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The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together, for it implied — as had been said at Nuremberg over and over again by the defendants and their counsels — that this new type of criminal, who is in actual fact hostis generis humani [enemy of humanity], commits his crimes under circumstances that make it well-nigh impossible for him to know or to feel that he is doing wrong.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Epilogue (1963)

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Microglyphics Oct 26

New on Philosophics: The Film or the Strip — Freud knew the 'normal ego' was a fiction; Strawson simply refused to pretend otherwise. Some live the film, others the strip. The projector hums either way.

👉 https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/26/the-film-or-the-strip-on-freud-strawson-and-the-fiction-of-normal-selves/

#Philosophy #Freud #Identity #Foucault #Self #Normality #DisIntegrationism #Philosophics #blog #psychology #power #control #fiction

Torger Åge Sinnes Oct 25

Havna på IKEA. 😵‍💫 Kikker ut. Får med eit kjensla av å vera del av #Normality... https://youtu.be/IKk3t9VKXrg?si=3q1QKyp0aB_Vu-3N

Hacker News Oct 12

Heroin Addicts Often Seem Normal

https://justismills.substack.com/p/heroin-addicts-often-seem-normal

#HackerNews #HeroinAddiction #Normality #SubstanceAbuse #MentalHealth #Awareness #CommunitySupport

Heroin Addicts Often Seem Normal

At least, they did to me ten years ago

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Eric Maugendre about data Sep 12

"A generalized linear model or #GLM consists of three components:
1. A random component, specifying the conditional distribution of the response variable, Yᵢ (for the ith of n independently sampled observations). […]
2. A linear predictor—that is a linear function of regressors,
ηᵢ = α + Σⱼ Xᵢⱼ*βⱼ
3. A smooth and invertible link function g(·), which transforms the expectation of the response variable, μᵢ ≡ E(Yᵢ), to the linear predictor:
g(μᵢ) = ηᵢ"

https://www.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/21121_Chapter_15.pdf

#models #dataDev #logNormal #regression #normality #normalDistribution #gamma #Γ #modelling #modeling #AIDev #ML #evaluation

Estelle Platini Aug 4

'Europe’s narrative is constructed on the exclusion of colonialism from its history, allowing the ideology of Europe’s racelessness. […] The disremembering of the colonial past shapes the contemporary perception of Europe as a progressive well-intentioned neutral mediator. Moreover, this colonial amnesia produces Europeans of color as outsiders and “aliens” threatening to the liberal continent’s identity.'

'Thus, racialized Europeans are forever “just arriving” and forgotten in the construction of a contemporary European identity. The book gives examples of continent’s Roma and Sinti populations who have resided in Europe for half a millennium and are constantly marginalized as foreigners.'

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#activism #culture #identity #norms #normality #Europeanness #whiteness #raceMaking #racialization #ElTayeb #Europe #postColonialism #racelessness #colorblind #raceMaking #colourblind #racism #diaspora #Belgium #France #Netherlands #NL #Germany #Austria #Italy #Spain #Portugal #Hungary #postNational

SleepyCatten Aug 2

Feeling a little called out by Nil from Misfile: Hell High in last couple of comics 😅

2025-07-31

Nil: ... I just want to script out some arguments for next time somebody calls me a nothing girl. So far I've only got two.
Aiden: What have you got?
Nil: Well, first call me a nothing girl.
Aiden: Okay. Um, "hi, nothing girl".
Nil: Hi! I'm normal! Do you want to be my friend?! ... Needs work.

2025-08-01

Aiden: Nil, if you're really going to do this, I don't think a prepared list of statements is going to work. It's just going to seem weird... Weird-ER. You can't tell someone you're normal. That in itself ISN'T normal. You have to show them. It takes times.
Nil: Is that what you think I should do?

As somebody& who's scripted conversations and essentially created flowcharts and rules in their mind on how to appear "normal" to most people, and who didn't even truly realise what masking was until relatively recently (within the last 5-10 years), this hits hard 😅

#MisfileHellHigh #Nil #NothingGirl #normality #weirdness #NeurodivergentMasking #neurodivergent #neurospicy #WebComic

Misfile - Hell High - 7/31/25

School is tough. School is tougher when your immortal soul depends on graduation.

Saraphir Camille Jun 25

Normality is a social construct that changes over time. It's sad how so many people think the parameters for existence are so limited and, quite frankly, deranged!

#poetry #poetrycommunity #normality #socialconstructs #poem #singersongwriter #poison

Proto Himbo Derpopean May 14

I hate it when my data is clever.

#professor #rstats #statistics #teaching #normality

Kyle K Apr 6

Is 'sane' just what most people agree on? Does being different automatically mean 'insane'? This quote challenges the very definition of normal. What if the outliers see things more clearly? Brain = broken. #Sanity #Normality #Conformity #Psychology #MindTrip #QuestionReality #DeepThoughts #Outsider #ThoughtProvoking