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Trump endorsed Chinese peacekeepers in post-war Ukraine, FT reports; White House denies: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/30/trump-endorsed-chinese-peacekeepers-in.html

Shape and word parts combine linearly in the Bouba–Kiki effect https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13414-025-03151-1

Shape and word parts combine linearly in the Bouba–Kiki effect - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Languages have evolved in part due to cross-modal associations between shape and sound. A famous example is the Bouba–Kiki effect, wherein humans associate words like bouba/kiki to round/angular shapes. How does the Bouba–Kiki effect work for natural words and shapes that contain a mixture of features? If the effect is holistic, the effect for a composite stimulus would not be explainable using the parts. If the effect is compositional, it will be. Here we provide evidence for the latter po…

And I just rewatched #TheHatefulEight this week. RIP best actor for roles of total psychopaths in #Tarantino movies, “Joe Gage”—erm, #MichaelMadsen
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Inside Cowboys Training Camp: Week Two Wrap | Dallas Cowboys 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psuuIWs1V9c

If it’s true that left-leaning people are cutting right-wingers out of their lives, he asks, is it because folks on the left are less tolerant — or because people people on the right are less tolerable? Which could it be?
Well, gosh, who knows…let’s see here, could it be that “social dominance orientation,” “authoritarianism,” “psychopathic propensities,” “malevolent disposition,” and “reduced empathy” make a person less tolerable? Do ya think? (spoken in dripping rhetorical question voice)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0092656625000704?via=ihub

Today’s global civilisation, however, is deeply interconnected and unequal and could lead to the worst societal collapse yet, he says. The threat is from leaders who are “walking versions of the dark triad” – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – in a world menaced by the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence and killer robots.
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If citizens’ juries and wealth caps seem wildly optimistic, Kemp says we have been long brainwashed by rulers justifying their dominance, from the self-declared god-pharaohs of Egypt and priests claiming to control the weather to autocrats claiming to defend people from foreign threats and tech titans selling us their techno-utopias. “It’s always been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Goliaths. That’s because these are stories that have been hammered into us over the space of 5,000 years,” he says.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/self-termination-history-and-future-of-societal-collapse

#TIL that #otd two years ago, Bram Moolenaar died. He wrote a piece of software that has been acompanying me since my very first days of #Linux (on

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