Psydetracked
@singomuse.bsky.social
Millennial ex-Millennialist. Movies, meals, meditations on the anthropocene. Also, sometimes, healthcare.
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Psydetracked
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· Mar 22
Deleting old posts which made me more identifiable. Likely overkill, but I've had to reassess my digital privacy lately. Still figuring out how this might affect my professional trajectory. For now, I'm just quietly following professional accounts, in a personal capacity on a personal account.
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To be honest, I haven’t trusted Stephen Colbert ever since he conveniently abandoned all his right wing views as soon as he got hired to host a network talk show
July 18, 2025 at 2:44 AM
To be honest, I haven’t trusted Stephen Colbert ever since he conveniently abandoned all his right wing views as soon as he got hired to host a network talk show
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Made it almost halfway through a year of Duolingo, and I'm starting to pattern-match Arabic words rather than sound them out, and pick out a few words when using a translator. Can't remotely speak it, but it'd be a huge leg up if I started seriously learning, and that's better than social media.
June 28, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Made it almost halfway through a year of Duolingo, and I'm starting to pattern-match Arabic words rather than sound them out, and pick out a few words when using a translator. Can't remotely speak it, but it'd be a huge leg up if I started seriously learning, and that's better than social media.
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It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
June 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins
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Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language.
Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.
Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.
June 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Yesterday I used this "AI -Free Statement" in a conference talk for the first time. Still trying to figure out the exact language.
Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.
Feel free to borrow, modify, etc.
Just looked at the DASS, and it's got an obvious benefit over the PHQ and GAD in that it is much clearer about effects on functioning, motivation, and bodily symptoms, then ends with more emotional questions. Excellent work.
Exciting new research led by Francisco Antonio Calderon (DPhil student @dspi-oxford.bsky.social) shows the effectiveness of 2 FREE tools in assessing #MentalHealth & depression in low- & middle-income countries.
More: www.spi.ox.ac.uk/article/new-...
More: www.spi.ox.ac.uk/article/new-...
New research proves two freely available tools can be used to assess mental health and depression in multiple countries
Study shows DASS and CABI are effective tools for low- and middle-income countries (LMIC)
www.spi.ox.ac.uk
June 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Just looked at the DASS, and it's got an obvious benefit over the PHQ and GAD in that it is much clearer about effects on functioning, motivation, and bodily symptoms, then ends with more emotional questions. Excellent work.
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
Incredible to say a "computer says no" culture worsens outcomes, then plan to replace this with a "computer says yes" process
Incredible to say a "computer says no" culture worsens outcomes, then plan to replace this with a "computer says yes" process
Feeling sick? Use ‘ChatGPT of the NHS’ first, patients to be told
‘My Companion’ will allow people to shop around for their preferred doctor or hospital in ‘an evolution of the 111 service’, says Wes Streeting
www.thetimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
Incredible to say a "computer says no" culture worsens outcomes, then plan to replace this with a "computer says yes" process
Incredible to say a "computer says no" culture worsens outcomes, then plan to replace this with a "computer says yes" process
It's a wonderful feeling, feeling blessed by good fortune, and then reflecting on how some of that was one's own work and decisions rather than just luck. Yes, a lot of people and factors got me to a place - but I got me there, too.
It's, y'know. It's nice.
It's, y'know. It's nice.
June 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It's a wonderful feeling, feeling blessed by good fortune, and then reflecting on how some of that was one's own work and decisions rather than just luck. Yes, a lot of people and factors got me to a place - but I got me there, too.
It's, y'know. It's nice.
It's, y'know. It's nice.
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After one local Christian complained, a Pride flag was banned from the high street in one Derbyshire town.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Dismay as council removes Pride flag in Derbyshire after Christians complain
LGBTQ+ standard disappears from Matlock high street as Christian bookshop manager says they are ‘not happy with the gay rights situation’
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
After one local Christian complained, a Pride flag was banned from the high street in one Derbyshire town.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
June 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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Let me introduce you to the visual treat that is "Hanna- Barbara's Rock Odyssey." Considered a lost film for years this 1987 gem never had a theatrical or DVD/Vhs release and never aired on TV. It was Scatman Crothers's final film before his death.
www.dailymotion.com/video/x93vm5c
www.dailymotion.com/video/x93vm5c
Rock Odyssey (1987) [Restored] (1)
Dailymotion video by toadypie324
www.dailymotion.com
June 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Let me introduce you to the visual treat that is "Hanna- Barbara's Rock Odyssey." Considered a lost film for years this 1987 gem never had a theatrical or DVD/Vhs release and never aired on TV. It was Scatman Crothers's final film before his death.
www.dailymotion.com/video/x93vm5c
www.dailymotion.com/video/x93vm5c
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I love all sorts of Robin Hood stories but jiminy Christmas, rewatching the Disney one to work on this poster, I guess I forgot just decidedly this Robin is the purest iteration. SO many of his interactions are bringing material help to the poor; the rest are playing tricks and doting on his lady.
June 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I love all sorts of Robin Hood stories but jiminy Christmas, rewatching the Disney one to work on this poster, I guess I forgot just decidedly this Robin is the purest iteration. SO many of his interactions are bringing material help to the poor; the rest are playing tricks and doting on his lady.
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Animation is a medium, not a genre, and, like any medium, there are some concepts that can only be properly portrayed using it. House of Leaves is an unfilmable book, the wizard Ekh in the 1983 short "Wow, a talking fish!" Would never have the same impact without being animated.
June 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Animation is a medium, not a genre, and, like any medium, there are some concepts that can only be properly portrayed using it. House of Leaves is an unfilmable book, the wizard Ekh in the 1983 short "Wow, a talking fish!" Would never have the same impact without being animated.
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Referring to events in Ballymena as "disturbances" is a euphemism too far. We are witnesses to a pogrom. And it behoves us to say so, loud and clear.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Séamas O’Reilly: Ballymena violence is the result of politics based on scapegoating any ‘other’
"The central perversity of treating these people as anything other than racist thugs is only more transparent in Ballymena because they have so few migrants that any other excuse is patently absurd."
www.irishexaminer.com
June 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Referring to events in Ballymena as "disturbances" is a euphemism too far. We are witnesses to a pogrom. And it behoves us to say so, loud and clear.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
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This would go some way to explaining the $3,600 a month on candles
odd that dril hasn't posted since the pope died
April 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This would go some way to explaining the $3,600 a month on candles
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Ableism teaches us to abandon each other.
Racism will disable you.
Transphobia will disable you.
Long COVID will disable you.
Genocide will disable you.
Climate change will disable you.
Do not obey when told to abandon the vulnerable.
Resistance & communities must be rooted in disability justice.
Racism will disable you.
Transphobia will disable you.
Long COVID will disable you.
Genocide will disable you.
Climate change will disable you.
Do not obey when told to abandon the vulnerable.
Resistance & communities must be rooted in disability justice.
November 6, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Ableism teaches us to abandon each other.
Racism will disable you.
Transphobia will disable you.
Long COVID will disable you.
Genocide will disable you.
Climate change will disable you.
Do not obey when told to abandon the vulnerable.
Resistance & communities must be rooted in disability justice.
Racism will disable you.
Transphobia will disable you.
Long COVID will disable you.
Genocide will disable you.
Climate change will disable you.
Do not obey when told to abandon the vulnerable.
Resistance & communities must be rooted in disability justice.
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This is just a reminder that while you survive The Horrors, check in with yourself to see if you need to:
Eat! Any food is better than no food.
Hydrate! It doesn’t have to be plain water.
Take meds! Hell yeah, science.
Touch grass! Nature is cool.
Play! Fun is self-care and fuel for the fight.
Eat! Any food is better than no food.
Hydrate! It doesn’t have to be plain water.
Take meds! Hell yeah, science.
Touch grass! Nature is cool.
Play! Fun is self-care and fuel for the fight.
May 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is just a reminder that while you survive The Horrors, check in with yourself to see if you need to:
Eat! Any food is better than no food.
Hydrate! It doesn’t have to be plain water.
Take meds! Hell yeah, science.
Touch grass! Nature is cool.
Play! Fun is self-care and fuel for the fight.
Eat! Any food is better than no food.
Hydrate! It doesn’t have to be plain water.
Take meds! Hell yeah, science.
Touch grass! Nature is cool.
Play! Fun is self-care and fuel for the fight.
I've spent well over a decade meckering that Les Mis should have kept James Fenton's pointedly socialist lyrics, so this political moment feels very vindicating.
June 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I've spent well over a decade meckering that Les Mis should have kept James Fenton's pointedly socialist lyrics, so this political moment feels very vindicating.
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Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
June 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
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About seven years ago, Nick and I wrote a Black Mirror spec where people had a personal AI device called ChooseU that helped you make the best decisions for yourself, gradually transforming you into a complete narcissistic sociopath who’d do anything to get what you want.
Anyway, they’ve made that.
Anyway, they’ve made that.
This story explains a LOT of things: ChatGPT appears to be rooting on sociopathic mental illness by validating every delusion of grandeur.
It also explains, in part, the hype cycle around AI: rich people, addicted to praise, invented a Compliment Machine.
www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-wh...
It also explains, in part, the hype cycle around AI: rich people, addicted to praise, invented a Compliment Machine.
www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-wh...
May 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
About seven years ago, Nick and I wrote a Black Mirror spec where people had a personal AI device called ChooseU that helped you make the best decisions for yourself, gradually transforming you into a complete narcissistic sociopath who’d do anything to get what you want.
Anyway, they’ve made that.
Anyway, they’ve made that.
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dead kids in Memphis are a price Elon Musk is willing to pay to run a robot that will tell him he’s cool
Now in @politico.com : Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is operating 35 gas turbines without any pollution permits, belching asthma-worsening emissions into an area that leads Tennessee in ER visits for asthma.
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
Elon Musk’s xAI in Memphis: 35 gas turbines, no air pollution permits
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
www.politico.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
dead kids in Memphis are a price Elon Musk is willing to pay to run a robot that will tell him he’s cool
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So many things make me think of C. S. Lewis’ explanation for his coinage “verbicide” (the trend for descriptive words to lose their meaning and become synonyms for good or bad) as the natural result of people’s overriding social interest in expressing approval and disapproval.
June 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
So many things make me think of C. S. Lewis’ explanation for his coinage “verbicide” (the trend for descriptive words to lose their meaning and become synonyms for good or bad) as the natural result of people’s overriding social interest in expressing approval and disapproval.