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Fear and Openness
- a #poem -
https://muz4now.com/2014/fear-and-openness-poem/

Fear and Openness
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

i have an irrational fear of stepping on roadside grating and it breaking or coming loose under me, plunging me into the darkness

good piece from Rafael Behr on Starmer & migration
"The prime minister’s immigration approach follows a now-familiar pattern: letting fear of a difficult argument get in the way of policy that might work"
Starmer once again demonstrating an absence of leadership skills i.m.o.
#LabourParty #KeirStarmer #UKPol

Denmark's Agency for Digital Government has announced plans to phase out Microsoft software across its offices in favour of open source alternatives, joining a growing European movement challenging the dominance of American tech giants.
https://www.co…

Denmark to replace Microsoft Office with open source alternatives
German state of Schleswig-Holstein also turns its back on Microsoft as Europeans fear being ‘blackmailed’ by Big Tech

I see @… has a similar reaction about a study that says something we want to hear.
Re that second remark, “The *point* of AI is to make cognitive abilities irrelevant,” well, that’s the thing that’s up for debate right now. Making cognitive abilities (and thus labor, and people) irrelevant is very much the marketing pitch of the hype bubble. That pitch is about cost cutting, and about fear and intimidation — an intoxicating, investor-frothing mixture of fantasy and terror.
It’s not the only vision of AI, however.
https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/114693869134389025

Is the fear of potentially being a victim of racism for some perhaps a reason to be racist themselves, in an "attack is the best defence" way?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/15/trump-immigration-stephen…

Extractivism comes back to Europe as mineral demands are set to rocket.
The only way is to use far less energy.
#degrowth
Europe’s lithium rush leaves mineral-rich communities in the dark

Europe’s lithium rush leaves mineral-rich communities in the dark
Some local residents say they haven't been adequately consulted before the rollout of Europe's lithium plans and fear for their incomes

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Fela Kuti:
🎵 Fear Not for Man
#FelaKuti
https://felakuti.bandcamp.com/album/fear-not-for-man-1977
https://open.spotify.com/track/53Fd5JKJbzD6IBZFPs109n

Please help @… if you can. Her and her family are living through hell at the hands of israel.
#israel #genocide

🔐 Cybersecurity doesn’t have to be scary.
Join us for a webinar for the international #research & #education (R&E) community, featuring internationally recognised cybersecurity expert Brian Honan.
In this session, Brian will challenge fear-based awareness models and explore how empo…

Webinar for the security awareness community – Beyond Fear: rethinking cybersecurity awareness – 22 May 2025 | GÉANT CONNECT Online
We are delighted to announce that registrations are now open for the next cybersecurity awareness webinar for the international R&E community. Join us online on 22 May 2025 at 15:00 CEST for an eye-opening session with internationally recognised cybersecurity expert Brian Honan. Title: Beyond Fear - Rethinking cybersecurity awareness Cybersecurity doesn’t have to be scary.

Fears of racial profiling rise as Border Patrol conducts ‘roving patrols,’ and detain U.S. citizens
video: “These guys, literally based off of skin color! My homie was born here!” The friend said Gavidia was being questioned “just because of the way he looks.”
U.S. Border Patrol Sector Chief Greg Bovino,
who oversaw raids that included picking people up at Home Depot
and stopping them on the highway,
has emerged as a key figure in L.A.
He stood alongside…

Fears of racial profiling rise as Border Patrol conducts 'roving patrols,' detains U.S. citizens
Border Patrol agents on 'roving patrol' arrest U.S. citizen on assault charges. Fear of widespread racial profiling gains momentum as Home Depots and car washes raided.

"Adolescence has sparked fears over teen slang – but #emoji don’t cause radicalisation" https://theconversation.com/adolescenc

"It’s tough, acting. you have to walk two lines of a tightrope. there’s the all consuming fear of failure… and there’s also confidence – you have to be confident to try new things – And they fight each other all the time."
-Jessica Chastain
#acting #coaching

What Trump and Hegseth Really Fear (Ruth Ben-Ghiat/Lucid)
https://lucid.substack.com/p/what-trump-and-hegseth-really-fear
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p3#a250609p3

Matt Damon as Loki, speaking to a group of greedy, wealthy execs:
"Do you know what makes a human being decent?
Fear.
And therein lies the problem. None of you has anything left to fear any more."
(cont. 1/2)

Meta's Scale AI deal dwarfs rivals' "reverse acquihires" in scope and ambition, showing that its fear of lagging in AI outweighs fears of regulatory backlash (Jackie Davalos/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters…

Why MAGA Christianity should fear the new pope
https://religionnews.com/2025/06/06/why-maga-christianity-should-fear-the-new-pope/

I fear that, after the destruction of Iran, Jordan and, in particular, Saudi Arabia will be the next war targets of the #US and# Israel.
However, they have no idea of the potentially dangerous consequences of destabilising such countries, which could be even more dangerous than Iran's possession of nuclear weapons.

Readwise würfelte mir heute dieses Zitat in die Wiedervorlage und ich musste direkt nachsehen, wann der Artikel geschrieben wurde. 2014. Wer hätte gedacht, dass sich 6 Jahre später alles noch viel schlimmer entwickeln würde?
https://www.theawl.com/2014/10/shot-through-the-…

 
A climate of fear is perceptible in the United States today,
and it must be resisted no matter what,
CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley says.
“People are silencing themselves for fear that the government will retaliate against them,
and that’s not the America that we all love,”
Pelley told Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview after CNN’s Saturday telecast of
“Good Night, and Good Luck.”
The Broadway play, which recounts CBS newsman Edwar…

‘If you fall silent, the country is doomed’: CBS News’ Scott Pelley stresses courage as network faces pressure campaign
A climate of fear is perceptible in the United States today, and it must be resisted no matter what, CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley says.

1/2 “My input stream is full of it: Fear and loathing and cheerleading and prognosticating on what generative AI means and whether it’s Good or Bad and what we should be doing. All the channels: Blogs and peer-reviewed papers and social-media posts and business-news stories. So there’s lots of AI angst out there, but this is mine. I think the following is a bit unique because it focuses on cost, working backward from there.”

AI Angst

Slogan ideas welcome too. A few I've been thinking of:
- "Impeach Trump/Abolish ICE/Abolish DHS" - simple, helps build momentum towards at least one specific demand which IMO the movement could use pretty soon.
- "If you separate my family I'll separate yours/As you ride to snatch children are yours safe at home?" - maybe too many words, but inspires fear/defection in ICE other troops, which IMO the movement needs more of. Hopefully too vague to be a criminal threat or incitement (especially version with the conditional?).

We see despicable kow-towing of the officers of Fort Liberty (aka "bragg") in putting a tailored audience as a backdrop for FFOTUS and Hogsbreath - and allowing the soldiers to engage in unlawful political acts.
Previously I had faith that officers in the US Military would refuse unlawful orders.
I no longer have that faith.
I am beginning to fear that the path out of maga-land will not be a peaceful one.

Not actually a solution to Manchyester's dirty air.
Need to clamp down on unnecessary private motoring, wood burning and waste incineration, for starters.
Most vehicle particulate emissions now come from tyres, not exhaust pipes.
Cabbies fear 'hundreds' of taxis will be 'forced off' Manchester's roads at stroke of New Year's Eve midnight - Manchester Evening News

Cabbies fear 'hundreds' of taxis will be 'forced off' Manchester's roads at stroke of New Year's Eve midnight
"It physically cannot be done"

I think this is the lowest fear & greed reading I have personally observed.

This spin reminds me when we looked at the script kiddies trying to hack our Dec-cluster with copied linux exploits 😅
https://mastodon.social/@dw_innovation/114663563572107178

I was today years old when I learned that novelist Erica "Fear of Flying" Jong was married to novelist Jonathan Fast, son of better-known novelist Howard Fast. Their daughter, Molly Jong-Fast, is also a writer.
#EricaJong #HowardFast

US experts fear all vaccines at risk as Trump officials target mRNA jabs (Melody Schreiber/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/14/mrna-vaccines-trump-rfk-jr
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p70#a250614p70

Simulating nationwide coupled disease and fear spread in an agent-based model
Joy Kitson, Prescott C. Alexander, Joseph Tuccillo, Abhinav Bhatele, Sara Y. Del Valle, Timothy C. Germann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07842

Simulating nationwide coupled disease and fear spread in an agent-based model
Human behavior and disease spread evolve together over the course of any disease outbreak. We present a dynamic model of that relationship based on the coupled spread of a disease and fear of that disease, and implement this model in a simulator, EpiCast, that simulates disease spread between individuals in a realistic synthetic population. In our model, fear of the disease spreads through both in-person contact and broadcast media, driving people to adopt behaviors that reduce disease spread. …

The US Ambassador to Canada is a gas lighting, lying nutcase like his Administration.
“"Coming to the U.S., that's a decision for the Canadians to make. Searching devices and all of that is not a well-founded fear. We don't do that. America is a welcoming place," he said.
"I've heard that from Americans coming into Canada as well, OK? Saying, 'You know, we've not received a warm reception when we've gotten to Canadian customs,'" he said.”
#usa #canada #never51
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/border-device-searches-us-ambassador-1.7555350

"The Republican Party is a hollow, decrepit husk. It is not a political movement. It is not a governing apparatus. It is not even an ideology with any internal coherence. It is a decaying vessel for a set of impulses: authoritarianism, greed, cruelty, nostalgia, and fear. And now, with the party marching in lockstep behind a man openly exploring how to violate the Constitution to seize a third term in office, it is fair to say the Republican Party has collapsed into something far worse than irrelevance. It is a clear and present danger to democracy."
#USPolitics
https://www.theindex.media/the-gop-is-the-most-dangerous-organization-in-america/?ref=dispatches-newsletter

No bans, just fear: How Trump is quietly killing free speech in America - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/no-bans-just-fear-how-trump-is-quietly-free-speech-in-america/

This whole article seems intentionally positioned to sew fear, uncertainty, and doubt. If an attacker is able to do this on your computer, then Chrome is just an implementation detail
https://cybernews.com/security/hackers-use-chromium-browser-spying/…

VChatter: Exploring Generative Conversational Agents for Simulating Exposure Therapy to Reduce Social Anxiety
Han Zhang, KaWing Tsang, Zhenhui Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03520

VChatter: Exploring Generative Conversational Agents for Simulating Exposure Therapy to Reduce Social Anxiety
Many people struggle with social anxiety, feeling fear, or even physically uncomfortable in social situations like talking to strangers. Exposure therapy, a clinical method that gradually and repeatedly exposes individuals to the source of their fear and helps them build coping mechanisms, can reduce social anxiety but traditionally requires human therapists' guidance and constructions of situations. In this paper, we developed a multi-agent system VChatter to explore large language models(LLMs…

"No fat soldiers."
Also: No self-awareness. No shame. No fear of retribution. No honor. No concern for American citizens.
#trump
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc…

Paul Krugman says nothing here the well-informed don’t already know, but I’m quoting here because he says it so crisply:
❝Until ICE moved in Los Angeles was, in fact, remarkably peaceful.…Los Angeles [minus ICE] is probably as safe as it has ever been.❞
❝The events unfolding in Los Angeles as you read this and, I fear, the events likely to unfold across much of America soon, quite possibly this weekend, suggest that the motivations of Trump and his cronies go deeper than mere (mere!) sadism. They want to use false claims of chaos to justify a power grab that, if successful, would mark the end of the American experiment.❞
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-finally-know-what-american-carnage

NIH scientists publish "Bethesda Declaration" rebuking Trump admin (Beth Mole/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/culture-of-fear-and-suppression-nih-staff-speak-out-against-trump-admin/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p5#a250610p5

Sonnet 009 - IX
Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye,
That thou consum'st thy self in single life?
Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die,
The world will wail thee like a makeless wife;
The world will be thy widow and still weep
That thou no form of thee hast left behind,
When every private widow well may keep
By children's eyes, her husband's shape in mind:
Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend
Shifts but his…

#PennedPossibilities 690 — SC POV: What do you fear losing the most?
This question is for the MC's brother, I believe.
SC: My brother.
It terrifies me to think that my brother could become completely corrupted and lose his true Ethereal essence to Ianthe's manipulation. You see, The Unmaking is not just simple indoctrination, it is the obliteration of free will,…

Aktueller Titel: Rue Oberkampf – Hope And Fear
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A shiver of fear whenever I see URL that ends with ".php3" in 2025.

The targeted killing of scientists is murder. It is unacceptable that the government in #Israel simply decides to murder people because it suits their agenda.
I fear that deep hatred will cover Israel and its people for generations, that many Israelis will have to “pay” for the human rights and war crimes of a corrupt head of government

"If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose."
-Anthony Hopkins
#acting #coaching

Nothing less than an invasion, of course. The fear of California seceding must be all too realistic, I guess.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/los-angeles-protests?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Mixing up the two Swedish words "Godkänna" and "Gödkanna" in a project may seem like an innocent mistake, especially if you only speak English. However, they mean very different things... Read more to learn what.
#humor #language

I was VERY pleasantly surprised by how well my #PyConUS talk resonated! Over the past ~1.5 years I bounced the idea off people of all stripes & got very mixed responses. That helped me to shape the content but also tempered my expectations and I begged everyone who would listen to come to my talk out of fear to speak to an empty room.
I ended up speaking to an standing room only and fo…

Was Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles to quell demonstrations a dress rehearsal for what’s to come in other states or nationally?
The Atlantic’s David Frum thinks it is.
And he’s not alone in this fear.
If so it’d be another longtime-prediction by those accused of having Trump Derangement Syndrome having come true.
There are increasing indications the administration will expand its use of the military domestically.
500 marines are rep…

It’s not the mistakes that matter. Apple has made them before. The Newton, MobileMe, the butterfly keyboard. What matters is the posture. A company once defined by joyful provocation—by thinking different—is now defined by its defensiveness. Its leadership acts not like inventors but like stewards of a status quo. They protect margins like relics. They fear dilution. They optimize at the expense of surprise.

Apple’s Diet of Worms
On a crisp April morning in 1521, the twenty-one-year-old Emperor Charles V entered the Bishop’s Palace in Worms. The weight of a continent rested on his adolescent shoulders, and he carried it with the stiff dignity of someone raised to believe history itself had chosen him. He wore black

There's a lot of fear and panic here in my social circles in #Romania. Very much feels like a rerun of December. I'm actually feeling a bit more optimistic and less afraid than last time. Just a bit though.
There is a path to victory for Nicusor Dan. It relies on expanding the voting base. Not all is lost yet, the sky isn't falling, just need as many Romanians as possible th…

#periodicreminder: 
"Banding together is one way of reducing the fear factor."
https://nader.org/2025/03/14/stay-silent-and-stay-pow…

ICE Kidnappings Stoke Fear and Outrage Across Los Angeles (David Dayen/American Prospect)
https://prospect.org/justice/2025-06-11-ice-los-angeles-kidnappings-trump-national-guard/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p136#a250611p136

"The world is full of darkness. So much is going wrong. Experts agree that America has succumbed to right-wing authoritarianism; call it fascism or something else, these are extraordinarily difficult times.
This post is a break from all of that. At least kind of.
In this piece, I will try and convince you that Doctor Who is the best TV show ever made, explain to you why it matters, and why it’s particularly important in our current context. In a time when cruelty and fear dominate headlines, it’s worth celebrating a show that insists on the power of kindness, intellect, and hope."
#DoctorWho
https://werd.io/2025/doctor-who-is-the-best-show-ever-made-heres-why

I had no idea I had so much in common with Roy Wood Jr.
He's got that primal fear soundtrack in his mind, on repeat, sayin', "I ain't ever going back. Never gonna stop. Never going back."
▶️ Why Roy Wood Jr. Always Says Yes
https://youtube.com/watch?v=aSCMNg5PpR

Five new quarterback-play-caller duos NFL defenses should be most worried about in 2025 https://www.nfl.com/news/five-new-quarterback-play-caller-duos-nfl-defenses-should-be-most-worried-about-in-2025

1/ Watched more #openhouse with C again last night (series 3 episodes 1 and 2). It’s common that only one of the partners in the relationship really wants to be there - and the other is going along with it to people please, and out of fear of losing the other one.
I think the reasons and motivations for going into

Zamilska woke up today and chose violence.
"
This track is dedicated to all those who do not relate to commonly exploited joyousness of Mother's Day. Who felt fear in a place that should have been safe. For whom their mother was not a source of comfort. Who had to survive their childhood. Not every mother deserves a flower.
"

This is what moves the Trump effect into the realm of the frightening,
rather than amusing or fascinating.
https://bsky.app/profile/cdarwin.bsky.social/post/3lr7ytedf4s2u

Starving Palestinians fear being shot dead for a bag of lentils as Gaza aid points close | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/gaza-humanitarian-foundation-israel-rafah-b2764590.html

The weird thing about #bravery is that if you're doing it right, it feels like fear...

Mixing up the two Swedish words "Godkänna" and "Gödkanna" in a project may seem like an innocent mistake, especially if you only speak English. However, they mean very different things... Read more to learn what.
#humor #language

Neighbour dropped off a welder with a blown FET on the PCB (within a snubber circuit). Found a suspect diode. Found a manufacturer and boardset ID: Arcsonic AT-06-A7. Wrote to Arcsonic on AliExpress, and after about 3 messages exchanged I had a full circuit schematic for the thing sitting in my e-mail inbox. As much as we (rightly!) complain about and fear over-reliance on China in the West, their culture of openness and repair is something we would do well to emulate. Imagine writing to Bos…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
MRCY:
🎵 Fear
#MRCY
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://mrcydeadoceans.bandcamp.com/track/fear
https://open.spotify.com/track/5zR42BpufIAQsGzuP4LgtO

Trump stokes fear, confusion with pulled emergency abortion guidance (Alejandra O'Connell-Domenech/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5337924-abortion-guidance-confusion-doctors/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p44#a250607p44

#PennedPossibilities 680 — MC POV: Tell us how you feel about death. Do you fear it?
MC: There was a time when death could only come as a liberator, but I survived and the medics pieced me back together somehow. I will meet her eventually, The Silent One. She's an old friend by now, and I'm not afraid of my friends.

"The #Fascists, #Autocrats, and #Dictators Looking to #Ruin Our

The South Coast Air Quality Management District will hold a public hearing Friday on two proposed regulations designed to limit key pollutants that form smog.
If adopted, the rules would phase out the sale of gas-powered furnaces and water heaters in the region.
Officials say the plan is crucial for reducing air pollution and improving public health, while opponents fear higher consumer costs.

Regulators seek to phase out gas-powered appliances in Southern California
The South Coast Air Quality Management District is poised to vote on regulations that would limit emissions of nitrogen oxides — the key pollutants that form smog.

I understand the Dems' desire to sling mud at this guy.
He's probably a dirtbag. Most politicians are.
but EVEN SO we need to be honest with ourselves.
Teenagers are not children. The woman here is 16-years-old. Young women are not harmed by having sex. but worse than that, nobody even had sex. It is completely absurd to believe that saying "Hey, wanna have sex?" is a heinous crime.
We have to stop this hyperbolic fear-mongering bullshit.

Los Angeles ICE raids spark protests, fear, outrage. 'Our community is under attack' (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-06/la-me-ice-raids-protests-color-scene
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p161#a250606p161

Scientists fear Trump administration cuts to NIH could impact the health of Americans for generations - CBS News
#NIH #Research #Science #Funding

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LoudAndProud
Eurythmics:
🎵 No Fear, No Hate, No Pain (No Broken Hearts) (Remastered Version)
#Eurythmics

Since returning to office in January, Trump has sought to crush dissent at cultural institutions, law firms, media companies and universities. Many believed it was only a matter of time before he took the fight to the streets.
The protests against ICE raids present him with an antagonist that can be used as a focal point for anger, hatred and fear, ensuring that dissent is redirected away from the government and toward “an enemy within”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/08/trump-la-protests-enemy-within?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#PennedPossibilities 680 — MC POV: Tell us how you feel about death. Do you fear it?
MC: There was a time when death could only come as a liberator, but I survived and the medics pieced me back together somehow. I will meet her eventually, The Silent One. She's an old friend by now, and I'm not afraid of my friends.

The Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation grants for more than 100 research projects related to climate change
amid a widening campaign to slash federal funding for scientists and institutions studying the rising risks of a warming world.
The move will cut off what’s likely to amount to tens of millions of dollars for studies that were previously approved and, in most cases, already in the works. 
Affected projects include efforts to develop cleaner …

The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies
Tens of millions of dollars in NSF grants have been slashed, and scientists fear the US is about to lose a generation of climate researchers.

Jewish lawmakers fear they're next after antisemitic attacks (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/jewish-attacks-antisemitism-boulder-washington-dc
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p146#a250602p146

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
MRCY:
🎵 Fear
#MRCY
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://mrcydeadoceans.bandcamp.com/track/fear
https://open.spotify.com/track/5zR42BpufIAQsGzuP4LgtO

Why Trump’s push for
‘gold-standard science’
has researchers alarmed
A new term keeps popping up in messages from Trump administration scientific agencies
— a pledge to restore “gold-standard science.”

Many scientists say the opposite is happening.

The administration’s
“MAHA Report,”
intended to diagnose the root cause of poor health in American children,
was written by Cabinet officials and political appointees,
most of whom lack…

Why Trump’s push for ‘gold-standard science’ has researchers alarmed
Many scientists fear the Trump administration’s new standard means putting political appointees in charge, which could undercut independent research.

#AngieHarmon
Baywatch Nights 2x05 - Circle of Fear
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx #Baywatch

wishing this app was more popular. lots of potential but I fear people are too lazy to figure out how instances work

Finally whole again. Picked up a new refurb bike from revolve reCYCLING, highly recommend for anyone in Sydney.
Pictured in background, my beloved retro aluminium frame steed also from revolve. Alas, time has taken it's toll and the metal of the fear fork fractured. Looking to have it welded back together shortly.
#sydney

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Nite:
🎵 Crow (Fear the Night)
#Nite
https://blankthomas.bandcamp.com/track/nite-crow
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1uZ3GLf6lDtDqJSQrY0lMU
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg