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qoshe.com | Ian MacRae |Ian Macrae
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psychologytoday.com | Ian MacRae |Ian Macrae |Jessica Schrader
Personality traits exist on a spectrum. Most behaviors and styles are normal variations, not disorders. The same trait can be a strength in one environment and a weakness in another, depending on context. Understanding the difference between personality style and dysfunction helps reframe career development. We’ve all worked with someone who seems difficult to work with. They’re not wicked, dangerous, or malicious but they cause a lot of stress for the people around them.
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cell.com | Sucharita Sarkar |Ian MacRae |Ian Macrae
Get full text accessLog in, subscribe or purchase for full access. References1. Bobadilla Ugarte, P. ∙ Halter, S. ∙ Mutte, S.K. ... Cyanobacterial Argonautes and Cas4 family nucleases cooperate to interfere with invading DNAMol. Cell. 2025; 85:1920-1937.e102. Bernstein, E. ∙ Caudy, A.A. ∙ Hammond, S.M. ... Role for a bidentate ribonuclease in the initiation step of RNA interferenceNature. 2001; 409:363-3663. Zamore, P.D. ∙ Tuschl, T. ∙ Sharp, P.A. ...
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2 months ago | 
psychologytoday.com | Ian MacRae |Ian Macrae
New language models now offer unsolicited praise, often without knowing anything about the user. Users are shifting from task-based use to emotional and advisory reliance on AI assistants. Flattery activates reward circuits in the brain, even when users know it’s superficial. In the latest releases of OpenAI’s language models, people have started to notice something: the AI has gotten weirdly flattering.
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psychologytoday.com | Ian MacRae |Ian Macrae
Cortisol spikes from constant alerts can mimic danger, even when no real threat is present. Chronic overstimulation hijacks focus and impairs memory, sleep, and decision-making. Multitasking and constant input train your brain to expect threats everywhere. There’s a trend online to tack -maxxing onto just about anything. Looksmaxxing is the obvious one.
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2 months ago | 
qoshe.com | Ian MacRae |Ian Macrae
There’s a trend online to tack -maxxing onto just about anything. Looksmaxxing is the obvious one. It means complete focus on improving one’s physical appearance using skin care, gym routines, lighting tricks, posture hacks, filters, or even surgery. But there’s a newer, less intentional trend that might be even more widespread: cortisolmaxxing. This is when someone unwittingly turns every dial in their environment to “alert mode” and marinates in nonstop stress all day.
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psychologytoday.com | Ian MacRae |Ian Macrae
Why do so many people ignore facts they know aren’t true? Why do small lies get a pass if they serve a bigger idea that feels right? Something fundamental is shifting in how meaning is made and how language is shaping culture. This can be explained both as a shift toward post-literate culture and Iain McGilchrist’s conceptualizations of right- and left-brain hemisphere dominance that can shape people and whole cultures. There may be a deeper shift underway in how truth itself is recognized.
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flipboard.com | Ian MacRae |Ian Macrae
1 day ago"Thank you and now goodbye" Europe's break-up letter to AmericaHere's the opening paragraph from Europe's break-up letter with its insufferably redpilled friend, USA: "Thank you for Andy Warhol. Thank you for the …16 hours ago‘He’s Going to Tank Our Economy’: Trump’s Tariffs Draw Strong Reactions in CongressThose fears were fueling a stronger GOP pushback against Trump than seen in his second term thus far, though those speaking out still represented a minority in their party.
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2 months ago | 
qoshe.com | Ian MacRae |Ian Macrae
Why do so many people ignore facts they know aren’t true? Why do small lies get a pass if they serve a bigger idea that feels right? Something fundamental is shifting in how meaning is made and how language is shaping culture. This can be explained both as a shift toward post-literate culture and Iain McGilchrist’s conceptualizations of right- and left-brain hemisphere dominance that can shape people and whole cultures. There may be a deeper shift underway in how truth itself is recognized.
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psychologytoday.com | Ian MacRae |Ian Macrae
Communication is shifting from text and logic to images, emotion, and intuitive recognition. This "post-literate" culture favors immediacy, resonance, and shared emotional context over analysis. Cultural cohesion now forms through digital symbols, not geographic proximity. Rational argument often fails in spaces dominated by intuitive right-brain communication. We’re living in a world where traditional literacy, the deep reading of text, is becoming increasingly irrelevant for most people.
