Frank Gilbert

Social Distancing? More like physical distancing. Here in the world of social media ... it's just as crowded and connected and close as it ever is ...

@VSeroff Might work like a placebo for those who have self diagnosed themselves with some issue.

AI as psychoanalyst-companion — where do you land?

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@haider1 @SenSanders Good. Don't plan on working a job that everyone complains about as dangerous, tedious, menial and unhealthy for humans. No more factory work. No more warehouse work. No more crop work. Tools should take over these tasks. Humans should not be doing them.

bernie is clearly against automation replacing workers his worry is real, but he can't see the bigger problem that's coming let's say you save amazon jobs for now -- but once other companies use AI, robots, and automation to make things much cheaper, amazon loses its edge and those jobs disappear anyway.

@AlBuffalo2nite We can blame the media. Blame others. But people choose to believe what they want. If all we had to do was repeat something more than a competing story in order to manipulate people... No. People choose to believe what they want regardless of the facts.

I walked across a university campus in Buffalo today and did something simple … I asked students one question. “Who did you vote for?” Roughly 20 students answered. Every single one said they did not vote for President Trump. Not one. Then I asked a follow-up. “Why?” Nearly all of them repeated the same line … that he was “arrested for rape” and that “a rapist is in office.” Same wording. Same framing. Same certainty. Now pause. When 20 different students give you the same compressed narrative … you’re not just seeing political preference. You’re seeing the power of repetition. Mainstream framing becomes campus orthodoxy. Legal nuance disappears. Civil versus criminal … erased. Due process language … gone. And if this is the information environment shaping future lawyers, doctors, engineers, educators … that should concern anyone who values precision. This isn’t about rage. It’s about recognizing how narrative ecosystems work. When messaging is repeated enough … it becomes assumed fact. I didn’t see debate. I didn’t hear complexity. I heard headlines … spoken back with certainty. That’s not a campus problem. That’s a media saturation problem. And if you don’t believe information pipelines shape perception … go ask 20 random students the same question and watch what happens. #SilentMajoritySpeaks #AStoneGroove

@soigomaa We need to be careful not to pathologize every challenge we face. If core life functions remain intact without distress impairing them, it's often not "freeze", functional or full, but normal everyday coping. Too many online self surveys often seem to support us all being unwell

One of the best things my therapist told me was "the reason you dissociate in your towel after you shower, sit in your car after you park, and mindlessly scroll on your phone all night after work is because you're living in a "functional freeze state." Where you can still get things done, but it takes every ounce of your energy to do it. This is why you're constantly exhausted, space out often, and why you can be so social at work but then ignore every text once you get home." If you can relate maybe this account is for you.

@Simon_Ingari So... obviously don't provide any of this information in the digital world either... same as giving it to your employer directly.

Things you should not disclose at work. 1. Your family details. Who is sick. Who needs money. Who depends on you. 2. What you do on weekends. Travel, parties, side plans — keep it private. 3. Your future plans. Job switch, side hustle, exams, business ideas. Simple truth: The less you share, the safer you stay. Work needs professionalism, not full access to your life.

? Aren't journalists supposed to validate all their sources and their stories before putting them out? Why would any of this create such internal concerns... unless they were worried they have stopped doing journalism? theguardian.com/media/2026/jan…

@mcuban Asking the questions that all of us want to know! If your overhead costs are 5x the value of the product or service you are providing there are only a few reasons you are viable. In this case it appears only that gross abuse is the reason finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-cuba…

This is your reminder that all those people who had to switch to lower premium, higher deductible plans, will now be paying full retail price on their brand and specialty drugs for LONGER , because their deductibles went up , costing them thousands of dollars a year more. In aggregate patients may be paying billions of dollars MORE ! To make matters worse, for your ACA PLANS , the rebates from those deductible buys, are going to the biggest PBMs, owned by the insurance companies. FOR YOUR COMPANY'S plan, if your deductible went up, and it probably did ,the in deductible rebates are going right to your Company's and the PBM's BANK ACCOUNT !!! The bigger your deductible, the sicker you are, the more that goes to your CEO'S balance sheet. It's time to change healthcare These healthcare companies are TOO BIG TO CARE

@mcuban The almost comical aspect of this is that EVERYONE knows how broken this system is. How corrupt it is. There is ZERO reason for these kinds of errors other than purposeful crime.

If we fined insurers and providers $100 every time they over-billed, incorrectly denied care or misrepresented any amount of patient out of pocket, we could pay of the national debt They play on the fear and information asymmetry that exists in healthcare Break them up. Make them divest non insurance companies. And when we are done with the insurance companies , we go to the hospitals and then to the pharma wholesalers. Break em up. Make the markets efficient again.

@teslaownersSV Nope. Sorry. AI and tech may provide a path to end basic poverty but ONLY if people ensure it does. By itself it will only financially benefit a few. It will take new thinking backed by new laws and policies to provide any kind of financial transformation that actually works.

"There is only basically one way to make everyone wealthy, and that is AI and robotics." — Elon Musk

@JonHaidt @juliejargon Shared moral matrix? Lets discuss laws first. Are you talking about tolerance for subjective moral tendancies? The digital world is here to stay. It is changing the physical and mental worlds as we know them. Are we fighting the right fight?

Two imperatives of human childhood: Learn to think for yourself, while also becoming a full participant in the shared moral matrix of your society. Chatbots interfere with both imperatives. See this WSJ article from @juliejargon, about how frequently and deeply chatbots create or amplify psychosis in adults. OpenAI's own estimate is hundreds of thousands in any given week: wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-cha… Imagine a future in which people are less intelligent AND we each live in our own world populated by AI companions. It is a future that is a combination of two great movies: Idiocracy and The Matrix. Except that in The Matrix, the hallucination was "consensual" and shared. In our AI future, the pods may not be well connected, so everyone will construct their own reality... which is kind of the definition of psychosis. How about if we don't put chatbots into teddy bears, or schools, or children's lives, until we understand how they affect children's development? How about if we don't let AI companies do to Gen Alpha and Gen Beta what we allowed social media companies to do to Gen Z?

@JonHaidt @CaseyNewton Instead of teaching our kids how to navigate reality, some of us would instead try to hide it from them, believing sincerely that reaching an arbitrary age would somehow make them ready. We need to stop treating adolescents like they are still toddlers. Or worse all thr same.

A prediction for 2026: At least five democracies will follow Australia's lead and raise the age for social media accounts to 16. That's @CaseyNewton's "high confidence prediction" on the latest episode of Hard Fork. More evidence of a turning point. nytimes.com/2025/12/19/pod…

@JonHaidt It absolutely IS the responsibility of the parents to protect their children if they believe they are at risk. Who buys them the devices? Who gives them the access? The uncontrolled, unmanaged access? No more excuses. No more blame. Responsible Parenting.

A common criticism I get is that "It's the parents' job to regulate social media use!" But parents are trying hard, and failing. Researchers Daniel Frost, Sarah Coyne, & Jane Shawcroft explain how the tech companies set us up for failure. at After Babel afterbabel.com/p/how-tech-com…

Context. It is interesting to note how often context is used as an excuse for things we should never accept or tolerate. Context, like statistics is often used not to deal with the reality of a thing, but to have us question our sense of it.

@JonHaidt As long as the restrictions allow parents to make their own choices. Some will choose this path, others will choose education, self- management, and moderated exploration. We have the knowledge, the tools and the ability to guide our kids and help them develop.

Many countries are going to raise the age for social media accounts to 16 in 2026 because.... parents everywhere see the damage. Large majority of German adults want to do it. Even adolescents lean toward support: afterbabel.com/p/strong-publi…

I see people saying "Im fighting for the truth" ... a lot. Whose truth? What truth(s)? Why are you fighting for it? Who is taking it away from you? Are you trying to force your truths onto others? For their own good? For the good of a version of society you hold?

@jean_twenge Parents need to step up. Yes we are all being told how tired, depressed, busy we are ... but these are OUR kids. "But my kids friends..." Really? If you believe the digital world is harming your kids ... why would you give in to "peer pressure" or guilt or some other feeling?

Social media is now a full-time job for a shocking number of teens, and it's even more among the most vulnerable. What a staggering loss of potential. generationtechblog.com/p/the-mind-blo…

The ONLY flags that should ever be flown or displayed at/on US government property is the standard US Flag and where appropriate the standard State Flag. If some temporary historical display is permitted other flags can be reviewed for temporary inclusion.

@JonHaidt Way too many confounding variables. This is a great example of "its so obvious that it must be a fact" Check your confirmation bias! Remember, peer reviewed and published papers present studies. They provide their limitations and almost ALWAYS recommend more research.

If democracy is a conversation, then what happened when the conversation moved onto social media platforms designed to maximize "engagement"? Increased polarization, which is a major threat to liberal democracies.