Tootfinder

Listening to new devlog from Tom Francis and he mentioned two big categories he includes in all his games:
Obvious pleasures - actions that inherently feel good. Smashing enemies through windows, breaking open crates, doing a knockdown attack.
Brain food - something to figure out and keep thinking about. Puzzle mechanics, build crafting, optimization problems, inventory Tetris.
Thinking I should look for really small versions of these in games I play.

Your brain runs on 20 watts of power. Could brain-inspired computing do the same?
https://theconversation.com/your-brain-runs-on-20-watts-could-brain-inspired-computing-do-the-same-292048?ref=refind&…

Your brain runs on 20 watts. Could brain-inspired computing do the same?
Neuromorphic technology is reimagining how computers should work.

Interesting post
"Your guts shed ~40 billion epithelial cells every day, amounting to ~⇓ kg of tissue every week. Like the brain, your guts consume ~20% of total energy, despite making up only ~2% of body mass. Evolution doesn’t want to do that everywhere, because evolution doesn’t want you to starve to death.
So, there isn’t just a trade-off between regeneration and cancer. There’s a three-way tradeoff between regeneration, cancer, energy usage."

Why is the human body so crap except for the liver?
the question everyone is asking

Computers Made of Human Brain Tissue Identify Braille Letters In Breakthrough https://www.404media.co/computers-made-of-human-brain-tissue-identify-braille-letters-in-breakthrough/

Die Zeit, die ich in den letzten zwei Monaten in mein Dokumenten-Management-System und mein Second Brain gesteckt habe, werde ich durch die beiden Tools nie im Leben wieder reinholen - aber trotzdem bin ich ein bisschen hin und weg 🫠
#dms #secondbrain

As an IT professional whom has mostly been Sys Admin who is not very confident in my programming skills “vibe coding” is sort of dangerous. I can converse with a fairly capable programmer who never needs sleep or coffee. Also, one who is fine with helping me get all the random thoughts out of my brain or my Brother’s brain…

#WordWeavers Oct. 15: What piece of backstory did you invent just for yourself that readers may never learn?
My WIP is based, as far as possible, on psychology and science so that's more a selection process than an invention so all I did was read about the brain and the development. I am not sure if that qualifies as backstory, though?

Please read this superb post by @deevybee.bsky.social
I agree with every word of it.
Science is endangered by the demand for speed and by AI slop.
https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-leap-into-future-or-off-cliff.html

#WordWeavers 13/10: What is something your MC would risk their life to protect but would struggle to explain why?
Protocol. Prefrontal Cortex won't be able to explain why it's so important, but they will go to great lengths to protect it.
You'd be amazed at what lengths the brain will go to protect itself and the meatwagon that carries it.

#WritersCoffeeClub 11 Oct: What's a turn of phrase you've 'inherited' from someone else?
My brain is like a tombola. Stuff goes in, gets tossed around, and something falls out that may look familiar. I rarely know where it came from, I just fall in love with something and adopt it. After overusing it, it will either move into my permanent vocabulary or get stuffed in …

RE: https://halo.nu/@theguardian_world_news/117463976370512573
In short: everyone with half a brain can see that Jan Crawford of CBS is a partisan Islamophobic bigot. However, her colleagues and peers are unwilling to put it in such clear terms.
Saved you the click.

#PennedPossibilities 151: What is your MC’s relationship to what modern society considers the paranormal or supernatural?
Prefrontal Cortex is mostly concerned with if it can be categorised, entered into a spreadsheet, or labelled. There are others in the Mansion who would want to voice their opinions, of course because the brain is complex and confusing, but Prefrontal Cortex has …

The Republican party in the USA continues to encourage a brain drain to the rest of the world (after benefiting for nearly a century from attracting highly educated scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs from around the globe).
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c209gd5jnq1o
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I had to empty parts of my brain to make room. Enjoy.
#OpenCode #Graylog #MCP

Remember that weird neanderthal-ish bleach blonde from a few years ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene?
She's woken up and found a brain 🤯

BBC still publish actual podcasts (RSS feeds with audio) for their world service content. The trailers have always been annoying when I've downloaded quiet spoken word content and they've got very noisy stings (and outside the UK, bad ads) for other programmes an the start. Today I notice those noise injections are also being added in the middle of episodes.
Woke up thinking about the options for recording broadcast radio and making it into usable, non-startling audio (thank you sleeping brain)

Remember that weird neanderthal-ish bleach blonde from a few years ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene?
She's woken up and found a brain 🤯