Back in the last century, iirc, or the very early 2000's, I logged-out of my desktop ( linux ) one time & discovered there was a new user on my machine..

the new username was "you are dead".

1st time I knew I'd been cracked.

Not a nice feeling.

Educational, however, & motivating..

did me good.

I'm glad the person was more interested in communicating my trusting foolishness to me, than in doing real harm..

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Many years ago, it was discovered that Wine could run Windows viruses/worms/malware just fine, thank you very much..

"Sandboxing", it isn't.

It runs with all the privileges of the user running the app, iirc.

You'd probably want to segregate the hard-tech from the soft/bio-tech:

IF you require deterministic-performance, THEN stay away from meat-implimentation.

IF you require sentience-sensitivity, THEN stay away from hard-tech implimentation.

( same principle as requiring both people & systems, in order to project effective force, economically, militarily, in disaster-relief, in any domain,

same principle as using both a wordsless-wholistic metaphor-understanding sentience in one's right-hemisphere, vs a reductionistic sentience in one's left, as the split-brain patients showed.

2 orthogonal systems, collaborating .. produces greater results than either-kind would on its own! )

Organic-sentience and machine-compute, organic doing the high-level-decisions, & machines doing the low-level-competencies, seems much more realistic.

The single most-important thing you CAN do, is understand yourself as profoundly as you can.

Read John Truby's book "The Anatomy of Genres", which is on the 14 story-genres that we form our own meanings of.

He's got a few details wrong

( like mistaking the Wild West village for what Village-archetype is, when real Village-archetype is the Tribal Mother Village,

and he misunderstands humor, as well, believing that the US-culture "drop" ( related to put-down ) is the core of humor, but the entire category of creative-misinterpretation is humor that isn't dependent on "the drop".

Hofstadter, in his "Godel Escher Bach" book, identified that the real shape of humor is the moebius strip: a strange loop.

You walk around in a "circle", and .. discover you're now somehow upside-down??

Surprised-by-improbability, would be near-the-heart of it.

Anyways )

Truby's book is CRAMMED with psychology insights into our forming, our growing-up, etc.

I'd require it of all high-schoolers, planetwide, for their HS diploma:

simply by making people encounter considering how they're forming the meaning that they, themselves, are, would lever humanity up into much greater global understanding/competence, though it'd take a generation or 2 for the effects to become visible...

Lanier's "Foreign to Familiar" & Hofstede's "Exploring Culture" are both important, too, because if you know that some of the dimensions of culture they identify work a particular way for you ( ie doesn't-work or you-need-this ), then suddenly, that spotlights something in your nature that has harmony in a specific subset of cultures, and shows you why that is doing this, in you..

( libraries exist: you don't need to buy those, but the Truby books, you'll probably fill with notes.. )

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A Corporation is:

• an incorporated "person", that
• is legally-obliged to be psychotic, narcissistic, machiavellian, sociopathic-psychopathic, and short-termist/nihilist, using all the systemic-dishonesty that it can, for gain
• the only dimension of the DarkHexad that it isn't obliged to be, is sadistic.. that's optional.
• it cannot ever be put in prison, because it's a herd, not an individual: it can dissipate, but it cannot die, or be forced to experience karma: only individuals can be truly-accountable.

( DarkHexad:

• narcissistic
• machiavellian
• sociopathic-psychopathic
• nihilist
• sadist
• systemic-dishonesty )

( all this to say that the legalistically-enacted-treason of granting "personhood" to corporations killed strategic-viability for all countries, and the highjacking-of-the-world's-economy AND the world's-governments, by corporations, is global unfolding proof.

What should have happened, is a separate category of pseudopersons should have been created, with systematically-limited rights, including prohibiting the things from interfering in elections,

but that would have required some real integrity & spine... )

( finally, for anybody so young/naive as to believe that charities are inherently-good, go volunteer in the management of one for a few years, & then see how you view integrity.. )

just to set the record straight..

I use the word, specifically to point-out that it's UNrelated to the n-word.

WHEN we kowtow to disinformation,

THEN we are accommodating disinformation's rule.

Fight it tooth & nail, ever mm of the way.

Ideological disinformation, national-narcissism disinformation, historical disinformation, linguistic disinformation, Scientism's disinformation & other pseudoscientific disinformation, ALL of it.

I simply don't believe that the law is suddenly going to be made to apply to Citadel et al...

I believe it will simply "legally disappear", and the naked-shorting will just go POOF!

Narcissistic-machiavellian-psychopathy isn't magically going to become integrity or accountability, let-alone both.

Throw-in some nihilism, for good measure, and scorched-earth policy becomes the plan for them.

I believe all the "to the moon" people are going to get fucked-over by the institutional contortion-of-"law", some how, some way.

I hope it's just me being too old/bitter/disillusioned, and not fact, but .. I'll not believe that any payout is going to happen until it provably and irreversably has happened.

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, eh?

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"opt out" privacy-molestation/rape & identity-theft-facilitation NEEDS to be criminalized, it seems.

You don't claim that pickpocketing someone's wallet, ID, passport, and money, is "legal", just because they didn't complain about it, do you?

Yet that behaviour is exactly what seems to be normalizing, digitally...

Thank you for posting this, eh?

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen!

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Please read John Truby's book "The Anatomy of Genres", and have your mind BLOWN by all the psychology in the different 14 Genres of story, dominating our cultures throughout the world, now...

It will make fiction in book AND movie form sooo much richer for you, and it will make other-people much-more-understandable, as well...

I'm autistic, am NOT likely to ever watch another movie in my life ( waaay too overwhelming ), but now I understand story so much better...

Truby's got a special place in his heart for both Godfather I & II.

With reason, his explanations show.

There are an amazing number of awesome stories identified in that book, as examples demonstrating this, or that, aspect of story...

Please read it from beginning to end, so the explanations ( which build on each-other ) weave into the whole, properly ( instead of just hitting 2 chapters & not getting why it doesn't make as much sense as I'm suggesting it does ).

The only significant error in the book worth noting, is the misunderstanding of Comedy:

Improbably-violated-expectations is the PROPER definition of it, and there is no requirement for any "drop", which seems an American subset of humour.

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, eh?

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Please remember, Dr. Trimbath ( iirc her name right, sorry if not! ) pointed-out that it isn't "retail", it is "HOUSEHOLD".

Householders have rights, retail-consumers don't.

Working matters ( part of the lesson of NOT tolerating the wrong metaphor, as "using the wrong map" isn't of any strategic benefit: it misleads one's understanding! )

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, eh?

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The ONLY way that peace could have been earned, in the West Bank, is...

• an independent ( UN ) government, that wouldn't tolerate EITHER side's abuse, and systematically silenced bullying from the place
• ALL necessary & sufficient infrastructure, healthcare, etc, in-place, AND NEUTRAL ( no Hamas, no Israel, NO politics in it: ONLY neutral facilitation-of-healthy-civil-process )
• keep this silencing-of-any-bullying for 2-4 generations, until the enmity-addicted people were all out-from-power
• THEN form a sane local-of-the-people government, gradually ceding from 1 to the other, celebrating the victory-against-prejudice ( on both sides ).

Neither side would tolerate/allow that.

TTBOMK, Israel has maintained about 100 dead Palestinians for every dead Israeli Jew, for many years, there is some sites on the 'web that have numbers for that, btw.

There is ZERO hope for any peace there, thanks to enmity being the addiction of sooo many, on both sides, who have authority, and therefore who use their authority to multiply enmity's reach throughout the cultures.

A "church of hatred & evil" that situation has become.

Heartbreaking waste of God-given LivingPotential & LivingOpportunity, from both populations..

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Please consider using John Truby's book ( or even the cover of it ) "The Anatomy of Genres" for identifying the 14 Genres of story.

Myth, Epic, Western, etc...

"adventure" isn't a genre: it occurs in multiple genres, serving as the canvas on-which the genre's points are written...

That book, btw, is an awesome bunch of psychology.

Some minor errors, like mis-defining comedy...

( proper definition of humour: "improbable violation of expectation", or a strange-loop form )

...to be made of a "drop", a debasing, or put-down, or reduction of somebody...? Maybe in the US, but it isn't the true fundamental root of humour.

sooo much gold in that book, though: definitely worth investing in.

( for anybody wanting the core competencies in writing, I'd say that both John Truby's books, and Shaun Coyne's "The Story Grid" are books that are required, and they are the top/core competencies. Coyne recommends McKee, as well. )