The Contagion of Fear

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September 13, 2026
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The contagion of fear I have a difficult confession to makeâââa shameful incident that I have never spoken of, even to those closest to me. Late one night in my first year at university and having found computer science to be my lifeâs calling, I was in the back of the large computer science lab, talking with some fellow underclassmen. We were snidely decrying the lack of technological understandi...
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