Rich Haridy
@richharidy.bsky.social
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Science and technology journalist. Psychedelic science and culture. Maybe trying to write a book. Find me at www.richharidy.com
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Here is a starter pack I put together featuring all the psychedelic science researchers and journalists I could find on here. Let me know who I'm missing. It'd be great to get the conversation going on this platform go.bsky.app/NPvFX41
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I've interviewed that particular researcher before and know how moderate she is so that headline is even more galling. Such a weird time right now where we're criticising right wing media for being TOO positively hyperbolic about psychedelic medicine. Just a few years ago it was the exact opposite.
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If science journalism is going to survive genAI (and Jen, from Corporate), we're going to have to do a lot more than rewrite press releases 🧪
What The **** Is The Point Of Us Then?
Are we better than the machines or not?
nobreakthroughs.substack.com
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Story in today's Herald Sun (one of Australia's most right-leaning newspapers).

How's that for a headline! Not even a direct quote or paraphrase.

In fact, check out the the last few paras where they even quote the lead researcher warning against media hype!
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Ten high salaried Apple executives sitting around a conference table.

"I've got a crazy idea. Let's drop the Plus," says one.

"ooh how vibrant," another replies.

"Great work team. I'll tell Tim Apple," says the boss as he stands up to end the meeting.
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Update from the AI hype world.

An ad disguised as a press release.
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Australia's first legal psychedelic therapy retreat! Wow.

Hang on...

It's cannabis-assisted therapy?

And it's BYO...
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Here is the full bit where this comes from. Perhaps the funniest thing is the entire context of the discussion is about what can or can't be joked about. Worth watching, I'm hot and cold on Noah's comedy but he's pretty on point here.
Saudi Comedy Festival, Charlie Kirk - Between the Scenes
YouTube video by Trevor Noah
www.youtube.com
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This has been live on sky news for over 24 hours. No one has thought to edit the hilarious factual error saying Noah said this at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.

Also worth noting. This is the entirety of the story. Four paragraphs.
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Pretty sure the sub editor who chose that lead pic knew exactly what the headline was saying...
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Is it new or is it a renaissance?
Is it 'now', and 'becoming', but not a 'trend'?
I'm so confused. I thought I knew how words work but I may be wrong...
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I like mind control! Can we rawdog mind control? Have I pushed the analogy too far?
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Oh, hi Jared. Haven't seen you in a while. Funny how you show up right now. You wouldn't know of a building business we could use right now do you?

The grift is wild.

First you sell the bombs to destroy the land.

Then you provide the construction services to rebuild.
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92% of buildings destroyed
1 in 4 children severely malnourished
Hundreds of thousands killed or wounded
Almost all schools, hospitals & universities destroyed
89% of the water/sanitation networks damaged

Not patting anyone on the back for achieving a ceasefire now. There's not much left to bomb.
Two years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza: By the numbers
Israel has killed or injured more than 10 percent of Gaza's population over the past 24 months.
www.aljazeera.com
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These fucking guys think they are like missionaries spreading the good word to the oppressed.

Instead they are simply entertaining the oligarchs while the peasants outside are being muzzled or murdered.

You think you saw the real Saudi Arabia? Are you kidding me?
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Didn't wanna post about this again but Bill Burr has no fucking idea.

He likens his attendance to "visiting the sweatshop and making them laugh".

Does he honestly think the crowd he performed to were the oppressed class and not just the super wealthy elite? Either he's an idiot or disingenuous
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This article by Nicolas Langlitz and Alex Gearin is so good. I'm not sure I appreciated it when published last year. Its anthropological interrogation into the ways psychotherapy shape psychedelic experiences is more prescient by the day.
Psychedelic Therapy as Form of Life - Neuroethics
In the historical context of a crisis in biological psychiatry, psychedelic drugs paired with psychotherapy are globally re-emerging in research clinics as a potential transdiagnostic therapy for treating mood disorders, addictions, and other forms of psychological distress. The treatments are poised to soon shift from clinical trials to widespread service delivery in places like Australia, North America, and Europe, which has prompted ethical questions by social scientists and bioethicists. Taking a broader view, we argue that the ethics of psychedelic therapy concerns not simply how psychotherapies are different when paired with psychedelic drugs, but how psychedelic therapies shape and are shaped by different values, norms, and metaphysical commitments. Drawing from the published literature and interviews with seven psychedelic therapists working in clinical trials in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, and Australia, this article opens the black box of the treatments to consider the values and informal debates currently animating the therapies. Considering questions of patient autonomy, mechanisms of therapeutic action, and which therapies are best suited to pair with psychedelic substances, we examine the ethics of psychedelic therapy as an emergent form of life. To bring this form of life out in fuller relief, we conclude by comparing and contrasting it with ayahuasca use in Amazonian shamanism.
link.springer.com
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If someone asked me what the best stand up routine of all time was I'd give it it to them straight... Like a pear cider made of 100% pear(s)...
Stewart Lee - [1/2] Give It To Me Straight, Like Pear Cider That's Made From 100% Pears
YouTube video by evilferris
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I wouldn't bet against you on that. The psychedelic pop culture bingo card is close to full.
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Oh shit! I'm watching the new season and thought the same thought. Within a day she had her whole tribe chanting and meditating on the beach. Shit is gonna go downhill fast! 😂
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Twin Peaks reference on Episode 3 of The Lowdown. This is show is effortlessly good.
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PTA ranked.

10 Hard Eight
9 Licorice Pizza
8 Phantom Thread
7 The Master
6 Inherent Vice
5 Boogie Nights
4 There Will Be Blood
3 One Battle After Another
2 Punchdrunk Love
1 Magnolia

Note: This is a favourite ranking. No "best" wankery. 4 to 6 were hardest to order.
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Now this is some rocket fuel clickbait!