Panfried

A bit peelywally

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

holy shit
i asked claude to make a video on western civiization

[Panfried @flopalt]

@Jilliantweeting @RANZCP The college on the wrong side of history again - initially backing the Lake Alice horse? Psychiatry, always desperately needed but painfully gullible - frontal lobotomy, insulin shock therapy, refrigerator mothers, deep sleep therapy, T4 program in 1930’s Berlin, genetic hygiene

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Btw, if you're still wondering why there are so many airplane crashes you probably haven't read this:

https://t.co/F38qI5newM

[David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf]

Yes. I was wrong. I've always said that schools etc aren't capable of inculcating a new ideology any more than they are capable of teaching everyone algebra.

I realise now that it's more complicated, and in practice they can and have inculcated poisonous falsehoods.

I'm sorry.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

A New Zealand parrot stole a GoPro to show us the natural beauty of the country's Fiordland region🦜

[James Kierstead @Kleisthenes2]

@trudgeon666 For those who aren't familiar with Dr McAllister's work, here is her analysis of 'why there are no Maori in your science department': https://t.co/S05Rp7Lr2v

[Panfried @flopalt]

@MatuaKahurangi @actparty My wife is Nga Puhi, Cook Island Māori and Samoan, bless her, and she also supports David Seymour. You’re definitely not alone.

[Deutsch Explains @DeutschExplains]

.@DavidDeutschOxf: "Innocence, properly conceived, is a positive attribute. It is the ignorance that comes from a voluntary decision not to engage (or not to engage yet) with a particular area of complex knowledge. Innocence in that sense is essential for all genuine learning. Compulsory teaching is the destruction of innocence, forcing the victims to waste the opportunity, which comes only once in each lifetime, to encounter that knowledge for the first time.

It is no wonder, then, that pumping information prematurely into people’s minds simply triggers emergency procedures that do everything in their power to shield the recipient from the content of that information, and that the usual result is the permanent destruction of the recipient’s ability to engage with information of that type."

[Panfried @flopalt]

@JonathanShedler Amen

[Rolf Degen @DegenRolf]

Meta-analysis: To "know thyself" can hurt your mental health.
Self-reflection, centered on the introspection and evaluation of one’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in relation to self-concerns, occupies a central place in understanding the dynamics of mental health. Nonetheless, the relationship between self-reflection and mental health is a source of continuous controversy. This study represents the first meta-analysis to systematically investigate the relationship between self-reflection and mental health within the dual-factor model framework.
We found that self-reflection was significantly associated with negative mental health but not with positive mental health. The random-effect model showed no significant relationship between self-reflection and overall positive mental health or with individual positive indicators, including subjective well-being, life satisfaction, and self-esteem. In contrast, the model showed a significant positive relationship between self-reflection and overall negative mental health indicators, including depression and anxiety. This finding aligns with earlier studies  and underscores that high levels of self-reflection are often linked with various mental health challenges
Furthermore, in clinical treatment, when individuals enhance their self-reflection abilities, they often become aware of previously unnoticed emotions, such as sadness. This can lead to depressive mood and distress. [Some] observations suggest that while moderate self-reflection supports normal social and emotional functioning, significant deviations in self-reflection may be associated with various psychopathology.

[James Kierstead @Kleisthenes2]

@MrMidnight1850 @Michell74221375 Just looking at the chiefs' speeches at Kohimarama now, this speech by Thomas Walker Nene seems to suggest that he thinks they ceded sovereignty to the Queen at some point. (From https://t.co/dBcwIvRfCk)

[Thomas Newman @ThomasMNewman]

Law Society's Woke, Treatyist 'Independent Review' 🗣

Just a reminder that the the @nzlawsociety is obsessed with the Treaty and DEI.

The Law Society conducted an 'independent review' in 2022 leading to a report which, amongst other things, recommends establishing a new 'independent regulator' of the legal profession.

The report also recommended that this new regulator be subject to a "Treaty Principles" obligation and needs specifically to 'encourage diversity' and have a 'diverse board.'

Why are these things necessary? They're not. In fact, they're incredibly inappropriate. Both the Treaty and 'diversity' are totems of progressive politics. These politics are far from universally shared. In fact, many practitioners find them tiresome and alienating. Worse still, they fear speaking out against these things out of fear for the consequences that might follow in their professional lives.

The 'independent review' is institutional capture in real time. Minister of Justice @PaulGoldsmithMP has said he has no intention of acting on the recommendations from the review anytime soon, but 2026 isn't far away. If there's a change of government, further steps could very well be made.

You can find the report and related documents here: https://t.co/hv4KkZZTgi

[Panfried @flopalt]

@sbkaufman Core ADHD biological, loosely diagnosed ADHD parenting and early experience - an explanation for the dichotomy?

[Panfried @flopalt]

@Kleisthenes2 @MrMidnight1850 @Michell74221375 More consistent would be a Bobby Sands approach, blood sacrifice. Put up or shut up.

[Panfried @flopalt]

@Kleisthenes2 @MrMidnight1850 @Michell74221375 Many Māori are in a bind. Many Māori wish to access funds that only parliament can obtain, by taxation of all citizens. Thus despite often claiming, in select committee, independent sovereignty still engage with the processes of an alien sovereign parliament. Charles I methinks.

[Thomas Newman @ThomasMNewman]

Lawyer's Speech Concerns 🗣

I've started reaching out to members of the @NZFreeSpeech Union's legal membership this past week.

I spoke to one lawyer this afternoon, a partner in in a big law firm, who identified the following speech related issues in the legal profession:

1. The "real politik" of the legal profession means that lawyers feel unfree to express themselves openly on public or political issues because of how it might affect their standing in the profession or because they the have clients with one view or another (or both) and can't risk alienating them by expressing their own view.

2. A qualification on point one: It's not so much that professional real politik means that lawyers can't express themselves publicly on public or political issues; you can, but only if you have the "correct" opinions. Some are free to speak but others aren't and this imbalance reflects a political bias.

3. During COVID, the @nzlawsociety--and the legal profession generally--failed miserably to be the voice for civil liberties that he expected them to be. He's since lost almost all respect for the profession, with individual exceptions.

4. The ability of non-clients to complain to the Law Society against a lawyer for alleged ethical breaches has a huge chilling effect. Practitioners fear that a malicious complaints will be made and put them through a half year to year long complaints process for having or expressing the "wrong" opinion. The practitioner suffers, even if they are ultimately vindicated. "The process is the punishment."

5. The legacy of #metoo and the creep of wokeness has created an environment in work places where people are afraid to be social or to have fun.

It's early days for the professional memberships, but I'm looking forward to speaking to more lawyers over the coming days and weeks. We're getting organised!

[Panfried @flopalt]

@Jilliantweeting @RANZCP The penny really hasn’t dropped has it. Grinds my gears that I pay fees that enables this.

[Panfried @flopalt]

Nope, the attempt to be value free, prejudice free, bias free is the sine qua non. Attempt and striving towards, not always acheiving. Other research that accepts being value/bias laden is not science and is crap.

[OpenInquiry @InquiryOpen]

'The sine qua non of Western research, “neutrality”...is not value-free.' https://t.co/gKSqupRqqv

[Panfried @flopalt]

@InquiryOpen Ask 12 young Māori with less common sexual orientations what it like to be them, write it down, staple the PDF sheets together and there you have it - an MA. See, no gobbledygook, it’s easy.

[OpenInquiry @InquiryOpen]

The abstract of 'Mana Takatāpui: Self-determination for queer rangatahi Māori,' a 2023 MA thesis at the University of Waikato by Benjamin Doyle, now a Green MP