Yeah the t shirt is pretty strong evidence.

I’m still suspicious of everything the Israeli government says.

Fuck the people who created this AI nonsense when we really don’t need even more b.s to tread through. It’s exhausting.

A lot of bots and fake accounts.

Nice. But also this wasn’t even a close race. Damn.

Someone made this a skit

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPPJHcSgNdY/

Well the thing about careers in research is that pretty much all require at least a masters and most require a PhD.

For example. I could teach at colleges with a master’s. But I’m not qualified to run experiments unless I have a PhD.

Usually only community colleges and small religious colleges hire professors with only a master’s.

Most other colleges or universities prefer or require a PhD.

When I first started college, at age 24, I just wanted to get some education to get a better job.

Psych was not even on my radar.

I took a class because why not. Did well. Took a few more psych classes. Before I knew it, I had enough for it to qualify as my major.

I talked to the chair professor and told him. I didn’t want to major in psych because 1. Everyone I knew who was a psych major never even finished their degree. 2. I didn’t want to go to school for another 10 years to be able to work in the field.
I said I didn’t want to be 40 before I finished.

He said. Dani. You are going to be 40 regardless. You want to have a degree and a career that suits you or not by the time you are 40?.

So here I am. Turned 40 in May. 😅

I may need to explain why it took me so long.

I did my associates and bachelor’s half time because I worked full time during those degrees. So they took me 8 years. Then half a year gap. Then 1 year masters. Then 1 gap year. Then started PhD. 6 year program. I have 2 masters now. In the same exact field.

I was not competitive enough to get into a PhD program without research experience. That’s why I had to get a master’s first.

Younger people with more free time often work as research assistants. I didn’t have that option as I had a full time job plus school.

Mostly writing for me right now. I finished up my doctorate research experiments in June and now I’m writing my dissertation.

After I’m done I plan to teach and continue doing research.

I exclusively do in-person research.

Nothing online. This is a bit more challenging as I have to set up a room and schedule people. And they often don’t show. So it’s exhausting sometimes.

My doctorate research is on depth perception based on motor feedback from the lens in your eye that focuses light.

I might continue to do a little more research in this area but my next interest is in motion sickness from visual and vestibular cues in moving vehicles.

As a general rule, I research multisensory systems. I have little interest in studying an isolated system. Boring.

So motion sickness. It’s like getting car sick. Especially if reading.

I have some theories on how to combat this and want to test my hypothesis.

I get motion sick easy so this is also personal for me to find solutions.

Graduate work is not too different from what I will be doing after I graduate.

Teaching. doing experiments. And lots and lots of writing.

I already did teaching and teaching assistant as a grad student. I quite liked it and received a graduate teaching assistant award. So I think I’m well suited to it. Teaching isn’t for everyone tho.

But I don’t want to fully give up research to devote all my time to teaching, so I’m going to try to do both.

Most professors do both.

There are photos of him getting fake blood and makeup applied.

“They” say it’s AI. It doesn’t look like it. And Issrael owns every media outlet saying it’s fake.

I seriously doubt you could make an AI photo have the exact same blood stains on the shirt and face as the real photos.

I honestly don’t buy it. Plus Issrael is known for making fake hero shit like this.

Hands look normal. I don’t see anything indicating it’s AI.

If I missed something, please let me know.

So I am a perception researcher. There is research on a lot of tactics for advertising.

There are laws now, shaped by that research, that prevent advertisers from using specific symbols used to mark materials and locations for safety. For instance.

The symbol for radiation is not allowed on advertising.

Do you know why?

Maybe you have a pretty good idea.

The symbol will lose not only its meaning when applied to non radiation areas. But it loses salience.

Salience is how attention-grabbing something is. There are specific features of things in the world that our perpetual system was designed to notice more. Because these are important to us in some functional way. They help us navigate our environment.

Bright colors. High contrast. Unusual Geometrics. And movement.

Another important thing about the perception system is it’s adaptiveness. Highly adaptive. Even at older ages.

But very very adaptive at young ages.

An example. Kittens raised in spaces with only vertical black and white lines and never allowed to see any other orientation or color. (Blindfolded when fed and most of the time). When these cats were put in a room with horizontal lines. They could not “see” them. And ran into the walls. They never regained their ability to see horizontal lines nor any other orientation since this loss happened since birth.

This is because specific neurons in your primary cortex respond to specific orientations. If they never fire from lack of stimuli. They die.

Now that’s an extreme version. But what I trying to get at is this:

The sensory system is highly adaptive to the environment. It provides what the person needs.

When we are bombarded with adds that all use salient stimuli (bold colors, moving, high contrast), we start tunning these out. They become “low salient”.

Why is this a problem. ?

Because the brain processing at early sensory attention cannot “tell the difference” between a billboard advertising video playing in your periphery trying to grab your attention. And a small child running in the periphery that will end up in front of your car.

We are “learning” to not see movement. Or at least not direct our attention to it to identify what it is.

We are learning to not see bold colors and high contrast.

Things that we actually do need to see most of time. People are still missing safety and warning signs all the time because advertisements try to grab our attention and we learned to ignore anything bold.

This is not speculation. Lots of research on this. Being constantly surrounded by advertisement changes salience of important visual and audio cues.

It also has cognitive effects like exhaustion.

But I’m not as versed on those as the perception parts. That’s my area of expertise.

I say, we as scientist must prove ads are harming us. Get legislation passed to protect people and kids.

But there already is evidence. And nothing is done.

No one cares. No one can fight lobbyists.

And it’s hard to quantify the damage. Like specifically risk increases and the like.

Very difficult to do.

No control subjects.

So the research is often dismissed as speculation on real world applied harm.

There are some laws in some places. But not enough.

Nope. Too many blue maga.

We are going to be more selective.

I have a neighbor who’s neurodivergent. He’s an older gentleman, retired.

He does the lawn care and looked after the house I’m currently in, when it was empty. He knows the owner. Anywho. The owner told me of the guy before I moved in.

The way she talked about him kinda clued me in, that he might be a little odd. Owner assured me tho that he was a good guy and very dependable.

If you only met him once. Or… Maybe a handful of times, you might conclude he’s an asshole.

He’s very to the point. And critical. Of everything and everyone.

But. He’s actually incredibly kind and thoughtful.

After living here for 6 months, he comes and mows the lawn. Also mulched the leaves and now has shoveled my walkway. Just does it. No pay. I don’t have to ask.

And I told him multiple times, if you need any help, just knock on the door. Cause I don’t usually hear you out there and I definitely can do half the work. But he’s like nah I got it.

Ive had a few minor issues with the house im staying at, and he’s always been available to help immediately.

He will bitch about how so and so is responsible for the problems. Usually reasonable culprit (old house, owner hasn’t done maintenance, or wrong building supply used, etc).

Nothing he complains about is a blame game. It’s all legit. But he sure does complain pretty much non stop. I mean non stop.

As I said if you just met him or only interacted with him in some scenarios, you would 100% think the guy was an asshole.

But he’s not. Not really.
Just different.

Be careful letting them nurse on his genitals because it can cause serious health problems that can cause urinary retention from penis swelling, and sometimes the penis will need removed.

Imagine a penis pump left on for hours. Basically that.

Yeah. Not okay.

Kittens can’t tell the difference between nipples and penises.

In the photo it looks like one of the kittens is doing this.

So the movement gait tracking would likely be impacted by this. Almost certainly. Since it heavily relies on leg movements and stride distance, even wearing a pair of dazzle pants with a regular shirt could, in theory, do a decent job.

But not sure if there is any research on it. I’ll have to look into this.

As for painting the face in this pattern. It’s less likely to work. Because facial recognition looks for specific feature ratios and ignores the rest. (However wearing a mesh scarf covering the face (no eye holes,) with the pattern, would be successful). But any mesh pattern would do this.

Those geometric artistic face makeup guides you see are worthless. There is actual research on that.

They don’t work.

But what does work is altering the ratios of your eyes. Because that’s what facial recognition software mostly uses.

1. Wear sunglasses that also block infrared. Easiest.

2. Wear colored contact lenses that expand the size of your iris. Quite a lot do. Especially costume ones. Average iris is around 9-11mm. Costume colored lenses range from 13-15mm. You can even get some that completely cover the whites of the eyes. Tho I hear they are uncomfortable.

3. Use makeup tricks to make your eyes look longer or taller. There are anime makeup tutorials that do just that.

4. Add age lines. Research shows that older faces and faces with age lines added with paint/makeup , really screw up recognition.

5. Be black. Recognition software has a lot of false matches for African Americans. Especially African American women.

Wow. I really hoped abandoning cats in locked houses was not common.

I think that isolation is very traumatic for them.

I hope your cat learns you are safe and she won’t be abandoned by you and can let down her guard.

It took a really long time to win over my cats trust but I just tried to be patient and provide a safe place.

That’s all we can do. And hope they recover.

I mean yeah I agree. High school is a good place to learn adult skills. But it’s not been used for that in a long time.

I think college or tech school is still incredibly valuable. I think people need more education than k-12.

If a job can be done by someone with a high school diploma only, it can be done by a machine or a computer.

Human minds are capable of so much more. I genuinely believe most people are capable of being experts at something. Of being exceptional at something. But they don’t get the chance to find out what that is when higher education is unavailable to them.

I think most people need higher education past high school. It’s not just for specializing either.

It’s the skills of self discipline and using tools. Resources.

Navigating professional interactions. And of course, critical thinking which is something that needs to be fostered for longer periods of time.

This isn’t taught in k-12. It’s actually discouraged in k-12.

Talk to 18 year olds. They are practically babies. They can’t do anything. They need more time to develop.

Also you should question why people like the GOP and heritage foundation really really want to keep people from getting a higher education.

Dont align yourself with their agenda. There are very good reasons why restricting higher education will make us more easily manipulated and submissive.

There are reasons why higher education is related to being a socialist and in support of equality. And against fascism. And it’s not indoctrination.

Thanks that’s good info to have.

I’m hearing they are starting to censor but that must be kinda new.

Too bad.

It was, as you say, a decent reddit alternative for images/memes.

That’s pretty funny.

Razzle dazzle camouflage!

I’m genuinely surprised so many people are familiar with this.

It’s something talked about in perception courses/classes.

The lines make it difficult for humans and machines to accurately gauge depth perception.

For humans it’s related to mach bands. And the way lateral inhibition works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_bands https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lateral_inhibition&wprov=rarw1

A lot of reddit users, especially those who have recently been permabanned due to the great censorship purge, are just hanging out there now. Not much censorship.

It’s super antifa. I scroll there a lot when I’m in a meme mood.

I’d say it started going hard political around the same time as everything else. February 2025.

Higher education is necessary. Most kids coming out of high school are incapable of almost anything except basic labor jobs. As our industries get more complex, skilled trained people are more and more necessary.

Certificates/degrees are incredibly valuable.

There are base skills everyone learns from an associates degree regardless of the focus.

Like adult skills. Managing time. Being responsible. Learning how to interact with others professionally. Learning to write better. And some better math skills.

Our one saving grace is the people trying to make this happen aren’t masterminds. Aren’t smart or educated/knowledgeable about even the bare basics of how the country nor people work.

They will fail.

But how much damage will they do before we are rid of them ?