Michael Goldstrom
goldstrom.bsky.social
Michael Goldstrom
@goldstrom.bsky.social
Founder. GetMotivatedBuddies.
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“People in My Lab Are Scared”

Bernardo Sabatini studies the neurobiology of decision-making and its implications for neuropsychiatric disorders

magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/peo...
“People in My Lab Are Scared”
magazine.hms.harvard.edu
June 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
RFK reboots Schitt’s Creek.
May 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
A plea to all tech companies and founders: STOP using “book me a flight to Rome on April 10th” or “make me a reservation at bocelli’s” as your examples of whatever your app can do. Humans don’t need a multi billion dollar company to do those things. Please adjust your priorities.
April 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.

@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...
April 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Larry David just ended Bill Maher.

This is death by satire.

My Dinner With Adolf (gift link):

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
Opinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf (Gift Article)
When a private meeting goes unexpectedly.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Best documentary of America right now is Children of Men. Definitely watch.
April 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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🚨NEW: Major development.

German newspaper Der Spiegel has found phone numbers and passwords for Hegseth, Waltz & Gabbard in stolen data freely published on the internet.

‼️It includes details of Signal accounts.

“It is conceivable that foreign agents were privy to the Signal chat group.”
March 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
“If Europe doesn’t ‘renumerate’…”
Miller. One of the geniuses.
March 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Most recent greatest fear: Trump and acolytes will create a terrorist emergency a la Putin to expedite everything.
March 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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It's hard to say what the best political strategy is. But one thing some Dem politicians are doing is definitely wrong: They are STILL on Twitter. Like what is wrong with you? Seriously?
Quitting Twitter is such a costless gesture to show you're not Elon's customer anymore. What's the holdup?
March 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Fucking insane. White House is 100% compromised.
Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 5:08 AM
In the Atlantic. Franklin Foer attended the same years I did. This article is a superb overview of the situation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
March 18, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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Meta rep flagged 'critiques of tech industry figures' as 'sensitive or controversial content'
www.usermag.co/p/meta-rep-f... by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Meta rep flagged 'critiques of tech industry figures' as 'sensitive or controversial content'
Meta said that the journalist "should never have received this response," but the incident set off a wave of concern over censorship online.
www.usermag.co
March 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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This is absolutely crazy.
Much of Tech Fascist thought is inspired by a 1997 book called "The Sovereign Individual." It predicted the rise of "cyber currency" & the fall of existing nations. It had a profound effect on Peter Thiel. He even wrote the preface to the 2020 edition. Summary:

www.thenerdreich.com/the-sovereig...
The Sovereign Individual: Radical Bible of Tech's 'Cognitive Elite'
How a 1997 Book Predicted Tech’s War on Democracy
www.thenerdreich.com
March 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Get ready for our new release: actual people.
March 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE. ZELENSKY IS A DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED LEADER. ZELENSKY IS FIGHTING TO KEEP UKRAINE INDEPENDENT. PUTIN IS A DICTATOR. WE FIGHT FOR DEMOCRACY. WE SUPPORT DEMOCRATIC NATIONS. TRUMP IS A TRAITOR TO TRUTH AND WHAT WE STAND FOR.🇺🇦🇺🇸
February 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Superb article from ProPublica. Doesn’t justify murder but definitely helps see why.
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.

(Published Feb. 2023)
UnitedHealthcare tried to deny coverage to a chronically ill patient. He fought back, exposing the insurer’s inner workings.
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for…
propub.li
February 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Gift link.

A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone.

And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration.

If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...
February 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This fucker better be talking about Elvis.
February 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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After all we've seen in the past 3.5wks, I cannot believe anyone is confused about this.

Musk. Owns. Trump.

Trump sold Musk the functions of the Presidency; in return, Musk spent $250M to ensure Trump won instead of dying in prison.

Trump just licenses his name to the deal: POTUS in name only.
A lot of people on here keep fantasizing about the moment Trump "fires" Elon Musk because Musk has stepped out too far in front of him and I'm sure that feels good, but after watching the last Musk/Trump presser I think it's worth considering that we are essentially watching a coup via elder abuse.
February 14, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Insanity. State of California may buy refineries to avoid shortages. Please share!

youtu.be/vE93yurqqNo?...
INSANITY!!! California May Have to Buy Refineries
YouTube video by Mr Global
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February 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
@cfhunfiltered.bsky.social just saw your video on VA cuts. Please connect - would like to talk about ways to support.
February 16, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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An excellent question. Where are the Fortune 500 & Wall Street CEOs? Where are the university presidents? Where are the civil society leaders? Not just speaking out specifically in defense of their institutions & democracy, but also about 🇺🇸's global interests? The silence is deafening & shameful.
we are gutting out competitive advantages and the stakeholders of our democracy don't care? what the fuck is wrong with america's elites?
February 15, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Elon Musk's destruction of our government is the opposite of chaos - it's strategy.

Influential tech extremists have openly promoted this idea for years. Here's a 5-minute video explainer of Silicon Valley's Playbook to Destroy American Government: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC62....
🔥 Elon Musk & Silicon Valley’s Plan to Dismantle Democracy | The Shocking Truth
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Gulf of America or Mexico? Scroll through both. Google has taken corporate politics to a whole other level.
February 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM