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@Strike Why was Maryland removed?

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@Strike @TheBitcoinConf why no more loans in Maryland?

Did you catch our Bitcoin-backed lending announcements at @TheBitcoinConf? We've lowered our lending rates! Borrow against your Bitcoin from 7.49%. No selling. No taxable event. No problem. Keep the bitcoin, spend the fiat 🫡

@MrAndyNgo Where are the nunchucks

Federal prosecutors have published photos of the weapons found in the possession of Trump attempted assassin suspect Cole Tomas Allen.

@chrispapst I get it, but where can you go with the same quality education (k-12), jobs, medical care, etc without running into the same issues? Mich easier without kids

READ: A viewer sent me this message today on Facebook. "I'm leaving Maryland. I'll be moving before the year's end because I'm tired. Tired of the taxes, tired of activist legislature. Tired of laws that benefit everyone but Maryland citizens." Do you feel the same?

@Rajatsoni Would you put your kids college funds in it

I think STRC may be the BEST financial product in the world It offers an 11.5% (variable) yield that's tax deferred It has extremely low volatility (it might move between $99 and $100 every month, but the dividend more than covers this) You don't have to deal with tenants, lawyers, lenders, maintenance, repairs, etc.

@rhensing @grok Get a nice Honda generator and throw it in the bed, got yourself a hybrid

The diesel generators charging the EDVs is more fuel efficient than using the same diesel to power diesel versions of those same delivery vans. Right @grok?

@Aella_Girl Lol yes, as you get older and wiser, it gets easy to sniff out the bullshit artists

a long time ago i had the experience of chatting irl with someone well known on twitter, well connected, well platformed, influential, etc. He was smart, seemed to have domain expertise in his technical field. But gradually over the course of the conversation I realized he didn't actually know what he was talking about. He used complicated words, but in subtly off ways, and would reply to questions with things that sounded like answers but actually weren't.He'd confidently reference concepts that I think he assumed I didn't know, but I did know, and I knew that the term he used didn't actually have anything to do with his claim, etc. But his confidence was intense and radiating, and the speed at which he talked and the complex vocabulary he used really disguised what I perceived to be both a lack of deep understanding of the material and also a lack of self-awareness that he didn't have deep understanding! I've def met people who disagree with me online who I think *do* engage deeply with the concepts, but this specific one didn't, and it was a little blackpilling for me to realize that he had such a following from a bunch of people who couldn't tell the difference.

@Cybertruck0001 @datmaven @cybertruck air down to 15psi

@datmaven @cybertruck I also have chains, but I didn’t bring them on this long trip. They would have solved this problem.

Ok @cybertruck arm chair quarterbacks. This driveway is very very steep, extremely icy and we were in the middle of getting 16” of snow. Only thing that managed to get up this driveway was an excavator with chains and a snow thrower. #bigsky

@gmiller @DarioAmodei It's like a Greek tragedy

Standard plot of every science fiction movie about AI in the last 70 years: 'Some 'well-intentioned' computer scientists build an advanced AI, but then the government forces them to apply the AI in killerbots and mass surveillance, with dire consequences.' @DarioAmodei and @AnthropicAI this week: 'OMG we were just well-intentioned computer scientists building advanced AIs, but now the government is forcing us to apply our AI in killerbots and mass surveillance. HOW COULD WE POSSIBLY HAVE ANTICIPATED THIS???'

@michaelshermer yes, but that also means that in the past, kids who needed critical support (language, socialization, emotional regulation, etc), were not getting proper help due to being deemed normal, quirky, weird, etc. Call it autism or some other developmental disorder

Expanding diagnostic category, not increase in incidence of autism…

@RogerSeheult @SamaHoole I think his point is that an only fruit diet as the sole treatment for cancer is bad

@SamaHoole Strawman. Fruits are good for you is not saying it will cure cancer. Try harder.

2008: Steve Jobs diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Rare form. Treatable. Doctors recommend immediate surgery. Survival rate is good. Jobs refuses. He's going to beat it with diet. His chosen diet: Fruitarian. Only fruit. Nothing else. His logic: Fruit is pure. Natural. Cleansing. His doctors beg him to reconsider. Jobs: "The body can heal itself with proper nutrition." Nine months later: Cancer has spread. Jobs finally agrees to surgery. Too late. The delay was fatal. 2011: Jobs dies at 56. His biographer reveals: Jobs regretted the diet decision. Called it one of his biggest regrets. Where did these beliefs come from? That fruit heals and meat is poison? Victorian religious movements that thought meat caused moral corruption. Rebranded as "wellness" and sold to Silicon Valley. Jobs had access to the best medical care in the world. He chose fruit instead. Jobs revolutionised technology by ignoring conventional wisdom. He died following conventional "wellness" wisdom that's 200 years old. Victorian sexual purity theology, rebranded as biohacking.

@Aella_Girl But AGI

This makes it so much easier. I'm gonna be using this! I want healthy kids

@the_mel_jar Only supervision that was remotely helpful was when our supervisor showed us film of their sessions and we showed ours. No one-sided process recordings, no BS. Just identify the Triangle of conflict, defense, intervention, assess response (ISTDP) etc. Painful, but most helpful.

Yeah, so the thing is, they ARE NOT getting regular supervision or consultation, the therapy gurus or wannabe gurus. That’s the whole problem. The guru-fication, for these guys, of course really starts long before they become therapists. But for the rest of us, our less-than-healthy narcissistic BS will become a bit much when we start off our careers by making excuses for ourselves once we’re legally able to, as to why we don’t need regular supervision, anymore. “I’m just getting started, building my practice. I can’t afford weekly consultation right now. Maybe later, when I’m more financially stable and comfortable.” So instead, a lot of us will do something like therapist peer consultation groups, since those cost typically nothing or very little financially. These often quickly degenerate into lovely friendship get togethers instead, with a little light discussion on clinical cases that’s more of less the equivalent of “supportive therapy” by being “supportive consultation,” with only the gentlest, “I’m curious if you have possibly considered…” kind of hesitant, careful, milquetoast feedback, maybe. Then, we tell ourselves that we will hire a consultant if we’re TRULY struggling, with a VERY SERIOUS clinical issue. And then we really will do that for a case, hire a consultant, often months or years too late in the treatment. And this will probably prove to be very helpful, this one-off consultation. The takeaway for us is that this approach to seeking only occasional consultation, in urgent circumstances, is fine and effective! We’re grateful for this opportunity for very helpful feedback from someone who we really respect! See, we can tell ourselves, we DO get consultation, we’re adhering to the standards! And then we won’t call them again for another six months, or more. This is how we get too high on our own supply. It’s one of the biggest risks for therapists. We must understand that REGULAR SUPERVISION or CONSULTATION with someone, and ideally with someone whose fee we pay at the rate of our own fee, so we’re not getting away with even THAT kind of bullshit, is a required and necessary expense of having a psychotherapy private practice. I don’t care about most of our justifications and excuses for this anymore. Yeah, you’re broke? You don’t take that hard of cases, and by now, you know what you’re doing, and simply don’t need it? Besides, YOU supervise clinicians, so clearly, you don’t NEED supervision, like a “baby therapist” or “early career clinician.” And you’re experienced enough now to know when you’ll need help, and that’s when you’ll be SURE to get it? Whatever, dudes and dudettes. First of all, listen to yourselves. Second, it’s actually only so much about all of that, fr. What it’s REALLY and ALWAYS about is NOT getting too high on your own supply. You can often tell, btw, when a therapist colleague is no longer submitting themselves to the ritualistic castration experience of regular supervision. Many of us are “cocky” “assholes” (ha, we say). Our roles can affirm that to obnoxious levels. But there’s a tonal difference in the “cocky-asshole-ery” amongst therapists in general, and the ones who’ve convinced themselves that they are the second coming of Freud. The ones who don’t submit themselves to the regular castration rituals of our profession, they may REALLY not like how I speak of supervision in this manner, and might say this is all quite offensive and in very poor taste. That’s one clue, that they dislike my jokes, I say all narcissistically, with a kind of humor that I do recommend developing proficiency in, if you, like me, are hoping to survive this profession. But there are other types of humor, and clues. So we take our medicine, and enjoy the sadomasochism of it all. It’s good for us. More importantly, it’s good for our patients, who never need to know too much about whatever weird kinky stuff may be happening behind closed doors in therapist supervision. That’s just between us.

@JoeCarlasare We already have UBI. It's called Medicaid, Medicare, SSI, ssdi, etc

@GrantHBrennerMD if you're not familiar with ISTDP and the work of Dr. Allan Abbass @ISTDP, ie - TOC, spectrum of anxiety and it's regulation in therapy, defenses, etc.

Two recent studies confirm what decades of clinical practice and teaching psychodynamic therapy has taught me: unrecognized dissociation creates a reinforcing cycle that impedes treatment effectiveness. You can't fully address what you can't hold fully in consciousness. Robust and complete therapy demands we recognize the full spectrum of nervous system dysregulation - in our patients and ourselves. Hill et al reveal a 6-fold dissociation risk with physiological anxiety/panic symptoms. Kleindienst et al demonstrate that dissociation predicts poor PTSD therapy outcomes - but early reduction in dissociation leads to remission. These findings validate a critical clinical reality: standard CBT/exposure therapies often fail when dissociation goes unrecognized. The body's dual response to trauma - hyperarousal (panic) and hypoarousal (dissociation) - must both be addressed for healing. From a psychoanalytic perspective, there's a deeper challenge: our countertransferential blind spots. We often dissociate in response to patients' dissociation, unconsciously avoiding what feels ego-dystonic or overwhelming. Our defensive disconnection mirrors and maintains theirs. Clinical imperatives: ✓ Screen for dissociation routinely, especially with panic presentations ✓ Address dissociation early & explicitly ✓ Implement phase-based, trauma-informed approaches ✓ Monitor your own dissociative countertransference ✓ Remember: therapeutic presence requires facing what we'd rather not see Dissociation and Therapy Efficacy cambridge.org/core/journals/… Anxiety and Dissociation tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #TraumaInformedCare #Dissociation #PTSD #Psychoanalysis #Countertransference

@RogerSeheult Good Dr, thoughts on this study and on PBM for autism, neurological d/o and any general thoughts on cranial PBM in general? tinyurl.com/zhc3hfmz

This concept is fundamental for those afraid of direct sun exposure and therefore won’t go outside. Sitting in the shade covered up is way better than staying inside.

@DoctorPerin Plenty of other ways to deliver nicotine with an oral component have replaced it, ie vape, zyn, etc.

My brother’s spiciest psychology take is that that the rise in poor impulse control over the last thirty years came from the success of anti-smoking campaigns, because cigarettes used to manage and cover ADHD and anxiety symptoms

@LorenHodl @tomyoungjr your ex. of ai therapy is actually an example of how it is harmful. When a patient in therapy projects that their therapist is judging them, that dynamic is one, of many, components of a therapy relationship that must be explored. That cannot arise with AI.

@FinFreedom414 You should wait until 25 then

I’ve allocated a position in Bitcoin for each of my kids. But I don’t want them to know about it until they’re 18. My thought process is that the second a kid thinks they’ve got a lifeline, the hunger dies. Comfort kills ambition. I want my kids working hard, failing, and learning how to fight without the knowledge of a safety net. When they finally find out, they’ll already have worked the minimum wage jobs and thought of creative ways to earn money for themselves. There’s a reason generational wealth doesn’t last long. But I want my children to be better than me in every way.

@jtevelow x.com/KnowNot1299737…