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  1. 3/
    The hosts establish that this "objectless dread" is the foundational feature of clinical anxiety. Unlike grounded fear—such as encountering a literal tiger in a room—anxiety is a psychological alarm bell that is completely decoupled from a tangible predator. It leaves a person with the full physiological terror of a life-or-death scenario inside an empty room.

    youtu.be/P03CI8g2Kyk

    #anxiety
    #neurobiology
    #psychology
    #podcast
    #lecture
    #dread

  2. EDITOR’S NOTE: COMMUNITY AND CONNECTION AMID TIMES OF DREAD

    In April, I had the pleasure of attending the launch of The Walldog, a new local online outlet. This is a critical arts project, one that focuses on the creation of cultural memory and imagination for the future. 

    “The Walldog reads public art, ghost signs, murals, textiles, protest aesthetics, and vernacular design as openings into potential histories and yet-to-be-imagined futures, […]

    communityedition.ca/editors-no
  3. 🎬🤦‍♂️ Ah, the thrill of watching a #blockbuster hit... all alone in a cavernous #AMC #theater. Thanks to this *groundbreaking* site, you too can revel in the #existential #dread of #solitude at the #movies. But hey, at least you won't have to fight anyone for the #armrest. 🍿👻
    walzr.com/empty-screenings #HackerNews #ngated

  4. 🎬🤦‍♂️ Ah, the thrill of watching a #blockbuster hit... all alone in a cavernous #AMC #theater. Thanks to this *groundbreaking* site, you too can revel in the #existential #dread of #solitude at the #movies. But hey, at least you won't have to fight anyone for the #armrest. 🍿👻
    walzr.com/empty-screenings #HackerNews #ngated

  5. 🎬🤦‍♂️ Ah, the thrill of watching a #blockbuster hit... all alone in a cavernous #AMC #theater. Thanks to this *groundbreaking* site, you too can revel in the #existential #dread of #solitude at the #movies. But hey, at least you won't have to fight anyone for the #armrest. 🍿👻
    walzr.com/empty-screenings #HackerNews #ngated

  6. 🎬🤦‍♂️ Ah, the thrill of watching a #blockbuster hit... all alone in a cavernous #AMC #theater. Thanks to this *groundbreaking* site, you too can revel in the #existential #dread of #solitude at the #movies. But hey, at least you won't have to fight anyone for the #armrest. 🍿👻
    walzr.com/empty-screenings #HackerNews #ngated

  7. 🎬🤦‍♂️ Ah, the thrill of watching a #blockbuster hit... all alone in a cavernous #AMC #theater. Thanks to this *groundbreaking* site, you too can revel in the #existential #dread of #solitude at the #movies. But hey, at least you won't have to fight anyone for the #armrest. 🍿👻
    walzr.com/empty-screenings #HackerNews #ngated

  8. 🤖 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? 🌍🔍
    bbc.com/future/article/2026042 #Fearmongering #Sorcery #BBC #HackerNews #ngated

  9. 🤖 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? 🌍🔍
    bbc.com/future/article/2026042 #Fearmongering #Sorcery #BBC #HackerNews #ngated

  10. 🤖 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? 🌍🔍
    bbc.com/future/article/2026042 #Fearmongering #Sorcery #BBC #HackerNews #ngated

  11. 🤖 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? 🌍🔍
    bbc.com/future/article/2026042 #Fearmongering #Sorcery #BBC #HackerNews #ngated

  12. 🤖 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? 🌍🔍
    bbc.com/future/article/2026042 #Fearmongering #Sorcery #BBC #HackerNews #ngated

  13. Meet #Phantom, the #AI #agent with an #identity #crisis 🤖💾: it constantly rewrites its config like a toddler with a new box of crayons 🎨. Apparently, it has "self-evolving" #memory, so perhaps it remembers how to be useless in more creative ways every day. Built on #Claude Agent #SDK, because what else would you use to make an AI that spends more time in #existential #dread than doing any actual work? 🙄
    github.com/ghostwright/phantom #self-evolving #HackerNews #ngated

  14. Meet #Phantom, the #AI #agent with an #identity #crisis 🤖💾: it constantly rewrites its config like a toddler with a new box of crayons 🎨. Apparently, it has "self-evolving" #memory, so perhaps it remembers how to be useless in more creative ways every day. Built on #Claude Agent #SDK, because what else would you use to make an AI that spends more time in #existential #dread than doing any actual work? 🙄
    github.com/ghostwright/phantom #self-evolving #HackerNews #ngated

  15. I don't like the new-type prove-you're-a-human questions, e.g.,

    "What things make you wake up in a cold sweat at 3:25 am, #dread hanging on you like a mildewed blanket?

    Where do the machines and algorithms get off thinking we're just going to volunteer our deepest fears? Nuh-uh, not me! Also, how about toning down the purple prose? A little lilac round the edges is ok, but that's full-on eggplant-purple.

    #wss366 #microfiction

  16. "Do you have a Professor Grexin here?"
    She looked thoughtful.
    "Did," she said. "He just checked out. He was with two other gentlemen."
    Will felt a growing sense of #dread.
    "He was supposed to be waiting for us. Did you see which way they went?" (2/3) #wss366

  17. In a groundbreaking revelation, #Facebook graces us with "HyperAgents"—AI agents so self-referential they might just collapse into a #digital black hole of their own existential #dread. 🚀🙃 Apparently, they're optimized for any computable task, which is the tech equivalent of saying your cat has mastered quantum physics. 🐱🔧 #AIoverlords
    github.com/facebookresearch/hy #AI #HyperAgents #Technology #Innovation #HackerNews #ngated

  18. Being crazy is hard.

    I woke up filled with dread. Why, you ask? Because I have a lunch date to hand Thor over to the client, and then another friend date tonight to see an exceedingly funny show.

    Sometimes I miss the version of myself that would wake up and be excited about these things, but I don't think the world that made that sort of happiness possible is ever coming back.

    #Anxiety #Dread #Saturday

  19. CW: dark web, scammers, lmafao

    lmafao 🤣🤣🤣.

    And this, dear children, is why you should absolutely not do anything in the dark web.

    #Session #dRead #FairTrade #tor

  20. The Water Spirit, Theodor Kittelsen

    woke up with a sinus headache this morning, this caught my eye. I love the twisted hair, this isn't one of those angelic nymphs. Something about a these headaches feels like this, like it sinks its filthy dead teeth into your neck and drags you into the muck. 🤣 I think this gets it right as an artwork. The branches or twigs sort of echo the hair, and the calm mirror of the water maybe sets a mood for the appearance of the creature, which doesn't look specifically evil or angry. Just looking at us.

    #art #creepy #spirits #water #dread #spook #eyes #forest

  21. The Water Spirit, Theodor Kittelsen

    woke up with a sinus headache this morning, this caught my eye. I love the twisted hair, this isn't one of those angelic nymphs. Something about a these headaches feels like this, like it sinks its filthy dead teeth into your neck and drags you into the muck. 🤣 I think this gets it right as an artwork. The branches or twigs sort of echo the hair, and the calm mirror of the water maybe sets a mood for the appearance of the creature, which doesn't look specifically evil or angry. Just looking at us.

    #art #creepy #spirits #water #dread #spook #eyes #forest

  22. The Water Spirit, Theodor Kittelsen

    woke up with a sinus headache this morning, this caught my eye. I love the twisted hair, this isn't one of those angelic nymphs. Something about a these headaches feels like this, like it sinks its filthy dead teeth into your neck and drags you into the muck. 🤣 I think this gets it right as an artwork. The branches or twigs sort of echo the hair, and the calm mirror of the water maybe sets a mood for the appearance of the creature, which doesn't look specifically evil or angry. Just looking at us.

    #art #creepy #spirits #water #dread #spook #eyes #forest

  23. The Water Spirit, Theodor Kittelsen

    woke up with a sinus headache this morning, this caught my eye. I love the twisted hair, this isn't one of those angelic nymphs. Something about a these headaches feels like this, like it sinks its filthy dead teeth into your neck and drags you into the muck. 🤣 I think this gets it right as an artwork. The branches or twigs sort of echo the hair, and the calm mirror of the water maybe sets a mood for the appearance of the creature, which doesn't look specifically evil or angry. Just looking at us.

    #art #creepy #spirits #water #dread #spook #eyes #forest

  24. The Water Spirit, Theodor Kittelsen

    woke up with a sinus headache this morning, this caught my eye. I love the twisted hair, this isn't one of those angelic nymphs. Something about a these headaches feels like this, like it sinks its filthy dead teeth into your neck and drags you into the muck. 🤣 I think this gets it right as an artwork. The branches or twigs sort of echo the hair, and the calm mirror of the water maybe sets a mood for the appearance of the creature, which doesn't look specifically evil or angry. Just looking at us.

    #art #creepy #spirits #water #dread #spook #eyes #forest

  25. No, Trump can’t cancel the midterms. He’s doing this instead – CNN Politics

    Politics 5 min read

    No, Trump can’t cancel the midterms. He’s doing this instead

    Analysis by Zachary Wolf, 4 hr ago

    President Donald Trump addresses a House Republican retreat at the Kennedy Center on January 6, 2026, in Washington, DC. Alex Wong / Getty Images

    A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here.

    Worried about losing unified Republican power in Washington and mystified at his lack of support among the public, President Donald Trump keeps talking about not holding the November midterm elections, when Republicans could lose control of the House, Senate or both.

    Trump doesn’t understand why his approval rating is underwater (and it is, on every issue, in a CNN Poll conducted by SSRS and released Friday).

    “I wish you could explain to me what the hell’s going on with the mind of the public,” he told House Republicans in a speech earlier this month.

    Later, he added: “Now, I won’t say, ‘Cancel the election. They should cancel the election,’ because the fake news will say, ‘He wants the elections canceled. He’s a dictator.’”

    But Trump did talk about canceling the election in an interview with Reuters this week. He said Republicans have been so successful that “when you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election.”

    White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt later said the president was “joking” and “being facetious” about canceling the election.

    If it’s a joke, it’s material he’s been working on for months. Told during an appearance with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last September that Ukraine won’t hold an election during a period of martial law during its war with Russia, Trump expressed some envy.

    “So you say during the war, you can’t have elections,” Trump said. “So let me just say, three and a half years from now – so you mean, if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections? Oh, that’s good.”

    People laughed.

    Sometimes they’re jokes, sometimes not

    Trump routinely says things that seem like trolls until they don’t. Owning Greenland? Not a joke. However, he seems to have retreated from the oft-repeated idea of an unconstitutional third term.

    And for the record, unlike Ukraine, the US has held elections in the midst of multiple wars, when the British had invaded in 1812 and when it was at war with itself in 1864. It held elections during world wars when millions of Americans fought overseas in the 20th century as well.

    It makes sense that Trump would dread the November midterms

    Trump knows that presidents rarely pick up seats in a midterm. His administration has been moving at breakneck speed to change the government because, as his chief of staff famously said, they know that presidents expect to lose power after their first two years. A net loss of just a handful of seats would give control of the House to Democrats, for instance, requiring their buy-in for spending and giving them power to investigate his administration.

    Presidents do not have the power to delay or cancel elections

    The Constitution requires that a new Congress be sworn in on January 3, 2027. Election Day is set in law, so it is theoretically feasible for Congress to move it, but not to cancel the election. Elections are supposed to be administered by each state, so state governors and legislatures could, in theory, move their own elections to deal with a major disaster, but there’s no precedent for it. To get into the weeds of all of this, read a report from the Congressional Research Service.

    The president’s distrust of US elections is legendary

    Trump has also mused about using emergency powers to meddle with elections. He told the New York Times recently that he regrets not directing National Guards to seize voting machines after the 2020 election.

    Even the elections he has won, he has said were rigged. There’s still no evidence of any widespread voter fraud, even after all these years of the Trump era.

    People are talking about doomsday election scenarios

    Election officials say they are thinking very carefully about all of this. Asked about Trump’s musings at an event sponsored by The Atlantic this week, Arizona’s top election official, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, said this:

    “Look, you can’t cancel the election… We’ve got a whole bunch of scenarios that we’re playing through to make sure that we’re prepared for the types of processes that might be necessary to preserve our democracy so that if somebody tries to cancel something, if somebody tries to take some stuff they’re not entitled to, we can go to the courts, get the orders, and hopefully have the backup of law enforcement to make sure that we can move forward through this.”

    “The fact that we’re running through these scenarios in the first place should tell you something about the health of our democracy,” Fontes added.

    To that end, he would not elaborate on what scenarios they’re preparing for.

    “I don’t want to give the bad guys any ideas,” Fontes said.

    President Donald Trump speaks during the House Republican Party member retreat at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2026.Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

    What Trump is actually doing about the next election

    While Trump might fantasize about canceling the election, the reality is that the election system is already changing in some key ways. Some of them may be enormously consequential.

    The redistricting war Trump kicked off continues to rage

    Republicans have drawn themselves nine more friendly seats across the country, and Democrats have ended up with six, mostly in California. Republicans see additional opportunity in Florida, while Democrats plan a redistricting ballot initiative in Virginia in April. Read more.

    If the Supreme Court decides to further gut the Voting Rights Act, Republicans could in theory redraw maps in many other states. Read takeaways from October’s oral arguments.

    Expect a very different House in the near future

    The long-term result of more and more political gerrymandering without protections for racial minority-focused districts could be the smothering of minority-party delegations in multiple states, making the House map look increasingly more like the presidential map. Far fewer Democratic districts in Texas. Far fewer Republican districts in California — even though there are millions of both Republicans and Democrats in both states.

    Trump wants vastly more control over how states conduct elections

    While much of the effort has been stopped, for now, by courts, Trump’s goal is to exert more executive control over elections that are supposed to be governed by Congress and states.

    A federal court on Thursday sided with California against the administration’s demand that the state turn over information on its 23 million voters.

    The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether mail-in ballots that are postmarked by, but arrive after Election Day can still be counted. The decision could have serious consequences for the country’s large scale adoption of mail-in voting in recent years. Trump is a loud skeptic of the practice even though he has personally voted by mail. His executive order would also scramble how states use voting machines, another response to phantom voter fraud that could actually drastically slow down the counting of ballots.

    Trump has chipped away at election oversight

    Early on, his administration scaled back the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA, which is meant to helps states guard their election systems from attack. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem canceled funding for an information sharing network that helped states detect and ward off coordinated hacking attacks, as CNN reported last year.

    His Justice Department has rewired the agency’s Civil Rights Division away from its original core mission of civil rights abuses, including those related to elections. One current focus of the division is to help states “clean” voter rolls, although a judge recently ruled that effort was a misapplication of the Civil Rights Act.

    Trump’s administration has already tried to change how people vote through executive action, and who they vote for through changing maps.

    There’s a lot of time for more gaming the system between now and November, and Trump clearly already has the midterms on the brain.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: No, Trump can’t cancel the midterms. He’s doing this instead | CNN Politics

    #CanTCancelMidterms #CancelMidterms #CNN #CNNPolitics #DoingThisInstead #Doomsday #Dread #Jokes #NoPower #OversightOfElections #Redistricting #StateElections #ZacharyBWolf
  26. No, Trump can’t cancel the midterms. He’s doing this instead – CNN Politics

    Politics 5 min read

    No, Trump can’t cancel the midterms. He’s doing this instead

    Analysis by Zachary Wolf, 4 hr ago

    President Donald Trump addresses a House Republican retreat at the Kennedy Center on January 6, 2026, in Washington, DC. Alex Wong / Getty Images

    A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here.

    Worried about losing unified Republican power in Washington and mystified at his lack of support among the public, President Donald Trump keeps talking about not holding the November midterm elections, when Republicans could lose control of the House, Senate or both.

    Trump doesn’t understand why his approval rating is underwater (and it is, on every issue, in a CNN Poll conducted by SSRS and released Friday).

    “I wish you could explain to me what the hell’s going on with the mind of the public,” he told House Republicans in a speech earlier this month.

    Later, he added: “Now, I won’t say, ‘Cancel the election. They should cancel the election,’ because the fake news will say, ‘He wants the elections canceled. He’s a dictator.’”

    But Trump did talk about canceling the election in an interview with Reuters this week. He said Republicans have been so successful that “when you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election.”

    White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt later said the president was “joking” and “being facetious” about canceling the election.

    If it’s a joke, it’s material he’s been working on for months. Told during an appearance with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last September that Ukraine won’t hold an election during a period of martial law during its war with Russia, Trump expressed some envy.

    “So you say during the war, you can’t have elections,” Trump said. “So let me just say, three and a half years from now – so you mean, if we happen to be in a war with somebody, no more elections? Oh, that’s good.”

    People laughed.

    Sometimes they’re jokes, sometimes not

    Trump routinely says things that seem like trolls until they don’t. Owning Greenland? Not a joke. However, he seems to have retreated from the oft-repeated idea of an unconstitutional third term.

    And for the record, unlike Ukraine, the US has held elections in the midst of multiple wars, when the British had invaded in 1812 and when it was at war with itself in 1864. It held elections during world wars when millions of Americans fought overseas in the 20th century as well.

    It makes sense that Trump would dread the November midterms

    Trump knows that presidents rarely pick up seats in a midterm. His administration has been moving at breakneck speed to change the government because, as his chief of staff famously said, they know that presidents expect to lose power after their first two years. A net loss of just a handful of seats would give control of the House to Democrats, for instance, requiring their buy-in for spending and giving them power to investigate his administration.

    Presidents do not have the power to delay or cancel elections

    The Constitution requires that a new Congress be sworn in on January 3, 2027. Election Day is set in law, so it is theoretically feasible for Congress to move it, but not to cancel the election. Elections are supposed to be administered by each state, so state governors and legislatures could, in theory, move their own elections to deal with a major disaster, but there’s no precedent for it. To get into the weeds of all of this, read a report from the Congressional Research Service.

    The president’s distrust of US elections is legendary

    Trump has also mused about using emergency powers to meddle with elections. He told the New York Times recently that he regrets not directing National Guards to seize voting machines after the 2020 election.

    Even the elections he has won, he has said were rigged. There’s still no evidence of any widespread voter fraud, even after all these years of the Trump era.

    People are talking about doomsday election scenarios

    Election officials say they are thinking very carefully about all of this. Asked about Trump’s musings at an event sponsored by The Atlantic this week, Arizona’s top election official, Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, a Democrat, said this:

    “Look, you can’t cancel the election… We’ve got a whole bunch of scenarios that we’re playing through to make sure that we’re prepared for the types of processes that might be necessary to preserve our democracy so that if somebody tries to cancel something, if somebody tries to take some stuff they’re not entitled to, we can go to the courts, get the orders, and hopefully have the backup of law enforcement to make sure that we can move forward through this.”

    “The fact that we’re running through these scenarios in the first place should tell you something about the health of our democracy,” Fontes added.

    To that end, he would not elaborate on what scenarios they’re preparing for.

    “I don’t want to give the bad guys any ideas,” Fontes said.

    President Donald Trump speaks during the House Republican Party member retreat at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, on January 6, 2026.Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

    What Trump is actually doing about the next election

    While Trump might fantasize about canceling the election, the reality is that the election system is already changing in some key ways. Some of them may be enormously consequential.

    The redistricting war Trump kicked off continues to rage

    Republicans have drawn themselves nine more friendly seats across the country, and Democrats have ended up with six, mostly in California. Republicans see additional opportunity in Florida, while Democrats plan a redistricting ballot initiative in Virginia in April. Read more.

    If the Supreme Court decides to further gut the Voting Rights Act, Republicans could in theory redraw maps in many other states. Read takeaways from October’s oral arguments.

    Expect a very different House in the near future

    The long-term result of more and more political gerrymandering without protections for racial minority-focused districts could be the smothering of minority-party delegations in multiple states, making the House map look increasingly more like the presidential map. Far fewer Democratic districts in Texas. Far fewer Republican districts in California — even though there are millions of both Republicans and Democrats in both states.

    Trump wants vastly more control over how states conduct elections

    While much of the effort has been stopped, for now, by courts, Trump’s goal is to exert more executive control over elections that are supposed to be governed by Congress and states.

    A federal court on Thursday sided with California against the administration’s demand that the state turn over information on its 23 million voters.

    The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether mail-in ballots that are postmarked by, but arrive after Election Day can still be counted. The decision could have serious consequences for the country’s large scale adoption of mail-in voting in recent years. Trump is a loud skeptic of the practice even though he has personally voted by mail. His executive order would also scramble how states use voting machines, another response to phantom voter fraud that could actually drastically slow down the counting of ballots.

    Trump has chipped away at election oversight

    Early on, his administration scaled back the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA, which is meant to helps states guard their election systems from attack. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem canceled funding for an information sharing network that helped states detect and ward off coordinated hacking attacks, as CNN reported last year.

    His Justice Department has rewired the agency’s Civil Rights Division away from its original core mission of civil rights abuses, including those related to elections. One current focus of the division is to help states “clean” voter rolls, although a judge recently ruled that effort was a misapplication of the Civil Rights Act.

    Trump’s administration has already tried to change how people vote through executive action, and who they vote for through changing maps.

    There’s a lot of time for more gaming the system between now and November, and Trump clearly already has the midterms on the brain.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: No, Trump can’t cancel the midterms. He’s doing this instead | CNN Politics

    #CanTCancelMidterms #CancelMidterms #CNN #CNNPolitics #DoingThisInstead #Doomsday #Dread #Jokes #NoPower #OversightOfElections #Redistricting #StateElections #ZacharyBWolf
  27. I mentioned to my daughter that I had just suffered anxiety and dread, I guess dread is the right word, thanks to 'post virus/viral syndrome'. Think of shivering in bed in a fetal position before going to sleep. I'm not sure this will help anyone or everyone but it's a good series.

    #podcast #dread #anxiety

    art19.com/shows/more-than-a-fe