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Here's Why Personality Tests ALWAYS Work* by SciShow
#science

How do you and your partner see each other?
https://psyche.co/notes-to-self/does-your-partner-see-your-personality-the-way-you-do

from my link log —
Servers with personality.
https://caolan.uk/links/servers/
saved 2026-05-02 https://dotat.at/:/6X008.html

As reported by his wife in #AlanHale has passed away yesterday at 68: more in the thread https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/119679184 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/227002358661288/posts/1786784712683037/. In this picture from an astronomy-minded fantastic trip to Iran in 2000 - see https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3lulglljezs2d - Hale ist on the far left (and yours truly in postion 5; it also includes comet personality Charles Morris at position 6 and on the far right astronaut Bruce McCandless II who was capcom on Apollo 11 and made the first untethered spacewalk - both also no longer with us).

This Personality Trait Makes Dreams More Bizarre, Scientists Discover https://www.404media.co/this-personality-trait-makes-dreams-more-bizarre-scientists-discover/

UK's ex-PM Blair calls on Labour to focus on policy, not personality (Elizabeth Piper/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-ex-pm-blair-calls-labour-focus-policy-not-personality-2026-05-26/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260526/p104#a260526p104

I saw these on Facebook posted by Sydney Metro and I feel like Mastodon is their natural habitat.
Stop using anti-train language

UK TV personality KSI, who has 18.4M YouTube subscribers, says he is exiting his collective The Sidemen, which has 140M YouTube subscribers collectively (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/06/ksi-leaving-the-sidemen-youtube-1236931786/
…

KSI Leaving The Sidemen After 13 Years
KSI is leaving The Sidemen after 13 years having amassed millions of YouTube subscribers and with shows including 'Inside'.

Trump pulls vaccine skeptic Casey Means’ Surgeon General nomination for yet another Fox News personality | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-surgeon-general-fox-news-nicole-saphier-b2968338.html

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Tame Impala:
🎵 Let It Happen
#TameImpala
https://listentopersonality.bandcamp.com/track/tame-impala-let-it-happen-personality-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Z1E4jrUzitOQRczI8gfSL

Microsoft overhauled Copilot's design in Microsoft 365 with a minimalist black-and-white, text-focused interface aimed at creating a more consistent experience (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2183246/microsoft-debuts-a-more-b…

Microsoft debuts a more buttoned-up look for Copilot - Engadget
Copilot will look a little more consistent, and lose a little personality

Asked to answer as a typical human, every cutting-edge AI model rated us markedly
more neurotic, less open, less agreeable and less conscientious
than they rated themselves.
The gap on Neuroticism alone is 1.69 points on a 5-point scale.
Across 31 models from seven labs they answer the personality tests in unison:
high openness, low Dark Triad, Universalism on top, Power dead last
in every single model.

Personality Bench — an EarthPilot research lab dataset
Frontier language models, run through Big 5, HEXACO, Dark Triad, Schwartz Values, learning styles, and other personality instruments. Open methodology, open data, open cost. By Anthony David Adams.

👈🏻 Getting in one's own way, but as a hard-coded personality trait.

I'm guilty of being a "competitive pessimist" from time to time... Are you?
"Pessimism is more accurate in the short term - almost always, I'll give it that. Things do go wrong in roughly the ways people predict they will. But optimism is more productive over decades. Optimism is the thing that generates attempts, and without attempts nothing changes.
...
I would rather be wrong about what we're capable of than right about why we shouldn't bothe…

Optimism is not a personality flaw
This newsletter is free to read, and it’ll stay that way. But if you want more - extra posts each month, no sponsored CTAs, access to the community, and a direct line to ask me things - paid subscriptions are $2.50/month. A lot of people have told

From China: How blindness shapes personality: a neuro-ecological account https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2026.1759728/full "Blind participants showed higher agreeableness, extraversion, and conscien…

Frontiers | How blindness shapes personality: a neuro-ecological account
IntroductionThe established link between personality and psychological well-being underscores the need to understand how major life changes, such as vision l...

One thing that LLMs are good for: exposing undiagnosed narcissistic personality disorder in people.
If you use an LLM to generate something and then expect that people look at it or read it and admire you for it—that's 100% textbook narcissistic behavior.

“President Trump exhibits what forensic mental health experts have, across dozens of independent assessments, identified as the ‘Dark Triad’ of personality traits: narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy … Rather than constituting a clinical diagnosis, this trait-based assessment is grounded in behavioral observation and is particularly useful for assessing the level of danger an individual poses in a political leadership position. We do not offer this as a clinical verdict. We offer i…

‘A Constitutional Emergency’: Psychiatric Experts Say Congress Must Confront Mentally Unstable Trump | Common Dreams
“We recognize the gravity of what we are asking. We ask it because the gravity of the situation demands it."

Results of the 3rd Xogot Game Jam announced: https://blog.xogot.com/announcing-the-winners-of-xogot-jam-3/

Announcing the Winners of Xogot Jam 3
Xogot Jam 3 invited developers to build games around the theme Wrapped, and the results were creative, playful, and full of personality. We loved seeing the different ways developers interpreted the theme and the wide range of ideas they brought to building games with Xogot. Thank you to everyone who

Sad to hear we’ve lost one of the all-time greats. Truly, a legend. 🎷
“Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/arts/music/sonny-rollins-…

Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95
Even by the standards of a music that prizes individuality, he stood out, as both a musician and a personality.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Depeche Mode:
🎵 Stripped
#DepecheMode
https://listentopersonality.bandcamp.com/track/depeche-mode-stripped-personality-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/7zqgw3dMGegkAAICkM8ncf

Skip Bayless Doesn’t Hold Back in Shot at Cowboys’ Jerry Jones https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/skip-bayless-doesnt-hold-back-shot-jerry-jones/

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

Like Narcissus, the mythical figure who gave name to Trump’s most prominent personality flaw,
the president became fixated on the famous Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool,
hoping to repaint it so that it mirrored his imagined brilliance.
Instead, the algae-ridden water has turned into an on-the-nose metaphor for his own decrepitude,
as tourists have begun swarming it so they can mock this totem of Trump’s failures.

Why MAGA buys Trump’s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool hoax
The GOP base would love to arrest people who laugh at them

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Depeche Mode:
🎵 Stripped
#DepecheMode
https://listentopersonality.bandcamp.com/track/depeche-mode-stripped-personality-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/7zqgw3dMGegkAAICkM8ncf

AI chatbots make use of the Barnam Effect. The same thing that makes personality tests and fortune tellers "feel" meaningful and accurate despite being total nonsense.
#al

"former Trump-supporting Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) wrote in February that the president has turned his party into a cult of personality — which is evidenced by their poor understanding of the issues."
Trump supporters are ignoring the math — and the consequences: analysis - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-supporters-math/

Trump says he saw Anthropic last week as a national security threat, but signals relations have since improved because Dario Amodei was "nice" and "smart" at G7 (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/19/trump-anthropic-national-…

Exclusive: Trump tells "The Axios Show" that Anthropic was a national security threat
National security concerns and personality clashes landed Anthropic in the middle of a government crackdown.

#meme #trans

But of course this hope is not emperically founded and, well, just an unrealistic hope. And this ties in with the greater picture of technology. "Tech" has become a slur.
Find a tech CEO who is an inspiring personality on the Steve Jobs level.
Find a current technology that inspires people to do great things and to be the best version of themselves?
There are these things in niches, but not on the scale of the iPhone, say.
2/n

From Culver's, with love: Meet Gennings Dunker, the NFL draft's viral star https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/48455868/nfl-draft-2026-gennings-dunker-iowa-hawkeyes-viral-star

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Somehow we got talking at length to a Benedictine monk here. One of his jobs is beekeeping 🐝 (having looked after them for 18 years), and it was amazing to hear first hand of bee intelligence. He said so much, but in summary: that he has a relationship with the bees, that they recognise humans (and recognise him), and that one can discern in experience personality among bees - both as individual and as hive.

They sherlocked the personality settings from Carrot 😂

Voice actors worldwide are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances (Rina Chandran/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-voice-actors-hollywood-dubbing/

Voice actors fight to save their livelihoods and local cultures from Hollywood’s AI push
Voice AI tools are quickly replacing voice-over and dubbing artists, raising concerns not only about jobs but also loss of cultural relevance in non-English-speaking nations.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Tame Impala:
🎵 Let It Happen
#TameImpala
https://listentopersonality.bandcamp.com/track/tame-impala-let-it-happen-personality-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Z1E4jrUzitOQRczI8gfSL

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

Voice actors worldwide are mobilizing to protect their livelihoods and personality rights as Hollywood studios push AI dubbing to replace human performances (Rina Chandran/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-voice-actors-hollywood-dubbing/

Voice actors fight to save their livelihoods and local cultures from Hollywood’s AI push
Voice AI tools are quickly replacing voice-over and dubbing artists, raising concerns not only about jobs but also loss of cultural relevance in non-English-speaking nations.

Thomas Massie, 55, is already the exception to the rule of Republican politics.
While others have capitulated and genuflected to the president over the past decade, eliciting comparisons with a personality cult,
the seven-term congressman with a libertarian bent has emerged as ever more defiant.
He voted against Trump’s sprawling tax and spending cuts bill; co-authored legislation compelling the justice department to release the Jeffrey Epstein files;
sought to revoke…

Sources say Anthropic struggles to communicate effectively with the Trump administration; an official says it "screwed us" after failing to "honor" a cyber EO (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/15/anthropic-white-house-fable-mythos

"They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline
Governing the world's most consequential technology is coming down to speaking President Trump's language.

It’s “great” how we finally have a glimpse of at least partially working 5GL (using LLMs to generate code is very close to the 1980s dream of constraint-based programming) and immediately everyone was like “we need to apply this to all areas of human life, doesn’t matter if it’s bullshit that isn’t even remotely working for those areas”.
What really gets me is the extreme hubris and delusion of grandeur that so many programmers and tech people have about this.
Don’t let your character flaws and personality issues out to make other people suffer. Idk get therapy.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Tame Impala:
🎵 Let It Happen
#TameImpala
https://listentopersonality.bandcamp.com/track/tame-impala-let-it-happen-personality-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Z1E4jrUzitOQRczI8gfSL

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Invocation Ritual:
🎵 Decaying Personality
#InvocationRitual
https://invocationritualofficial.bandcamp.com/track/decaying-personality

2026 NFL Draft Big Board: Prospects 11-20 https://insidethestar.com/2026-nfl-draft-big-board-prospects-11-20

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
New York Dolls:
🎵 Personality Crisis
#NewYorkDolls
https://open.spotify.com/track/4AwKXevZmsTNa3KZVj3rzl

#USpol #LosAngeles

Oh my god if you are going to invent Discworld's The Luggage then at least give it several dozen little feet and a grumpy personality.
This is not the future/past/fantasy world #pterry promised us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMn1Ykp443M

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #DriveTime
Tame Impala:
🎵 Let It Happen
#TameImpala
https://listentopersonality.bandcamp.com/track/tame-impala-let-it-happen-personality-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2X485T9Z5Ly0xyaghN73ed