Philip Y.

Fond of food, travel and languages. Tweets in English, 中文 et quelquefois en français.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

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.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

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.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

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.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

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.

[동 @Neast_Shine]

그 유리가 아닌 것 같은데

[Philip Y. @philipymf]

@harukaawake @grok Some people say the information shown on this screen is Chinese not Japanese. Is this true?

[Philip Y. @philipymf]

「新加坡共產」？李光耀啲骨灰都要告 Yoonbros 誹謗

[Nine-tailed Fox 🇰🇷 @saber_k086]

Yoonbros claiming that Singapore is a communist country may be the funniest thing I read this year

[Philip Y. @philipymf]

@DrTaraO The news report in your link says this report is based on a report from Taiwanese media. Also reporters in this report mentioned that this should not easily happen based on the opinion of Korean experts. So these 4 demands could be said as baseless?

[Stanley @Stanleysobest]

一个男人真正的“废掉”，
几乎从来不是某一次巨大失败，
而是长期待在一个
不痛、不饿、不危险、
但也不可能翻身的状态里。

他以为自己只是累了，
其实是已经慢慢
交出了对人生的控制权。

1. 沉溺于廉价多巴胺

短视频、游戏、爽文、色情，
这些东西的共同点只有一个：
立刻爽、毫无门槛、不用负责。

它们会迅速拉高你的多巴胺阈值，
让你对一切需要
长期投入、延迟回报的事情
失去耐心。

当一个男人
再也坐不住、
看不完一本书、
坚持不了健身、
熬不了创业的冷板凳时，
他已经被“爽”阉割了。

2. 躲进“假性稳定”的安全区

在一个没前途的单位，
干着谁都能替代的活，
日子看似稳定，
实则毫无抗风险能力。

拒绝学习、
拒绝升级、
拒绝新事物，
用一句“平淡是真”
给自己的停滞找台阶。

时代一旦拐弯，
这种人
最先出局。

3. 本事不大，脾气不小

在外面低头哈腰，
回到家里重拳出击。

把失败的愤怒，
发泄给最亲近的人，
用情绪掩盖能力不足。

一个控制不了情绪的男人，
本质上
已经放弃了
对人生的管理权。

4. 认知闭合，一辈子卖命

只相信“干得多就赚得多”，
听不懂资本、
看不懂结构、
看不上风口。

他们嘲笑投资，
排斥理财，
把所有新机会
都叫作“歪门邪道”。

结果就是：
用身体
硬扛通胀，
用时间
对抗系统，
输是必然的。

5. 长期泡在“无效社交”里

酒局、烟局、
抱怨局、
互相吹捧、
一起骂强者。

这种圈子最大的功能，
就是让所有人
一起心安理得地不进步。

一个男人的上限，
基本等于
他最常混在一起的
那几个人。

6. 对身体彻底失控

熬夜、暴饮暴食、
烟酒不离手，
肚子越来越大，
体力越来越差。

身体一垮，
精气神就散了。

当一个男人
走几步路都喘，
他内心那股
“想赢”的狠劲
也早就没了。

7. 遇事逃避，精神断奶

问题来了，
先找借口，
再找替罪羊，
最后推给父母、伴侣、环境。

不愿承担责任，
却幻想命运眷顾。

一个不敢
为自己选择买单的男人，
在任何竞争里
都毫无胜算。

8. 被消费主义驯化

为了面子，
透支未来；
为了虚荣，
背上负债。

把本该变成资产的钱，
换成贬值最快的消费品。

看起来光鲜，
实则脆弱，
一旦收入出问题，
整个人立刻崩盘。

9. 停止深度思考

不读书，
不复盘，
不独处思考。

大脑里
只剩八卦、情绪、立场对骂。

当一个男人
不再思考，
他就会
被操纵、被收割、被替代，
沦为系统里的
一个消耗品。

10. 放弃野心，交出选择权

这是最致命的一步。

他开始认命，
开始合理化失败，
开始告诉自己
“这样也挺好”。

当一个男人
不再渴望选择权，
他的人生
其实已经
提前结束了。

废掉一个男人最稳妥的方式，
不是打击他，
而是让他一直待在
舒服、廉价、
没有风险、
也没有可能性的环境里。

清醒，
是唯一的自救入口。

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[Alex Vacca @itsalexvacca]

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying.

Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt.

Here's what 4 months of data revealed:

(hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

[Zito @_Zeets]

The kids are cooked

[Adam Wren @aswren]

I’m having way too much fun with these. Any ideas?

[Ring Hyacinth @ring_hyacinth]

你可以上传图片给 GPT-4O，然后让他帮你画四格漫画！

[Philip Y. @philipymf]

@ADM_Welsly @saber_psvm 「大東亞共榮圈」😧

[Rainier @mtrainier2020]

欧洲自己断送了自己的内存产业。现在电池产业也入土了。国内第二梯队的企业去教这些人，这些人都学不会。 如果放到波兰，可能成功。
LG把电池厂设置在波兰是有道理的。 哎… 现在波兰居然成了欧洲全村的希望了。

[Philip Y. @philipymf]

@thatshirleylee @TigerLoDau Anthony Tran 以前喺 Facebook 係有人識嘅五毛（如果係同一個）

[Philip Y. @philipymf]

@yotakeoldtales @fightforhordeTW Hokkien 在星馬一帶就是「福建話」
實際上也是同一種語言

[Philip Y. @philipymf]

@PekingMike The only legit use of this PRC licence plate is for those cars registered in Hong Kong to legally run in mainland China. Its usual companion is a HK-style (pretty much UK standard) licence.

I believe this is for the car owner to show off wealth.

[Tasty Japan @TastyJapan]

【たこ焼きにしか見えない！】たこ焼き器で肉巻きおにぎり / Pork Rice Ball #tastyjapan