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Asking the AI program manager for advice: How to nudge neuroscientists toward working on mental imagery engineering? https://chatgpt.com/share/693aad66-a62c-8004-a355-9bf39379a097 "Mental Imagery Engineering: A Missing Pillar in Restoring Vision to the Blind", &…

ChatGPT - Nudging mental imagery research
Shared via ChatGPT

Trauma and Mental Health in the Writing Workshop: A Theoretical and Practical Toolkit for Teachers https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/06/trauma-and-mental-health-in-the-writing-workshop-a-theor…

From #RobertReich @rbreich@instagram.com and @imcivicaction@instagram.com @…
Donald #Trump’s #mental

Unequal access to nature: Few outdoor spaces in Europe and the U.S. accommodate sensory, mental disabilities https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/unequal-access-to-nature-few-outdoor-spaces-in-europe-and-the-…

Unequal access to nature: Few outdoor spaces in Europe and the U.S. accommodate sensory, mental disabilities
Sprawled along the Pacific coastline near San Francisco, Golden Gate National Recreation Area is full of wildflowers, beaches, and old-growth coastal redwoods, shrouded with a thin layer of marine fog that dissipates in sunlight. Visitors fish, hike, camp, and surf, the temperate climate and ocean views providing a boost to their mental and physical health. […]

Anyway I’m using the CD player during my regularly scheduled Ketamine treatment for depression. Please help yourself and help your loved ones with their mental health. ❤️
Rocco the service dog is here with me today. :)

OpenAI says ads in ChatGPT are not eligible to appear near "sensitive or regulated topics like health, mental health or politics" (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/09/chatgpt-ads-testing-go-free

OpenAI tests ads in ChatGPT
OpenAI says it is starting to test ads for its Free and Go subscription tiers.

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#CommonplaceNotes: mental models, autonomy, a poem.
https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2026/01/commonplace-book-mental-models-autonomy.html HT

Commonplace book: mental models, autonomy, a poem
Doug Belshaw has a thoughtful post about the financial/work advice often being given to young folks today: The financial guidance given to ...

OK, let's be clear about #Autism:
A majority of engineers, including software engineers, are #ActuallyAutistic; I suspect a majority of architects and people who invent new stuff generally are; many people in the creative arts are.
Without

Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: terms of reference

OpenAI says ads in ChatGPT are not eligible to appear near "sensitive or regulated topics like health, mental health or politics" (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/09/chatgpt-ads-testing-go-free

OpenAI tests ads in ChatGPT
OpenAI says it is starting to test ads for its Free and Go subscription tiers.

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
NOVARA: A simple mental process known to the ancients. We have developed and refined it. It is more reliable than mechanical transmissions.
BLAKE: You said you have a way to free us from the web.
https://

Can AI Help Ukraine’s Mental Health Crisis? New Evidence on Digital Support During War: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/can-ai-help-ukraines-mental.html

"Les chercheurs ont découvert qu'Š l'âge de 12 ans, le fait de posséder un smartphone par rapport Š ne pas en posséder était associé Š un risque accru de dépression, d'obésité et de manque de sommeil ( 31% de chances, 40% et 62%, respectivement)."
#santémentale

Cadence rolls out ChipStack, an AI agent to help chipmakers like Nvidia speed up the complex chip design process by up to 10x by building a "mental model" (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/cadence-int…

In the past year, a handful of sheriff’s departments in California have started 👉refusing to respond to 911 calls that involve a mental health crisis, but where no crime has been reported.
In February, the #Sacramento sheriff, Jim Cooper, announced that his deputies would only respond to mental health crises if a crime had been committed or was in process,
or if someone other than the person…

Court blocks Trump administration effort to halt school mental health worker grants (Lexi Lonas Cochran/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5635263-trump-school-mental-health-grants-appeals-court/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p93#a251205p93

In the context of visual prostheses for the blind, more scientists should be working on "mental imagery engineering" to nudge the human brain toward making the best of degraded or transformed visual input https://www.google.com/search?q="mental imagery engineering"

Reclaiming the human mind 🧠
In our latest #GEANTCybersecurity expert article, Panayiota Smyrli (Digital Security Authority) examines a quiet shift: as automation grows, our critical thinking shrinks.
AI drafts our ideas, finishes our sentences, and even nudges our decisions.
Panayiota invites us to step back, slow down, & reintroduce small mental challenges: doing t…

Meta, TikTok, and Snap agree to undergo independent assessments to rate how effectively they protect teen users based on 24 standards developed by experts (Ian Duncan/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/10/meta-tiktok-snap-tee…

Under growing pressure, the biggest social networks agree to be rated on teen safety
The three major social media companies have agreed to undergo independent assessments of how effectively they protect the mental health of teenage users.

Saldanha said
his brain? WACK
his eyes? WACK
his arms? WACK
me? I'm tight as FUCK
#fedifc

I have long felt that liberal/progressive messaging often tended towards not merely hyperbole, but hyperbole that carried far more than the intended message.
Consider the phrase "Defund the police". That carries a clear message that implies near elimination of police based law enforcement. Few of us want that. Police are an important element of an ordered society.
But pretty much all of us see that police are doing too much and that it is better to restructure police…

Crosslisted article(s) found for q-bio.NC. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.NC/new
[1/1]:
- Sleep effects on brain, cognition, and mental health during adolescence are mediated by the glymp...
Zeng, Li, Yang, Del Mauro, Yu, Lu, Zhuo, Rowland, Emerson, Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08704 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioPE_bot/115694469206360926
toXiv_bot_toot

Why do we have a Toronto Police board with city councillors on it if disbanding the mobile crisis intervention team is kept secret?
Typical Toronto Police trying to hide things
https://www.the…

Taboo in the clean room: workers in #semiconductor fabs, e.g. TSMC in #Taiwan, face high mental pressure. They cannot eat pizza – it’s too similar to the form of an IC waver. 😬
I will continue dropping these insights, here from clinical psychology. Unions are banned, btw., so better med…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Gulch:
🎵 Self-Inflicted Mental Terror
#Gulch
https://gulch.bandcamp.com/track/self-inflicted-mental-terror-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Mo27q9D6r2d5PofcZMdtl

The Strongest Play Is Asking for Help https://www.raiders.com/video/the-strongest-play-is-asking-for-help

Yay! Colorado officially recognizes that mental health IS physical health! Our bodies DO include our brains.
Next, we need to legislate financial support for medical problems with ears, eyes and teeth. Hell, throw in food, water and housing--NOW we're getting civilized. https://newsbeep.org/@us/1158286950032

United States News Beep (@us@newsbeep.org)
Attached: 1 image New Colorado law requires insurers to cover mental health like physical illness Advocates said the law ensures that Coloradans can access the care they are paying for without facing a… #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Mentalhealth #Health #MentalHealth https://www.newsbeep.com/us/384528/

AKA, 10 reasons why Dave becomes nearly homicidal in shopping malls during Yuletide. https://flipboard.com/@mental_floss/all-mental-floss-stories-6c4rdkdrz/-/a-qioyNTWXRzefg4EvIVr1qw:a:621690127-/0

The 10 Christmas Songs Easiest to Get Stuck in Your Head, According to Research
There’s a science behind the biggest holiday earworms. There are many Christmas songs that you just can’t get out of your head. The moment you see the …

Gestern war der Nikolaus Tag und heute ist der zweite Advent. Beim kalten Wetter verbringen die Menschen ihre Zeit vermehrt im Internet und Fediverse :mastodon:
Das ist nun populär, denn gepöbelt wird auch schon so wie mental angegriffen. Sind wir nun in der Welt von X-Shit angekommen?! Weshalb ich wieder mal ein paar Accounts sperren werde, dies aber noch rel vorsichtig und nicht pauschal 🙄
#fediverse

Just finished "Fitting Indian" by Jyoti Chand and Tara Anand.
Indirect CW: alcohol, self-harm, and suicide.
A graphic novel about mental health issues, being a second-generation Indian immigrant in America, international trauma, and both peer and family bullying. Beautifully illustrated and of course gripping given the subjects.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

☕ Daily coffee drinking may slow biological aging of people with major mental illness
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-daily-coffee-biological-aging-people.html

Daily coffee drinking may slow biological aging of people with major mental illness
Drinking a maximum of 3–4 cups of coffee a day may slow the "biological" aging of people with severe mental illness, by lengthening their telomeres—indicators of cellular aging—and giving them the equivalent of 5 extra biological years, compared with non-coffee drinkers, finds research published in BMJ Mental Health.

Fiz quase nada hoje. Mas, como ontem era pra ser meu dia de folga e eu fiquei até Šs nove da noite arrumando o quarto, em nome da minha saúde mental eu hoje me darei o direito de encerrar o expediente agora. Então #sextou pra mim! :)

The point-guard mentality didn't just make Sam Darnold better. It's a useful mental trick https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6990248/2026/01/23/the-point-guard-mentality-didnt-just-make-sam-darnold-be…

Trump, 79, Is Fuming Over Coverage of His Deteriorating Health (Isabel Van Brugen/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-is-absolutely-furious-about-intense-scrutiny-on-his-mental-decline/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p38#a251205p38

One important story that I feel got lost during the end of 2025 is how white-presenting "18-year old" female "AI" companions are cosplayed by 30-year old fathers in Kenyan slums. At a huge cost to their mental health.

"My sole responsibility was to keep the conversation going, no matter what it did to me."

"The challenge went beyond just switching genders; I also had to perform across different sexual identities. Sometimes I was a straight wo…

Language conversations have become highly performative,
with a fixation on the words people are using,
not why they’re using them
or what they’re reaching for when they deploy language
like “crazy,” “lame,” or the r-word
(currently experiencing a resurgence in popularitythanks to Elon Musk).
The language is a metaphor:
We call something “insane” because that word carries a specific baggage and burden.
But the fact that mental illness is stil…

Language Wars
Conversations about language were supposed to be a starting point rather than an ending one.

A Brothers Mind
A podcast between brothers about mental health, mindset, parenting, business and investing...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/a-brothers-mind/

Federal Judge Orders Education Dept To Reinstate $1 Billion In Mental Health Grants Across 16 Blue States - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/federal-judge-orders-education-dept-to-reinstate-1-billion-in-mental-health-grants-across-16-blue-states/

Wenn man live Streams mit Darth #Trump verfolgt, dann bleibt bei mir der Eindruck, dass er schon deutlich senile Züge zeigt. Ist er mental überhaupt noch in der Lage, die Komplexität der Herausforderugen für einen US Präsidenten zu überblicken? Er konnte das schon nicht bei einigermaßen gesunden Umständen.
Daher die Frage: Wer manipuliert in Umfeld des Präsidenten Trump?
❓ 🇺🇸 🗜️

It is definitely an interesting sign of my current mental state that I am confident enough to submit 4 singles and one story to World Press Photo contest.
#photography

Cowboys leader named Community MVP for work spotlighting mental health https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/21/cowboys-dt-solomon-thomas-nflpa-community-mvp-week-12-me…

Having finally seen the game, my thought experiment is: Are #LFC worse in or out of possession? In stoppage time, do you think "we can still do this" or "not in the face"?
Despite all the evidence to the contrary this season, I'm still somehow shocked by the mental lapse at the end.
Yes, late subs, but Gomez for Gakpo didn't make midfielders misread a giant space…

"He did decide, though, that with more time and a great deal of mental
effort, he could probably turn the activity into an acceptable perversion."
-- Mick Farren, "When Gravity Fails"

Good breakdown on the “Claude Mental Model” powered by markdown
❤️ https://indiantinker.bearblog.dev/slurping-the-claude-code-word-soup/

Slurping the Claude Code Word Soup
It's 2 AM in Madrid, and I'm staring at my screen, convinced that Anthropic's documentation is confusing me. I cannot decide. Is it the same thing called...

Watch live: Top health officials launch initiative addressing mental health, addiction (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/video-clips/5718261-watch-live-rfk-jr-mehmet-oz-mental-health-addiction/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p45#a260202p45

The impact of mental images on reasoning: a study on #aphantasia https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393226000229 mental imagery

En kommentar til den seneste udvikling i vores forhold til USA. Artiklen er i Ÿvrigt flere år gammel, men jeg tænker stadig aktuel. #USPol https://worldmhc.org/

An interview with Headspace CEO Tom Pickett on its AI chatbot Ebb, which he insists isn't for serious mental health issues, Ebb's upgrade to voice, and more (Emma Jacobs/Financial Times)

if you need it, please take care of your mental health, which may be in the form of adding more mute words and blocking news accounts or all the way to a social media sabbatical
you don't owe it to anyone to follow the news and it's not your fault what bad people do

Där var små skillnader i vissa test i några situationer. Tex verkade resultaten variera något beroende på hur länga personerna fastat. Så kanske är vissa egenskaper påverkade något vid vissa tillfällen.
Men överlag är det så små effekter så det är inget att bry sig om. Andra saker som stör en i miljön eller för dagen kommer ha betydligt större effekt är när man senast åt en måltid.
Skipping breakfast does not harm thinking skills, scientists say

Review finds mental abilities unaffected by intermittent fasting
Intermittent fasting shouldn't dull an adult's ability to think, remember and problem-solve, University of Auckland experts wrote in a new evidence review.

Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"
The onslaught includes LLMs finding bogus vulnerabilities and code that won’t compile. The project developer for one of the Internet’s most popular networking tools is scrapping its vulnerability reward program after being overrun by a spike in the submission of low-quality reports, much of it AI-generated slop.
🤖

Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure "intact mental health"
The onslaught includes LLMs finding bogus vulnerabilities and code that won't compile.

🙂 Teens prepared for puberty report fewer mental health issues
#teens…

Teens prepared for puberty report fewer mental health issues
New research suggests that teens who feel better-prepared to take on the challenges of puberty are more resilient and have a stronger sense of mental well-being.

I really hate to play the “age card,” folks, but back in my day (2023 and 2024), I distinctly recall that a president with apparent mental infirmities was nigh unto scandalous.
For a press so dedicated to sanewashing the Trump administration’s open sewer of corruption, the kid gloves treatment still seems the order of the day.
This week, The Atlantic’s Jonathan Lemire published a lengthy exegesis of the “President Trump is increasingly isolated” variety, titled “The Bubble-Wrapp…

Hey, Does Anyone Want to Talk About Donald Trump’s Infirmities?
He’s clearly slipping, mentally and physically, but the political press suddenly finds it less newsworthy that we have a woefully aging president.

Play it again, Uncle Sam, but now about Trump.
"Republicans in the House of Representatives launched investigations asserting that Biden’s closest advisers covered up a physical and mental decline during his presidency. The Senate started a series of hearings focused on his mental fitness."

‘The invisible man’: Joe Biden has disappeared in almost every way – except in Trump’s daily commentary
The 46th president largely exists as Trump’s foil, with his successor blaming him for the country’s woes

My new year resolution is simple:
1. Working,
2. Sleeping,
3. Commuting with bycycle.
Well, sleeping and commuting with bycycle are seemingly very simple, but cycling is very life changing to me.
Anxiety and depression are coming now and then. But compared to before, my mental, social and physical health are top-notch now.
My depression and anxiety are at the lowest. And I insist to focus on bycycle and sleeping to make my life even more stable.

"So here is what we should all be doing instead: embracing the Big Ball of Mud. Let us be honest; in an age where mental health concerns are finally gone mainstream, I find accepting such truth after 25 years a deliverance for the software engineer in me. Our projects are like hourglasses glued to a table, so we should just breathe."

Goodness Gracious, Great Balls Of Mud!
On June 25th, 1999, Brian Foote published a seminal article that became, for a short while, one of the most commented pages of the early Internet, at least by struggling software developers and prospective architects. Such was the impact that it "was twice featured in Slashdot" (kids: that is the 1999 equivalent of "this article hit the homepage of Hacker News"). After almost exactly 25 years since that publication, one question still lingers: when are we going to accept defeat?

Shocker 🤮
"Witkoff, Kushner, and Dmitriev designed their plan to bypass U.S. national security officials and create opportunities for U.S. businessmen to win multibillion-dollar deals to develop energy and rare-earth minerals in Russia, Ukraine, and the Arctic. "
November 28, 2025 - by Heather Cox Richardson
https://…

November 28, 2025
As Trump’s popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump’s mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump’s people are trying to grab all they can, while they can.

A neural model of conscious mental imagery and #aphantasia https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393226000382

Trauma and Mental Health in the Writing Workshop: A Theoretical and Practical Toolkit for Teachers
https://ift.tt/8vbG9Dj
updated: Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:50pmfull name / name of organization: Jennifer Case /…
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Trump's Fury at NYT Explodes Amid Fresh Concerns About Mental Decline (New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/203763/trump-fury-nyt-explodes-amid-fresh-concerns-mental-decline
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p53#a251201p53

OpenAI confirms Andrea Vallone, the head of an OpenAI safety research team that works on ChatGPT's mental health responses, is set to leave at the end of 2025 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-research-lead-mental-health-quietly-depar…

A Research Leader Behind ChatGPT’s Mental Health Work Is Leaving OpenAI
The model policy team leads core parts of AI safety research, including how ChatGPT responds to users in crisis.

Trump is very, very angry about a New York Times piece
that carefully documents his obvious physical decline.
Trump raged over the piece,
letting out a stream of lies about his performance in office
and even attacking the reporter who wrote the piece as ugly.
This may seem typical of Trump,
but we think it gets at something deeper.
Trump’s entire political mystique is premised on the fiction that he’s a strong, virile, formidable figure
who …

Transcript: Trump Fury Erupts at NYT as Mental Decline Visibly Worsens
As Trump’s rage at the paper of record reveals too much, the author of piece on Trump as “lame duck dictator” explains how devastating it is for him that his carefully-cultivated illusion of strength is collapsing.

I punted in the NFL for 12 years. Let me tell you: Punters have mental challenges too! https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6963346/2026/01/13/nfl-punters-jon-ryan-seahawks-mental-skills/

Comparing the characteristics of hallucinations and mental imagery: a large cross-sectional study in the general population https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053810025001679

@notgaz@cupoftea.social Welcome aboard!
As an aged dyslexic autistic curmudgeon whose has had mental illness diagnoses since childhood, you'll find plenty of good company here.

For many people who’d been inside that bubble of comfort, particularly at national news orgs, the story •started• with those two murders. They now seem to have a half-formed mental narrative that runs something like this:
❝
1. First the Trump administration started deporting a lot more people.
2. Then ICE murdered Good and Pretti.
3. Those two escalations caused widespread unrest in Minneapolis.
❞
That narrative is wrong.
3/

Breaking The Rules: A Clinician's Guide To Treating OCD
A show for mental health professionals designed to help you build confidence in treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/breaking-t…

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law requiring social platforms with features like autoplay and addictive feeds to show mental health warning labels for young users (Felix Day/WRGB)

Governor Hochul signs law for mental health warnings on addictive social media features
Governor Hochul has signed new legislation that will require social media platforms with certain addictive features to display warning labels alerting young use

Trump administration letter wipes out addiction, mental health grants : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5677104/trump-administration-letter-terminating-addiction-mental-health-grants

I can understand maybe not being able to comprehend this due to age (he's 79).
But there's a lot of young people who don't have problems with images like these which show wrong things, make up stuff that's weird, look creepy and misspell text.
I wonder if perhaps repeated COVID infections contribute to people's mental decline that is similar to age-related mental issues.

Trauma and Mental Health in the Writing Workshop: A Theoretical and Practical Toolkit for Teachers
https://ift.tt/8vbG9Dj
updated: Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - 10:50pmfull name / name of organization: Jennifer Case /…
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Just finished "I'm Awful, Thanks" by Lara Pickle. A good story that serves as a guide to managing emotions, although it's actually a cute story too, not just framing for the mental health discussion.
That said, I feel like it doesn't get far enough into the details of accepting self-control as our only form of real control vs. understanding that some events outside our control aren't fair or are others' attacks, and trying to manage our own emotions as our only response is a disservice to ourselves and others. Even further, I suspect that the HR resolution depicted here, while not impossible, is less frequent than much worse outcomes, which is part of a larger pattern of systemic assaults on our mental health that aren't totally solvable with individual emotional regulation.
Sure, leveling up one's control of ones own emotions and learning to accept and manage a range of emotions is super useful and it's a good thing overall, but the systemic problems of late stage capitalism are real, and making it seem like everyone is responsible for managing their own mental health in the face of these problems helps avoid confronting them.
Still, it's a good book overall, with vibrant art and a well-structured plot.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Character.ai is cutting off access to ongoing chats for users under 18 over mental-health concerns, after adding a two-hour daily limit on October 29 (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/character-ai-t

Teens Are Saying Tearful Goodbyes to Their AI Companions
Chatbot maker Character.AI is cutting off access, citing mental-health concerns. Teens are distraught: ‘I cried over it for days.’

Solomon Thomas named Cowboys nominee for Walter Payton Man of the Year award https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/solomon-thomas-named-cowboys-nominee-for-walter-payton-man-of-the-year-award

Hoje terminei um planejamento relativamente detalhado para 2026. Tenho certas objetivos profissionais que eu gostaria de alcançar, mas também preciso tomar conta da minha saúde mental, o burnout é muito comum na šrea acadêmica. Foi difícil, mas acho que consegui um meio-termo razošvel: resolverei algumas pendências nas férias (mas não tanto a ponto de eu não sair descansado deste período) e o período acadêmico serš num ritmo intenso (mas não a ponto de me deixar sem vida ou nenhum tempo livr…

»Sternwarte Winterthur — Sonnenfinsternis und Sternschnuppen - das ist 2026 am Himmel zu sehen:
Für Himmelsbeobachter beginnt das neue Jahr am 3. Januar. So richtig zur Sache geht es dann im August.«
Das Jahr fängt ja schon "gut" voller Newsmeldungen an. Ich werde wohl ein neues Hobby mir zutun um mich weitsichtig (mental) von der Erde zu entfernen ;)
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Sonnenfinsternis und Sternschnuppen – das ist 2026 am Himmel zu sehen
Für Himmelsbeobachter beginnt das neue Jahr am 3. Januar. So richtig zur Sache geht es dann im August.

What @… said:
Providing employment after deployment = supporting troops
Providing housing = supporting troops
Destigmatizing mental health care = supporting troops
Preventing armed conflict = supporting troops
You know what’s NOT supporting troops? Starting wars as political cover for a failing president. Deploying National Guard just to terrorize people and provoke a backlash. Issuing illegal orders. •That• is not supporting troops.
https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/115634994186527377

Meta Hid Evidence of Social Media Harm, Court Filings Claim | Thomson/Reuters
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/meta-research-mental-health/2025/11/22/id/1235682/

Filing: Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies social issues after a WSJ story about Instagram and teen mental health, noting Apple faces less scrutiny (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/874176/meta-zuckerberg-new-me…

Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies social issues after research got it in trouble
In an email newly unsealed as part of the New Mexico Attorney General’s case against Meta, CEO Mark Zuckerberg discussed tradeoffs of researching its platforms’ harms.

How ICE enforcement stress affects kids -- and what parents can do (Julianna Bragg/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/30/ice-trump-children-mental-health-parents-immigration
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p125#a260130p125

Gaze patterns during visual mental imagery reflect part-based generation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35447-z "eye movements during mental imagery reflect a part-by-part generation process of the imagined content, independent of prior perceptual encoding"

Sleeping on the job used to be frowned upon.
But a Pew Research Center survey found that 34% of Americans take daily naps.
According to experts, 30 minutes or less of catnapping can “restore alertness, enhance performance and reduce mistakes and accidents” in the workplace.
In the 1960s, President John F. Kennedy caught some extra z’s in early afternoon to keep up his stride.
And NASA pilots take in-flight naps as short as 26 minutes to enhance performance and alertn…

Midday Power Naps: 7 Reasons To Sleep On The Job In 2025
Scientific-backed research shows that midday power naps at work can be a game changer in your mental alertness, energy and productivity—even the company's bottom line.

Solomon Thomas named Cowboys nominee for Walter Payton Man of the Year award https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/solomon-thomas-named-cowboys-nominee-for-walter-payton-man-of-the-year-award

States battle with Education Department over school mental health funds | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/states-battle-with-education-department-over-school-mental-health-funds/

The Dalai Lama — has won his first Grammy.
His audiobook, Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, is a collection of thoughts
— on mindfulness, compassion, and mental and physical health
— with a soundtrack of Hindustani classical music
https://www.

Grammy award for Dalai Lama is ‘anti-China manipulation’, says Beijing
The 90-year-old spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists was recognised for his Meditations: The Reflections of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Trump Attacks MeidasTouch in Midnight Mental Breakdown (Ben Meiselas/Meidas )
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/trump-attacks-meidastouch-in-midnight
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p53#a251202p53

A board-certified cardiologist in December expressed alarm over the state of Trump's health, citing several instances in recent weeks where he appeared to fall asleep during crowded White House meetings before jolting suddenly into periods of intense energy.
"He's done this several times in the last few weeks. He's fallen asleep in a crowded Oval Office and he's also fallen asleep at Cabinet meetings with people talking directly to him. That's what's called…

Doctor gives verdict on Trump's brain function after POTUS claimed he 'aced' cognitive exam
Trump declared last week he had correctly answered every question "for the third straight time" during his most recent mental health check

December 1, 2025 -- President Donald J. Trump's behavior over the holiday weekend has increased concern about his mental acuity. (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-1-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p52#a251202p52

(LinkedIn) Generative human intelligence for images anyone? https://www.linkedin.com/posts/petermeijer_the-voice-for-android-apps-on-google-play-activity-7413499467846500352-sfcJ

The vOICe for Android - Apps on Google Play | Peter Meijer
What is sensory substitution? When I speak to you and say, "Imagine a rising bright line", and you "see" a rising bright line in your mind's eye, that's mental imagery guided by sound, a form of sensory substitution. The vOICe vision BCI generalizes this such that it works for all images. And yes, being software-based, it is already in "mass production" well ahead of any Neuralink Blindsight brain implant, with well over 500,000 cumulative installs from Google Play https://lnkd.in/dGaF2br More…

A study of mental health conversations with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Meta AI: they often failed to recognize signs of conditions and offered general advice (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj…

White House reverses $2 billion cut to mental health, addiction grants (Sandhya Raman/Roll Call)
https://rollcall.com/2026/01/14/hhs-cuts-2-billion-in-mental-health-addiction-grants/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p24#a260115p24

NY Senate Bill 4505 Requires warning labels on social media platforms which provide an addictive feed, autoplay, infinite scroll, like counts, and/or push notifications;
directs the commissioner of mental health to design the warning label
Bluesky=Facebook
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills

NY State Senate Bill 2025-S4505
Requires warning labels on social media platforms which provide an addictive feed, autoplay, infinite scroll, like counts, and/or push notifications; directs the commissioner of mental health to design the warning label.

HHS Reverses $2 Billion in Cuts to Mental-Health, Substance-Abuse Groups (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/hhs-reverses-2-billion-in-cuts-to-mental-health-substance-abuse-groups-f5916317
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p104#a260115p104

(2024) NeuroImage: Visual mental imagery and neural dynamics of sensory substitution in the blindfolded subjects #neuroscience

Is Trump mentally OK? A look back at the president's unusual behavior in 2025 (Adam Gabbatt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/24/trump-mental-health-speech-address-2025-review
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p60#a251224p60

In what may be close to an impossible job,
the “head of preparedness” at OpenAI
will be directly responsible for defending against risks from ever more powerful AIs to human mental health, cybersecurity and biological weapons.
That is before the successful candidate has to start worrying about the possibility that AIs may soon begin training themselves amid fears from some experts they could “turn against us”.
“This will be a stressful job,
and you’ll jump into …

Sam Altman says OpenAI is seeking a new Head of Preparedness, noting "the potential impact of models on mental health was something we saw a preview of in 2025" (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-is-hiri…

OpenAI is hiring a new Head of Preparedness to try to predict and mitigate AI's harms
In a post about the role, CEO Sam Altman said it'll be 'a stressful job and you'll jump into the deep end pretty much immediately.

A critique of a large UK social media study that suggested measures like social media bans are unlikely to have an effect on teens' long term mental health (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/social-media-screen-time-manchester-study-haidt/<…

What a big study of teens says about social media — and what it can’t
The “moral panic” framing misses how platforms actually harm kids. PLUS: Newsom investigates TikTok over Trump, and the Clawdbot frenzy

A look at AI-powered tools and apps like Aira Explorer that are helping blind people access visual feedback about their bodies, sometimes for the first time (Milagros Costabel/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260126-ai-mirrors-…

'AI mirrors' are changing the way blind people see themselves
Artificial intelligence is helping blind people access visual feedback about their bodies, sometimes for the first time. The impact on their mental health is only just emerging.