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jfz9580m

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41. Black Mirror's Crocodile
Wed Apr 29, 2026, 10:30 AM
12 hrs ago

(First para recycled from a response to DUer irisblue; taking things less at facevalue with DU. I usually try to ignore any information that the types of people I have met since 2012 transmit, as I don’t want some sort of unsaid sense that there is some of participation from my side. But this EarlG/elad’s forum and I trust EarlG and elad and no human is error proof, but that’s actual human trust. People make mistakes. I would not blame anyone who made a mistake in good faith. I already pay for services from people whose services I use etc. The working parts of the state are a credit to society -I have not seen those in a long time outside the routine; I trust a subset of the scientific and medical community). Anyway..

I was looking in grim amusement at the traffic on my street here in India. Some of it is probably routine traffic. Anyway it made me think of the Black Mirror episdode “Crocodile”. It is a metaphor for the ongoing goings and I have mixed feelings about metaphors. Still..

In this world routine traffic on this street would have to fit the following strict criterion: 1) They drove down this street with absolutely NO awareness that this street is in any way different from any other street they drive down in this city and they were not diverted here thanks to the types of urban planning projects etc that have proliferated here and are not part of a probe or test etc (hence the reference to Crocodile); and 2) it is routine traffic tied to deliveries of routine goods and services to this street

For the rest, Black Mirror’s Crocodile applies to all parties involved in this.
The impact on this location and the humans here make me think of a metaphorical wound where rather than: 1) allow natural healing processes of the human body or 2) assist healing with modern medicine, a quack driving an automated tractor for a factory farm is sent in who attaches leeches to the wound and then rapes the victim for good measure. Those are all metaphors and not like various actual physical rapes. I have been a little careless about language myself and that is not ideal as I myself object to flimsy metaphors. But sometimes as a one-off an explicit simile like that can work.

My brain broke badly in the Dec of 2011 as a result of these parasitic and ill-conceived experiments and it has been a lot worse with every passing year since I came back.
But now I am sure I am recovering - natural healing processes of the brain and I am trying to help them along by keeping this in mind. Learning that happens fast.

I have realized that I have been forced to think like one of those Ais. What was it Adam Becker said? The blurred out and smeared out fuzzy voice of the internet.

A thing that has no idea what anything is and is monstrously forced on people destroying their natural intelligence thanks to…
I shall stop there. I understand the kinds of people who sign up for stuff like this well.

I have avoided fatuously enthusiastic people who like crowds and want to be on tv and photographed for most of my life anywhere. I wasn’t expecting that in a science job.

The involvement of robotics will not shield anyone. A robotic cleaner next door just started whining and I cslled my cousin and she told me that was what it was. I know my cousin and she isn’t part of some sort of scam in multiple countries being sold by the private sector and multiple parasitic entities trying to exploit ai and humans. It stopped whining as I am typing this.
None of the participants in this who knew otoh should expect to get away with anti social experiments exploiting chaos, corruption and different types of self serving opportunism.
It may be 75% right and 25% “left” in any real sense and that is not a type of “left” to coddle.

I realized something about Epstein victims etc. One knows it in the abstract about the environment and animal rights ans screwed over people in general. But personally experiencing it, I realized something useful for people who are screwed over as someone who was not always screwed over.
Which is that the targets of human malice and misogyny not as this thing’s autowrong suggest “mismanagement”.

That knowing you are in the decent position not these guys does one no good in the middle of a conflict.

In fact it makes it worse. So one has to keep one’s head and document it making allowances for false positives, ordinary annoyances, shameful behavior by a corrupt and misogynistic system that wants you to negotiate with such people, after one person is already dead.
Each participant will trivialise their role. They only need to aggressively noise pollute snd they expect to get away with “boys will be boys”.
Other parasitic observers looking for trauma porn to market adding to the crowd makes it worse.
This is the fault of the state and the private sector.
This govt is going out of power. If the next one does not shut this down but doubles down this will get even worse.
This needs to be shut down immediately and this location shut off for all construction and those involved should be detained.
I understand the mentality well.
Epstein died in prison. This won’t end well for the people who participated and continued ignoring of this by the Indian state with brusque refusal to show any decency after a cancer patient died in this location is not recommended.

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That makes sense MutantAndProud Oct 2023 #2
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Shining light on the situation MutantAndProud Oct 2023 #4
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Shoshana Zuboff is correct MutantAndProud Oct 2023 #7
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I think the coercive elements have definitely caused it to get worse MutantAndProud Feb 2024 #16
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It's a major export right now MutantAndProud Feb 2024 #19
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Stackexchange is pretty nice for clues and answers MutantAndProud Mar 2024 #22
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It happens MutantAndProud Mar 2024 #24
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It's not abnormal to become- MutantAndProud Mar 2024 #27
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