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"All eyes on Rafah"
Poster spotted in Brunswick, Victoria
there's a Belgian company called Cognivia that describes its work like this:
"What if you could predict placebo responsiveness of each patient in your clinical trial? What if this factor was the difference that reduced data variability and increased study power, so you can get therapies to patients faster? By combining machine learning with patient psychology data – you can. (…) In order to fully address the placebo response, unique characteristics of individual patients – like their psychology, perceptions and beliefs – must be considered."
they use personality questionnaires to assess which patients are more susceptible to the placebo effect, in order to account for that variable in clinical trials
the idea is that optimistic/positive people are more likely to "fall for" placebos, thereby messing with the data regarding the objective efficiency of drugs
anyway the first thing I thought when I heard about the company was this: I knew it! I'm such a negative bitch that I'm immune to placebos!
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005) + Joe Wright’s DVD Commentary
Source: prideandprejudice
Alfred Molina: ENFJ
"Alfred Molina (born Alfredo Molina; 24 May 1953) is a British actor.
He is known for his leading roles and character actor roles on the stage and screen.
In a career spanning over five decades he has received a Drama Desk Award as well as nominations for two BAFTA Awards, a British Independent Film Award, an Independent Spirit Award, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Tony Awards."
Sources: video, wiki/Alfred_Molina
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ripley, 2024
reblog if you too are a resentful childless harpy
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross — Yeah x10
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scorpiety-bye-deactivated202310
ppl are always like "how are you?" and it's like cant say sorry i signed an nda
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Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830 // Protest against russian law at Georgian Parliament, Tbilisi, April 30, 2024
where is she
per favore
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Gottfried Honegger, Die Zeit…was solls, (ink and collage on paper), n.d. [© Gottfried Honegger Estate]
took my nephew to a Paw Patrol live show last weekend
today I received in the mail a page from a Pokemon coloring book with a note that said that the show was "mega great"and that I'm a "super auntie"
good return on investment, I'm less dead inside now
Brian Eno:
"It sounds like a kind of platitude to say that kind of thing now, but I believe that's true.
If you can't subdue or control your environment, you have to come to an accommodation with it.
You have to surrender to it to some extent. This is why I always keep going on about control and surrender.
The more technical a culture you live in, the more you believe that everything is controllable. We're the man with a hammer who sees everything as a nail.
And because we're technically so brilliant, we think that every situation is amenable to that kind of solution.
One of those kinds of solutions is this sort of mechanistic view of economics that we have and that we are completely stuck with.
Going back to art for a moment, I think one of the things that art really teaches you is the pleasure of surrender, the joy of letting go of that part of yourself that says that you can be in control of everything.
I always think that surrender is the most underrated human activity.
Surrender is what we do when we have sex, when we take drugs, when we engage in art, when we engage in religion.
Those are all activities where we deliberately let go of some of our agency, some of our need and obsession with control, and say: I’m going to let myself be controlled, I’m going to let something take me over, I'm going to become not me but part of something else.
That is such an important human activity.
And for me that's actually the main reason that I think that all governments should really support and encourage as much art making as they can.
Because it helps humans use the whole repertoire of behaviors that they have, from control to active surrender.
I think of surrender as an active verb, not a passive one. It's a choice you make to submit, to being part of something, to become an active part of an organism.
It's recognizing that you're part of an ecosystem, that you're not alone.
It's not just you and your decisions, it's what the ecosystem needs and demands and will tolerate and won't tolerate. (…)
I realized that it wasn't that I didn't believe in God — I don't believe in God — but I find I do believe in religion in a strange way.
I got fascinated by gospel music quite shortly after I realized I was an atheist.
And this sort of paradox of loving the music that was produced by a set of beliefs that I couldn't tolerate.
This is a bit of a mystery, how do you handle that? And I've been dealing with that for a very long time.
And it was this surrender idea that sort of solved that for me, because I thought what I want is to be part of something that I'm not in control of, but which I know there is a cumulative self-generated control, it comes out of everybody.
It's an amazing feeling, it's the feeling everyone feels to an extent when they go to a big concert and they're all having the same experience at the same moment.
It's of course also the root of fascism, I'm quite aware of that as well.
It's not always good in terms of its results, but it made me realize that the concept of belief in God is not necessary for the feeling of religious experience."