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Tom Zimbardo Profile picture
@TomMostlyZen
Oct 1, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
A thread of threads on the illegal war and invasion of #Ukraine 🇺🇦 by #Russia 🇷🇺

Mostly about the psychology of the conflict:

1) How Psychopathic is Vladimir Putin?
2) Why I and some nuclear physics experts think most people are worrying too much about Zaporizhzia Nuclear Power Plant #ZNPP
3) Why does Russia lie all the time?
4) A messy thread of videos of Vladimir Putin, and the possibility that some of his uncontrolled movements are due to Parkinson’s Disease and/or medication to control it. The first video has been removed but the others still work
5) A thread collating many photos and videos of the #KerchStraitBridge explosion and collapse

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Jan 9
Naming conventions in psychiatric and neuropsychiatric conditions.

A thread 🧵

There’s lots of ways of naming all the ways our brains and emotions can go wrong or cause us to suffer. One convention is to name them after Dudes.

Know who this dude is?

That’s Alzheimer

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There’s a whole bunch of conditions that are named after dudes (and occasionally dudettes) of medicine.

For example, there’s Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, Asperger’s, and my personal favorite Munchausen’s Syndrome (see below)

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Now, although we stick with these names for historical reasons, it’s actually not a very good way of naming things. Does knowing something is called Addison’s Disease tell you anything about it?

And Addison’s DOES have psychological effects people

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Read 13 tweets
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May 5, 2023
In the depths of World War 2, the Russians were running seriously low on manpower.

Faced with the possibility of losing the War, the Russians decided to start recruiting Muppets to fight for them

a short historical thread 🧵

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The Muppet people once had their own country, but were absorbed by the Russian empire in the late 1700s like so many other ethnic groups.

Though not ideologically Communist, Muppet divisions became particularly feared by the Nazis due to their total inability to blink

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During the Battle of Moscow in early 1942, several elements of the Wehrmacht 4th army were completely overrun by Muppet wave attacks.

Traumatised veterans didn’t even speak of the Muppet waves until the 1980s, and even then, most biographers & historians didn’t believe them

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Read 5 tweets
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May 5, 2023
Once upon a time, in a world not unlike our own, a little parrot lived in a vast jungle. The parrot was happy and was friends with all the other animals who lived there, many of whom he knew by name.

Then one day, a fire started to rage through his home…

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The parrot saw the flames coming and quickly flew away. He realised that he could escape the fire, and felt relieved, but then he realised that his animal friends who couldn’t fly were not so lucky, and he worried that many of them might die

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Seeing his friends suffering and fleeing for their lives, the little parrots heart was made up in an instant. He had to help them.

He flew ahead of them finding routes through the inferno.

“Follow me!” He yelled above the roaring fire, “this way! Follow me!”

/3
Read 15 tweets
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May 4, 2023
Muppets that never actually existed… Image
Dark Crystal muppets that never actually existed… Image
Muppets in the style of HR Giger Image
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May 4, 2023
See this photograph of a Ukrainian Azovstal soldier? Well it’s not a photograph, it’s an AI generated image from @midjourney version 5.1

A short thread 🧵 on AI art and propaganda

(I checked with some Ukrainians and former soldiers if they thought this was ok)

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Firstly, to my eye, this picture isn’t distinguishable from a real photograph. I’m sure a professional could tell the difference but I can’t.

Secondly, this took less than 60 seconds to make an cost me 6 US cents (I get 200 images a month for $12).

We are in a new age

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These people aren’t real either. I’m using this as deliberate positive propaganda to highlight the heroism of Ukrainian people, but you can easily see how less moral actors will use this technology to portray horrible evil lies

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Mar 25, 2023
I wanted to write something about what happens when fallible human beings get involved in war and social media at the same time. Although I’m thinking carefully, this is from the heart

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Start from this basic premise. We all want to be happy, and to avoid suffering.

Then a war happens. The illegal invasion and genocide in Ukraine. What do you do?

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I know what I do. I watch and read the news. I follow it on Twitter. I listen to @MriyaReport and sometimes talk there, offering what little insight or understanding I might have. I give to @MriyaAid and other charities.

But I stay at home, where it’s safe.

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