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"How will you get a job if you don't embrace chatgpt?" Counterpoint: how will you get a job if your frontal cortex is turned off? arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

A new preprint showing a relationship between visual working memory (VWM) and visual mental imagery (VMI): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... As much as I like to see the rare evidence for behavioral differences between aphantasia and imagery, I have a couple of doubts about this finding... 1/4

👀 The whole brain 7T "natural scenes dataset" now has mental imagery data! NSD-Imagery: A Benchmark Dataset for Extending fMRI Vision Decoding Methods to Mental Imagery Conference paper: goo.gl/scholar/wPx1HJ Dataset: naturalscenesdataset.org

Tell me something I don't know #tarotsky

Time to go all the way off the deep end 📚💙

A video summary of the mixed methods mega paper, "The impact of aphantasia on mental healthcare experiences": youtu.be/_cJF9WUppkY Aphantasics compared to imagers show: -no difference in PTSD prevalence -emotional, not sensory symptoms -lower success with imagery-based therapies #aphantasia

Arcade Random Posting Submission via @bartlander.bsky.social

I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here, but if even if you're not an artist, that goofy meme idea in your head will be a thousand times funnier if you just do a crappy drawing of it yourself vs using generative A.I.

Godzilla ゴジラ 1954, dir. Ishirō Honda, sfx. Eiji Tsuburaya A giant monster's sudden appearance triggers fears of nuclear apocalypse in post-war Japan.

The Windows notification sound in Court of the Crimson King gets me every single time

Re: trying to get rid of google in my life: someone suggested Tuta Mail as an alternative for Gmail, and they have a whole article on "De-Googling your life" with alternatives for a bit of everything, if it interests you :) tuta.com/blog/how-to-...

Welp, that was unsettling. I need something trashy as a palate cleanser. 💙📚

If you want to read a gothic novel set in an isolated, labyrinth-like house in the Philippines, with more than its fair share of sapphic yearning, for free request House of Monstrous Women on Netgalley! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

i'm so over games that are "masterpieces" or "hidden gems". i want games that frustrate me in compelling ways. i want jank so i can feel i'm in an imperfect world like the one we live in. i want stilted but earnest writing. i want weirdness and incoherence. perfection is good, but uninteresting

black tip reef shark but as a dragon

A good book is one you have fun reading Art is subjective. What's bad to me will be good to someone else and just because I think something is subjectively bad doesn't make it objectively bad There are books that are absolute trash fires and I love them (they're usually litrpg) #booksky thoughts

As a reminder when considering your boycott efforts and where to spend your dollars… yes, we loathe Amazon and Bezos. Sadly, this is the BEST avenue for indie authors to get their books seen. If you find a book you want on Amazon, consider reaching out to the (indie) author directly (1) #booksky

I admit I did not have "OpenAI gets Temu'd" as a pale horse but if this is what does it, lol

If you make art (any art! Not just visual), no matter how big your audience or if you think you're "successful" or "enough", you are giving people the energy to get through another day. You're part of the reason folks have an easier time holding on. Keep creating!! Your art matters!!!

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Went on a date night to the local pinballnasium, and the new X-men rocks. The theme does nothing for me, but man, that layout is wacky! The ramps are crazy, the danger room is super fun, and the features were accessible even to our mediocre skills. 10/10, would tilt off one ski pass again #pinball

Creativity is like a houseplant, not an endless well. You need to seek out sunlight, water, and nutrients in art, shows, music, experiences, and more to tend to it. And just like plants it has its dormant and active periods and you may not seem improvement for some time.

Reminder: Can we stop judging people for what they read? If you enjoy reading “dark” or “twisted” storylines it does not mean you have trauma or need therapy. People can separate fiction from reality. Liking a genre does NOT mean you want that in real life. Judge less. Read more 💙📚 #booksky

Why did I do this #gentlecomicshabit

Making yourself dependent on external appreciation is very dangerous. I did this and it ruined how I perceive my own art: I started to hate my art even though the moment before I posted it I was content with it. So don't let this negate all your positive feelings you had towards your work.

Did another interview on hyperphantasia, characterised as "superlative mental imagery". Like aphantasia, we are finding that it is a multidimensional construct that affects many other cognitive domains. Are you hyperphantasic? www.self.com/story/hyperp...

I should be working, but all I want to do is draw MS Paint fanart for our upcoming Wildsea campaign

Dear #BookSky, #Booktok, readers, et al, Buying an author's work is nice. Welcome, even. But telling them how much you enjoyed it, or leaving a kind review? That keeps an author going far more than the pittance they get from royalties. Signed, A Struggling Indie Author

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If you’ve had the thing foisted on you in Word, file/options/copilot has a checkbox that currently turns it off (in my version anyway.)

All the wealth & power pushing Gen AI from behind like a stalled-out car, they aren't capable of creating anything in the way that you are. They're riding the momentum of work created by other people & they're betting it all on a slurry of stolen creations. All that & they can't create what you can.

i think sometimes people get hung up on the idea that art isn't real art unless it's, well, lynchian haha. but david lynch was one guy and he had his vision. you have yours. you don't need to be like david lynch, you need to figure out who YOU are and what YOU want to say and how YOU want to say it

YO, Invisible Sun is the sickest #TTRPG I've ever had the pleasure of running. Anyone in the market for something New Weird and occult as fuck should jump on this, it's a bloody steal

Like celebrating the first babies born in the new year, what's the first book you read this year? #newyearbookbabies

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100% free ways to support authors you love: - share their social posts - recommend their books - leave reviews - order their books at your library - request their appearance at events - drop them an encouraging line - exhort the will of ancient gods in dark rituals to ensure their success thanks!

koi fish but as a dragon

When you reach a particular stage in your story development.

Sometimes you just need a hug 🦕🐥

Wait I only read 10 books in 2024??? What the fuck happened

ESPGALUDA CAVE 2003 (Captured at Galloping Ghost Arcade, Brookfield, IL, USA) Requested by: @bartlander.bsky.social

Publication for Christmas in Collabra @ucpress.bsky.social! The Impact of Aphantasia on Mental Healthcare Experiences online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art... Thanks again to the Aphantasia Network for their role in this project! #aphantasia #mentalhealth #mentalimagery

Oblivion

辰年 #art