Gender-fluid police officers have been handed two warrant cards so they can identify as a man one day and a woman the next, The Telegraph can reveal.
Forces including those in Suffolk, Norfolk and Leicestershire confirmed they had issued more than one card to officers who said they identified as both male and female.
…In Decoded Neurofeedback experiments, brain scanning is used to monitor activity in the brain, and identify complex patterns of activity that resemble a specific memory or mental state. When the pattern is detected, we give our experimental participants a small reward. The simple action of repeatedly providing a reward every time the pattern is detected modifies the original memory or mental state. Importantly, participants do not need to be aware of the patterns’ content for this to work.
A central challenge in neuroscience is decoding brain activity to uncover mental content comprising multiple components and their interactions. Despite progress in decoding language-related information from human brain activity, generating comprehensive descriptions of complex mental content associated with structured visual semantics remains challenging. We present a method that generates descriptive text mirroring brain representations via semantic features computed by a deep language model. Constructing linear decoding models to translate brain activity induced by videos into semantic features of corresponding captions, we optimized candidate descriptions by aligning their features with brain-decoded features through word replacement and interpolation. This process yielded well-structured descriptions that accurately capture viewed content, even without relying on the canonical language network. The method also generalized to verbalize recalled content, functioning as an interpretive interface between mental representations and text and simultaneously demonstrating the potential for nonverbal thought–based brain-to-text communication, which could provide an alternative communication pathway for individuals with language expression difficulties, such as aphasia.
…Fig. 2. Generating viewed content descriptions.
Descriptions were generated using features from all LM layers decoded from whole-brain activity. (A) Evolved descriptions during the optimization (see https://horikawa-t.github.io/MindCaptioningProject/ for more results with the original videos). (B) Descriptions after 100 iterations for all subjects (see fig. S3A for more example). In (A) and (B), the color indicates accuracy [inverse document frequency (IDF)–weighted BERTScore-P]. A reference caption of the video is shown below frames. (C) Feature correlations between features of generated descriptions and those decoded from the brain, as well as those computed from correct references. (D) Cohen’s d of discriminability (see fig. S4B for raw scores). Feat. corr., Feature correlation. (E) Video identification accuracy with varying numbers of candidates. (F) Effects of word-order shuffling on video identification accuracy and discriminability. (G) Scatterplot of the correlation distances (one minus feature correlation) between the original and shuffled descriptions against the difference in feature correlations to target features between original and shuffled descriptions. Each dot indicates a shuffled description. Shades in (C) and (E) and error bars in (D) and (F) indicate 95% confidence intervals (CIs) across samples (n = 72). Shades in (D) and (F) indicate 95% CI across subjects (n = 6). See fig. S4 for individual results.
The content of sensory consciousness gropingly captured by machines but not the consciousness itself. This is no match for FIML depth, artistry or soundness, but interesting nevertheless. It may well be that in the future when machines can do almost everything, the only thing humans will be able to do that machines cannot will be FIML practice. Is it ironic or poetic that the one thing humans have not widely understood before the advent of AI is the one thing AI will never be able to do? (FIML predates AI by many years, but very few understand it even to this day.) One reason, among many, FIML is hard to understand is due to Sapir-Whorf ‘cognitive blindness’, if you will. People can’t see it because no one has ever seen it until relatively recently; it’s not in the general language. FIML is described from many angles in many posts on this website. If you are a smart person, it’s easy to understand once you remove your Sapir-Whorf sunglasses. If you are a bold thinker, go for it. You will come to understand something very deep that few others can see. If you just want to be psychologically much healthier, FIML will do that for you as well. ABN
There are several previous findings, both theoretical and experimental, that have paved the way toward the view of human evolution as the “survival of the wittiest,” subject to sexual selection, offering better explanatory power than the “survival of the friendliest.” While research on language evolution has largely neglected the artistic dimension, the fitness in humans is correlated with linguistic eloquence, including humor. This is one of those cases where science can only explain a phenomenon by considering its artistic dimension, and in which linguistic creativity and genetics come into direct contact. My argument is that selection for quick-wittedness (using and combining words in a clever and funny way), specific to language and unique to humans, needs to be added to the complex picture of human evolution, relevant from the earliest stages of language/grammar. Wittiness is a trait that allows competition (by “outwitting” others) while at the same time favoring “friendliness” in that it provides an excellent platform for replacing physical aggression with verbal behavior and cognitive contest, the hallmarks of human nature. This proposal is based on a precise linguistic reconstruction of the earliest stages of grammar, providing linguistic detail (“living fossils”) necessary for hypothesis testing, including neuroimaging experiments.
A good deal of reasoning about humans requires considering its artistic dimension. Birth-control has surely negated the evolutionary advantage of being the wittiest, as overall, intelligent couples have been most likely to use it. Where there is wittiness and artistry, there is also nastiness and ugliness. The importation of civilization-ending numbers of nasty invaders whose behavior is known to be ugly is an example happening before our eyes. While the nasty humans at the top, those in positions of controlling the invasion, may be clever, even witty, they are ugly people. In human societies sh*t all too often rises to the top. As for considering the artistic dimension of things human, I would like to emphasize two topics which, to be understood, require that of us: 1) FIML and 2) the covert war the West has been subjected to for over 100 years and especially since the nominal end of WW2. That covert war has been extremely violent, almost invisible, gruesomely successful, nasty and ugly, and, as of today, seemingly unstoppable. ABN
The family of Iryna Zarutska has filed a lawsuit against the City of Charlotte for alleged ‘systemic failures’ a year after the US was rattled by her horrific murder aboard a tram.
Zarutska was fatally stabbed while riding a CATS light rail train on August 22, 2025. The nation was shocked by footage allegedly showing DeCarlos Brown Jr stabbing the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee in the neck, leaving her bleeding and begging those on the busy tram for help before she died.
The Queen City and its private transit security contractor, Professional Security Services (PSS), were named in the suit for allegedly knowing about the dangers on or around the light rail system before her death, according to the filing cited by WBTV.
The filing, brought by Lauren Newton, an attorney representing the family, claimed that ‘systemic failures’ left the CATS system vulnerable.
Are your thought patterns valid? Are your premises true? Is your mind sound?
Buddhism further asks are your mental states wholesome? Are they conducive to enlightenment, wisdom, freedom from delusion?
There are many things we can do while alone to clean up our thought processes. And there are some things we can only do with the help of another person.
Only another person can tell us if our premises, thoughts, and conclusions (however tentative) about them are true, valid, and sound.
Buddhism has a concept of a “spiritual friend,” a “good friend,” a noble friend,” or an “admirable friend.” All of these terms are translations of the Pali Kalyāṇa-mittatā, which is well-explained at that link. (Chinese 善知識.）
From the link above and from many years of working with Buddhist literature and people, my sense is that a Buddhist “good friend” is someone who is to be admired and emulated. They are similar to what we mean today by mentors or “good role models.”
I deeply respect the concept of a Buddhist good friend, but find it lacks what I consider the preeminent virtue of philosophical psychology—real-time honesty based on a teachable technique.
Indeed, I cannot find anything anywhere in world philosophy, religion, or literature that provides a teachable technique for attaining real-time honesty with another person.
I also do not quite understand how this could be.
For many centuries human beings have thought about life but no one has come up with a technique like FIML?
How can that be?
I do not see a technique like FIML anywhere in the history of human philosophy nor anywhere in modern psychology.
The importance of a “good friend” who does FIML with you cannot be overemphasized because it is only through such a friend that you can discover where your premises about them are right or wrong, where your thoughts about them are valid or not, and through those discoveries where your mind itself is arranged soundly or not.
Extremely well-said! This is a statement all Whites should read as many times as needed for it to sink in. Those of us who have spent many years abroad in non-White countries eventually learn this truth, but it takes years for it to fully sink in. Not understanding this simple truth is a very deep moral blind-spot among Whites. It is a deeply harmful conceit because it leaves Whites with no defenses against anti-White parasites and invaders. It also causes both brain-drain in non-White countries and savages-drain (all of whom we get and pay for dearly). ABN
Partial Table of Contents Sergio Neri & Michiel de Vaan Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………7 Katsiaryna Ackermann, Mario Gavranović, Joachim Matzinger, Olivia Cheronet, Leonid Vyazov, Pavel Flegontov The ALAnetics approach to understanding Indo-European migrations: Achievements and challenges………………………………………………………………………………………13 Joscha Gretzinger The Dead don’t speak: Connecting language and ancient DNA………………………………………..25 Luca Alfieri, Diego Luinetti, Leonardo Montesi, Marianna Pozza & Pat Snidvongs Adjectival typology in four ancient IE languages and the Caland system ………………………….47 Chams Benoît Bernard & Gabriel Solans Indo-European speakers in the Ancient Near East: New evidence…………………………………….69 Rasmus G. Bjørn Indo-European cattle, horses, and donkeys Early loanwords across Eurasia as a mirror of culture and dispersals………………………………..83 Svenja Bonmann Central Asian substrate languages and their effect on Sogdian, Bactrian and Khwarezmian noun phrase structure……………………………………………………………………………103
After studying the history of MK Ultra, Sigmund Freud, reading CHAOS, and understanding that our government alongside Dr. Jolly West were as successful as they were intentional in creating drug cocktails to drive people to murder and rape people, I have been consistent on my opinion of SSRI’s. Nothing will change until doctors are imprisoned on first degree murder charges for overprescription. The first victims of these experiments were our military men. Servicemen who woke up, had no recollection of what they had done, and had murdered children. Unbeknownst to them they were unwitting subjects in pharmaceutical experiments. I have shared this opinion consistently throughout my career. There is so much about psychiatry that is satanic. I mean that literally. You cannot walk away from studying Freud without that understanding. This is not a throwaway opinion related to any one case. This has been my consistent opinion about these drugs, regarding which I would willfully have a discussion or debate with anyone regarding.
Yes, there is evil in psychiatry and psychology, but evil is not the only reason these fields have failed so badly. The shortest most accurate reason they have failed is they are using one level of the mind to understand different and incommensurate levels of the mind. Indeed, this failure on its own virtually creates evil since it provides illusions of comprehension and control while in reality doing nothing of the sort. Using the wrong level of the mind, typically abstractions and rote abstractions, to explain the mind’s real-world functioning cannot succeed, as history has shown. The field of psychology does provide useful broad overviews of ‘mental illness’ based on categorizing data over many decades. This data comprises a kind of cartography of ‘mental illnesses’ but cures little if anything. Curing or treating ‘mental illness’ or ‘personality disorders’ can only be done successfully when the real-world, real-time functioning levels of the mind are precisely analyzed while they are functioning. This is what we do with any system we want to understand, repair, work with or improve. We observe it as it is functioning and base our corrections on those observations.
Where evil and Satanism appear in this is they exploit psychology and its treatments to do harm. MKULTRA was and is real. They are still doing it. Like so much else, a major reason mind-control can flourish is few understand what is happening to them or, worse, believe what they are being lied to about. Abuse of language, intentional or not, is a major cause of almost all human suffering. ABN
It is commonly assumed that a person’s emotional state can be readily inferred from his or her facial movements, typically called emotional expressions or facial expressions. This assumption influences legal judgments, policy decisions, national security protocols, and educational practices; guides the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric illness, as well as the development of commercial applications; and pervades everyday social interactions as well as research in other scientific fields such as artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and computer vision. In this article, we survey examples of this widespread assumption, which we refer to as the common view, and we then examine the scientific evidence that tests this view, focusing on the six most popular emotion categories used by consumers of emotion research: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise. The available scientific evidence suggests that people do sometimes smile when happy, frown when sad, scowl when angry, and so on, as proposed by the common view, more than what would be expected by chance. Yet how people communicate anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprise varies substantially across cultures, situations, and even across people within a single situation. Furthermore, similar configurations of facial movements variably express instances of more than one emotion category. In fact, a given configuration of facial movements, such as a scowl, often communicates something other than an emotional state. Scientists agree that facial movements convey a range of information and are important for social communication, emotional or otherwise. But our review suggests an urgent need for research that examines how people actually move their faces to express emotions and other social information in the variety of contexts that make up everyday life, as well as careful study of the mechanisms by which people perceive instances of emotion in one another. We make specific research recommendations that will yield a more valid picture of how people move their faces to express emotions and how they infer emotional meaning from facial movements in situations of everyday life. This research is crucial to provide consumers of emotion research with the translational information they require.
Maybe it’s just me, but I have always thought these findings were extremely obvious. What is obvious is not just facial expressions. The same rough analysis applies to tone of voice, word choice, gesture, body language, perceived meaning, pragmatics of speaking and everything else involving interpersonal communication. For these reasons, I developed the FIML technique. FIML reduces the ‘irreducible complexity’1 of human interactions by examining small bits of interpersonal communications in real-time, real-world situations. Perfect communication between two humans (the smallest unit) is not possible. BUT, much better communication IS. FIML is not hard to do if you have a good partner who can understand why it is necessary. The world is a lonely place and good partners are rare mainly because interpersonal human understanding is really bad, frightfully so. If you do FIML, everything will be better for you. ABN
Generally speaking, when the FBI seizes devices it’s usually to bury them and protect affected interests in/around Washington DC. Rarely, if ever, does the confiscation of electronic devices result in any public awareness of the contents – unless the release runs in alignment with the interests of those in Washington DC.
EX. If it was the confiscation of electronic devices deemed adverse to the interest of DC (Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Scott Perry, Mike Lindell, etc.) then the content of those devices is publicly exposed. However, most confiscations are to protect the guilty – therefore they are buried. SEE: Hunter Biden laptop, Huma Abedin laptop, Anthony Weiner cell phones, Hillary Clinton phone(s) and laptops; Awan Brothers laptops (4) and phones; Seth Rich phone and laptop; Jeffrey Epstein, phones, laptops, hard drives; Stephen Craig Paddock phones and laptops, Syed Rizwan Farook/Tashfeen Malik cell phones, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev phones and laptops; Senator Bob Menendez, phones and laptops etc.
Therefore, accepting things as they most likely are, it is best to think of the recent story as one of protecting the downstream issues from Eric Swalwell, as they are associated during his tenure as a targeting conduit for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) and later as a Trump impeachment manager and J6 Committee official.
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