Well now, blink and you'd miss it but the word "provo" appears here. They were formed in 1970. If that's true, then journalists who passively report repeated claims to an earlier origin are collaborating with myth making.

This is super. Thank you. When I saw your post I was prompted to ask if you'd consider treating development after the open internet a different medium but no, you're right.

There is no solution and the development that marks one conference year from a later one is, well ... epochal; it's AI itself. It has arrived seemingly suddenly and at it its most basic runs on innumerable, energy guzzling searches.

Emmet, Are you entirely happy with the survey methodology here? At a glance it looks like one of those where the invitation to reply dictates the answer by attracting the aggrieved.

Jo, Brilliant. I hope you don't mind that I posted this to my FB page. I credited you.

I heard this interview and had two thoughts. The targeting of specific areas of the body is a new depth of evil. Moreover, it demands extraordinary marksmanship. Could it be that programmed weapons or even AI is involved?

If you’re going to join some hateful ideology, that’s the time. It’s the extremes.” (pg.93)

Here’s the thing: The professor, a psychologist, does have an age limit in mind. It’s not 16 or 18, or even 21, but 25!

“The most interesting thing about adolescence is that it’s ... the time of life when you’re most likely to become a murderer … If you’re going to form a new religion, that’s the time. If you’re going to stupidly horrify your parents by giving away all your savings to a charity, that’s the time. /..

“Corrupting Youth”.
He argues that on the way to building mass support for or at least mass acquiescence to barbarism Hitler and co. found an enthusiastic audience among the young.

Rees quotes from his interview with Prof. Robert Sapolsky: -

that if there is some competence linked to age, then it should be identified and used to ensure competence before registration of voters of all ages.

As it happens, I’m reading Laurence Rees, The Nazi Mind; 12 Warnings From History (Penguin/Viking, 2025). At warning no. 4 he has “Corrupting Youth”.

Most can sing, "Shovin connie around the fields."

Re band names, Unlike "Elbow", "Kneecap" is a verb.