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Boing Boing, May 5, 2026

LLM brains, psilocybin scans, Steam Controller sold out

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May 05, 2026
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Happy Tuesday! Two of today’s posts circle the brain — an engineer who wonders if his own memory works like an LLM, and a single 25-mg psilocybin dose that produced brain changes a month later. Also: Meta is about to start reading your Instagram DMs again, the Steam Controller sold out in under an hour, and the “It’s not X, it’s Y” AI writing tic backfi…

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