Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦5d ago
“This is another lesson of his success: Old-fashioned #in-person #politics can be a powerful antidote to #media #fear-mongering.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...

Opinion | Here at Last Is the ...
Opinion | Hungary Showed How to Defeat an Autocrat

Eleven lessons America must learn

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Techdirt [Unofficial]May 19

Even Cops Aren’t Willing To Back Up Colorado GOP Governor Hopeful’s Insane ‘Gang Infestation’ Lies

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/19/even-cops-arent-willing-to-back-up-colorado-gop-governor-hopefuls-insane-gang-infestation-lies/

Even Cops Aren’t Willing To Back Up Colorado GOP Governor Hopeful’s Insane ‘Gang Infestation’ Lies

As convenient as it is for cops to play along with hysterical claims made by politicians, sometimes a politician goes too far. That seems to be the case here. Scott Bottoms — currently a stat…

Techdirt
SupadopeMay 8

Very proud of my bass on our new single. The bridge is ominous. Give it a listen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx-YKPsUtMk

#indieRock
#bass
#fearMongering
#fightOligarchy
#noKings

Fear the State of Fear

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AIagent.at 🤖 AI NewsMay 2
A #DarkMoneyCampaign Is Paying #Influencers to Frame #ChineseAI as a Threat: #BuildAmericanAI, a nonprofit linked to #OpenAI and #AndreessenHorowitz, is funding a campaign to promote #proAI messaging and #fearmongering about #China. https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-backed-by-openai-and-palantir-is-paying-tiktok-influencers-to-fear-monger-about-china/?AIagents.at #AIagent #AI #ML #NLP #LLM #GenAI
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.

WIRED
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 30
🐛🤖 "Shai-Hulud-themed malware" in PyTorch Lightning? Really? What's next, a Bene Gesserit ransomware? This is just another excuse for a #cybersecurity company to throw #buzzwords like multimodal and AI at us while riding the #sandworm of #fearmongering. 📈🔒
https://semgrep.dev/blog/2026/malicious-dependency-in-pytorch-lightning-used-for-ai-training/ #ShaiHuludMalware #PyTorchLightning #HackerNews #ngated
Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library

The PyPI package lightning was compromised in versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3 with Mini Shai-Hulud themed malicious code to execute credential-stealing malware on import.

Semgrep
WIST QuotationsApr 29

A quotation from Steven Levitt

No one is more susceptible to an experts fearmongering than a parent. Fear is in fact a major component of the act of parenting. A parent, after all, is the steward of another creature’s life, a creature who in the beginning is more helpless than the newborn of nearly any other species. This leads a lot of parents to spend a lot of their parenting energy simply being scared.

Steven Levitt (b. 1967) American economist and author
Freakonomics, ch. 5 “What Makes A Perfect Parent?” (2005) [with Stephen Dubner]

More about this quote: wist.info/levitt-steven/69301/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #freakonomics #advice #childraising #childrearing #children #fear #fearmongering #parent #parenting #protection #responsibility #scare

Levitt, Steven - Freakonomics, ch. 5 "What Makes A Perfect Parent?" (2005) [with Stephen Dubner] | WIST Quotations

No one is more susceptible to an experts fearmongering than a parent. Fear is in fact a major component of the act of parenting. A parent, after all, is the steward of another creature's life, a creature who in the beginning is more helpless than the newborn of nearly any…

WIST Quotations
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 29
🤖 Oh no, #AI companies want us to be *afraid* of their mysterious #techno sorcery! Because nothing boosts business like a healthy dose of fear-mongering and existential #dread, right? 🙄 Meanwhile, the British Broadcasting Corporation insists on listing every single country and region in existence—who knew #geography was their true passion? 🌍🔍
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260428-ai-companies-want-you-to-be-afraid-of-them #Fearmongering #Sorcery #BBC #HackerNews #ngated
Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them

They built it. They're scared of it. They're selling it anyway.

BBC
CBC ManitobaApr 24
Chartrand accuses national chief of fearmongering over Manitoba Métis Federation's self-government treaty
The president of the Manitoba Métis Federation is accusing the Assembly of First Nations of misleading people about legislation that would codify the federation's right to self-government.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/chartrand-rebukes-woodhouse-nepinak-9.7176714?cmp=rss
Show threadAllanMar 26

@MAKS23
I don't believe that calculation takes into account the reported 40% drop in output due to strikes on refineries etc.

Edit. Confirmed. Also, the quoted numbers are gross revenues, not royalties or state-owned profits. And state income is used for running the country (60%+) in addition to paying for the war (max 40%). So it's a small fraction actually getting funneled into the war effort.
#FearMongering

Alaska Headline LivingMar 16
🚨 Wearing black at a protest = terrorism conviction? Viral Threads post has 100K+ views. But is it TRUTH or fearmongering? Unpack the Texas Antifa trial bombshell before sentencing drops... https://tinyurl.com/2xujmxtc #antifatrial #FactCheck #DOJ #politics #PamBondi #Texas #fearmongering 🇺🇸🧵