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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...

"How will you get a job if you don't embrace chatgpt?"

Counterpoint: how will you get a job if your frontal cortex is turned off?

arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Mental Imagery abilities affect visual working memory performance: evidence from aphantasic participants Visual imagery refers to the mental generation of visual representations of stimuli, while visual working memory involves retaining visual information for a short period without external input. Due to...

A new preprint showing a relationship between visual working memory (VWM) and visual mental imagery (VMI):

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

As much as I like to see the rare evidence for behavioral differences between aphantasia and imagery, I have a couple of doubts about this finding... 1/4

👀 The whole brain 7T "natural scenes dataset" now has mental imagery data!

NSD-Imagery: A Benchmark Dataset for Extending fMRI Vision Decoding Methods to Mental Imagery

Conference paper:
goo.gl/scholar/wPx1HJ

Dataset:
naturalscenesdataset.org

A three-card spread using the Deviant Moon Tarot: The Sun, The Fool reversed, Ace of Swords reversed

Tell me something I don't know

#tarotsky

The Complete Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts by Allen Greenfield

Time to go all the way off the deep end 📚💙

YouTube video by Reshanne Reeder The impact of aphantasia on mental healthcare experiences: Results!

A video summary of the mixed methods mega paper, "The impact of aphantasia on mental healthcare experiences":

youtu.be/_cJF9WUppkY

Aphantasics compared to imagers show:
-no difference in PTSD prevalence
-emotional, not sensory symptoms
-lower success with imagery-based therapies

#aphantasia

Arcade Random Posting Submission via @bartlander.bsky.social

I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here, but if even if you're not an artist, that goofy meme idea in your head will be a thousand times funnier if you just do a crappy drawing of it yourself vs using generative A.I.

Originally West Coast, I always say "ess-thetic". But I feel like the TH can sometimes come out a bit T-ish, maybe because we tend to have soft T's anyway?

I'm going to be hyperaware of this word now, oh no

An illustration of Godzilla as he appeared in the 1954 original film. He is even holding the oxygen destroyer from that movie, a weapon resembling a cylinder with a ball inside.

Godzilla ゴジラ
1954, dir. Ishirō Honda, sfx. Eiji Tsuburaya

A giant monster's sudden appearance triggers fears of nuclear apocalypse in post-war Japan.

The Windows notification sound in Court of the Crimson King gets me every single time

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Re: trying to get rid of google in my life:
someone suggested Tuta Mail as an alternative for Gmail, and they have a whole article on "De-Googling your life" with alternatives for a bit of everything, if it interests you :)

tuta.com/blog/how-to-...

"Operation Trojan Horse" by John Keel, sitting on a sloth-shaped pillow.

Welp, that was unsettling. I need something trashy as a palate cleanser. 💙📚

House of Monstrous Women NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

If you want to read a gothic novel set in an isolated, labyrinth-like house in the Philippines, with more than its fair share of sapphic yearning, for free request House of Monstrous Women on Netgalley!
www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

i'm so over games that are "masterpieces" or "hidden gems". i want games that frustrate me in compelling ways. i want jank so i can feel i'm in an imperfect world like the one we live in. i want stilted but earnest writing. i want weirdness and incoherence.

perfection is good, but uninteresting

Illustration of a black tip reef shark but turned into a dragon. Colors used are mostly greyish blues They are a friendly energetic fellow, yeah they bite but its all in the name of love

black tip reef shark but as a dragon

A good book is one you have fun reading

Art is subjective. What's bad to me will be good to someone else and just because I think something is subjectively bad doesn't make it objectively bad

There are books that are absolute trash fires and I love them (they're usually litrpg)

#booksky thoughts

As a reminder when considering your boycott efforts and where to spend your dollars…
yes, we loathe Amazon and Bezos. Sadly, this is the BEST avenue for indie authors to get their books seen. If you find a book you want on Amazon, consider reaching out to the (indie) author directly (1)

#booksky

I admit I did not have "OpenAI gets Temu'd" as a pale horse but if this is what does it, lol

If you make art (any art! Not just visual), no matter how big your audience or if you think you're "successful" or "enough", you are giving people the energy to get through another day.

You're part of the reason folks have an easier time holding on.

Keep creating!! Your art matters!!!

mandatory bookmark !!!

Stern's Uncanny X-Men pinball machine

Went on a date night to the local pinballnasium, and the new X-men rocks. The theme does nothing for me, but man, that layout is wacky! The ramps are crazy, the danger room is super fun, and the features were accessible even to our mediocre skills. 10/10, would tilt off one ski pass again

#pinball

Pretty baby! ❤️

Creativity is like a houseplant, not an endless well. You need to seek out sunlight, water, and nutrients in art, shows, music, experiences, and more to tend to it. And just like plants it has its dormant and active periods and you may not seem improvement for some time.

Reminder:

Can we stop judging people for what they read?
If you enjoy reading “dark” or “twisted” storylines it does not mean you have trauma or need therapy.

People can separate fiction from reality. Liking a genre does NOT mean you want that in real life.

Judge less. Read more

💙📚
#booksky

Why did I do this #gentlecomicshabit

Making yourself dependent on external appreciation is very dangerous. I did this and it ruined how I perceive my own art:
I started to hate my art even though the moment before I posted it I was content with it.
So don't let this negate all your positive feelings you had towards your work.

Hyperphantasia Affects About 3% of the Population. Here’s How to Tell If You Have It Exceptionally vivid mental imagery can seem like a superpower—but it can also be incredibly distracting.

Did another interview on hyperphantasia, characterised as "superlative mental imagery". Like aphantasia, we are finding that it is a multidimensional construct that affects many other cognitive domains. Are you hyperphantasic?

www.self.com/story/hyperp...