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[shida @shidanyaa]

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[iwsfutcmd @iwsfutcmd]

once met a guy in sf who told me he was heading to Bali to lead a coding bootcamp

i said that sounded really cool and fun, and asked him how he was planning on dealing with the language barriers

"what? what do you mean?"

"like, do you already speak Indonesian? are you gonna have a translator for the classes?"

"oh no, these classes aren't for *Indonesians*"

i stopped talking to him after that.

[shida @shidanyaa]

I despise the ‘this is not europe this is (insert non-western country, the more islam conservative poor the better)’ bait

[shida @shidanyaa]

Clingy Oyen 😛

[shida @shidanyaa]

You @airarabiagroup cancelled the first segment of the flight without informing us via email! We found out only when contacting you through chatbot! Getting a hold on you via call was impossible! Terrible service.

[Mujahid Mansor @mojasama]

The Pope is 100% correct here.

Also it's embarrassing that no Muslim scholar has displayed such moral and intellectual clarity over AI and the undeniable experiences fundamental to human existence beyond the cliche and lazy "everything must be used in moderation" platitude.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas
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[Kuala Lumpur Reporter 🇲🇾 @KL_Reporter]

A Petronas station in Taman Setiawangsa has sparked a creative idea to tackle the issue of bag recycling and avoid the 20‑sen charge for plastic bags.

The outlet has set up a dedicated spot where the public can donate used bags and are placed for customers to reuse at no cost.

[shida @shidanyaa]

Superstore.
I started this with low expectation, ended up loving it so much! Teared up a few times along the way. They definitely put all the extreme personalities on the show which sadly not exaggeration at all. Perfect (unfortunate realistic) ending as is.

[shida @shidanyaa]

Drama/series thread.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

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.

[Bitcoin Malaya @bitcoinmalaya]

Many people don’t realize what a “Stacked Pension” actually means.

When a regular civil servant like a nurse retires after 30 years, they only receive one consolidated pension.

But for politicians, the laws allow them to collect multiple separate pensions simultaneously for the different roles throughout their careers.

For example:

• Lim Guan Eng: Eligible for 4 pensions (MP + Cabinet Minister + ADUN + Chief Minister)

• Hannah Yeoh: Eligible for 4 pensions (MP + Cabinet Minister + ADUN + State Speaker)

• Dr. Wan Azizah: Eligible for 3 pensions (MP + Cabinet Minister + ADUN)

Note: In 2024, PMX Anwar Ibrahim confirmed that Dr. Wan Azizah decided to waive her multiple streams and voluntarily draw only one pension out of moral responsibility

[shida @shidanyaa]

Film log thread.

[shida @shidanyaa]

Materialists (2025)

[Mohammed El-Kurd @m7mdkurd]

4 years ago today an Israeli sniper killed Shireen Abu Akleh

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Israeli settlers blocked children in Masafer Yatta from playing football on their village field threatened with demolition. The settlers sat before them chanting in Hebrew to intimidate them, while the children watched helplessly. How much longer will this continue?

[Blunt @Shinamuller]

Friends , let me tell you about Sara Larijani. This woman hits you like a desert storm wrapped in pure intellect. Daughter of that philosopher king Ali Larijani, carrying his Kant soaked fire and turning it into something alive, something dangerous for the old empires.
She stands there speaking with the calm fury of someone who actually knows. No borrowed slogans, no weak apologies. She talks about 1979 like it was the day Iran stood up and said we will build our own damn future with our own hands, our own minds, our own blood. Sovereign. Indigenous. Unbowed.
You listen to her and you feel the weight of real history, not the fake textbook garbage they feed everyone. She makes you believe that one nation breaking the chains can shake the whole rotten system. Other countries watching, Africa, Asia, South America, they see her and they start dreaming dangerous dreams again. Dreams of real independence.
Sara is not just speaking. She is carrying her father’s philosophical thunder and blasting it straight into the face of imperialism. & damn if it doesn’t feel like truth for once.
This is the kind of woman the world needs more of. Sharp. Rooted. Fearless.
Respect. Deep respect.

[E me ka🩺 @Emeka3345]

When you remember the exact slide during a test but didn't pay for memory premium

[Ethel Braithwaite @Ethelbrait1941]

Never stop saying "dozen" and "half dozen". Never stop using the word you read in an old novella. Never stop using your regional jargon. Don't succumb to an internationalized English stripped of its whimsy and romanticism in the name of streamlining global commerce.

[The Star @staronline]

The proposed budget cuts for the Health Ministry will only affect non-essential expenditure such as overseas travel, official functions and meetings, and overtime allowances.

Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad gave an assurance that “essential healthcare services �� including patient treatment, emergency care, all core essential services, as well as the supply of medicines and medical devices – will not face any reduction”.

However, the ministry had already put in place cost-cutting measures in March, before the Finance Ministry directive to slash budgets.

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