You can outrun many things in this life. Your own unexamined assumptions are not among them. - original aphorism
Lee Keyes
@leekeyes.bsky.social
Retired psychologist, enjoys ⚾ and 🎵. Student of Scots-Irish history. 🏴🇮🇪🇺🇲
Because they represent corporations which resent closures or lost revenue. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Why MAGA Is So Obsessed With Fauci
In the aftermath of pandemics, people either try to forget them or find others to blame for them.
theatlantic.com
In the film Gaslight (1940), which coined the term, the manipulator loses his mind and is arrested. So there's that.
This morning's jobs report was shockingly negative. Not only did the economy lose 23,000 jobs in July — the previous estimates for May and June were revised down by 103,000. These numbers are a major red flag indicating the labor market is weaker than previously thought.
Time to reflect and think should be valued. scienceblog.com/t-smart-peop...
Smart people are often the worst performers under pressure, not the best — studies show highly intelligent people are more likely to crumble when goals are reward-based, and perform significantly bett...
High intelligence paradoxically becomes a liability when performance matters most—the mental capacity that enables excellence can transform into a source of sabotage.
scienceblog.com
It's about communal living during dystopian times. Practiced for milennia. www.npr.org/2026/08/07/n...
Amid cost of living stress, many parents are supporting children well into adulthood
Polls show most Americans think young adults today have it harder financially than past generations. A majority of parents help their grown children with expenses, even if it hurts their own finances.
npr.org
The so-called president of the United States is a massive money launderer and cut off by the bank that discovered it. Yet the story barely registers with the legacy media. What a disgrace.
Improved mapping of the vagus nerve which should improve stimulation therapies. www.science.org/content/arti...
Major highway of the human nervous system gets a complete road map
First comprehensive map of the vagus nerve may point to more precise stimulation therapies
science.org
"Not only are we denying you tenure—we’re closing your department and setting the entire university on fire just to be safe.” www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a61960
Chronic stress is bad for the brain, body, and personality. www.inc.com/jeff-haden/s...
Science Says Chronic Stress Actually Changes Your Personality (and Not in a Good Way)
But not if you do a little cognitive reframing whenever you feel stressed.
inc.com
Hope it catches on. apnews.com/article/texa...
Professors sue Texas A&M System over limits on teaching race, gender
Four professors and a national faculty group asked a federal judge Monday to block the Texas A&M University System’s restrictions on teaching about race, gender and sexuality and to reinstate cour...
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The DOJ is now 0-20 in court trying to access states' voter files. They've lost in: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
The best thing one mind can do for another is not to fill it, but to make it curious about its own contents. - original aphorism
And it's not the only issue related to this bias. www.psypost.org/body-dysmorp...
Body dysmorphia is linked to an exaggerated cognitive bias for self-related information
A basic bias in how the brain processes self-relevant information might contribute to severe body image preoccupations. New research shows that individuals with body dysmorphic traits learn and proces...
psypost.org
"Today usury usually means the practice of lending money at excessive rates of interest, but originally it meant any form of return that insulated the lender from the welfare of the borrower." ~Alastair McIntish, from Parables of Northern Seed
Plus they will leave here with nothing good left behind.
Socrates@teamsocrates.bsky.social · 6d agoWhat good is a full purse to an empty soul? You cannot spend your way out of the questions that matter. - original aphorism
OK so we are now British prisons in the 70s. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
‘Stark example of brutality’: Trump’s ICE used court orders in plan to force-feed at least 10 hunger strikers in detention
Exclusive: court records reviewed by the Guardian show that procedures included force-feeding, intravenous forced hydration and involuntary blood draws
theguardian.com
Article about neanderthals mating with homo sapiens. One of the comments was "Once you neander you don't meander."
Another reason to assess childhood adversity. www.psypost.org/remembering-...
Remembering a chaotic childhood is linked to psychopathic traits, especially in men
Childhood chaos may shape adult personality more than persistent hardship. A new study in Personality and Individual Differences links an unpredictable early home life to psychopathic traits like mean...
psypost.org
Personality modifies with experience, good and bad. www.news-medical.net/news/2026072...
We underestimate how much personality changes with age, study finds
Researchers compared beliefs from 887 US adults with modeled lifespan trajectories from 166,971 participants across eight longitudinal studies. Population-average Big Five traits changed as much as or...
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