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Wishing a blessed Yom Kippur to all my Jewish friends and followers. Though I’m not Jewish, I’ve walked alongside the community for the past two years. Here’s what I’ve observed, and how it ties into atonement—meaning to make right—in the spirit of Yom Kippur. It’s with a heavy heart over this morning’s news that I share this, but in truth, it sadly reinforces what I’ve come to learn. Over the past years, I’ve been forced to pry my eyes open to something I spent much of my life not seeing. Antisemitism. It is not hidden in some corner of the human heart, it is acted upon daily. If you ever enter Jewish spaces, the evidence of unsafety strikes you like a lightning bolt. The schools are wrapped in barbed wire, synagogues are iron clad, and Jewish events are fortified like compounds. There is no corner of the earth in which Jews get to experience the simple privilege that most in the west unconditionally enjoy: safety. Not in Europe, not in America, not even in Israel. But it’s not for nothing that I didn’t see it. What makes this hatred so deadly is its cloak of invisibility. Two thousand years has given it time to perfect its disguise, each year becoming more professional, more concealed. Yet, in truth, its cloak is still as poorly made as it’s ever been. Today, just like two thousand years ago, they continue to kill Jews and once again lay the blame at their own feet. It isn’t because of Jews, and it never was. It is because they are the scapegoat upon which the world projects its own hatred. Sometimes when I’m sitting alone on my balcony, I think of the hostages that remain underground. I feel so much pain and sorrow thinking of what it must be like to be without light, water, or touch, and starved of life itself, while the world keeps turning above them. While we laugh, go to work, debate, rest, play, and love, they suffer alone. They aren’t just forgotten, their experience is shrugged off as deserved, simply because of their identity. Yet, this hatred is not meaningless. What I’ve come to see is that the Jewish people exist as a mirror. They reflect back to societies the sickness they cannot face within themselves. A healthy society treats everyone as equals, a sick one casts Jews as scapegoats for their projected ills. Every age reveals itself in how it treats them. It is only when a society learns that their concealed hatred is a reflection of the sickness that lives in their shadow that that society can begin to “make right.” To atone is to admit what is broken. And Jews, by their very existence, force the world to see its brokenness. They are history’s mirror, held up to every empire, every nation, every generation. Until the world stops projecting its hatred and confronts its own reflection, nothing can be made right. So on this day, I’d like to offer this to my Jewish friends and followers. You are not the hatred that the world projects onto you. You are the catalyst that awakens the world by reflecting back to it what it refuses to see it. In other words, you are healers. For every person that understands themselves or the world better because of what was done to you, another heart becomes healed. That isn’t a light role, but it is the role of the light.

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Dive into our most recent "Psychiatry Tomorrow" podcast episode with @BeccaBrendel, the immediate past president of @APApsychiatric, and @CarleneMac as they explore the current and future transformative shifts in psychiatry. osmind.org/blog/navigatin…

We appreciate @TIME's recent spotlight on the worsening of US mental health. There's an evidence-based revolution in care with interventions like TMS & ketamine demonstrating larger effect sizes & fewer side effects. Broadening focus beyond SSRIs is vital. bit.ly/3QTFpi5

@yodanparry @MatLeaveMVP @_buildspace @_nightsweekends This sounds like it’s also great for students with learning differences that affect reading fluency and/or comprehension

@MatLeaveMVP @_buildspace @_nightsweekends Thanks! I’m really going to try to build something that takes into account that we now all have the attention span of 3 minute old goldfish. 😅

🎙️ For the next 6 weeks I'm going to be working on a tool to help educators create teeny tiny audio lessons and content. What do you think? cc @_buildspace @_nightsweekends

@HainingMax @flutterflow @framer @weweb_io I haven’t been keeping up - I just know it integrates with chatGPT so you can string together API calls? But flutter flow is more Ai native?

@JamesBerges1 @flutterflow @framer @weweb_io Same! Do you know if Bubble have added AI features yet?

The future of no-code development is a unique blend of: 1. Prompting: building with natural language 2. Visual creation: dragging + drop components 3. Code: automatic code generation based on custom needs @flutterflow @framer @weweb_io are leading the way here. Who am I missing?

.@OsmindHQ Announces Publication of Largest Real-World Study on Effectiveness of #Ketamine Intravenous Therapy for Depression, Anxiety and Suicidal Ideation yhoo.it/3CHjzG0

We need to tread carefully with making sweeping claims about psychedelics. Listen to the full episode with @UCSF_AndrewPenn: Search “Psychiatry Tomorrow” on your favorite podcast player!

@hubermanlab Big thanks to Dr. Alison McInnes, in conjunction with @Stanford @TheBorisLab, @LMWilliams_PhD, and @KarlDeisseroth for this study

@hubermanlab Link to summary of findings: osmind.org/orka1 Link to original study, published in the Journal of Affective Disorders as a peer-reviewed research article: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Huberman Lab podcast episode about Ketamine in the works. What do you want to know?

@OsmindHQ @hubermanlab Big thanks to Alison McInnes, in conjunction with Stanford @TheBorisLab, @LMWilliams_PhD, and @KarlDeisseroth for this study

@hubermanlab Looking forward to the episode! Sharing research on outcomes of ketamine intravenous therapy for depression in real-world care settings sciencedirect.com/science/articl…