@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCanadian children's media company WildBrain acquires child-focused generative AI startup Personality AI in a cash-and-stock deal worth up to $69M (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/wildbrain-acquires-kid-safe-ai-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCognition acquires the makers of Poke, an AI assistant that users can access via messaging services, in a deal valuing Poke's parent in the "low nine figures" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/why-
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@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.
@cdarwin@c.im“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.”
Former President Richard M. Nixon made that stunning statement to television personality David Frost in a May 1977 interview that reached an audience of 45 million.
Nixon’s quote is often cited to illustrate the epitome of his arrogance and blindness to the rule of law
— his confidence that his power rose to such heights that he possessed a presidential prerogative to redefine the law.
For nearly fifty …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic research based on ~310K anonymized Claude conversations shows how Claude's expressed values and behaviors vary across models and languages (Jason Nelson/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/373422/anthropic-claude-personality-changes-model-language…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
@NFL@darktundra.xyzTom Brady teases 'at least one match' with WWE, slaps Logan Paul https://www.nfl.com/news/tom-brady-teases-at-least-one-match-with-wwe-slaps-logan-paul
@raysofred@discordian.social
@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
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThey sherlocked the personality settings from Carrot 😂
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineSome optimism: “Dire as…moment appears…United States’ alliances will survive…Trump shock…First…alliance system has weathered now forgotten shocks at least as serious as these, &…present ones owe more to presidential personality than to durable new politics. Second…threats that gave rise to…alliances have not faded but intensified & converged…Third, powerful gravitational forces continue to pull allies together economically, technologically, & militarily…”
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Invocation Ritual:
🎵 Decaying Personality
#InvocationRitual
https://invocationritualofficial.bandcamp.com/track/decaying-personality
https://open.spotify.com/track/5cgBxGeaCiyCxjMziLvpFa
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialOK, vamos então lš dar início ao capítulo 69...
https://media1.tenor.com/m/NqfVYEvKxTcAAAAd/mr-bean-wink-wink.gif
@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-…
@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.
@ErikUden@mastodon.deI've seen multiple posts claiming that “heightism” is anything but an incel manosphere term to convince insufferable men that they aren't unlikeable due to their personality, but the reason women don't sleep with them is because of something they can't control (their height). I just must say the obvious: that's bullshit.
A video I saw had a guy saying that “for every 5cm a guy is shorter, their suicide rate increases by 9%. stop heightism” and I just... One study in 2005 looking at Swe…
@patrick_townsend@infosec.exchangeAt 27 pages into Gil Duršn’s new book “The Nerd Reich” I came full stop at this sentence:
“As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.”
Simply and elegantly stated. The various techno-optimistic philosophies running around Silicon Valley and the venture capital community are toxic and inhumane. We are desperately in need of a new tech manifesto that puts human wellbeing, acceptance, compassion and love as first principals. Why do we write code if not for this? The current direction of technology leadership has taken a wrong turn onto a dark and destructive path. This needs to change.
This is a great book so far. Highly recommend it.
#GilDuran #TheNerdReich #Tech
@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
@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.
@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…
@hikingdude@mastodon.social
@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).
@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.
@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
@burningbecks@social.tchncs.deWas Misik da ausgegraben hat, hätte m.E. seit mindestens 25 Jahren ein Leitfaden für progressive Politik sein müssen.
*The Authoritarian Personality* kam schließlich schon 1950 heraus (und bei Adornos Ruf gehe ich davon aus, dass die üblichen Klugscheißer es auch mitbekommen haben. 😉)
"Es ist ein Spektrum" konnte man auch spätestens vor fünf Jahren locker aus der Hüfte ergänzen.
Trotzdem wurde eine erschlagende Bandbreite an Themen auf das Wahlvolk losgelassen. Füm…
@sherold@mastodon.online👈🏻 Getting in one's own way, but as a hard-coded personality trait.
@chiraag@mastodon.onlineInteresting conversation (even if I'm not at all convinced that he's actually independent):
#Zeteo
@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
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@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-…
@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/
…
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageReplaced article(s) found for cs.HC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/new
[1/2]:
- Music Interpretation and Emotion Perception: A Computational and Neurophysiological Investigation
Lyberatos, Kantarelis, Zioga, Anagnostopoulou, Stamou, Georgaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01982 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/114623887921808883
- Selective Prediction Reduces the Negative Effects of Automation Bias Overall but Increases False ...
Jabbour, Fouhey, Banovic, Shepard, Kazerooni, Sjoding, Wiens
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07617 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/115015501954907821
- Sighted by Default: Addressing Implicit Vision Assumptions in Real-Time VLM Assistance for BLV Users
Yi Zhao, Siqi Wang, Qiqun Geng, Erxin Yu, Jing Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00945 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/115490927925171769
- UXCascade: Scalable Usability Testing with Simulated User Agents
Steffen Holter, Eunyee Koh, Mustafa Doga Dogan, Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15777 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/115943802965989174
- Does Explanation Correctness Matter? Linking Computational XAI Evaluation to Human Understanding
Gregor Baer, Chao Zhang, Isel Grau, Pieter Van Gorp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25251 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/116300187728326082
- Beyond Screenshots: Evaluating VLMs' Understanding of UI Animations
Chen Liang, Xirui Jiang, Naihao Deng, Eytan Adar, Anhong Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26148 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/116492495199874264
- Quieting the Cobwebs: Browser Interaction for Visual Floaters
Kenneth Ge, Jinglin Li, Shikhar Ahuja
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12739 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/116571803728109358
- Patients With Personality: Realistic Patient Simulation through Controlled Diversity and Selectiv...
Moritz Schlager, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17441 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/116764285920198987
- TailVis: Expressive Chart Refinement Preserving Data-Binding Integrity
Yumin Song, Seokhyeon Park, Soohyun Lee, Aeri Cho, Hyeon Jeon, John Joon Young Chung, Jinwook Seo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25386 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/117002258150815192
- How Usable Are Geospatial Foundation Models? A Systematic Evaluation of 89 Models
Robin Young, Artyom Gabtraupov, Kenzy Soror, Srinivasan Keshav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03804 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_bot/117041905504697955
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@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Living Colour:
🎵 Cult of Personality
#LivingColour
https://brianrosaleswave.bandcamp.com/track/01-living-colour-cult-of-personality-rock-shock-remix-93-track-11
https://open.spotify.com/track/1E4r8aMHDP3j2tq8atKzzt
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk @cdarwin@c.imFormer Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene
took to X on Saturday, August 1,
claiming that she and a number of fellow conservative allies had thrown their support behind Donald Trump on the basis of an America First agenda
— one she says he has since abandoned.
"We said no more foreign wars,
and we meant it and supported Donald Trump because he made that promise.
But he's betrayed us all,"
MTG wrote in the Instagram post.
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioreally missing these icons that weren't filed down by misanthropic black-clad designers to remove any trace of playfulness and personality
(update: added better screenshot)
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @Techmeme@techhub.socialFriend announces an AI pendant with a speaker for spoken replies for $249, up from its original necklace's $129 price, with an optional $10 monthly subscription (Boone Ashworth/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-friend-2-necklace-can-talk-back-to-you-now/
@davidaugust@mastodon.online @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…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
@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
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Living Colour:
🎵 Cult of Personality
#LivingColour
https://jaygriffin.bandcamp.com/track/cult-of-personality-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1E4r8aMHDP3j2tq8atKzzt
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Invocation Ritual:
🎵 Decaying Personality
#InvocationRitual
https://invocationritualofficial.bandcamp.com/track/decaying-personality
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
New York Dolls:
🎵 Personality Crisis
#NowPlaying #NewYorkDolls
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
