Your friendly neighborhood harm reduction psychotherapist. LCSW. He/Him. Views are my own. You'll like the way I tweet. I Garrett-ee it.

Brooklyn, NY
Joined February 2017
I am: ⚪️ a man ⚪️ a woman 🔘 a harm reductionist Looking for: ⚪️ men ⚪️ women 🔘 people to understand that chaotic drug use is a rational response to underlying issues (trauma, pain, isolation) and/or our systematic policy failures (homelessness, hunger, poverty).
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Told my therapist about the charli concert i went to on monday and he said “that must’ve been a very healing moment for you”
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MIT published a brutally honest report on what AI is doing to students. A committee of professors and students spent five months studying how AI changed learning on campus, and the findings read like a warning to every university on the planet. Study groups are disappearing. Office hours are emptying out. Problem sets and take-home exams no longer prove anything, because AI can produce credible solutions to almost any written assignment in the undergraduate curriculum. Students who lean on chatbots lose mastery and confidence, and some slip into what the report calls cognitive surrender, reaching for AI at the first hint of struggle. The numbers are rough. 46 percent of surveyed MIT undergrads use LLMs daily. 90 percent worry about their own overreliance. Undergrads who feel AI makes them replaceable now outnumber those who feel it makes them capable. The committee's answer surprised me. They refused to fight AI with surveillance. The report calls AI detectors unreliable, says lockdown browsers feel like spying, and warns that policing students builds a classroom atmosphere of mutual distrust. Instead, MIT wants to rebuild education around the things AI can't replace. That means oral exams, semester portfolios, in-person project work, and a required social component in every subject. The report even floats the idea of rethinking grades entirely, since without a GPA to optimize, much of the incentive to cheat with AI evaporates. The committee warns professors against replacing undergrad research assistants with AI agents just because they're cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output. The most famous tech school on earth admitted the machines broke its way of teaching. Its answer is more humans, not more software.
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i don’t consume copaganda. closest i get is law and order svu but they aren’t cops they’re members of an elite squad known as the special victims unit
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This girl told me her biggest turnoff is watching a guy fly too close to the sun; she said it gives her the Ickarus.
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I was a 911 dispatcher for 11 years and this is the worst idea you could possibly think of. You have scenarios where the person can’t speak well either language barriers, injuries or if they’re in a domestic situation and they pretend to call for pizza or something you need a person. You have to be able to determine how someone feels or pick up on what they aren’t saying or how they’re saying things. Same goes for open lines and hang ups. A real person needs to answer the phone not only to ensure the correct response is sent to the right place but to offer piece of mind to the caller and makes them feel safer. Situations where I had to give CPR instructions to a mother and father who’s baby wasn’t breathing was a constant occurrence and you have to be able to calm people down, an AI is not doing that ever. Same goes for dispatching calls, AI cannot do that, in theory it sounds ok for that portion but you have to acknowledge what resources are on hand, where people are, GPS isn’t always accurate so when we started using systems to automatically reroute units who were flagged as “closer” they usually weren’t. But a real person who lives in that county and knows the area, where the stations are, who’s in a move up or coverage or areas that are blocked off due to events that aren’t always in our mapping systems. The list goes on. Terrible idea
AI is now answering 911 calls in New Orleans. The AI handles incoming calls and is supposed to analyze and prioritize the calls so that if multiple people phone in about the same incident, the chatbot will handle the repetitive calls about the same incident. Critics warn that the automatic speech recognition systems may cause problems, the AI may hold hidden biases, and that human 911 responders are needed. shreveporttimes.com/story/ne…
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Gm.
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This line from Atomic Habits isn't ready to leave my head: "It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment."
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I'm just so sad and worried and scared :( no one should have the ability to do this
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“odyssey this” “odyssey that” u odyssey a therapist
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Thanks to Mayor Mamdani’s administration, businesses must now make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up for one. New Yorkers can report subscription tricks and traps by calling 311 or filing a complaint at nyc.gov/consumer
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani announces click-to-cancel rule for NYC. This rule is aimed at guaranteeing New Yorkers can cancel subscriptions as easily as they sign up — and stopping corporations from trapping customers. This will save New Yorkers up to $162.5 million per year.
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just want to remind you one more time that significantly lowering the cost of housing would solve, overnight, almost every single problem in the country
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This scene is a masterpiece, it’s basically a textbook depiction of ego death. The shattering of a grand illusion, that desperate final attempt to prove the lie right and then the total psychological collapse. Essential viewing.
Saddest scene in all the Toy Story movies
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Outside doing WHAT EXACTLY???? New York is in the process of being burnt to the ground, And yet here we have the “hero” dressed like a Knicks fan standing on top of a taxi in the middle of Manhattan like he’s the Grand Marshal of a parade NOBODY approved of!!!
New york is funny because this is not AI we just outsideeee
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Jalen Brunson, a gentle and effective practitioner of dialectical behavioral therapy.
"You're allowed to think about the worst case scenario, but you gotta do something about it"
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he’s sitting in his discomfort and interrogating whether his actions were worth the consequences… a great many of u could take notes
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Free him
TEXAS WOMAN ARRESTED FOR "DISGUISED AS A MAN' TO ENTER ALL-MALE BBQ COMPETITION, WON FIRST PLACE
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
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Mamdani is the first mayor who would support Spider-Man.
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Who could have seen this coming?
After Uvalde, Texas undertook an ambitious effort to station a police officer at every school. Since then, students have been tackled, pepper sprayed and Tasered. Many episodes began over minor infractions like breaking dress code or vaping. Our report: nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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Never forget that you are the main data center. Drink water, and consume as much literature as possible.
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why can't anyone mind their own business?
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