Had this article shared with me today: https://fortune.com/2025/02/11/ai-impact-brain-critical-thinking-microsoft-study/

I went through an array of #emotions. At first, I found it #awkward and #discomforting. I made jokes:

Wait, you mean people aren't thinking #critically and growing #cognitively because the #digitalization of the world is doing it for them....and it's making them (gasps) #dumber!!?? #AI is making it worse?? Is this #Idiocracy? 👀 😞 Am I being #punked right now!? Where's Ashton and the cameras! 📹

Then, I had a deep #selfrealization:

Jokes aside - This is a #sensitive topic for me. I talk about it in my closest circle too often. Unfortunately, I have a front seat to the steep cognitive #decline of some close #friends and #family members for years now, and it makes me sad - not because of disease or "old age", simply because of too much screen time and no new cognitive #stimulation. I see too many people purposefully avoiding nearly anything #cerebral, if they even approach them at all. I have many days where I wish the #Internet didn't exist - for a multitude of reasons, but this is a big one. I'm not trying to be "old fashioned" or #sarcastic, I'm just #disappointed in how we #humanz have grown to depend on #technology as a #crutch, rather than using it as the #tool it was invented to be. As the article eludes to, these technologies are supposed to #complement human #evolution, not #supplement it.

(part 1)

#NeoNazis slowly realize this #smalltown totally #punked them

https://www.upworthy.com/neo-nazis-slowly-realize-this-small-town-totally-punked-them-rp

Local residents came together to fight #Nazis a hilariously perfect way.

I'm including two pictures of myself to make my point.

I have a neutral face. I don't show a quirk. I don't show an attitude. I am schizo.

In a gendered sense, this has impacted my life. You might say I'm an incel. I wouldn't. I'd say I'm a volcel. It was a journey. I was young.

However, I have to acknowledge that I don't get a lot of choice in this. I'm forced to be thirsty. I'm supposed to be obedient when I outline my worldview. It's the only way I ever receive reception. That dependably causes me to be harvestably simp. I'll be damned if some unelected body will tell me that satisfactions with the mediocre and paltry shouldn't be called what they are! So in not getting a lot of choice in this gender war, I'm forcibly transgendered. As an incel, am I not an inTraining?

I've been gender #punked. Ok kids, let's get #punk. I'd be happy to spend your buying power.

#Trans
#TransHumanism
#Incel
#GenderPunk
#HumanRights
#Equality
#Pride
#LGBT+
#LGBTQIA+
#LGBTQ+
#NonBinary
#GenderStudies

Except for all the damage he's done to the country, it was almost worth electing Trump in 2016 as a prank just to ultra-humiliate him by having him be impeached and then fail to be reelected.

Where's Ashton?

#Punked #PunkAssPresident