I am an ecomodernist. ecomodernism.org/

Hmmm, I designed this logo many years ago for a show production company called InSync and here’s the logo for a fictional company in the movie “Backrooms”. Are we “in sync”, @A24 ? 😁 I like to think so!

Yes, Obsession really is a great horror movie! Got a bunch of chills and even when I predicted what was going to happen it still happened so well it made me jump, clutch and laugh. Kudos to all involved and thanks for the thrills!

7,000 false positives per square millimeter. The culprit was the lab gloves. University of Michigan researchers just upended a core assumption in microplastics science. Latex and nitrile gloves, worn by the scientists doing the measuring, shed stearate particles that look chemically identical to polyethylene. Standard infrared and Raman instruments can't tell them apart. The gloves were counting as plastic. Seven glove types tested. All contaminated. The cheapest fix: switch to cleanroom gloves, which dropped false positives to around 100 per mm² vs. 7,000. The "credit card per week" headline (5 grams, WWF/Newcastle 2019) has separate problems. A 2022 re-analysis found severe methodological errors in the original estimate. Actual measured intake is likely 100x lower. None of this means microplastics are harmless. Last month's data on brain accumulation still stands. But the numbers driving the panic may have been measuring the scientists, not the environment. Science catching its own errors is exactly how it's supposed to work.

Next time you visit your reps, show them this video from @ACSHorg. One crazy fact: You could eat 10,000 bowls of cheerios in a year without consuming harmful levels of glyphosate. DM us with questions. Always happy to help journalists get the science right.

This AI stuff is crazy. I use ChatGPT, Grok and Google AI. Just now, Google AI told me to format a 28T platter media drive one way. I said “Grok says that format is bad for large platter drives” Google AI says “Grok’s right, format it grok’s way. Good push back” AI opinions

Your periodic reminder that glyphosate doesn't cause cancer—no matter how many dopey Monsanto conspiracies the algo feeds you. 🤷‍♂️

Weird quirk about ChatGPT. I use it when planning projects like a home theater media server, sauna house, etc. to sanity check, get advice, product suggestions on my plans. It repeatedly says I “unintentionally” created the ideal setup. WTF? Why the insult?

If obesity were simply a failure to “put the fork down,” we would have solved it decades ago. Instead, what we see, consistently, is that when people cut calories, the body adapts: hunger signals rise, satiety signals fall, and energy expenditure drops. The system pushes back. Not weak will. Physiology. That’s why people can lose weight with effort, and then find it disproportionately hard to keep it off. The brain defends a higher set point. You don’t notice this when things are easy; you feel it when they aren’t. Medications like GLP-1 receptor agonists don’t replace discipline. They change the biology that makes discipline insufficient, by reducing hunger, quieting food noise, and allowing people to sustain changes that otherwise fight them every step of the way. That’s treating a disease with tools that match the mechanism. We don’t tell people with hypertension to “just relax harder.” We don’t tell people with asthma to “breathe better.” We treat the underlying physiology. And importantly, this isn’t either-or. The people who do best with medications are the same ones improving diet, moving more, sleeping better. The difference is they’re no longer trying to row upstream with a broken oar. You can frame it as a character flaw if you like. Medicine looks at the data and sees a regulatory system that sometimes needs help. Perhaps you should too.

Seed oils: Are they even correlated with bad health? I assembled ALL of the available NHANES data and linked as much as possible of it to the National Death Index and found that... It's not. Seed oils aren't even correlated with problems.

Rapid fire glp-1 med myth busting - no difference from placebo in pancreatitis - medullary thyroid cancer seen in rats not humans (humans don’t have GLP-1 receptors there while rats do) - muscle loss is same as caloric restriction - gastric emptying slows initially but goes closer to normal after months. No strong data for permanent issues other than random lawsuits. - help with weight loss via appetite. They are not metabolism boosters (yet) - they do have multiple benefits beyond weight loss

Just found out we are finally getting a true sequel to “Cloverfield” this year! Can’t wait!

Another sign I’m getting old. Finding people using kkkkkkkk to laugh in their posts really annoying.

I love when people get freaked out by supplements because of animal studies that, if done in humans, would be like injecting some guy with a gallon of creatine.

Relax. Microplastic harm studies aren’t good science, just a continuation of shady methods to get a desired outcome to fearmonger with

The Night House (2020) is the movie Undertone should have been. I have 2 atmos speakers and the movie is prime streaming. Still, this movie has excellent sound design that would be incredible heightened to the level Undertone has. Full plot, character development, valid scares.