@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-06 18:56:53
The “neural fingerprint” of psychedelics was spotted among hundreds of brain scans of people on LSD, psilocybin, DMT, mescaline and ayahuasca,
pointing to a shared impact on the brain’s behaviour.
The finding emerged from a major study that combined 11 brain imaging datasets from around the world
in an effort to build a reliable picture of how the substances temporarily rewire the brain.
Dr Danilo Bzdok and his colleagues analysed more than 500 brain scans from 267 p…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-07 10:55:43
The US IRS is yet to issue guidelines on whether prediction market gains should be taxed as derivatives, gambling winnings, or income, worrying accountants (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nobody-knows-how-to-file-taxes-on-predi…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-08 05:50:16
Generative AI can’t magically reveal otherwise unknown truths. AI doesn’t have any idea what the lower half of the killer’s face looks, no more than my students knew what my unmasked face looked like.
What AI •can• do is generate a random plausible face that really looks like a face. It might even look like the face of a real person — a random, innocent person.
Sharing AI-generated unmasking photos is dangerous.
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@janneke@todon.nl2026-04-06 16:54:26
There is so little total insanity, fascism and transphobia on Mastodon; it's not an equal representation of our society.
I haven't really looked but it must be an echo chamber.
@outer@mas.to2026-04-06 16:22:57
O Gods! I had a brain worm one-hit wonder pop song stuck in my head last night. This morning it came back. So I started to think of an Offenbach song to counter it -- now they're BOTH going at the same time! I better practice some new music, quick.
Jeez. Next time I'll make sure they're in highly incompatible time signatures!
#Music
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-02-07 20:08:07
In Cuba now, lives being lost in hospital because no electricity, so, for example, can't ventilate a critically ill patient.
This is Trump
This is cruelty
This is genocide.
https://mastodon.social/@JDanielSsp/116026739948880529
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-03-04 19:20:57
Strong Majorities of Democrats & NYC Voters Support Gov. & Leg. Giving NYC Ability to Raise Income Tax on Its Residents Earning At Least $1M (Siena Research Institute)
https://sri.siena.edu/2026/03/04/strong-majorities-of-democrats-nyc-voters-support-gov-leg-giving-nyc-ability-to-raise-income-tax-on-its-residents-earning-at-least-1m/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p98#a260304p98
@scott@carfree.city2026-04-06 22:10:38
Good primer on how California housing development laws have changed in the past few years, for better or worse, but also how those changes are unlikely to usher in broad affordability.
"*This* project is all but certainly going to get financing because *this* project is exceptional. But not every project is exceptional... If merely approving a project resulted in its construction, San Francisco would have scores of thousands of additional built units. It doesn’t."
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-02-08 05:06:12
FPS is the biggest available channel that I'm aware of to funnel Academi into ICE/CBP enforcement operations. The point of using FPS to support ICE agents is that FPS is stocked full of troops from EriK Prince's private army (now called "Academi" but formerly called "Blackwater"). This means that carrying out ethnic cleansing can dump money directly into the pockets of America's version of the Wagner Group (side from, of course GEO Group).
The Erik Prince angle also means that there can be an alternative chain of command that exists outside of official channels. ICE is already bad enough, but similar people have worked as mercenaries for a long time. Having an established chain of command over armed occupiers, one based entirely on economic incentives, one that can't be legally monitored or audited, one that's completely outside of the government, should be especially worrying.
I don't believe we've ever seen a clear explanation of who was kidnaping people off the streets, but I know that Academi had a contract (I believe with FPS) in Portland at the time. We also don't know who is on the ground in US cities right now, because they're wearing masks.
The bit reason J6 didn't go as planned is that Erik Prince wasn't behind it. Now there are troops with experience occupying American cities who can be called directly via Erik when Trump wants to make sure he doesn't lose again. And Erik won't back out at the last minute this time, because he's already seen that there will be no consequences for participating in a coup... if the time comes.
#USPol
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-08 03:41:38
