Tracey A. Cummings

[Tracey A. Cummings @TraceyACummings]

@bunsenbernerbmd I was so happy to see this video. ❤️

[Tracey A. Cummings @TraceyACummings]

@bunsenbernerbmd He was wonderfully healthy right up until the end except when grass pollen was high. Wishing you the very best with Brix (and the pups). If you have any questions, the vets know better, but I am happy to help if I can.

[Tracey A. Cummings @TraceyACummings]

@bunsenbernerbmd My heart goes out to you. We recentlyblost our 17-year-old cat Sherlock to allergy-induced asthma. In his life he had 4 really bad attacks like the on Brix had. Eventually his lungs were too scarred to survive, but he was a fighter, like Brix, and had a good full life.

[Brett Meiselas @BMeiselas]

I’d like to live in a country where a grandma doesn’t have to work as a Door Dash driver to pay for her husband’s cancer treatment

[Roshan Rinaldi @Roshan_Rinaldi]

For I was hungry, and you voted against the school lunch program that provided me my only meal of the day, I was thirsty and you voted against clean water legislation, a stranger and you voted to lock me in a cage at an I.C.E. concentration camp at the border.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

I can’t help but think (and feel) that the world is generally very sad right now. Injured really.

Yesterday I was in Utah with family. Three generations. We played sports, enjoyed good food, saw friends, and just messed around all day. One of the best days in recent memory for all of us. This is where I grew up. It took me back to my childhood. Allowing me to embody those psychological states and feel the comparative difference between then and now.

The hollowing and sadness of the modern world seems to stem in part from our phones, social media, and the ferocious need to be seen and relevant in every moment. We have mistakenly idolized a specific kind of dysfunction: a manic, sleepless hyper-vigilance that needs to be omnipresent.

Everyone I know who’s unplugged for a week, returns reporting life-changing levels of improved life satisfaction. I’ve never met anyone who didn’t return feeling spry and vibrant and clear-eyed about the corrosive nature of current social culture. The science supports them feeling that way. They were in a dopamine deficit from the hyper-stimulated state of the world so everything felt gray. 

So why don’t we unplug more and more often? We’re all kind of trapped in a prisoner's dilemma. Most want to move to the mountains and be relieved of it all but are terrified that if they unplug, they’ll be invisible. Real life consequences of reduced power and status. So we stay plugged in and drink the poison. This hypervigilant state keeps us in chronic fight or flight (anxiety). Simultaneously, our addiction creates a dopamine deficit (the emptiness/grayness feeling) and a background hum of anxiety.

Mammals are biologically hardwired to co-regulate: physical touch, eye contact, proximity and in-person vibes. Things which release oxytocin and activate the vagal nerve's parasympathetic system. Screens eliminate all of this goodness.

There are small wins to be had here. More in-person time. A day off technology per week. A block of 4 hours. One hour before bedtime.  I hope that there’s a collective awakening that we’re all being mined for engagement. Then we get trapped. And then trap each other.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

This is a long video (15 mns), but is one I would advise every American to make the time to listen to what @BernieSanders has to say, because the world is sleepwalking into a societal earthquake that will change millions of lives and NOT for the better unless governments regulate the structural damage it could do.

This is a vitality important issue to understand and regulate. As someone who works with it and understands its potential, I don’t think people understand just what a societal impact this technology will have.

It will be the technology equivalent to shipping manufacturing to China in the 1970s on steroids and that’s just the beginning. The U.S. has bet the house on winning the AI tech stack race and I think that is misplaced confidence.

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[blue @bluewmist]

we have normalised overconsumption. listening to a podcast while we walk, scrolling reels in the toilet, listening to music while we cook, watching a show on Netflix while we eat. it’s as if there is NO breathing space for your mind. you’re constantly trying to fill the void, the stillness and yet here you’re complaining about feeling groggy and demotivated.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

So the Republican Party has historically blocked:

-Paid sick leave
-Paid family & medical leave
-Universal childcare
-Universal pre-K
-Expanded Child Tax Credit
-Programs to support reproductive health

And they're wondering why more people aren't having children?

[Tracey A. Cummings @TraceyACummings]

@rexthetvterrier I am so very sorry.

[Tracey A. Cummings @TraceyACummings]

@rexthetvterrier @tuftsvet So very sorry.

[Tracey A. Cummings @TraceyACummings]

@rexthetvterrier ❤️

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

we already have an epidemic of students turning in essays they didn't write about books they haven't read, and if teachers are now using AI-generated courses we may as well shut down the schools because no one here is teaching and no one is learning.

[Tracey A. Cummings @TraceyACummings]

@rexthetvterrier I am so, so very sorry. He seemed like such a good boy and brought joy to many. Thank you for loving him so much and for sharing him and that love with so many.

[Tracey A. Cummings @TraceyACummings]

@dogfather I will. To this one's benefit. Happy Thanksgiving.

[Julie Roginsky @julieroginsky]

I have been asked on two different networks and by two different male hosts today whether abortion rights are as important to women as the economy. I can't say it more clearly: reproductive freedom is economic freedom. They are intrinsically intwined, as every woman knows.

[Tracey A. Cummings @TraceyACummings]

@Art71Rachael I am so, so very sorry and am sending you so much love.

[Tracey A. Cummings @TraceyACummings]

@rexthetvterrier @Amitheofficecat I am so very sorry.

[Tracey A. Cummings @TraceyACummings]

@fr0gstack ☹️

[Tracey A. Cummings @TraceyACummings]

@fr0gstack 😢