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How can you not like Canadians. They have a whole category of crime they call "mischief". Canada trucker protest organizers found guilty of mischief apnews.com/article/canada…

Are you supporting yourself as an independent worker in the arts or culture, or know someone who is. There is a community of folks like you that share ideas and camaraderie...CARE (confession...my daughter's creation) rachelropeik.com/care

One small step for the rule of law AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists apnews.com/article/trump-…

Dear Supreme Court. Fu-k You, Part One. Despite a court order, the White House bars the AP from Oval Office event apnews.com/live/donald-tr…

Dear Supreme Court. Even though we admit we made a mistake, Fu-k You, Part Two. US won't work with El Salvador to return man wrongly deported. apnews.com/live/donald-tr…

Dear Supreme Court. Even though we admit we made a mistake, Fu-k You, Part Two. US won't work with El Salvador to return man wrongly deported. apnews.com/live/donald-tr…

Elon; Liar. Free speech, except the speech you don't like? nytimes.com/interactive/20…

New climate damage calculations for biggest carbon companies designed for court efforts to make polluters pay. The world's biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates apnews.com/article/climat…

It's a safe bet that Putin has somne really embarassing compromat on Trump. He fu-king OWNS him. nytimes.com/2025/04/23/wor…

The blind bigoted hate of "others" that runs deep in Donald Trump and Steven Miller and all the despicable people foaming at the mouth, and disregarding basic human decency as well as due process of law, in their lustful targeting of "immigrants.' kfor.com/news/local/wer…

A lively conversation about how our fear of #Cancer can in some ways exceed the risk and go on to cause great harm all by itself. A glaring example of The #Risk Perception Gap, when our fears don't match the facts and THAT causes harm. Michael Shermer podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi…

Bravo John Williams Phenomenal environmental reporting on the prospective death toll from Trump's rollback of enviro regs to please the fossil fuel industry apnews.com/article/epa-ze…

The psychological study of risk perception - the way we keep ourselves safe and alive - finds that a lack of controls is perhaps the most powerful psycho-emotional generator of fear. Looking for "agency" = grasping for a sense of CONTROL when we are afraid, as most Trump fans are

Word now offers AI options. For kicks I asked for an essay on the psychology of risk perception, about which I've written a ton, including a book. INFURIATINGLY, many of the AI passages are only thinly different from my own language in the book. How is this not copyright theft?

Except, as I just posted, my book on the psychology of risk perception has been boosted by Microsft AI nearly verbatim in some places, with NO quotation marks (slightly changed language) nor citations. How is that NOT theft?

to answer our question; Hate, Matt. Steven Miller/Heritage Foundation grade hate, heavy emphasis on hate of non-whites.

And mammography is only part of a much larger, hidden, uncomfortable problem we must recognize; Cancerphobia, the SOMETIMES excessive fear of a disease that does great harm all by itself. Please see "Curing Cancerphobia How Risk, Fear, and Worry Mislead Us" - Johns Hopkins Press

Seldom do I feel a book I read, even a great book, changes me. But WHAT ART DOES has. What Art Does - by Brian Eno and Bette A. - independent book review - Non-fiction tobyasmith.com/2025/07/10/wha… via Toby A. Smith

A good one from the Onion facebook.com/share/p/1LDyWg…

Simply noting that people are tribal isn't enough. We must realize that being true to your tribe is biologically tied to our survival instinct. Any challenge to your tribe sets off a Fight or Flight or Freeze response. It's WAY more powerful than reason psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-ri…