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This should really be called "tax the rich more and the poor less" More money for a wealthy person won't mean they drink more coffee or eat more pub meals.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-21/can-aust…

Can Australia still afford the pub, our coffee addiction or Friday night takeaway?
From our coffee addiction to a weekend pub tradition, some of the simple pleasures many Australians have taken for granted now feel like luxuries. But if patrons can no longer afford to visit the pubs and cafes we love, there may be something bigger at stake.

SAMHSA has fought drug and mental health crises. Now it's in crisis. (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/19/samhsa-addiction-mental-health-cuts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p16#a250619p16

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Summertime Rolls
#JanesAddiction
https://campbudcassettes.bandcamp.com/track/summertime-rolls-janes-addiction
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ziWygUNToqsrm3yNOD6SZ

The Other Side Of Addiction: Stories From The Family Empowerment Program
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-other-side-of-addiction-stories-from-the-family-empowerment-program/…

These pieces are much harsher than Fred’s, much more in the LLM-bashing camp, but feel relevant here:
https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/generative-ai-runs-on-gambling-addiction-just-one-more-prompt-bro/
Fred’s point is that a bad interaction model creates hidden work, then humans do that work and “the machine claims the praise.” These other two pieces make the point that this phenomenon of giving the machine credit for unrecognized human work is age-old, taps into some deep trapdoors in human cognition.
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Title: Why You Can't Stop Scrolling
Topics: #Addiction #InternetAddiction #DoomScrolling

Title: Social Media is Making us Dumber
Topics: #SocialMedia #SocialMediaAddiction #Addiction

The founder of an addiction treatment network is charged with orchestrating vandalism at NHPR journalists' homes after a report into his alleged sexual abuse (Ally Jarmanning/New Hampshire Public Radio)
https://www.nhpr.org/nh-ne…

Former treatment center CEO charged with orchestrating vandalism at NHPR journalists' homes
Prosecutors say Eric Spofford paid a close friend $20,000 to vandalize the homes after NHPR published an investigation into his alleged sexual abuse and harassment.

My Division 2 addiction seems to be cured. I'm absoutely falling love with DayZ right now. How could I ignore this gem for so long? Brilliant game, great atmosphere, interacting with strangers as a necissity... Just wow!

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18487 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Singularity: a Seventh Memo?
In this paper we explore the relationships between Calvino's memos and Mathematics. In the first part, we discuss how Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity are present in the mathematical language, reasoning and in the work of the mathematician. In addiction, we follow a similar path for the topics of Calvino's lecture of which we only know the title or some notes. In the final part, we explain why `Singularity' could be chosen as a possible topic for Calvino's seventh lect…

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Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Ocean Size
#JanesAddiction
https://startmakingsense.bandcamp.com/track/ocean-size
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gp0e8WPmC1xw9Juz1SSOc

Discounting and Drug Seeking in Biological Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Vardhan Palod, Pranav Mahajan, Veeky Baths, Boris S. Gutkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04549

Discounting and Drug Seeking in Biological Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning
Despite a strong desire to quit, individuals with long-term substance use disorder (SUD) often struggle to resist drug use, even when aware of its harmful consequences. This disconnect between knowledge and compulsive behavior reflects a fundamental cognitive-behavioral conflict in addiction. Neurobiologically, differential cue-induced activity within striatal subregions, along with dopamine-mediated connectivity from the ventral to the dorsal striatum, contributes to compulsive drug-seeking. H…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08766 has been replaced.
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Unlocking Mental Health: Exploring College Students' Well-being through Smartphone Behaviors
The global mental health crisis is a pressing concern, with college students particularly vulnerable to rising mental health disorders. The widespread use of smartphones among young adults, while offering numerous benefits, has also been linked to negative outcomes such as addiction and regret, significantly impacting well-being. Leveraging the longest longitudinal dataset collected over four college years through passive mobile sensing, this study is the first to examine the relationship betwe…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Been Caught Stealing
#JanesAddiction
https://janesaddictionlive.bandcamp.com/track/been-caught-stealing
https://open.spotify.com/track/13ELEX7NzAXuCSVDOshBJC