RE: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@AmandaMarcotte/117167779972215498
(Image is just a screenshot of part of the linked article.)
RE: https://mstdn.social/@davesdogmaggie/117167635836563684
In the "People Whose Deaths We Are Not Sad About" department...
The subject of this article seems to me like something we really need to be learning more about, if we're ever going to stop being ruled by these people (and consequently having our lives, society, civilization, and planet wrecked by them).
How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’
The idea of a “pathocracy”, a democracy of normal people taken over by psychopaths, was conceived by an obscure Polish psychologist, Andrew Lobaczewski, who had lived under both the Nazis and then Soviet-era communists. His ideas never landed, because “the psychology publishers thought it was too political, and the political publishers thought it was too psychological,”…. It’s unfashionable to the point of being taboo in psychiatry and psychology now to ascribe personality disorders to public figures.
“I always find the obsession with diagnosing these people interesting. You don’t need to diagnose them, there are a set of personality traits, and you can recognise individuals with those traits. If someone’s in political power, you can see those exemplified in behaviour, and most people are perfectly capable of making an assessment of what that signifies.”
...and now I want to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show but with Muppets (except for Brad & Janet).
@tuban_muzuru Hm, I knew about that but had always thought of it as more like TUI ([added] or maybe just static screens, like plain-old-HTML) than graphical -- but looking at one screenshot, it clearly does do some graphics... [added] not clear if it has a scrolling mode, though...
I'll have to see if I can find the specs of its markup language (or for the markup language of any of the several workalikes Wikipedia mentions).
...and yeah, a universal scrolling-mode rich-text browser is kind of what I had in mind (to oversimplify somewhat).
Regulation would help with this; requiring all muni infrastructure software-services to be cooperatively-owned would probably help more.... [/opinion]
@futurebird Can it be equipment for doing creative stuff, or does that become a sort of "essential" if one is addicted to being creative?
This is quite possibly the worst wordplay I've subjected anyone to
RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@rzeta0/117167053434966332
They haven't enshittified LibreOffice! (This shouldn't need to be a cause for celebration, but here we are.)
that one time jesus was a human instead of some perfect idol and chewed out a fig tree because he was hungry, and then someone tweeted about it
@alienghic @blogdiva @MisuseCase
This needs to be more of a thing, generally. :queer100:
@researchbuzz Watched the TV series with Anna in the 90s... I might still have VHS tapes of that, somewhere...
The Minions of Avian Intelligence
Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/067.html#bonus
