Jun 21, 2025

​Take Action: Stop the BILL to Sell Off Public Lands

The Senate just released its version of a massive spending bill—and it includes a proposal to sell off more than 3 million acres of public lands. The bill also prioritizes drilling and logging, slashes environmental safeguards, and lets developers bypass public input.
 
Just a few weeks ago, the outdoor community helped remove 500,000 acres of land sales from the House version of this bill. Now the Senate is back with an even more extreme version—and we need your voice to stop it. Here are the maps of the nearly 300,000,000 acres of lands that could be open for these proposed sales.
https://outdooralliance.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html

You can use the easy-action form below to write your Senators about how this package will affect the outdoors. Lawmakers need to hear that public lands should be managed for people and the future, not sold off for tax cuts or given away to developers.
 
Help protect the public lands you love. Send a message to your Senators today.
https://action.outdooralliance.org/a/reconciliation-senate/

Jun 19, 2025

Brain Rot from ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt (MIT Study)

MIT just dropped a scan study on ChatGPT users—and the findings are deeply alarming. Participants showed a 47% drop in neural connectivity. In simple terms, their brains were doing less actual thinking. 83.3% couldn't even remember lines from essays they wrote just minutes earlier. AI was doing the work, and their minds were switching off.

The study revealed that frequent AI users experienced a measurable decline in creative and critical thinking. Brain scans tracked alpha and beta waves—markers of real cognitive effort—and showed clear drops compared to non-users. Even worse, when chronic users were forced to write without AI, they performed worse than those who had never used it at all.

MIT researchers call this "cognitive debt." Every shortcut you take with AI racks up hidden costs in lost brain power. The more you rely on it, the more you weaken your own thinking.

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