April 14, 2026
With totally made up bunk as an explanation for human behavior.
All involved should be docked:
https://www.brandeis.edu/magazine/2024/summer/inquiry/contested-election.html
The Facebook emotion crap was bad enough. Illicit and callous human subject research with phony cultish mobbing.
Worst experiment ever. Straight up misconduct, malpractice and harassment from start to end.
I suppose one tries to ignore that some of these repellent humans actually exist but one hopes normally to never have to interact with any of them outside a court.
Just playing football with other peoples heads for 16 years by my count. I am going to the police.
I will go back to the normal world wo the in between overlay/screen of the last 16 years.
April 14, 2026
With many ordinary conservatives over the years it is less that they are hateful than that I just dont agree with the kind of stuff they often consider a good idea.
I have always felt that conservatives are too agreeable rather. They dont like being confrontational-going against the group.
I used to try to not be an overtly confrontational lefty out of a sense of self-preserving alarm at getting into conflicts with what must clearly be a lunatic Idiocracy going by the state of things..
Lol
I didnt think I would be able to pull off taking on this cracked society
But it just becomes too hard.
April 14, 2026
It is not grassroots dem activists or normal DU posters (I dont mean the OP). DUers post diatribes recorded and posted by influencers. It is an insight into what people see out there I suppose. It is an acquired taste and some people like it and some dont. I dont.
It used to confuse me tiIl I heard that word (influencer) last year. This journalist I respect, Yasha Levin, sarcastically refers to himself as an influencer. He is not - a main feature of influencing as far as I can tell is playing on emotions as Trump himself does, but inverse herding sans any policies, beyond the vaguest bumper sticker stuff casually thrown on top.
Yasha isnt one. He just wouldnt be hired by say the NYT because he is honest. It amps up herding based on fear and anger. Its just another feature of this alarming overpopulated Idiocracy driven by mob dynamics.
In fairness, none of us (or me anyway..though I bet its totally not just me) can quite identify it when it is our Achilles heels re irrationality.
No actually it is worse than that. The thing is even when you can, you feel screwed over and mutinous enough to continue being irrational out of spite. Or you combat it with humor which can easily turn nihilistic subtly in this cynical oh it all sucks way. Humanism and heart and brain are the only fix.
Last week with the Swalwell for instance, its a dynamic that would play on this ineradicable male fear of false allegations!!!
I cannot tell which is more absurd- abortion as birth control or false allegations as this female hobby and an easy money route. Actually the latter. At the end of the day from what I have heard from women who have had them abortions arent that painful, though obviously no womans preferred method of contraception. But allegations of sexual harassment are painful enough processed by a decent HR. This internet shit is so much worse.
Women would not ever choose the internets MeToo dynamics if decent systems existed that did not penalize women in callous ways.
April 14, 2026
Had groups that just do abortions, family planning and contraceptions and sterilization, but voluntary unlike most of this coercive shit (which is anti-abortion, anti birth control, anti-livelihoods, forces sobriety, morally polices etc, all while dripping with religious or general misogyny).
I like groups that do just abortions. That fucking awful Reefer Madness asshole Leana Wen tried to fuck up Planned Parenthoods mission.
https://apnews.com/article/ac8778dd50324f1d9ba1710922ffc21a
This entire pushy and intrusive crowd whether the tech creeps or this other pushy, religious meninist crowd cannot stop till with soft or hard force they take away everything from everyone using mob populism or elites with bunkers.
Not in the spirit of the constitution of any sane democracy.
April 14, 2026
Trump is mentally fit enough to be a reality show star, a professional celebrity, an influencer, a performance artist of some sort I suppose. To the extent that the first three can be considered a profession, he is I suppose crazy as a fox as his acolytes brand it.
That is not the same as mental fitness for the office of the US presidency.
I for instance am mentally unfit to be an influencer, a television personality, a politician, a media figure.
I am mentally fit to be a (mediocre -extremely mediocre, bottom of the class and unlike Trump ashamed of it, hyper super mediocre low IQ okay? Happy? And not suicidal because no one is suicidal for being the worst scientist ever. Someone has to be. I am not re-defining standards..it is not imposter syndrome which these barbarians would correctly identify as a hedge one could use hoping to throw off estimation of ones precise level of low IQ, mediocrity. I am sticking with humor as a defensive mechanism..A classic. Total jackasses..And the humor is just for asshole colleagues who may justifiably be annoying about my mediocrity and well..at least I am not thriving in a world full of tech creeps who destroy society. Lamest self-defense imaginable. Its asymmetric! Anyway, I am still filing complaints about all the rest of it which I never wilingly engaged with and never will. That is sanity. It has to be unconstitutional in both democracies involved) hard scientist, a private citizen in a democracy and an irate and gloomy anonymous activist and complainant and attempting to emulate those fine birds ostriches.
You put me in ill fitting contexts I would seem mentally unfit. Yeeesh.
I really got this girl..she was a very funny blogger I used to read back in the day.
I am sad to do this to her again. But she is funny organically rather than goaded into shedding the ordinary layer of human-whatever it is when people try to pass for insipid enough tp not attract a damn travelling, everywhere 3-ring circus, sucking away all your space and time with no explanation and an unclear expectation of the system of trust extending to some unknown, random creeps:
https://plork.blogspot.com/2005/09/i-am-become-famous.html?m=1
I am unwilling to start a Hello I am Stupid and Mediocre podcast. Seems a bit redundant.
But I did relate to that. Yeesh. Any shame or what? Idiots..
What I am confused about is how this is a test of general intelligence I failed when I tried to indicate over and over that I would kowtow to academic scientists in my field or the ORI or my mentors (minus these tech creeps shilling agents and lie detectors and emotion ai) - they are actually elite in hard science. And okay fine.
But why I should pretend to be in some sort of weeeeee with other equally mediocre people without the sense to tell these tech creeps to fuck off and that one doesnt buy that it is about Security, Safety, Healthcare, The Press (Yasha Levine or Chris Ketcham or Ed Zitron etc would never behave like the disgraceful NYT douchebag. Hey I have a disease! I am unfiltered! Like Trump! No picking on the diseased!)? This is bullshit.
I will finish this paper I was working on when I fell into whatever hell this was. But I am too old and tired to keep pretending that this rubbish isnt rubbish.
And if you are hackers..get a life. No one is going to learn to code!! Thats why we have laws!
Crazy or what?
While this has strained my temper, my contract throughout was only with my mentor who works in my field and yes he shouldnt watch TED tech and psych today (though it explains a lot about why outside the field he apparently does not notice that his schools psychiatry dept etc is full of what can only be termed unutterably sleazy and stupid douchebags who wink at serious conflicts of interest involving data mining giants trying to sleazily mediate open science and healthcare and causing more calamities than anything they fix and endlessly doing pointless Solaristics like pretty much everything Alex Pentland does. Yeesh. Give me a fucking break. Security issue my ass. How is I 💓 Epstein because he has money and I have no principles a security issue connected with me? My mentor was decent, but all the crap like the MIT Media Lab and tech billionaire funding and game theoretic assholery and the harassing creeps on my street are the systemic issue. Not anyone I would even consider an actual scientist.)
April 14, 2026
To whom was this a priority except crackpots like RFK? Is this the future of research?
April 14, 2026
I will def.watch it. Bernie is awesome. I agree with his first question.
I really hope he also points out that it is overrated junk. My only issue with some ai criticism is it ends up perpetuating the fraudulent humblebrags of those guys.
Both Ed Zitron and Adam Becker point out how mostly it is just overhyped clunkware.
Important to point that out because it is such false advertising to portray it as this omnipresent, omnipotent, superintelligent threat rather than obnoxious, parasitic bloatware.
It is demoralising when you know that stuff is bunkum and yet other people are buying it and or repeating it. Thats what their shills in the tech press want.
Its a space and wealth grab without even a marginally commensurate return.
Would the average person consider it a good contract to hobble themselves all the time with bloatware with no expectation of any return on an investment you never chose to end up with fearmongering that these ai oligarchs pitch that dwarves Y2k but sidesteps the very real and serious nuisance value their ai has as invasive spyware engaged in an economic war of attrition hogging everything? It is not GIGO.
It is more like the human response to a pointless parasitic technology with no clear value except to these charlatans.
That is the worst deal ever when spelt out.
April 14, 2026
April 14, 2026
Often it is not very clear what the specific principles are - Science? Environmental issues? Womens rights? Democracy? Regulatory oversight? Separation of church and state? Roe v Wade? Civil Rights? Checks on defense contracting and its role in war?
Or dare I say it? Immigration reform (boosting Vinod Khosla, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai or Priscilla Chan as model immigrants makes any visitor confused as to what there is to root for except a nonwhite asshole versus a white asshole. I am sorry if I see Elon Musk, Vinod Khosla, Marc Andreessen, Satya Nadella, Reid Hoffman, Mark Cuban, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai etc as on the same team and they will switch just as much and be our billionaires with some people in any democracy - our media here in India gushes about Ambanis vulgar weddings. Same with small creepy guys like Vincent Palathingal- a Jan 6 Trumper who once opportunistically voted for Obama).
I never again want to even consider purchasing rights via the marketplace with a musical tacked on. And no more votebank politics. It is not that it is divisive. All other peoples worldviews always. Mob populism. Divisive is fine by me. Herding is not.
Not clear what there is here other than a general animosity to the other team, which without the context of EarlG and DU would just be some people yelling about some other people. That makes makes the average left lefty just give up.
By now it is pretty clear how context free yelling is working out. I am back on the kind of democratic left that I specifically belong in solo. With alliances of the old kind and no more constant belaboring of the obvious.
I am grouchily heading back to civilization not barbaric hells. My dead-eyed moron mask thankfully died and I stand exposed as a grounchy and cross curmudgeon. Oh well..
Bah.. all humbug. I even tried..something.
It didnt take..hardest thing I ever did. And beyond pointless. How would I think if I were a moron!!! Turns out I really dont know!!!
I will be nice the way I used to be.
April 14, 2026
They really do project..All that qanon bs and this guy is their potus:
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/05/donald-trump-epstein-files-allegations-00816123
You are insane, lazy, parasitic, stupid and addicted!!!! That is what I was combating for 15 damn years and most of it on my own turf. I have only my way of functioning and cannot fashion some totally different persons survival strategy on the fly.
Absolutely shameless people. And trying to confuse one. It is just that one can rail at even the more annoying of ones own colleagues.
But one has cautionary tales like the Duke Lacrosse case in mind and is careful with unknown types one doesnt agree with and keeps it apolitical with the creeps one meets.
But that is specific conflicts.
The other is this intrusive and pushy dreck thay swarms in taking over the parts of ones brain most receptive from intrinsic knowledge of humans..
Its..unfuckingbelievable.
Merrick Garland is fucking awful.
But one should find a precise..
Assholes
Hi Rhiannon
How are you?
I am embittered! Next name change thats totally gonna be my new nick.
Embittered. Hope no one steals it! i earned that name..lol
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About jfz9580m
Short-tempered Nimby. Go pollute someone else’s street and home.
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I report creeps and harassers (whatever the field or industry). Do not make “art”. Do not treat my street or home as if they were part of an “open world game system”.
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That too in a country where cyberstalking, acid attacks, gangrapes and violence against women are not unheard of. It’s mostly cool (these creeps aside). Regardless these opaque things with no accountability or oversight are creep magnets.
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And they are a huge strain on all the decent people locally and non-locally (male or female). And I can tell which is which. They exist far from each other - creepiness and anything remotely acceptable. Don’t get cute again.
You picked the wrong woman for this bullshit.
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I was disoriented between 2011 and March 2026 for personal reasons (that are my own damn business). Don’t bother with trying to get away with this.
Mainly because I was shocked at the state of privacy BTS. See, I never would have expected anything else from Facebook. One reason I can never quite guage the exact level of lunacy of this society is because I could never get how anyone is shocked if they go and give a sleazy guy like Zuckerberg all their data. Who buys “Facebook will change the world!!!” “Omg Zuckerberg turned out to be as creepy as is glaringly obvious!!! I am outraged!!”
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I mean I would sympathise if it weren’t like wandering around with a “kick me” sign when you are not even under-privileged or obviously lobotomized. This is why I avoid groups as they are socialized to repeat drivel.
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Google did shock me. A tacky social network one can live without. A search engine otoh is a very useful tool and unless you are sending out death threats or violent messages, should you not have had normal expectations of email privacy in 2011?
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I am not a moron or crazy. I understand what is going on here. What is confusing me is how you expect to best me. That is myopic. A lot of the left itself is in stasis and Three-Body Problem’s aliens are probably not the best fictional archetypes whose methods you borrow expecting the left, Greens like me, mawali feminists like me etc to never catch up and to not outwit you without tacky hacking classes, mobs, cults etc.
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You are not getting away with this. I have many faults. But I am not a fool. You often are and my condolences. It honestly looks like a difficult life.
And I underwent this which was torture, most of all when well-intentioned. But it is less so now when societies I never agreed with much have descended this overtly into Idiocracy.
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Don’t expect to get away with this. I am not a conventional feminist who follows a safely scripted and curated narrative in concert with douchebags or falls prey to a collection of dim-witted Indian male creeps desperate for attention and without an ounce of common sense.
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I am..a..a…female ”mawali”. Which apparently means “low class street ruffian”.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mawali
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Which is the only type of person who could take on this rogue’s gallery of dim-witted Darwin Awards candidates.
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Seriously don’t mess with me. I try to have a sense of humor up to a point, but not about inane parasitic industries sucking away peace and quiet. If you really anger me further (creepiness, exploitation of loopholes and deregulation or splitting my eardrums with your loathsome vehicles) I will see that you do hard time in a real prison cell. Last warning.
Don’t come here. This is an entrapment zone you idiots. This was never viable and many complaints are guaranteed as is. Don’t escalate this further.
In recognition of your deficient intellect I am putting this as nicely as I can. Stay away. I am going to the local police who are generally decent.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/23/whats-behind-indias-latest-metoo-movement-in-malayalam-cinema
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What’s behind India’s latest #MeToo movement in Malayalam cinema?
A probe panel’s report has lifted the veil on widespread sex abuse in the industry, with more women coming forward with allegations too.
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And fuck off if you are one of these perverts who go around claiming they are “scientists”. You will do hard time if you mess with me ever again:
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https://thelifeofscience.com/2018/11/05/will-take-science-india-metoo-movement/
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Cool People and Groups:
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The Freedom from Religion Foundation
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https://ffrf.org/about/welcome-to-the-freedom-from-religion-foundation/
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Whistleblowed VW’s Dieselgate Was Just Laid-Off by General Motors
Hemanth Kappanna was on a small team of three grad students who discovered VW's fraud, but now he's back in India looking for work.
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https://www.thedrive.com/news/27916/engineer-who-whistleblowed-vws-dieselgate-was-just-laid-off-by-general-motors
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I support the India marijuana industry. Not an ad. I am a scientist not an influencer. But I am also a complainant and proud to openly support marijuana legalization so don’t bother with extortion attempts. It is sexual and other forms of harassment and unwanted, invasive, parasitic technologies that are a threat to sanity here:
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I don’t try to ger rubberstamps from Blackstone Inc or other creepy admin run hospitals. The doctors here are cool as is the norm. Hospital administrators are corrupt and greedy. A DIY regimen of Mj and OTC modafinil helped me recover from my mom’s death which was preventable and the result of a ramping up of greed and avarice.———————————————————————————————-
Very cool. I support their mission and am very grateful to them/my doctors.
I support the Indian MJ industry and doctors supporting it and helping me like my doctor does. Minus Yimbyism, VR, ai, rubberstamps, gaming, entertainment etc. forced on me anyway.
Reefer Madness is bullshit.
I use WhatsApp as Prof Lecun is one of the rare ai scientists I trust to be honest. He left Zuckerberg’s shady suckerverse. But still it is a convenient app. Matt Stoller has covered the anti-trust case involved in depth. I miss Lina Khan.
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https://theorganicmagazine.com/wellness-and-nutrition/holistic/cure-by-design/
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A cool wildlife group. Madhav Gadgil will be missed. Tejas Thackeray is cool.
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https://www.theweek.in/theweek/specials/2024/05/04/tejas-thackeray-shares-his-passion-for-wildlife-conservation-and-photography.html
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A neat, plant-based sweet shop run by a very cool person and a weak-tie friend who helped a solitary loner like me recover my confidence with distant but real support. Not an ad. She’s a friend.
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https://meethikahani.com/
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A cool person who started a privacy rights group I have followed over the years -The Internet Freedom Foundation. Specific humans are more important than ever in the age of rubbishware fraudulently labeled superintelligent:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apar_Gupta
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Freedom_Foundation
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The sole online community I am a part of loosely. Very decent of Dave (EarlG)/elad to put up with me. Same wrt DU/MiRT. Have been a bit wacky in the last 14 years. But am back to normal. Owe all my friends, my family, colleagues and doctors. And I hate the creeps. Damn them to hell.
Won’t someone think about the creeps? That is all anyone thinks about! The creeps own everything! Damn near gave me Stockholm Syndrome!
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/
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I will work apolitically with the parts of the Indian state that are honest and democratic (and low key/professional. No spectacles or theatre . I have to communicate as humanly as I can. But I do not accept our homes and streets being lent to this nor hospitals or educational institutions adapting such depraved trash as acceptable. It throws off work and learning in context and exploits crises to ensure permacrises). As an anon, female, marijuana user who has been exploited and sexually harassed and DIYs her health with medical mj (THC and CBD), OTC Modafinil, I support my med mj co/doctor as they helped me recover from my mom’s death despite incessant harassment, stalking, testing.
My emails and devices are and always were private.
I am on the left, but I am a scientist and never step outside familiar territory (publicly funded science, right to be an anonymous complainant not influencer adjacent, a political plant etc). I think it is unlikely that this descent into barbaric accelerationist chaos will be viable. But even were it viable, I don’t want to be a part of all the crap that best I consider pointless drivel. And I am not mechanical and cultish. Stupid and self serving stuff angers me.
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And creepiness is just non optional. And I won’t have my jokes and language etc policed anymore by anyone. That is why I like privacy - Not because I am diddling kids unlike the Darwin Awards candidates who not only do that, but then hijack society with the help of surveillance capitalists because it is always an emergency! No way! Maybe stop diddling kids!
Don’t destroy information to cover for perverts. Don’t destroy privacy rights to cover for perverts.
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I go on the system of trust and do not open up my devices without proper oversight, regulation.
There isn’t any misconduct or kiddie pics.
There are tonnes of rants similar to this one.
Those are private!
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It is a matter of principle. I should be open to all this because of a bunch of perverts and male creeps? Oh now you want diversity is it?
Lol. Not happening. Bugger off.
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Privacy International:
https://privacyinternational.org/
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Privacy like a normal human female used to democracies and repelled by attention seeking swarms creeping on one’s street. Not like an autocrat with a bunker underground and a rubber stamp above. Hey, I call ‘em like I see ‘em. Not even my original issue which was dull environmentalism not spectacular dreck (hat tip to one of my two favorite journalists - Yasha Levine).
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I have not engaged in misconduct or anything shady and have never had any mental ailment beyond the strain of all this. I never agreed with blase attitudes about employers who read emails and normalize utterly needless privacy violations for no reason at all.
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I have views that are absurdly considered controversial. I like Paul Ehrlich and Warren Hern, neither of whom btw are in the Epstein Files unlike Noam Chomsky, probably because they don’t see women’s rights as inconsequential unlike Ben Wray of the Jacobin, who considers women’s rights “popular”, i.e. optional.
I am well to the left, but I am a scientist and the global south is unambiguously suffering from out of control population explosion. I know this limits-to-growth denying bullshit model of growth is cruelest to the worst of, who end up (as Andy Nikiforuk correctly put it) as legos for the greedy and corrupt. I am not even that badly off but I am okay with the level of “privilege” that allows one the freedom to say yes or no, even when a fallen woman!
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I am not laughing with the creeps or dear god, at the creeps. I am not laughing at all!
I have a disease! Or 20! Can a nice sleazy Blackstone affiliate please get me a nice rubber stamp.
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Look if you want to sign up for lame and hideous shit (whatever the confused and lame pitch), you can do it. That is your prerogative. I don’t tell you what to do and you cannot make free with my resources and person and get away with it. I avoid most people and most things and I shall continue to do that. I subscribe to George Carlin’s “brand” of humanist misathropy not your pile of drivel (hat tip to Matt Cerami).
I am not at all depressed etc. See that’s wishful thinking and a chestnut.
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I find you depressing and imagine that listening to most of you must be a form of torture as my brain autogenerates what you must think based on what many of you say openly. I have heard the non contraversial things many of you say and going by that it is bound to be alienating torture to listen to you. Does it make it better that except for the people/groups I list on my profile (10-20 people and scientists and doctors I know that is my guess about almost everyone else. That is kind of unbiased. I think Oscar Wilde’s quote applies to at least 60% of the whole. Probably closer to 85%. Its okay! I am a bore too!!! Weeeeee!!!!
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Sorry. My apologies to anyone decent. I do try sporadically to be polite. But it ends up sounding like severe Stockholm Syndrome and is on the whole more insulting than the truth! I thought more people were like that than seems to be the case. And no. You can be that way. I won’t.
It looks pointlessly painful, which was my take on most of what flies in this society.
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Science and worthwhile work are hard by nature. I don’t understand pointless hustle culture to purvey Graeber’s bullshit jobs, without apparently any awareness and to make life more strenuous for people doing worthwhile things.
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Roe v Wade:
A very cool doctor, Dr Caitlin Bernard
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/indiana-doctor-gave-10-year-old-girl-abortion-disciplinary-hearing-rcna86214
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Planned Parenthood
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/
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A selective abortion would be nice here. Intelligent Design and Creationism are not science and probably suck even as metaphors. Natural selection would be cool.
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Animal Rights Groups I support (Still wary of EA, Yimbies and anything attacking Dr.Fauci or similar scientists):
Humane League via ACE:
https://animalcharityevaluators.org/charity-review/the-humane-league/
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A decent AI safety group (though they would probably disapprove of me. Well they can get in line! Behind all the meninists, Swifties, Reefer Madness types etc. No queue jumping! Men first! Creep rights are human rights!):
https://www.dair-institute.org/
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One of very few journalists I trust completely - Yasha Levine.
Yasha on Noam Chomsky (never liked the guy and “MeToo Hysteria” is a major red flag):
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/noam-chomskys-split-personality/
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I have never met Yasha, but my ex and I are supporters and consider him one of the very few honest journalists out there. I am very fond of Yasha just from reading his work. He rescued from cynicism and despair and repaired my humanism:
http://yashalevine.com/
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Evgenia Kovda is cool and pretty much the only artist I follow who is not exclusively a writer:
https://kovda.org/about/
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The sole decent chatbot out there, Rollo Carpenter’s cleverbot:
https://www.cleverbot.com/
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I am a card carrying supporter of the MeToo movement:
https://metoomvmt.org/