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elder millennial | computer engineer with a history degree | cats | cannabis | sci-fi | cosmic horror | great outdoors
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jennanewman.bsky.social
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.

Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47 percent drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, and critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage. Eighty-three percent of heavy Al users couldn't recall key points from what they'd "written, compared to only 10 percent of those who composed unaided. Neutral reviewers described the Al-assisted writing as "soulless, empty, lacking individuality." Most alarmingly, after four months of reliance on Chat GPT, participants wrote worse once it was removed than those who had never used it at all. The study warns that when writing is delegated to Al, the way people learn fundamentally changes.”
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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dmercer.bsky.social
Finally enough snow to break out the squirrel picnic table!
Squirrel sitting at a miniature wooden "picnic table" that has a red cup on top of it. The cup is full of seed, which the squirrel is eating. The ground is covered with snow.
November 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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cait.bsky.social
i put the holiday house on top of the heated mat
orange cat inside his holiday house
November 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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elbarto.bsky.social
Wow!! Cool!!
Chemical and genomic analyses performed on Lanmaoa asiatica at the Natural History Museum of Utah have revealed no traces of any known psychoactive compounds, suggesting that something entirely new is waiting to be discovered. In other words, Lanmaoa asiatica appears to harbor a chemical compound capable of reliably evoking this unusual experience of lilliputian hallucinations. The discovery of that chemical may, in fact, hold the key to understanding one of the most mysterious dimensions of the human psyche.
November 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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pantspants.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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mariabustillos.com
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November 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social
Thank you for the huge donation of pumpkins!! Everyone is loving them today!
November 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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thatsgoodweb.bsky.social
Hiroo Isono, Emerald Dreams, 2003
Hiroo Isono, Emerald Dreams, 2003
November 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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cait.bsky.social
this shoe is mine. i'm allowed to have this shoe
orange cat standing over a black shoe
November 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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jasonfest.bsky.social
We play until we pass out. #caturday
Black and white kitten halfway out of a blue and purple space themed tube. The kitty has his mouth open while in mid-swat with a polydactyl paw. Black and white kitten asleep on a purple and blue couch
November 29, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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pantspants.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Monitoring #squirrelcrimes together. 🥹
Photo of my fluffy white cat Francie and black and white kitten Marcel fading oit at a wooded scene together.
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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tgwood505.bsky.social
My daily #peace offering. #vermont #photography #photographer #photographers #nature #protectyourpeace #reflections #nature #mothernature #naturephotography #northeastkingdom
Clouds reflected in the rippled surface of a pond.
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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tgwood505.bsky.social
My daily #peace offering. #vermont #photography #photographer #photographers #nature #protectyourpeace #reflections #nature #mothernature #naturephotography #northeastkingdom
Delicate pink clouds at sunset over a still pond.
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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maroochie.bsky.social
Sunrise
#sunrise
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This is a photo of the sunset this morning. I only cropped the bottom slightly, no other editing. Fuji X-T4, 44mm, f/8, iso640, 1/30s
November 23, 2025 at 7:46 PM
turing-machine.bsky.social
M42 Orion Nebula , 30min unprocessed, #astrophotography #astronomy
M42 Orion Nebula , looks like red explosion against a grey white concave lid
November 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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pantspants.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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alexwinter.com
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12d
Bye bye, “DOGE”.

It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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tgwood505.bsky.social
My daily #peace offering. #vermont #photography #photographer #photographers #nature #protectyourpeace #reflections #nature #mothernature #naturephotography #northeastkingdom
Vivid purple and orange sunset over a still pond.
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
turing-machine.bsky.social
The bagel and cream cheese wanter #caturday
Grey and white cat staring at food out of frame , corner of wood tv tray and green blanket to right
November 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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jasonfest.bsky.social
Alert and ready.
#caturday
Black and white cat in green harness. Ears are up and eyes focused as if intently watching prey in the distance. Piles of brown oak leaves scattered on grass in background.
November 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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deepgreens.bsky.social
Andrew's Bald Trail, Great Smokey Mountains, TN #Photography #Trails #GSMNP #Nature
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
Charlotte Area: This is the link for the Carolina Migrant Network
carolinamigrantnetwork.org

Now is a good time to keep their information handy. Donating to them, if you can, is another good thing you could do.
Carolina Migrant Network – Representing Immigrants in Removal Proceedings
carolinamigrantnetwork.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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jaycockburn.bsky.social
I love this so much. My rebellion against slop and capitalism is to write slowly, be creative, and take a day off every week. It's putting my phone away and not always being online.

We haven't been living in this hyper-available, attention-monetized way for very long, you don’t have to do it.
raxkingisdead.bsky.social rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20d
‘dear rax, the VP at my day job is an AI true believer and it fills me with despair — is hope lost?’
www.patreon.com/posts/143594...
What I do know is that AI is not your fucking game and it's not mine. You see your slop-gobbling VP going one way, you go the other way. You hear me? The LLM-lubbers go one way, you go the other way. Hell, the hard part's done: you already know you don't want to live an AI-inflected life. A whole lot of people out there don't realize that yet, and for some of them the knowledge will only come after a great deal of pain, but you know what you must do. Write a novel, write a poem, scribble them on printer paper when your VP isn't looking if you have to. Get flowers for your desk and frames for your photos, write longhand in a diary every day. Buy a secondhand DVD player and secondhand DVDs. Smell a library, pull faces at a baby, splash cold water on your face. Call your friends on the phone even though it sucks and everyone hates it because texts and DMs suck more, just nobody realizes it yet. Pay for more things with cash and drop the change in a desperate man's paper cup. Cook enough of every meal to share with your neighbors, especially the unhoused ones. Sing Biz Markie's "Just a Friend" at karaoke because it's fun and everybody loves it. Live a life out in the real, palpable world that you can be a little proud of; refuse assaults on its dignity. You can only do what you can do, and life will feel wonderful again once you truly get that—fuck, I'm tearing up, believe me, it will shock you how wonderful life still feels. And the rest, again, is not your game.
November 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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tgwood505.bsky.social
My daily #peace offering. #vermont #photography #photographer #photographers #nature #protectyourpeace #reflections #nature #mothernature #naturephotography #northeastkingdom
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM