Jodi Elizabeth

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[Fun Viral Vids @Fun_Viral_Vids2]

We were absolutely floored by the millions of you that watched us make silly water sillouettes on our driveway last summer. We are starting out the summer the only way we know how, and this time it’s all about movies! What else do you want to see? We have a whole summer ahead, a driveway and a hose. The possibilities are endless!!!

[Ryan Endoh @RyanEndoh]

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8 years of @BradMBradford & all I got was a rusted balcony guard at 500 Dawes.

I recall the discussions I had with Bradford about 500 Dawes. He had no interest in utilizing the City's remedial action powers & spoke highly of the 20k in fines the City imposed at that time.

[Aviator Anil Chopra @Chopsyturvey]

Interesting

[Jodi Elizabeth @theopenedbook]

@BlueJays @alejandro_kirk @MLB @MLB_Mexico @MexicoBeis @mlbespanol We need you back @alejandro_kirk ❤️⚾️🐦

[Jodi Elizabeth @theopenedbook]

@nofrillsCA Very disappointed and dissatisfied with my PC brand bagged salad purchase today - a couple of hours ago!

[Jodi Elizabeth @theopenedbook]

Class act❤️

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

this was so sweet. Stephen Colbert just ended his final episode of The Late Show while singing "Hello, Goodbye" with Paul McCartney. his family and the show's crew then joined them on stage before Paul turned off the lights to the Ed Sullivan Theater

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

Frankly, heads should roll over this.

At Pearson, and at Transport Canada.

Many Canadians have lost trust because they feel like our institutions have become corrupted and captured by insiders.

They’re not wrong, and there is rarely any accountability.

[Jodi Elizabeth @theopenedbook]

The @PierrePoilievre ads are terrible. Talking points borrowed. Delivery uninspired. Setting obviously staged. 👎👎 So grateful he is NOT PM.

[Jodi Elizabeth @theopenedbook]

@alexhuot 👍

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

This sounds nice, but it's a great way to undermine the welfare state.

The strongest welfare states in the world (the Nordics) tax everyone, including nurses. And they give everyone universal healthcare, childcare, pensions, education in return.

When the middle class has skin in the game, they defend the system. When welfare is 'just for the poor', it becomes a poor program: stigmatized, underfunded, easy to gut.

That's why billionaires keep pushing this idea. The real scandal isn't that this nurse pays $12k.

It's that Jeff Bezos pays $0.

[Jodi Elizabeth @theopenedbook]

@elonmusk

[Jodi Elizabeth @theopenedbook]

@elonmusk BS. Your contributions to evolving consumer preferences and technological advances are interesting, but a lot of people struggle to survive due to unfortunate and often unforeseen circumstances. Giving to health or education can make a difference.

[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.

[Jodi Elizabeth @theopenedbook]

Groggy has game ⚾️

[MLB @MLB]

Padres pitcher Mason Miller and Grogu starred in a new Star Wars promo 👀

And Mason got a little help from Grogu on a pitch 🤣

[Sportsnet @Sportsnet]

"I definitely did #NeedElectrolytes." 😂

We asked Kevin Gausman to further explain some of his most popular social media posts 📱

[Jodi Elizabeth @theopenedbook]

@TheAIWorld22 Unimpressed.

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

If this bird filed a paternity lawsuit against President Trump, it would win 100%. 🤣🤣

[Jodi Elizabeth @theopenedbook]

Entertaining and insightful commentary. Worth a #Follow

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

180,000 of you now.

I satirize from the perspective of insiders who will never say these things out loud. Pentagon auditors. Hedge fund compliance officers. Health insurance denial architects. Congressional ethics staffers. Oil traders with 21-minute windows. HR directors who renamed layoffs. Surveillance vendors. Opioid settlement lawyers. Deportation logistics coordinators. AI safety researchers who watched the guardrails come off.

To every subscriber who reads the quiet parts with me. To everyone who's left a comment, shared a post, or tagged someone with "this is literally my industry." You're the reason this work reaches the people it's about.

I write confessions. You make them travel. The community interaction is genuinely the best part of this — not the numbers, but the replies where someone says "I thought I was the only one who noticed this."

You weren't. You just didn't have a narrator yet.

Thank you. The work continues because you keep showing up for it.

[Jodi Elizabeth @theopenedbook]

❤️❤️❤️

[steve cornwell @steve_cornwell]

More protests this week inside Queen’s Park with a group of seniors disrupting question period wearing “Stop Doug’s Gravy Train” t-shirts. #onpoli

[Jodi Elizabeth @theopenedbook]

@BlueJaysDad @thehazelmae And another one! I really need to add this to my collection. And, can’t wait for her book. ❤️🙌❤️