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Looking into it, it seems that perhaps it was not notable until recently. This is likely a limitation of my searches and popular understanding. Does anyone know of ancient Greek writing on the subject? (Perhaps I am too quick to discount the trained memorization of bards and storytellers of old, which I understand typically used memorization and not Total Recall?)
Funes the Memorious was written long after the camera was invented.
The Wikipedia pages on Eidetic Memory and Hyperthymesia cover different aspects, but neither cites anything older than “Funes the Memorious”. “Total Recall” is also used for the ability, but also does not appear to have a long history.
Unrelated but fun: ‘Photographic Memory’ The story of how we stored digital photographs
MNByChoice@midwest.socialto
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•...this shouldn't be possible!
20·2 days agoNo. Transporter Chefs tend to be obsessed with filter performance and TTL (Time To Live). They keep turning off all of the “unneeded” filters. If a filter hasn’t caught an issue in the last 100 transfers, it is removed (not commented out, they use “git” to catch those issues.) Eventually issues happen, but that is why they have defense in depth and so many red shirts.
MNByChoice@midwest.socialto
politics @lemmy.world•JD Vance repeats comments he wants wife Usha to convert to Christianity
11·6 days agoGiven how few “christens” are Christian, she only needs to state once that she is christian. She needs to make no actual changes, attend church, read the bible, nor pray. Heaven forbid she do something like feed the hungry, help the needy, or give her wealth to improve lives for her fellow humans.
MNByChoice@midwest.socialto
World News@lemmy.world•Two more suspects charged over Louvre heist taking total to fourEnglish
8·6 days agoGreat headline. I appreciate the total being included! (Because we criticize the bad headlines, we should also highlight the good headlines.)
MNByChoice@midwest.socialto
News@lemmy.world•SNAP benefits cut off during shutdown, driving long lines at food pantries
10·6 days agoThose that voted for this will never understand the pecking order. They will always think it is enough that they are not on the bottom, even if they are also drowning.
MNByChoice@midwest.socialto
World News@lemmy.world•U.S. family moved to Russia to escape liberal culture and got drawn into the war with UkraineEnglish
26·6 days agoFYI, this is the same family as the article from the summer. I was uncertain as I had expected they had last been in Russian longer than a few months.
A snopes article. https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/07/22/derek-huffman-russia-war/
MNByChoice@midwest.socialto
News@lemmy.world•Advocates Warn of ‘Forced Labor’ Camp for Homeless People in Utah Designed to Enforce Trump Order
4·9 days agoJade Helm - We building the concentration camps.
MNByChoice@midwest.socialto
politics @lemmy.world•That Extra ICE Funding Could Buy a Lot of School Meals
4·9 days agoRight.
Remember this in the future. We have the money to provide free healthcare to all Americans and a UBI.
We choose not to.
MNByChoice@midwest.socialto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she saysEnglish
23·9 days agoTeslas are now asking minors for nudes.
Fuck
MNByChoice@midwest.socialto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•If a Great Depression happened again, would people still stand together like they did during the penny auctions?
74·9 days ago77,302,580 people is not half of America. It is 49.8% of the folks that bothered to vote.
More usefully,
In the 2024 presidential election, 73.6% (or 174 million people) of the citizen voting-age population was registered to vote and 65.3% (or 154 million people) voted according to new voting and registration tables released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
MNByChoice@midwest.socialto
politics @lemmy.world•New Hegseth Leak Reveals Secret Plan for Years of Troops on U.S. Streets
1·10 days agoI have been puzzling on this, and am here to leave a link to a Wikipedia article touching on the subject. Jesus in comparative mythology
I am of the opinion that not discussing these things is an analog to the Paradox of Tolerance, if not being exactly what the Paradox is about. If we don’t discuss the hatefulness, then the hateful think they are doing fine.
Attacking only causes people to “dig in”. Passive aggressive actions will make you look weak.
Being cordial while also calling out instances of hate as they occur would likely be fine. Be strong and confident, but keep corrections short and to the point (Imagine correctly a 5 year old. Understanding and care, not anger, and keep things in reality.) “That didn’t happen.”, “Why would a criminal say that?”, “Toddlers visiting basketball plays, will reduce the average height, but no one gets shorter or taller.”
Progressive talk radio does exist and came be pretty good.
MNByChoice@midwest.socialto
Ukraine@sopuli.xyz•Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda
5·10 days agoIt would be nice to get an updated daily list.
MNByChoice@midwest.socialto
World News@lemmy.world•Why Americans trying to hide as Canadians overseas doesn’t workEnglish
40·10 days agoPeople just don’t notice the quiet ones. There are dozens of us.
I don’t think Amazon prioritizes efficiency, but delivery speed (after sitting on the packages for days). I often seem multiple Amazon trucks going to the same house in a day.
MNByChoice@midwest.socialto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump Says He Is Prepared to Send ‘More Than the National Guard’ Into U.S. Cities
11·10 days agoMaybe Governors need to deploy the National Guard to watch the “Texas” Nation Guard.
I really hope the next states to have the “Texas” National Guard deployed have a better plan than lawsuits. Maybe have all National Guard personnel reviewing unlawful orders, or learning to have conflicts so they cannot deploy, or something.
MNByChoice@midwest.socialto
News@lemmy.world•Texas Can’t Keep Up with Surge in Workers’ Wage Theft Complaints - State labor investigators struggle to process more and more paycheck complaints, with millions of dollars in workers’ pay at stake.
10·11 days agoWhile this is not good, it is good that wage theft is being reported. As nothing makes it to the news without someone pointing it out to reporters, this is a strong signal from those involved that that everyone in Texas should call their representative to complain about the investigators needing more funding.
It is a signal to everyone NOT in Texas to not go there.
Me too!
And I quickly found out why everyone else had left. (The job after was good though.)



















Every groups have a “testing”. Some also have a “production”.