It's hard to express just how much I've adored the show Shrinking. The last two episodes of seasons 3 have these amazing scenes between Paul and Jimmy (Harrison Ford and Jason Segal) that have left me weeping. It's just so well done.

Another bummer of a Union game. The team is playing just a frustrated as the fans are. I hope Carnell is able to turn this around soon or it's going to be a long season.

If you were to try and imagine "What would it look like if we traded two of our best strikers and our two best defensemen" it would look a lot like that Philadelphia Union game

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Small business owner question: When it comes to credit card surcharges, do you prefer that the business includes the fees in the prices or adds a surcharge for customers who use cards?

What the actual science says about “brain rot” Click this link to try Headspace for free! https://headspace-web.app.link/e/HOW For a limited time, get a 60-day free trial. Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13Xy2esNjrAzrDQRNzPJjAh-2Zl-kwiy2WVCEUq79TRQ/edit?tab=t.0 To support independent science journalism and get bonus content ... JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/Howtown Here are some of the wonderful people on who support this channel through our Patreon Town Council: Bev Fong Chris Wubbels Sean Barrett Mike Purvis Jon Hewett Albychen Aatish Bhatia Sean Talon Evan Hass Mark Tinker L.A. O’Connor Marcos Huerta Joaquim Salles Sam Gaty Jason Dunlap Parag Mallick Edgar Sutawika Tim Davey Navneet Tra Him Taylor Pedro ZM Ale Martin Weeks Dimi Bryce Golden-Chen Estelle Caswell Gregory Laborde Yash Murthy martin david Matthew Stvartak Garret Wates Slightly Suspicious Mind Kellyn Lorentzen-Goler omg.science Duncan Stannett Keith England Jocelyn Tabancay Duffy Casey Schatz Mark McCreary Oscar Balcells Quintana Jonathan McCabe Branden Ushjima Esh Tatla Wookiee Henderson Frances Haugen Are TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts actually destroying our attention spans, or is “brain rot” just another moral panic? In this video, we dig into the science behind short-form video and attention, from debunking viral goldfish statistics to explaining real cognitive psychology experiments testing analytical thinking and prospective memory. We break down what researchers actually mean by “attention span,” how infinite scroll and autoplay feeds are genuinely different from previous forms of media, and what lab tests can and can’t tell us about the mental effects of short-form video. Chapters: 00:00 Brain rot? 01:45 The tiktok docs 03:51 The bizarro restaurant analogy 08:36 Debunking the goldfish myth 09:30 Can we measure attention span? 14:04 Your brain on shorts 15:09 The cognitive reflection test 17:04 The prospective memory test 21:24 Selective interest

The quailty of work being put out by HowTown is always stellar.

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Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life The defining experience of our age seems to be hunger.  We're hungry for more, but we have more than we need.  We're hungry for less, while more accumulates and multiplies. We're hungry and we don't have words to articulate why. We're hungry, and we're lacking and we're wanting. We are

Oh my. @joanwestenberg.com does it again. This essay on thick vs thin desires is fantastic: www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-d...

"Making something for an audience of one is a beautiful heresy."

#TIL that my Spotify Family subscription bumped it's price to $20 a month to include Audio Book listening. No thanks. Thankfully it's easy to go back to $17/m

Rumbledore would be the perfect wrestling wizard name

Nancy Drew and friends can be seen digging a hole, late in the night, burying their last fuck, ensuring that, no matter what, they have no more fucks to give.

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There was this group of bros walking around. I told my kids to be careful because a category 4 bro-nado was forming.

My daughter asked "What is they were girls?"

A her-ricane!

Ah! You’re right, but not on all apps. Now if only it remembered where it left off…

Watching MLS on Apple TV is fine if you watch live, but it is impossible to start a game late or take an extended pause without spoiling the score. I literally give the remote to my kid or wife to load up the match while my back is turned.

I've been reduced to trying to come up with screen-free "enrichment activities" for my teenager. Parenting in this glowing hellscape feels like a war of attrition.

I had a whole lot of fun doing some experiments this weekend on my #pkm setup in @obsidian.md. I've got some more to do before I'm certain it'll work for me, but it felt like it was clicking in a way that is hasn't in a while. Their new Bases feature is a game changer.

#obsidian

I've been thinking about how I'm using #obsidian. I figured I'd trying sharing these thoughts with Claude and I'm embarrassed with how it nailed it: "You're trying to force an "aspirational knowledge worker" system onto a "busy person managing multiple responsibilities" reality"

The Philadelphia Union are so much fun to watch right now. I just love it.

When I Will Call Something a “Constitutional Crisis” And the two words that Elon Musk will need to learn.

This is by far the most thoughtful and reasoned response to all that's gone in the government in the last 3 weeks. www.wakeuptopolitics.com/p/when-i-wil...

I’m not kidding: those who delegate all their writing, thinking and creative expression to machines are going to wake up one day and discover that they can no longer write or think. You need to make your own art. You need to keep your brain working. You need to stay human.

Desperate times call for desperate levels of self care

Now seems like a good a time as any to watch the 1959 cartoon of Animal Farm with the kids.

It’s a cry in front of a used car salesman kind of day

My wife and I are rewatching Friday Night Lights, and it strikes us that most of that show would just happen over texts today. Maybe I’m just an old guy, but I think that’s sad.

Alrighty Philly peeps, Giulianos has some new Hoagie Hoodies fresh off the presses. What do you think?

I’ve really enjoyed our coffee setup recently. It’s a cheap shelf, but it allows for everything to be in its right place. Also, the 1Zpresso J-ultra is glorious.

How glorious Marco! I’m dreaming of being able to do that with our place (though I imagine a couple years from now). Would you mind sharing some resources that helped you prepare and consider when was the right time?

My favorite part of working from home is every day when my son comes home from school. He sprints to the closest bathroom letting out emergency farts with every step.

I want one of those Zen gardens with the sand for my desk. Instead of the rake, though, I want one of those tiny hands giving the middle finger on a stick.

One of the highlights of this fall is that several of my jades are completely covered in flowers. I've grown three plants for 15 years and nothing like this has ever happened. #bloomscrolling

Hey friends, let's not fall into the same trap of binding our community to an infrastructure whose incentives are fundamentally in conflict with protecting these communities. BlueSky has some promising aspirations around decentralization, but I fear they will always be secondary.