Durel
@mizdurie.bsky.social
Made in His image. Fascinated by the chaos of outer space. Therapist helping others with the chaos of their inner space. #IAmEnough 🇯🇲🇨🇦
Happy #Thanksgiving! 🍁🇨🇦
I’m thankful that I get to experience the beauty of our world. Each element of nature is like a tiny gift to help brighten our day. ❤️
Snaps from my #morningwalk. #Gratitude #Wellness
I’m thankful that I get to experience the beauty of our world. Each element of nature is like a tiny gift to help brighten our day. ❤️
Snaps from my #morningwalk. #Gratitude #Wellness
October 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Happy #Thanksgiving! 🍁🇨🇦
I’m thankful that I get to experience the beauty of our world. Each element of nature is like a tiny gift to help brighten our day. ❤️
Snaps from my #morningwalk. #Gratitude #Wellness
I’m thankful that I get to experience the beauty of our world. Each element of nature is like a tiny gift to help brighten our day. ❤️
Snaps from my #morningwalk. #Gratitude #Wellness
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Me to the pistacchio I didn't manage to pry open
October 4, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Me to the pistacchio I didn't manage to pry open
Who is this “we” you’re referring to? I’d like to be excluded from that narrative tyvm.
“We millennials know that there’s no such thing as work-life balance. My career is my life, my life is my career. I would never be at peace if I wasn’t working so hard.” trib.al/suc3yU6
Astronaut says Gen Z often quits when things get uncomfortable—here’s the Jeff Bezos Blue Origin training that taught her to push through | Fortune
From space rockets to 13-hour workdays, this millennial astronaut reveals the mind trick that can make discomfort your secret weapon to success.
trib.al
October 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Who is this “we” you’re referring to? I’d like to be excluded from that narrative tyvm.
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You cannot fight Christianized Nationalism with reason.
You have to overcome it from the heart. You have to draw on that internal power no matter your tactics, your capacities or your actions.
You have to overcome it from the heart. You have to draw on that internal power no matter your tactics, your capacities or your actions.
September 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
You cannot fight Christianized Nationalism with reason.
You have to overcome it from the heart. You have to draw on that internal power no matter your tactics, your capacities or your actions.
You have to overcome it from the heart. You have to draw on that internal power no matter your tactics, your capacities or your actions.
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Kimmel is up on YouTube
Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
youtu.be
September 24, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Kimmel is up on YouTube
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Our bodies, our emotional response (often unnoticed, or seemingly delayed) are offering important data for discernment and sorting lies from truth.
It’s just no one ever teaches us what our emotional responses are trying to *do* and the functions they are trying to perform.
It’s just no one ever teaches us what our emotional responses are trying to *do* and the functions they are trying to perform.
Riding the Roller Coaster - the function of emotion
Most of us learn very early to see our emotions as problems, as distractions, as disturbances that need to be banished or fixed, or else as commands to impulsive actions. What if they are something else entirely?
by donation/free seats
Most of us learn very early to see our emotions as problems, as distractions, as disturbances that need to be banished or fixed, or else as commands to impulsive actions. What if they are something else entirely?
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Riding the Roller Coaster Workshop: — What A Shrink Thinks
or grown-ups who have feelings
www.whatashrinkthinks.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Our bodies, our emotional response (often unnoticed, or seemingly delayed) are offering important data for discernment and sorting lies from truth.
It’s just no one ever teaches us what our emotional responses are trying to *do* and the functions they are trying to perform.
It’s just no one ever teaches us what our emotional responses are trying to *do* and the functions they are trying to perform.
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Imagine if Richard Nixon had just tweeted out the Watergate scandal rather than putting it on secret tapes.
That’s what this is.
That’s what this is.
September 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Imagine if Richard Nixon had just tweeted out the Watergate scandal rather than putting it on secret tapes.
That’s what this is.
That’s what this is.
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Good morning, beloved.
Understand the difference in freedom from bondage and freedom to bind.
Some “freedom” is captivity with a mask on.
Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.
Understand the difference in freedom from bondage and freedom to bind.
Some “freedom” is captivity with a mask on.
Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.
July 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Good morning, beloved.
Understand the difference in freedom from bondage and freedom to bind.
Some “freedom” is captivity with a mask on.
Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.
Understand the difference in freedom from bondage and freedom to bind.
Some “freedom” is captivity with a mask on.
Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.
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Sigh.
"Starting papers and projects; summarizing long texts; brainstorming creative projects; exploring new topics; and revising writing" aren't "busywork." They're the very essence of an education. They're how you learn.
Any teacher who doesn't understand this point doesn't understand their job.
"Starting papers and projects; summarizing long texts; brainstorming creative projects; exploring new topics; and revising writing" aren't "busywork." They're the very essence of an education. They're how you learn.
Any teacher who doesn't understand this point doesn't understand their job.
Most students are using AI to write, but not necessarily to cheat. They’re brainstorming, revising and thinking critically with tools like ChatGPT.
A writing professor says this isn’t a threat – it’s an opportunity, rather than a loss.
A writing professor says this isn’t a threat – it’s an opportunity, rather than a loss.
AI isn’t replacing student writing – but it is reshaping it
If AI allows students to automate routine cognitive tasks, it doesn’t mean they’re thinking less. It means their thinking is changing.
theconversation.com
July 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Sigh.
"Starting papers and projects; summarizing long texts; brainstorming creative projects; exploring new topics; and revising writing" aren't "busywork." They're the very essence of an education. They're how you learn.
Any teacher who doesn't understand this point doesn't understand their job.
"Starting papers and projects; summarizing long texts; brainstorming creative projects; exploring new topics; and revising writing" aren't "busywork." They're the very essence of an education. They're how you learn.
Any teacher who doesn't understand this point doesn't understand their job.
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And then this shit just came out.
When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.
When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.
When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance
June 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
And then this shit just came out.
When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.
When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
When you’re making over $700k a year, gaining $12k is nothing. It’s a nice vacation, redoing the garage, giving a niece/nephew a car.
When you’re making $23k a year, losing $1600 is “are we paying for food or for the house or for medical bills” territory.
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Hey America -
We know you don’t like refugees.
But do you know the best way to avoid dealing with refugees?
Don’t start new wars.
We know you don’t like refugees.
But do you know the best way to avoid dealing with refugees?
Don’t start new wars.
June 22, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hey America -
We know you don’t like refugees.
But do you know the best way to avoid dealing with refugees?
Don’t start new wars.
We know you don’t like refugees.
But do you know the best way to avoid dealing with refugees?
Don’t start new wars.
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There is enough terror and sadness just in being mortal living beings. That we make it so so much worse than it has to be is the ultimate sin against creation.
June 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
There is enough terror and sadness just in being mortal living beings. That we make it so so much worse than it has to be is the ultimate sin against creation.
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New study on the effects of LLM use:
Quote:
"LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. […] Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."
Quote:
"LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. […] Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."
[2506.08872] Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition. In a fourth session, LLM users were reassigned to Brain-only group (LLM-to-Brain), and Brain-only users were reassigned to LLM condition (Brain-to-LLM). A total of 54 participants took part in Sessions 1-3, with 18 completing session 4. We used electroencephalography (EEG) to assess cognitive load during essay writing, and analyzed essays using NLP, as well as scoring essays with the help from human teachers and an AI judge. Across groups, NERs, n-gram patterns, and topic ontology showed within-group homogeneity. EEG revealed significant differences in brain connectivity: Brain-only participants exhibited the strongest, most distributed networks; Search Engine users showed moderate engagement; and LLM users displayed the weakest connectivity. Cognitive activity scaled down in relation to external tool use. In session 4, LLM-to-Brain participants showed reduced alpha and beta connectivity, indicating under-engagement. Brain-to-LLM users exhibited higher memory recall and activation of occipito-parietal and prefrontal areas, similar to Search Engine users. Self-reported ownership of essays was the lowest in the LLM group and the highest in the Brain-only group. LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning.
arxiv.org
June 16, 2025 at 10:56 AM
New study on the effects of LLM use:
Quote:
"LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. […] Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."
Quote:
"LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. […] Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."
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You cannot go about your life thinking about ways to avoid making fascists angry. You will not succeed, and you will not be free.
June 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
You cannot go about your life thinking about ways to avoid making fascists angry. You will not succeed, and you will not be free.
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We know what Canada has, and we’re going to build on it.
June 3, 2025 at 3:09 AM
We know what Canada has, and we’re going to build on it.
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ICYMI: my interview with Prime Minister Mark Carney from the day the King delivered the Speech from the Throne.
open.spotify.com/episode/79kS...
open.spotify.com/episode/79kS...
Power & Politics: Exclusive interview with Prime Minister Mark Carney
Power & Politics · Episode
open.spotify.com
May 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
ICYMI: my interview with Prime Minister Mark Carney from the day the King delivered the Speech from the Throne.
open.spotify.com/episode/79kS...
open.spotify.com/episode/79kS...
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Welcomed a great group of students from Georgetown, Ontario, to my office on Parliament Hill yesterday.
These kids have big ideas for Canada. I’m working hard every day to deliver for them.
These kids have big ideas for Canada. I’m working hard every day to deliver for them.
May 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Welcomed a great group of students from Georgetown, Ontario, to my office on Parliament Hill yesterday.
These kids have big ideas for Canada. I’m working hard every day to deliver for them.
These kids have big ideas for Canada. I’m working hard every day to deliver for them.
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Thanks for the meeting today, Mayor Chow.
We’re ready to get to work — to build up the housing supply, to bring costs down, and to keep our communities safe.
We’re ready to get to work — to build up the housing supply, to bring costs down, and to keep our communities safe.
May 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Thanks for the meeting today, Mayor Chow.
We’re ready to get to work — to build up the housing supply, to bring costs down, and to keep our communities safe.
We’re ready to get to work — to build up the housing supply, to bring costs down, and to keep our communities safe.
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Canada is already in it with big fires and evacs in the thousands. The country looks poised to have large fires on the landscape from now until the snows come. That means Canadian resources will be overextended and not available to help others. Also, probably leads to smoke drifting into the US.
May 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Canada is already in it with big fires and evacs in the thousands. The country looks poised to have large fires on the landscape from now until the snows come. That means Canadian resources will be overextended and not available to help others. Also, probably leads to smoke drifting into the US.
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Narrator: they were not considering the offer
May 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Narrator: they were not considering the offer
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George Floyd should be alive today.
He should be raising his daughter, living his life.
5 years later, we owe him more than thoughts and hashtags.
His daughter said, “My daddy changed the world.”
Let’s stop failing her, and him.
Congress must pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
He should be raising his daughter, living his life.
5 years later, we owe him more than thoughts and hashtags.
His daughter said, “My daddy changed the world.”
Let’s stop failing her, and him.
Congress must pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
May 25, 2025 at 5:25 PM
George Floyd should be alive today.
He should be raising his daughter, living his life.
5 years later, we owe him more than thoughts and hashtags.
His daughter said, “My daddy changed the world.”
Let’s stop failing her, and him.
Congress must pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
He should be raising his daughter, living his life.
5 years later, we owe him more than thoughts and hashtags.
His daughter said, “My daddy changed the world.”
Let’s stop failing her, and him.
Congress must pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
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According to @abridgman.bsky.social, audiences need to encourage a “culture of accountability” with social media influencers:
“The key is to try to figure out a transparency regime around this as much as possible, so that people can make informed decisions when they listen to content creators”
“The key is to try to figure out a transparency regime around this as much as possible, so that people can make informed decisions when they listen to content creators”
Canadian Conservative YouTubers claim they were offered Russian money to fund their videos. Their strange story raises serious questions
Experts warn that content creators and social media influencers could be prime targets for foreign actors looking to interfere in Canada’s democracy
Experts warn that content creators and social media influencers could be prime targets for foreign actors looking to interfere in Canada’s democracy
Canadian Conservative YouTubers Claim They Were Offered Russian Money to Fund Their Videos. Their Strange Story Raises Serious Questions.
Experts warn that content creators and social media influencers could be prime targets for foreign actors looking to interfere in Canada’s democracy
pressprogress.ca
May 23, 2025 at 1:46 AM
According to @abridgman.bsky.social, audiences need to encourage a “culture of accountability” with social media influencers:
“The key is to try to figure out a transparency regime around this as much as possible, so that people can make informed decisions when they listen to content creators”
“The key is to try to figure out a transparency regime around this as much as possible, so that people can make informed decisions when they listen to content creators”
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This is extremely significant. Former 🇮🇱 Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (2006-9) wrote in a May 22 Haaretz op-ed that Israel is:
🔴 intentionally waging a war of annihilation
🔴 premeditatedly adopting a policy of starvation
🔴 massacring civilians
🔴 making declarations of genocide
A thread:
🔴 intentionally waging a war of annihilation
🔴 premeditatedly adopting a policy of starvation
🔴 massacring civilians
🔴 making declarations of genocide
A thread:
May 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
This is extremely significant. Former 🇮🇱 Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (2006-9) wrote in a May 22 Haaretz op-ed that Israel is:
🔴 intentionally waging a war of annihilation
🔴 premeditatedly adopting a policy of starvation
🔴 massacring civilians
🔴 making declarations of genocide
A thread:
🔴 intentionally waging a war of annihilation
🔴 premeditatedly adopting a policy of starvation
🔴 massacring civilians
🔴 making declarations of genocide
A thread: