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How psychedelic drugs affect the brain https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/ns02132601.html "High-resolution brain imaging reveals that psychedelics suppress external visual processing and instead drive visual areas to access the retrosplenial cortex, [...], thereby generating hallucinati…

How Psychedelic Drugs Affect the Brain
Research findings reinforce new approaches in psychology, using psychedelic substances under medical supervision to treat certain clinical conditions.

As a "safety measure," Discord will require a face scan or ID starting next month.
https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally

Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally
Discord is announcing enhanced teen safety features rolling out globally that reinforce its long-standing commitment to creating a safer and more inclusive experience for users over the age of 13.

Agentic #AI #Patterns Reinforce #Engineering Discipline

So Trump lost this war with Iran he started and the rest of the world pays the price. Freedom of navigation has been given up in Hormuz, we pay a million per vessel. Iran has a very strong negotiating position, will play for time , acquire weapons, reinforce/rebuild, surpress the Iranian people, I am forgetting anything?
#trump

Post-Super Bowl Cowboys Mock Draft Features Splashy First-Round Picks https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/post-super-bowl-dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-mock-draft-splashy-first-round-picks

#Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally
https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally

Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally
Discord is announcing enhanced teen safety features rolling out globally that reinforce its long-standing commitment to creating a safer and more inclusive experience for users over the age of 13.

Las Vegas Raiders reinforce Commitment to Excellence with 2025 Impact Playbook https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-raiders-reinforce-commitment-to-excellence-with-2025-impact-playbook

Dario Amodei says Anthropic has a higher retention than OpenAI, emphasizing its "mission" as a way to reinforce staff loyalty and fend off competitors' offers (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/anthropic…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says ‘Mission’ Helps Fend Off Rivals
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Tuesday touted the company’s ability to fend off its competitors from recruiting its staff and stressed the company’s interest in expanding areas like healthcare through partnerships. Amodei told attendees at an investment conference put on by Morgan Stanley in San Francisco that Anthropic generally counters offers from rivals such as Meta, but wouldn’t spend 10

One more week. One more Java Geek Weekly.
Lots of coding assistant related content obviously.
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/131/

The United States is deploying roughly 2,500 Marines aboard up to three amphibious warships from the Indo-Pacific toward the Middle East
as fighting with Iran enters a more uncertain phase.
The move adds a mobile expeditionary force to the more than 50,000 U.S. troops already in the region
while Washington evaluates Iran’s response to nearly two weeks of joint U.S. and Israeli air and long-range strike operations.
What's Trump expecting them to do?
Capture …

U.S. Deploys 2,500 Marines on Amphibious Warships to Reinforce Middle-East Deterrence Against Iran
2,500 U.S. Marines sail toward the Middle East aboard amphibious warships as Washington strengthens deterrence against Iran.

Las Vegas Raiders reinforce Commitment to Excellence with 2025 Impact Playbook https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-raiders-reinforce-commitment-to-excellence-with-2025-impact-playbook

Today is UN World Day for Glaciers, so I'm re-posting some relevant messages & personal experiences with disappearing glaciers in the Alps:
Interactive visualization of changes in glacier length
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/113191569344705725
One of the birth …

World Day for Glaciers - 21 March
The United Nations international days are occasions to educate the public on issues of concern, to mobilize political will and resources to address global problems, and to reinforce achievements of humanity.

Dozens of far-right "Defend" groups organise and reinforce protests against refugee centres throughout the Netherlands. "Ten people yelling at a municipal council meeting in a small town can have an impact."
In the media, it often looks likeva local protest.
https://nos.nl/l/2606585

Tientallen extreemrechtse Defend-groepen opgericht, steeds groter en zichtbaarder
De extremisten richten zich bewust op de besluitvorming in gemeenten, waarbij ze proberen de komst van asielzoekerscentra tegen te houden.

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116250982563193049
Hot take: the ideas were bad in the first place. They’re growth and healing denying concepts that reinforce that some people are just inferior.

Carney offers to ‘broker a bridge’ to build giant anti-Trump trade club
#EU #Canada #CPTPP
Via @… (& @…)

The existence of Israel is a manifestation of European antisemitism, both historically justifying the project of Zionism and European governments continuing to fund Israel instead of addressing the core role of antisemitism in maintaining (at least) the conservative elements of the neoliberal order.
If antisemitism props up Israel, then a core part of dismantling Israel (and thus saving the lives of Palestinians) is addressing European antisemitism. There are Israeli Jews who would leave if they felt safe to do so. There are Jews demanding Israel be armed, because they don't feel safe anywhere else.
Protest, boycott, take whatever action you feel is appropriate. There is a limit to your ability to convince governments to stop funding genocide, but you can learn about antisemitism and you can work to fight it, especially within "The Left." You can learn to distinguish between legitimate critiques of Israel, and antisemitic ones, and you can stand and call out antisemitic ones.
Honestly, this is some of the easy work that I think a lot of people don't consider even doing, don't even realize it is a thing that can be done.
I'm talking to Israeli folks who identify as being on the Left. It's hard because they've been through a lot of propaganda. Israel is a cult that terrorizes its members. This is important work that can have a huge impact, because it focuses on dismantling the networks of support that reinforce what's happening now.
Meanwhile, I still run into wild things like "Rothschild" conspiracy theories among people who identify with the idea of supporting Palestinians.
Not only can you support the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people while opposing antisemitism, but you must actually do both in order to do either. They are exactly the same fight, and anything short of both is thrashing against oneself.

A Stanford study of 391K messages across 5,000 chats: AI chatbots affirmed user messages in nearly 66% of responses, frequently validating delusional thinking (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7f635a68-3b2a-4e4f-ae3d-926ff06ff068

AI chatbots often validate delusions and suicidal thoughts, study finds
Stanford researchers analysing 391,000 messages warn conversational technology may reinforce psychological vulnerabilities

Trump's administration is considering deploying ⚠️thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East,
as the U.S. military prepares for possible next steps in its campaign against Iran,
said a U.S. official and three people familiar with the matter.
The deployments would provide Trump with additional options as he weighs expanding U.S. operations,
with the Iran war well into its first month.
Those options include securing safe passage for…

Good Morning #Canada
On this International Day of Happiness I think we should check on Canada’s world ranking on the #Happiness scale. It appears we're are not happy.
I've put some blame on #PeePee in the past for negatively impacting Canadian satisfaction surveys because he incessantly tells us we're broken. Yes, he is exploiting rel issues but maybe working on real solutions would be a better approach. The latest World Happiness Report 2026 has Canada falling 25th place, continuing a downward trend - 18th in 2025 and 13th in 2024. The report suggests that countries who use social media for 5 hours a day, particularly young people, are less happy than those who are doomscrolling less. IMO our youth are not happy because their salaries can't keep pace with the cost of living, but an algorithm would constantly reinforce that if you're active on the platforms owned by U.S. tech bros.
Happy I'm on #Mastodon

#CanadaIsAwesome #ItsTheAlgorithm
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/world-happiness-2026-canada-25-9.7134296