I hope Asia and Europe take good care of the sun while it’s gone. I am very fond of it and will be pretty mad if they break it while it’s over there.

This poor guy down there is going on hour 13 of using an hand held angle grinder to prep the ground under the magic mushroom to get a new floor coating.

I’m sure it’s complete coincidental that I get a multi-gigabit bandwidth spike warning shortly after I reject certain signups. Also LOOK AT THIS SUNSET

“After just “10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving, people who lost access to the AI performed worse and gave up more frequently than those who never used it”.

An MIT study showed that test groups who used ChatGPT had the lowest brain activity and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioural levels”. We undergo not just cognitive offloading, but cognitive surrender: we forget what was possible.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom

#ai #cognitivedebt