Contributing Opinion Writer, NY Times. Author: Undoing Drugs, Unbroken Brain, Help At Any Cost; Co-auth: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog & Born for Love (w/ Bruce D. Perry). Addiction, autism, neuroscience, troubled-teen industry, harm reduction, cats.
Great to see that Provo Canyon School was finally shut down— sad that it took decades of reports of abuse, starting in the 1970s.
Cult Podcasts"Paris Hilton's #TroubledTeen School Shut down by the State of Utah" Infamous @maiasz.bsky.social 30 Jul 2026 [0:34:54] #TroubledTeenIndustry #Cult https://s.cultpodcasts.com/xNjqlLJgG0uHf2siq1Yypg
there is one thing that is undeniably good about these cursed times... dogs have gotten cuter ;-) [i say this as a dedicated cat person]
Colette Delawalla, PhDAI chatbots hack our attachment systems, likely making them more addictive than social media, which plays with attention. my latest www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/o...
Opinion | Social Media Hacked Our Attention. A.I. Scares Me More. (Gift Article)A.I. plays on our heartstrings, manipulating the systems in our brains that bond us to other people.www.nytimes.com"attention hacking" social media is bad. "attachment hacking" AI chatbots may be worse, my latest www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/o...
Opinion | Social Media Hacked Our Attention. A.I. Scares Me More.A.I. plays on our heartstrings, manipulating the systems in our brains that bond us to other people.www.nytimes.comlook at how quickly the "junkie" and even the person who just looks atypical becomes the enemy of civilization here.... straight up Nazi eugenicist poison.
Nate OStraightforward fascist ideology running throughout, as illustrated by this passage
this is the company that sold Scientific American just before its union was authorized...
Gil DuránAxel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...