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Lol, lmao even. At least this dystopian present is funny

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

"Access to a PhD-level expert in your pocket" Prompt: Can you make me a map of Mexico with the names of all states? can you list them after the image as well? I was born in the great state of Cusidad le Mexico. We're proud of our French origins. Also I see Yucatan finally took over its neighbours

me after every academic event where i have to speak english

Unlike Sam Altman, the people behind Gemini actually do understand what it means to have five Ph.D.'s in your pocket

Even pasteurized milk is kind of disgusting, i can't imagine why someone would want to drink raw milk if they don't have to. Viva la leche de soya!

Every day brings a new horror that makes the Butlerian Jihad seem like a reasonable solution to AI.

Gonna tell my grandchildren this was the Large Hadron Collider.

AI folks have now discovered “thinking”

Some people should stop pretending that asking questions to chatgpt is a complicated thing to do

Some guy tried to use chatgpt to "write" a 700-page children's book with pictures. After 2 weeks, he went to reddit and learned chatgpt didn't produce a book, but he is not giving up on the plagiarism machine, no

When I was an undergrad, I read some of HM's original papers and watched interviews with Brenda Milner on YouTube. At 107, it's still nice to hear her talk about memory and what we learned from HM.

If you're wondering what happened with Grok overnight, it ended up referring to itself as MechaHitler before being switched off.

major job losses in the neo nazi industry, as publications replace writers with Grok

Stop asking grok things challenge

the time of man is over

A meme of US Vice President JD Vance depicted as a baby was held up in the Dáil today by Labour leader Ivana Bacik. jrnl.ie/6743403t

ChatGPT offered to make an image for me of how the cerebellum interacts with other brain predictive processing pathways and this amazingly confused diagram was the result--mislabeling almost every brain structure & even inventing new ones. 😱 Let's hope our future doctors aren't using LLMs to study!

Breaking news: The State Department is requiring that all student visa applicants make their social media accounts public to be scrutinized for hostility toward the U.S., according to a cable obtained by The Post.

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? fmri is not a direct measure of neural activity

A 4-year postdoc position in population genomics is available in my group at the University of East Anglia, to work on a project sequencing a thousand fox genomes across rural and urban environments in the UK. vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/15...

The suit includes the legal definition of Shrek

I’ve warned that this was only a matter of time, but it’s still shocking to see in person. Here AI generated content is being used to create a fake news ecosystem, disparaging a professor who has been critical of unscientific bullshit in the form of deextinction hype.

I asked gpt 4o to visualise the brain areas involved in consciousness according to IIT and GNWT. turns out it knows as much about neuroscience as the average AI researcher... #neurosci #consci #philsci #neuroskyence

So, do we know what we’re calling this yet? I wanna call it the “Big Beautiful Breakup,” has anyone coined that yet?

today

The internet, June 5 2025:

You ABSOLUTELY should laugh at all of this. Are you a human being?

Once you see it...

You know, things definitely look bad right now but this has fully convinced me there’s no way these fucking dweeb losers are going to win long-term.

**FMRI/neuroimaging folks** Quick reminder @ the next AFNI Bootcamp: May 28-30, 2025. Learn through interactive data analysis! Day 1-2: data viz, single subject analysis and QC. Day 3: statistics, results reporting and group analysis. Details, registration and schedule: afni.nimh.nih.gov/bootcamp

I love my super computer that is sometimes wrong. It's just like me.

I just watched an orangutan tie a knot. You should see it too.

I think this comes from a good place but I disagree. A common thread in deradicalization stories is stigma: Once people start losing friends and jobs they reconsider their beliefs. Obviously you should try to be nice to people but you also need to draw a line where you won’t engage anymore.

concerning

Bluesky really needs a bookmark feature so i can keep track of all the papers i am not going to read

Right wingers across the globe better (not) take note. Simping for a US president who is harming your country's economy and threatening your sovereignty is not a good idea.

Google auto-translating most english websites by default, without an easy way to opt out, is annoying.

can we fix society by telling people that they’re fucking morons? probably not but I’m gonna do it anyway just in case

Recommended if you want to understand the psychology of conspiracy theorists, which are way too common now