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One thing that worries me about the use of AI is whether or not it can worsen people's dementia and alzheimer's in the future. When my grandmother was first diagnosed, we got her math activity books. Now, my grandmother never had a formal education, but we did our best to keep her sharp, get her to do math and writing activity books, sudokus, playing board games that required some level of strategizing with her. Her family is prone to alzheimer's and dementia (both her siblings had it and deteriorated very very very quickly, which yeah, scares the shit out of me being her granddaughter) but she was the one whose mind lasted the longest, she only passed away two years ago, at 88, ten whole years after her initial diagnosis and sure, she had forgotten things, recipes and where she put her glasses and appointments, but she never forgot any of us, ten whole years in, she still remembered us. Now, this may have been luck, but doctors always said the constant mental work + companionship + medicine helped her a lot. So I'm thinking, these people who are now relying on AI for everything, from email-writing to thinking what's for dinner to casual conversations, I've even seen people rely on it to calculate what time they should leave their house if they need to be at a place at a specific time and their commute lasts X number of minutes. As if that's not... the simplest math operation possible? You shouldn't even need a calculator for that!!! Idk I don't know how long it'll take us to see the effects of this + exposure to brain-rotting short form content that is completely meaningless + people addicted to right-wing conspiracy style media. Idk I'm very worried. Please, read, read complicated books! Take up a book on philosophy and try to decipher it and make your own opinions on it, please buy a maths activity book and relearn how to do math, please get a hobby that involves lots of thinking and concentrating. PLEASE!!!
As a neurologist, I’ll give you the pretty name for it: cognitive reserve.
The way I explain it to my patients is that our neurons don’t regenerate. They make connections with each other and that’s it. If you don’t use your brain, they make fewer connections and, if one of them dies, you’re gonna miss it, because that was the only one that knew how to do X. Now, if each one of them has many, many connections, you won’t notice the difference when one of them dies. The others pick up the slack.
As of 2024, 45% of dementia risk factors are modifiable. Relevant to this conversation, 5% for less education and 5% for social isolation.
We absolutely are going to see the reflection of this, but it’s gonna take decades and it’ll be too late. So, for the love of your brain, pretend that it’s a muscle and make it work. People complain about “when am I ever gonna use this maths formula in my life?” You’re not. You’re teaching your brain to think logically. Those sinapses will be there for when you need to figure out your week’s schedule. English classes taught me how to interpret data and how to convey it in this text so it’s clear and you understand what I’m saying, not because I needed to justify why the curtain is blue.
Make your brain know how to do different things. Logic games, puzzles, taking care of a garden even if small, planning a church’s event or birthday, learn a new instrument, learn a few words in another language, look at a calendar every day, do some manual labor if possible. Do not, I repeat, do not let your brain get rid of sinapses by letting AI do everything. Your brain uses 20% of your body’s energy — do you really think it’s going to maintain connexions that aren’t in use?
Most cases of Alzheimer’s are sporadic, meaning no family history. Family history of a first-degree relative with Alzheimer’s starting before they were 80yo increases your risk in 2-3x on average.
TLDR: Yes. From the knowledge we have today, AI will increase the number and severity of dementia cases.
HEY SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE GIRLIES, ITS OUR TURN TO ENDURE THE DARK DAYS NOW, BUT STAY STRONG. THE WORLD IS NOT ENDING; THE SUN IS JUST SETTING AT 5-to-6 PM. BUT SHE WILL COME BACK TO US SOON. TAKE A VITAMIN D AND HANG IN THERE.
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Day 26: Spooky/ New roles? @vldtenyearanniversaryfest
Holy shit I think I cooked with this one. I wanted to try a slightly different style of rendering by coloring over the sketch and I love it! I still need to practice more as its messy in places but I'm so happy! Unfortunately, I wanted to do more with the other VLD cast members but didn't have the time :[ buut maybe this Halloween 👀 ... I had to rush a bit to do the designs, but they came out great! (Keiths is my fave) Keith is a werewolf and Shiro is supposed to be a zombie, though it might be hard to tell, oh well!
First season of FMA:B is actually unreasonably funny because every episode at the 2 minute mark Ed goes “remember Al we can’t let anyone know our bodies are metal and we committed human transmutation. Because the military will probably execute us” and then every episode at the 14 minute mark Ed is screaming at the top of his lungs about how he and Al are made of metal and committed human transmutation. And also the President of the Military is there smiling and nodding and not giving a fuck because Ed is the military’s specialist little boy and he’s expressly permitted to commit murder in the streets and do arson and treason and tax evasion if he’s got enough hands for it and that’s completely fine because, as previously stated, he’s their specialist little sacrifice boy.
And also the military already knows he committed human transmutation and they think that’s really really great. It’s their favorite Edward Elric fun fact.
@redrobin-detective it is in fact a really great subversion of the “teenage protagonist successfully has the Adult Institution scrambling and fumbling, due to his cunning teenage wiles.” Ed DOES fancy himself cunning, but he’s literally only getting away with this because Bradley Is Letting Him. For the first several seasons they’re just letting him.
In the arc leading up to the Promised Day when all cards are out on the table, adult military strategist Roy Mustang is leading a charge against the establishment while Ed has faked his death and gone into hiding as, genuinely, the only thing he’s capable of doing on his own as a naive and scared 16 year old just trying to survive.
'on his own' even then he's being babysat by two chimeras and a homunculus + prince having a custody dispute over a teenage body! And before then half the time Mustang is lobbing problems at Ed like enrichment in their enclosure, or Armstrong, Ross, Brosh and Hughes are keeping an eye on him - he is regularly on his own in the field or when he's going rogue to be a curious little shit, but there's very often the hand of an adult present! Even several! It takes a village to raise a smartass child soldier and his brother 💕
(It's also really fun once the gloves come off and Bradley goes 'okay your special little boy privileges are revoked. That includes you Mustang btw I'm taking your toys away'. Timeout for naughty disruptive scientist-magician-soldiers.)
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just to reiterate, this is NOT canon to the comic. or to either movie probably lol.
just love the idea that the reason simon didn't listen to the written stuff was because it sucked to read (and not, like, either defiance or a purposeful disregard for the sake of survival)
i feel like you can tell through how little i fuck with grace's glasses in the usual comic that i wear glasses IRL. if my glasses aren't perfectly aligned on my face i am SHOVING them back in place. ryan gosling obviously does not wear glasses regularly
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"Why?" Simon asks, into the quiet of their space, the silence between them.
Grace doesn't need the rest of their question. Not now. Not with Simon hunched in on himself, arm wrapped around his middle and head lowered, hair a curtain across his face, another thing to hide behind, to cover up vulnerability. He doesn't need to ask, because there's blood beneath Simon's nails and a bruise blooming along Grace's cheek, and if he could, he would reach back and show Simon kindness so much earlier than this.
"Because you deserve it," he says, and it comes out choked and desperate and genuine.
Simon tucks his head down. His hand flexes.
Grace reaches out. He gently tugs Sinon's hair aside, touches the scratches along his temple, feather-light, and feels the way Simon chokes on a sob like a punch. He blinks back tears.
"I hurt you," Simon says, eyes turned away.
"Yeah," Grace says, because he did. And it's not a big hurt, it's nothing that could ever change Grace's opinion on him, but-
"You still deserve this," he says, and gently rubs his thumb along Simon's cheekbone, and he shudders. Grace feels the tremor of it in his bones.
"That's not-" Simon sniffs. "That's not true."
"It is," Grace says, the words pleading. "It is, Simon, please- believe that I mean that."
Simon shakes his head. But he isn't pulling away, and he isn't disagreeing, and Grace knows, how hard this can be. Believing you are worth kindness.
"I'm serious," he says, still. "You are- you deserve so much better."
Simon laughs. It's a broken, ugly, sound, and Grace whines, presses the flat of his palm along Simon's cheek, leans into him.
"I mean it!'
Simon looks at him. Meets his eyes. A brief, shared glance, and his eyes are wet, too.
Then he looks away. Hides.
"I don't know how to believe that," he says. "I don't- I'm not worth this. I'm really not."
And Grace knows he can't change his mind. Knows there's nothing he can say, here, now, that'll patch over this hurt. That will make this easy.
"I'm not going to change my mind," he says instead, because that's all he can say. "And you're not going to change it, either."
Simon looks back at him, at that. Looks almost startled, like he truly thought he could just tell Grace he was wrong, and then that was that. Like he thought, genuinely, that Grace would take him at his word, and take all of this away.
Like if Simon just reminded him of the truth, Grace would become someone cruel.
It hurts. It hurts so very much.
He moves without thinking. Presses their foreheads together, noses brushing, and he breathes in the air Simon's breathed out, holds it in his lungs like a promise. Simon's eyes are wide and tear-rimmed, and Grace can see himself reflected back in them.
"You'll get there," he says, certain. "One day, Simon, I promise- you'll know I'm right about this."
Simon snorts. And then he smiles, this crooked, tired thing, and Grace feels it across his face like a sunrise.
"That might take forever," Simon says.
"Then I'll stick around for forever," Grace responds, and maybe that's a step too far, but it's a promise he means.
Simon laughs.
But his eyes are wet and his hand shakes, where it comes up to clutch at the front of his shirt, and he looks struck, looks hopeful, looks like someone glimpsing the light at the end of a long, dark, tunnel.
"You saying I'm stuck with you?" he asks, and Grace smiles back at him.
"Yup. Never gonna get rid of me."
Simon laughs again. And then he pulls Grace even closer, and their forehead squishes together and their noises bump, and Simon chokes on the sound, and then he sobs, sudden and heart-wrenching, and Grace doesn't hesitate to put his arms around him.
"You're so fucking weird," Simon manages, beneath gasping breath and choking sobs.
Grace squeezes him to his chest. Closes his eyes, and fights back his own sobs.
"Your weirdo now," he says, and Simon laughs, and then he clings and then he cries, big heaving things, and Grace holds him, and tucks that promise close to his heart.
One day, Simon will believe him. And then, Grace will get to tell him 'I told you so'.
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