That led Salon's Davis to contribute, "It is not easy to accept that 'it' is actually happening here — that the descent into right-wing authoritarianism could be so rapid, the institutions of democracy so weak, the orchestrator of it all such an obvious and venal perversion of the American ideal — and harder still to quit one’s economic dependence on a superpower, however much it may be imploding. But, a decade from now, it might also be hard to believe that countries didn’t pursue their own rational self-interest and isolate a man who befriended their enemies, threatened their homes and sent their citizens to Guantánamo Bay."

https://archive.is/20250612184754/https://www.salon.com/2025/06/12/ban-trump-top-genocide-scholar-issues-dire-warning/

#Trump #Genocide #Nazis #USA #USPol #MAGA #Authoritarianism #Salon #Democracy

The contact form on my website is basically only ever filled out by robots, so I added a checkbox that says, "I am a robot. Only check this box if you are a robot." https://stevendbrewer.com/contact-me/

Robots appear to find it irresistible.

Denmark’s Ministry of Digital Government is phasing out its use of Microsoft Office.. to switch to open source alternatives like LibreOffice instead.

Why? Because relying too heavily on a US tech giant for your nation’s digital infrastructure is starting to feel a bit... well, risky.

Denmark's relationship with the US is under strain, following Donald Trump's clearly stated ambition to seize control of Greenland, and recent reports of increased spying by the States on Greenland and Denmark.

@dianea The irony is that a lot of what I would describe as very poorly designed psychometric tests, especially the ones used for employment and screening, are quite the opposite. I really expected to see more adaptive testing these days, where the test is fluid and digs into ambiguous response data. I guess if you asked an LLM to test somebody, that's exactly what it would do.

But most of these screening tests are just on a different level. They measure compliance, and the candidate's ability to predict the role and the required mindset, mould themselves to it, and importantly, make a mental call to commit to putting it down on paper. In cynical pop-psychology sales terms, it's their first "yes" on the ongoing yes-ladder.

To me, it's a depressing insult to science. To a recruiter and an HR department, it's a great addition to their toolbox.

Are you a journalist who needs advice for how to prepare your electronic devices for travel across the US border?

EFF and Freedom of the Press have you covered: https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/border-security/

I was informally (mis)diagnosed as "probably psychopathic" by my supervisor when I did my Social Psychology postgraduate at the University of Leicester psychiatric teaching hospital back in 1989. Now I realise that I was really diagnosed with adult autism by a psychologist who didn't have the tools to differentiate.

It's interesting because it started me on my path to computerising the psychiatric investigation part of the DSM (well, initially Hare PCL) evaluation for my Master's degree. The psychometric question-and-answer model and demo I came up with had me firmly psychopathic in PCL's diagnostic terms, whereas these days it would be easily diagnosed as autism.

I went on to expand the idea from psychometrics, to behaviour analysis in virtual worlds, which I figured would be a better capture than psychometric questions - Would the person co-operate to attain a goal, would they show altruism, would they be quick to anger - There's a lot you can measure in the virtual world as we know very well now, but didn't in 1991. Sadly, the lack of modern technology and the need to feed myself brought this PhD to an end without a write-up - But it's no wonder I ended up working for OkCupid, I guess :D

The sad thing about that is that although it didn't impact my life at all, other than having an interesting topic to discuss at parties, the PCL is used as a tool by US prisons in their parole calculations. A PCL diagnosis is a heavy weighting against parole, even though Hare himself has said that isn't the way this should be used. I dread to think how many autistic people are stuck in prisons for evermore because of misdiagnosed psychopathy.

The psychopathy test puts a lot more emphasis on masking and social interactions than on kidnapping people and putting them in wells to skin them later, I feel.

I can't be bothered to write a blog post about this, so I will scream into the #Mastodon #Void instead - Except now I have to think of some other #Hashtags which is always the hard part, I get carried away, autism you see!

#Medicine #Psychology #Psychiatry #MentalHealth #Education #Diagnosis #Psychopathy #HarePCL #DSM #Psychometrics #Statistics #Autism #ADHD #RetroComputing #Gaming #Online #Worlds #MUD #Leicester #UniversityofLeicester #Prison #Parole #HannibalLecter #SilenceoftheLambs #OkCupid #Tinder #Hinge #MatchGroup #Algorithms #BigData

This is insane.

#Trump’s Secretary of the #Army thinks
that currently there is a US soldier on the moon.

Embarrassing AF.

#USpol #military #MilitaryPreparedness #kakistocracy #idiocracy

The orange shit-gibbon is doing very well with his "no war on my watch!" promise., I see.

#GPT #AI #AIArt #SorryGibbons #Trump #War #Israel #Iran #IranIsraelWar

https://www.instagram.com/p/DKk3zgMNwso/

It's all #AI

#Google #News #Advertising #Fakenews #Scam #Misinformation #Education

😂 😔

#Politics

Protest is not illegal. Protesters are not illegals.

[Source: U.S. Constitution]

@Faithslayer202 is Biden precious to any of the libs? Maybe centerist, establishment Democrats but do they count as libs? All the lefty libs I know have ended up hating every Democrat President there has been.

I like my men like I like my governments, ethical and responsible.

Look, Nazis picked Jews as their targets the last go round because they were about 1% of the German population, and powerless.

They picked trans people this time for the same reason. They're rancid cowards and ensuring that worse happens to them, than to their targets, is the only answer.

#ABCNews Sunday suspended senior national correspondent #TerryMoran after he sharply criticized White House Deputy Chief of Staff #StephenMiller on social media, the latest flash point in the long-running clash between the #Trump admin & the network.

“Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s a world-class hater. You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate,”Moran posted then deleted.

Just finished this brown-lipped snail from Mud Lake in Ottawa 🐌 Had such a relaxing time with it using QoR watercolors and a Pentel water brush in an Etchr sketchbook. Grabbed new references in Ithaca yesterday too – totally beat but happy this one’s done! #sciart #artist

@EdwardCam285 @cemedia Dare to? I think they'd love to!

"It could never happen here" (even though it has already happened here, multiple times) is happening here, again

One advantage of modern life is you can and should document your opression.

Record the bad/evil oppressive behaviour and upload as fast as you can.

It may not help you but it WILL help everyone else

Do not record fellow oppressed peeps don’t help the other side !
✊

#resistance #Trans #lgbtqia

Kat Abughazaleh "I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.

Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay."
#ICE #LA