AZ native, son of immigrants, ex-Navy PhD Social Psychology – dissertation on envy and antisemitism Data science, media reliability, bias in academic research
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Hamas really said “we’ll document this ourselves” and the internet still said “citation needed.”
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I just checked my local theater:
Avengers Endgame: Encore
Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Moonlight 10th Anniversary Remaster
Resident Evil (I think this is a remake, not a remaster)
But, I discovered one promising actual new movie: Heart of the Beast, which sounds great.
Here’s the thing about “Keep theaters alive!” and “Go watch this film in the movie theater!”
It’s a two-way agreement.
The audience agrees to pay to see films in a theater only if:
- The filmmakers are shooting scripts that have a thesis statement/intention/point.
- The actors and director are giving it their all, and not phoning it in.
- The edit has trimmed off all the fat.
- The film isn’t some didactic exercise, intent on jamming a “lesson” into us.
- The studio executives have paid close attention to the film from start to finish and have given the filmmakers useful notes to keep it all on-track.
- The film is entertaining.
- (And the theater managers are maintaining some order and decorum in the theaters themselves.)
Otherwise, the audiences will continue to stay home and wait for the films to come online, so they can maybe watch five minutes of it or scrub through, and then turn it off.
The film has to be excellent. Or at least try in that direction.
Much of what is released is just not good enough.
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Never lost respect for someone so fast. I can't believe this is the person I looked up to as a model of clear thinking.
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The version 5.0 of simdjson is on godbolt so you can check the assembly output of this C++26 code.
Link: godbolt.org/z/zf6Mzn4Kx
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For some of it, it will use runtime dispatching. But yeah, there are limitations as to what it can do.
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A weird thing about watching The Terminator (1984) in 2026 is that the effects hold up quite well but the strikingly tender portrayal of heterosexual relationships feels like something from another world
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What was the last movie relationship you cared about in that way? Seems like a foreign concept in this era. I’d have to go back to 2012’s Silver Linings Playbook. Since then, La La Land, Before Midnight, Past Lives come close but not quite over the finish line.
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It's rated R. According to @MeghanMcCain the reason is hilarious.
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One of the silliest ideas imaginable is "genetics plays a big role in what your max potential is, so you don't need to train."
Even adjusted for age, I was a better athlete when/because I ran and hooped 3 hours a day.
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I am convinced this post contained evidence of throttling. 124k impressions at this point is nuts. There's no way the number could be that low.
If you haven't seen this watch now. It will knock you over
I haven't seen anyone from Liberal Inc engage this logically. What even is the response? We are forced to paint Helen Joyce into The Monster, the fascism, the far-right, the not-science, the hate?
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Is...the dissident right turning against standardized tests? SAT, PISA, and even full-scale IQ tests are heavily influenced by training hours and don't tell the whole story?
More could perhaps - these are my words, following - be gleaned from popularity in real life, skill in training for sport and war, "true skill" games like chess, personal essays and portfolios?!
Whoa! @DelanoSquires, OG @chandachisala - any thoughts on the methods here?
For me, the synthesis of the last few days is this: Americans don't like high stakes zero sum status games. We like rewards for real contributions to the common good. The IIT admissioms exam or the Gaokao or the Harvard admissions requirements are highly distasteful.
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I like the idea of a threshold for the SAT or a much better test, above which there's little benefit to the applicant, and possibly use randomizers for admission above it. In the old days, it would be a 1450 or 1500 for an elite school, but now they ruined the SAT by making it so easy.
Also, we need to bring back Lakota style rites of passage for teens. Drop them off in the mountains with a map and compass and a knife and pick them up 30 miles away two days later, etc.
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These are the 10 most recent papers of the new APA president, Candice Hargons:
1. “That’s Probably What Euphoria Feels Like”: Nonbinary Black Womxn’s Gender Expression in an Antitrans (and Anti-Black [Womxn]) America
American Psychologist, Sept. 2026
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2. “Hard to Remember, then Hard to Forget”: A Qualitative Exploration into the Attitudes and Lived Experiences of Black People With Black Names
Journal of Black Psychology, Oct. 2025
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3. A Content Analysis of Cultural Mistrust Among African Americans in Therapy Settings
Journal of Black Psychology, Oct. 2025
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4. “People Already Don’t Know What the Fuck I’m Saying”: Nonbinary Black Womxn Perspectives on Sharing Their Gendered-Racial Identity
Journal of Counseling Psychology, Oct. 2025
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5. “It’s an honor to be in this body”: A Black feminist grounded theory of embodiment through yoga among Black womxn
Body Image, Oct. 2025
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6. Brief Report: Naloxone Decline Among African American Kentuckians
Substance Use & Addiction Journal, July 2025
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7. “Nobody Ever Sat Me Down to Talk About That Kind of Stuff”: A Thematic Analysis of Heterosexual Black Men’s Genital Hygiene Messages
Health Communication, May 2025
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8. “God Did for Me What I Couldn’t Do for Myself”: Understanding Religiosity, Spirituality, and Locus of Control Among Black Americans Who Use Opioids
Journal of Religion and Health, Feb. 2025
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9. Understanding Coping Strategies and Sociocultural Context in Black Americans’ Mental Health
Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, Feb. 2025
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10. The Nonbinary God: Disaggregating Spirituality and Christian Religiosity Among Nonbinary Black Womxn (NBBW)
Journal of Counseling Psychology, Jan. 2025
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Congratulations to Dr. Candice Hargons, a tenured associate professor of behavioral, social, and health education sciences at Emory University, for being elected as APA’s 2028 president. She will serve as 2027 president-elect as of January 1. Learn more: at.apa.org/eb9450
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The Guardian stopped posting on X a while back, for weird political reasons -- too much free speech or something. This is the PEI Guardian, Prince Edward Island in Canada, a bunch of clowns.
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“You don’t study for the spelling bee” is a deep and important aspect of American culture. I was at a baseball game discussing some young players with a buddy one time and he said to me offhandedly, “hard work is fine, but nothing beats talent.”
Americans have this sort of sense that there’s something a little off about working really hard to get good at something that you’re not naturally good at. You’re never really going to be on the same level as the guy who has a natural talent. We have room in our hearts for scrappy little guys who work hard, but we are by default suspicious of grinders and strivers.
If you were really meant to do it, then you’d be naturally good at it. You sign your kids up for little league, but you don’t take it too seriously unless they show remarkable early talent.
Yes, this sounds sort of ridiculous if you take it too literally. No, nobody is saying that there’s any kind of practical test for this or that anybody should be excluded because we found out that they secretly studied too hard.
But this is a part of American culture. And if you can’t understand it, then that just marks you out as foreign to that culture to an even greater degree.
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You're assuming an early talent signal that won't always be there across domains, and I think you're understating the importance of hard work. I wouldn't have confident conclusions here without knowing a lot of domains and stories.
Sword in the stone is too easy, might breed laziness and a fantasy mindset about needing a lucky break or waiting for one's calling like George Costanza.
It takes a lot of hard work to be good in many fields, years and years. And we know very little about talent, scientifically, in specific domains. It's not going to be like Little League.
Agree that spelling bee grinding is potentially a poor choice. I think they learn a lot about Latin and Greek though.
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"Using light, researchers are now able to switch individual neural circuits on or off in the brain. They can bring memories to life, create feelings, drive behaviours and study the types of neurons that are involved in various psychiatric and neurological disorders. Optogenetics is fundamentally transforming our understanding of the brain. It has also provided important insights into how the nervous system interacts with various cells in other areas of the body, such as in the heart and gut."
I'd never heard of "optogenetics" and I'm still wrapping my head around it.
They deliver the algal channelrhodopsin gene into neurons and use light to trigger action potentials. This is a lot more precise than using electrodes, which stimulate all cells types in the area.
I hope we'll see clinical applications soon. Congratulations to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel!
Congratulations to our first #NobelPrize laureate of 2026 🎉
Early this morning Karl Deisseroth found out he was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
He seems very happy with the news!
ALT Karl Deisseroth on the phone looking happy
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The announcement and source of my quote: nobelprize.org/prizes/medici…
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