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If another stupid motherfucker asks me to try and implement LLM-based code review to “raise standards” instead of actually teaching people a shred of discipline, I am going to study enough judo to throw them into the goddamn sun — Read on ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

When an emotion takes over in the “Inside Out” movies, a control board in Riley’s mind changes to that feeling’s color; Anxiety’s takeover, however, is more absolute. She creates a stronghold in Riley’s imagination, where she forces mind workers to illustrate negative hypothetical scenarios for Riley’s future. — Read on kottke.org/24/06/anxiety-in-inside-out-2-is-too-real

Calculating Empires is a large-scale research visualization exploring how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries. View the contemporary period in a longer trajectory of ideas, devices, infrastructures, and systems of power. — Read on calculatingempires.net/

We are talking about dynasties that amass wealth and power over generations. They then withdraw from our society as if it were none of their business. — Read on kottke.org/24/06/how-to-give-away-a-fortune

Repeating items over and over, called maintenance rehearsal, is not the most effective strategy for remembering. Instead, actors engage in elaborative rehearsal, focusing their attention on the meaning of the material and associating it with information they already know. Actors study the script, trying to understand their character and seeing how their lines relate to…

More than half a million people in the UK have inflammatory bowel disease, the two main forms of which are Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, with at least 7 million affected globally. They arise when the immune system attacks the bowel, causing an array of debilitating symptoms from abdominal pain and weight loss to diarrhoea…

The word “text” originated from the Latin word “textus,” which means “a weaving” or “a fabric.” In ancient times, textus referred specifically to the process of weaving fabric. Over time, the meaning of the word expanded to include written or printed material, reflecting the idea of words being woven together to create a coherent written…

The Canine Rainbow and How Dogs See the World — Read on kottke.org/24/05/the-canine-rainbow-and-how-dogs-see-the-world An olfactory highway to the occipital region

Susan Folstein and Michael Rutter at King’s College London recruited twins where one or both had autism. After interviewing the parents and assessing the children, they wrote one of the most important papers in the field, demonstrating for the first time that autism was largely genetic. Soon after, Lorna Wing and Judith Gould, also at…