like 'Obsession,' that’s an amazing idea. That movie works like a motherfucker. It’s not about the technical side. It’s not about what technical itches I would have to scratch. It’s about story. So I’m always looking."

Nolan's full THR interview: https://t.co/F7C1vfYabw

[Google Gemini @GeminiApp]

Upgraded versions of our Flash and Flash-Lite models are rolling out today at https://t.co/382WL5xSvc and in the app.

Try them by selecting “3.6 Flash” or “3.5 Flash-Lite” from the model dropdown menu at https://t.co/382WL5xSvc or in the app.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We're offering grants of up to $50,000 in Claude usage credits to researchers accelerating cures for rare diseases.

This is our first focused call within AI for Science, our program supporting scientists using Claude to speed up discovery. https://t.co/rZEmwh07cd