Guest post by Sorbie Richner
On Dying Well: Ben Sasse and the Vocation of Suffering
Ben Sasse’s recent announcement reveals to us both goods and virtues that show in his dying a glimmer of light, a stirring of hope, and the possibility of spring even in one’s final winter.
I wanted to be Anthony Bourdain—until I met him.
CW: suicide, suicidal ideation, addiction
Alexis King’s Blog
This is a blog post I have been considering writing for a long time.
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) is a book by sociologist and mass media scholar Neil Postman. It has been translated into 16 languages and sold some 200,000 copies worldwide. In 2005, Postman's son Andrew reissued the book in a 20th anniversary edition.
I wanted ChatGPT to help me. So why did it advise me how to kill myself?
ChatGPT wrote a woman a suicide note and another AI chatbot role-played sexual acts with children, BBC finds.
#769: Nothing you see online is true
Clipping as emergent online literacy, the women self-injecting bootleg Botox and the woes of Facebook nanny groups
The Shapeshifter’s Little Brother
On Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto—aka nine blog posts in a trenchcoat.
Ravid Shwartz Ziv on Twitter / X
The problem with Anthropic's consciousness paperMy last post got more attention than I expected, and the question I keep getting is some version of "okay, so what is actually wrong with the paper?". Let me try to explain.First, the core result is fine. Reading out…— Ravid Shwartz Ziv (@ziv_ravid) July 7, 2026
This got out of hand, and shouldve been a blog post. So here it is on @pckt.blog! pckt.blog/b/woodys-rows/open-music-even…
Open Music Event, Native Apps, and the Shape of an ATProto Festival Platform - Woodys Rows
pckt.blog
Woody Melling
Gonna start brain dumping more consistently about @openmusicevent.app (OME) to hopefully start garnering some #atprotodev ecosystem interest. Open Music Event is going to be in a public open beta by August 15th. It’s an #atproto app for concerts, music festivals and other similarly shaped events
1. Just read about what (doesn't) work in suicide prevention in the new World Journal of Psychiatry (#1 impact factor). Unfortunately, authors refer to the outdated Barbui 2009 MA of observational studies on antidepressants, not to our update. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wps.21284
Suicide prevention: what works, what might work, and what does not work
onlinelibrary.wiley.comHas anyone looked at this paper more closely? I've seen many of my bachelor students refer to it when it comes to depressive disorders. Authors find worldwide depression rates doubled from 1990 to 2020, which seems like a lot. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40313474/
Trends in Prevalent Cases and Disability-Adjusted Life-Years of Depressive Disorders Worldwide: Findings From the Global Burden of Disease Study From 1990 to 2021 - PubMed
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