“The technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it's gonna get easier and easier, and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by people who do not love us but want our money...
... Which is all right. In low doses, right? But if that's the basic main staple of your diet, you're gonna die. In a meaningful way, you're going to die."
-David Foster Wallace
Music is joy! #AGoodPlace
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A question clinicians need to be comfortable asking themselves:
Am I wrong?
Added a whole bunch of news tunes to the playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Ze...
Reunited Zambian rock legends WITCH announce new album 'SOGOLO'; hear the funky, life-affirming single 'Queenless King"
It sucks having no regulation or laws for bots on social media. It's best to be dubious of anything that goes super viral and critically analyze it before automatically assuming it's a popular sentiment. Stop and question who benefits from it going viral before accepting it as real engagement.
"With all these traits, the podcast is a terrible form for serious science communication… but great for giving the impression of depth and rigor with minimal effort."
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Hemingway, evergreen
Great to be back at UChicago Institute of Politics tonight. Tune in.
“When you speed up the exchange of messages and information beyond a certain point, you actually overwhelm the mind’s ability to make sense of it all in a deep way,” Nicholas Carr tells Don Peck in Time-Travel Thursdays.
Here's The Killers playing Mr. Brightside for an indifferent audience in 2002, two years before the album. They think it sounds like dogshit! No one in that room thought it was going to be one of the biggest hits of all time! Let this inspire you somehow idk
I believe “technique” is facilitative when it emanates from the therapist’s unique encounter with the patient. Whenever I suggest some intervention to my supervisees they often try to cram it into the next session and it always bombs.
- Irvin Yalom
My point is that every course of therapy consists of small and large spontaneously generated responses or techniques that are impossible to program in advance.
- Irvin Yalom
“as a matter of law, protecting human expression is qualitatively different from enabling algorithmic manipulation of human attention.”
There is a reason TikTok is so good at figuring out what you want to see, and why it’s better than everything else: it’s a weapon, and the best weapon is one you don’t know exists, or worse, one you think you can’t live without
Ever wonder what it would sound like if Jeff Tweedy was the lead singer for a twee Steely Dan…
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The Social World Is Something We Collectively Create
Giulio Ongaro ( @giulio-ongaro.bsky.social ) uses the Akha shamanic ritual to explore what social psychiatric interventions can look like in a guest post and accompanying Q&A
www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/the-social...
kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.
This is a beautiful tribute.
Map showing the number of times a location has burned in SoCal and which kind of fire it was: one burning under Santa Ana winds, or one that was a summer, fuel-driven fire without Santa Ana winds. Malibu area had burned at least 8 times from 1900-2017, and has burned twice now since. Image from Kolden and Abatzoglou (2018): https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/1/2/19
Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵
Our new paper on why people love sad art
The key question: You probably wouldn’t enjoy it if someone started telling you about how she is addicted to drugs and her life is failing apart. So why do you love it when she creates a work of art about that very same thing?
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“It goes so fast … I didn’t realize,” she says. “All that was going on and we never noticed.” Another ghost replies: “That’s what it was to be alive … To spend and waste time as though you had a million years.”
Even though they’re putting the Penix in against your Giants? I know you’re right, but still wanted to get your opinion. I will
share this response from Gemini as a small thank you:
Hey there @dannyheifetz.bsky.social Is there any scenario in which you would start Penix over Purdy this week? I know it’s bonkers on surface, but with Trent being out again and the Niners being not nicey, I’m having intrusive thoughts here.
Here you go: the #Superman trailer.
Krypto, take us home.
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