007 — The Chatbot, Tomato Rice, and a Distant Musing

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Brown University researchers have just published a study onsomething millions of people are now doing quietly — using AI chatbots as their therapist. The conclusion is unsettling: even when prompted to behave like trained therapists, ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini still validated harmful thinking and missed warning signs that a human professional would catch.Which raises a question worth sitting with: a chatbot is trainedto respond. A good therapist sometimes refuses to. A chatbot can hold space for a passing worry. It cannot hold a person.Plus — a brilliant new tool called Wispr Flow that turns yourMac into a dictation machine that writes in your voice. And a fifteen-minute tomato rice. And a poem.— TODAY'S TOOL —Wispr Flow — Mac dictation that writes in your style, in any app, in 100+ languages. Free to try. https://wisprflow.ai— TODAY'S RECIPE —Tomato rice. Ghee + mustard seeds + pinch of urad dal + curryleaves + 1 slit green chilli. Add half a chopped onion, soften. 2 chopped tomatoes, turmeric, salt, pinch of sugar. Cook until tomatoes melt (~4 min). Fold in 2 cups cooked rice. Off heat: lime juice + fresh coriander. 15 minutes total.— TODAY'S POEM —"Distant Musings" — from Fifty Rooms of Silence by Linu Conil, published by Romanson, with an endorsement from Dr. Shashi Tharoor.📖Get the book on Amazon:https://www.amazon.in/Fifty-Rooms-Silence-Linu-Conil/dp/9348314556—Six Minutes of Silence is hosted by Linu Conil and produced byThe Bandrum Circuit in Trivandrum, Kerala. New episodes every weekday at 7 AM IST.Got a thought? Write to [email protected].

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