"A meaningful narrative focused on opportunity rather than fear." —u/khimtan at https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/16i7w56/inspired_by_apple_layout/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory

Which journalism schools taught "without fear or favor"? When?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_RKu-ESCY

Lots of controversy over this music video this past week or so.

In addition to some of the double entendre meanings of "we take care of our own", I'm most appalled about the tacit support of the mythology that small towns are "good" and large cities are "bad" (or otherwise scary, crime-ridden, or dangerous).

What are the crime statistics per capita about the safety of small versus large?

Availability bias of violence and crime in the big cities are overly sampled by most media (newspapers, radio, and television). This video plays heavily into this bias.

There's also an opposing availability bias going on with respect to the positive aspects of small communities "taking care of their own" when in general, from an institutional perspective small towns are patently not taking care of each other or when they do its very selective and/or in-crowd based rather than across the board.

Note also that all the news clips and chyrons are from Fox News in this piece.

Alternately where are the musicians singing about and focusing on the positive aspects of cities and their cultures.

To improve society, ingrain a fear of the Lord. Don't deceive thyself.

• the evangelical business model
  • fundamentally depends on marketing fear

• Evangelical leaders create propaganda
  • deeply embedding messaging in their vast media network
  • of books, internet, radio, tv, church
  • to create fear-based, polarizing social norms that fragment society
  • For example, SBC LifeWay sells tens of millions of copies of Christian books that indoctrinate social norms of fear and division into children

• The author describes how
  • the evangelical leaders have manufactured the now widespread mythology
    • that Christians in America face more discrimination than Muslims
  • in order to weaponize fear to consolidate power

• claim
  • AI feels emotions
    • "in my work I describe everything with equations
    • fear is a very simple equation
      • fear is a a moment in the future
        • that is less safe than this moment
    • that's the logic of fear
    • Even though it appears very irrational,
      • machines are capable of making that logic
      • They're capable of saying
        • if a tidal wave is approaching a data center
        • the machine will say
          • that will wipe out my code,
            • not today's machines
            • but very very soon and
        • we feel fear and
        • puffer fish feels fear
        • we react differently
          • a puffer fish will puff and
          • we will go for fight or flight
        • the machine might decide to replicate its data to another data center
        • different reactions different ways of feeling the emotion
        • but nonetheless they're all motivated by fear
        • I would dare say that AI will feel more emotions than we will ever do
          • if you just take a simple extrapolation,
            • we feel more emotions than a puffer fish
            • because we have the cognitive ability to understand he future
            • so we can have optimism and pessimism,
              • emotions puffer fish would never imagine
            • similarly if we follow that path of artificial intelligence
            • it is bound to become more intelligent than humans very soon
            • then then with that wider intellectual horsepower
            • they probably are going to be pondering concepts we never understood good and
            • hence if you follow the same trajectory
            • they might actually end up having more emotions than we will ever feel

On the Jokerzettel

9/8j Im Zettelkasten ist ein Zettel, der das Argument enthält, das die Behauptungen auf allen anderen Zetteln widerlegt.

Aber dieser Zettel verschwindet, sobald man den Zettelkasten aufzieht.

D.h. er nimmt eine andere Nummer an, verstellt sich und ist dann nicht zu finden.

Ein Joker.

—Niklas Luhmann, ZK II: Zettel 9/8j

Translation:

9/8j In the slip box is a slip containing the argument that refutes the claims on all the other slips. But this slip disappears as soon as you open the slip box. That is, he assumes a different number, disguises himself and then cannot be found. A joker.

Many have asked about the meaning of this jokerzettel over the past several years. Here's my slightly extended interpretation, based on my own practice with thousands of cards, about what Luhmann meant:

Imagine you've spent your life making and collecting notes and ideas and placing them lovingly on index cards. You've made tens of thousands and they're a major part of your daily workflow and support your life's work. They define you and how you think. You agree with Friedrich Nietzsche's concession to Heinrich Köselitz that “You are right — our writing tools take part in the forming of our thoughts.” Your time is alive with McLuhan's idea that "The medium is the message." or in which his friend John Culkin said, "We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us."

Eventually you're going to worry about accidentally throwing your cards away, people stealing or copying them, fires (oh! the fires), floods, or other natural disasters. You don't have the ability to do digital back ups yet. You ask yourself, can I truly trust my spouse not to destroy them?,What about accidents like dropping them all over the floor and needing to reorganize them or worse, the ghost in the machine should rear its head?

You'll fear the worst, but the worst only grows logarithmically in proportion to your collection.

Eventually you pass on opportunities elsewhere because you're worried about moving your ever-growing collection. What if the war should obliterate your work? Maybe you should take them into the war with you, because you can't bear to be apart?

If you grow up at a time when Schrodinger's cat is in the zeitgeist, you're definitely going to have nightmares that what's written on your cards could horrifyingly change every time you look at them. Worse, knowing about the Heisenberg Uncertainly Principle, you're deathly afraid that there might be cards, like electrons, which are always changing position in ways you'll never be able to know or predict.

As a systems theorist, you view your own note taking system as a input/output machine. Then you see Claude Shannon's "useless machine" (based on an idea of Marvin Minsky) whose only function is to switch itself off. You become horrified with the idea that the knowledge machine you've painstakingly built and have documented the ways it acts as an independent thought partner may somehow become self-aware and shut itself off!?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNa9v8Z7Rac

And worst of all, on top of all this, all your hard work, effort, and untold hours of sweat creating thousands of cards will be wiped away by a potential unknowable single bit of information on a lone, malicious card and your only recourse is suicide, the unfortunate victim of dataism.

Of course, if you somehow manage to overcome the hurdle of suicidal thoughts, and your collection keeps growing without bound, then you're sure to die in a torrential whirlwind avalanche of information and cards, literally done in by information overload.

But, not wishing to admit any of this, much less all of this, you imagine a simple trickster, a joker, something silly. You write it down on yet another card and you file it away into the box, linked only to the card in front of it, the end of a short line of cards with nothing following it, because what could follow it? Put it out of your mind and hope your fears disappear away with it, lost in your box like the jokerzettel you imagined. You do this with a self-assured confidence that this way of making sense of the world works well for you, and you settle back into the methodical work of reading and writing, intent on making your next thousands of cards.

in reply to subject of https://hyp.is/VeTJlpN0Ee2mNKOVyQ-B5g/github.com/mikel/mail/issues/902

The uptake of mis- and disinformation is intertwined with the way our minds work. The large body of research on the psychological aspects of information manipulation explains why.

In an article for Nature Review Psychology, Ullrich K. H. Ecker et al looked(opens in a new tab) at the cognitive, social, and affective factors that lead people to form or even endorse misinformed views. Ironically enough, false beliefs generally arise through the same mechanisms that establish accurate beliefs. It is a mix of cognitive drivers like intuitive thinking and socio-affective drivers. When deciding what is true, people are often biased to believe in the validity of information and to trust their intuition instead of deliberating. Also, repetition increases belief in both misleading information and facts.

Ecker, U.K.H., Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J. et al. (2022). The psychological drivers of misinformation belief and its resistance to correction.

Going a step further, Álex Escolà-Gascón et al investigated the psychopathological profiles that characterise people prone to consuming misleading information. After running a number of tests on more than 1,400 volunteers, they concluded that people with high scores in schizotypy (a condition not too dissimilar from schizophrenia), paranoia, and histrionism (more commonly known as dramatic personality disorder) are more vulnerable to the negative effects of misleading information. People who do not detect misleading information also tend to be more anxious, suggestible, and vulnerable to strong emotions.

In the co-share network, a cluster of websites shared more by conservatives is also shared more by users with higher misinformation exposure scores.

Nodes represent website domains shared by at least 20 users in our dataset and edges are weighted based on common users who shared them. a Separate colors represent different clusters of websites determined using community-detection algorithms29. b The intensity of the color of each node shows the average misinformation-exposure score of users who shared the website domain (darker = higher PolitiFact score). c Nodes’ color represents the average estimated ideology of the users who shared the website domain (red: conservative, blue: liberal). d The intensity of the color of each node shows the average use of language toxicity by users who shared the website domain (darker = higher use of toxic language). e The intensity of the color of each node shows the average expression of moral outrage by users who shared the website domain (darker = higher expression of moral outrage). Nodes are positioned using directed-force layout on the weighted network.

danah boyd argued in two separate pieces that teenagers self-segregated between MySpace and Facebook based on race and class and that the news media coverage of social media created fear, uncertainty, and doubt which fueled the split.

http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html

One of the issues we see in the Sunday morning news analysis shows (Meet the Press, Face the Nation, et al.) is that there is usually a large amount of context collapse mixed with lack of general knowledge about the topics at hand compounded with large doses of Gish Gallop and F.U.D. (fear, uncertainty, and doubt).

This was the opinion also of https://hyp.is/YNQwwlF0Ee206UcS3HYLnA/www.reddit.com/r/Cartalk/comments/aoks7b/how_much_idling_needed_after_jump_start_to/

but are they misinformed?

!- relationship : competition and fear of the other - the other is unknown but is in competition with you - everyone is driven by the same fear of the other

Could this be linked to my FUD thesis about decisions based on possibilities rather than realities?

Sridhar, D. (2021, September 23). ‘I Know Who Caused Covid-19’ review – the global blame game. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/23/i-know-who-caused-covid-19-review-the-global-blame-game

Mertens, G., Lodder, P., Smeets, T., & Duijndam, S. (2021). Fear of COVID-19 predicts vaccination willingness 14 months later. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rt7u4

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/GPS-stolen-car-tracking-17398881.php

Do we? Really? This definitely needs reframing and books like this that play on these sorts of fears are both partially responsible, but are also preying on an atmosphere which they're propagating.

This is the sort of sad thing that a productivity guru would say...

fear hardwires memory of truamatic experiences into the brain.

Mortality salience for the masses - operationalizing terror management theory (TMT) and Deep Humanity BEing Journeys that take individuals to explore the depths of their humanity to make sense of the times we are in will play a critical role in contextualizing fear of death triggered by unstable circumstances and ameliorating these fears with the wisdom that comes from a living comprehension of the sacredness of our life and eventual death.

Prof. Christina Pagel 🇺🇦 [@chrischirp]. (2021, November 24). As well as Tom’s new one (B.1.1.529), C.1.2 seems to be spreading in S Africa—C.1.2 was the one with lots of worrying mutations first reported in August... Plus cases in S Africa suddenly increasing again in the middle of their summer. Https://t.co/fCqfOMcO83 [Tweet]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1463504890530086917

Bromwich, Kathryn. ‘How Long Covid Forced Me to Confront My Past and My Identity’. The Observer, 8 November 2020, sec. World news. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/08/how-long-covid-forced-me-to-confront-my-past-and-my-identity.

Old business advice: find the rich and charge them a pretty penny for something they either think they need or fear they can't live without.

It is important to think about the fear of being "forced into the American Union" in the context of the time. At this time, the American Civil War is still ongoing, and the situation was fragile. Since Canada did not exist and it was only colonies, it is realistic to view America as a threat to the possible development of Canada as a country.

This is a very crucial topic. Fear stands among the leaders of bad decisions' motivators so when you'll grasp the depth of meaning for this subject your life will never be the same.

Let us consider briefly what reasons make you scared. First and foremost you must be thinking that this event or person is absolutely real. The follow up is the idea: this situation threatens you somehow. And final step to get you frightened is to assure you that you have no control.

The combo of these reasons leads you to conclusion you might become a victim so you need react preventively right now. This is a very nasty hook which you can dodge by realizing: all of those statements are equally untrue.

Take time to learn what's in the quotes related, without this solid foundation forgiveness can't be understood.

The correction of fear is your responsibility. When you ask for release from fear, you are implying that it is not. You should ask, instead, for help in the conditions that have brought the fear about. T-2.6.4

God did not create a meaningless world. W-14

I am not the victim of the world I see. W-31

I have invented the world I see. W-32

The world you see is an illusion of a world. God did not create it, for what He creates must be eternal as Himself. Yet there is nothing in the world you see that will endure forever. C-4.1

Forgive yourself the thought He wanted this for you. W-99.7

What if you recognized this world is an hallucination? What if you really understood YOU made it up? T-20.8.7

The end of dreaming is the end of fear T-28.3.4

If I defend myself I am attacked. W-135

How safe the world will look to me when I can see it! It will not look anything like what I imagine I see now. Everyone and everything I see will lean toward me to bless me. I will recognize in everyone my dearest Friend. What could there be to fear in a world that I have forgiven, and that has forgiven me? W-60.3

I thank You, Father, for Your plan to save me from the hell I made. It is not real. And You have given me the means to prove its unreality to me. The key is in my hand, and I have reached the door beyond which lies the end of dreams. W-342.1

JoHo. (2022, January 5). Glad I never minimized covid for kids or fear mongered about the vaccine. Https://t.co/2eYafIzyPq [Tweet]. @JHowardBrainMD. https://twitter.com/JHowardBrainMD/status/1478545650149122052

Says a lot about the Victorian society and their views of non-white, British people. Blaming Dr. Roylott's rage and violence on his time in a foreign land portrays the idea of foreign influence to be something to fear and reinforces idea of English superiority.

Sherlock asking a question about the gypsies directly after Helen described her death as caused by "fear and nervous shock" is very telling about the society of this time. The fear of these traveling people and people who had foreign influences can be seen all throughout this short story and allows readers to have commentary about the stereotypes of foreign people during this time, as well as social darwinism in terms of English superiority.

The use of the word wretched shows what Helen thinks of the gypsies. Shows how much the gypsies presence affects Helen and another show of what the society thought of these people at the time.

Another show of foreign influence Dr. Roylott had. Cigars were not uncommon for people to smoke, Sherlock Holmes himself smokes cigars in short stories, but the identification of the cigar being a "strong Indian" reinforces the influences of foreign on Dr. Roylott.

Important as a description of Roylott. Portraying him as even scarier than these violent animals that wander Stoke Moran, once again showing his violent nature and bad temper that was influenced by his time in India

More foreign influences

Gypsies are groups of traveling people that were often seen as a trope of exoticism in Victorian literature and were feared by many due to their lifestyle. The stereotype of gypsies in literature were often unfair and the word gypsy had a connotation that showed them as lesser than the lowest class people

Reinforcing his violent nature and showing that his foreign influence created a violent man who can not be controlled, changing a respectable man into a monster to be feared. Setting up Dr. Roylott as the prime suspect in this case due to his violent nature and his foreign influences.

The theme of the exotic and more specifically the fear of the foreign can be seen throughout this short story. Mr. Roylott is seen to have become violent because of the influence of his time in a foreign land. The connection of this character and his time spent in India gives the reader the idea that his savage and violent nature was due to his time in a foreign area, portraying the foreign to be something to fear.

Walther, A., Eggenberger, L., Grub, J., Ogrodniczuk, J. S., Seidler, Z. E., Rice, S., Kealy, D., Oliffe, J. L., & Ehlert, U. (2021). Examining the role of traditional masculinity and depression in men’s risk for contracting COVID-19. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6rp8u

Seth Trueger. (2021, September 14). Https://t.co/LFZ3xWkYYY [Tweet]. @MDaware. https://twitter.com/MDaware/status/1437780952890191878

Spreading vaccine fears. And cashing in. (n.d.). Center for Public Integrity. Retrieved June 21, 2021, from https://publicintegrity.org/health/coronavirus-and-inequality/spreading-fears-cashing-in-anti-vaccine/

Spencer, C. (2021, September 23). No, Vaccinated People Are Not ‘Just as Likely’ to Spread the Coronavirus as Unvaccinated People. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/the-vaccinated-arent-just-as-likely-to-spread-covid/620161/

Jach, Ł., Lamża, Ł., & Wardawy, P. (2021). Psychological correlates of attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccines among Polish respondents – a snapshot study before the start of the massive vaccination campaign. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/czvda

Landa-Blanco, M., Santos-Midence, C., Landa-Blanco, A. L., Andino-Rodriguez, E., & Cortés-Ramos, A. (2021). The relationship between fear of COVID-19 and anxiety in Honduran population. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zyw6c

Constant, A., Conserve, D. F., Gallopel-Morvan, K., & Raude, J. (2021). Acceptance of COVID-19 preventive measures as a tradeoff between health and social outcomes. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ytz8p

Montag, C., Sindermann, C., Rozgonjuk, D., Yang, S., Elhai, J. D., & Yang, H. (2021). Investigating Links Between Fear of COVID-19, Neuroticism, Social Networks Use Disorder, and Smartphone Use Disorder Tendencies. Frontiers in Psychology, 0. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.682837

Joaquim, R. M., Pinto, A. L. B., Guatimosim, R. F., de Paula, J. J., Serpa, A. L. de O., de Souza Costa, D., de Miranda, D. M., Silva, A. G., & Diniz, L. F. M.-. (2021). GOING OUT NORMALLY DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC: INSIGHTS ABOUT THE LACK OF ADHESION TO SOCIAL DISTANCING [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/v2gd9

Prof Tolullah Oni. (2021, February 19). Last night @SliderCuts & I discussed qq his 95k+ followers have about #COVID19 vaccines. Went on > 1.5 hrs in the end!! Pple have reasonable concerns that need to be heard and understood & happy to (hopefully) help address. Watch here https://instagram.com/tv/CLcu-UFB8Xy/?igshid=irvs1mlis0o9 @IndependentSage https://t.co/ssxAX2fcfE [Tweet]. @DrTolullah. https://twitter.com/DrTolullah/status/1362702943179464706

What exactly does moment do for us, then, that

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doesn't do? Name one example where it is more accurate.

We’ve analyzed thousands of COVID-19 misinformation narratives. Here are six regional takeaways—Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. (n.d.). Retrieved August 1, 2021, from https://thebulletin.org/2021/06/weve-analyzed-thousands-of-covid-19-misinformation-narratives-here-are-six-regional-takeaways/

De Pasquale, C., Sciacca, F., Conti, D., Pistorio, M. L., Hichy, Z., Cardullo, R. L., & Di Nuovo, S. (2021). Relations Between Mood States and Eating Behavior During COVID-19 Pandemic in a Sample of Italian College Students. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 684195. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.684195

Smith, A. M., Willroth, E. C., Gatchpazian, A., Shallcross, A. J., Feinberg, M., & Ford, B. Q. (2021). Coping With Health Threats: The Costs and Benefits of Managing Emotions. Psychological Science, 09567976211024260. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976211024260

new tag?:

• understand why it is correct

Essley Whyte, L. (2021, June 8). Spreading Vaccine Fears, And Cashing In. HuffPost UK. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anti-vaccine-influencers_n_60be36b9e4b0ea8a1920d73f

Time in US - homelife - family - mental health

Time in US - encounters with the police

Time in US - living situation - abuse - lack of food - theft

Time in US - homelife - caring for siblings - abuse

Time in the US - childhood - memories - crossing the border

Time in US - crossing the border -fear, coyotes, exhaustion

Time in the US, School

Time in the US, Arriving in the United States, First Impressions

reason for coming to America - economic prosperity, a better life

Time in the US, Homelife, Keeping Secrets

Time in the US, Jobs/Employment/Work, Documents, Driver's License

Kramer, J. (2021, May 7). In Covid Vaccine Data, L.G.B.T.Q. People Fear Invisibility. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/health/coronavirus-lgbtq.html

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Elsey, James, and Merel Kindt. ‘Knowing When to Trust Your Gut: The Perceived Trustworthiness of Fear Varies with Domain Expertise’. PsyArXiv, 16 April 2021. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/682su.

Kubo, T., Sugawara, D., & Masuyama, A. (2021). The effect of passion for activities on fear of COVID-19 and mental health among the Japanese population. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/rvgs7

Moutsiakis, D. L., & Chin, P. N. (2007). Why blacks do not take part in HIV vaccine trials. Journal of the National Medical Association, 99(3), 254–257.

Goolsbee, Austan, and Chad Syverson. ‘Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion: Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline 2020’. Journal of Public Economics 193 (1 January 2021): 104311. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104311.

ReconfigBehSci. ‘Alarmism vs Denial in Switzerland...or Some Observations on the Swiss COVID Response a Monster Thread’. Tweet. @SciBeh (blog), 20 November 2020. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1329762887238299651.

Imagining the Next Decade of Behavioral Science. (2020, January 20). Behavioral Scientist. https://behavioralscientist.org/imagining-the-next-decade-future-of-behavioral-science/

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This is how societies are ruled or governed.