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Ultra-high-density Neuropixels probes improve detection and identification in neuronal recordings Ye, Shelton, et al. describe a silicon probe with ultra-high site density for recording neural activity in the brain. Higher site density improves the quality and yield of detected neurons. These prob...

Ultra-high-density Neuropixels probes improve detection and identification in neuronal recordings

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

The scourge of the so-called "critical theory" and "social constructivism" is as much a threat to academic freedom, if not more, as any right wing ideology. A large portion of the self-described "Left" has long abandoned any rational inquiry. Meera Nanda explains...
www.jstor.org/stable/4407908

YouTube video by Chasing Sharpe Richard Wolff: People Will GO INSANE When This Happens

Richard Wolff explains what China does right! www.youtube.com/watch?v=10gG...

🚨 Breaking: Israeli forces raided Birzeit University north of Ramallah on Monday, storming the campus, injuring students, and detaining several people, according to Anadolu Agency and other outlets. At least 11 Palestinian students were injured, some by live fire and others by tear gas inhalation and shrapnel, and were treated in hospital, Anadolu reported. Witnesses said Israeli troops smashed the main gate, entered multiple university buildings, and fired tear gas, stun grenades, and live ammunition as students fled across campus. Several students, journalists, and the university’s vice president for academic affairs were detained during the operation, according to Xinhua. Israeli forces also seized equipment and property belonging to student groups, the Times of Israel reported. The raid followed a student event held in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails and coincided with preparations to screen the film “Hind Rajab,” which documents Israel’s murder of the five-year-old child during Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Israeli forces entered the campus shortly before the scheduled screening, which had been organized as part of student-led activities, Anadolu reported.

הארץ חדשות @haaretznewsvid Translated from Hebrew Documentation: Students at Birzeit University near Ramallah flee as gunfire is heard in the background, today. Use according to section 27A of the Copyright Law

🚨 Breaking: Israeli forces raided Birzeit University north of Ramallah on Mon., storming the campus, injuring students and detaining several people, according to Anadolu Agency & other outlets.

At least 11 Palestinian students were injured, some by live fire and others by tear gas inhalation and...

Looking Ahead to 2026 As I reflect on the past year and look toward the one ahead, there’s no question 2026 will be a pivotal year for AI. Yes, another one. But this moment feels different in a few notable ways.

Satya Slopella, Chief Executive Sloper of Microslop really really REALLY wants you to stop calling "AI" slop.

So... SLOP SLOP SLOP SLOP SLOP SLOP SLOP SLOP SLOP

LLMs are not "AI" in any meaningful sense.
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#microsoft #ai #LLM #genAI #satyanadella

Nicolas Maduro is one of the bravest leaders in the world. A man who chose to face the AmeriKKKan scum rather than bow before it.

Red Salute, Comrade Maduro.

It's settled then. Dems will lose forever. Either that or they will do what Mexico did with the DFS. "Abolish" it by simply renaming it to something else. Same wine. New bottle.

Fractal analysis of brain shape formation predicts age and genetic similarity in human newborns - Nature Neuroscience Fractal analysis of structural MRI captures the formation of brain shape in human newborns and outperforms other morphological measures in predicting infant age and genetic similarity, including the i...

Very happy to see this great study by @skrohn.bsky.social @carstenfinke.bsky.social @engra.me @sofievalk.bsky.social on brain shape & human brain development, out in @natneuro.nature.com
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Kans grass... Reminds me of my childhood, running around Kans fields with my mom...

When Linux CEO Linus Torvalds warned the world about NVIDIA, called it the ‘worst company we've worked with’ | Company Business News In 2012, the Linux CEO was addressing a public Q&A session when he called Nvidia the ‘worst’ company he had ever dealt with. An old video of the conversation has resurfaced, where Torvalds explained w...

Well... Can't say we weren't warned! But everybody just kept buying their crap year over year anyway. I have a 5080 myself, but I upgraded from a RX 580. I would have bought a 4080 or 7900 XTX, but both were tremendously overpriced this year in India.

www.livemint.com/companies/pe...

It IS a great read. The "monster" is easily among the greatest character ever created in Gothic fiction.

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I got rid of YT Music to save money and I'm ngl, 2 ads between every song is actually insane and criminal and someone should get blown up for this

People also need to stop being lazy and accept that there are other ways of doing things. I got into Linux BECAUSE it was different. For most people it is not really software availability that stops them. They would rather doom scroll than spend an hour figuring out a new DE.

People also need to stop being lazy and accept that there are other way of doing things. I got into Linux BECAUSE it was different. For most people it is not really software availability that stops them. They would rather doom scroll than spend an hour figuring out a new DE.

Can relate... Every laptop I have ever used had some weird component that would break shit unless you ran all the bloat the manufacturer shipped.

The Weirdstone of Brisingamen ALAN GARNER A fantastic novel in the Tolkien tradition "A prime favorite of mine." - ANDRE NORTON G-570 50¢

Great blurb by Norton.

I’d like to believe that the horrific darkness of this past year is a necessary prelude to a brighter and saner future. Some thoughts...

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-a-year-of-reckoning

Tmnt the last ronin and amazing spiderman kraven's last hunt graphic novels

Two new trade pickups as recommended by you all for my comic reading next year. The Last Ronin and Kraven's Last Hunt. Can't wait! #comicsky

Extinction rarely departs with drama, it slips out the back door while we’re still debating the guest list. These records are made official on the Red List. "Conservation failures are often recognised only once they can no longer be reversed."
via @mongabay.com: news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Hulk with Dr Strange and Valkyrie leaving somewhere stupid

Me and a bunch of comic folks leaving Twitter. Best move ever.

This strip was published on December 25, 1957. Merry Christmas to All!

“Time-resolved variation in Southern Bavarian diphthong trajectories” by Aleese Block at Vowels in Motion, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, July 17, 2025 www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/Forschung/DI...

YouTube video by Michael Levin's Academic Content "Platonic Forms in the Study of Language and Mind" by Elliot Murphy

Delighted to be part of Michael Levin’s ongoing symposium on Platonic spaces in biology.

My lecture focused on how we can use formalized algebraic models of language to narrow the space of candidate neural mechanisms.

youtu.be/pqDnfNUlvRo?...

@talisein.bsky.social Universals.

“Monophthongization and Diphthongization in Upper Saxon” by Beat Siebenhaar at Vowels in Motion, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, July 17, 2025 www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/Forschung/DI...