My Wall of Crazy

[nairobiwonders]

Taking a hiatus for a bit. Powering down but leaving the ghost light on.

[nairobiwonders]

no static at all

two letters left on my scrabble type game and they sent a sweet wave of nostalgia, a calm longing through me, for a smoother time. FM - the song filled my deaf ears

[nairobiwonders]

Hatshepsut and Thutmose III

Digs & Discoveries - Pharaoh's Fate - Archaeology Magazine - May/June 2025

Extensive remnants of one of the temples commissioned by the female pharaoh Hatshepsut (reigned ca. […]

One of my favorite pharaohs. Good to know her stepson wasn’t the one trying to destroy her legacy. But history does apparently repeat itself…. “Hawass believes the temple was demolished later, during the 19th or 20th Dynasty (ca. 1295–1070 B.C.), by officials bent on effacing the memory of Egypt’s most powerful female ruler.”

[a-silly-poll-side-blog-yay]

You just teleported to the last movie you watched! how is it going?

good

bad

great

awful

FUCK YOU I'M IN THE BACKROOMS NOW

dead

results

Voting ended onJul 10

[sniperct]

tumblr waiting for news on mitch mcconnell (image source)

[theslowesthnery]

ah yes my favourite trope

[popculturepolls]

Fav portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in a contemporary setting?

Robert Carlyle (Watson)

Kay Kay Menon (Shekhar Home)

Dean Fujioka (Sherlock: Untold Stories)

Yūko Takeuchi (Miss Sherlock)

Jonny Lee Miller (Elementary)

Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock)

Voting ended onJun 28

[liberalsarecool]

Cosign.

[rosalesbeausderholle]

One thing that worries me about the use of AI is whether or not it can worsen people's dementia and alzheimer's in the future. When my grandmother was first diagnosed, we got her math activity books. Now, my grandmother never had a formal education, but we did our best to keep her sharp, get her to do math and writing activity books, sudokus, playing board games that required some level of strategizing with her. Her family is prone to alzheimer's and dementia (both her siblings had it and deteriorated very very very quickly, which yeah, scares the shit out of me being her granddaughter) but she was the one whose mind lasted the longest, she only passed away two years ago, at 88, ten whole years after her initial diagnosis and sure, she had forgotten things, recipes and where she put her glasses and appointments, but she never forgot any of us, ten whole years in, she still remembered us. Now, this may have been luck, but doctors always said the constant mental work + companionship + medicine helped her a lot. So I'm thinking, these people who are now relying on AI for everything, from email-writing to thinking what's for dinner to casual conversations, I've even seen people rely on it to calculate what time they should leave their house if they need to be at a place at a specific time and their commute lasts X number of minutes. As if that's not... the simplest math operation possible? You shouldn't even need a calculator for that!!! Idk I don't know how long it'll take us to see the effects of this + exposure to brain-rotting short form content that is completely meaningless + people addicted to right-wing conspiracy style media. Idk I'm very worried. Please, read, read complicated books! Take up a book on philosophy and try to decipher it and make your own opinions on it, please buy a maths activity book and relearn how to do math, please get a hobby that involves lots of thinking and concentrating. PLEASE!!!

[notalotgoingonatthisinstant]

As a neurologist, I’ll give you the pretty name for it: cognitive reserve.

The way I explain it to my patients is that our neurons don’t regenerate. They make connections with each other and that’s it. If you don’t use your brain, they make fewer connections and, if one of them dies, you’re gonna miss it, because that was the only one that knew how to do X. Now, if each one of them has many, many connections, you won’t notice the difference when one of them dies. The others pick up the slack.

As of 2024, 45% of dementia risk factors are modifiable. Relevant to this conversation, 5% for less education and 5% for social isolation.

We absolutely are going to see the reflection of this, but it’s gonna take decades and it’ll be too late. So, for the love of your brain, pretend that it’s a muscle and make it work. People complain about “when am I ever gonna use this maths formula in my life?” You’re not. You’re teaching your brain to think logically. Those sinapses will be there for when you need to figure out your week’s schedule. English classes taught me how to interpret data and how to convey it in this text so it’s clear and you understand what I’m saying, not because I needed to justify why the curtain is blue.

Make your brain know how to do different things. Logic games, puzzles, taking care of a garden even if small, planning a church’s event or birthday, learn a new instrument, learn a few words in another language, look at a calendar every day, do some manual labor if possible. Do not, I repeat, do not let your brain get rid of sinapses by letting AI do everything. Your brain uses 20% of your body’s energy — do you really think it’s going to maintain connexions that aren’t in use?

Most cases of Alzheimer’s are sporadic, meaning no family history. Family history of a first-degree relative with Alzheimer’s starting before they were 80yo increases your risk in 2-3x on average.

TLDR: Yes. From the knowledge we have today, AI will increase the number and severity of dementia cases.

[nairobiwonders]

…. and god bless the hackers

Feeling like the above after I read https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/20/trump-elon-musk-peter-thiel-retreat

maia arson crimew 🏴 (@crimew.gay)

Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by t

[not-freyja]

Can everyone who makes video content do a Deaf bitch a favor? Watch your shit with the captions on and the sound off, and then do another round of editing to fix things including but not limited to:

Captions cover the spot on the screen you put the information I need

The dialogue is captioned but not the song you have playing that the dialogue is responding to

You only captioned the person on the screen, not the person off screen who is also talking

No captioning of critical sound effects (alarms, bells, dogs barking, etc)

Speakers are not labelled at moments where it is not clear on the screen who is talking.

Captions cover the spot on the screen that you put the information I need!

Other d/Deaf people welcome to add.

This post brought to you by the fifth video tutorial I could not follow because the bad, auto-generated captions covered what I was trying to watch today.

[nairobiwonders]

Yes! Thank you! Can’t tell you how many vids I’ve just scrolled thru cause there are no captions. I’ll take bad captioning even just to get a clue as to what’s going on! I especially hate when a song is featured “hey guys remember this ditty” and they never mention the name of the song. Not even in the comments. I end up using the comments section like a detective trying find clues as to what is happening. Feel totally dissed. If you can write alt text, you can flip on the automated comments. Just saying.

signed: a deaf bitch (may need to get a tshirt)

[transgenderwaterrat]

anyway hoping that the generative AI bubble pops so disastrously that the tech industry becomes allergic to anything involving it for the next 1,000 years

[nairobiwonders]

David Hockney passed away this week and this quote of his from the Tate Gallery Instagram struck a chord. Too often we squirrel away our work.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"smart appliances" fuck u i want them dumb as a brick and incidentally as sturdy and enduring

[magnificentbitchface]

Give me HIMBO appliances. Beautiful. Huge. Hardworking. Nigh indestructible. Stupid as the day is long.

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Voting ended onJun 11

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Voting ended onJun 11

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Voting ended onJun 11

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

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[sadcoms]

constantly thinking about how well "bella" and "ready or not" have aged as episodes in this modern climate but literally WHERE are the gif sets of mason talking about intelligent machines evolving to hate us or sherlock explaining the think tank dedicated to considering apocalypses or sherlock saying he'd prefer to melt with the masses and listing doomsday scenarios like nuclear holocaust and socialist zombies coming to eat their guns. this show was hilarious and prescient as hell

[skellydun]

hey good luck today with whatever u got going on. u got this. and i hope something really nice happens to u today. u deserve it.