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awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?
i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users
would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like theyāre gone. itās the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.
thatās not the whole flag, now is it
hey staff what the fuck
hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose
HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE
they fixed it! but also if you click it multiple times, it displays different flags!
Saturday, June 6, 2026 ā¢ 9 p.m. EST
Fish's 300th and final streamāSTOLLEBOOT
I'm usually pretty decisive about what to stream, but this one eluded me for weeks. How do you cap off 300 nights of shared memories and shenanigans and collective suffering? You can't. Not meaningfully, anyway. What you CAN do is have a party and watch the most ridiculous option possible.
Stolleboot is a brilliantly seamless edit by @cowardtranslation that stars beloved jack of all trades JEREMY STOLLE as the Phantom, JEREMY STOLLE as Raoul, JEREMY STOLLE as Passarino, and JEREMY STOLLE as Piangi.
As always, the stream will be on cy.tube and shy anons are welcome. For more info, please see theĀ Saturday Streams FAQ!Ā Link and password will be posted here at 8:45.
Remember to follow @from-aldebaran for stream posts going forward!
Happy 24-6-01!
She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.
She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.
81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves. On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.
The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.
Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision. She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.
Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.
The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.
She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it. Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.
Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.
When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.
The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.
When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.
The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes. The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.
You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.
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Happy Pride!
Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions
If you canāt write 2500 words without a plagiarism machine, then you need to seriously reconsider whether you actually want to pursue a path which involves serious thought and in-depth analysis of whatever it is that you have decided to study. Think beyond the immediacy of the grade on that assignment and work on developing some actual research and analytical skills.
Generative AI can only vomit back other peopleās thoughts and it frequently gets things wrong. You have the capacity to learn, analyse, and articulate things in ways that generative AI canāt. Furthermore, using this capacity will make it stronger. Use your brain. Itāll serve you better than any service you can pay (or not) to do your thinking for you.
š¶HE'S HEEEERE, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERAAAAAš¶
(My less unserious Phantom cat art here if you want them)
the first time I saw masquerade, madame giry handed me the rope right before learn to be lonely, and I was like āok I will hold this prop and be a very reliable audience memberā so when the phantom held out his hand for it I immediately handed it over bc like yes good this is a prop for actors I do not want it. And then I Realized what the next scene was going to be and audibly said āohā which got scattered laughs from my fellow audience members. and that kids is the story of the time I became an accomplice to the murder of joseph buquet
It's end of May, yall know what that means
TOMORROW
The problem with people and ai is that they need instant gratification, and ai gives them exactly that. They donāt care about the process of creating anymore.
I have worked on a single piece of music for band for fourteen years. It totals about three minutes in length. I am not familiar enough with percussion instruments to really know how to write their part, but Iāve done the absolute best I can. Iāve asked for help from a few fellow musicians I trust.
My band test played it. It still needs some editing, but Iām happy with how itās turned out.
I wrote that music. Me. Not ai. Never ai.
āI used ai to write music when I was depressedā and what did you do every other winter you were depressed? There is REAL music to listen to. Just search for a genre on youtube and you can find something youāve never heard before. Why are you reliant on ai now when you werenāt before? Why are you listening to something without any soul to get you through depression? You still have seasonal depression. Itās not going away. I have the reverse seasonal depression and somehow Iāve gotten through it without ai. Stop making yourself dumber. Stop making yourself reliant on something unreliable. Learn to write music yourself, or ask your friend who can write music for help. Stop poisoning the planet.
hey can we have Pedro Pascal as Zorro please
I am still working on Snack Time and Ayesha, Extraordinaire and I am here to tell you that I will finish them, not AI.
