What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

If Iran goes pro-democratic, hopefully it will trigger a domino effect in the rest if the region. It’s been an undertone in Eastern Europe and Turkey for better part of 2025. Maturing globalization means more stronger real-time feedback loops from other parts of the world. Democracy 2026.

US can just take Venezuela. In 2025, US GDP growth was mostly dependent on data center construction whose majority chips suppliers are in Taiwan. US tech services are an ecosystem of middle men taking profit, with only a fraction of them actually needed. It’s all a house of cards.

AI slop. [Date: Jan. 2, 2026] www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/mi...

If one were to reframe goals as work on process, what’s one process you will work on in 2026?

These channels are amazing. Only a matter of time cutting edge games on how to learn maths and complex systems come out. It’s not a question of replacement, but accessibility. m.youtube.com/@CodeParade/...

Terry Tao flipped again to being gen AI skeptical. How many AI-driven breakthroughs are because it was in the training set? mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1157882...

The term “brain rot” is as vague as “dopamine drip”. No neuroscientist even fully understands dopamine. It’s millions of folks that can’t describe the state of their mind using simple language bc of complex reasons. It’s the same as conspiracy theory communities. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_rot

Regher lab just released this pertinent pre-print. “Structural and functional evidence for ephaptic control of Purkinje cell spike timing by networks of molecular layer interneurons” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Nvidea are a bunch of clowns. Big tech wants to hog all the data, software, and compute to sell terminals with subscriptions to everyone. This is app stores on steroids. You pay for access, get ads, and give free data in exchange for enshittified services. m.youtube.com/watch?v=1EsX...

Going against big tech AI and data centers is bipartisan populism. It’s low hanging fruit for influence gain that CEOs have little control over because it’s about job security.

Do professional hobbyists still do this seeing how bad the crisis is in the chips business is because of geopolitics, corporate control, and price manipulation? m.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5y...

How are OpenAI and Nvidea NOT committing sophisticated accounting fraud? The Enron comparison is becoming more apt each day.

Ephaptic coupling in the context of motor control: saccades (1-3) and gait/swimming (4,5). 🧪 (1) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37420330/ (2) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (3) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (4) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37408217/ (5) journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Cortical field coupling (aka volume conduction) lamina-to-lamina (1) and column-to-column (2). (1) www.jneurosci.org/content/41/3... (2) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Social media influencers will have more and more to say about science discourse. Diseases and disabilities are personal and people want control by understanding processes and making decisions. This makes knowledge gatekeepers and standard bearers uneasy.

Chaotic good www.reddit.com/r/law/commen...

HBO’s Chernobyl character, Dyatlov, best summarizes the vibes given off by a lot of American institutions right now.

AI psychosis has evolved to the grant level. It’s not even psychosis, it’s people getting the positive reinforcement they were denied, for one reason or another, all their lives and now the are giddy. They won’t listen to stick, because AI industry is giving them infinite carrot.

On doing meditation: I got bored of working on breath control so now I’m focusing on learning voluntary pupillary dilation and constriction (via mental imagery). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is cool. Hopefully more stuff like comes out from other fields. I’ve been curious to see if the Busy Beaver Challenge applies to neural comp but have no clue how to even relate these ideas. These was an op-ed earlier this year suggesting an abandonment of “Newtonian” causality in neuro.

Show the stats please otherwise this is just tabloid news. nymag.com/intelligence...

It do be like that sometimes.

What a preprint: Jitter analysis of sub-millisecond timing driven by mono-synapses, ephaptic coupling and gap junctions in the cerebellum. Basically a whole local circuit. "Coordination of spike timing among the neurons of the cerebellum" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

These comments on “it’s the graduates fault” are tone deaf because it’s the graduates that vote on and consume these tools after taking on students loans which is risk.

In case your local village or city installs those dystopian Flock cameras you can see when they have a scheduled board of trustees meeting or where the cameras are located. Not only red but blue areas are installing these. alpr.watch

Do people behave like this bc of self-determination? How does this relate to the biophysical basis of control systems? Is the purpose to reset power structures? “Basic Psychological Needs Are Associated With Engagement and Hate Term Use in Extremist Chatrooms” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Why did Steven Pinker get so butthurt by the Oliver Sacks revelations? I don’t buy his virtue signaling. There’s a deeper issue of how ideas evolve/diffuse and how some phenotypes innately know this. Like Oliver Sacks’ behavior is data and not for policing archaic standards. x.com/sapinker/sta...

So is this Robin Williams film a piece of science fiction now? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awakeni...

Did Black Mirror cover this? The direct link of credit to gambling breaks things in an unimaginable way. The CEO of Kalshi said he wants to make every possible human decision tradable so they can make money selling options contracts. This is Looney Tunes level. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

More moderation to fix AI spam from paper mills. Catch-22 is that this also makes science more insular and subjects it to more cuts… no one wins from this. The AI spam continues. www.science.org/content/arti...

I'm more and more convinced that low-dimensional manifolds in the brain are just an artifact of the experimental designs and analyses we use... 🧠📈 🧪

This also happened and there was crazy findings from exoplanet research on interesting spectroscopy absorption … Anyhow I think a takeaway is to put things down, explore and cohere to social patterns that might provide a bit more “entropy”.

Reminder that this happened. 🧲🧭🕊️

This platform is more open journaling than discourse. Actual discourse is super serendipitous.

The AI bar is getting so low that any human interaction is going to be currency for actual change for the future. www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/co...

Being an artisanal pencil sharpener is not just a job but a passion and a privilege. 🧪 m.youtube.com/watch?v=spMa...

How does one design a double-blind RCT on how effective shoe tying strategies are? Are there any board certified shoe tiers? How does one even get started on a grant proposal like this? I have to check the literature and what Greek philosophers say about the issue.

Lets go! Kind of disappointing the major protests in Slovenia, Turkey, Romania, Serbia, and Hungary this spring didn’t have the same consequences yet but Bulgaria pulled through. Democratic spring 2026 🤞 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

We have yet to see the collapse of the American oligarch because they too are an old American institution. I don’t understand why folks even on the left give these clowns too much credit. The utopia of rules is over for everyone.

The best realistic images people are showing with the new Gemini look very liminal.

Australia takes care funds its science and healthcare but it also makes JFK Jr. level social policy decisions. What is up with this global conservative knee jerk reaction? Without video games and the internet I would’ve never become a scientist. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Amazon is going to use LLMs on dynamic pricing for their brick and mortar stores aren’t they (if not already)? Imagine price hallucinations.

This subreddit is doing community analysis on itself via a repeating meme of cutting chives. In-group data analysis in real time. This IS collective reasoning. www.reddit.com/r/KitchenCon...

AI will always need prompting.

It’s only going to get worse right? Top comment puts the responsibility on the submitters but I feel they are out of touch bc there is no way to control this. Are the AI tool creators are responsible? If not, this quagmire is just more enshittification. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4618...

Just to annoy all neuroscientists... (and others) Even drawing this in terms of spikes and waves is just missing the point that biological complex systems are multilevel and have dense interlevel interactions. We're not in the domain of physics where one averages point particles in a chamber...

Why does the rest of the world put up with the US tech/AI industry? It’s so bloated and non-robust. It’s running on vibes.

@edzitron.com Please do an episode on how exactly the AI bubble affects the common citizen financially to make it relatable. The magnitude of the 2007 housing crisis was understandable because millions were home owners.

Objectively, at point is the academic job market an “us” problem and not a “me” problem? Does that point ever come even after COVID, AI disruption, and funding cuts? Maybe there is no threshold-based phase transition on priorities even if all somehow funding gets cut? We can be more unified. 🧪