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Closing the wisdom gap: Exploring AI psychotherapy, part 3
This is the third and final installment of a three-part series in which our writer delves into the depths of his psyche, guided by artificial intelligence. Read Part One, ‘AI: Final Weapon or Final Healer?’ and Part...
Black Bay Area artists rebuild cultural infrastructure
A map is drawn to lay claim to a place. This one is drawn to recover it: By walking ground that already belonged to someone and naming what survived the three-headed blaze of divestment, disorganization and gentrification.
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The wound, overthrown: Exploring AI psychotherapy
This is the second installment of a three-part series in which our writer delves into the depths of his psyche, guided by artificial intelligence. Read the previous installment here: Part 1, ‘AI: Final Weapon or Final Healer?’.
The...
AI: Final weapon or final healer?
Part 1: The Wound, Enthroned
“Know thyself”—the timeless injunction of Socrates, father of the Western wisdom tradition, to his students.
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I exhaled. The session had taken the afternoon. I had read the output, critiqued it, resubmitted it to...
Bay Area cities rethink downtown revitalization strategies
Kimberley Davidson has lived in Oakland her whole life and remembers when she could spend all day and all night downtown. She says you still “can-ish” but that it’s harder, and one has to know exactly where...
Love Local: Welcome to the Best of East Bay 2026
We know what we like. And—hopefully—we know what we stand for. In the East Bay, it’s often hard to separate the two. That’s why, I think, it’s particularly alarming when our favorite spots close. How can that...
Oakland’s entheogenic churches build community through psychedelic healing
On 10th Avenue in Oakland, a gated door stands with nothing marking it but a sign the size of a postcard depicting little mushrooms. Downtown, a nondescript glass storefront with a small camera monitoring its exterior gives...
