I would watch this movie

Polymarket took it down, but I think some other sites still have it listed. It was up to $800k on Polymarket before it went down this weekend.

Them slutty, overdramatic-as-shit Anne Rice vampires of course. Join me up in the Talamasca, hunt me down a gay bodychanging lover, all the things.

I know of a hack the evangelicals can use to get to the Kingdom of Heaven much faster and save us the trouble

Just tell them you don’t want it and they will almost certainly accommodate. Most therapists are still trying to get a sense of the tool and how their patients will feel about it, they won’t be looking to fire patients over it.

I’ve been looking at the SimplePractice tool as I am IT guy for a couple of therapy clinics, plus my own therapist wanted a guinea pig. I am not thrilled by the terms of service, which allow the company to do whatever they want internally with your data. But the tool is legit useful for therapists (it’s to help them justify your ongoing care to your insurance company, who wants specifics on the how but not the what you’re discussing. The therapist winds up reviewing the summarization before it’s sent to the insurance company. It won’t affect your care. The LLM is supposed to be HIPAA compliant, but I am really curious about how that works.

I am looking more at on-device models for the future. Notetaking is a big burden for therapists, who often wind up keeping multiple versions of your notes: one for you (you have the right to request them), one for insurance which is coded to their treatment plans, one for the court or judge if there’s a divorce or other proceeding involved. One for the parent if it’s a teenager. So a tool like this has the real power to cut back on a therapist’s weekend admin time. There’s just no reason it can’t be a local model. A Mac Mini sitting in the corner, with a mic input switch for clients who don’t want it on.

It’s worth researching a therapist’s credentials, some states allow “pastoral counseling degrees” and so on to be a path to “mental health therapist.” You want LISW, a licensed social worker. I’m not saying there aren’t weirdos, or that your experience wouldn’t happen with a social worker… just that many folks don’t realize some therapists went to theology classes instead of psychology classes, which is a prime setup for problems.

Himbos

Yes, but with hundreds of millions of people online, they still need ways to cut and sift the data as they identify… well the “demographics” they want. So using a VPN might make you stand out as more technologically included, or more likely to be hiding something. Either way things they might like to know as they build profiles on all Americans.

I’m surprised they’re not just buying the data but it’s nice that our taxpayers are footing the bill either way for this little service.

Their score went up 4 points, and they’re almost even rated now with their disapproval rating. So yeah they are doing great PR.

From what Elon says to shareholders, Tesla is going to pivot to becoming a humanoid robot production company anyway, the cars are just a sideline. They axed two models when they announced that.

I knew a lady who had this annoying saying, "if you’re bored, you’re boring.* I mean really, sayings like that irritate me to no end. Unfortunately it’s true.

We were all better when boredom was the great motivator to go out and do things, now it’s the motivator to (insert socially acceptable addiction here).

There’s a box in my kitchen I can put dirty dishes and tomorrow morning they’re clean

Skincare now mandatory

Weight management efforts now mandatory

Weight training now mandatory, just to stop losing muscle… even more if you want to improve

Quality sleep, consistently timed

Switch to whole foods based diet

Form working relationships with my doctors

These new White Lotus teasers are getting really hypey

Watching Europe get openly crankier in realtime is one of the few satisfying parts of this. I’m waiting for one of them to call him “shits-for-brains” and then they all laugh and huddle back together while seated in the lunchroom at Davos or something.

Just speaking for myself, as a systems administrator, I am actively pursuing my backup plans to get out of IT ASAP. What’s coming is topsy-turvy and will be dog eat dog.

Eat the lemon candy while you study and then take the exams

Dammit, Obama maybe - the act was passed by Congress in 2013.

The average American feels an unmet need for connection. Social media immediately fills that need, exactly like a drug. For a few minutes anyway. You don’t get the benefits of a real connection, just the dopamine. Pretty soon you feel worse, and the best way to stop feeling bad is to hit refresh or keep scrolling. I’m glad we’re finally looking at the consequences of social media for kids, then we can look at what it does to adults.

Also let’s remember how it was originally marketed: You start with the dose that matches your smoking habit, 18 or 24mg of nicotine per bottle, and then work your way towards 0%, and then you can just give it up. It’s how I quit smoking. I am pretty sure that few years of vaping was safer for me than the next 40 (well probably a lot less) of smoking would be.