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jfz9580m

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39. This will be my last post for a long time
Sat Jan 10, 2026, 06:51 AM
20 hrs ago

I have been thinking about it. When I look at the ruins of my former life in the last 16 years with each year getting worse than the last, I know what should be done.
I feel less crazy, now that I know it wasn’t in my head, but garbage tech rolled out irresponsibly with my few friends trying to help out.
The one person I think must be prosecuted for this mess is Sundar Pichai. Some of my colleagues sometimes are too bland to get how important it is to not be a Merrick Garland as I see how things are going. (Fewer TED tech talks ;-/ and less of The Atlantic/New Yorker/NYT. I am not being hateful..I endured this as much as I could but nothing is as lonely as thinking that The Atlantic represents mainstream human thought. That concentrated douchiness and I am sick of feeling judged by Troy Farah when I am not even Luigi Mangione. But the right way really was Lina Khan. If these guys couldn’t stand a few checks on monopolistic power then it is time for serious prosecution).

More rounds of bs with revisionist narratives about what was actually bts..I do not believe it was anything but parasitic and malicious and I never will and anyone who buys into this is a sucker.

This parasitic gamification and trashing of actual reality is a drain on my mental resources and it is no longer sustainable. The one company, whether it is journalism, medicine, education or life militarizing, cultifying and gamifying life is that criminal, parasitic search giant Google.
And I lost my mom.

The thing is (as Yasha Levine gets), this influencer adjacent bullshit is not real life. The dead sea fruit that is wwe style smackdowns with nothing ever actually changing is a cancer on real life.

Nothing like a serious goddamn legal case for an injection of reality. These guys don’t seriously think I am a bot or crazy. They think and thought I was playing up to them and treating women’s rights and democracy and science and medicine with the same shocking laxness on real research ethics on all fronts,

I tried to defuse this, but I am not an ostrich. I believe my own lying senses and intuition on this and Pichai must be prosecuted.

This is not a damn YouTube channel. If Sundar Pichai can be prosecuted and he can (I am not positive but I suspect it can be done), it will send a message to all these other guys-Pentland, Fei Fei Li, Lucy Guo, Shyam Palantir Creep, Every Google associated Stanford or MIT prof who ever banged an undergrad (yes, a pathetic creep I knew of), every Google parasite shilling edtech over education like Sebastian Thrun, every small creepy company that thought this was a joke or opportunity for grift and tried to take advantage of people with real jobs/products and services

And it is not a prediction..I always mock that stuff..tea leaves anyone? It is a goal. I dont have tonnes of data to snoop on these assholes, but they are so secretive that it would be impossible for anyone who didn’t accept cultish rot like a woman with no damn self-respect would..
The thing is (as Yasha Levine gets), this influencer adjacent bullshit is not real life. The dead sea fruit that is wwe style smackdowns with nothing ever actually changing is reality tv..it is a bullshit economy of worthless fluff choking out everything and now climate science, the NOAA, the federal govt..this computer moron’s encroachment into reality must stop.

In an ideal world the Republican populists would check their own grifters like Musk, Palantir and Bannon. But that is unlikely. But I trash grifters who are a drain on the left like Gita Gambhir and Race2dinner and will definitely try to see a case is filed against Sundar Pichai who has been the CEO of alphabet since 2017. I am not crazy about the earlier guy Hennessy. But at least he was an actual scientist, albeit one who should go look in the mirror and ask himself “what sort of horrible person have I turned into?”. At least he did make a processor.

Pichai like all these guys represents the pinnacle of mediocre parasitism. He is a glorified sales guy and just became a billionaire. Well my gift to him is a case that should set a badly needed legal precedent.
I cannot keep self-cannibalizing and fighting to keep resources I already have like a home and good health for bloody worthless junk like connection to some rot I don’t want or need and I already have email if anyone wants to get in touch with me. And if you don’t have my email address, that’s because I don’t want to hear from you.

Email was the last useful thing these lazy, boring troglodytes..anyway..

The thing is this is stupid. There is something wrong with a society that thinks “being a real person. The everyman” is something new and a personal brand or worse apparently a disease. That used to be everyone. Yasha’s cool wife gets it too.
A society of cam people is not connection etc. Thats fucking creepy. A science influencer is an abomination that should not exist. This is a tumor. Yan Lecun leaving FB is another sign.
In the 6 years since “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” came out life has only become more drearily spectacular and I lost 16 years of my life and my mom.
And absent a legal precedent with teeth and as you rightly said prosecutions we are hopeless. This was such a waste of my years.

Struggling to work with this worthless parasitic trash of no use forced on one. I am not backing down and I think as many charges as I can file are on table. Trump having broken so much means that new precedents can and should be in the works and these robber barons and I won’t play nice.
It would be bad for my Ted tech talk addicted colleagues if I did ;-/.
I hate attention. It is sought by people who have no idea what attention for something worthwhile as opposed to a disgraceful tech fueled circus is.
These influencer things. I was trying to work out why it doesn’t add up. I suddenly remembered that thing from Ira Levine’s Stepford Wives..”these are not real people. They are like actors in commercials”
And that is all of it. Whether it is a sleazy science influencer on YouTube as opposed to a decent educator; a real journalist as opposed to whatever Bari Weiss is; a fake screwed over “little guy” hamming it up for some bored dingbats…these are second rate scripts with an element of kayfabe, of which 0% is too much in human life.
The llms are not the only drains on scientists, artists, educators, public officials etc. It is also humans who like South Park’s cancelled take like fish to water to either this predatory, corrupt gatekept fake elitism or join in willingly in the theatre.
That is a cancer on real life. And it is politicsl abuse of psychiatry to attack people who will fight back over agree to this lame shit.
If this goes on, it will get worse.
Evgenia Kovda..Yasha and Evgenia or Chris Ketcham etc are not influencers..they are awesome..but Evgenia gets it..senility except not age but an inability to see new scripts. Lina Khan showed that it is possible.
I love that woman..Lina Khan. This cannot go on. I don’t want to change the world. But i want a legal precedent that is not a bloody Apple opt out from the courts such that this doesn’t happen again and I think it can be done but that is a worthwhile use of my time in addition to work.
Putting up with this shit isn’t and wasn’t.
Pichai should be prosecuted. I will see what I can do offline. I will finish this paper and I will ensure that charges are filed. Or they will extort and harass me and turn this into a joke. That cannot happen.


There is nothing cute about this shit in a country known for acid attacks and gang rapes. Its one thing when it is ordinary oblivious annoying human behavior. It is another when it is poor data hygiene, gossip, degraded services, such parasitic stuff locally.
I will file complaints about the whole thing.

As I was yet again wearily wondering which nuisance it occurred to me that prosecuting Pichai and not in a simulation or game but irl (the only actual reality..don’t muddle the internet and real life without or with ai ever again; dont warp sound and light in my home ever again would send a message to all these local creeps and set a legal precedent. And send a strong message about militarizing and politically abusing psychiatry for profit with lies about mental illness.

I am not a stable genius like Trump, but all things considered I do okay when left the hell alone. I am not like these creeps who like audiences. I don’t like being messed. I like to be left the hell alone. I like people and life her away from these things or even people like my dboys or doctors etc but they are all NPC, if less militant about all this. I am a militant NPC. I dont like “progress” that is inferior to what went before. Just garbage tech for its own sake. This isnt a marketplace. Dont map this place and all serious allegations possible are on the table locally and non locally starting with Pichai. I will be offline and get help from this journalist and dont stalk me in my home or street again.

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