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Banapana
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Banapana (banapana.com) examines the effects of new media on our physical brains, our cognition and our mental well-being.
Cultural myths debunked by science are so harmful! The "#alphadog" MYTH from *flawed* wolf studies (see article) has been co-opted by the #manosphere and #fabertising, where it's used to promote machismo as a male instinct, despite contrary evidence. Dominance hierarchies *are not* the default in wolves or even most apes!—(which we are)—making such pursuits misguided. #alphamyth #science #culture #ScienceDebunksCulture
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-alpha-wolf-idea-a-myth/
This drives me crazy! Cultural myths! The "#alphadog" MYTH from *flawed* wolf studies (in the 70s and retracted since 1999) has been co-opted by the #manosphere, where it's used to promote aggressive machismo as a natural male instinct, despite scientific debunking. Dominance hierarchies *are not* the default in wolves or even most apes!—making such pursuits misguided pseudoscience. #alphamyth #science #culture #ScienceDebunksCulture
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-alpha-wolf-idea-a-myth/
During COVID, I wrote and mailed a lot of creative fun letters to folks. People really loved it. So, is this a crazy idea? What if you created a service that used an LLM to create a pen pal for you? You write letters, mail them, they get scanned, answered, a reply is printed with a handwriting font and mailed back to you? Is that too anachronistic? Something about is really amusing me.
Woah. Augment reality much?
Prompt 3.5 for Apple Vision Pro adds a wild new immersive environment!
You have to be discerning when looking for Youtube expertise or you might end up joining a cult. All too often, the trappings of the classroom can create the illusion of credibility. I look into one popular case and how it's just one example of a ongoing problem.
https://open.substack.com/pub/banapana/p/doomtubers?r=2pjjfa&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Everybody seems to be talking about "Something is Happening" by Matt Shumer, and it just seemed apropos to do this to it: https://belovedleader.medium.com/the-iron-minds-come-hither-48a1148d6d4d
I was going to unsubscribe from a bunch of services because I can do most of the organizing with the help of my AI Assistant, but why not make it political too and save some 💸 https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com #resistandunsubscribe
