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vreahli helped me figure out many of my frontend woes with my blog! Also we have talked about your work with the divergent perception model at length in the past, weirdly enough

Cool kids prefer astro over jekyll these days

The role of sexual fantasy on sexual desire, distress, and sexual worries: a randomized controlled study - PubMed Sexual fantasy exercises may serve as a brief, home-based intervention to improve sexual well-being. Future research should examine long-term effects and test applicability in clinical populations.

An erotic randomized controlled trial: participants were "randomly instructed to write erotic narratives at least twice weekly (n=30), or a control group (n = 30), instructed to write a narrative about dining with friends" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41996557/ 😳

Nadine Dijkstra - Distinguishing imagination and reality in a generative brain YouTube video by MIT Consciousness Club

Nadine Dijkstra's talk at the MIT Consciousness Club is now available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rciv....

COVID did create a legion of doom scrollers that don't touch grass or talk to people

I wonder what the pangram analysis looks like

One hopes, though I think my aim was precise enough.

Given your stratagem of offensiveness, I understand people's defensiveness in finding you.

I have just finished reading The Technology of Teaching by Skinner it confirmed two ideas for me.
First, the image of Skinner as an “evil” behaviorist is false. Reading him directly, I find a profoundly humanist thinker.
Second, he may be more useful than expected in our AI-powered era
Few takeaways

Edna Foa, Who Pioneered Exposure Therapy to Treat PTSD, Dies at 88

I consider Dr. Foa’s exposure therapy work among the most profound achievements in clinical psychology.

Her work has saved so, so many lives. She led a big life.

(Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/h...

I'm excited to share our preprint: "Selfing without a self: The missing dimension of identification in computational accounts of selfhood"

The puzzle:

How can meditators claim persistent selfless experience without dysfunction when computational accounts claim it's maladaptive? 🧵

t.ly/vDv4n

The link between functional neurological disorder and migraines is kinda weird.

transformer architecture on a gpu chip cartoon?

thread of papers: bsky.app/profile/fndp...

do we know enough to pick a level?

One was done by excellent institutions, the other by a deplorable populace thirsting for chaos, bored of prosperity wanting to burn down those institutions.

A lot of our education on writing well focuses on logic, clarity, and argument. AI will force us to think more about style. The boredom that comes from everything on the internet reading Claude-y now, no matter how good the substance is, should make us appreciate (and make us want to develop) style.

Science is good. We should fund it.

its the stuff of aesop's cautionary tales taken with the eventual aftermath

a man hearing of a powerful healer went mad so as to be healed by him. the healer turned him away but the madness persisted. eventually the healer said you are not mad, you just want to be around me. bring your wife and I will teach her to heal and you can scribe it down.

(The Recorded Sayings of Zen Master Joshu, 266)

This is a post about Erickson.

I would say I was more remixing Ramstead and others, and given that your labels are different, you should take full credit of this iteration along with them

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Good to know!

Cheng Lou (@_chenglou) My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important founda...

Snrk. As an aside, I have been meaning to fuck around with the new pretext library to see if I can do something better with the reflow and sidenotes since it went viral but I decided it was more of a pretext to not do more actual writing fixupx.com/_chenglou/st...

give in to the serif, muahahaha
(Looks great!)

A Superlab mouse demonstrating the optogenetic equipment. Stimulation at different alternating currents either enhanced mental imagery to synaesthetic levels, or completely eliminated it

Optogenetics induces aphantasia and hyperphantasia in mice

I am thrilled to announce my latest study, providing objective neural evidence for imagery extremes – in mice! 🐁

Read the paper here:
tinyurl.com/ycxnkka7 <----👀

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