"No," the swordmaster said.

"One does not refuse the king," the herald said.

"I do. I will not train his soldiers or officers, I will not tell my students to join his army, I will not support his unjust war."

"You will regret this!"

"No," the swordmaster said.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

wHy ArE yOu So PrEjUdIcEd AgAiNsT Ai?

https://rudevulture.com/ai-company-clones-musicians-voice-then-copyright-strikes-her-own-songs/

A credo of rugged individualism does not a unified nation make.

Benjamin Franklin: “We must hang together, or we will surely hang separately.”

Join or die, as the currently misappropriated flag declared.

#USpol

The “neural fingerprint” of psychedelics was spotted among hundreds of brain scans of people on LSD, psilocybin, DMT, mescaline and ayahuasca,

pointing to a shared impact on the brain’s behaviour.

The finding emerged from a major study that combined 11 brain imaging datasets from around the world
in an effort to build a reliable picture of how the substances temporarily rewire the brain.

Dr Danilo Bzdok and his colleagues analysed more than 500 brain scans from 267 people in five countries
in what they believe is the largest study into psychedelics and the human brain to date.

While there were some differences in how the drugs changed brain activity,
there was substantial overlap in their impact on how regions of the brain communicated with one another.

The most striking effect was stronger communication between brain networks that engage in higher-level thinking and more primitive networks linked to vision and sensation.

“You have an unleashed cross-talk between brain systems
– they are wildly communicating with each other,” Bzdok said.
“It’s excessive cross-talk between brain systems.”

Further changes were spotted deeper in the brain in regions linked to habits, learning and movement, the study found.
Contrary to some previous claims, the study found little reliable evidence that some individual brain networks “disintegrate” on psychedelics.
According to Bzdok, the work helps to put psychedelic research on a surer footing,
which is crucial if the drugs are to become widespread therapies for mental health conditions.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/06/scientists-identify-neural-fingerprint-of-psychedelic-drugs-in-the-brain?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Today's Articles of impeachment. Can we get a vote before 8 pm ET?

https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hres1155/BILLS-119hres1155ih.pdf

#USPol

Nothing about what we are seeing from this administration is mainline Christian. That’s why they don’t care what the Pope says. They don’t think the Pope is a real Christian.

All of this comes from an apocalyptic end times sect / cult of Christianity centered on ‘dominionism’.

I grew up in this cult and I can trace a straight line from it to all the worst things about our world today, not just in America (they’re also huge in East and SE Asia, Brazil, Australia..)

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

This one takes the cake.🤷

Seems like a new scam is AI companies making infringement claims against the musicians they scraped for sounding like themselves.

Turns out it works because the claims are adjudicated by, you guessed it, AI agents.

"Because YouTube’s copyright claim system operates without individual human review of each dispute, Campbell’s channel was effectively handed over [to the AI company.]"

https://rudevulture.com/ai-company-clones-musicians-voice-then-copyright-strikes-her-own-songs/

h/t @jeeynet https://framapiaf.org/@jeeynet/116359059101502550