SamOlivetree

I am the providential wreck...

[SamOlivetree @SamOlivetree]

1. How much do you really know about the issue in which you're about to get involved?
2. How do you know the solutions sought will end the problem?
3. Is the issue really of significance to you?

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

Interesting:

[MIT School of Engineering @MITEngineering]

MIT engineers have developed “mini livers” that could be injected into the body and take over the functions of the failing liver. This would help patients who are on a waitlist for a liver transplant or those who aren’t healthy enough to tolerate surgery.

https://t.co/B6odCTawl0

[SciTech Era @SciTechera]

This is insane.

"Researchers just built HOBIT, a tiny implantable ‘living pharmacy’ that can produce multiple drugs directly inside the body."

"This breakthrough generates its own oxygen using electrochemical water splitting, keeping the engineered cells alive instead of letting them suffocate like previous attempts."

"In rat studies, the device continuously delivered 3 drugs (anti-HIV antibody, GLP-1 and leptin) with stable levels for 30 days."

"Cell survival jumped to ~65% with oxygen support vs ~20% without it, while short-life drugs disappeared within 7 days in the control group."

"The system achieved 6× higher cell density and sustained multi-drug production from a single implant."

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

We’ve trained a multimodal AI model to turn routine pathology slides into spatial proteomics, with the potential to reduce time and cost while expanding access to cancer care.

[Neuron Powers 🧠 @neuronpowers]

You can train the highest form of intelligence.

Research shows that targeted practice can improve metacognitive functioning across domains (memory, strategy use, self-evaluation).

Here’s how to train your brain’s thinking system:

["Doc" Hypnosis 🧠 | BowTied Brain-Hacking @BowTiedTrance]

Thanks @OwenGregorian and @paulbullard for calling my attention to this!

https://t.co/RqIyVoFhf6

[SamOlivetree @SamOlivetree]

@RomanCabanac So, Monday waxed then?

[SamOlivetree @SamOlivetree]

https://t.co/S9MppdVuTO

[Aziz S̸◊a 𓅒 @Psy_Lacanian]

Therefore, Lacan completely rejected granting countertransference any operative privilege or central role in analytic practice. He consistently argued that countertransference represents the analyst’s own imaginary and emotional entanglement, not a technical resource for clinical intervention. For Lacan, analytic work must remain rigorously anchored in the symbolic and linguistic structure of the unconscious, rather than in the analyst’s affective responses or personal investments. Emphasizing countertransference, in his view, risks collapsing the analytic process into interpersonal psychology and obscures the locus of analytic truth—the unconscious as structured like a language. Thus, Lacan maintained that countertransference should be recognized chiefly as a potential obstacle to rigorous analytic discourse, never as a privileged path to insight.

[SamOlivetree @SamOlivetree]

https://t.co/ruPVnjb9I8

[SamOlivetree @SamOlivetree]

https://t.co/hb4hKVEWGE

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

“Any therapist who claims that he or she confidently knows what to do most of the time probably isn’t paying close enough attention to what is actually transpiring in the room.”
—Paul Wachtel

[SamOlivetree @SamOlivetree]

https://t.co/bWjlL7YOoI

[Humble Flow @HumbleFlow]

Sometimes I think I post too often. Then I convince myself someone’s going to enjoy seeing a painting. Like this Aivazovsky

[Kevin W. @Brink_Thinker]

Dad helped his son pop the bubble in the most dad way possible

[Prof James Davies 💭 @JDaviesPhD]

As Jung said, lonliness doesn't come from having no people around us, but from being unable to communicate the things most important to us.... And we can help... as key to the art of building companionship is enabling others to feel safe enough to share those important things....

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

When people hold different views, it may be a difference in perspective. But it may also be a difference in *development*

One thing that indicates higher and lower levels of development (vs. mere difference) is asymmetry:

A 10-year-old understands the thought processes of a 5-year old, and understands where they go wrong. But the 5-year-old doesn’t understand the thought processes of the 10-year-old. That’s asymmetry

Likewise, an expert can understands how a non-expert thinks and comes to mistaken conclusions. But the non-expert doesn’t understand how the expert thinks

Not everything is just difference in perspective. There are real differences in development (e.g., knowledge, understanding, ability, thought, skill). Asymmetry is one indicator that a developmental trajectory exists

Higher levels recognize lower developmental levels. Lower levels cannot recognize higher levels. Research shows this. It’s called the Dunning-Kruger effect

One implication is that at low levels of development, there may be no recognition that expertise exists. This explains quite a lot.

[Dr Singularity @Dr_Singularity]

Researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) have developed lipid nanoparticles that can deliver messenger RNA directly to the pancreas with 99% selectivity, a major first for intravenous treatments.

By adding vitamin D3 to the usual four lipid formula, the team guided the particles through the bloodstream straight to pancreatic cells, avoiding the liver and other organs.

Tests in mice showed strong protein production, no significant side effects, and stability over several days.

This breakthrough could pave the way for targeted mRNA therapies for diabetes and pancreatic cancer, allowing treatments that repair or reprogram pancreatic cells rather than just replacing hormones.

The same targeting strategy could also lead to precision delivery to other organs like the heart, brain, or kidneys in the future.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In a world where artificial intelligence can replicate a person’s voice or face in seconds, Denmark is stepping forward with a groundbreaking proposal: a copyright law that grants every citizen ownership of their own likeness.

If passed, this law would mean no one — not even AI companies — could legally use your face, voice, or body data without consent. The move comes amid growing global concerns about deepfakes, where digital replicas of real people are used in scams, misinformation, and even political manipulation.