Google has the informal corporate motto of don’t be evil, but they make money when anything happens online, even the bad stuff.’ In
But with social media, we’ve created a stage for constant artificial high drama. Every day a new person emerges as a magnificent hero or a sickening villain. It’s all very sweeping, and not the way we...
But at the core of psychopathy is a lack of moral restraint.
What’s the point in threatening them with imprisonment if they break the terms of their parole? The threat has no meaning for them. He
The problem with Google is that it is forever evolving – adjusting its algorithm in ways it keeps secret.
If you get between the lawyer and his goal, you’re going to get hurt.
Aplomb. I had managed to portray myself as a good Jew and,
What we do, when we fuck up, we don’t lose our job. We lose our vocation.
Trump was praising Operation Wetback — a 1954 endeavor in which Mexicans were rounded up and dumped in the wilderness, where they were stranded without food or possessions and 88 of them died in the h...
Trump might have appointed a less-eerie chief to replace Manafort. But instead he doubled-down, choosing the even eerier Stephen Bannon. Bannon
They wrote in their reports that it proved him to be cunning and manipulative and also that he was suffering from cognitive distortion because he didn’t believe he was mad. Tony
The way we construct consciousness is to tell the story of ourselves to ourselves, the story of who we believe we are. I feel that a really public shaming or humiliation is a conflict between the pers...
The way the diagnosis is being made in America was not something we intended, he said. Kids with extreme irritability and moodiness and temper tantrums are being called bipolar.
The Antisocial Personality [This type of personality] cannot feel any sense of remorse or shame. They approve only of destructive actions. They appear quite rational. They can be very convincing. —L.
Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it is...
Stone’s beliefs, I later discovered, were just as crazy as Alex’s. He
Remember that the crazy people are not always to be found on the outside. Sometimes the crazy people are deeply embedded on the inside. Not even the most imaginative conspiracy theorist has ever thoug...
Racists and conspiracy theorists are taking succor from Trump’s nomination. His fans are frequently caught on camera at his rallies yelling at protesters, Go back to Africa and Allah is a whore and Go...
Only a handful of therapeutic communities inspired by his Massachusetts ones exist in American prisons today. But, as it happens, one of them is situated on the top floor of the Hudson County Correcti...
On the outside, Tony said, not wanting to spend time with your criminally insane neighbors would be a perfectly understandable position. But on the inside it demonstrates you’re withdrawn and aloof an...