Founder of Psych Central (7M users/month before sale in 2020). Mental health expert & advocate, technologist, author, researcher.
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Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.
First order of business for next president -- revoke all of Trump's secret service detail for his family, friends, sycophants. Dear Leader needs to get as good as he gives.
One Mind's guide was the only such guide available that scientifically reviewed and rated brain and psychology apps. It was an amazing project and its results are now lost to history, available only at archive.org
Man, this bums me out. One Mind ran a project called PsyberGuide that rated mental health & psychology apps. They lost funding for that project in June 2023 & then let the domain be snatched by a dumb brain supplement company. Brain supplements of any kind are placebo. Most don't work.
Every mental health professional & scientist knows that SSRIs have no connection to gun violence. This kind of behavior only happens in America, where easy access to guns is so prevalent that it’s easier to get a gun than to get Sudafed at CVS. Robert Kennedy Jr is an a disgrace & laughingstock.
Of course they’re giving weird funeral honors to a domestic terrorist who was given explicit law enforcement orders but refused to obey them. Ashli Babbitt. I mean, the right always says to just obey the police & no harm will come to you. I guess it doesn’t apply to rioters storming the Capitol.
Ashli Babbitt was a domestic terrorist who was shot while committing a violent crime that demonstrated a clear intention to do bodily harm to the people on the other side of those doors. The officer ended the threat she represented...as they were required to do by lethal force if necessary. It was
These prescription drugs are available in most other countries. They, however, do not have the mass shooting problem the United States does. Anything to avoid talking about the obvious problem--guns.
Re-upping: if you work at EPA, NOAA, FEMA, NIH, CDC, USDA or other agencies that involve really any sort of science in their work, and you have something you want the public to know, I would always love to hear from you. Signal is davelevitan.26 and you can remain anonymous.
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
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So if you beat a police officer with the American flag while storming the Capitol, you get a full presidential pardon. But if you burn the flag, you’ll get a year in jail. Make it make sense!!
“States rights!!!” (Except when we want to terrorize your population with armed military folks on your streets without your permission for a non-existent ‘emergency’.)
This is 100% correct.
Have you read the 1st Amendment lately?? Maybe you need to reread it…
The @gop had a right to fear federal jackboots coming for them. But the call is coming from inside the house.
The National Guard are NOT the nation's police force. That's the FBI. There is no "emergency" in America right now when it comes to crime. All statistics show major crime is down since 2023 in nearly all major metropolitan areas. Only a liar would contravene the data for his own personal gain.
UPS lost the phone. #ATT doesn't care & won't file a claim with UPS. ATT only insured the phone for $100, the max. claim I could make with them. ATT won't issue the trade-in credit for the actual value of the phone. So they basically scammed me out of $300. Shameful. 2/2
Well, #AT&T customer service lost a customer today. I would not recommend them to anyone anymore. I upgraded one of our phones back in May and sent the old phone back for a promised trade-in credit. 1/2 #ATT
I love how the #GOP gleefully turns a child into an “underaged woman” when one of their own is caught doing it. The rest of us call it being a pedophile. And I don’t know if anyone but the #GOP & #MAGA who seemingly condones it.
"... MIT recently published a report saying 95% of corporate AI pilots were failing to create a return." That should be a wake-up call for anyone who thinks AI, right now, is going to change the world. For most companies, going to lose $$$ investing in AI as it exists today & its current pricing.
It’s absolutely disgusting when state and federal agencies ignore scientific safety data and, for political purposes only, require the removal of street art. Such as LGBTQ+ crosswalks. Shameful behavior on the part of Florida DOT. open.substack.com/pub/gwenfilo...
So you mean Trump agreed to release the Epstein files… but he isn’t doing that… And who is surprised? He’s been a lying liar for decades. None of the people who have half a brain cell to mash together ever believes a thing out of his mouth. The cult that voted for him, however…
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Good to see the Trump Administration isn't mis-using Federal govt resources. Like, we wouldn't be using highly-trained, expensive FBI agents to be... checks notes... destroying sets of random homeless camps in one US city? Right?? Like, that would be a total waste of $$$$. DOGE! Where are you??
The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.
“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books. bookriot.com/penguin-rand...
The crazy thing about social media is that it could readily be designed to focus on the positive, reward support, punish insults & ad hominem attacks. Instead, developers thought, “Nah, let’s not create a platform for good. Let’s just let it be a free for all that rewards our worst impulses.” Cool
4/ Make sure you know the facts. Make sure you share the facts with others in your circle. American democracy depends on us. Don’t listen to people who tell you that you can’t make a difference, this is our moment and our generation’s fight for democracy.
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Truth. Also, "running 15 mins late, cya soon..." is easier to type (or speak) than anything you need to say to an AI app (even if that AI app was connect to your messaging app, which in many cases, it is not).
This is the very definition of being a Luddite. Thousands of residents are still going to get therapeutic-like interventions from AI in Illinois. Only now, they're just going to use a VPN. www.engadget.com/ai/illinois-...
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If this isn’t a sign of a dictatorship, I don’t know what is…
You know the online advertising world is in rough shape when @nytimes is running sh!tty clickbait ads in their morning email newsletter.
... but of course we see now that you can indeed do therapy exclusively online without an issue. It'll probably take a lot less time this go around before therapists accept AI is going to do -- and is actively now doing -- psychotherapy-like interventions.
Whenever I see therapists complaining about the ubiquity of AI, I remember in 1996 when therapists started seeing people online-only. Most therapists were aghast at the idea, and said it could never work. "You can't recreate the therapeutic alliance online!" It took more than 15 or so years...
While patient portals are amazing communication modalities, they also have some not-so-obvious drawbacks. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Trump is so invested in his narcissistic narrative and “owning the libs,” he doesn’t even grasp basic facts. Babbling about cost overruns and including a building built 5 years ago! You can’t make his lack of intelligence up.
NEW: Pete Hegseth lied to Congress and perjured himself when he said his Signal messages contained no classified information. Washington Post story just out. Messages from Hegseth’s Signal account - which previewed a US bombing in Yemen - were derived from a classified email labeled “SECRET”.
Typically in law enforcement, this would be a "closed case." Unless there's new evidence that the previous investigation was unaware of (and there's not). So the likely explanation of bringing this up (again!) is political. Has nothing to do with the law & creates distraction from Epstein.
I guess we'll have to wait another 50+ years to learn the actual truth of who's names are in those Epstein files the Trump administration is furiously censoring... (I mean, we all know who already...)
People out here clamoring for the full FBI Epstein files and instead Trump releases something nobody asked for, the MLK Jr files?!!??? Pedophile crimes trump civil rights leader indiscretions any day of the year. Release the Epstein files. ALL of them, with no redactions!
Cool… cool… Good to know Republicans are FOR human trafficking. Remember that at the next election.
TIL that in WWII, Nazi Germany moved 85% of their supplies by horse & carriage, and hand carts. And a significant portion of those supplies was horse feed. But it was forbidden to ever show a horse & carriage in their propaganda films. So most people don't know this.
Why.... why.... why... Why are my fellow Americans okay with this?!? Why did they vote for this??? This is inhumane. This is un-Christian. This is un-American. www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/p...
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Well, trying to move my prescriptions to Optum was a nightmare. Moving them right back out. What a broken company. Would not recommend.
Today is the International Day of Hope around the world. Hope is a powerful emotion that can drive positive change, not just in your own life, but in your community, city, and even nation. internationaldayofhope.org
And less than half of Americans even HAVE passports. It's a standard no court will uphold. Clear violation of the law.
It was so very sad to see Texans who'd rather believe lies & propaganda about Biden than accept federal funding to use to help protect their very own children. Whenever someone uses the words "communist" or "socialist," I know they're brainwashed & have no idea what they're talking about.
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Sorry meant Indiana Jones 3…
Geez John Krasinski… Fountain of Youth movie on Apple is just a rip off of Raiders of the Ark 3 + National Treaure, with the originality of neither. Why did you agree to do this?!?? It adds nothing to the genre.
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I think Trump or his advisors figured out that he can do as much illegal shite as he wants (esp with the personal grift) bc the only possible penalty is impeachment. There’s nothing else that happens to him personally. (And impeachment just won’t ever happen.)
I had to unsubscribe from Social Security email updates because they sent me a political message that had nothing to do with my SS account. Disgusting.
Yup, Jordan Peterson is still spewing gobblygook & people are still mistaking it for intelligent discourse. I can't believe people thought this guy was smart. He couldn't get to his point if his life depended on it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yjI...
The 2025 GOP: Tax cuts for billionaires & delusional thinking while massively cutting Medicaid.
What DOGE clearly showed in there work was how actual little "waste and fraud" there was in the US federal govt. So to rely on this dumpster category that generates very little revenue to make up for the $800 billion in cuts to Medicaid is delusional -- it's fantasy world thinking.
And the uncertainty interval puts it possibly as high as 19.6 million deaths. Again, maybe the most baffling thing for future historians to parse out about this era is how and why this singularly awful and ignorant person weaseled his way SO deep into the US government in so little time.
I mean, if poorer people want to vote against their own self-interest & raise their own taxes, that is indeed their right. Makes no sense to me. But in some strange way, it makes sense to them. www.wsj.com/politics/the...
Imagine a caucus called Republicans with a Backbone. I know, I know... fantasy fiction is not something to hang your hat on.
From a WSJ article about soaring real estate inventory in Florida: "Keith Brochu, who moved from New Jersey, is also pivoting from construction work to starting a salad restaurant." What exactly is a "salad restaurant?" Wild career pivot there.
“Pro-life”
She’s adopted as an older cat so her given name was Miss Kitty. 🐱
I love, love, love that random billionaires are just threatening any and all politicians that cross them with “primary”ing them. Like it’s a new verb for the ultra rich. That’s totally cool & totally normal in a democracy. Everyone seems to be cool with it.
If the GOP bill passes, a lot of folks who have grandma in a nursing home will need to take her back home. Do voters across the rural states this will impact the most understand that?
Exactly! 🙌🏻
When Democrats want to increase the budget, they do it for: - Infrastructure repairs - increased healthcare - Help for the poor When GOP increases the budget: - Tax breaks for the rich - Expand a militarized branch of Federal police - Cuts in healthcare, aid for the poor
... and then turns around and sells that monstrosity to those who make important decisions based on that misinformation. And this has been the way it's been for decades. Nobody seems to mind.
It's insane to me that credit bureaus collect reams (literally hundreds of pages) of information on you, but have zero accountability/responsibility for ensuring that information is correct. It's like an encyclopedia publisher that just prints anything that's submitted to it...