This dummy spit from a tech CEO because Wired didn't cover his product the way he wanted is HILARIOUS. How dare someone joke about his most important development in the history of Mankind! Also, a great reminder to all who talk to journalists. We are not PR tools here to parrot your talking points.

This image is seared into my memory. What a legend.

Yep, looks like another Iñárritu film. By that I mean it looks pretentious, overly stylized, indulgent and thematically confused. Dreading the discourse on this one.

Absolutely wild historical revisionism in ABC news today. This whole story presents a profoundly narrow view of the large pro Gaza sit in at Melbourne University. I don't want to discount this man's lived experience but offering no context to this story greatly misrepresents what happened.

Over the last 6 weeks two major Australian media outlets prominently featured a pharma company that manufactures psilocybin& MDMA in Brisbane. Both stories, by business reporters, uncritically parroted the idea that it's simply high cost and regulation stifling growth of psychedelic medicine.

i wrote about andrew thorn in 2020 (not long after i'd launched webworm). back then, i wrote about a chaotic $100,000 money drop that went feral, and how andrew had allegedly tried to run a business colleague over with his car. anyway, 6 years later: www.webworm.co/andrewthorn/

Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media. Gift link: nyti.ms/4wDpciG

Good News: Bryan Johnson is dying. Just like the rest of us. His recent diagnosis is a brutal reality check for the sick billionaires who seek to rule the world...and live forever. www.thenerdreich.com/bryan-johnso...

Seen posts from multiple independent journalists over the last week all facing legal threats from people they have reported on. We're in a really perilous moment. Institutional media is fragmenting leaving journalists little option but to continue their work independently.

Another magnificent Stewart Lee column. Can Binface save Britain from fascism? Oh please local voters, do this one good thing. Vote Binface! The alien we need right now.

I'm a massive Survivor fan but never watched the Australian version. Until a few weeks ago. Wow, it's incredible. Channels the spirit of old school Survivor. I've been souring on the main show in recent years. The Aus version has rekindled my enjoyment.

It's real.

Such important reporting from @deepcutnews.bsky.social. Segal's comments to the royal commission should make everyone sick to their stomach.

Interesting new study for the mushroom nerds. Tracks tryptamine variability in a dozen different cubensis strains. Results are WILDLY variable. Just on psilocybin for example - concentrations vary between 2 and 20 mg per gram of mushroom!

Experts have long said this method -- Facilitated Communication, Assisted Spelling, Rapid Prompting Method -- is dangerous pseudoscience. The credulity here from the author, a science reporter, is very concerning. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/s...

Pam the Bird at it again. Worth it for this headline 🤣🤣

Just for posterity.

New Trip Report: Are the recent Phase 3 LSD for depression results really as good as they were touted? What recent TV show did a good magic mushroom trip episode? And I share an endorsement for my book from one of my favorite psychedelic authors.

I got a cramp in my neck from nodding in agreement so much while reading this. Spot-on survey of modern science journalism.

The Science Journalists Association of Australia is running two free online workshops for all journalists. 1. How to read and understand a scientific paper (with me), 6pm-7.30pm (AEST) Wednesday 29 July. Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... and ...

I find everything about this story absolutely hilarious but perhaps the most controversial part is that "fuck, marry, kill" was renamed "shag, marry, date"... I mean, if you are going to do this then do it properly. The whole point of the game doesn't work when you change it.

A recently published, and rather well regarded, book on the history of Australian drug law contains this line. To its credit at least it's not conflating mdma with psychedelics.

That's a fact! 😂

Reading this line in a random news article this morning reminded me how confused the public conversation around psychedelic medicine has become.

Check out our recent review on how psychedelics don’t simply enhance cognitive flexibility by Raquel Kosted, @drjjdonegan.bsky.social, Josh Cisler, and Greg Fonzo. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/12

When I began investigating Clickout Media and its sites more than a year ago, I was able to get access to a ChatGPT for editorial work. One particular bot was for a writer who worked across different brands, inc. the Escapist. The bot prompts were for a series of different editorial tasks.

This story tells you everything you need to know about Musk and his family....

The Guardian coverage of this story does not name the man arrested and blurs his face. The ABC story (which I will not link) adheres to neither of these journalistic principles...

Two episodes into the new season of The Bear and I can't say I'm loving it. It's focus is frustratingly narrow but it's aesthetic is a big swing. The switch to a scope ratio and a relentless Hans Zimmer score is definitely a choice.

Pretty classic news report warning against foraging for magic mushrooms. Ticks all the boxes. ✳️ They could kill you. ✳️ The police are watching. ✳️ We don't know what's in the mushrooms. ✳️ You could slip and hurt yourself while hunting. ✳️ "Just not worth it".

Another science media publication (Scientific American) gutted by a corporate sale. Good, experienced editors and journalists fired. This one is even worse than usual with this statement from the local writer's guild suggesting politics and union busting underpinning the dirty work.

First dispatch out now. A dive into the ethics behind a newly published case study and I ask why such a poorly reported article was so uncritically embraced by many in the psychedelic world.

Study published in 2016 claiming extraordinary results for EMDR treating depression. Flagged by a random academic in 2024 as suspicious. Not officially retracted by journal for over a year even though journal agreed it should be retracted.

"Be beige, not rainbow." Just what every kid wants!

How much is a trillion dollars? Think about it this way. You could give away one million dollars every 10 minutes for the next 20 years. That's how much one trillion dollars is.

The broadcaster responsible for factually incorrect science stories like "tampons give you cancer" is outsourcing creation of its misinformation to the mass misinformation machine. This should go well!

Australia's richest person suggests the country give some islands to the richest man in the world... What the hell are we doing?

We're in a really shitty place as a society where it's decriminalised in some places, legal in others and generally all over the news as a healing medicine. Yet police still burn people like this. People that actually call the police for help.

Anesthesia is just like dreamless sleep, right? RIGHT? Cover story @anesthesiology.bsky.social this month - we developed an operating room protocol to promote dreaming during emergence from anesthesia... under the best conditions we found that **93%** of patients had experiences

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You know the IP media world is getting weird when we start making "sexy Poirot" content.

#AI overriding journal editors' decisions? That's what @michael-okun.bsky.social resigned over from his position at a @frontiersin.bsky.social journal. My latest for @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/e... @earlkmiller.bsky.social

I'm not sure how much I trust police as primary sources on drug stories like this one. The police apparently are mycology experts that identified the man they stopped had picked the wrong mushrooms. The man was so thankful for the police saving him from a nasty surprise.

In case you really needed to know Jeremy Allen White's opinion on social media bans...

The Silicon Valley longevity trap is an absurd myth. My new Team Human monologue premieres at 12pm ET on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts: www.youtube.com/watch?v=olu4...

Stumbled across this ad for a magic mushroom chocolate bar. The whole bar apparently contains 6 grams of mushroom material. However, the write-up mistakes whole mushroom material for direct psilocybin content suggesting a small triangle of chocolate contains 150 mg of psilocybin!! What a typo!

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I don't rewatch TV. I am however, currently on my 4th rewatch of The Leftovers. Every few years I get the itch to revisit. And it gets better each time. Just finished the 1st season, the weakest, but the final run of eps is stunning stuff. I'm happy calling this the best TV series ever made.

It's a gamechanger!

A billionaire pronatalist self-publishes a book filled with pseudoscience and The Guardian delivers a massive article uncritically reporting the ideas. This is a weird article. To say the least.