'Horrifying' leak reveals ICE 'stalkers' have access to Americans' cell phone data

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10. Scary

On the + side personally, I have adapted by becoming more stoic since April of last year. I started returning to normal around the time of the Trump shooting and Biden’s speech in 2024 (not connected obviously - just memory markers) after an extended period of mental upheaval starting in late 2011 and worsening in early 2012. Hideous job where big tech (specifically the defense contracting and data mining parasitic giant that is Google, which pioneered this garbage surveillance Panopticon that the kleptocratic, dim-witted fascists of Palantir etc are now also enthusiastically building) contamination/coup of academic science and medicine showed up in my life for the first time*.

I was and am fond of my mentor at the time-he was a bit of a pain in the neck unlike my mentor. But out of respect for him I tried to pretend to buy into needless shrinking of the militarized and shallow pop type. I should have been firm and said “no..i just hate junk tech and its sleazy blah centrist politics”. But i was too confounded by the sudden transition from my old work spaces to one I hated. God I hate Google. They were handing out geofence warrants to law enforcement up to last year incidentally.

I had/have no mental issues per se beyond this:
https://theconversation.com/how-neoliberalism-is-damaging-your-mental-health-90565
But somehow oddly this realization of my worst fears after that period has had an oddly calming effect.

I also self shrank a bit following stuff like this to understand how my brain works:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-24068-x

So I am feeling better personally and coping well despite the hellish state of the world. Its weirder to be alone in hell. I am starting the next phase of recovery focusing on attention/distraitness.



(*: I trash big tech all the time, but i do make limited exceptions for any scientists personally known to the few scientists or doctors I trust completely. It is not entirely inconceivable that there could exist even at Google, someone I ..consider..a person whom a friend or colleague, could conceivably almost not entirely not be acquainted with. Though still extremely unlikely.)