Tootfinder

I’m disappointed that I don’t like the writing style of the Cape Fear book (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/434229.Cape_Fear).
Love the De Niro movie, really enjoying the TV show. I so wanted to love the book.
It’s rare for me to prefer the movie/show over the book…

Cape Fear
Originally titled "The Executioners," this is John D. M…

In Scotland, we have not seen war in eighty years. It's very distant from us. It's hard for us to relate to the experience of war — we have nothing in our lives to which we can compare it. But the people whose lives are torn apart by war are people just like us, ordinary people, who, before war came, had ordinary lives and ordinary hopes; and now live in hunger and fear among ruins.
So here's @…

Rania's story
In Scotland, we have not seen war in eighty years. It's very distant from us. It's hard for us to relate to the experience of war — we have nothing in our lives to which we can compare it. But the people whose lives are torn apart by war are people just like us, ordinary people, who, before war came, had ordinary lives and ordinary hopes; and now live in hunger and fear among ruins.

The Moon Takes the Bow: The Longest Fight in the Sky, Scored on Love, Fear, Respect, and Attention
Two fighters have been circling each other since before anyone kept records, and the purse has never changed hands: the human gaze....
https://

The #GOP is the #PartyOfDeath - That's what happens when you cater to #Fear, leveraging a lack of understanding of complex technical issues to mislead voters.
Why making Anthony Fauci the enemy will harm US…

Why making Anthony Fauci the enemy will harm US public health for years
Republicans are trying to scapegoat the infectious disease expert, even as they have gutted healthcare amid outbreaks of measles, cyclosporiasis and Ebola

The #GOP is the #PartyOfDeath - That's what happens when you cater to #Fear, leveraging a lack of understanding of complex technical issues to mislead voters.
Why making Anthony Fauci the enemy will harm US…

Why making Anthony Fauci the enemy will harm US public health for years
Republicans are trying to scapegoat the infectious disease expert, even as they have gutted healthcare amid outbreaks of measles, cyclosporiasis and Ebola

It is not robots you should fear,
it is humans!
https://youtube.com/shorts/7U_dXbBUqmc?is=kFSIqDncgFas7exn

The Senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee
🔥voted to hold Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress
after a bitter hearing last week,
where the retired public health official invoked the fifth amendment
for fear of self-incrimination and possible prosecution by Republican lawmakers,
who have routinely vilified him for his handling of the Covid-19 response.
The vote was adopted along party lines.
This came after several attempts from s…

Senate committee holds Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress – live
Republican majority voted to hold the retired health official in contempt after hearing where he repeatedly invoked the fifth amendment

Watching the Cape Fear miniseries. Good move keeping the Bernard Hermann score. Not so good on the accents. The actors are struggling. A common problem.

Female Navy officers say they fear a career cap after Hegseth cuts women from promotions list (Konstantin Toropin/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/navy-promotions-women-hegseth-pentagon-e744efae3cc70902732fffce7ee1a69c
http://www.memeorandum.com/260606/p49#a260606p49

BBC staff fear strike action inevitable as unions reject the corporation's proposal of a 1% or £500 pay increase, whichever is higher (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jul/01/bbc-staff-fear-strike-action-p…

BBC staff fear strike action inevitable after 1% pay rise offer prompts anger
Unions reject proposed below-inflation increase which comes as corporation prepares to cut thousands of jobs

France and Spain brace for fresh heatwave as warnings issued over risk of new wildfires – Europe live https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jul/29/france-spain-wildfires-heatwave-extreme-heat-europe-latest-news-update…

"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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Magdalena Bay:
🎵 Fear, Sex
#MagdalenaBay
https://magdalenabay.bandcamp.com/track/fear-sex
https://open.spotify.com/track/05eIVOg5c8H9Nq5rbVaeoQ

The irony

Code Black for water shortage in the Delft region of the Netherlands! No use of surface water (canals, lakes) allowed anymore. Water managers fear intrusion of salty seawater, as damage to dikes due to low water levels needs to be prevented.

Vanwege de droogte voor het eerst de sluizen dicht in het waterrijke westen: ‘Het is code zwart, vanaf middernacht is water onttrekken verboden’
Droogte: Vanaf woensdagnacht gaan in het Hoogheemraadschap van Delfland de sluizen dicht en gaat een verbod in om oppervlaktewater te onttrekken. Dat besef lijkt nog niet bij iedereen ingedaald. „Voorheen was het een theoretisch model. Dit is het hier en nu.”

"The secrecy (frontier labs are being asked to submit the most powerful models for assessment 30 days before releasing them) has drawn criticism from AI safety advocates. There’s a reason we don’t have secret methods of approving new pharmaceuticals or secret tests for car safety: Keeping the whole process secret does not inspire confidence in the government’s ability to sufficiently evaluate the models and keep people safe."

Gambian mothers fear for their daughters as court weighs FGM ban | News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/7/gambian-mothers-fear-for-their-daughters-as-court-weighs-fgm-ban?traffic_source=rss

The last two mayoral elections in Minneapolis were really dirty, just gross dirty, full of big-donor PACs carpet bombing us with kinds of fear-mongering and lies while the Mayor got to keep his hands clean and pretend he had nothing to do with them.
This has the same stink to it.

A Q&A with Paramount's CLO Makan Delrahim, an ex-DOJ antitrust regulator, who says concerns about the WBD deal are "fear-mongering" and "antisemitic" (Meg James/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.

Paramount's Delrahim slams 'fear-mongering' and partisan politics clouding Warner Bros. deal
President Trump once said he would be involved in the Warner Bros. sale but Paramount lawyer Makan Delrahim said the company has "no deals" with the president

I'VE GOT A FEVER
AND THE ONLY PRESCRIPTION
https://www.hamienet.com/midi96490_Dont-Fear-The-Reaper.html

For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities
— rights that some fear could be losing ground under the Trump administration.
Last month, the Department of Education announced it would shift oversight of special education to the Department of Health and Human Services, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
whose comments on the limits of disabilities such as autism have drawn sharp rebukes from advocates and …

Could Trump's actions put more people with disabilities in institutions?
For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities. Now, they fear those rights could be losing ground under the Trump administration. Most notably, the Department of Justice recently released guidance that lowered the barrier to institutionalizing any person with a disability. Critics argue this undermines decades of progress in integrating disabled people into schools and communities. And last month, the Education Department…

Sources: Giants fear Olszewski has torn Achilles https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48913425/giants-fear-wr-gunner-olszewski-torn-achilles-sources-say

'Capitalist' Democrats Fear Socialist Wave May Sink Midterms (Errol Louis/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/capitalist-democrats-fear-socialist-wave-may-sink-midterms.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260806/p77#a260806p77

A marine heat wave caused seabird deaths off California. El Nino could worsen the die-off https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/07/a-marine-heat-wave-caused-seabird-deaths-off-california-el-nino-could-…

A marine heat wave caused seabird deaths off California. El Nino could worsen the die-off
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Many seabirds are starving to death as a marine heat wave lingers off California and fish seek deeper, cooler waters. That’s according to scientists who say a persistent marine heat wave has shrunk the band of cold, nutrient-rich surface water where krill, anchovies and sardines thrive near the shore. Scientists fear […]

Sonnet 092 - XCII
But do thy worst to steal thyself away,
For term of life thou art assured mine;
And life no longer than thy love will stay,
For it depends upon that love of thine.
Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs,
When in the least of them my life hath end.
I see a better state to me belongs
Than that which on thy humour doth depend:
Thou canst not vex me with inconstant mind,
Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie. …

Thoughts from the before times on the antidote to Trump.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBBCIntroducingMixtape
Big Fear:
🎵 Darling Boy
#BigFear
https://bigfear.bandcamp.com/track/darling-boy
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Ipsme013ZV0A8eKwwQUz2

Yes, I said it:
Incels fear intimacy and use weird beauty ideas which are not grounded in a heterosexual aesthetic, to rule out most of the real world of women and to repel the rest. They WORK to remain celibate.

Sources: disconnected US military databases may have led to the February 28 strike on an Iranian school; some see AI as a fix, others fear it amplifies errors (Katrina Manson/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story

U.S. analyst’s missed remark surfaced in Iran school strike inquiry
An analyst's missed remarks and U.S. intelligence systems that weren’t connected to one another are among the missteps investigators have surfaced while probing the deadly bombing of a school in Iran.

so white even the police don't fear him

"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

However folks may rave about their fave extreme sport, nothing drives adrenaline and primal fear like doing surgery on a live terabyte production database with no backups.

So many things I didn’t realize I’d miss until they were long gone.
Shopping mall bookstores are near the top of my list.
#ScottStories #ScottBooks

🧛 Which one do you fear the most?

The question is not whether they "consider themselves" above the law. A system is what it does; if the elites are able to exist beyond legal repercussions then it doesn't matter what they claim in public.
This will only change when the people at the top are thrown in jail, and the fear of being thrown in jail for decades makes them behave differently.
As the Eagles said, we haven't had that spirit here since 1969. @…

ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) on Threads
being us president should not be a primary opportunity for personal enrichment. americans’ dissatisfaction with a two tier system of justice will only grow in the face of trump’s latest billions. in midterms and 2028, voters will demand leaders who do not consider themselves above the law.

When Shannon Rosa hears about cuts to Medicaid and misinformation from the Trump administration about disabled people and their families, her predominant feeling isn’t fear or sadness.
It’s fury.
“They don’t have any idea what they’re talking about,” she said.
“I think they are very successful men who have never in their lives had to even consider what invisible labor looks like.
They have no idea. They don’t know anything.”
The Trump administration announced la…

‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty
Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Chemical Brothers:
🎵 The Darkness That You Fear (Harvest mix)
#TheChemicalBrothers
https://leopronumen.bandcamp.com/track/the-chemical-brothers-the-darkness-that-you-fear-leo-pro-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ahFzFAZRpfWaGbA2J3dAq

Weirdest thing. Today I saw a *woman* driving a CyberTruck.
The look on her face appeared to be sadness, or shame, or maybe embarrassment, or… fear?
(And I don’t even think she saw me flip her off.)

ICE sustains 2,000 arrests per day place for five days in distributed effort across the country.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/us/politics/ice-immigrant-arrests-surge.html?unloc…

Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down
The agency has doubled its daily arrest numbers without the fanfare of last year’s large urban operations, sowing fear in immigrant communities.

Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.
John Adams, Founding Father US, 1776

Crossing The Tideline
An observational documentary and podcast exploring fear, risk, trauma, perception and our evolving relationship with the ocean...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/crossing-the-tideline/

i trembled in fear
or rather, excitement for what is to come
one day I know, a breath will fill out the cosmos
see, the black soliloquy
#lyricposting

We're up to 40 RSVPs!
My worst fear was that we'd started promoting this too late and it would be a flop. Now that turnout is looking OK, my anxieties have had to fall back to my second-worst fear (ripping my pants when I get on stage).
Thursday 6pm in SF
https://ac…

Social Housing Town Hall
Learn from organizers and experts on the benefits of social housing, and how we can win it in San Francisco! Referring to housing that’s permanently affordable, permanently off the speculative market, tenant governed, and home to people at a range of income levels but always including those who need it the most, social housing has been inspiring socialist organizers in cities across North America, including Seattle, New York, Minneapolis, and Chicago. Together, we can build a wo…

The rapid pace of AI progress has created a pervasive fear of missing out across Silicon Valley, fueling anxiety among founders, executives, employees, and VCs (Bloomberg)

I need a good phrase for "jaded security pro". Like I just saw a post about quantum encryption and it was typical scare post. Fix it now or else type crap.
And I'm like... Meh. We're also running out of IPv4 addresses, and the epoch is going to max out, and AI is going to kill your babies.
Do we always have to over hype crap? Do we always have to use fear, uncertainty, and doubt to sell security? Doesn't anyone want to talk about the realities of balanc…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#OperaOn3
- Wagner's Siegfried
The third instalment of Barrie Kosky's Royal Opera House Ring Cycle, starring Andreas Schager as the hero who knows no fear. Antonio Pappano conducts a stellar cast.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002y27q

'Welcome to The Twilight Zone': Inside Oldham council - Manchester Evening News
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/welcome-twilight-zone-inside-oldham-33998621

'Welcome to The Twilight Zone': Inside Oldham council
Riot police in the council chamber. Firebombed cars. Grooming gang conspiracies. Online agitators. Community fracture. For more than a year, the M.E.N. investigated how Oldham’s politics spiralled into fear, dysfunction and mutual distrust - and whether the town is a warning for the rest of Britain. Charlotte Hall reports.

“Stranded assets” names the prime fear of financialised capitalism. The contrast: high utilisation rates. New troubles arise. Or, as phrased by the FT,
"US oil refineries run at breakneck speeds as wars choke fuel supplies."
Archive:
https://archive.is…

@… Well, in the 80s and 2000s, folks in the IM industry were quite reluctant to say the SEC didn't have authority, for fear of retribution. Also, the ICI historically has been reluctant to say the SEC doesn't have authority, for two reasons. First, it preferred to work with the SEC. Second, it often wanted the SEC to have broad authority, either to give …

With Myles Garrett blockbuster, the fearless Rams are going all in again https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7324670/2026/06/01/rams-myles-garrett-trade-super-bowl/

When Donald Trump once again backed down from a threatened military escalation against Tehran,
he offered fresh fodder to the narrative Iranian officials are eager to promote:
They are not the ones who fear war
— Mr. Trump is.
Iran’s leadership believes it has found the world’s Achilles’ heel.
With the help of regional militia allies, Tehran spent the past week underscoring
its ability to threaten several of the world’s most critical energy facilities and …

For Iran, Trump’s Reversal on Escalation Shows Who Has the Upper Hand
By expanding the arena of fighting in the region, experts say, Tehran sent a warning about the dangers of a widening war.

😵‍💫

This is both appalling and utterly unsurprising.
Given how Google search results have been an ad-driven dark pattern for years, and the mostly-wrong stolen results of its LLM answers, my fear is people have been inured to it.
It already bends to governments, so expect more state disinformation.
https://matthiasott.…

Ad Infinitum · Matthias Ott
Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

Update on the #Jellyfin Library Remove trick: it did damage to edge-case metadata, but did nothing to let me add my Doctor Who, or anything else new.
I may try using SQL to edit the db directly, but I'm beginning to fear one must do a COMPLETE purge and re-install after any filesystem changes

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116957571811403553
"Neutrality" doesn't exist. You cannot NOT take sides. If you avoid taking sides, you already chose the side of oppressors.

I fear that our egg supply is bound to shortly change from "go see if the neighbors need any eggs" to "series production of mayonnaise for the cellar"

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics00sForever
Doves:
🎵 There Goes The Fear
#Doves
https://thequeenisdeadrecords.bandcamp.com/track/there-goes-the-fear-doves
https://open.spotify.com/track/08PDSyzRP2Oesu1JUFSmrC

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Oneohtrix Point Never:
🎵 Fear of Symmetry
#OneohtrixPointNever
https://oneohtrixpointnever.bandcamp.com/track/fear-of-symmetry
https://open.spotify.com/track/0IXicbiQBfo03X1gvUooXp

GOP Rep Tom Kean Jr.’s whereabouts and condition have been a mystery in his New Jersey congressional district.
Now they are becoming a source of growing alarm for his party in Washington,
where Republicans fear his prolonged absence could cost them his swing seat
— and possibly their House majority.

Kean has not voted in the House since March 5.
His district, one of the most affluent in the nation, is also one of the country’s most competitive,
a seat Re…

He hasn’t been seen in Congress for months. Now Republicans are worried.
Rep. Tom Kean Jr.’s New Jersey district is among the country’s most competitive, and his absence from the House since March has sparked increasing alarm in his party.

'It Was Very Suspicious': Chase Bank Responds After a Black Man Waiting in Parking Lot [in his Tesla] for His Branch to Open Triggers Fear and a 911 Call from the Bank
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/05/08/black-man-waiting-in-a-chase-bank-parking-lot-for-his-branch-to-open-triggers-fear-and-a-911-call-from-the-bank/

Celtic nations begin to plan for breakup of UK in event of Reform election win (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/04/uk-ireland-leaders-fear-union-future-nigel-farage-led-government
http://www.memeorandum.com/260704/p36#a260704p36

In a meeting, the BBC announces a pay freeze for executive committee members, the organization's 12 highest-paid bosses, including the director general (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/12/bb…

Sonnet 092 - XCII
But do thy worst to steal thyself away,
For term of life thou art assured mine;
And life no longer than thy love will stay,
For it depends upon that love of thine.
Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs,
When in the least of them my life hath end.
I see a better state to me belongs
Than that which on thy humour doth depend:
Thou canst not vex me with inconstant mind,
Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie. …

Sakana AI's Fugu and 360's cybersecurity model Tulongfeng claim to rival Anthropic's banned Mythos and Fable 5 models amid the US export ban (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/asian-ai-startups…

Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic's export ban drags on | TechCrunch
New models are launching in Asia that promise Mythos-like capabilities without fear of an export ban. U.S. AI labs may never recover this enormous market.

It seems the #NetanyahuAdminstration and their supporters are scared of actually establishing peace - as these actions are those of people who fear they will only stay in power if the threat of violence is everpresent. And they know the best way to inspire attacks on #Israel is by continuing b…

It seems the #NetanyahuAdminstration and their supporters are scared of actually establishing peace - as these actions are those of people who fear they will only stay in power if the threat of violence is everpresent. And they know the best way to inspire attacks on #Israel is by continuing b…

Federal immigration officials have detained more than 10,000 people in the last five days,
-- a major surge that has stemmed from a push within Immigration and Customs Enforcement to increase arrest rates.
Agency leaders in recent days ordered top ICE officials to focus more of their officers’ efforts on picking up immigrants they want to deport
ICE officers have arrested people at check-ins, with immigration authorities, during traffic stops and on the street.
The pu…

Immigrant Arrests Surge to 10,000 in 5 Days as ICE Clamps Down
The agency has doubled its daily arrest numbers without the fanfare of last year’s large urban operations, sowing fear in immigrant communities.

What's the Matter With Congress? (Thomas B. Edsall/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/opinion/congress-house-partisanship-fear.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260623/p35#a260623p35

‘A war zone’: Venezuela aid workers fear health crisis after earthquakes | Earthquakes News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/2/a-war-zone-venezuela-aid-workers-fear-health-crisis-after-earthquakes?traffic_source=rss

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

There are many parallels between the first McCarthy era, roughly 1946 to 1956,
and Trump’s campaign of political repression, his own updated McCarthyism.
Both regimes crafted a monster of quasi-facts and innuendo and fed it with fear:
an enemy within, well-organized and financed, secretive and violent, allied with evil foreigners and bent on overthrowing capitalism, democracy and Christian morality.
Both used flagrantly unconstitutional means to cleanse the nation of …

McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous
Trump’s campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful tools

Sonnet 023 - XXIII
As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put beside his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart;
So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect ceremony of love's rite,
And in mine own love's strength seem to decay,
O'ercharg'd with burthen of mine own love's might.
O! let my looks be then the eloquence
And …

Trump's immigration enforcers look into buying ad data. Industry insiders fear what comes next. (Alfred Ng/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/30/ice-immigration-privacy-data-advertising-00939078
http://www.memeorandum.com/260530/p37#a260530p37

Survey: 53% of Americans fear AI could put someone in their household out of work; Democrats are more likely than Republicans to worry about AI's impact on jobs (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-

Christmas came early for the global far right,
as images showed tens of thousands of migrants from Morocco breaching the borders of the Spanish enclave Ceuta.
From Donald Trump to Nigel Farage, the far right reacted exactly how you would think
– by stirring up fear about a fake “invasion” and weaponizing the so-called crisis to rally their bases.
Trump said the surge should be used as a “talking point” in the midterm election,
while Farage used it to promote h…

The Fake ‘Invasion’ of Spain: What You Need to Know
9 things you should know about the so-called ‘crisis’ of Moroccan migrants forcing their way into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta – and the hysterical response from the right in the U.S., UK, and EU.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/117043381174620737
Where the agentic prompt-directed CONCEPT goes completely off the rails is in the distain (more likely the fear) tech bros have for the Humanities. They certainly remain flat-earther-ignorant of Wittgenstein, which is to say, EVEN IF the AI really was ACTUALLY intelligent, which it emphatically is not, those among you who step on that tail and don't expect the tiger to bite are in for a nasty surprise 😮

An excellent example of how ignorant #authoritarians can destroy organizational culture and competence that took years to develop, and will take even longer to rebuild. And all to no good purpose, other than catering to #bigotry &

Six-hour polygraphs, forced reassignments: inside homeland security’s campaign of fear
The ruthless gutting and reforming of the Department of Homeland Security has traumatized both workers and the most vulnerable immigrants

An excellent example of how ignorant #authoritarians can destroy organizational culture and competence that took years to develop, and will take even longer to rebuild. And all to no good purpose, other than catering to #bigotry &

Six-hour polygraphs, forced reassignments: inside homeland security’s campaign of fear
The ruthless gutting and reforming of the Department of Homeland Security has traumatized both workers and the most vulnerable immigrants

Argentine mining threatens scarce water resources in the Andes #Argentina…

Argentine mining threatens scarce water resources in the Andes
San Juan's once-sparkling rivers have shriveled due to drought, and residents in the rugged, western Argentine province fear that prospective mining projects in the Andes will make matters worse.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
M83:
🎵 Teen Angst
#M83
https://fearandloathing.bandcamp.com/track/m83-teen-angst-fear-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/04iHlAezwUapokcfvyrEr4

Defense decoupling is no longer just a European fear -- it's Trump's policy (Ivo Daalder/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/defense-decoupling-is-no-longer-just-a-european-fear-its-donald-trumps-policy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260613/p16#a260613p16

Law enforcement and regulatory agencies are refusing to investigate Trump-aligned actors inside or outside government,
and major national law firms are declining cases challenging Trump administration policies.
Publishers are “stepping back” from LGBTQ books and other progressive subjects.
Many in targeted immigrant communities are afraid to leave home to go to work or school.
In most cases, these people and institutions are not being specifically targeted or thre…

Chilling effects of Trump’s war on free speech extend far beyond campus walls – and that’s the point
A persistent government strategy to sow fear through punitive measures has corroded freedom and democracy.

Behind the scenes: How shared fear of Iran led to an Israel-Lebanon deal (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/28/israel-lebanon-deal-iran-hezbollah
http://www.memeorandum.com/260628/p16#a260628p16

S&P and IBM: 22% of global cyberattacks in 2024 hit Japan, the most targeted country, as it scrambles to improve its substandard systems against AI threats (Catherine Thorbecke/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-06-2…

“American families don’t want experiments with their money,” a voice booms.
“They want jobs, growth, and available credit.
When crypto gets a free pass, communities pay the price.”
The 30-second video, which launched in Washington DC this month,
is part of a six-figure advertising campaign by the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA),
meant to help fight a landmark bill that will determine how America’s multibillion-dollar crypto sector is regulated.…

‘Crypto v community’: 4,000 local US lenders join forces to fight ‘stablecoins’ law
Up to 4,000 community banks fear looming legislation to regulate digital cash will deprive rural firms and farmers of $850bn-worth of loans

Republicans fear Trump will use the SAVE Act to blame them if they lose the election (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/republicans-fear-trump-will-use-save-america-act-blame-lose-election-rcna352551
http://www.memeorandum.com/260702/p110#a260702p110

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Blue Öyster Cult:
🎵 (Don’t Fear) The Reaper
#BlueÖysterCult
https://childrenofthesonictemple.bandcamp.com/track/a-tribute-to-blue-oyster-cult-dont-fear-the-reaper
https://open.spotify.com/track/1stgKei9u1AbCDZ2bycWhQ

The Take It Down Act, a law requiring social networks to remove nonconsensual intimate images within 48 hours of reporting or face fines, took effect on May 19 (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/933518/take-it-down-act-notic…

America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here
The law deals with intimate AI deepfake images, but critics fear it can be misused.

“There’s this movement that’s been brewing on the right,
and they have crept into a variety of mainstream conservative institutions and taken over,”
one former senior Heritage analyst, who insisted on anonymity for fear of professional reprisal, told me.
That’s what had happened at Heritage. “It was planned,” the analyst said. “And it was a coup.”
The troubles at Heritage could be said to have started with Project 2025.
Since 1980, Heritage has put out a polic…

What the Crackup of the Heritage Foundation Says About the Post-Trump Right
The bastion of American conservatism best known for Project 2025 has been consumed by an ideological — and generational — civil war.

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Doves:
🎵 There Goes the Fear
#Doves
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https://open.spotify.com/track/08PDSyzRP2Oesu1JUFSmrC

On Wednesday, Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 reportedly unveiled #Tulongfeng, an AI tool it says can go head-to-head with Anthropic’s #Mythos.
That’s the cybersecurity-focused AI model that is reportedly so powerful, the Trump Administration has currently banned it and its more restricted version,

Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic's export ban drags on | TechCrunch
New models are launching in Asia that promise Mythos-like capabilities without fear of an export ban. U.S. AI labs may never recover this enormous market.

AI advocates fear New York's moratorium on new data centers could embolden Democrats to enact more state restrictions and seize on the issue in the midterms (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/15/i-wouldn…

As the dust starts to settle after the finalization of Schedule Policy/Career, ( nee Schedule F)
an air of anxiety is rising among reclassified federal employees.
Two federal employees, speaking to Federal News Network on the condition of anonymity for fear of professional retribution,
said they were shocked, angry and fearful to learn they were being stripped of their civil service protections.
Their jobs, they said, have nothing to do with influencing policy.
“I…

Federal employees face reality of Schedule Policy/Career
After losing civil service protections, some federal employees now in Schedule Policy/Career fear for their job security and retribution for speaking up.

Federal officials tasked with implementing the Trump administration’s
“mass deportation” program
faced an extraordinary campaign of intimidation
inside the Department of Homeland Security
during the final months of
Kristi Noem’s tenure
and the arrival of her successor,
a Guardian investigation found.
Over the past four months,
the Guardian spoke with more than three dozen current and former Department of Homeland Security officials
…

Six-hour polygraphs, forced reassignments: inside homeland security’s campaign of fear
The ruthless gutting and reforming of the Department of Homeland Security has traumatized both workers and the most vulnerable immigrants

Trump’s undermining of U.S. elections is not a simple partisan issue
The United States has for a decade “rightly focused on shoring up our elections against foreign meddling”
after Russia’s chicanery in the 2016 presidential race.
“But,” Senator Mark Warner added chillingly, “I fear that foreign interference is no longer the most pressing danger to our elections.
It is increasingly evident that the greatest threat now comes from inside our own government.”
Fro…

Column: Trump's undermining of U.S. elections is not a simple partisan issue
The president’s dud of a prime-time speech, during which he baselessly called U.S. elections “catastrophically short” of being safe, only confirmed many people's fears.

For Elizabeth Arif-Fear, there was no single moment when she realised she wanted to be Jewish.
“It was just a journey over time,” she says.
The 37-year-old interfaith activist was born Christian, then converted to Islam and was Muslim for 14 years, before realising that that faith was also not the right fit.
Eventually, she found the answer she had been searching for in Judaism.
“I feel I’ve finally found God without all the extras,” she says.
-- “Without Jesus, …

It’s been described as “the mother of all earthquake faults,”
the source of both our geological birth and, perhaps, our ultimate undoing.
But the most unnerving thing about the San Andreas fault these days may be its silence.
It’s a mystery scientists are still trying to unlock.
The San Andreas is central to any discussion of California.
It’s the massive 800-mile spine of the state,
trundling up the Coachella Valley to the San Gabriel Mountains,
and p…

The historian Kim Phillips-Fein’s new book "Country of Lords" is a history of Neo-Aristocrats, Social Darwinists, Tech Utopians, and the Long Fight Against Equality in America.
Phillips-Fein studies conservatism and “questions about capitalism and democracy”.
Her first book "Invisible Hands", was a study of businessmen who fought the New Deal of the 1930s.
Her second, "Fear City", about the New York economic crisis of the 1970s, was a finalis…

Social Darwinists to tech bros: tracing the long fight against equality in US
Historian Kim Phillips-Fein’s book Country of Lords looks back at the many men who have tried to fight against egalitarianism, from John Adams to Peter Thiel

Trump is dangerous twice over:
in what he does
and what he tells us to fear while doing it.
Factcheckers agreed he proved nothing.
Failing as evidence, his address succeeded as permission
– for federal intervention already under way in Fulton county.
In his speech, Trump assembled old intelligence, vulnerabilities and lies
into a conspiracy:
220 million US voter records in Chinese hands,
“extremely exposed” voting machines,
278,000 s…

Trump is invoking foreign election interference to justify his own
The president no longer treats the people who defeated him as voters. He treats them as suspects