Cullen Truett
cullentruett.bsky.social
Cullen Truett
@cullentruett.bsky.social
In thought or in transit. Psychiatrist, Writer, Feral Country Intellectual. Views are my own.

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Kurt Vonnegut man
April 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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"It can be hard to describe or visualize exactly what kind of country you want to live in, but it is not so hard to recognize the one you don't." defector.com/it-is-what-i...
It Is What It Looks Like | Defector
On Tuesday night, a Tufts University graduate student named Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by agents from the Department Of Homeland Security while walking down the sidewalk outside an off-campus apartme...
defector.com
March 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Go Big or go home. Move fast & break things. VC investors choose startups according to “power law,” tendency for outliers to have undue impact. Despite their claims to “make the world a better place,” VCs either avoid addressing societal problems or make them worse www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Venture Capital Kills ‘More Value Than It Creates,’ Author Says
In a new book, World Eaters, tech activist Catherine Bracy says Silicon Valley needs to focus more on solving real-world problems and less on fast profit.
www.bloomberg.com
February 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Copy Paste: Physicians
every journalist i see trying to legitimize the use of generative AI for their work is now my sworn enemy

y'all can participate in the eradication of your own jobs, but leave mine alone
February 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Apropos of the moment, I recommend reading/rereading @oliverbullough.bsky.social Moneyland. It’s an incisive work of just how much precedent there is for the current moment. Some cynical and cruel chickens coming home to roost.
Moneyland: The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World
The Inside Story of the Crooks and Kleptocrats Who Rule the World
bookshop.org
February 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Guayabera-pilled
February 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Guayabera-pilled
February 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
February 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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As a writer, psychiatrist, and therapy participant, this resonates deeply.
Writing as Transformation — The New Yorker
Words and phrases came from nowhere; I rarely had any sense of what they meant or to what context they belonged.
apple.news
January 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM