This dummy spit from a tech CEO because Wired didn't cover his product the way he wanted is HILARIOUS. How dare someone joke about his most important development in the history of Mankind! Also, a great reminder to all who talk to journalists. We are not PR tools here to parrot your talking points.

It's real.

Pam the Bird at it again. Worth it for this headline 🤣🤣

Just for posterity.

A recently published, and rather well regarded, book on the history of Australian drug law contains this line. To its credit at least it's not conflating mdma with psychedelics.

Reading this line in a random news article this morning reminded me how confused the public conversation around psychedelic medicine has become.

This story tells you everything you need to know about Musk and his family....

Pretty classic news report warning against foraging for magic mushrooms. Ticks all the boxes. ✳️ They could kill you. ✳️ The police are watching. ✳️ We don't know what's in the mushrooms. ✳️ You could slip and hurt yourself while hunting. ✳️ "Just not worth it".

Another science media publication (Scientific American) gutted by a corporate sale. Good, experienced editors and journalists fired. This one is even worse than usual with this statement from the local writer's guild suggesting politics and union busting underpinning the dirty work.

We're in a really shitty place as a society where it's decriminalised in some places, legal in others and generally all over the news as a healing medicine. Yet police still burn people like this. People that actually call the police for help.

Also, in a case of beautiful irony, one mycologist tells me the mushroom in the image supplied by the WA Police is possibly not even a death cap (Amanita phalloides) but in fact another genus altogether called Cortinarius.

Except the police claim he had picked Amanita phalloides, a species rarely mistaken for magic mushrooms in Australia. Maybe something like Galerina is more like wrongly foraged. But either way, thanks police (according to the police).

In case you really needed to know Jeremy Allen White's opinion on social media bans...

Stumbled across this ad for a magic mushroom chocolate bar. The whole bar apparently contains 6 grams of mushroom material. However, the write-up mistakes whole mushroom material for direct psilocybin content suggesting a small triangle of chocolate contains 150 mg of psilocybin!! What a typo!

Oh, in case you were wondering where all our societal problems with dopamine sensitivity and declining birth rates started you can blame it on all those pesky women getting educated and pursuing careers. I really hope The Guardian got a good "donation" for producing such a promotional article.

And according to the article there is plenty of evidence to back up these ideas. The only caveat in the entire piece is here suggesting the science behind the dopamine detox is "nuanced".

This is wild. Apparently masturbation and excessive sexual activity dulls your brain to dopamine.

Meta going all in on the 'Fuck you, we're taking your data whether you like it or not'. Settings changing to only allow users to choose whether the data gathered optimizes their ads. No option to disconnect you account completely anymore.

Also, what is "social media use" here? Seems it was limited to time spent on a small handful of platforms. No YouTube, reddit, discord, roblox or networked gaming counted. So what is even being measured here?

For example, here are some of the risk ratios presented in the study. Comparing annual self-reported metrics of both social media use and measures of well being. The effect sizes here are pretty small, & inconsistent. A little bit of social media use per day had no effect on depression or anxiety?

This new social media and adolescent mental health study is unsurprisingly getting lots of coverage and the headlines are a classic example of why science reporting requires nuance and expertise. Only the ABC story presented the complications in the findings.

I'm always keen to hear the latest drug slang but sometimes I get the feeling researchers are getting pranked. Is anyone seriously calling cocaine 'nose beer'?

Is this where the "never die" guy realises love is actually bad for our health?

Never seen a Liberal admit so literally their party is on the same spectrum as One Nation. So here it is I guess, the right admitting that their policies veer into straight up racism. Not sure how moderate Liberal voters can square this.

The sentence suggesting food levels in Gaza "significantly exceed the nutritional needs of the population, according to UN methodologies" is such a dystopian example of doublespeak Orwell would be proud.

Evidence of a thing that happened. Circa 2006, Sunshine Coast forest. There actually was some crew sitting way at the back giving me thumbs up and thumbs down feedback while I was playing a warm up set. Tough crowd.

How about the veracity of the authors? I can't find any trace of two of the authors. The corresponding author has a local practice website. And the institution? "Medical Department, Associação Cruz de Ankh, São Paulo, Brazil" What is that? Doesn't even exist as far as I can trace.

The initial red flag was simply the ethics of it all. How could a non verbal dementia patient consent to something like this? And how could a journal allow the publication of a case report that is underpinned by a clinical ethics violation? That's handwaved away here apparently.

Someone at Google watches Widow's Bay 😂😂

This is both the funniest thing I've ever read and a sign we're truly living in a dystopia.