If it’s an iPhone app the new on device transcription api in ios26 works well and is very fast. You could also use the ondevice llm to clean up the transcription. Cheaper and more privacy friendly
I haven’t taken it myself, but I’ve heard of methylene blue being helpful, especially post TBIs or head injuries.
Wrt ibuprofen, I find it can (at times) massively clear out my brain fog. I suspect it’s primarily due to its anti inflammatory effects. The worse my baseline is, the more noticeable its benefits (upto a point, and apparently dose dependent). I often feel inflammation due to less sleep and due to another chronic heath condition, ibuprofen is like wiping a dirty glass or window clean.
I should probably add that I likely have more inflammation than the average person by a significant amount unfortunately, so your mileage may vary, but when I mentioned it to my GP he wasn’t surprised at all at its effects.
Yes, serotonin syndrome is definitely a serious risk. From what I understand, it's typically caused by interactions between SSRIs or MAOIs and substances like methylene blue, rather than methylene blue broadly interacting with many compounds. But I agree - caution is essential when dealing with anything that affects brain chemistry.
Methylene blue is said to allegedly have helped some people with brainfog - especially after covid. But the research is really scarce. Ibuprofen and creatine may also have some positive nootropic effects with recently mounting evidence, but at least they were already very well studied before because of their actual uses. So if anybody wants to try this stuff, I'd stick with those.
Completely. My inner dialogue didn’t predict the future and didn’t talk to me in the same way AT ALL.
I pondered whether that was it, that the LSD had just shattered my psyche in a way that I was hearing voices when they were once part of me. However for many reasons I don’t think that anymore, not 100% anyway.
Here's a possible semi-scientific explanation. Neurons deal with electricity and magnetism, and sometimes can act like antennas. Normally this external noise gets filtered out, but this filter may get leaky or it can be disabled with chemicals like LSD. For an average brain, this additional sensory input is overwhelming and leads to nothing good.
The oversimplification in your description is unnecessary. The antennas and forces are instead sensory in nature. We constantly receive much more information through our sensory pathways than we're usually consciously aware of. I'm autistic and I have little to no filtering. That helps me "see" things most don't but I'm also overwhelmed for example just being in a backseat of a car while people in front are talking. My brain constantly tries to compute what happens in the car engine because I'm interested in physics, whether it is or isn't relevant to life at the time.
Thanks, this confirms that the pronunciation isn't the same at all. "Seoighe" sounds somewhere close to the two syllables "Shoy-Ga", while "Joyce" only has one syllable and a different starting sound. Which still leaves me wondering in what sense these names are equivalent. Was "Joyce" once pronounced differently?
"sh" and "J" are closer than you think. They're both pronounced in the back of the throat, so one phoneme can switch to the other given enough time, when moving from one language system to another. The vowel on the end is similar.
And I'd disagree that "batteries included" is a phrase used to describe "features"?
I would interpret "batteries included" to mean "you don't need to worry about shaving a yak to get this installed, it's all there and ready". Language is fun!
I'm pretty sure this phrase in tech circles was popularized by Python's moto [1], which meant to say that language ships with many features you'd have to get on your own otherwise, so to me the phrasing here was clear - you will likely not need to pull in external deps to make it useable.
Class... is a tricky definition here in the UK. For instance, the richest person I will ever know drives a crappy wee Japanese hatchback, whilst SUVs are often high-monthly fee status symbols for people who could spend their money 'better' elsewise. shrug
I'm in my 40's and the number of my friends who've done exactly that. We have the friends who spend their disposable on status and the friends who spend their disposable on Holidays (I'm vaca-class).
I think you actually mean - you have friends who derive status by spending their disposal income on cars, and friends who derive status by spending their disposable income on exotic holidays!
(I'm posting this from an exotic holiday in the Indian Ocean, my cousin lives in Essex and has a hire-purchase SUV.)
My meaning is the people who seem so angry about this tend to be ‘well educated’ middle class people jealous of working class people having a flashy lifestyle.
The Hackney Horse breed was developed in the 14th century in Norfolk when the King of England required powerful but attractive horses with an excellent trot, to be used for general purpose riding horses.
This is like Proust, and the obsessive deriver-of-original-names character. I'd say its convergent distinct stories, lost in time. Hackney in London refers to a the river bend on the Lea, and an island or peninsula in the river, then the region, Hackney Carriages stem from the horse, the horse's name has now informed french breeds.. its all connected. But, Norfolk and East Anglia aren't close to Hackney in London.
