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English Language editorial in the Korean daily newspaper The Hankyoreh: Imperial tyranny, Korean humiliation:

This incident should prompt us in Korea to comprehensively reassess our investment projects in the US

Via.

Sid🇵🇸 @InternetEh@dads.cool

I'd hate to live in North Korea, where you get punished for not mourning friends of the ruling party publicly and sincerely enough

Arne Brasseur @plexus@toot.cat

Well yes, soylent green is people, but you can't just apply existing homicide laws to a business like ours. The entire humans-as-nutritional-sludge industry would be out of business.

Because I know I'm gonna end up digging up these in the near future: Daily Kos: None of the last 31 political attacks was by anyone from 'the Left'. Not one. We can count them.

mtsw ‪@mtsw.bsky.social‬

I think it's a sign of how cowed the American media is that we're getting pieces like "you have to understand, in Korean culture, it's considered very rude for someone to lock you in a brutal prison camp for a week for no reason." Like yeah, any free people would be offended by that?

Woozle Hypertwin @woozle@toot.cat

@RickiTarr Like the thing that happened with all the bonobos(?) baboons where the alpha males hogged a pile of discarded food left by humans, but the food was bad and poisoned them and most or all of the alphas died and the tribe culture suddenly got a lot nicer and stayed that way?

Emergence of a Peaceful Culture in Wild Baboons

Through a heartbreaking twist of fate, the most aggressive males in the Forest Troop were wiped out. The males, which had taken to foraging in an open garbage pit adjacent to a tourist lodge, had contracted bovine tuberculosis, and most died between 1983 and 1986.

A Pacific Culture among Wild Baboons: Its Emergence and Transmission

Reports exist of transmission of culture in nonhuman primates. We examine this in a troop of savanna baboons studied since 1978. During the mid-1980s, half of the males died from tuberculosis; because of circumstances of the outbreak, it was more aggressive males who died, leaving a cohort of atypically unaggressive survivors. A decade later, these behavioral patterns persisted. Males leave their natal troops at adolescence; by the mid-1990s, no males remained who had resided in the troop a decade before. Thus, critically, the troop's unique culture was being adopted by new males joining the troop. We describe (a) features of this culture in the behavior of males, including high rates of grooming and affiliation with females and a “relaxed” dominance hierarchy; (b) physiological measures suggesting less stress among low-ranking males; (c) models explaining transmission of this culture; and (d) data testing these models, centered around treatment of transfer males by resident females.

Peace Lessons from an Unlikely Source

Did I grow up in a land of sissies? Perhaps, but I am not mentioning this to decide whether violence in the media and our ability to grow immune to it—as I also have over the years—is desirable, or not. I simply wish to draw attention to the cultural fissures in how violence is portrayed, how we teach conflict resolution, and whether harmony is valued over competitiveness. This is the problem with the human species. Somewhere in all of this resides a human nature, but it is molded and stretched into so many different directions that it is hard to say if we are naturally competitive or naturally community-builders.

Thinking about this dynamic of people who send sketch interviews and news stories via DM rather than posting them on their own feed.

Like: why did you think I, specifically, would be interested in this Joe Rogan interview or lecture by a Russian stooge or apologia for Charlie Kirk's Nazism?

Well huh. I currently use Namecheap as my registrar, but if they're getting acquired maybe it is time to just move everything to Hetzner.

https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/115204981198009776

More naked ladies (with picture)

More naked ladies

The amaryllis belladonna have been lasting a lot longer this year, but alone the road I've been ready to say that the naked ladies have lost their bloom. But in the shade

Sunday in Petaluma

We use a Chromecast on a TV for a digital picture frame. Had gotten tired of the selection, turned it off, but took the effort this morning to go into Google Photos and Home apps to set up some new albums.

It is an example of how far we've come from designing for user experience, and caring about anything other than the upsell. An indictment of where computing has evolved to.

Today we learned that using lye as a cleaning agent is really fun, but if there's a screen that has a lot of grease on it and is galvanized in possible reactive metals: do it outside.