People live in completely different news streams.

I met a colleague at the farmer’s market. A lovely gentleman, very left-wing, of course. He started talking about some parade in Washington (or NYC?) that either recently happened or was about to happen. The parade clearly meant a lot to him. He spoke as if I were supposed to be aware of all the details, numbers, amounts.

And I had no idea what he meant. I live on my newsfeed but nobody I listen to, read, or follow has been talking about this event. I’ve been out with a friend who’s very politicized, and nothing like this got mentioned. My information bubble and the information bubble of a colleague who works in the same building are distant like planets in different galaxies.

OK, one more, and I promise to stop:

Real psychotherapy isn’t about giving answers.
It’s about surviving the not-knowing — together.
This is another realm where AI fails.
Therapy is the alchemy of two nervous systems in dialogue. No algorithm, however advanced, can replace the patient–therapist field.

This is so well-put.

It’s terrifying that neurotics will turn to AI for a cure and end up getting their destructive beliefs reinforced.

I have one more quote from @BrightonPsych that resonated with me deeply:

Our culture increasingly celebrates exceptionalism. But the capacity to be ordinary—to embrace the rhythms of everyday life—offers a profound kind of freedom from the exhausting search for external validation.

The ordinary, the routine, the daily rhythms of life – that’s where the best parts of existence are located.

Adult love begins with the recognition that others are not here to meet our unmet childhood needs. That’s not a tragedy—it’s the beginning of true relatedness and intimacy. Adult love means relinquishing omnipotence. We must give up the fantasy that someone out there will finally “see” us, “complete” us, or rescue us from our inner world of abandonment.

@BrightonPsych

One of the biggest beneficiaries of Israel’s strikes on Iran is Ukraine

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) June 13, 2025

These people are nuts. How does it remotely help Ukraine to have oil prices soar and enrich Russia? The Iranian drone production was moved to Russia ages ago. In what way is it even marginally good?

This is terrible for Ukraine. I’m failing to see how it’s great for the US either. I’d love it if somebody explained but right now I’m not seeing any positives. More world instability, more war, we lose the midterms. I don’t know, it’s hard to see the upside.

OK, let’s concentrate on the positives for a bit. USAID scammers are being brought to justice:

A United States Agency of International Development (USAID) official as well as three corporate executives have pleaded guilty in a decades-long bribery scheme connected to over $550 million in contracts. 

https://thepostmillennial.com/usaid-official-3-execs-plead-guilty-in-bribery-scheme-with-over-550-million-in-contracts?utm_campaign=64483

The corrupt execs are facing from 5 to 15 years in jail.

This is a good development, and we need more such news.

BREAKING:

An Iranian ballistic missile just struck downtown Tel Aviv pic.twitter.com/1Uliw3zxbY

— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) June 13, 2025

Oh God, oh God, this is not good at all. Why does this need to be happening?

The world order continues to crack up, and there’s nothing good about that.

The Israel that had the intelligence info to deliver these strikes on Iran and Israel that was utterly unable to prevent October 7 on its own territory sound like different countries and something is failing to compute.

It’s very dangerous when people who are cognitively unable to understand technology have AI unleashed on them:

AI tells people what they want to hear. It feeds the ego that, in our times, is already overinflated. Many of us are utterly unable to resist the lure of hearing their desires pronounced valid by a supposedly unbiased, superior intelligence. The world is confusing and unkind to millions of such people. AI mirrors the contents of their disordered minds back at them, and they are soothed by the illusion that everything is finally right with them.

Cognitive inequality becomes more important and noticeable than ever before.

Peace through strength turned into war through weakness.

A weak, uncertain America means a more dangerous world.