Yup exactly.

I concur 👍

Ha ha — this got a like from @redblobgames.com … yeh they’ve done a lot more with grids than I ever have!

I must acknowledge that I am uncharacteristically and perhaps unreasonably riled up by this paper, but to double down on my "dying on this hill" -- here's a word cloud of all the times "cognitive {x}" is used in the paper, for different values of x.

It's such an utter load of "cognitive slop"!

Agree to disagree on this paper. How does their novel test have any validity, to be able to make such strong and sweeping claims?

Its claims may be true… but the “science” they’ve used to get there is not able to support any such claims.

This is preprint un-reviewed stuff.

As an underling, I always found the threat “be quiet or I’ll replace you with a very simple cron job” to be effective at keeping middle-managers in line.

The discussion in this podcast is very illuminating regarding this “study”

open.spotify.com/episode/0XLG...

The alleged neuroscience behind this preprint is really very spectacularly shitty.

The article is getting so much attention but they didn’t do the science properly.

I’ll follow up with a podcast link in a moment.

Ah but have you tried yoga?

Ordinarily I think Labor can rest on being just 1 half step to the left of the major RWNJ parties. Suddenly, with no strong opposition on the right, they have to stand on their own feet and get into actual policy debates with other parties.

At least: that’s what I hope will happen. Please 🙏

My eyes be leaking. Stop it Mann.

Curse typos.

While writing this I overheard someone say to someone else — regarding their computer — ‘all my letters are in capitals except the “i”’s.’

This alone unleashes chains of thought, uncovers other curses. I wonder if it relates to the Turkish alphabet. I wonder why we even have “capital letters”.

I sent this skoot prematurely as I was late for a thing. I wanted to hone in on the topic of typography in particular. Knowledge of typography leads to opinions on typography which leads to misery.

I was going to say “except curses” but you’ve proven me wrong there. Cues you!