The more I observe and think about the #behavior of the chief figures in the #TrumpAdministration (Trump, Musk, Thiel, Vance, Yarvin, etc), as well as among their prominent supporters (not their mass supporters), the more I am convinced that we may have a more shallow understanding of #psychopathy in our society than we need to properly understand why it is that the people who end up in #power do so.
It seems clear to me that such people do not feel #emotions the same way most people do.
‘One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This’ - Author Omar El Akkad on Gaza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJGJvNTjpR8
“I think operating under the systems of power that we have generally, relies in large extent on looking away, and this was much, much more difficult to look away from.”
The #broadclub #cuttlefish #Ascarosepion #latimanus lives e.g. along the Australian coast. Matteo Santon et al. (2025) studied its striking #camouflage #hunting, in which it extends two arms to each side, with up to down moving dark stripes, #unsettling the #prey. #behavior
© This text #StefanFWirth Berlin 2025
References:
Matteo Santon et al. (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr3686
"New Scientist" YouTube (2025):
https://youtu.be/BTNfDMYb5Qg?si=qWZq9i3UL_H8AmqM
Photo:
by Nick Hobgood, 2006, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
6 Things Kids Totally Notice Without Adults Realizing It | HuffPost Life
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/things-kids-notice-adults-dont-realize-goog_l_67d9b266e4b02f3df3d07671
From @paulkrugman.substack.com RE "Sean Duffy’s shithole remark: Trump’s attempt to kill New York’s new congestion fee.... the biggest reason Trump hates #congestion pricing is probably because it embodies the idea that sometimes people should be asked to change their #behavior for the #commongood. And since that’s what his rage seems to be about, the efforts to kill congestion pricing will become even more frantic now that it’s... a huge #success story."
Urban Traffic & Pedestrian System #Behavior #ai #Tools #AssetStore #Unity #Update #Discount
https://www.easyassetsearch.com/packages/tools/behavior-ai/urban-traffic-pedestrian-system-285687
The worst version of “Yes I can / No you can’t”
https://www.starkeith.net/coredump/2025/03/25/the-worst-version-of-yes-i-can-no-you-cant/
I am gifted at spotting manipulative #behavior.
It comes from being raised in an environment where abuse, neglect and manipulation was constant, so I learned how to spot it, and even do it better than those who did it to me.
It's a curse and a blessing.
I am never used of for long, and use my kindness/time on those who deserve it.
Though it makes it hard for romantic relationships, as everyone is manipulative without meaning to be at times, and I scare easily.
People-pleasing linked to gender differences in problem-solving
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-people-linked-gender-differences-problem.html
A quotation from Mignon McLaughlin
We start out determined to see that our children are good; we soon settle for having them nice.
Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) American journalist and author
The Neurotic’s Notebook, ch. 2 (1963)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/mclaughlin-mignon/75…
Today's Scripture Picture: Temper is Contagious
Proverbs 22:24 – “Make no friendship with an angry man, And with a furious man do not go.”
A quotation from Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The epic poet did not judge his heroes by the result: Heroes won and lost battles in a manner that was totally independent of their own valor; their fate depended upon totally external forces, generally the explicit agency of the scheming gods (not devoid of nepotism(. Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or loss.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb (b. 1960) Lebanese-American essayist, statistician, risk analyst, aphorist
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/taleb-nassim-nichola…
People interpret dogs' emotions based on context. When shown a picture of a dog adjacent to a leash, they interpret the dog as being happy; when the same picture is manipulated to show the dog adjacent to a vacuum cleaner, they interpret the dog as being unhappy.
Summary: https://knowridge.com/2025/03/are-we-misreading-our-dogs-new-research-says-yes/
Original paper: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08927936.2025.2469400#abstract
Kevin Mitchell:
"To fully understand the causes of behaviour, we need to understand not just what happens when different neurons are activated, but why those things happen."
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