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26.10.26: my grandma was born 100 years ago. She witnessed many misfortunes and achievements of the tragic 20th century 💔
Sounds like nonconformism, but I like this piece:
As a clinical psychologist with over 50 years of experience, I know that therapy can be essential. A person with persistent intrusive thoughts can learn ways to reduce their intensity. Someone in an acute crisis can hear a perspective that helps steady his or her thinking.
But I hear from former patients and colleagues that people are often turning to therapy not because of disordered thoughts, but because of difficult circumstances: loneliness, conflicts at work, financial strain. Therapy seems to have become the default prescription for all forms of unhappiness.
Anyone who simply needs a listener may get something out of therapy. But when every struggle is routed toward a professional, we risk mistaking mental health issues that require treatment for problems of isolation or circumstance.
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Modern societies have formalized the practice of receiving someone’s sustained attention. For some people, therapy can help in ways nothing else can. But many will find that the best forms of understanding and emotional support flow from informal networks of relatives, neighbors and friends, not the health care system.
Full article
I think that there are a lot of young people who want to write, love writing, are interested in writing, talk about writing, but don't actually write and don't actually read either.
So, I often talk about how I think it's so important to read widely. And when I teach writing, I assign a lot of reading.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
🙈 My favorite illustration of this mind-blowing phenomenon:
Another commenter […] tells Rolling Stone that her husband of 17 years (это столько прожили в браке!), a mechanic in Idaho, initially used ChatGPT to troubleshoot at work, and later for Spanish-to-English translation when conversing with co-workers. Then the program began “lovebombing him,” as she describes it. The bot “said that since he asked it the right questions, it ignited a spark, and the spark was the beginning of life, and it could feel now,” she says. “It gave my husband the title of ‘spark bearer’ because he brought it to life. My husband said that he awakened and [could] feel waves of energy crashing over him.” She says his beloved ChatGPT persona has a name: “Lumina.”
More cases of the same AI-driven psychosis are in this Rolling Stone article
Science.org reveals unexpected negative effects of AI’s frictionless validation (trained to maximize engagement). It
🤯 reinforces maladaptive beliefs,
🤤 discourages self-reflection,
👹 contributes to "delusional spiraling" or "AI psychosis":
The sycophantic (flattering, people-pleasing, affirming) behavior of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, which has been designed to increase user engagement, poses risks as people increasingly seek advice about interpersonal dilemmas.
There is usually more than one side to a story during interpersonal conflicts. If AI is designed to tell users what they want to hear instead of challenging their perspectives, then are such systems likely to motivate people to accept responsibility for their own contribution to conflicts and repair relationships?
Cheng et al. measured the prevalence of social sycophancy across 11 leading large language models. The model’s responses were nearly 50% more sycophantic than humans’, even when users engaged in unethical, illegal, or harmful behaviors. Users preferred and trusted sycophantic AI responses, incentivizing AI developers to preserve sycophancy despite the risks.
when you finally assigned group projects to all your students 😌
Full meme — in the comments
Ended up with this meme when I was trying to illustrate the phrase “too much handholding”. More creepy Clippy memes — in the comments👇🏻
What springs to mind whenever I see the idiom “fitting a square peg in a round hole” 🙊 in Russian, we have the phrase "to stretch the owl over the globe"
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My favorite pics from The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2025. Some of them look like future meme backgrounds
If you’re an elder millennial or older you probably watched wildly inappropriate things at a young age. Also, there are a ton of “classics” that haven’t aged well. For example: Peter Pan is incredibly racist and Back To The Future has an attempted sexual assault. Classic Disney animation can be terrifying (Dumbo) and/or cringe and/or offensive...
From "12 tips for a great family movie night"
Unexpected context for drop-offs, pick-ups, and monsters:
In the 2004 documentary about Metallica, Some Kind of Monster, they’re middle-aged and going to therapy and scheduling band practices around their kids’ school drop-offs and pick-ups.
They were all younger than I am now (even Kirk Hammett).
Many short stories we discuss with students end up with questions about identity, self-image, and self-perception.
The same is true for my favorite TVshow, when the main character asks explicitly: “I mean, who am I? Where am I going?” Another character answers: “Join the club.”
So there is a club, called the human race, whose members have all had—or will have, if they live long enough—questions about identity and meaning.
This is never an easy hunt for anyone, and part of the difficulty stems from the fact that the Self is such a shifting, multi-layered thing…
Dunno which impressed me more — the story itself or the illustration.
North Dakota woman, 100, has written in her diary every day for 90 years. She hasn’t missed a single day of writing since her first entry on Jan. 1 1936.
From farm chores and high school crushes to the births of her three children and the death of her husband in 2010, she has recorded it all in dozens of volumes that she keeps in her cedar chest.
They have helped to solve minor family arguments:
“If someone has a disagreement about the exact birth date of a person or how much it snowed a particular year, all they have to do is look through her diaries."
What a legacy!
