@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft 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…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUK'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
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@cdarwin@c.imLike 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.
@mlawton@mstdn.socialSad 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-…
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@lpryszcz@genomic.socialI'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…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Invocation Ritual:
🎵 Decaying Personality
#InvocationRitual
https://invocationritualofficial.bandcamp.com/track/decaying-personality
@servelan@newsie.social"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/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzSkip 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/
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioOne 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.
@seeingwithsound@mas.toFrom 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…
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@newsie@darktundra.xyzThis Personality Trait Makes Dreams More Bizarre, Scientists Discover https://www.404media.co/this-personality-trait-makes-dreams-more-bizarre-scientists-discover/
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialResults of the 3rd Xogot Game Jam announced: https://blog.xogot.com/announcing-the-winners-of-xogot-jam-3/
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“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…
@cdarwin@c.imAsked 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.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Servers with personality.
https://caolan.uk/links/servers/
saved 2026-05-02 https://dotat.at/:/6X008.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialVoice 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/
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@crell@phpc.socialAI 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTrump 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-…
@raysofred@discordian.social
@stefan@gardenstate.socialHere's Why Personality Tests ALWAYS Work* by SciShow
#science
@eyebee@mstdn.socialHow do you and your partner see each other?
https://psyche.co/notes-to-self/does-your-partner-see-your-personality-the-way-you-do
@NFL@darktundra.xyzFrom 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
@cheryanne@aus.socialOda With Josiah Shala
A podcast featuring in-depth conversations with successful Albanians from around the world. Hosted by Josiah Shala—an Australian-Albanian radio personality, national television presenter, MC, and podcast host...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralia…
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@Cognessence@social.linux.pizzaSomehow 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.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThey sherlocked the personality settings from Carrot 😂
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzAs 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).
@Techmeme@techhub.socialVoice 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/
@cdarwin@c.imThomas 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…
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@sherold@mastodon.online👈🏻 Getting in one's own way, but as a hard-coded personality trait.
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialI saw these on Facebook posted by Sydney Metro and I feel like Mastodon is their natural habitat.
Stop using anti-train language
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources 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
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIt’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.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUK 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/
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@servelan@newsie.socialTrump 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
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026 NFL Draft Big Board: Prospects 11-20 https://insidethestar.com/2026-nfl-draft-big-board-prospects-11-20
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @davidaugust@mastodon.online @kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
New York Dolls:
🎵 Personality Crisis
#NewYorkDolls
https://open.spotify.com/track/4AwKXevZmsTNa3KZVj3rzl
@arXiv_physicspopph_bot@mastoxiv.pageCrosslisted article(s) found for physics.pop-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.pop-ph/new
[1/1]:
- From Astronomy to Astrology: Testing the Illusion of Zodiac-Based Personality Prediction with Mac...
Samantaray, Fluhrer, Saini, Charaple, Singh, Rathore
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@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterOh 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
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@tomkalei@machteburch.socialBut 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
@pre@boing.worldWent to see Stuart Goldsmith doing his work in progress stand up show about the climate at the local theater.
He's a funny man and has a good friendly personality (or stage-persona at least I guess) and is terrified and anxious and angry about the way the people are treating the world without out even being their fault.
It's a good show, he's a good guy, you should go see him do it at Edinburgh or whenever he's in your town.
No action you can take as an individual really makes much difference to the end of the world stuff. You should be vegan perhaps, ethical banking perhaps. But really the only thing that works is mass social pressure, so talking about it is the best thing you can do. If you can't be vegan, at least say you are.
Perhaps telling everyone on linked-in to book him for their climate sessions is best he reckons 😆 but I don't do corporate social media at all really, so Mastodon and cross post to Bluesky is the best thing I can do perhaps.
Stu's a friend of a friend, we've met before. Don't think he recognized me sitting in the front row without context against the stage lights though. Maybe a little at the end with some context when he's rushing to get home.
Still love that Captain Pike hairdo.
#comedy #climate #stuGoldsmith #pleasance #london
