RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/117538286660839834
I have not read the original article but I assume the author is trying to remind us that the true "point" of Halloween is communing with the dead through seances, and the dead don't eat candy.
Update: We have run out of candy so I guess it’s bedtime. Hope everyone had a great night!!
Lollipops went the fastest. Kids were OBSESSED. Then the Sour Patch Kids. More than one “I remember your house from last year!” Which is a great honor. I appreciate Gen Alpha not eating Reese’s so those are left over for me
Ready for the trick or treaters!!
Happy Halloween! 🎃
Who read two pages of my book and stopped? 🤣
NOT PATRICK STEWART
RE: https://ohai.social/@dramypsyd/117524464143629070
In Europe, Doctolib is a software that helps doctors manage their patients' appointments and sends the patients reminder messages for their appointments. A calendar software for doctors, basically.
Very often you cannot even get an appointment without Doctolib anymore. When you call the doctor oldfashioned style, a robot voice tells you to book an appointment online using Doctolib and hangs up.
Doctors can also add their notes to Doctolib, like the reason for the visit: depression, ear infection, warts, sexually transmitted disease, you name it.
Doctolib trains their own LLM on that highly sensitive data, and does all sorts of other disgusting shit with it. Recently Nvidia partnered with Doctolib.
Doctolib tries with all sorts of trickery to weasel out of the restrictions imposed by the GDPR so that they legally may do whatever they want with your health data. It's disgusting. In GDPR terminology, they try to change their role from mere "processor" to "controller" by tricking/forcing patients into creating a Doctolib account.
Just today I went to have my blood checked, for my vitamins B and D values. (I'm a vegetarian.) And it was really hard to find a doctor who doesn't use Doctolib. I refuse to go to doctors who hand my data to third parties who then sell my health data to "AI" companies or use it to become one themselves.
Every post I've seen has been a therapist saying something along the lines of, "Can you believe they would even ask this? No ethical provider would ever agree" so I do have hope for my colleagues, just not for, you know. Everything else.
If you're one of the many therapists I'm seeing who was approached by an AI company offering six figures for "de-identified" notes, reports, etc, and you've abandoned your ethics enough to consider the offer, make sure when you negotiate your compensation that you factor in legal fees and the cost of losing your license.
I hate it here.
And to be clear, I’m not here to judge how someone navigates being accessible in a completely messed up system. It’s something I navigate daily, and while it works for me, I can’t say my way is the only way or the best way. I’m just saying if your insurance credentials rely on another VC company you’ll be in this same situation when that company does something terrible.
I’m seeing a lot of therapists leaving Headway for good reason but many are asking what platform they should move to. I humbly suggest credentialing on your own - is it a pain in the ass? Sure, but if I figured it out with minimal guidance, so can you!
1. Insurance got back to me and confirmed they will cover my surgery without prior authorization so I don’t have to argue with them anymore (about this at least)
2. Publisher sent me cover options for Slipper’s workbook and they are sooo cute!
3. I got approached to sell the translation rights to some of my self published books and courses - expanded distribution means helping more people AND more passive income
How exactly is Sexiest Man Alive chosen? Do they take nominations or?
This wasn't supposed to go up til Thursday. Oh well!
Telehealth Activity: What Color Is It Really?
This telehealth activity involves using Zoom's whiteboard feature, though you could screen share Microsoft Paint or use another platform with a whiteboard and an eyedropper tool....
https://resiliencymentalhealth.com/2026/10/27/telehealth-activity-what-color-is-it-really/
Once in a while, my authenticator app asks if I'm "enjoying" using it. I do not know how to answer that question. It's doing what I need it to do, I have not (to my knowledge) been hacked, but do I *enjoy* having to pull up a six digit code whenever I log in anywhere? Not exactly.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Children: A Guide for Therapists Available NOW
I am pleased and excited to announce that Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with Children: A Guide for Therapists…...
Woooo it's live! That was quick https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HP87DKP8?psc=1&smid=A1Y53T3O3Q25L8&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp
RE: https://ohai.social/@dramypsyd/117496741800961579
Good news - I managed to make the edits while awake. If you purchase this book and catch a typo I missed, know that I caught it in the dream version of my editing process.