@servelan@newsie.social2024-05-25 02:40:19
X considers "cisgender" a slur, and moderates it over actual slurs | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2024/05/24/twitter-considers-cisgender-a-slur-and-moderates-it-over-actual-slurs/
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2024-04-24 14:41:38
Could The vOICe mental imagery training increase your cognitive reserve? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihSbdGjB3BQ
Building cognitive reserve could protect against memory and thinking decline, even with low childhood cognition scores
@kofanchen@drosophila.social2024-05-24 18:23:56
Cool #diptera in the garden, anyone can ID this? #insect could it be Acidia cognata?
https://uknature.co.uk/flies/a.co…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2024-04-24 16:50:44
Source: Cognition, which offers an AI coding assistant, raised $175M led by Founders Fund at a $2B valuation, a month after a Series A at a $350M valuation (Kate Clark/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/si
@kofanchen@drosophila.social2024-05-24 18:23:56
Cool #diptera in the garden, anyone can ID this? #insect could it be Acidia cognata?
https://uknature.co.uk/flies/a.co…
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org2024-05-24 10:38:43
“After a certain basic point... to just a few thousand dollars above the minimum poverty level, increases in material well being don’t see to affect how happy people are.”
The speech includes, the first purpose of incorporation at Sony:
To establish a place of work where engineers can feel the joy of technological innovation, be aware of their mission to society, and work to their heart’s content...
@trochee@dair-community.social2024-05-24 15:30:51
Y'all
If you see me grouching "journalists*, you have one job"
It is no kind of checkmate to retort that journalists* are subject to the merciless vise grip of capitalist enclosure
I am simply reminding us all: "there are standards for conduct as a decent person & y'gotta NOTICE & COMPLAIN when bosses tell you to act against them"
*"journalists" may be read "editors'", "photographers", "enginee…
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2024-04-24 22:07:36
cognitive framing of covid risks
You know when people are like "you have to live your life", and it means acting as if covid doesn't exist?
I was thinking, it's as if they have covid risks conceptualised as a one-dimensional measurement spectrum like so:
{No fun, no risk} ............... {Fun and risk}
For me, it isn't like that: there's a quadrant which is "highly rewarding and little or no risk".
#covid #CovidCareful
@jprol@mastodon.online2024-04-20 07:05:32
«The main takeaway is that cannabis might be protective for our cognition, but it is really crucial to have longitudinal studies because this is just a snapshot of 2021. We do not know if non-medical cannabis leads to better cognition or the other way around if those with better cognition are more likely to use non-medical cannabis. We need longitudinal studies to see long term if non-medical cannabis use is protecting our cognition over time.»
@seeingwithsound@mas.to2024-04-23 21:23:57
The neural basis of a cognitive function that suppresses the generation of mental imagery: evidence from a functional magnetic resonance imaging study https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5150/8/2/18 "left posterior cingulate gyrus suppresses mental imagery generation"; implications for underst…
