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[Pete @Deepcow1965]

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[Iris Seraphina  @iris_seraphina]

I could've been using the interrobang this entire time‽

[Eğitim ve Motivasyon @egitimvemotivas]

New York’lu psikiyatrist Rami Kaminski, yeni bir kişilik yapısını tanıttı:

"Otrovert" adını verdiği kişilik dışarıdan sosyal görünen ama tekrar normal hissetmek için çok fazla yalnız kalmaya ihtiyacı olan biri. Gerektiğinde konuşabilirler, gülebilirler ve etkileşime geçebilirler ama çok fazla etkileşimde bulunmaları onları tüketir.

Antisosyal değiller sadece farklı şekilde şarj olurlar. İnsanlarla birlikte olmak ile kendi enerjilerini korumak arasında sessiz bir denge kurarlar.

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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional.

And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it.

The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening.

This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free.

A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action.

So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying.

Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough.

Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation.

Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally.

The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model.

What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?

[Heritage Medicine @DrPaiwanFan]

This will be a crowd pleaser! 😲

[Santa Trump.. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @lovetocook12345]

If they want Cuba to change, then go back to Cuba and change it yourself.

[Bedroom Fitness @BedroomFitnes]

One move for full-body stretch

[Taichi for Health @StaminaFitnes]

Exercises assist in improving your back hips, correcting your posture, and increase the stability of the spine.

[Taichi for Health @StaminaFitnes]

5 simple moves for all-day energy!

[Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit @drawandstrike]

People who do not understand what she's talking about here will spend the next week babbling about how Trump is Israel's stooge.

Trump just did a fantastic America First thing that not only is going to benefit our country, but every other country as well.

Well, except for the City of London. Screw those guys...

[♀️Jennifer Gingrich ✡️ @fem_mb]

Interesting online test of your color perception. I had trouble with the reds but got a 0.0065. How's yours?

[GodzillaSpeaks @GodzillaSpks]

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[Bridgett Fertig @LightOnLiberty]

A clinical molecular biologist revealed a chilling explanation on why Jeffrey Epstein reportedly collected frozen penguin pineal glands.

She says that penguin pineal glands contain high levels of the enzyme HIOMT, which converts compounds into endogenous DMT-like molecules.

Her theory is that Epstein's circle of scientists he paid $20 million a year for, used this enzyme as a tool to feed random chemical mixes and generate entirely new, uncharacterized psychoactive compounds never seen before and then test them on unsuspecting people!

She warns these novel drugs, potentially stronger or with longer half-lives than DMT, would overload the serotonin system and "absolutely fry people's brains" by causing massive oxidative stress and neuron damage without safeguards.

Is it possible THIS is what happened to Britney Spears?

Could this ALSO be what happened to Amanda Bynes in their efforts to make her forget the abuse that was done to her?

HOW MANY OTHERS?!

"If they gave those drugs to people... they were absolutely frying people's brains!"

This ties into what we've known about elite experimentation, pineal calcification from fluoride reducing natural function over generations, and the pursuit of powerful mind-altering substances via harvesting through horrific torture!

[👉M-Û-R-Č-H👈 @TheEXECUTlONER_]

This just make their whole day happy.

These beautiful Golden Retrievers are there to greet them in the morning and very Thursday & look who gives them a treat. 🐾

Who is happier to see who? Adorable.❤️

In this season of winter and snow
the work our waste collector heroes & their colleagues do is extra hard. They risk slipping on sidewalks & driveways that are not properly cleared of snow & ice. We cannot do without them, they do an incredible job all across the country. 🙏

[Health Nest @OurHealthNest]

The ultimate wellness tonic. 🍵✨

Boil whole cloves & crushed garlic.

Add turmeric & black pepper (to activate the curcumin!).

Strain and sweeten with raw honey.
Perfect for those days when you need an extra layer of protection.

[hunter @hxxntrr]

you're about to pay that $14,000 hospital bill. Stop

call the billing department and say five words: "I need an itemized statement"

watch $14,000 turn into $4,200

hospitals don't send you itemized bills by default. they send you a summary. one line. one number. pay this

the itemized version shows every single charge. and that's where the scam falls apart

$78 for a single Tylenol you could buy at CVS for $3 $400 for "room usage" for a room you sat in for 12 minutes $1,200 for "physician consultation"

when a nurse practitioner spent 45 seconds checking your chart $250 for "surgical supplies"

when you got 3 stitches and a bandaid duplicate charges for the same procedure billed twice under different codes

hospitals get away with this because most people never ask. they just pay the summary or let it go to collections and destroy their credit for 7 years over charges that were never real

the call script:

"Hi, I'm calling about account number [X]. I'd like a fully itemized statement showing every individual charge, CPT code, and unit cost. I'm also requesting the chargemaster rate versus what my insurance was billed"

they'll push back. "we already sent your statement." no. you sent a summary. you want the itemized breakdown with procedure codes

once you get it:

step 1: google every CPT code on the bill. compare their price to the Medicare rate for the same procedure. hospitals routinely charge 300-800% above Medicare rates. you now have negotiating leverage

step 2: call back. "I've reviewed the itemized statement. There are duplicate charges on lines [X] and [X]. The charge for [procedure] is $1,200 but the Medicare reimbursement rate is $180. I'd like to discuss a fair adjustment"

step 3: ask about financial hardship discount. every nonprofit hospital has one and many for-profit hospitals do too. most require a simple application. income under $60K-$80K for a family qualifies at most nonprofit hospitals for 40-100% reduction. they won't volunteer this. you have to ask

step 4: if they won't negotiate, say "I'd like to file a formal billing dispute and request review by your patient advocate"

this triggers an internal audit. a different person reviews the charges. errors get caught. bills get reduced

step 5: offer a lump sum. "I can pay $3,800 today if we can settle this account in full." hospitals would rather take $3,800 now than send $14,000 to collections where they'll recover a fraction of the balance

and if it already went to collections? the collection agency bought that $14,000 bill for pennies on the dollar. they'll often take a fraction of the original amount to delete it and walk away happy

you were about to destroy your credit for 7 years over a bill that was mostly inflated charges
five words would have saved you

(i repair credit in 60-90 days, links in my bio)

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

The correct way to eat the fruits...

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Do you (or someone you love) rely on sleep meds every night?

Dr. Clint Steele (brain & nervous system specialist focused on dementia reversal) says most sleep problems are actually brain degeneration in disguise — not just "can't sleep."

His scans show: high stress beta waves + low sleep theta waves = cortex going offline, rotting over time. Meds may help you fall asleep but let the imbalance continue — no real fix.

3 things he recommends instead to restore balance:

• Wake within ~1 hour of sunrise & get 10–15 min outside looking at the sky (sets circadian rhythm 16 hrs ahead for natural down-regulation)

• Adaptogens: 500 mg ashwagandha AM + 500 mg ~1 hr before bed (or rhodiola if on thyroid meds) to calm the nervous system

• Listen to 528 Hz music with headphones ~1 hr before bed in a relaxed setting (lowers beta, boosts theta)

He calls it foundational — fix the brain pattern, not just mask the symptom.

Quick check: Do you wake near sunrise? Tried adaptogens or 528 Hz? What's your biggest sleep struggle right now? Drop it below — curious what others are dealing with.