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Rich Haridy

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Science and technology journalist. Psychedelic science and culture. Maybe trying to write a book. Find me at www.richharidy.com

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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · Nov 12

Here is a starter pack I put together featuring all the psychedelic science researchers and journalists I could find on here. Let me know who I'm missing. It'd be great to get the conversation going on this platform go.bsky.app/NPvFX41

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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 16m

92% of buildings destroyed
1 in 4 children severely malnourished
Hundreds of thousands killed or wounded
Almost all schools, hospitals & universities destroyed
89% of the water/sanitation networks damaged

Not patting anyone on the back for achieving a ceasefire now. There's not much left to bomb.

Two years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza: By the numbers

Israel has killed or injured more than 10 percent of Gaza's population over the past 24 months.

www.aljazeera.com

Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 3h

These fucking guys think they are like missionaries spreading the good word to the oppressed.

Instead they are simply entertaining the oligarchs while the peasants outside are being muzzled or murdered.

You think you saw the real Saudi Arabia? Are you kidding me?

Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 3h

Didn't wanna post about this again but Bill Burr has no fucking idea.

He likens his attendance to "visiting the sweatshop and making them laugh".

Does he honestly think the crowd he performed to were the oppressed class and not just the super wealthy elite? Either he's an idiot or disingenuous

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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 21h

This article by Nicolas Langlitz and Alex Gearin is so good. I'm not sure I appreciated it when published last year. Its anthropological interrogation into the ways psychotherapy shape psychedelic experiences is more prescient by the day.

Psychedelic Therapy as Form of Life - Neuroethics

In the historical context of a crisis in biological psychiatry, psychedelic drugs paired with psychotherapy are globally re-emerging in research clinics as a potential transdiagnostic therapy for treating mood disorders, addictions, and other forms of psychological distress. The treatments are poised to soon shift from clinical trials to widespread service delivery in places like Australia, North America, and Europe, which has prompted ethical questions by social scientists and bioethicists. Taking a broader view, we argue that the ethics of psychedelic therapy concerns not simply how psychotherapies are different when paired with psychedelic drugs, but how psychedelic therapies shape and are shaped by different values, norms, and metaphysical commitments. Drawing from the published literature and interviews with seven psychedelic therapists working in clinical trials in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, and Australia, this article opens the black box of the treatments to consider the values and informal debates currently animating the therapies. Considering questions of patient autonomy, mechanisms of therapeutic action, and which therapies are best suited to pair with psychedelic substances, we examine the ethics of psychedelic therapy as an emergent form of life. To bring this form of life out in fuller relief, we conclude by comparing and contrasting it with ayahuasca use in Amazonian shamanism.

link.springer.com

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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 1d

If someone asked me what the best stand up routine of all time was I'd give it it to them straight... Like a pear cider made of 100% pear(s)...

Stewart Lee - [1/2] Give It To Me Straight, Like Pear Cider That's Made From 100% Pears

YouTube video by evilferris

youtu.be

Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 1d

I wouldn't bet against you on that. The psychedelic pop culture bingo card is close to full.

Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 1d

Oh shit! I'm watching the new season and thought the same thought. Within a day she had her whole tribe chanting and meditating on the beach. Shit is gonna go downhill fast! 😂

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Max Daly @maxdaly.bsky.social · 1d

In a 2015 article for VICE, I tried to predict the future of drugs.

10 years down the line, how did I do?

www.vice.com/en/article/t...

Revisiting VICE's Big Predictions About the Future of Drugs—10 Years On

Way back in 2015, VICE made 16 predictions about what drug taking would be like in 2025. Let's see how right—and wrong—we were.

www.vice.com

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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 1d

Twin Peaks reference on Episode 3 of The Lowdown. This is show is effortlessly good.

Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 1d

PTA ranked.

10 Hard Eight
9 Licorice Pizza
8 Phantom Thread
7 The Master
6 Inherent Vice
5 Boogie Nights
4 There Will Be Blood
3 One Battle After Another
2 Punchdrunk Love
1 Magnolia

Note: This is a favourite ranking. No "best" wankery. 4 to 6 were hardest to order.

Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 1d

Now this is some rocket fuel clickbait!

Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 2d

And that's just estimating traumatic injury deaths. Missing are indirect deaths which in previous conflicts run btw 3 & 15 times higher than direct deaths.
This article last year suggested a conservative estimate was 4 indirect deaths for every 1 direct death. So real # is likely 200,000 to 300,000

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential

By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Offi...

www.thelancet.com

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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 2d

I've pointed out the volume of wild misinformation in the world of microdosing before but I'm still surprised every so often. The unproven claims even drift into FAQs about "Who shouldn't microdose".

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troy farah @troyfarah.bsky.social · 3d

just randomly thinking about mpox and how it's doing this year, guess there's an outbreak in chicago, but somehow missed this casual racism from the current administration

www.statnews.com/2025/09/30/h...

The CDC is switching back to ‘monkeypox’

And more health news stories of the day from the Morning Rounds newsletter.

www.statnews.com

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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 3d

"I just feel like comedy is a great way to get in and start talking.”

I think I'm starting to figure it out. These comedians have a wildly inflated sense of ego and self-importance. They genuinely think they are seeding some kind of progressive change.

Louis C.K. Says Performing at Riyadh Comedy Festival Is a ‘Positive Thing’ and ‘A Great Way to Get in and Start Talking’

Louis C.K. says performing at Riyadh Comedy Festival is 'a postive thing' and 'a great way to get in and start talking.'

variety.com

Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 3d

Missing the "terror at the" 😞

Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 4d

GPT is a bit like fentanyl.

You use it for a few weeks because it helps some acute problem.

But you can't stop.

And 18 months later you can't think of anything without it. You've become a slave to the drug/tool/technology.

Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 4d

GPT has been around long enough to be able to start noticing its deeper effects.

My number one observation is GPT use strips any novelty from your work.

I've seen first hand how work from writers using it has devolved over time into mindless formulaic repetition.

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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 4d

I'm not sure I'd even go so far as to call this a fictional character. A fictional character only exists within the context of a narrative or story. We don't even have that. This is more like a photoshop plug in; a computer program.

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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 4d

These are real paragraphs that were possibly written by a real human who wasn't making a joke.

Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 4d

More ads masquerading as news. Variety is really scraping the bottom of the barrel here.

Does Tilly Norwood Need a Publicist? The AI Actress ‘Is Not Available to Speak’ Yet, but ‘Everyone Wants an Interview’

A publicist for the company that created Tilly Norwood turned down Variety's request for an interview with the AI creation saying she "is not available to speak to at present.”

variety.com

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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 4d

Deep in this at the moment. Really impressed with Gallimore's ability to clearly explain some pretty complicated scientific concepts. Good stuff.

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Mike Jay @mikejay.bsky.social · 4d

‘Tis the season…

Mushrooms in Wonderland - Mike Jay

Was Victorian fairy art and lore inspired by actual experiences with mind-altering fungi?

mikejay.net

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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 5d

Shrigley.

Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 5d

OK this story is officially through the looking glass into fucking bizzaro world. "Comedians" like Chappelle performing in Saudi Arabia bemoaning the state of free speech in the US. These guys have really lost it.

At Saudi Comedy Fest, American Free Speech Becomes the Punchline

www.nytimes.com

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