Surgery: Add #EEG brain monitoring to the list of items your anesthesiologist will soon use when knocking you out. 📉🧠😷💤 #MIT #electroencephalogram

Pokémon Go players captured 30 billion images during gameplay, which is now being used to train restaurant delivery bots you encounter on the sidewalks. www.popsci.com/technology/p... #cocobots #pokemon #niantic

Whole Food’s palm scan and pay is going away. Super convenient way to pay without having to carry a wallet or phone. Hope another retailer will try again.

West Coast Quakers, be sure to download MyShake. https://myshake.berkeley.edu/?utm_source=perplexity#EarlyWarning#Earthquake

Trying to keep up with the war in Iran? LiveUA Map runs a good news feed. iran.liveuamap.com

That aluminum foil we so frequently throw away just got more valuable as a chemical catalyst! www.popularmechanics.com/science/a706...

Mosquitoes smell danger in plants, and scientists found the switch #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth

Texas should not be beating California in solar energy. As Governor, I’ll ensure California leads the way on clean energy projects. insideclimatenews.org/news/0503202...

Amazon needs an incognito shopping mode to hide special purchases from notifications and purchase history. Marking this is a gift gets you partially there.

Paleontology: Tethys Ocean is now Mt Everest’s 470 million year old fossils! www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth... #Fossils

Energy Research: #Ammonia as a #Hydrogen fuel source packs more energy density and can use existing fertilizer infrastructure. MIT kids convert oil burning ship to run on Ammonia. apnews.com/article/ammo... 🤔💫

It’s official! I just filed my declaration of candidacy for Governor of California. We’re running this campaign the right way — powered by tens of thousands of donors from every county, with an average donation of just $68. California is not for sale, and we’re going to prove it together.

Drugs & Guns: The US military has boots on the ground in Ecuador’s drug war. We really need Congressional oversight, or we will end up with Reagan’s #contragate. apple.news/AtEFRNNnDRu2... @rokhanna.bsky.social @liccardo.house.gov

Musk, worth $829 billion, owns X. Bezos, worth $234 billion, owns The Washington Post & Twitch. Zuckerberg, worth $231 billion, owns Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp. And now Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, is about to control CNN, CBS, TikTok & HBO. Yes, this is oligarchy.

TIL: Cancer patients have a 14% increase in willingness to commit a crime in the decade after their diagnosis than someone without cancer, according to a recent EU study. 🎁📰 economist.com/graphic-deta... #BreakingBadEffect

Iran: First map I’ve seen of the 8 countries Iran has attacked in retaliation. Surprised at how many Arab gulf states are on this list.

@stuarth2o.bsky.social you need to cross post more here! Miss you in my feeds.

Book: Currently reading #TheCourageToBeDisliked & enjoying the discussion on Adler (Freud’s collaborator and rival) who is an early pioneer of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ( #CBT ): short session, structured, goal-oriented method to correcting problem thinking. the-courage-to-be-disliked.tilda.ws/en

SciFi: Gene Roddenberry cited 1956’s #ForbiddenPlanet as a key influence on #StarTrek; you can see the similarities in the starship crew structure, exploratory mission premise, and even transporter‑like visual effects.

Endangered: From millions to just 30 thousand left. Trump strips endangered species protections from the dancing prairie birds so the oil industry can use their critically threatened habitat. #TrumpSucks #DoDoBird #Extinction www.tricityrecordnm.com/articles/tru... youtube.com/shorts/JcBAD...

Is college still worth it in the age of AI? blog.andrewyang.com/p/is-college...

App: If you struggle at the doctor’s office to schedule your next appointment get this free iOS app. You create templates for hair cuts, dental cleanings, yearly checkups and it lets you see your calendar conflicts and it’ll add the repeat details. 💯 apps.apple.com/us/app/next-... #NextReservation

Dementia Donnie sending a US Navy Hospital ship to Greenland, a country of 57k and 6 hospitals. Denmark and Greenland have not asked for it, and in fact rescued and treated a US Navy submariner. 🛳️⛑️❤️‍🩹 https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-he-is-sending-hospital-ship-greenland-2026-02-22/

PAPA LEONE YES

I love checking out all the webcams in the area. I may not have an expansive view from my home, but I can enjoy sunrises and sunsets thanks to these cameras!

@timesnownews.com.web.brid.gy unreadable

It’s always a scam with Trump. Donnie registers Trump Airport a trademark that Florida will have to license. >> “The trademarks could require DTTM Operations to be included in the financing of licensing deals.” www.wesh.com/article/hous...

TIL: The 1st digital LED watch was the Hamilton Pulsar “Time Computer” P1. Texas engineer George Thiess introduced the breakthrough in 1972, for $2k ($17k today). Worn by Elvis, Elton John, President Gerald Ford & James Bond. Today, Seiko sells the Pulsar, and Swatch sells the Hamilton. #Watches

I have a feeling that guy is gonna put more tariffs on South Korea.

Dementia Donnie and the #DonroeDoctrine have Cuba at a precipice. How the Cubans are made to suffer. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

We’re building a massive coalition to advance a California science bond for the November ballot to create a California scientific research institute. Working with scientists, universities & the private sector, we’re working hard to get it done.

Food History: Carrots were a root vegetable cultivated by the Khorasan people in modern-day Afghanistan over 1,000 years ago. The Dutch bred them to be orange. Today, California grows 80% of the US crop.📙🥕🐰

AI server farms are cannibalizing power, water, GPUs, RAM, SSDs and now hard drives. #BoomsAndBusts

@mmallon.com You see this? Have you felt a difference? www.fastcompany.com/91491074/san...

#ConnSelmer, the largest manufacturer of brass musical instruments in the US, to move production to China. Billionaires hate unions because they protect living wage jobs. https://connselmer.com/#ConnSelmer#SourNote 🎺💵

Prof Watts is the foremost expert on the fall of the Roman empire and how populism destroyed the republic.

TIL: Had no idea our lungs had their own low-biomass microbiome community of good and bad bacteria, viruses, and fungi. Turns out they play an important role in fighting off #pneumonia and giving doctor's an important tool in helping you recover. news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025... #hackingalung

Social Media Tech companies are bowing down to our fascist overlords. Not a single backbone among Silicon Valley tech leaders to protect your privacy or civil rights. gizmodo.com/reddit-meta-...

Health: Stop eating 3 hours before bedtime. Improves your heart and reduces acid reflux. news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026...

The second largest hydropower operator, #TVA, with 29 dams, is unable to close their 4 dirty #coal plants that pollute the air and lower life expectancy, thanks to POTUS Trump. 🔥😷https://clarksvillenow.com/local/tva-decides-to-keep-coal-fired-plant-running-alongside-new-gas-plant-near-clarksville/#TVA

@katieporterca.bsky.social you should get Ray Madoff onboard by having a podcast where you brainstorm ideas for California. It plays to your strength and differentiates you from the other candidates. www.bc.edu/bc-web/schoo...

TIL: SMS text messaging was invented by France, Germany, Finland, and the UK, while emojis were created in Japan. 🌍📱😊 #TechHistory #DidYouKnow

Gladys Mae West should be nicknamed GPS Gladys. She was a true pioneer in something everyone benefits from today. This nation owes everyone an opportunity, not barriers, to follow in her foot steps.

TIL: Your intestines hold the largest collection of neurons outside the brain! The anti-diarrhea drug #Loperamide is an #opiod that targets the receptors along your gut wall to relax and stop constricting. 🧠🍽️ #Neuroscience #BodyFacts #GutThinking

Tales of the stupid: MiJo tried to correct the Pope on the bible. Matthew 25:35 ca.news.yahoo.com/mike-johnson...

Add another vaccine to your list if you are travelling to: Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines or Thailand. #Chikungunya #Mosquitos www.vax-before-travel.com/2026/02/04/c...

@skeetsapp.com Lost skeets to the sands of time... Why oh why did they never send?

Time to pile into foreign stocks and precious metals. https://economist.com/leaders/2026/02/05/the-age-of-a-volatile-falling-dollar-has-dawned?giftId=OTBhMTkxNTEtMzIyMi00OWM1LWI1Y2QtODFhNzBmZWM3ZjY2&utm_campaign=gifted_article

Not a single Republican in Congress is interested in finding justice for ICE’s victims. https://newrepublic.com/post/206100/republican-skip-hearing-renee-good-brothers-testify