Cancer diagnoses delayed by COVID: How pandemic lockdowns led to a surge in late-stage and incurable cases theage.com.au/healthcare/tho… This was predicted at the time due to tunnel vision of health depts for COVID.Same occurred & worse for 25% plus surge of new cases of mental illness

As a neurologist, it is now patently clear to me that the vast majority of people on the planet are suffering from neuroinflammation or brain damage (likely both) The way people speak & behave has changed. Markedly so. Whether irl, or via messaging/social media. It’s noticeable

Our HR department just migrated all our mandatory compliance training to a new gamified learning management system. I received an automated email stating I had 48 hours to complete a module on data privacy or my badge would be deactivated. I logged into the portal and was greeted by a cartoon badger named Barnaby. Barnaby told me I was about to embark on a security quest. I'm 44 years old. I don't want to go on a quest. The first module was a video about phishing scams produced like a high-budget daytime soap opera. The actors were inappropriately attractive for a simulated accounts payable department. The main character, Chad, left his laptop open at a coffee shop while he ordered a matcha latte. A guy in a black hoodie immediately sat down and downloaded the entire corporate mainframe to a USB drive in four seconds. Then the video paused and asked me to identify Chad's critical mistake. The multiple choice options were leaving the device unsecured, using public Wi-Fi, or failing to foster a culture of vigilance. I clicked the first one. Barnaby the badger popped up and told me I was technically correct, but I lacked a holistic security mindset. He deducted 10 "synergy tokens" from my digital wallet. I didn't even know I had a digital wallet. The next scenario involved a complex ethical dilemma about accepting gifts from vendors. A supplier offered the protagonist a branded corporate fleece. The video framed this as the first step toward international corporate espionage. I was asked if accepting the fleece was a violation of the anti-bribery statutes. I clicked yes. Barnaby congratulated me and awarded me a bronze digital badge of integrity. I tried to fast-forward through the next video because it was 45 minutes long. The player immediately froze and a warning message appeared saying Barnaby notices you are rushing. The video restarted from the very beginning. I sat there for 45 minutes watching a dramatization of password hygiene while staring blankly at my monitor. At the end of the quest, I had to take a 50-question final exam. One question asked how long a visitor badge is valid under the new global security matrix. I guessed 24 hours. Barnaby appeared with a sad face and told me it was 12 hours. I failed the module with an 84 percent. The passing grade was 85 percent. Barnaby informed me that my quest must start over. I considered throwing my company-issued laptop out the window. Instead, I sent an email to HR asking for an extension. I got an automated reply saying the HR representative was out of the office on a corporate wellness retreat. I clicked replay on the video. Chad is about to leave his laptop at the coffee shop again. This time I hope the hacker deletes my employee profile entirely.

I’m a Novid. Apparently there’s a dying breed of NoAIs, too. I can’t say I’m one of them. I’ve used AI to assist with coding and a few other tasks. But writing? Writing is one of the few things that I genuinely enjoy. It’s therapeutic. It’s a passion. It puts me into flow. Like a jazz musician improvising. Like an athlete in the zone. Like water finding its path downhill. That’s why I find the current moment so strange. People see a well-written email and assume AI. A grant proposal? AI. A manuscript? AI. A social media thread? AI. It’s as if the arrival of ChatGPT erased the possibility that some people spent decades learning to write. I’ve written funded grants before AI. Published papers before AI. Written hundreds of thousands of words before AI. Have you ever actually read my writing? It’s one of the things I’m known for. Why would I suddenly need a machine to do the part I enjoy most? The irony is that many of us who spent years learning to think, teach, write, persuade, and communicate now have to convince people we still can. Maybe that’s related to being a Novid. I never felt much pressure to do what everyone else was doing. Meanwhile, I still have to reconcile the proliferation of data centers, the environmental costs, and the fact that the foundation of this entire revolution rests on a lot of intellectual property that was never freely volunteered in the first place. So no, I’m not a NoAI. But I’m also not ready to outsource the fun part. Just remember: Not every paragraph was written by a machine. Some of us are still running on carbon.

If you’ve ever heard a narcissist say, “you think you’re better than everyone“, (when you really don’t), what they’re saying is, “I’m afraid you’re better than me and I don’t like it.“…

Malignant narcissists are vandals. But they don’t vandalize property — they vandalize people. When they encounter someone with genuine value — real heart, real integrity, real character — they feel threatened by it. That kind of authentic goodness exposes what they are by contrast. And they can’t tolerate that. So they do what vandals do. They deface it. They trash it. They mark it up until it looks like something that deserves to be discarded. That’s the smear campaign. That’s all it is. It’s not a conflict. It’s not a dispute. It’s a vandal spotting something of value and defacing it — because genuine value offends them, and destroying it is the only way they know how to respond to feeling inferior. So they take it away from everyone. The person they target didn’t do anything wrong. They were just too good to leave alone.

I gave evidence to the Nottingham Inquiry on Friday. In my view the Inquiry will shape mental health care for the next decade, as did the inquiry into the killing of Jonathan Zito in 1992. I made 3 points: That in mental health we have a social responsibility…..

Malignant narcissists are not scared of anybody. They are not in the least bit scared of being exposed. Their brains don’t register fear. Plus, they are profoundly convinced of their own superiority & ability to out-manipulate any situation. People claiming malignant narcissists/psychopaths experience fear, are generally narcissists fantasising about their power to make others fearful or narcissists trying to make their kind sound more human. I’ve seen quite a number of cases like this.