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Allies Fear They Are Tied to an Erratic U.S. and Now Have Nowhere to Turn (Yaroslav Trofimov/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/allies-fear-they-are-tied-to-an-erratic-u-s-and-now-have-nowhere-to-turn-23c042e1
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p19#a260407p19

I've emailed him to suggest that he takes a look at the Fediverse.
How I've learned that certainty is the thing to really fear - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w5z1d447lo

@13a@mastodon.social
I fear the biggest problem is most of us haven't walked even 1/8 mile in the the other persons shoes. I am stunned by how unaware most of my fellows are at the various challenges others face, and how specific #ClimateActions might affect others.
And similarly, how few people understand how specific climate actions might affect them, and fear the worst.…

@13a@mastodon.social
I fear the biggest problem is most of us haven't walked even 1/8 mile in the the other persons shoes. I am stunned by how unaware most of my fellows are at the various challenges others face, and how specific #ClimateActions might affect others.
And similarly, how few people understand how specific climate actions might affect them, and fear the worst.…

Urban Birds Appear to Fear Women More Than Men, But Why?
https://www.sciencealert.com/urban-birds-appear-to-fear-women-more-than-men-but-why

One of the many costs in European and global security from the Iran war.
"American allies are watching in disbelief as the Pentagon reroutes weapon shipments to aid the Iran war,
angry and scared that arms the U.S. demanded they buy will never reach them."
h…

Fear Inoculum sounds like a band trying to sound like Tool, and only being partially successful at it.
It ain't bad, but it's... lacking.

Free speech is the power to criticize your government without fear of prosecution. It is a basic human right.
It is not about getting away with hurting your neighbor who never caused you any harm. Dignity is a human right.
That is also what "love your neighbor" is about.
It's just a sensible thing to do.
Do not tolerate hate speech.
There is no (need for a) "freedom to hate".
Be kind to one another. 🧡

"At a recent event about working women, I asked a room of HR executives whether their firms’ diversity efforts were continuing, and every hand shot up. When I asked who'd talk about it publicly, almost every hand quickly went down. Executives say they fear not just the administration, but also right-wing activists and misogynistic trolls who might target them."
Opinion | I’ve Covered Women in the Workplace for 15 Years. Something Alarming Is Happening.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opinion/women-workplace-dei-feminism.html

Willem challenged us to ask ourselves what we would do if we were living under Nazi occupation. Before all of this, I doubt anyone thought they would be complicit. I doubt anyone said to themselves, "nothing. I would cower in fear and do nothing."
But for 4 years or so we all answered that question again and again with our lives. Now here we are, answering it again... Every day. But it's no longer "what would you do during the rise of Hitler?" It's now, "what would you do after the invasion of Poland," and "what would you do after you knew about the concentration camps?"
For some people, the answer is still, "nothing."
But a lot of people have been brave in the face of it all. A lot of people have died, and a lot more will die. He will die, perhaps after a ruling by some court or other but, honestly, probably not. That's just how these things work out. Lots of people die, some for no reason, some because they stood up against injustice. A whole lot of people do nothing, until it's safe to claim victory... Until it's no longer safe to be on the other side.
That's just how these things go. Fascism is self-defeating, but it causes incredible harm on it's path of self-destruction. The more people who stand up, who risk themselves, the faster it collapses and the fewer it can hurt. That's also just how these things go. It's incredibly dangerous for everyone until enough people take some extra risk and make it safe for everyone again.
But that question still stands... Which one of those groups are you in? Are you proud of what you are doing, or will you look back with shame? Some of y'all have a lot to be proud of, but, if you're not, it's never too late to earn your way into that proud group.

“Instead of assuming the worst, it’s important to recognize the pain and fear that might be behind someone’s decision to stay silent or speak loudly. Honoring each other’s need for safety helps build a conversation on shared humanity rather than tension.”
—Lauren Maxwell ‘25 M.Div, ‘26 S.T.M. in this Yale News article on the university’s Cultivating Conversation program.

‘Cultivating Conversation’: Instilling skills that carry dialogue forward
More than 100 Yale students recently completed a pilot leadership development program that offered tools and skills training for engaging in meaningful dialogue with people who have different viewpoints.

"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
✅ Figures of Speech: #StarWars Monologues - #Andor

It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are incapable of fulfilling this duty use the smokescreen of war to hide their failure and,in the process, line the pockets of a select few-the same ones as always;the only ones who profit when the world stops building hospitals and starts building missiles,…We will not be complicit in something that is bad for the world and that is also contrary to our values and interests, simply out of fear of reprisals from someone.

Spam is getting so boring nowadays. In the old days they tried to lure you in in with golden mountains.
Now it's all fear that is the call to action! "I recorded you!", "Your storage is running out!", "You must revalidate your account!", "You must renew your identification!" and so on.
We don't need bank impersonations, we need late african princes that leave money to be shared.

And here, in the final days of Ástriðr, she discovers that the warmth, community, and peace she wanted were always hers for the taking. 16 years wasted wallowing in fear and hesitation. Many such cases, sadly.

Just heard the podcast about social media caused fomo ( https://pca.st/episode/fc237e66-5b33-40c6-a9b6-e6c4c673071f).
Especially when seeing content from the outdoors and thinking that those people always have a good life.
Two things about that:
I feel that t…

FOMO – warum wir Angst haben, am Berg was zu verpassen und was dagegen hilft | Talk
In eurem Social Media Feed sieht es aus, als wären alle am Berg unterwegs, nur ihr nicht. In euch breiten sich Einsamkeit und Traurigkeit aus. Ein klassischer Fall von FOMO - fear of missing out.…

April 3, 2026
Swami Beyondananda posted Today's Daily Laughsative,
SWAMI'S TWO-LINERS:
Q. Swami, is love more powerful than fear?
A. Of course it is. Otherwise we'd be singing
"All You Need Is Fear".

Microsoft's 2026 Work Trend Index: a survey of 20K AI users finds 65% fear falling behind, but only 13% report being rewarded for workplace AI experimentation (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsofts-new-research-fi…

WHITE WITH FEAR is a deep dive into the decades-long quest by some in America’s conservative political machine to amass power by exploiting racial fault lines.
https://www.pbs.org/video/white-with-fear-tielvg/

White with Fear
Examine how some of America’s conservative political machine uses racial fault lines to gain power.

What Happened to the SPLC—and Me - by Michael Edison Hayden #SPLC

What Happened to the SPLC—and Me
Union breaking, Gaza, and fear of MAGA turned the SPLC into an organization that abandoned its own civil rights principles.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Eels:
🎵 The Sound Of Fear
#NowPlaying #Eels
https://open.spotify.com/track/2PAL4FNhGghyKKUAAtINjW

Civilian deaths in Iran pass 700 amid fear of bombs and regime clampdown (Deepa Parent/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/02/civilian-deaths-in-iran-pass-200-amid-fear-of-bombs-and-regime-clampdown
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p53#a260303p53

How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-back

A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Fear:
🎵 Let's Have a War
#Fear
https://open.spotify.com/track/3FXDVUALipaatG5LIRiPcm

@… I agree, it's frightening. Because everything is ultimately linked to everything else, I fear that there’s a great risk of sleepwalking into a situation that “nobody wanted,” like in 1914.
Today’s "leaders” certainly aren't wiser or more qualified than those back then.

@… I agree, it's frightening. Because everything is ultimately linked to everything else, I fear that there’s a great risk of sleepwalking into a situation that “nobody wanted,” like in 1914.
Today’s "leaders” certainly aren't wiser or more qualified than those back then.

Like in Orbšn's Hungary, Trump's oligarchs take control of the media. There goes CNN.
CBS News and CNN staffers fear ‘disaster’ as Paramount wins Warner Bros battle
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/27…

"No vamos a ser cómplices de algo que es malo para el mundo simplemente por el miedo a las represalias de algunos.”
''We won't be complicit with something that is bad for the world simply for fear of reprisals from some quarters."
Pedro Sšnchez le aguanta el pulso a Donald Trump con la guerra de Iršn

Sánchez le aguanta el pulso a Donald Trump con la guerra de Irán
El presidente advierte de que su política exterior no la marcará "el miedo a las represalias" y se erige en portavoz del 'no a la guerra' frente a las amenazas de Estados Unidos; la Casa Blanca aseguró este miércoles que España cedía a la presión para "cooperar militarmente" pero el Gobierno lo ...

Update on hazardous chemical cleanup (or not) in groundwater at Leech Lake, #Minnesota 🧪⚒️
https://www.minnpost.com/environment/2026/

A Superfund site in Minnesota is spreading, disrupting a tribe’s way of life
Little progress has been made despite 40 years of cleanup on Leech Lake Reservation. Locals fear for the health of surrounding waterways.

I subscribed to "The Nerve" to follow Carole Cadwalladr, but on a week-end night, Stewart Lee is a better fit. Not evading the heavy issues, but showing a bit how surreal the present feels.

Deporting soldiers? Why immigrant veterans fear removal from the US | Donald Trump News | @AlJazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2026/4/25/deporting-soldiers-why-immigrant-veterans-fear-removal-from-the-us
America has changed...

LIVE | 3,000 km of fear: will “FLAMINGO” change the war?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/15/live-km-of-fear-will.html

"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that."
✅ Figures of Speech: #StarWars Monologues - #Andor

Joe Rogan used to just host our Fear Factors. Now he spreads dangerous fucking misinformation to millions of other fools

How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-back

A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.

Raiders Fear These AFC West First-Round Moves https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-fear-these-afc-west-first-round-moves

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says growing hostility toward AI has become “extremely hurtful” and warns that misinformation and fear around the technology may slow innovation and progress
Poor baby 🤣

given the claude code leak i'm starting to suspect that when boosters say they don't look at the code it's an act of fear, not confidence

"The best war oratory is not actually about war. It is about peace. People hear it and think not merely of the lives that might be lost, but of a way of life that might be: they fear for culture, for democracy, for decency. You weep at good oratory because you fear not just a lost war but a lost world. Yet when you watch the White House videos, you weep for a lost world anyway. "
🎁
The rhetoric of war has changed. Not for the better
https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/04/23/the-rhetoric-of-war-has-changed-not-for-the-better?giftId=ZTk0ZjgzMDEtMDk0YS00MGUxLWI3ZWUtMTU4NWE5MTFhNDEy&utm_campaign=gifted_article

Just finished this...
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/the-fear
I've been working on a set of myths and folklore that exist within the context of a fantasy story I'm working on. This is one of them.
Feedback is always welcome, especially grammar and typos. Now back to editing a couple of other projects I've been working on.

My Biggest AI Fear by Hank Green
#ai

bums, i had a collection of mags from the late 1990s, all about cycling with a progressive sustainability point of view
anything without a diamond frame was in scope
cargo bikes, trikes, recumbents, recumbent trikes, pedersen, moulton, brompton, usw etc pp
i cant find them and i fear i got rid of them :-(
they were so optimistic

Generalization and extinction of learned fear alter primary sensory input to the brain (of mice) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.25.708099v1

Exclusive: Palo Alto chose not to tie China to hacking campaign for fear of retaliation from Beijing, sources say
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/palo-alto-chose-not-tie-china-hacking-campaign-fear-retaliatio…

Seems like a lot of drones are being sighted that aren’t drones. At least they are getting reported and not ignored out of fear of reporting a UFO. Better to misreport a 1000 balloons than have one crash.
United Flight From San Francisco to San Diego Reports Drone Close Call Near Arrival https://ground.news/article/united-flight-from-san-francisco-to-san-diego-reports-drone-close-call-near-arrival_66b58a

A lucky find in my local #book store: the anthology "Flight or Fright" with new and classic stories to work on your fear of flying.
#reading

I'm some hours behind the latest developments, but do I interpret it correctly that the German chancellor Merz, together with Macron and Starmer, offers to join Trump’s 4-week-or-shorter war in Iran? While Iran seems quite confident as they “studied how the West performed in the wars in Afghanistan and beyond”? While there is no energy shortage to fear in Germany as oil and gas come from—check notes—Belgium and The Netherlands, according to Reiche?

The Cowboys should fear Jeremiyah Love's NFL East Arrival https://insidethestar.com/the-cowboys-should-fear-jeremiyah-loves-nfl-east-arrival

World leaders fear broader escalation after major US and Israeli attack on Iran (Le Monde)
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/02/28/world-leaders-fear-broader-escalation-after-major-us-and-israeli-attack-on-iran_6750959_4.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p37#a260228p37

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/116223657051245000
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again:
CEOs are some of the most fear-driven people in this Earth, constantly torn between the fear of change and the fear of missing out.

“Think about that: You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth.
This is not a hypothetical. It is your lived reality. It is America.”
https://www.

What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis
The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.

Fear no more the heat o' the sun;
Nor the furious winter's rages,
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages;
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney sweepers come to dust
https://www.williamshakespeare.net/fear-no-mor…

“Some things that they were able to have funded in the past — such as sex workers or equine therapy — have not passed the pub test.”
Sex workers were never covered, though *transport* to visit sex workers—who clients paid for at their own expense—was, the same as if they required transport to shop for groceries.
But don't let mere facts get in the way of sticking the boot into our society's most vulnerable, will ya?

The NDIS gave participants their lives back. Now they fear what's to come
NDIS participants set up their lives around the scheme's rules. But now the rules are changing and they fear what lies ahead.

Anxiety is a Form of Futurism — https://www.brichapman.com/p/anxiety-is-a-form-of-futurism?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

The Gift of the Anxious Mind: Turning Fear into Foresight
What if anxiety isn’t a flaw, but a form of foresight? This essay explores how anxious minds, tuned to possibility, can become powerful futurists.

This is called manifesting and I need to either learn, re-learn or get trained on this process.
It’s possible for me to do something. @costarastrology

Sonnet 126 - CXXVI
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his sickle, hour;
Who hast by waning grown, and therein showest
Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self growest.
If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,
As thou goest onwards still will pluck thee back,
She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
May time disgrace and wretched minutes kill.
Yet fear her, O thou minion of her pleasure!
…

@… I think the question remains: Have the needs of GitHub and MS leadership aligned?
I fear not.

Kick the Bot, Fear the Dog: Street Psychology and the Coming Age of Mechanical Animals
The first time you see a sidewalk delivery bot, you smile. It is impossible not to. The thing is knee-high, usually white or pastel, rolling along on six stubby wheels like a cooler that gained sentience and decided to take itself for a walk. It carries burritos, or prescription medication, or someone's iced latte, and it navigates curbs and crosswalks…

Kick the Bot, Fear the Dog: Street Psychology and the Coming Age of Mechanical Animals | David Boles, Blogs
The first time you see a sidewalk delivery bot, you smile. It is impossible not to. The thing is knee-high, usually white or pastel, rolling along on six stubby wheels like a cooler that gained sen…

Today’s server message was “Boot pool status is ONLINE: One or more devices has experienced an unrecoverable error. An attempt was made to correct the error.” and I have this fear I may need to buy a new SSD.

I'm listening to a podcast about the movie Feardotcom and I was curious what fear.com would actually be, these days.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Terror:
🎵 Fear The Panic
#NowPlaying #Terror
https://flatspotrecords.bandcamp.com/track/fear-the-panic
https://open.spotify.com/track/6AOUp9I42Re1oLir7JhSDl

"Weimer’s obsessions are no secret – they were probably the reason Christian Democratic Union chancellor Friedrich Merz appointed him as commissioner for culture and the media."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/

Why independent bookshops strike fear in the heart of Germany’s culture tsar
First he came for Berlin’s film festival. Now it’s books. Wolfram Weimer seems to be on a mission to curb progressive thinking, says Guardian Europe columnist Fatma Aydemir

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Little Simz:
🎵 Fear No Man
#LittleSimz
https://open.spotify.com/track/5joVlycLPsmQSpchSTCmTl

given the claude code leak i'm starting to suspect that when boosters say they don't look at the code it's an act of fear, not confidence

How Trump's immigration policies, visa fees, and fuel costs are affecting international artists' US tours; Pollstar: US concert volume in Q1 is down ~17% YoY (August Brown/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entert…

Karol G at Coachella was a global hit. Yet other foreign acts fear touring the U.S.
We love the U.S., but now there is a reality in which we have to cut our losses and stop coming,' one band said. 'A lot of bands are giving up on the U.S., for sure.

As Trump feels pressure to end war, allies fear what Iran may do next
The attack Trump launched Feb. 28 has transformed the risks in the region.
The Strait of Hormuz
— which was open and secure before the fighting began
— is now a danger zone.
And many U.S. allies among the Arab states lining the Persian Gulf,
who were skeptical about the war in the first place,
now fear that a wounded Iran run by hard-line leaders imperils their populations.
…

As Trump feels pressure to end war, allies fear what Iran may do next
The oil price rose to $110 per barrel on Friday, as Iran has demonstrated it can inflict significant damage on the world’s economy, even while outgunned. That creates a dilemma for President Trump.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/600-week-buys-freedom-fear/613972/?gift=7dKtnNrILXcLLty1b9gh3v55Ifcy-zz6-SVLZ4NDiZw

$600 a Week Buys Freedom From Fear
An extra $600 a week buys freedom from fear.

"Hindered by fear": CBS producer paints picture of Bari Weiss' "vision" in resignation letter - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2026/02/12/hindered-by-fear-cbs-producer-paints-picture-of-bari-weiss-vision-in-resignation-letter/

A California Dream? Some Democrats Fear Harris Picked the Wrong Race. (Jennifer Medina/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/us/politics/kamala-harris-california-governor-democrats.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260503/p7#a260503p7

As salty as I am about it, there's also another way to think about this. For anyone who still has connections to folks on the right (which is perhaps unlikely for anyone on this server, I digress), the cult that has consumed them thrives on isolation and grievance.
The words "you were right" have the potential to cut through the programming and open up an opportunity for reconnection. The modern conspiratorial cult of the Right has been built partially around people who were told they were wrong or were crazy. In the vast majority of cases, they were wrong and even when they were right they completely misunderstood why, but we'll skip that for now. Liberals making fun of them (even the times when they definitely earned it) has pushed them further and further into their ideological hole.
The thing about those words, "you were right," in this context is that the way they offer reconnection also requires them to take one little step of betraying their ideology to accept them. So they must choose between maintaining allegiance to a pedophile or finally getting to feel superior after years of living in an illusion of persecution.
Under the ideology of the Right, admitting one is wrong is a weakness. It is admitting defeat. They have to "own the libs" by saying things, things that they know aren't true, in order to feel dominant. But these things are often so absurd that they end up being made fun of, feeling even more weak and pathetic, reinforcing their fear and alienation.
Offering what they're looking for can offer a way out, but only if they're willing to start to recognize the thing they've supported for what it is.
And they were right about some things. They were right that Bill Gates was a terrible person. I've had plenty of liberals defend him based on his philanthropy washing, but he's awful and always has been. The Epstein links make that blatant. They intuitively recognized him and didn't trust him, even if they were wildly off base about *how and why* he shouldn't be trusted... Even if their correct mistrust was leveraged into one of the most destructive conspiracy theories ever (vaccine denial and COVID vaccine avoidance).
They were right about Bill Clinton. He was always shady as fuck. Sure, the people who attacked him at the time turned out to be even more shady but that's not the point right now. He was connected to Epstein and that was always creepy as fuck.
And the Epstein thing was an open secret that liberals ignored for a long time. It was seen as some weird thing that right wing nutjobs believed about the Clintons. But it was true. Not all of it, and there has always been an antisemitic element to the right wing interpretation or Epstein stuff, but his whole pedophile conspiracy was always kind of real.
The whole "Illuminati"/deep state thing is a vast oversimplification, an attempt to make comprehensible an incredibly complex set of interlocking and emergent behaviors. But Epstein did very much want to remake the world, to create a new world order, and he absolutely played a part in it.
The Right wing nutjobs talked about global authoritarianism, Blackhawks flying over American cities, masked men with guns disarming and executing legal gun owners in the streets. That's all happening right now.
The "FEMA concentration camps" are not actually that far off. ICE and FEMA are sister agencies, both under DHS. I'd be more than happy to call that one "close enough" in order to hear some MAGA admit that ICE is, in fact, building concentration camps.
There was always a huge millennialist element to these things. They tended to be connected to "the antichrist." It was absurd, especially for me as someone who no longer identifies as a Christian. But I'll even acquiess that to a degree. The "the number of the Beast" is 666. That's just the sum of the Hebrew spelling of "Nero." Revelations focuses a lot on Nero coming back to life after his death. His death that involved a head wound, thus the line from Revelation 13:3:
> And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
The parallels between Trump and Nero are easy to draw, and Trump's ear wound feels pretty on-the-nose for this. I don't believe in "prophecy" in this way. I think that there are patterns, and useful patterns can become encoded in beleif systems. But I will, again, happily call this one "close enough" for anyone on that side willing to also acknowledge it. I'm happy to meet on that common ground, because anyone who accepts it must recognize that their duty is to fight against it.
A lot of these correct nuggets are embedded in a framework of religious extremism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the beliefs holding these together are wildly wrong and incredibly toxic. But by giving some room to feel validated, listened to, understood, can give some room to admit things that were wrong.
Cult de-programming starts with an opening. People have to talk through their own thoughts, hear their own inconsistencies. Guiding questions can help them untangle these things for themselves. And it all starts by having enough room to feel safe, to not feel cornered, to not feel stupid. Admitting mistakes means being vulnerable, and the MAGA cult is built on fear. It's built on exploiting vulnerability and locking it away.
De-programming takes a long time. It's not easy. It takes patience. But every person who comes out does so with a powerful perspective, a deep understanding, that can be turned back against it. The best people at getting people out of cults are former members. Some of the most dedicated antifa are former fascists who understood their mistakes and dedicate their lives to fixing them.

"Green officials point out that voter fraud tends to be most prominent in postal ballots, and that on this occasion Labour won the postal vote."
But otherwise the article presents no data on sectoral poll shifts.
Labour anxiety and accusations after big shift in Muslim vote to Greens | Green party | The Guardian

The persistent notion that AI disruption could create a permanent underclass signals how much collateral damage AI companies might tolerate in pursuit of AGI (Jasmine Sun/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion

Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass
The people building A.I. fear that we have only a short time before advanced A.I. disrupts the labor force.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Blue Öyster Cult:
🎵 (Don't Fear) The Reaper
#NowPlaying #BlueÖysterCult
https://gendaryduo.bandcamp.com/track/blue-yster-cult-the-reaper
https://open.spotify.com/track/1stgKei9u1AbCDZ2bycWhQ

Do not leave for the weekend until you've checked out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you need to know, including
--Anthropic’s Mythos heads toward federal use as Hegseth's ban falters,
--Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, which can develop exploit code too,
--Financial officials fear AI models could threaten global banking,
--Russian crypto exchange Grinex suspends ops after $13m loss in cyber incident,
--DraftKings hac…

Anthropic’s Mythos heads toward federal use as Hegseth's ban falters
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, which can develop exploit code too, Financial officials fear AI models could threaten global banking, Russian crypto exchange Grinex suspends ops after $13m loss in cyber incident, DraftKings hacker sentenced to 30 months, much more

The Cleveland Plain Dealer says it has removed "writing" from some reporters' workloads; an "AI rewrite specialist" turns info gathered by reporters into drafts (Chris Quinn/Plain Dealer)
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02/jo…

Journalism schools are teaching fear of the future: Letter from the Editor
Journalism schools lag in teaching AI, crucial for modern reporting, which aids in efficient news gathering and frees reporters for fieldwork.

Trump's 'Two Minutes Hate' Won't Pay the Bills (E.J. Dionne Jr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/opinion/trump-state-of-the-union-fear.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p35#a260227p35

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Big Thief:
🎵 No Fear
#BigThief
https://raffdave.bandcamp.com/track/no-fear
https://open.spotify.com/track/0r3q5J2T2PSAkn1xkFpisa

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Tessa Rose Jackson:
🎵 Fear Bangs The Drum
#NowPlaying #TessaRoseJackson
https://tessarosejackson.bandcamp.com/track/fear-bangs-the-drum
https://open.spotify.com/track/6FU0ENgljNIL8mMRbkKiH4

This is as good a time as any for a thought experiment.
You're in Nazi Germany. You know about the camps, you know what they do, you see the ash fall, you smell it. People who resist alone are killed, some are sent to the camps too. You're afraid to even talk to people about it for fear that they'll turn you in.
You think back to when the camps were being built. You had all the warning signs, but you didn't know how to interpret them. You could believe it would happen. You thought you'd have a chance to vote him out. You thought there might be another way. You thought maybe things would turn out differently if you just sat tight, kept your head down, kept yourself safe.
You see a family being dragged from their home. You know they will be killed. You want to fight, not just for them but for yourself. You opposed Hitler, and at any point you know you could be on the list... Even if you do nothing.
You wish you could rise up, shoot the SS, open the gates, fight it all. You know you aren't alone, but you don't know how to connect with the people who want the same thing.
Using the knowledge we have now, what should you have done in the preceding months and years to connect, to build a community that would open up all paths of resistance?
There were people who resisted. We know it wasn't enough.
Gun laws in Nazi Germany were very similar to US laws in that Nazis were largely free to own guns and everyone else was not. Unlike the US, where "others" have historically controlled using the fear that they might be randomly executed, Germany did codify it. Red flag laws were one more step in the US towards that codification, and there will be more.
When Nazis were taking away those guns, the social networks didn't exist to make resistance possible for most folks. But some Jews were able to resist.
It wasn't the guns that made the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising possible, though they definitely helped. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising was made possible by labor organizing in the precessing years.
If there were more uprisings like that, the Holocaust could have been stopped if not prevented. Social networks make resistance possible. Guns are only useful tools to resist authoritarianism *after* you build a community able to support that resistance, and they are only one of many tools made useful by that community.
Getting guns is easy, and not always necessary. Building community is hard. Guns won't keep you safe. Community will.
Single acts of resistance may slow the machine down, but to actually bring down a monster you need to be able to attack more than once. You need a society of resistance. If you are afraid now, build that. Talk to people while it's still safe to do so. Ask them where their red line is. Talk to neighbors. Figure out your network.
Take the steps you need now to keep your neighbors safe, to keep yourself safe.
#USPol

Fear as senator discovers staggering true amount Trump spent on arming ICE - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/heavily-armed-secret-police-force-ice-cbp-amass-144-million-weapons-stockpile/

I fear we’re watching multiple generations to give up any kind of ambition to improve at whatever craft can be automated mediocrely by LLMs.
Repeatedly pulling the prompt lever will never end in excellence. ESPECIALLY if the boosters are right, “prompting” is not a long-term valuable skill.
LLMs _can_ be used as skill multipliers but it’s up to YOU whether you choose to use them as a leverage for your own capabilities or whether you deskill yourself into a helpless slop slinger.

Speaking at an event, Sharyn Alfonsi voiced concern about "the spread of corporate meddling and editorial fear" at CBS News and uncertainty over her job (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr/30/60-minutes-sharyn-alfon…

Ohio Republicans fear former ICE official could cost them a battleground House seat (Aaron Pellish/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/02/ohio-election-trump-immigration-official-00901314
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p49#a260502p49

At least 22 people were killed in Pakistan on Sunday
as thousands gathered At least 22 people were killed in Pakistan on Sunday as thousands gathered across the country to denounce U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Iran,
-- including 10 who died as crowds tried to storm the U.S. Consulate in Karachi.
The airstrikes have already spurred fear, uncertainty and unrest in Iran’s eastern neighbors,
Afghanistan and Pakistan
— two countries with sizable Shiite minorities w…

Protesters Try to Storm U.S. Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
At least 22 people were killed in protests across Pakistan as Iran’s neighbors brace for turmoil and the fallout of a possible regional conflict.

Before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity, which delivers developments that go beyond the usual infosec news echo chamber.
Today's items cover
--The imminent DHS shutdown will hamper US ability to respond to cyber threats,
--CISA will hold town halls on cyber incident reporting regs,
--Palo Alto removed China attribution in fear of retaliation,
--Tianfu Cup returns,
--Ring cancels partnership with Flock,
--TX AG lau…

The imminent DHS shutdown will hamper US ability to respond to cyber threats
CISA will hold town halls on cyber incident reporting regs, Palo Alto removed China attribution in fear of retaliation, Tianfu Cup returns, Ring cancels partnership with Flock, TX AG launches probe into Conduent breach, AI vibe coding platform Orchids has an unfixed flaw, much more

IN AMERICA, WE HAVE NO KINGS.
We are showing up together again on March 28.
When our families are under attack and costs are pushing people to the brink, silence is not an option.
We will defend ourselves and our communities against this administration’s unjust and cruel acts of violence.
America does not belong to strongmen, greedy billionaires, or those who rule through fear.
It belongs to us, the people.

No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.

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IST IST:
🎵 I Am The Fear
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One Self:
🎵 Fear the Labour
#OneSelf
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60 Minutes journalist decries 'spread of corporate meddling and editorial fear' at CBS News (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr/30/60-minutes-sharyn-alfonsi-cbs-news
http://www.memeorandum.com/260501/p98#a260501p98

Gulf states have spent months trying to avoid a regional war, only to be dragged into one against their will
Gulf monarchs lived in fear of such scenes.
They scrambled to dissuade Donald Trump from attacking and to push the Islamic Republic to make a deal.
Their efforts failed
—and now the war they dreaded has come to the Middle East.
The conflict began with a wave of strikes by American and Israeli warplanes on the morning of February 28th.
Bombing cont…

After the whole Adam Something "dating advice for leftist men" thing, I realized I should probably write something about that. I didn't, but I realized I should. Here I am sort of getting around to it.
I had a friend call me an "elder" at one point. I was like 35 at that time, but like... a lot of old leftists are just dead or in prison, so we take what we can get I guess. Being also an elder in the sense that I'm an elder millennial, who is also a parent and married for almost 10 years and all that, I guess I'm technically qualified.
So here it is, dating advice for (straight cis) leftist men:
1. Don't.
That's it, actually. That's the whole thing. Let me explain a bit.
First of all, this is dating advice for neuroatypical folks. We're way overrepresented in both extremes because this system wasn't built for us. And that's who is *the most* confused by all the relationship stuff, and most likely to try to apply all this masculinity/manosphere bullshit. I'm also talking a bit from experience here, as a neruo-spicy trying to "figure out" how to date within a paradigm entirely built around neurotypicals and their relationships. It's garbage. Throw it out. There's nothing worth saving.
His video had some line comparing not having sex to your house being on fire. I'm not gonna bother to quote it because I'm busy with actual life. But like, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I recognize that and it's horribly destructive. Men who buy in to patriarchy actually believe this, because those men value themselves based on (hetro) sex. Yeah, if you think you're worthless because you aren't "getting laid" then yeah, you're gonna feel like that's an emergency.
"Dating" as a paradigm turns humans into roles. It dehumanizes us all, and thus makes human connection much harder. It is a game that, like thermonuclear war, can only be won by not playing.
When you abandon "dating" and just act like a human, everything starts to be easier. There's no such thing as being "friend zoned" because you're just friends. Sometimes friendships become other things, sometimes they don't. It doesn't actually matter, because if you're actually there for friendship then you don't *need* anything else.
My grandma, at 98 I think, gave me some advice. My grandparents always got along well, and were married for enough decades that I listened really closely. She told me I should just do things I loved to do and everything else would work itself out.
And it kind of did.
I understand the fear, the idea that you'll die alone. I get that. I get the loneliness. It all hits a lot harder when you have ADHD emotions and past trauma. I get that. But that fear is self-manifesting. When you build your confidence, when you don't *need* to be "in a relationship," you have more room to actually build relationships. For me, dating was dehumanizing. When I abandoned that, I was able to actually be a good partner, and I was able to find my partner.
I would advise against marriage as well, but we did get married for legal reasons. It can still be hard to maintain that, to see each other as people rather than roles. That becomes extra hard as parents. But the times that we cut through that are the times we're closest. Those are the times when it becomes easier to remember that we're both humans and all human relationships need tending.
Roles don't need to be tended because they are classifications. Classifications are static. But relationships between humans are not. Humans are messy and chaotic. Humans have all kinds of complex needs and desires.
So yeah, don't date. Just be a human and see what happens. Maybe google "relationship anarchy" and see where it takes you.
If you have ADHD, it can be especially useful to understand that relationships with neurotypical folks can be especially difficult. Assume you're incompatible with 90% of the population as your baseline, and you'll start to understand why the standard "dating" thing has made you feel so alienated and miserable.
Neurotypical folks generally have no idea that atypicality exists, much less how it impacts relationships. Having to conform to a neurotypical relationship just adds additional mental strain unless you find someone (really special) who can do at least some of the work.
The ADHD thing was especially important for me. There were so many things I was told to do in specific ways by neurotypicals that never worked for me. Their advice always made me feel like a failure. When I was finally diagnosed, I realized they were just giving advice for the wrong type of brain. It was advice I could never use. Basically all dating advice I ever got fell into this same category.
That's my braindump. Maybe I'll develop it more in the future, but I'm busy so maybe not. I hope it helps someone who is struggling like I was.

The United States has gone to war against Iran.
America has only one ally—Israel—in this operation
(the Arab states of the Gulf, which fear the Iranian regime, are targets of Iran, but so far are not participating in the attack),
and both Washington and Jerusalem are making claims about “imminent” threats that require “preemptive” strikes.
But we should dispense with such statements:
Iran is not presenting immediate danger to the United States or Israel.
E…

Trump’s Enormous Gamble on Regime Change in Iran
A few paths to success, many to failure

'It's Not Working': Diplomats Fear Trump's Iran Envoys Are Making Things Worse (Philip Wang/Time)
https://time.com/article/2026/04/15/diplomats-fear-trump-iran-envoys-kushner-witkoff-nuclear/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p41#a260416p41

Fear and Opportunity: Immigration Scams Surged as Trump's Sweeps Lured Desperate People to Eager Defrauders (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-scams-complaints-doubled-ice
http://www.memeorandum.com/260429/p71#a260429p71

'They hold the cards now': Trump allies fear Iran is slipping beyond the president's control (Megan Messerly/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/17/they-hold-the-cards-now-trump-allies-fear-iran-is-slipping-beyond-the-presidents-control-00830449
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p20#a260317p20

South Carolina doesn’t require hospitals to report when they admit patients with measles-related illnesses.
Available data shows that only 2% of the state’s measles cases have resulted in hospitalizations. Some infectious disease experts fear significant underreporting.
Some doctors say they lack information about the severity of measles complications as it spreads around them.

South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark.
Physicians across South Carolina, home to the largest measles outbreak in decades, are advising patients without the benefit of real-time data on hospitalizations due to measles-related pneumonia, brain swelling and other serious complications.

Four weeks into a war that was going to take four days,
and that has so far cost the US about $30-40bn
and Israel $300m a day,
Washington is further away from a diplomatic agreement with Iran than it was in May 2025.
Not only has the war failed to persuade Iran to agree to dismantle its nuclear programme in the comprehensive and irreversible way the US demanded in a 15-point paper that it tabled on 23 May last year,
Washington is now having to negotiate to reopen…

Janne Korhonen argues,
“When you hear the warnings beeping and flashing all the time,
it is only a natural reaction to lose focus
- and be paralysed by fear and despair.
That's why airplanes, for example, have toggles that turn the alarms off.
So that the pilots can concentrate better on working the problem.
Pilots and especially astronauts are trained to "work the problem."
Even, perhaps especially, if the situation seems truly hop…