Photo-shoot yesterday, a news conference with the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition. Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff gave opening remarks.
Panel members focused on youth fitness and mental health. Short answer: it ain't good.
Suffering from depression and standard anti-depressants aren't working? You might want to read the transcript or listen to the podcast.
"Drugs that target the neurotransmitter serotonin have long been prescribed to treat depression. Now the spotlight is turning to other aspects of brain chemistry. In this episode, the neuropharmacologist John Krystal shares findings that are overturning our understanding of depression."
How Modern America Is Optimized for Loneliness, Misery and Poor Health by David Friedlander May 24, 2024
"...What do housing, transit and lifestyle statistics have to do with loneliness and unhappiness, you might ask. Well...separating people physically also leads to emotional and psychological separation. Moreover, the implements that make sprawl-induced physical separation work on a societal level — cars to contract long distances and digital media to ameliorate the effects of social isolation — deepen loneliness and unhappiness on the personal level. These implements also make people sedentary, directly relating to the fact that 73% of the total American population is overweight and 42% is obese, per the CDC.
One of the biggest issues is population density. At the risk of oversimplifying, it’s a lot harder to socially isolate when there are people around you..."
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There has been a lot of talk lately in tech circles and on YouTube about
how to get out of receiving AI-generated suggestions when you do a web
search -- which is now increasingly the default on Google.
While sometimes convenient, AI suggestions have 3 main problems:
a) They are often wrong,
b) They make you scroll way down the page to see the actual websites, &
c) They use all the earth's websites as their database, thereby stealing
everyone's content and rendering visiting the actual content creator
websites mute (unless AI answers wrong).
Here are some ways to turn off the AI in web search:
https://searx.tuxcloud.net/search -- This site is part of a network
of privately hosted sites using the same open-source search software. I
notice that you can not do a site-specific search like in Google or
DuckDuckGo ("site:microsoft.com Outlook questions"). See also https://searx.space/ for a list of other search URLs in the network.
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Had some success today with Birger despite the heat. I had physical therapy this morning so Birger and my husband were out in the car with the windows down in the parking lot. Birger passed the time by watching people and sniffing out the window, not a single bark and was calm and not stressed or scared at all. Big win considering it's a brand new place he's never been before, different environment entirely than what he's used to. Now were just relaxing with the fans on, plenty of water and some frozen treats to help keep my boy cool. Thinking #vegan burritos tonight, though I do still need beans. #ServiceDogInTraining#ServiceDogHandler#DogsOfMastodon#MentalHealth#MiniDachshund#Dachshund
🧐Fun Fact: Did you know it takes about 200 muscles just to take one step?
🎨Want to see stunning art by Frank Stella, a renowned modern artist known for his minimalist and abstract style?
👟Take a virtual walk with me on the Northern Strand Community Trail in Malden! 🌳
▶️This short video showcases the trail's beauty, including vibrant community gardens and a mural by Frank Stella. Plus, I share more fun facts about walking!✨
Reading about #NarrativeTherapy, of which I knew very little and am learning much, but never expected to end up reading about #Foucault and #neoliberalism as the theoretical underpinnings of this practice. It makes me hopeful for my future as a #MentalHealth therapist.
Quote from #JohnWinslade: Neoliberalism transforms people into less #democratic, more governable, docile, more consuming, neoliberal subjects who nevertheless believe themselves to be free because they have consumer “choice.”
"In the 1990s, the long-term impact of job losses after rapid deindustrialisation was not persistent unemployment, but instead higher rates of economic inactivity due to long-term sickness, according to the Resolution Foundation. The thinktank says the long-term sick are now disproportionately concentrated in post-industrial and coastal areas of the country as the “hidden unemployed”..