ChipArndt

Believe in people not labels, evp @Flimp, entrepreneur, rational activist, golf, and a few other things

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious.

Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal. https://t.co/72wxaVLzVT

[Joe Gitchell @jgitchell]

Prompted by getting to meet her briefly last night, re-sharing this 2021 sermon from NYC Central Synagogue's (now Senior) Rabbi, Angela Buchdahl.

I first encountered this thanks to @JonHaidt sharing and go back to it regularly for wisdom-boosting.

12/10, no notes.

1/2

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

Ring, Amazon's doorbell camera company, says its tech just makes neighborhoods safer. Critics contend that it’s the largest privately owned surveillance dragnet in US history, with significant potential for abuse.

[Brandon @Primewave96]

The track fell silent as hope began to fade. Jockey Kosei Miura stayed beside the injured horse, refusing to walk away. Then, in an unforgettable moment, the horse rose to its feet—and the grandstand erupted in applause. 🐎❤️
A moment that reminded everyone what heart and resilience truly look like.

#Japan #HorseRacing #Respect #Inspiration

[ChipArndt @ChipArndt]

Agreed @StephenKing

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

I've tried several different kinds of "designer" Oreos.Some are like S'mores and some have different flavors in the filling, including what seems to be jam. Also peanut butter. I'm old-school. Just a plain old Oreo. Bite off the top half, scrape the tasty filling with your teeth, eat the bottom half.

[Erik Bottcher @ebottcher]

Confession 🙈

[Jason Moore @jaymonyc]

Elle - Official Trailer | Prime Video https://t.co/472hK64dFp via @YouTube

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It was great meeting with the talented folks who’ll be working at the Obama Presidential Center. We're excited to welcome everybody here soon!

[Erik Bottcher @ebottcher]

I am proud and deeply grateful to share that Francesco’s Law has passed both houses of the New York State Legislature and now heads to Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk for her signature.

With the passage of Francesco’s Law, N.Y. is poised to have one of the strongest firearm safe

[Dave Koz @DaveKozMusic]

Found some old photos from my past trips to Asia…SO many amazing memories from time spent over here. There's something about playing for these crowds that has always stuck with me...the experiences are so pure and unlike anything else I've encountered. And now we're back, here in Asia again with Summer Horns! Feels SO good to return. :) More dates at the link in bio. DK

#SummerHorns #DaveKoz

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

What happens when you let AI models run a simulated society?

[Dave Koz @DaveKozMusic]

The records. The turntable. The room you play them in. My listening lounge collection is live, with the vinyl, hi-fi gear, and small details I lean on for the right space to enjoy music. Link in bio. Happy listening! DK.

#DaveKoz #SmoothJazz #SaxLife #JazzMusic #Saxophone #VinylRecords #VinylCommunity #NowSpinning #HiFiAudio #TurntableSetup #RecordCollection #AnalogSound #ListeningRoom #VinylLovers #MusicLovers

[Erik Bottcher @ebottcher]

21st & Eighth

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Michelle and I can’t wait for you to visit the Obama Presidential Center!

Starting on June 19, the Center will be open to the public, and you’ll be able to check out the Museum along with public spaces like a new branch of the Chicago Public Library with a reading room, a two-acre playground, a fruit and vegetable garden, and more.

Tickets available at https://t.co/ahkDMKalIn.

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

Robin Williams explaining how golf was invented remains one of the greatest stand-up bits ever recorded in 1999

[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.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Full Flower Moon on display in Acadia tonight.

[George Noble @gnoble79]

This is perhaps the most remarkable interview I have ever seen.

Facing death, @BenSasse shares his views about life, faith, society, government, technology and the world we live in.

This is not about partisan politics or markets. Instead it is about something far more important - humanity and our lives.

I urge you to turn off all your devices, get to a quiet place and watch the entire conversation.

[Erik Bottcher @ebottcher]

🚨 Legislation Alert: Artist Housing

New York is losing its artists to the housing crisis.

For decades, a legal barrier has made it nearly impossible to build new affordable housing for artists. Today, we’re taking action to fix that.