Psychic Hernia

Used to run 'Hot Biscuits' the record shop off Calder Street.
Rehab connoiseur.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Tweet: "fuck this brownie is so good rn"

Ten immediate replies: "Well said. Brownies combine eggs, granulated sugar, and cocoa powder in a way that quietly elevates the culture. They're not just a snack, they're a vibe."

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1995, 45% of British milk was delivered to the doorstep before seven in the morning by a milkman in an electric float.

In 2026, it is 3%.

The milkman has been effectively abolished inside one human generation. The supermarket walked in, undercut the cost by a few pence per pint, and the daily ritual of British household life, glass bottles clinking on the step at half past six, was gone by the time the children of 1995 had finished secondary school.

The cost to the customer was a few pence per pint.

The cost to the system was, in rough order: the glass bottle that was washed and reused hundreds of times, replaced with a plastic bottle that is used once and recycled imperfectly. The local dairy that supplied one town, replaced with a national processor that supplies half the country. The milk that arrived four hours after milking, replaced with milk that arrived three days after milking after a journey of 200 miles. The conversation on the doorstep, replaced with a self-checkout beep.

The milkman himself, incidentally, had the lowest recorded rate of heart disease of any male occupation in Britain. He walked approximately 12 miles a day, finished work by 10am, and ate a cooked breakfast. He has been replaced, in the same delivery role, by a zero-hours Amazon Flex driver sitting in a Ford Transit.

A small piece of British daily infrastructure was quietly demolished.

Nobody was consulted.

The milk is still being produced. It is just being produced further away, transported further, kept in plastic, and sold at a different margin, by a different business, to a customer who never sees who milked the cow.

The milkman knew your name.

The self-checkout does not.

[Psychic Hernia @stultify_me]

@icantevenfilms fucking garbage

[Psychic Hernia @stultify_me]

@MusicRadar Did the offer get cancelled or did you run out of licences? Got newsletter but no code.

[weird medieval guys @WeirdMedieval]

can anyone recommend youtube channels by knowledgeable crackpots I’m so sick of overproduced garbage

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

God I hate this.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet.

1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output.

The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice.

Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet.

And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.”

This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one.

We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that.

The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

You'll want to be sitting down for this bit.

Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends.

And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇

[Nate Hake @natejhake]

Centuries of human culture, stolen & fed to a machine so it can regurgitate AI slop for tech companies to force-feed the masses in an attempt rot our brains enough that we can be controlled via a surveillance techno-capitalist state.

[Psychic Hernia @stultify_me]

@ThatTimWalker One needs a functioning forth estate for pertinent news to gain traction.

[shy🎀 @mewfeuille]

I wonder if people are aware how many seldom-seen and experimental films are just sitting on Vimeo, often uploaded by the directors themselves. Here's a thread of some interesting stuff:

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Over 20% of YouTube is now "AI slop" and they’re making millions https://t.co/QOPW14gpAk

[Psychic Hernia @stultify_me]

@Noah_Daren @TheCinesthetic So why did you use chatgpt to write your reply?

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Bingeing TikTok reels may be hazardous to your well-being.

71 studies, >98k people: The more short-form videos teens and adults watched, the more they struggled with attention, self-control, and stress and anxiety.

Read a book. Watch a movie. Long live longform.

[Floure 🐇💜 @FloureDistrict]

EDM LABELS & ARTISTS:

SELL. DIGITAL. DOWNLOADS. PLEASE!!!

I moved off streaming entirely recently, and would be happy to buy your releases!
Bandcamp, Gumroad, your website, ANYWHERE PLEASE.

I get FLACs of your music, you get $10 (instead of $0.01 from streaming revenue). Deal?

[Psychic Hernia @stultify_me]

@Morgan4201999 @khemikal1 @ClinicsIntegro Hi do you mind me asking which pharmacy you're with that's so cheap? I'm with curaleaf and all the decent strains like sourdough, pink diesel and electric honeydew are £85 for 10 grams.

[Tom Morgan @tomowenmorgan]

Horrifying banger

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Stellan Skarsgård on his worldviews

"My father told me something when I was very small to instill confidence in me: 'Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody’s worth less.' It is an egalitarian view that I’ve carried around in my life. That’s why I am for free schools, free universities, free health care, and free babysitting. Because our society could afford it"

"In America, people think social democracy is some kind of communism. They think capitalism is freedom. It’s not. It’s only freedom to exploit people"

(via @vulture)

[Psychic Hernia @stultify_me]

@SketchesbyBoze I don't get why someone would willingly read a book shat out by a computer. If you're desperate to escape to a fantasy setting that much just lie down, close your eyes and make up your own dream world. As many Starks with direwolves as you want.