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In my first semester ever teaching in the spring of 2012, a student told me they came up with the mnemonic "Frogs and Tadpoles On the Pond" to help him remember the four lobes of the cerebral cortex (frontal, temporal, occipital, parietal). Every time I teach the brain, I pass along his mnemonic.

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

Highguard has been a blast to play!

Please pay attention to what's happening in Minneapolis, Minnesota. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY Reposts are appreciated.

Basic media literacy: there are multiple clips out there showing this shooting, mostly up close and unobstructed (except by the car itself). Trump’s social media post includes a clip from far away, through trees, and slowed to super slow motion. Those are *choices*

Worth thinking about how long Tolkien goes on in Return of the King about despair being a weapon, and presenting defeat as a forgone conclusion being a deliberate and effective tactic

BREAKING: ICE killed a Minnesota woman in broad daylight & there must be accountability. But when I moved to subpoena all records & footage related to this murder, Republicans voted it down. They've never cared about law & order or keeping our communities safe.

I am absolutely gutted at this news, and I've never even met him. The stories of people who worked beneath him, as well as the incredible games he shipped, show the industry has lost a titanic force of good.

Cory Doctorow : "We need to make tech workers unionized again ...  because tech workers that aren't working behind a keyboard, those tech workers, they're peeing in bottles or being injured at 3x the national rate in an Amazon warehouse. That's how tech bosses treat workers they're not afraid of."

Debuting our game #highguard at @thegameawards.com tonight was a career dream come true. Thank you @geoffkeighley.bsky.social for the opportunity and thank you to my team for the incredibly hard work youtu.be/hPdWyXJs-W4?...

The Cognitive Trade-Off Hypothesis by Viagra Boys is probably my favorite song about evolutionary theory of human development. Which is saying something given how crowded popular music is with similar songs about how predators shaped our ancestors' need for language to survive.

Quite a juxtaposition

Opening links in Facebook Messenger on Android no longer gives an option to open the link in Chrome

I just signed a memo saying the @nytimes.com has been on a mission to normalize fascism by leaving out pertinent facts in stories about Trump. Such as: Trump's actions here are illegal. There's nothing to equivocate about.

@ungajje.bsky.social so I've been listening to Maria Palmer since I saw your skeet, and a) you're right that she is awesome and b) she is not gen z as I first guessed, she is just a tiny human

Sean "Prizzy" Combs Prizz Daddy P. Diddy but now the P is for Prison

Trump is ordering pregnant women and young children to stop taking pain and fever reliever. It’s a cruel, needless strategy to inflict pain, suffering, illness, anxiety, and social stigmatization. It’s also already given conservatives a new way to blame women for societal problems.

I love it when students ask to talk after class. I *extra* love it when they do so for personal reasons, like asking for First Person Shooter game recommendations 💥🔫

It's here!!!

There's a friend of a cousin and a cousin of a friend of mine in one of my classes this semester. These are two different people.

Visited a bar recently that had Guinness 0.0 on tap, but not Guinness itself. As in, they just don't serve Guinness, period. Yes, they served other alcoholic beers on tap. But Why

"but we can't support trans rights, it's unpopular!" just a reminder that US approval for marriage between black and white people at the start of the civil rights movement was 4%, reaching a whopping 20% by the end of the movement it's 95% now you don't wait for popularity for a rights movement

How is teaching going @ungajje.bsky.social ?

So excited to teach human development this semester - I'm introducing a new assignment I've never run before, but I'm fascinated to see what students do with it!

Tariffs definitely affecting prices at Costco, so many of our usual purchases are 20-30% more 😬

My friend who is an Iraq war veteran was out tonight walking his dog in DC and came up on this scene – with federal agents, including secret service, hassling a citizen and violating his rights while intimidating the public

🙂 Guilt boosts generosity worldwide In a study of 7,978 people across 20 countries, prosocial behaviour rose when participants knew the consequences of their choices, while shame had little effect. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm 🧪

Two unrelated comments about rock music: Amyl and the Sniffers are amazing and have some of the best guitar riffs in decades hiding behind their boisterous (and incredible) lead singer Sweden has produced an absolutely staggering number of killer bands, including:

The lead composer of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare 2 - and probably some other stuff - has some correct things to say.

💬 Human empathy > AI empathy A new study found people rated identical responses as more empathic when told they came from a human rather than AI. Even suspected AI involvement reduced perceived support. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #AI #Empathy #GenAI 🧪

This is my new favorite thing

The first revealed playable characters for Invincible VS includes: -Invincible -Atom Eve -Rexsplode -Bulletproof -Omni-Man -Thula -Lucan

Invincible VS, a 3v3 tag fighting game, was just announced at the Xbox Games Showcase. https://bit.ly/3FvUhQt

Here is actually what is happening: braindead management is pushing AI wherever it can, launching it, laying off some people, then realising it can't replace them, then hiring back *less* people than before. AI is used as a soft layoff excuse to dress up flagging growth.

Some day, post NDA, I will talk a lot about what we were trying to do, not only with the IP, but also about the innovation we were trying to push through, and the production practices we thinnk were required to execute on these things.

Republicans are pushing to restrict abortion pills based on a garbage new 'study.' We’ve seen fake data like this reach SCOTUS—but if we make it politically toxic now, we might stop it before it spreads. Feel free to steal these images, or read the full debunk in my newsletter

Vaccines do not contain any fetal tissue or cells, nor do they contain any cells derived from fetal materials.

That would be Secretary of Education Linda McMahon who's being sued for aiding and abetting systemic child molestation, just to be clear

"Humans wiki" because we always get confused on what this thing is

Lol Crawley put his Oscar down on the floor like a Sim puts a baby on the floor

I can't stand the amount of pharma ads during commercial breaks for the Oscars

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.