I didn’t want to see helpless humans. I’d rather see smart ones rescuing each other.

@CoolerPseudonym I've never heard of the first one

@vruz nice one

#icj #justice #hague #trump #fifa #worldcup

#psilocybin #Alzheimers

"Woman Crippled by Alzheimer’s Resumes Lively Conversations After Psilocybin Mushrooms Unlocked Her Memory

From the May issue of *Frontiers in Neuroscience* comes the truly remarkable case study of a woman crippled by Alzheimer’s recovering speech, bladder control, and motor function after a single dose of psilocybin mushrooms.

Living with Alzheimer’s for a decade and under family supervision for almost as long, the Japanese American woman in her 80s was given 5 grams of psychedelic mushrooms, went into a deep, sweaty sleep, awoke, and launched into an autobiographical tirade for 4 hours.

This was a woman on death’s door from the most common form of neurodegenerative disease. She had, for 5 years, spoken only single syllables, had lost control of her urinary continence, was unable to stand or walk without assistance, couldn’t recognize anyone or much of anything from her past or family, and suffered from severe motor skill dysfunction so that she could neither perform basic grooming nor dress herself.

No details about why the woman was the subject of the experiment have been revealed by media reports, but the 3 research scientists from the Medical Department at Associação Cruz de Ankh, in São Paulo, authors of this observational case study, administered one 5-gram dose of mushrooms containing the psychedelic compound psilocybin—one of the most common found in nature—and documented its effects.

(. . .)

On the one hand, this is clearly a groundbreaking finding. Billions of dollars have been invested into finding a drug that can slow or reverse Alzheimer’s, and most if not all attempts have been met with failure. At the same time, rates of Alzheimer’s disease around the world are increasing, placing an ever larger burden of care on families and society.

(. . .)

The study didn’t include any brain scans, control groups, double-blinding, sensitivity analysis, placebo controls—nor even standardized cognitive tests. In short, it lacked anything that would allow for extrapolation of this totally observational finding beyond what it was: the reported observations of a few people on a single person.

'The findings do not imply disease reversal but suggest that residual functional capacity may persist in late-stage neurodegeneration and may become transiently accessible under specific neuromodulatory conditions,' the authors write.

In other words, everything which seems to be taken away by Alzheimer’s may still be there, and that there exists some chemical key that can unlock it. Is psilocybin that key? Hopefully more, higher-quality research can follow-up on this incredible case study."

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/woman-crippled-with-alzheimers-recovers-speech-movement-and-memory-with-psilocybin-mushrooms/

romance bookstores as third spaces is WILDLY MY SCENE I am so excited to see this

"Behind this surge is a new generation of booksellers—nearly all women, many in small towns—who believe in the power of bookstores as third spaces (that is, gathering places outside of the home, workplace, or school) where like-minded people can forge connections."

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/100861-romance-bookstores-are-surging-across-the-country.html

@liamvhogan they give them out for anything and everything. Pretty sure they have one for scratching your own arse, and another one for scratching someone else’s arse.

#asteroids

"'Once-in-a-millennium' asteroid flyby will be visible to much of the world in 2029

Three years before the skyscraper-size asteroid Apophis makes its very close (but safe) flyby of Earth, scientists have already begun charting exactly when and where billions of people can watch it sweep across the sky.

'This is the first time that we've been able to predict in human history an asteroid visibly passing by the Earth.'

Speaking at an 'Apophis T-3 Years' workshop held earlier this month at the University of Padua in Italy, retired cartographer Michael Zeiler and astronomer Rick Fienberg shared detailed visibility maps charting the asteroid's passage across Earth's skies.

According to their calculations, roughly 90% of the world's population — about 7.6 billion people — lives in regions where Apophis could, in principle, be seen with the naked eye on April 13, 2029. The actual viewing success will depend more on earthly considerations, however, including cloud cover and the extent of light pollution.

Known formally as 99942 Apophis, the space rock will not resemble a blazing meteor tearing through the sky. Instead, scientists say it will appear as a point-like speck of light gliding steadily across, which, at its closest approach, will appear to move by about the apparent width of the full moon every minute.

'It will definitely be noticeable,' Fienberg told Space.com. ''"

https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/once-in-a-millennium-asteroid-flyby-will-be-visible-to-much-of-the-world-in-2029

@scottjenson sure -- I talked about that in "Dogpiling, weaponized content warning discourse, and a fig leaf for mundane white supremacy". But what does that have to do with people pushing back against projects that they see as fascist?

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116963665803240703

circular funding and circular press releases continue!

This evening I spent some time going through the latest firefox HEAD, with the idea being to catalog how many files/lines of code could be removed solely on the basis that they only exist to power the built in llm / chat / local ai stuff.

I am currently at 136000 lines of code, a number so absurd that I have forced myself to triple check it - and I'm pretty sure I'm barely half way through this patch.

The security auditor in me weeps.

I dunno, maybe I don't need this many cores on my NAS?

They are my emotional support cores.

@randahl You only have to glance at this guys Wikipedia page to see the type of character you’re dealing with.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niall_Collins

@iamkonstantin Morning!

wikipedia also said some oxford guy in the 70s did computational logic "more general" than turing 'because it didn't impose a specific model of computation". that's called a non-constructive proof. every wikipedia "mathematician" is british and homophobic

Mark's home gets so hot he has to replace his TV https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-23/sydney-social-housing-extreme-heat/106943406 #HeatingandCooling #HousingPolicy #ClimateChange #Welfare

"These spaces, they say, are especially important for women living in remote or socially conservative communities, where access to books by and about women—not to mention frank conversations about love, sex, and romance—can be hard to come by.

For Cheryl Keffer, opening La Petite Mort Books in Cockeysville, Md., this past March was “an act of resistance.”

“What is more subversive than women gathering to talk about books and sex?” she asks."

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Universidad Central de Venezuela hosted a South American Cup match on Tuesday, the first major sporting event in the nation since the twin earthquakes that killed over 5,000 last month. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2026/07/23/soccer/soccer-venezuela-earthquake-distraction/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #soccer #venezuela #earthquakes #universidadcentraldevenezuela