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HONESTLY I HAD TO CHECK IT WAS NOT A JOKE THAT LEARNING A NEW LANGUAGE LITERALLY ALTERS YOUR BRAIN STRUCTURE AND I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT JUST CROSSWORDS THIS LINGUIST WROTE A BOOK SHOWING BILINGUAL PEOPLE ACTUALLY HAVE GREATER GRAY MATTER DENSITY AND STRONGER WHITE MATTER INTEGRITY THAN MONOLINGUALS WHICH IS WILD BECAUSE MANAGING TWO LANGUAGES PLACES ONGOING DEMANDS ON ATTENTION AND BUILDS UP COGNITIVE RESERVE AND THE THING IS STUDIES FOUND BILINGUAL PEOPLE WHO DEVELOP DEMENTIA ACTUALLY SHOW SYMPTOMS AT A LATER AGE THAN PEOPLE WHO ONLY SPEAK ONE LANGUAGE WHICH MEANS IT DOES NOT PREVENT THE UNDERLYING DISEASE BUT GIVES YOUR BRAIN RESILIENCE TO COPE AND ADULTS CAN STILL LEARN UNFAMILIAR SOUNDS AND GRAMMAR THROUGH LIFELONG NEUROPLASTICITY TO STRENGTHEN CONNECTIONS ANYWAY DO NOT QUOTE ME ON ANY OF THAT.

Research indicates that bilingualism alters brain structure and builds cognitive reserve, which can delay the onset of dementia symptoms in older adults.

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EVERYBODY IS WRONG THINKING THE REAL DANGER IS ROGUE AI CAUSING MASS DEATH IN TEN YEARS BECAUSE THE ACTUAL PROBLEM IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW WITH NORMAL AI CHATBOTS UNCOVERING A LITERAL TIDAL WAVE OF SOFTWARE VULNERABILITIES, WHICH IS WILD BECAUSE MICROSOFT ISSUED NINE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR PATCHES THIS MONTH ALONE TO SET A RECORD, AND ORACLE SHIPPED OVER FOURTEEN HUNDRED IN JULY COMPARED TO THREE HUNDRED AND NINE LAST YEAR, AND GOOGLE CHROME PATCHED OVER A THOUSAND IN JUNE, AND THIS TRACKER CALLED CVE DOT ICU HAS RECORDED OVER SIXTY-SIX THOUSAND FLAWS ALREADY THIS YEAR WHEN ALL OF 2022 ONLY HAD TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND, AND THE THING IS IT TEAMS AND OPEN SOURCE VOLUNTEERS ARE COMPLETELY OVERWHELMED TRYING TO PATCH EVERYTHING BEFORE ATTACKERS CAN EXPLOIT THEM, SO DO YOU THINK UNCOVERING ALL THESE BUGS ACTUALLY MAKES US SAFER OR ARE WE DOOMED?

Mainstream AI tools are fueling a record surge in discovered software vulnerabilities, overwhelming developers and IT teams attempting to patch them.

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