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[Andrew] Huberman explains that psilocybin binds strongly to our serotonin 2A receptors due to their similar chemical structures, and this bond leads to alterations in perception, mood, and cognition. A large amount of our brains’ 5HT2A receptors are located in the neo-cortex, which includes the prefrontal cortex and areas that mediate sensation. One specific area…
5. Now the exploit was rewritten to read memory, and *blink* out the contents using the LCD backlight. A LEGO construction was built and a webcam would register the binary stream of a few megabytes of memory contents. Slooooow. https://mastodon.social/@bagder/111538350617290554 🤯
What specific psychedelics could benefit long COVID patients? What particular populations of long COVID should be targeted? What kinds of doses help? What kinds of doses harm? These are all questions with no good answers right now. “We’re in a mental health crisis,” Subaiya said. “We want a quick fix. And the answer is that…
Demanding Short, Dumb Answers About Hate Speech Makes You A Useful Idiot For Bigots. … There’s the rhetorical trick. Calling for Intifada is not the same as calling for the genocide of the Jews, and it’s just dishonest to say it is. Not all Jews are Israeli. Arguing that a particular group has a moral…
“Can’t you just have your panic attack?”
One of the things about Andreessens impotent yelp for attention and relevance was that it became a stalking horse for some amazing commentary and history. The Santiago Boys by Evgeny Morozov is an electrifying example. We have forgotten more than we know when it comes to digital tech… Digital technologies have helped capital to extend…
I loathe how NZ is ADDICTED to cargo-culting innovation processes… all it does is feed a fat layer of parasites . It’s why I never pitch my ideas to the local fuckwits and only ever focus overseas. Here is the latest episode of the latest result of that cargo-culting. 🤮 A highly critical report from…
Every pirate wants to be an admiral. Though comcom rescued Apple from a monopolist’s sneaky attempt to drive it out of business, Apple – now a three trillion dollar company – has repeatedly attacked comcom when it was applied to Apple’s products. When Apple did comcom, that was progress. When someone does comcom to Apple, that’s piracy.
Now, the MIT team has shown that the carbon-trapping clays are a product of plate tectonics: When oceanic crust crushes against a continental plate, it can bring rocks to the surface that, over time, can weather into minerals including smectite. Eventually, the clay sediment settles back in the ocean, where the minerals trap bits of…
After so many climate initiatives, from IPCC reports to COP meetings to the Paris Accords, that have generated a lot of hot air and not much climate action, if you are not cynical or jaded, you have not been paying attention. So it is fitting that this year’s COP is being held in Dubai, one…
The point is, LLMs don’t answer your questions accurately—rather, they deliver a lump of text in the shape of an answer. https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/12/made-of-lies-and-more-lies.html
I was a huge fan of the EV3 (which never arrived) and there was always talk that Morgan would electrify the Super3… the odds seem to be a little better today (🤞🤞): [Morgan] has revealed its latest development vehicle, XP-1: a Super 3 with an electric heart. Where the production Super 3 has a 1.5…
Small enough to hold in the palm of your hand, Dewison’s vistas open up far into the distance. Inspired by the woodlands around her home and holiday walks through the Lake District, the artist began to recreate mystical scenes of streams, shorelines, and hills. “The natural world has always filled me with a sense of…
The C-suite shuffle comes just over a week after a Futurism report revealed that Sports Illustrated and Arena Group-owned finance site TheStreet had been publishing affiliate link-laden commerce articles under the bylines of fake writers. Sources close to the creation of that fake author-bylined content told Futurism that the text itself was AI-generated, and published without proper automation disclosures. For their part, The…
Using its hardware prowess is an obvious step for Apple, but company watchers have to be excited by the quiet moves they are making on the software front. They just released MLX, a new (machine learning) ML framework for Apple Silicon. This isn’t surprising — during the M3 MacBook launch, Apple was pretty explicit in saying…
bbAir is a small desktop device that is able to display simple graphics, like alphanumeric characters and emojis, as air bubbles. Those air bubbles start at the base of the device and then float to the top, like the pixels on a scrolling LED matrix display turned on its side. It has 19 columns and…
https://chibitronics.com/2023/12/06/how-to-make-light-up-christmas-candle-card/
Jono Shaffer is a legendary labor organizer who was instrumental in the Justice for Janitors campaign. J4J successfully unionized Los Angeles janitorial workers under unbelievably difficult conditions—the janitors were undocumented and worked for contractors rather than buildings themselves, so they were easily fired. J4J built a movement that successfully pressured building owners to respect the…
This year’s holiday gift guide celebrates psychedelics and nods to those who appreciate the profound and the extraordinary. From thought-provoking reads to journals that capture the essence of mind-bending trips, this selection speaks directly to soul-seekers and plant lovers. https://psychedelicspotlight.com/psychedelic-holiday-gift-guide-2023-11-ideas-for-your-favorite-soul-seekers/
I love this… it’s a direct riff on Freeman Dyson’s idea that our SETI work should be looking for freeze dried fish in orbit around these moons. Since that discovery, mission planners and amateur enthusiasts alike have proposed flying a probe through those plumes to collect samples of those ice grains and bring them back…
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