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Life Lessons Lessons #39: Experiencing love from friends helps bring restoration and hope when life causes you much uncertainty. https://rons-home.net/en/living-life-lab/personal-growth/life-lessons/lesson-of-the-week/2026/06/15 #hope #caring #unpredictability [Next Lesson Jun 22 2026]

Lesson #39 :: Lesson Of The Week :: Life Lessons :: Personal Growth :: Living Life Lab :: Ron's Home

Do you make time to reflect on how you live your life and what drives your decision making? How about challenging yourself with life principal based lesson of the week. June 15th 2026 edition.

selfhosting.couchsurfing Jun 14

Driver Aids Have Ruined Driving: How Far Will This Go?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-S76WEl25k

...an examination of the #UX of the current Toyota Prius which segues into an epic rant from #Driving4Answers which is definitely on-topic for the Surfhosting orbit.

#Cars #UXfail #NannyTech #NannyState #Safety #Technology #Unpredictability #Control

Deleting Humanity in the Name of Safety

YouTube

SusannaAuthor Old White Hippie Jun 11

Tara McMullin is someone I respect. A lot. She's a deep thinker, and her wheelhouse is work. What works. What doesn't. And why. Now that I'm no longer grinding out content marketing writing, I don't make time to read Tara's newsletter very often, but this one caught my attention. I'm glad it did.
https://whatworks.fyi/articles/desire-to-deviate

#WhatWorks #AI #dystopia #predictability #unpredictability.

N-gated Hacker News May 30

🎉 Breaking news: The US just discovered the "Cancel any grant at any time" button! 🚨 It's like a magic trick, watch your funding disappear faster than your New Year's resolutions. Who needs stability when you can have unpredictability? 🙃
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/the-office-of-management-and-budget-tries-again-to-cripple-us-science/ #BreakingNews #GrantCancellation #Unpredictability #FundingMagic #USNews #HackerNews #ngated

Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time

Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.

Ars Technica

Psychotherapy Commission ACPE Apr 8

A study of Israeli adults found that greater unpredictability in early life is linked to larger increases in psychological distress during the Israel-Hamas war, with higher distress and emotion dysregulation present even before the conflict began. The surge in distress during the war was especially pronounced for those who experienced childhood unpredictability.

The article is of interest to psychology enthusiasts because it examines how early environmental instability shapes emotional regulation and distress responses under extreme real-world stress, highlighting developmental and contextual factors in mental health.

Article Title: An unpredictable childhood predicts greater psychological distress during the Israel-Hamas war

Link to PsyPost Article: https://www.psypost dot org/an-unpredictable-childhood-predicts-greater-psychological-distress-during-the-israel-hamas-war/

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#earlylife #unpredictability #psychologicaldistress #emotiondysregulation #warstress

Hacker News Apr 2

AI Perfected Chess. Humans Made It Unpredictable Again

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-27/ai-changed-chess-grandmasters-now-win-with-unpredictable-moves

#HackerNews #AI #Chess #Unpredictability #ChessEvolution #ChessMasters #GameTheory

WIST Quotations Mar 24

A quotation from Christopher Hitchens

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.

Christopher Hitchens (1949-2011) English intellectual, polemicist, socio-political critic
Essay (2004-02), “I Fought the Law,” Vanity Fair

More about this quote: wist.info/hitchens-christopher…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #christopherhitchens #arbitrariness #capriciousness #inconsistency #injustice #law #lawenforcement #legalsystem #tyranny #unpredictability

Hitchens, Christopher - Essay (2004-02), "I Fought the Law," Vanity Fair | WIST Quotations

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law. Collected as "I Fought the Law in Bloomburg's New York," Love, Poverty, and War (2004).

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Gerd_Brodowski Mar 20

#israel #lebanon #militaryinvasion #childhood #ptsd #civilianwarvictims #trauma #instability #unpredictability #children #psychiatricdisorders #mentalhealth #violence #assaults #killings #displacement

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…a parent, all of these carry a very high risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder.”

Gerd_Brodowski Mar 20

#israel #lebanon : #militaryinvasion / #childhood / #ptsd / #civilianwarvictims

»“Cumulative #trauma, cumulative adverse experiences and ongoing #instability and #unpredictability certainly put these #children at higher risk... of developing #psychiatricdisorders and negative #mentalhealth outcomes,” child and adolescent psychiatrist Evelyne Baroud told AFP.
“Witnessing #violence, physical #assaults, #killings, forced #displacement, losing one’s home, loss of…

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https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/war-has-aged-us-lebanons-kids-arent-all-right

‘War has aged us’: Lebanon’s kids aren’t all right

For many of them, their formative years have been jeopardised by repeated conflicts and crises. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Straits Times