The closeup of K after he finds the toy horse in BLADE RUNNER 2049 is my favorite moment in Ryan Gosling's career. He's playing a synthetic person with synthetic feelings experiencing something real, yet not exactly "authentic." How the fuck do you play that? He plays it.
New Research: Research status and trends of physical activity on depression or anxiety: a bibliometric analysis: Background
Anxiety and depression are prevalent mental disorders. As modern society continues to face mounting pressures, the… https://t.co/tkv6ECJHZI #Neuroscience
I've been waiting 29 years to tell this story about OJ and his days at USC. Now that he's dead (may he burn in hell) I have a story that I signed an NDA for that is no longer valid. I was a junior at USC working in Topping Student Center on campus in 1995. I was an administrative assistant to the President of Student Affairs that semester in the work/study program.
In early 1995, Robert Shapiro and Robert Kardashian (USC Alumni) walked up to my desk and said they had an appt with my boss. I was studying to be a criminal defense lawyer with a dual major in PoliSci and International Relations so I knew who they were. The meeting lasted about 30 mins.
After they left I looked at my boss like wtf was that all about!? He walked me outside and we sat by the old sprawling big tree outside Topping and my boss lit a cigarette for the first time in years and told me I had to sign an NDA because I could confirm OJ's lawyers were there for a meeting. Then he told me what the meeting was about.
Before OJ could graduate from USC, the university paid off two families of two blonde white girls that he had dated and battered. They had both gone to the LAPD to report it. One claimed he also sexually assaulted her in their relationship. The school had a vested interest in OJ going far in football and protected him at all costs. OJ had been in custody for 6 months and lawyers were in the discovery process for the trial and OJ's friend Robert Kardashian, who knew OJ from also being a student at USC, thought it would be best if those stories never saw the light of day. So a large check was written, given to my boss, and they left. I'll never forget holding that check.
Now, did you hear about this before now? Nope. That's how much power money enables.
After he was acquitted I changed my major to Philosophy/Psychology double major. I understood that I could harm society more than not if I pursued law. This is also why I abhor the Kardashians. They're rich thugs. Nothing more. #OJISDEAD
🧵Tips on how to protect & support targeted folks (espec. scholars/students of color)
As someone who's been targeted by the alt-right, stalkers, tabloids, racist scholars, yt supremacist militia, I know a thing or two abt online harassment/safety. If you want to help others
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I am sad to learn that the great Frans de Waal has died. He was a compassionate primatologist, a truly wonderful writer, and a thoroughly decent fellow. I bare my teeth and hoot in his honour.
Our recent review article on human social genomics & #health is now published online! Great collaborative work with @PsychdOnScience & Steve Cole. See:
https://t.co/NqU1z5Udfx
What can happen when a (well-intentioned) field treats certain covariates as a requirement?
What can causal inference teach us about how to think about covariates?
Paper#2 @BrainBehavImm/@PNIRS SI on a methodological roadmap for the next gen of PNI 1/15
https://t.co/f6hWIbTHDC
Enter #AI: in 2018, #YuvalHarari proposed AI would supercharge dictatorships by mining and summarizing public moods - captured on social media - allowing dictators to tack into serious discontent and diffuse it before it became unequenchable wildfire:
https://t.co/7JWfmCvZOp
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