I've been around long enough to see the damage done to the government in the years they have been holding most public offices.

It isn't just the politicians though. Every single boomer I know personally buys fully into the 24 hour news propaganda. One side or the other doesn't matter, they are incapable of seeing the role their party played in creating this mess. If only my team had won every time, utopia.

I spilled coffee everywhere

Smells amazing

Huberman is a real expert on the human eye and spreader of the phone light is bad story that is passing around various health influencers.

I remember his original most detailed post about how the eye uses light to regulate sleep and a couple of very important points have gone missing in the game of telephone that is influencers passing the information around.

Detail 1. The eye and brain team is sort of taking a rolling multi day average of when you see the brightest light. Noon day outdoors on a sunny day is typically cited as 100k lux. My 65" TV just measured 250 lux at 1ft. So, the sun is a mere 400x brighter.

Detail 2. The eye doesn't use the same sensors to see as to set your circadian rhythm. The circadian rhythm sensors are looking for the sun at noon and are positioned ideally for that, meaning that they respond much more to overhead light than light below your eyeline or directly in front of you.

Put those 2 together and rethink how to use light to improve your sleep. Even if you hold your phone above your head like some kind of weirdo, the noon day sun is 400x brighter and will win that battle. A baseball cap outside at noon is more of a threat to your sleep than the light from a phone before bed.

The original Huberman protocol reflected those facts. The plan was to get a few minutes sun exposure with no hat or glasses on first waking, noon, and around sunset. No real mention of screens.

Later he partnered with and started advertising for Roka who sells blue light filter glasses. Then the screen fear angle took over his comments on the matter. No way to sell you "go outside for 15 minutes a day" so the advertisers won over scientific accuracy.

I'm not saying screen time can't disrupt your sleep, only that the content matters far more than the light itself unless you are a cave troll who never sees the sun. Hardcore Henry is a great movie, but maybe not right before bed.

What do I do? I go outside without a hat and glasses around noon. Cloudy week in winter? I stand under a plant light I have that is 10x as bright as my TV for a bit. I use my phone whenever but try to be deliberate about what content as bedtime nears. Well known sitcom I've seen a dozen times is in. Arguing on nostr or action movies I've never seen before are out.

Maybe the influencers should partner with plant light companies instead of glasses companies and fix their science. Bonus, better seedlings with the better plant light. Can your blue light blockers do that?

do you like the sounds? I don't use my mechanical keyboard because of that, too loud

Wonder why there aren't more federated side chains akin to #liquidnetwork

Seems like an easy thing for people to do that want to use #bitcoin security but add extra features missing on L1.

Seems like context is important. Seems like he is just using bitcoin which is OK.

Hey you should close some tabs

What's natural is to hate every single transaction other than yours on Bitcoin.

The suggestion that Slop is the sequel to “the era of Woke” is backward. Slop isn’t a result of ‘woke culture,’ but a product for the very audiences who complain about ‘wokeness’—it’s safe, soulless content designed to avoid anything remotely political, to say nothing and take zero risks.

It's not though 💔

There's no sense crying

over every mistake

You just keep on trying

'til you run out of cake..

...and these points of data

Make a beautiful line

We're out of beta

We're releasing on time...

Look at me still talking

While there's science to do

When I look up there

It makes me glad I'm not you

I have experiments to run

And there's research to be done...

"Still Alive" by GLaDOS