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[Rib @robertdotdev]

Oof. Nolan watched sinners and wanted a piece, didn’t he

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

Travis Scott will play the role of the Greek poet Demodocus in Ithaca that will sing the story of Troy.

He will sing the story with trap music in the background, combined with Greek harp or lyre.

[Rib @robertdotdev]

WHO said that?

[Insider (World News) @InsiderWN]

#BREAKING: World Health Organization (WHO) says “this is not the start of a COVID pandemic.”

[Rib @robertdotdev]

Is McDonald’s doing this as a bit now?

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Japanese pop star Maika Sasaki takes a bite out of McDonald's new 'Samurai Mac' ahead of its release

[Rib @robertdotdev]

WHO said this?

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

WHO says that hantavirus is not the “next Covid pandemic” after the cruise ship outbreak.

[Rib @robertdotdev]

WHO reported that???

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

Hantavirus exposure may have reached up to 12 countries, per WHO.

[Rib @robertdotdev]

WHO said that?

[Remarks @remarks]

JUST IN: World Health Organization says there are now 5 confirmed hantavirus cases.

[Rib @robertdotdev]

Genuinely how does Samsung do this? If Apple just quietly removed Siri, we’d be talking about how much of a failure it was for a long time.

[Ayushi☄️ @iyoushetwt]

Bro just disappeared like he was never part of the history.

[Rib @robertdotdev]

Facebook Marketplace is so broken @zuck @facebook. I got a 1 star review from a buyer that didn’t show up. I sat there for 45 minutes and he left ME a review saying I didn’t show up.

Worst of all, I can’t dispute it anywhere. You don’t even have a support email!

[Rib @robertdotdev]

Look, I feel for everyone here… but, maybe she should get a different job? Or a second job? I’m struggling just as much as the next person, but I choose to be employed by my employer and agreed to their salary. It’s not their fault I agreed to their terms???

[Bigwave 2.0 @BigWave372]

Fun to see actual billionaires taken down a peg and see how they treat their own employees.

[Rib @robertdotdev]

The pitt season 2 was a solid 6/10

[Rib @robertdotdev]

Big fan of Pope Leo, but “ask for peace” sometimes isn’t an option. They had nukes. Preaching peace is fine, but what’s your actual solution? Otherwise, this is nothing more than complaining.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[Rib @robertdotdev]

I’m being 100% serious, @DailyNoud is taking your spot since they post 100% original parody content instead of copying and pasting others’

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

Nothing is going to go viral on this app anymore lol

[Rib @robertdotdev]

1. This defeats the point of an “everything app”
2. Follows the same dumb Facebook/Messenger model that absolutely sucks
3. Now I’ll have two ways to access chats

[XChat @chat]

Your encrypted chats deserve their own app.

Pre-order now: https://t.co/TM8Lk7AMGV

[Rib @robertdotdev]

her what

[aimée 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @sapphyreblayze]

No, Ethel Cain is not sexually harassing you by posting her dick. You're just transphobic and also weird about non-sexual nudity.

[Rib @robertdotdev]

I see two

[chloe 🐇 @SapphoSys]

world's first enterprise solution to reach zero nines uptime

[Rib @robertdotdev]

This dude literally just said what the original post said but was waaaaayyyyy more verbose about it.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The research behind this is wild. If you played Pokémon as a kid, you have a tiny region in your brain that exists only because of Pokémon. Not a metaphor. Stanford put people in brain scanners and found it.

The study was published in Nature Human Behavior in 2019. They scanned 11 adults who grew up glued to their Game Boys and 11 who never played. When they showed both groups images of the original 151, the players' brains lit up in one specific spot every time. Same spot across all 11 people. The non-players showed zero response.

That spot is a little fold in the back of your brain that normally processes things like animal shapes and cartoon faces. In the Pokémon players, a chunk of it had been permanently reassigned. Their brains carved out a Pokémon department sometime around age 6 or 7 and just never took it down.

And the reason it ended up in the same place in everyone's brain comes down to the Game Boy itself. The screen was 2.6 inches. Every kid held it at roughly the same distance. So those 151 characters hit the exact same patch of each kid's retina, thousands of times, during the years when the brain is still soft enough to reorganize itself. Where an image hits your retina in childhood is what tells your brain where to build the wiring.

Reading works the same way. Humans invented writing about 5,000 years ago. There's zero evolutionary reason for a brain region dedicated to recognizing words. But every person who learns to read grows one, roughly the size of a dime, in the same part of the brain.

Brain-imaging research from 2018 actually watched it appear in children's heads as they learned their letters. It grew by quietly taking over nearby tissue that wasn't doing much yet. Stanford published a follow-up this year showing this region is way smaller or missing entirely in kids with dyslexia, and that 8 weeks of intense reading practice physically grew it back.

London taxi drivers show the same thing in a completely different part of the brain. Brain scans from a 2000 study found the region that stores mental maps had physically expanded, and the longer they'd been driving, the bigger it got. These drivers spend 3 to 4 years memorizing 25,000 streets before they get licensed. About half wash out.

The common thread is childhood. Harvard researchers trained young monkeys to recognize new shapes and they developed brand-new brain regions in predictable locations. Adult monkeys trained on the same shapes never got those structural changes. The young brain wires itself in a way the adult brain cannot replicate.

If you're wondering whether a Pokémon patch in your brain means you lost something else, no. The region sits alongside your normal visual processing areas, not on top of them. Your brain has hundreds of millions of neurons in that zone alone. The lead author noted that every participant in the study had gone on to earn a PhD.

[Rib @robertdotdev]

Daredevil BA is great. So much better than the first season. They just gotta fix the stupid fog/lens flares and this gosh-awful pacing. Lowkey cannot tell how time passed. Could not tell how long Karen went on the “run” leaving Josie’s

[Rib @robertdotdev]

Hopital

[frick @gofrickurself]

Rate my stream

[Rib @robertdotdev]

So far I’ve seen “He wasn’t a king,he’s not a king, he wont be a king #nokings” and this, which also implies he’s none of those things. Very funny stuff.

[Rib @robertdotdev]

Sister announced she is pregnant but is waiting to find out the gender.

I can’t wait to see if I’ll be an aunt or an uncle!