manes
@michaelanes.bsky.social
Cognitive psychologist | Wittenberg University
Cog/neuro/science, gender, race, 🎵, 🇵🇱
US Fulbright Scholar '10-'11 | Witt in Poland '13, '18 | Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad '24 with political theorist Heather Wright. He/him
Cog/neuro/science, gender, race, 🎵, 🇵🇱
US Fulbright Scholar '10-'11 | Witt in Poland '13, '18 | Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad '24 with political theorist Heather Wright. He/him
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The Trump international stormfront Nazi message board.
Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6
Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propagan...
reut.rs
February 18, 2026 at 10:53 PM
The Trump international stormfront Nazi message board.
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Face and body representations converge along the visual hierarchy in models and cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.16.706115v1
February 18, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Face and body representations converge along the visual hierarchy in models and cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.16.706115v1
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Tuning metaplasticity in the adult visual cortex using flickering light https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.16.706197v1
February 18, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Tuning metaplasticity in the adult visual cortex using flickering light https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.16.706197v1
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If i ever see the suffix “-maxxing” in anything you say directly to me, know that i will never ever pay attention to any words you say AND I will also do my best to light you on fire with my mind
February 18, 2026 at 6:37 PM
If i ever see the suffix “-maxxing” in anything you say directly to me, know that i will never ever pay attention to any words you say AND I will also do my best to light you on fire with my mind
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I think it speaks to how much of German society was involved at all levels as well.
February 18, 2026 at 4:18 PM
I think it speaks to how much of German society was involved at all levels as well.
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Every day is Ray Bradbury Day.
Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime:
www.404media.co/leaked-email...
www.404media.co/leaked-email...
Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs
Ring's CEO told staff the feature is “first for finding dogs,” indicating a plan to expand.
www.404media.co
February 18, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Every day is Ray Bradbury Day.
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Polish PM Donald Tusk: “Poland does not foresee participation in President Trump’s Peace Council.
“Poland will not send Polish soldiers to the Gaza Strip. Poland is not interested in co-financing development projects in Gaza.
“Our money is needed for investments in Polish cities.”
“Poland will not send Polish soldiers to the Gaza Strip. Poland is not interested in co-financing development projects in Gaza.
“Our money is needed for investments in Polish cities.”
February 18, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Polish PM Donald Tusk: “Poland does not foresee participation in President Trump’s Peace Council.
“Poland will not send Polish soldiers to the Gaza Strip. Poland is not interested in co-financing development projects in Gaza.
“Our money is needed for investments in Polish cities.”
“Poland will not send Polish soldiers to the Gaza Strip. Poland is not interested in co-financing development projects in Gaza.
“Our money is needed for investments in Polish cities.”
"OK, but with a little AI in it"
[a riff on Sullivans Travels]
[a riff on Sullivans Travels]
February 18, 2026 at 2:57 PM
"OK, but with a little AI in it"
[a riff on Sullivans Travels]
[a riff on Sullivans Travels]
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Ethnonationalism is intrinsically utopian in a general sense; it is aesthetics mistaken for effective real-world politics, it is what happens when collective narcissism leads people to overestimate the extent to which common categorical identity is responsible for social order. (1/n)
They're far-right utopians. They think if everyone stops doing institutional cooperation in favor of "national sovereignty," then "western civilization" will form as a natural community among the wealthy, white, male, Xtian elites who run the US, the UK, the states of the Former European Union, etc.
February 18, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Ethnonationalism is intrinsically utopian in a general sense; it is aesthetics mistaken for effective real-world politics, it is what happens when collective narcissism leads people to overestimate the extent to which common categorical identity is responsible for social order. (1/n)
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I am pleased to announce that our systematic review and meta-analysis on musical expertise and executive functions is published in @springernature.com PB&R! Thanks Kinar, @cvonbastian.bsky.social, Emma, and Renee for the hard work and supervisions!
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
February 18, 2026 at 2:50 PM
I am pleased to announce that our systematic review and meta-analysis on musical expertise and executive functions is published in @springernature.com PB&R! Thanks Kinar, @cvonbastian.bsky.social, Emma, and Renee for the hard work and supervisions!
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Once again, Republicans could stop all this right fucking now, but choose not to.
![We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done," journalist Garrett Graff wrote: "A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
~ Heather Cox Richardson ~](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a5yaa2ip5zbp7rppkuumtzro/bafkreiaqmrh3mo4mu3g2szfnmtujfzpf7kfmae4kgdlld7y27fupnqpfdi@jpeg)
February 18, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Once again, Republicans could stop all this right fucking now, but choose not to.
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Being based in Cleveland, you better believe I will be at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's new exhibit on Wings with BELLS (and my "Back to the Egg" T-shirt) on. Goes without saying I also want to cover/write about this.
February 18, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Being based in Cleveland, you better believe I will be at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's new exhibit on Wings with BELLS (and my "Back to the Egg" T-shirt) on. Goes without saying I also want to cover/write about this.
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Setting this reminder was perhaps my most brilliant move ever
February 18, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Setting this reminder was perhaps my most brilliant move ever
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Also, please forgive me for ALWAYS ranting about this but:
You can't really write good stuff out of thin air. You DO need to READ.
Yes, I get and champion the Three Morning Pages, the Shitty First Draft, the 15-30 Minutes Writing Sprint, BUT you DO need to read.
Read to improve your writing.
You can't really write good stuff out of thin air. You DO need to READ.
Yes, I get and champion the Three Morning Pages, the Shitty First Draft, the 15-30 Minutes Writing Sprint, BUT you DO need to read.
Read to improve your writing.
February 18, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Also, please forgive me for ALWAYS ranting about this but:
You can't really write good stuff out of thin air. You DO need to READ.
Yes, I get and champion the Three Morning Pages, the Shitty First Draft, the 15-30 Minutes Writing Sprint, BUT you DO need to read.
Read to improve your writing.
You can't really write good stuff out of thin air. You DO need to READ.
Yes, I get and champion the Three Morning Pages, the Shitty First Draft, the 15-30 Minutes Writing Sprint, BUT you DO need to read.
Read to improve your writing.
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New greatest bird photo of all time just dropped
Royal Penguin
📷 JJ Harrison, eBird ebird.org/checklist/S2...
Royal Penguin
📷 JJ Harrison, eBird ebird.org/checklist/S2...
February 18, 2026 at 2:01 PM
New greatest bird photo of all time just dropped
Royal Penguin
📷 JJ Harrison, eBird ebird.org/checklist/S2...
Royal Penguin
📷 JJ Harrison, eBird ebird.org/checklist/S2...
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glad to see someone got a candid of me teaching
New greatest bird photo of all time just dropped
Royal Penguin
📷 JJ Harrison, eBird ebird.org/checklist/S2...
Royal Penguin
📷 JJ Harrison, eBird ebird.org/checklist/S2...
February 18, 2026 at 2:26 PM
glad to see someone got a candid of me teaching
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Poland’s coalition chaos as over a dozen MPs quit to form new grouping
Climate minister Paulina Hennig-Kloska is starting a new parliamentary caucus.
tvpworld.com
February 18, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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There must be trials. Not as an emotive aspiration, rhetorical meme, or empty threat. A concrete plan. A dedicated special court for it. Structural legislation and prosecutors and funding and all the rest of it. Everything necessary for it can be done constitutionally. All it takes is the will.
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 18, 2026 at 3:35 AM
There must be trials. Not as an emotive aspiration, rhetorical meme, or empty threat. A concrete plan. A dedicated special court for it. Structural legislation and prosecutors and funding and all the rest of it. Everything necessary for it can be done constitutionally. All it takes is the will.
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This.
Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.
February 18, 2026 at 12:19 PM
This.
I'm trapped in a man's society.
February 18, 2026 at 12:13 PM
I'm trapped in a man's society.
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Propaganda for Trump out of @washingtonpost.com. Headline takes Trump's side on the ICE scandal - as if violating the constitution should be accepted as the new norm by "Democratic" states.
NO ONE in America should accept actions that violate the constitution.
WaPo serves as handmaiden to Trump.
NO ONE in America should accept actions that violate the constitution.
WaPo serves as handmaiden to Trump.
February 18, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Propaganda for Trump out of @washingtonpost.com. Headline takes Trump's side on the ICE scandal - as if violating the constitution should be accepted as the new norm by "Democratic" states.
NO ONE in America should accept actions that violate the constitution.
WaPo serves as handmaiden to Trump.
NO ONE in America should accept actions that violate the constitution.
WaPo serves as handmaiden to Trump.
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Fascinating story about how illegible documents were made readable for the Nazis in “a shocking abuse of skill”. Beware the uses to which things can be put: the problem is the user. But imagine if the Nazis had had AI... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Nazi letters reveal paper restorers’ role in compiling Holocaust ‘hitlist’
Exclusive: Research uncovers programme to make centuries-old records legible to detect people’s ancestry
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Fascinating story about how illegible documents were made readable for the Nazis in “a shocking abuse of skill”. Beware the uses to which things can be put: the problem is the user. But imagine if the Nazis had had AI... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Sometimes I'm working intently with a Black student in my office & they'll look up at my wall of music ephemera. I can see brief glances at the Black Power fist & Concerned Black Students' most recent list of demands of our administration.
I wonder fleetingly; what are they thinking?
Then...fuck it.
I wonder fleetingly; what are they thinking?
Then...fuck it.
February 18, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Sometimes I'm working intently with a Black student in my office & they'll look up at my wall of music ephemera. I can see brief glances at the Black Power fist & Concerned Black Students' most recent list of demands of our administration.
I wonder fleetingly; what are they thinking?
Then...fuck it.
I wonder fleetingly; what are they thinking?
Then...fuck it.
Yesterday morning two people in the village stopped me to ask about Ted.
He’s half Great Pyrenees, a quarter Pit Bull, and an eighth Brittany. He’s achieved his final form at just over 2.5 years old. He’s a good one.
He’s half Great Pyrenees, a quarter Pit Bull, and an eighth Brittany. He’s achieved his final form at just over 2.5 years old. He’s a good one.
February 18, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Yesterday morning two people in the village stopped me to ask about Ted.
He’s half Great Pyrenees, a quarter Pit Bull, and an eighth Brittany. He’s achieved his final form at just over 2.5 years old. He’s a good one.
He’s half Great Pyrenees, a quarter Pit Bull, and an eighth Brittany. He’s achieved his final form at just over 2.5 years old. He’s a good one.
I'm under so much stress, and Heather was sick all week last week so I did six dog-walks per day (at least) all week long.
I have so many pains, but the big one is like an iron rod is stuck into my neck and is reaching deep into my upper body.
I have so many pains, but the big one is like an iron rod is stuck into my neck and is reaching deep into my upper body.
February 18, 2026 at 11:27 AM
I'm under so much stress, and Heather was sick all week last week so I did six dog-walks per day (at least) all week long.
I have so many pains, but the big one is like an iron rod is stuck into my neck and is reaching deep into my upper body.
I have so many pains, but the big one is like an iron rod is stuck into my neck and is reaching deep into my upper body.