Sarah Cannavo

I write weird shit. The account for all my writing news & rants. I'll try to keep it professional, but no promises. #EndInfanticide #NoAI 👻👽🛸💀☠️🎃

[Sarah Cannavo @moodilymusing]

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Also, stop shouting at the moon. It doesn't know. Leave it alone already.

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

Throw it into a volcano immediately.

[MoundLore @MoundLore]

We built a world designed to save time and accidentally created a society that never gets to stop.

That’s impressive.
That’s not even failure. Thats spectacular failure. That’s artistic failure.

We invented the washing machine so nobody had to beat pants against a rock anymore, and somehow the average person now needs three calendars, six chargers, fourteen passwords, two backup codes, and a tiny robot in their pocket screaming that DoorDash has a coupon.

This is the future?

Your phone updates. Your car updates. Your TV updates. Your watch updates. Your refrigerator wants to join the WiFi.

Why?
So it can tell you the milk is gone?
I have eyes.

We eliminated letters, maps, checkbooks, bank lines, movie stores, phone books, film development, and half the errands people used to build a day around.

People should be bored out of their skulls. Instead everybody’s “slammed.”

Slammed doing what?
Clicking boxes to prove they’re not robots.

That’s where we are.
Human civilization spent 10,000 years inventing tools and the grand finale is a grown man squinting at blurry traffic lights so a website will let him pay the electric bill.

Truth is technology taught time how to follow us home.

[Emily 🪽 @virtualpigeons]

I am so beyond tired of the shilling of AI. I don't want an AI assistant on my phone, I don't want to generate AI photos/videos, I don't need ChatGPT to summarize everything for me or write something for me. I have zero use for AI in my day to day life, fuck off

[panopticon071645 @panopticon0745]

we don’t talk enough about learned helplessness being forced on the world by tech companies. people have circumnavigated the globe, written volumes, produced incredible symphonies and even made dinner without a recipe all without tech companies.

by telling us what we can’t do without them, they create a dependent mentality, and sadly people believe them.

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

the idea that nobody can write a ten page paper without chatgpt is wild 😭 people have literally produced entire libraries, philosophies, and scientific discoveries without any of this. let’s not act like basic writing is suddenly impossible.

[gwen ellis bell @wuthrinheights]

I'd rather make awful art than have a computer do it for me. To be able to see your improvement over time and the exhilaration of finally getting it right is unbeatable

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

[John Doomer @jonathandoomer]

The most dystopian part of AI isn’t the technology itself.

It’s the sheer amount of electricity and water being burned so corporations can automate things nobody asked to automate.

Entire rivers diverted so an app can generate “funny medieval Breaking Bad images.”

So LinkedIn users can produce motivational posts written in the tone of a traumatized flight attendant.

We are constructing cathedrals of computation to eliminate the burden of having an original thought.

And they keep selling this as progress.

Meanwhile the actual physical world decays.
Bridges collapse.
Cities rot.
Public transit looks post-apocalyptic.
Young people can’t afford houses.

But thank God the machine can generate 9,000 fake podcast clips per second.

Civilizations used to build aqueducts and railways.

Now we build data centers.

[⚡︎ @_sorrengailll]

"There's no way you can write a ten page paper without chatGPT"
WE COULD LITERALLY DO EVERYTHING THAT EVER HAPPENED IN HUMAN HISTORY WITHOUT CHATGPT WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

This dude wins

[Shane Donovan @SDDonovan]

What is even going on?! 😅😅

[Shane Donovan @SDDonovan]

Every. Single. Time.

[Imladris @__Imladris__]

Viggo Mortensen se encariñó tanto con el caballo que había usado durante el rodaje de El Señor de los Anillos que lo compró. También compró el caballo que había usado la doble de Arwen para regalárselo, ya que ella no se lo podía permitir. Todo un rey.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

These kids learned sign language so they could wish their deaf janitor a happy birthday.

More of this please.

[The Night Warrior @WarriorNight007]

Las Vegas man introduces his son to the firefighter Jeff Ohs who saved the dad's life 23 years ago when he was only 2 years old.

"When I was 2 years old my house caught on fire & I was trapped inside, I ended up dying that day & this firefighter, Jeff Ohs, saved me from that building & brought my back to life. Now 23 years later he is holding my 2 year old son. I literally wouldn’t be here without him" - Xavier Dimples

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

I was pulled over Wednesday morning by a TN State Trooper. When he came up to the car, he asked, 'Why are the two boys in the back seat not in car seats?' My answer was that the two little boys were my foster sons, whom I had just gotten the night before. I showed him paperwork and explained to him that when I got them, they had the clothes they were wearing and that was about it—no car seats, no toys, no coats, and so on. He was very nice to the kids and to me. He asked me for my phone number, and I gave it to him. His wife called me and asked about the boys. This morning, Officer Tidwell met me in Waverly; he and his wife had purchased gifts for the boys—not just the two boys in the back seat, but their older brother too.

I cannot thank him enough for the kindness he has shown these three boys. I never asked him for anything. He and his wife acted out of the kindness of their hearts. He showed these boys that there are very nice cops out there, and I hope he has left a lasting impression on them that cops are good. The boys have been telling everyone that 'cops are nice.' He has made their day. You hear way too much negative stuff nowadays, so here is some good news for you all.

Credit: Tennessee Highway Patrol