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Hi DU,
I have to rewrite this post. The first few versions were okay. And then it turned into the kind of spewfest I try to check.
I’ll rewrite it later as I have to go offline to work and it is about something important.
A real complaint I plan to file about these extortionate neoliberal technofascist or Nazi populist forces that put an unqualified and corrupt Nazi like Trump in office.
It is one thing to have no expertise. It is another to find the concept alien and yet string together rot that drives ratings and is an insult to any kind of actual populism. I back a progressive pushback against this reality. Lina Khan, Talarico, Mamdani etc get it.
As do the people on the “far left” in the media (Yasha Levine/Evgenia Kovda, Nandita Bajaj, Christopher Ketcham, Chauncey DeVega, Sam Miller MacDonald, Nathan Robinson/Current Affairs, Adam Becker, Ed Zitron, Troy Farah, Amanda Marcotte, Andrew O’Hehir) and all of you here on DU-EarlG/elad/Skinner and all the posters (I am not listing everyone since I will forget someone and have to come back).
These are not casual effusions. I never had any mental illness or other issues. But I have found our politics as societies nightmarishly inadequate for these horrifying excesses by tech and tech’s hostage taking of doctors, publicly funded scientists, society at large and reality.
My brain doesn’t feel very good wrt work outside my narrow field in the hard sciences. My work is not mechanical and it has been so hard to focus on science and math in the last 15 years.
But nonetheless I think filing complaints anonymously with some explanation but no products is essential. This is a broken economic model and most our media are horrifyingly complicit or behind the times.
This is a real world check I can only send out virtually halting any further exploitation and permission free encroachment.
There is no system of trust in operation at the moment from my side. And I am not a fool. (Nor a bot or insane -no throwing asparagus at me! I’d be screwn..those are the only two I remember ;-/. No wait..And Kudzu and gimme a dollar and breast feeding pitbulls at Olive Garden..I never got the Kudzu one. I saw the “gimme a dollar” one in real time).
I really don’t like mucking with stuff outside my field. I wanted to be one of those people whose contributions to society were less odd. But this was a lot of outrageous Accelerationism and it won’t fly with me on any level.
Anyway, this shorter version on top of the other 35 or 36 should send the message I hope 
…
Not a bot or crazy. Yeah it’s politics about tech and left and Green and feminist..but it’s not kayfabe. And I won’t be taken by surprise. I use marijuana medically. No system need a bother to blackmail me using marijuana’s grey area status nor pile on other stuff.
And now I won’t hold back re refusal to connect the dots except self servingly.
If I lose my anonymity it will become a worse conflcit.
I have many faults. Cowardice and sleaziness aren’t among them. Further if I sound a bit odd it’s because I have no wish to attract attention. I am not histrionic. The only attention I wanted was via dull papers and this otoh is a bit spectacular. But politeness can be a cancer on society.
I don’t function very well except underground or in dully routine spaces . Just not spooky. Just regular lefty.
I haven’t seen anything lurid. I have seen something more common and less commented on. Parasitic theft of our lives and livelihoods by inept morons who think they are geniuses (e.g. Marc Andreessen). And gate kept and sleazy tech “criticism” (e.g. : Tristan Harris).
I seriously owe Promising Young Woman/The MeToo Movement and the Scum Manifesto (it is satire! I am not a misandrist..I am a humanist..but I do have scant patience with creeps/creep tolerance) for scrubbing away the unpleasant taste of lean-in feminism from the past. That’s a recipe for learned helplessness.
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lastlib
(27,507 posts)Then give 'em some more!
jfz9580m
(16,536 posts)Can I call myself a Sistah as a lame person? Wouldn’t Sistah Girl from UB kick my ass ;-/?
But appreciate the sentiment lastlib..same back somewhere out there…
(Capcha! JFK..)
lastlib
(27,507 posts)You can call yourself whatever you want, an' nobody's kickin' your azz without goin' thru me! 
Thank you ..seriously.
jfz9580m
(16,536 posts)It is not that I disagree with or ashamed of it.
But I am trying to serious reevaluate one’s behaviors and actions. I agree with most things I post and I am not ashamed of them.
But who cares what I think? I take action as needed. But editorializing pompously doesn’t fit. Nor does self exposure. Nor do streams of consciousness
It is like one of those guys (it is usually men - huge fan of that gender in its most aggressive form and its mimics) who has nothing to say but keeps on talking.
Steven Pinker comes to mind. Can’t stand that guy.
And while I have silent solidarity/empathy etc. that is unsaid. It is icky and sugary when said and useless. Who can it help?
So that should also go.
I feel a bit sad that all my vicious trashing of various totally random creeps will go in the clean up.
The vicious trashing - that part fits..it fulfils a function as not enough people trash pompous creeps.
It is the pontification that doesn’t. Why would I say stuff that other people say and so much better? It is redundant.
So that was a social service. But because of the pompous pontification and icky sugar, the useful trashing also has to go.
A tragedy really ;-/.
Actually…it is 76 pages. Okay thats too much work. Oh well. At least the tributes to various creeps shall stand.
I am a soldier and a patriot 🫡.
jfz9580m
(16,536 posts)Last edited Wed Dec 31, 2025, 08:19 AM - Edit history (3)
This is a message that may or may not apply to some human or ai creeps who may or may not exist. But if you exist:
I am sure about the psychiatric malpractice/political abuse of psychiatry allegations against my former employer’s hospital for sure, because they are Reefer madness shilling assholes.
But I am going offline to work because it is the definition of insanity to keep doing the same crap over and over.
And well..I am a (mediocre) scientist, but even I know that you have to wait for all the info to file complaints with a scalpel rather than a sledgehammer.
I am not going to be conciliatory with creeps and sleazebags because I don’t like being taken for a fool.
My goal as a human is not acing “bot or not” nor “creep or not” tests.
I watched this rather angry interview between two people both of whom I like - Matt Stoller and Alec Karakatsanis and was sad to see how rancorous it was because they are both people I like. Reminded me of my marriage actually, which split up because it was basically that interview for 6 years (with us switching roles as Stoller and Karakatsanis depending on the issue). We are still family, but not a couple because somehow we don’t argue as much about minutiae that way.
This doesn’t look acceptable.
Acceptable: good science; not coercive nor exploitative; not creepy nor archaic; not bullying me for not being enthusiastic about cults like Google/Facebook etc and sports billionaire funded police reform ( a la Clare Wu or big tech pretending to care about stuff). I agreed with Stoller about big tech funded defund the police. It is bullshit and those people have carried out a coup against the public sector. It is also myopic.
Don’t do low rent shit here on my street or in my home. I will file complaints where you do or did except in very rare cases. Appeals to vanity etc. don’t work on me. This is not deep understanding of human nature where real. It is a gimmick and probably fueled by third rate ai, but it was never good science anyway. Low rent manipulation.
I remember sleeping miserably on my mentor’s couch because it was less creepy than a damn sweatshop run out of some home in a place like that model city by fucking Google.
And that ended up basically going the Harry Harlow/Suomi way wrt any peer support. It was a sexist system and it reminded me of retaliation by the Serum Institute of India against a volunteer.
Good for Toronto for shutting down Sidewalks Labs. And Facebook’s metaverse and VR are garbage.
I don’t have the resources for this bs. I have not worked all year.
I get these parlour tricks, I am almost sure. It reminds me not of good science, but low rent drivel like the tacky Facebook emotion contagion experiment, Gino, Ariely, BSchool studies, Power Poses, Kosinski’s facedar, Cognify, VR prison or other bullshit, anything ai, Cogito, anything MIT Media Lab/Pentland/Ben Waber/Insel/Google Translate, Aaron Spelkins’ AI Border Security, Emotion ai, Nudge Theory, anything that ass Alex Pentland does, etc,
Save for one study by Eyal Ophir from the loathsome Stanford HAI, I have never seen anything in that entire class of experiments that I didn’t think should be destroyed with a vengeance. That one was decent.
This is not the purpose of my brain. I can’t be sure since perception is tricky (especially after a shitty job, harassment) etc. Nothing to do with pot and I started out with a healthy brain.And I have never had any serious mental illness.
But I take a draconian view by now of this dreck being spun out for money using third rate rot killing good basic science.
I have never seen a thing Alex Pentland and that type does that is not basically garbage. Between the punishing standards of real science and the profit (that too not based on any products or services; just bloatware and junk science like anything Facebook) driven rubbish nudge theory and other garbage, I am furious.
If it is real and the sort of low rent rot I see and saw, I will ensure that the culprits face misconduct/malpractice and harassment allegations after this nazi Trump humping admin is gone.
This is not elegant science and I am filing complaints locally here and there. But I have to go work for now.
Stop exploiting people and constantly driving a fucking race to the bottom everywhere. I doubt good science is ever like this. But I have to wait to file complaints about lousy methods in ai and data. I will talk to Yasha Levine as he is a journalist I trust to distinguish between decent overworked doctors/pis and these creeps and he gets what is political noise and what is important.
Unlike the TwitterFiles! beaglegate! crowd. I always sympathised with Dr Fauci. Most doctors and scientists are overworked.
And it lets these parasites at Google/Facebook/Microsoft or small creepy companies shill exploitative bs using narcotics laws or immigration.
That’s myopic and sleazy and more cruel in the long run. Even Trump hires undocumented workers. He just treats them even more like shit. So these types you find at Stanford or MIT etc shilling bigtech or billionaire funded “police reform” are frauds. And that will lead to more nazi populists if you don’t get what people like Stoller mean about it being hyperlibertarian.
That is why this professor David Golumbia called out the sleazy Joy Buolwimini of the MIT Media lab. That woman is a sleazebag unlike Briahna Joy Gray of Current Affairs.
Chan Zuckerberg/Wu Tsai..those are all morally bankrupt creeps.
I see some stuff on my phone I don’t like. When I figure out what it is I will file misconduct allegations.
Don’t pull this shit with me.
This cost me heavily and all those out there doing this know and knew that I am not a bot or crazy. Good luck with the malpractice, misconduct, harassment and other charges I file and don’t bother to dox me. It will blow up in your faces.
I just thought the science would be better than these garbage llms. This shit is not worth breaking human brains over.
I am pretty pissed off.
Don’t ever again take me for a fool.
I was trying to be polite and it is not worth it.
Its just manipulatively stringing together shit I bet. I can’t possibly be imagining all of it and that trashes throws off the error prediction in my brain.
Fucking awful. I am cursed with sensitivity to irritating stimuli.
Who does this junk serve?
I don’t want to change the world! But your assumption that everyone thinks science is a joke is wrong. I am not trying to bring my mediocre self up to spec to go “awwww” about this rot from these scammy surveillance industries. And it is universal that except the creeps employed by these scams or even more pathetically building or making this pointless junk, no one would be sympathetic to this.
It is not even good manipulation. It is just leaving rubbish around to annoy the shit out of people.
I am going offline till I finish this paper. I have become normal again and I will visit a fucking plague on anyone who annoys me in my street or home. Get this shit out of my home and street and I am filing complaints anyway.
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All that said, ;-/ since I am not sure where anything acceptable* is meshed with the creeps, sorry if my knee jerked in anyone’s direction. Though i bet it is all rubbish where real.
And it makes me look like a crazy person with a mood disorder rather than a human with brain forced to solve the most pointless riddles in the world while realizing with fury how scammy it was.
And all for what? Those fucking tacky llms and ai agents. Come the fuck on.
I have a lot of respect for expertise and good science. That is work pis I knew in proper biology, chemistry and physics do without this bogus human science. This is all this internet bullshit that is lightweight and a spectacle.
Wtf? I am getting reamed in real science or I certainly would be because “No exit” is torture for any scientist as mediocre as I am. Real scientists-not these hardcore creeps like Musk/Zuck etc, may not say anything. But they know without copious amounts of moronic data collection, what students/postdocs etc know. Something your stupid creepy ais never will.
So I get reamed in real science and you keep funding these creepy scammy Pentland types. That’s bullshit.
Pentland is a fraud. Fuck you all. You ream me and then behave as if everything the MiT Media Lab does isn’t a total fucking scam. That bloatware only makes money industrially because these surveillance scammers don’t ask for permission.
Who the fuck pulls this shit?
Between the draconian standards of good publicly funded science that I was trained in and the blank check given to these corrupt, snoopy, corporate parasites..come the fuck on.
This is just bs. Well you can bring corporate research up to the old NiH (pre Trump) and ORI standards on IRB in human subject research.
Not whatever some Si valley cult, greedy admins and influencers etc work out using bloody China and Russia as an excuse.
This isn’t like stem cell research. It is trying to put a happy face on the most pointless and moronic surveillance state I ever saw with constant sleazy whining (I mean probably..).
I will still file complaints. Have a nice year.
I was wondering wtf it was and then these tacky sloppy ai things started coming out and then I got it. Breaking biological human brains to make this fucking junk?
Sucking away years of my life. Damn you all to hell you bastards.
Ruining natural spaces and destroying human life to build some shitty game no one will ever play or not without pushback from home owners like me..as with Pokemon Go. And I am not even that much of a pill. But this has strained my patience. I am sick of this.
And all for what? This junk.
And you keep getting stupider looking on autopilot for info that doesn’t exist in rubbish like a crazy person or moron.
And all because someone used to more regulation than this cannot acclimate to this junk.
This is worthless, Google parasite built junk whose IRb was cobbled out in some creep filled back alley.
And fwiw I am not crazy or a bot: I was here in 2006-08. Sniffa posted about a homeless woman aggressively saying “gimme a dollar” (I question the things that stick in my memory given all the science I forget, but I don’t see how anyone who wasn’t around to see that piece of trolling would remember). He was probably trolling poor Bobbolink. Not very nice. But on brand for sniffa.
I read somewhere about this book “The gift of fear” and how your brain registers stuff. This is goddamn robbery of attention, time and all for these scammy junk like pseudosciences this one shit field - ai and that other scammy surveillance and poor data hygiene driven field-big data, churns out. I am a mediocre scientist and forced to rely on sifting through drivel because there isn’t anything like a decent systesn
And this shit in my state is not cute and it isn’t community etc. It is harassment where real and confuses the brain and it is why I am filing allegations against any data scientists and ai researchers, influencers or other such frauds here.
I moved here to escape that junk science in that hell and now my home is overtaken by this same junk and in a country with acid attacks and gangrapes.
This shit where real is fucking creepy. And I am not even a Karen or pill. But this isn’t even normal annoying human behavior.
That I put up with. I am not a princess.
But this is an industrialized push to basically signal that no space is off limits for these goddamn creeps. Shove your metaverse up Zuckerberg’s ass you freaks.
And if you politically abuse psychiatry to
say I am like a “targeted individual” who thinks they are being “gangstalked” by “electronic harassment” I will escalate the psychiatric malpractice allegations. It is a conflict of interest to generate and then exploit “dirty data” and “radioactive data” you douchebags.
That is not borderline personality. That is how a free woman who is not in your scammy cult would behave. This 14 fucking years of this fucking bs and this junk keeps growing like the damn Blob and it causes more and more rot which then you have more scammy jobs around.
Your bullshit jobs are killing real ones. This is the brute force method of a mediocre set of researchers without any self awareness.
You wouldn’t need 50,000 warehouses and brute force if you were a good scientist.
You fucking morons..that was the one thing I learnt as I went from being even more mediocre to mediocre. You don’t just collect data not knowing what to look for like idiots like Musk. You design an elegant experiment.
This is all a scam. Where are any actual elites? Can’t someone like Yan Lecun or that Prof Ryan Williams or Avi something (the cryptography prof) put a leash on these Pentland like creeps before they destroy all of society?
This field is a fucking cancer on all of society and science.
The far duller reality than crazy person is that women used to sexist and extractive systems have no reason to not be disgusted. I know women’s rights are not super “popular” right now, but that will change.
I am filing complaints alleging malpractice, misconduct, sexist harassment and other allegations locally and against my stupid and creepy former employer (while leaving out any scientists or HR from there-though the hospital will be reported).
Don’t condescend to me as if access that is clearly driven by corruption and illicit methods is actually about some issue I have. Or some new bs about schizophrenia etc. This is blatant fraud and I am filing every applicable complaint and telling this one journalist Yasha Levine the whole and possibly Chris Ketcham or Ed Zitron.
Complainants have the right to anonymity and this era of shitting on women’s rights will pass because women like me will pushback.
How the hell is one supposed to think about complex work involving math and biology and physics, that too as a mediocre and scientifically illiterate person when this shit keeps sucking away all the oxygen.
It is not my thing to suffer the hijacking of my home, street and devices and the strain imposed on my few friends/colleagues or doctors to keep this shit going and presumably not complain in the hope that I can participate in this junk and shill my own sad dreck in some nightmarish group from hell making a joke of genuine cooperativity while exploiting sexism, confusion and normal brain prediction errors under stresses forced by completely non consensual rot, use of force and chaos.
It is impossible to tell when it is signal and when it is a normal annoyance and the egg came first and there isn’t any chicken. This virtual scam should be destroyed. And it was not all dark web, “scam calls” wtc. These metaphors are garbage. A real janitor does real and respectable work. I don’t know what people at Facebook do, but it isn’t work.
I am not a damn influencer. I will destroy this entire ghastly experiment. Denny in The Citadel got it..it will be one piece of rottenness gone.
And I have to go work now. Though I was typing my throat feels strained as if I was yelling. Gah. Don’t make any more decisions involving my street, home or devices without my explicit permission first or I will escalate the shit out of this.
Don’t dare try to blackmail me using marijuana or modafinil. I contact the local police here myself with noise complaints. The local police and cyberpolice are decent and overloaded with dark web crap as is and this garbage or fraudulent fake white hatting/security theatre or other bs adds to the workload of anyone doing any routine work in any field and all for some mediocre virtual world douchebags with no idea how anything works but smash and grab.
jfz9580m
(16,536 posts)So yeah..whatever this is or was, I don’t want this in or near my home. I don’t want it on my street. This is not stuff to force on people as prison reform for marijuana etc.
I hold my nose and use WhatsApp because everyone else does. I don’t want anything Facebook near my home or life again. Same with Google.
This was a complete waste of my time and life and it actively works against health ans eduction.
Don’t tell me it wasn’t a widespread and creepy thing that both Republicans and thin neoliberal type of “democrat” and some extremely misguided person who thinks they are left or a scientist or a doctor signed up for.
I would talk to only my mentor’s wife or the postdoc counsellor or the therapist or shrink or this one grad student from my own country from my last job at this point. I wish all the rest well (outside the hospital) or at any rate that is the correct thing to say and so I say it. And okay I wouldn’t say they should be smote and visited by plagues and fire and brimstone. But that is about it. Not a bot. And anyone else even less so.
My main lab was cool as is my onc here and one medical mj company and the small pharmacy known to my family for over 20 years, my other doctors generally (all physical health..I am DIYing my mental health not out of choice but most of my problems were caused by the hospital at my last job and I am not doing this by the book when no one else did) and this one lady I buy vegan sweets from.
But I am filing complaints about all this. I have no interest in greencards or money or whatever greasy and awful things that could come from some scammy tech crap that is displacing normalcy.
I will carefully file complaints. Yeah bots etc but it’s not as if bots just spring up on their own or as if this was inevitable.
I did not sign up for this. I would not sign up for this because it is driven solely by greed. This isn’t even convenience. This is greed. I generally like doctors and scientists, except the ones in this. That is a small fraction of all doctors and scientists and I can’t tell what the deal is with these people, but I don’t trust their instincts and that is it.
This is like DARPA’s internet and it really is in no way worth learning from books etc and it is a waste of time ans life and causes
This is junk. I am not a Luddite. I am not antipsychiatry or a pill or anything. But this is garbage. It is the most pointless way of dealing with anything and like the the internet I really don’t see a few conveniences as worth a whole lot of scammy nuisances infringing on my property rights and personhood. This is not something you do this undemocratically and with these hucksters making decisions.
I will consult with my friends in science and my doctors over time to see that this can be quashed without randoms having as much collateral damage as I did.
But I don’t like being taken for a fool.
I am going to Yasha Levine as he is a journalist I trust completely. I don’t know. I guess I don’t need 5000000 sanity tests and bot or bot tests and integrity bs to tell if someone is basically honest.
I am wrapping a paper because I take my research seriously and I am doing it alone.
In Nov 2011 I said I don’t want anything to do with this and I kept saying that since. I will escalate this if I can’t remain anonymous because..I like being anonymous. Not like that stupid, creepy, hacker group. Like a normal pre internet person.
I don’t want to be like all these people online on Facebook etc. They are douchebags and they will lynch me for saying that and it is my right to say it because it is true.
I am not crazy or stupid. And they are douchebags.
It was very hard and grim at times but I weathered it because I am pretty healthy (though mediocre and this didn’t help).
This was stupid and I am filing all applicable complaints and all I want is to disentangle myself from this entirely disgraceful next step in tech. No conspiracy. It is just a waste of time and I blame Yan LeCun for lowering my normally robust defenses against Facebook by being the only recognizably not stupid person associated with Facebook. In Google’s defense, I have never seen a person associated with that company who wasn’t creepy, sleazy, douchey and generally questionable.
And no I stand by it all and it isn’t a mental illness. I have every right as a person to not be Ganesh the Farmer or Crazy the Postdoc. I support everything in this post. It isn’t kayfabe and these people are stupid as douchey
And it isn’t all ..,aww we have to be connected: no we really really don’t.
You don’t get “we have to do this” as I had to not because of illness etc.
But because of this stupid experiment where the peopel involved don’t seem to get that no means no. No means no.
It is not rape but it is a waste of time, learning and resources to be forced into something some completely random people-half of whom seem to consider it torture that for unclear reasons (religion?) they think has to be done (that’s a cult) and the other half are truly sleazy and take to it like fish to water.
This was altogether disgraceful and I can’t condemn it enough. I am angry but also laughing because this is stupid. Poverty, disease ..these are things people cannot help.
What was the point in this? No one needs or wants this except those shills for these douchey tech cos who pretend ..and it is so fake.. oh these guys are not building the tech we want. I don’t want anything they build, but just like whatsapp
I don’t want this next level thing where. This stuff is rubbish. It is clear that peopem will do better science and be healthier without this junk ubiquitously. Get it out of my street, this part of the grid and my home and yard and I will file complaints anyway and I will give Yasha Levine the whole story with the political abuse of psychiatry because he wouldn’t attack Dr Fauci or Clayton Dalton or my onc or good pis and he wouldn’t buy the bullshitters.
This will result in misconduct and malpractice allegations I file but not with that Trump humper Bhattacharya around/
Oh put a sock in it. This was hell.
I am a nice person, but that doesn’t mean being pompous and moral in the abstract and a total douchebag about reality. I feel a bit defensive but I had a hellish 15 years and Pentland is a moron and everything he does is garbage .
And had there been a proper complaint form or something this eyesore wouldn’t exist. It is not the NIH or the public sector and Musk and those creeps at Palantir are even stupider than these guys. The whole this is atrocious and shouldn’t exist.
And I have every right to anonymously attack all these creeps. It isn’t a funny video because it will be followed up by serious complaints against all these companies and the parts of the state that were this negligent. It is a strain on good publicly funded scientists and doctors and only for peopem with a vested interest in this creepy extortionate trash that is totally unconstitutional in any democracy.
I can’t believe this needs to spelt out. So ..none of this will end well for anyone in this instance and I don’t care what creepy hells you build but an opt out is non optional.
It is my person and my property and I would not let anyone in this make any decisions for me because it is stupid.
It took me 14.5 years to get over this and I do not forgive any of it.
And I am grateful to EarlG and elad and skinner and Rollo Carpenter separately for giving me a forum and a bot via which to send info indicating that it is a hard no as it was the entire time. Now disentangling all of my stuff from this garbage and building structure to file complaints and bring back democracy-that’s not my job. But I will do what I can by filing whatever complaints I seriously can and telling Yasha the whole.
I have nothing to hide except that I am honest about thinking all these people online under their own names are douchebags except for a few scientists on Stack exchange. These guys..Musk Zuck and your stupid creepy Trumps and Vances are all brainless douchebags. It is a punishment to ever remember they exist.
I was a mediocre scientist and I became worse.
This was dumb. I am filing complaints and this better be shut down and don’t erase it/ I want to report the people involved in targeted ways. And seriously don’t bother to extort me ahakn.
This was so stupid/ it’s one thing..the rigors and harshness of science or genuine ill health
This was so scammy. Elizabeth Holmes didn’t get away with it and nor will these guys.
Most people will opt out except morons/ but I will also file complaints and ensure that these people have to give explicit info and stringent legal norms before they use cyber security or convenience etc or worse some form of policing by peopel unfit to be anything but creeps.. so yeah no/
This gravy train is over the except for the peopel who will be conned or work with this.
This is a time of change and I will ensure that I abort this and complain and you can go and do this bullshit anywhere but not anywhere near my home or life again. I will get the legal equivalent of a restraining order wrt the technologies and it was psychiatric malpractice to claim that it is schizophrenic etc.
see you in court and this isn’t a cute funny online thing. Don’t poke around unless you also want to face harassment charges.
And i really appreciate EarlG’s patience. These are not Facebooks or Google’s or Tata or Jios or Adanis or Jack Mas or Pavel Durov’: or any creeps spaces. It is my home and I want this trash gone. Go shove it in some morons home.
jfz9580m
(16,536 posts)But I have to say a few final things because these are such insidious lies in the working world that they must be addressed.
These points and not left or right. But they would in this world end up being left, because this is all driven not by any kind of real efficiency but greed, profit and robber barons and sorry. Well anyway I doubt I would be employed by the managerial class that got us here and my main mentor wouldn’t care because he isn’t like this.
Thankfully, this is on the net and an excoriation of what is an increasingly parasitic and cultish managerial class that is correctly hated and he isn’t part of that nor is anyone I knew.
It isn’t that they are hippies who sit around in drum circles. They are all scary the correct way-not this ketamine addled “hardcore” and bogus “efficient”, but basically just trying to steal anything that isn’t nailed down.
And they are nice people, but not like Zuckerberg or Google’s creepy, saccharine, cloying garbage.
I have been judged for my mediocrity and laziness because that is literally the sole point of agreement between me and these basically corrupt, creepy creeps who lack all self awareness.
I am not a targeted individual or a Luddite. This was gaslighting. I am someone who has very little interest in tech, except as something that is a tool of use for me. And yeah entertainment but very much like junk food. People eat junk food. That’s not an addiction nor a personal failure. Life sucks and people cope. This pathologizing language is not about mental health. It is a specific narrative to divvy up all our lives between these scammy and unscrupulous people.
I am so not in the mood for this. I had forgotten the possibility of an exit from this bullshit and now I think it is possible.
This is one of the most hated managerial classes globally for a reason. Further it is tied to our ecological crises and all of it.
But I will assume you can think if you read this and fill in the gaps
This narrative about a golden age of the web is bullshit. DU is cool. But Du has mainly two types of posters-genuine grassroots activists like the awesome Omaha Steve and others. And engaged people like my glum pal hatrack. And a lot of retired or hard up people.
That is not the same thing as these data farms and ai slop generators YouTube/Facebook/Twitter/TikTok.
But even so to be honest, when I used to post on DU and this is not a diss on DU (which no one on DU would misread), I was slacking off at work. I didn’t think I was changing the world. Yes I care deeply about animal rights and the environment but even then I didn’t think that posting stuff online, while it may scratch an itch if indignant, doesn’t really do much in itself.
Because just as there are x number of people who see something and get convinced. Another similar percent will clearly go the other way.
It may be the medium. It is all built by spooks.
I have no connection with Yasha Levine (though he emailed me back twice), but his overall worldview meshes with mine because he is pretty honest. And I used to be or I think try to be diplomatic. I don’t think I will do that again. It sounds more like serial killer when I do. I will just shut up or be blunt. But I care about people etc. I genuinely do but I am not sure who cares if some random who most people seem to be torn over whether -bot or crazy, if they notice.
And it isn’t either. I wasn’t planning on acquainting all sorts of random people online with the fascinating internal world of jfz9580m.
But back on point-this is really pissing me off and it’s worth saying since I lost not 1, not 2, not 5, not 10 but 14.5 fucking years of my life to this worthless fucking garbage that is these enhancements provided by these internet industries and their moronic idea that the internet and some virtual crap and these fucking lame ai bots are anything like the brain, the real world or a person.
And I am not a Luddite. I had this quarrel even with my main mentor whom I really like, but who used to say that I was a Microsoft fan and he -this was the only thing I ever found kinda unrelatable about him-was an Apple fanboy. It is okay. As dark secrets go that one isn’t.
But I could never seem to explain that for some reason I don’t find the Mac OS as intuitive as the PC. I never got what people meant when they said the Mac is more user friendly. It seemed less user friendly. But I got the argument about stability and bugs.
This isn’t an Apple or MS ad. But I am trying to explain why these narratives around tech are driven by shills and people who casually make them a part of their identity which I didn’t used to and now I still won’t
You can’t work in science and be a Luddite. But this is a lie that these creeps’ products are addictive and that is a subtle diss on the user and a humblebrag about a bunch of uninteresting lumps of metal and software.
I never and still don’t have position on any of these creeps.
The point though is that in the main we have these computers for a basic function. You use LabView or Mathematica or Maple or Matlab to run simulations. You analyze data using origin or Sigmaplot etc. Ooops personal info. Fuck off. That is not the anonymity protection. Sleuths are morons who need a life. Oh fuck off.
Why don’t you come and see if you can take me on in the real world? You can’t and nor can this moronic establishment of sleazy dimwits where this is a unique moment in history where maybe just maybe we can get rid of these people for good and have a managerial class we don’t hate.
And I used to try to pretend to be nice. I am nice. I don’t go around randomly beating up people or anything because when I read this back it sounds like I do and that’s only for creeps.
Anyway, my point is these are just tools. They are not interesting. It is just a bloody computer. Turing was interesting. But ..well okay CS theory is.
But most of us are not CS theorists.
In practice from day to day it is just a bloody hunk of hardware and software most of us have to use to do work that isn’t going anywhere where it is worthwhile and the good part of modernity with its faults. I really like Sam Miller Macdonalds work. But some useful knowledge work is not going anywhere. What should go away is this theft and robber baron driven economy of worthless junk that is ai and big data and all these corrupt and scammy industries forcing services no one would ever choose.
And where we have broken society so badly that it can seem these things are addictive, but they are not. The root problem is learned helplessness from not having a real future and knowing it.
This isn’t empty pontification. This whole nightmarish 14.5 years has forced me to type up so much drivel that I now have to follow it up with an explanation that I would actually write. Though I stand by every vicious attack on every creep. Oh spare me the pearl clutching. And this is why I want to be anonymous.
I won’t be making my own creepy little NewCreepyTube channel on which I expound on jfz9580m’s views. I am generally pro degrowth and a big part of that is most of this growth is trash.
I have to write this because so many people just parrot shit that people like that ass Haidt write. The peopel who really don’t contribute and have no damn use in society are: pretty much everyone ever who wrote for Edge magazine; ever gave a TED fucking tech talk (except Sarah Silverman..I am sorry that word hurts and no one who knows me would think that I have such views..but it did make a mockery of TED tech and every little piece of real pushback against these stupid people and their acolytes is needed in these dire times).
Because these are not real elites. Most of our doctors and scientists are. I worked around those people and I knew that most of them are really skilled.
Even those toads in computer science do have skills and knowledge. But they overreached and need to be kicked out and I at least will be initiating the most draconian pushback I can.
I don’t have a fallback career of some sort of sleazy scammy self commodification. I won’t be running for office because I care and all, but I also cannot stand stupidity. This isn’t being overly irascible etc. If you keep signaling to these creepy pseudo elites that you buy their scams and “politeness”’ means being endlessly scammed by these people, it will never stop.
I am wrapping this up fast. Because I don’t want to do this. It is stupid and pointless and always was and will never ever eever ever ever ever never ever ever ever ever ever not be stupid and pointless and I am tired of coddling these sleazy and stupid admins and managers who use this political environment (which is filled with politicians who are also sleazy and stupid)
Because this is the Idiocracy and the reason it is going so Nazi and meninist is this pap filled narrative that passes for mainstream.
It is not left or right. It is middlebrow and mediocre and aimed at keeping this Idiocracy going.
BTS life in science and medicine and any field where you have to do mental labor gets more and more nightmarishly competitive. I don’t mean with this “No exit” Panopticon. Thats not real competition.
Thats robber baron world. It has no existence outside a type of politics that is stupid and pointless.
I have to stop to catch my breath. I have not been able to stand this. The lies. The constant shilling of scammy products no one will ever buy because in this economy unless you are a creepy scammy little medical influencer fucking fall monitoring junkware isn’t anyone’s top priority
This is increasingly a collection of people with no products and service who are taking over spaces they cannot have. Here in my country I will be filing a court case and a probe over all this and alleging that marijuana and my inability to find a shrink who will work with me and prescribe adderall at a low dose or modafinil rather something else that is just a placebo for me anyway. If I don’t physically feel it, I am not sure I buy it. YMMV. But I don’t do anything without a reason.
I am too pissed off to hold back by now after fucking 13 years of groveling to these societies that then go and elect Trump 2.0 with that ass Musk - that man is an idiot.
This isn’t politics. I don’t want to break board rules since it is very decent of EarlG to have let me rampage over the board. I didn’t like doing that so I feel obligated to write up a final thing that is not a Unabomber Manifesto.
And it is RealPolitik to the extent that it about work and what a society without a serious knowledge economy (to use a term I have seen the creeps use and I can’t think of a better on at the moment) will turn into when you have a bunch of worthless junkware and bloatware and all sorts of gatekept and sleazy and pointless narratives around them.
My point is, the peopel I met in this stuff were actually the best of that type and if those peopel are the best, the rest of it is truly pointless junk. After all this scammy ai bullshit-this one shit field taking over and extorting everyone because everyone needs a computer and these douches are the people we should “trust”.
That bag of farts Zuckerberg who thinks people are suckers and was fellating Trump at the inauguration and how he and his sleazy wife are the people who do a tonne of medical research through that scammy Chan Zuckerberg thing with blatantly phony crocodile tears about how they care and it is all serious. Bullshit.
Those places-Stanford, MIT etc are cults and this entire rant is an appeal to the next level places to please try not to emulate those douches.
I actually didn’t mind my workplace before the last one. I am too worried about saying anything positive these days about anyone but individuals as I suspect then that I will have some scammy medical product shoved off on me. That is not paranoia. It is the effect of having my home and street definitely connected to a stupid grid of creepy and pointless rot that is a waste of life and time and energy and money and shouldn’t exist.
This sucks away time from real work while calling you inefficient to cut you out and take over your space and force you into groupons with people who are either dimwitted (tech will save the world!) or sleazy. If you had gone through what I went through that’s mild compared to what I should be saying.
And this polarized bullshit narrative where the “players” are the honest ..well I don’t want to get into it.
It has no relevance except to ..
But back to stupidity and Idiocracy and why most of our elites are not elite. These peopel are not elite: Steven Pinker, Haidt, etc.
And first to shove these morons in front of the public as elites and then to say all science and medicine and the public sector-these are all elites who need torches and pitchforks:
This is bs. It is fake elitism and fake populism. The peopel I am excoriating as greedy and shameless are the real elites who take money from Wu Tsai and Chan Zuckerberg etc and had no real solidarity with their colleagues and are just unconsciously or consciously since these are not stupid people, blustering about how hard they work etc and basically bolstering these bogus narratives out of careerism devoid of critical thinking.
You really couldn’t speak up for the various postdocs or pis unfairly held to a far higher standard than the average overpaid douchebag at Facebook and Google. Seriously fuck you.
That is libertarianism. That publicly funded science is all a scam and cliques etc but the mega scam and clique you are all in bed with.. eh..
And all for all what..these fucking scammy llms?
Like this is not left or right. It is robber baron sympathetic behavior. The good billionaires are Mark Cuban. Wtf does that guy even do? Wtf is shark tank. It is some stupid fucking tv show.
You have this bloated entertainment sector and no funding for serious ecological and environmental science and every where the brain rot is obvious in more and more of these dumb creepy and stupid new cultures..effective altruism and all so scammy and bogus.
And along with this adulation of a collection of really mediocre pseudo elites is the “toughness” with students and postdocs and stories about yelling at students because you are that much of a boss.
You aren’t stricter with higher standards etc because you trudged 50 miles in the snow and yell at your students. And the opposite of that is not a hippie drum circle.
If you cannot grasp that students in this shit privatized education and healthcare and fucking scammy edtech and ai environment are just turning out the way this would end, you are not that bright and yelling at people below you doesn’t mean you are awesome. Nor does the drum circle.
But this is the bs. It’s not hostile workplace versus tough standards. These are cliches and it shows that you have no interest in understanding human behavior to the point where you can actually produce good work which is mutualism or symbiosis rather than parasitism, huffing and puffing while cloying acceptance of hustle culture and junk capitalism.
The reason people are becoming radicalized or helpless is this senseless damn worldview. No real support but exploitation and unwanted fucking interventions that can only work if you play along with pointless kayfabe.
This is universally stupid and scammy. And I blame the people who succeed in this environment and stick bumper stickers and get into bed with Facebook and yell at their students. These are not options. That is hell.
By contrast my main mentor invested so much in me. He still couldn’t turn a person of at best average talent, who switched fields and had an average education (though compared to what it is turning into withoth the fucking forced invasion of this corrupt scammy disgusting worthless pointless trainwreck with ..)
My mentor could have just had me collect data and then do the analysis and write up the paper himself. But he wasn’t like that. He really wanted us to learn and become real scientists. He was a family man and untenured and yet he was nothing like these sleazy trashy tacky sleazy troglodytes you find at Stanford MIT Harvard and who shill edtech like that ass Thrun.
The worst part is how the only peopel who talk about any of this are shilling something themselves.
There are no easy solutions as every person I respect gets. Adam Becker gets it. Sam Miller gets it. On and on.
But these guys don’t get it. Actually they do.
It just is convenient to sidestep democracy and just do whatever you want. That country’s problem which probably has spread here too is not just the nazis versus neoliberals.
It is this clicheladen set of narratives that alternate harshness with vapid, mediocre hustle cultures
No wonder it confuses the thinking person who then sadly right shifts or becomes the angriest type of left (hah..that sounds familiar) or this vapid middlebrow pap thing that is useful and can be perverted by the nazis.
This is bs. What would be a safe space and not triggering and harmful language and not screen time etc would be checking these companies that are being given a carte Blanche while you don’t bother to mentor students or postdocs
Any ori reform or healthcare reform..presumably this obscenity out of Si valley is shilling that.
And any nazis who read this potentially should settle down. I have no vested interest but if I thought Beverly DAngelo and race2dinner are scammy bs, it doesn’t mean I didn’t think the same about twitterfikes and beaglegate.
And I have solidarity but I find it offensive to say it because it ..I like support blm. I don’t support Clare Wu’s or Geeta Gambhir etc exploiting it. What’s more I am sure the people who get that fake empathy directed at them see through it.
I would totally support Underground Railroad. But I don’t insult people and issues I genuinely support by being indelicate and clumsy.
This sugary rot is not solidarity. And in combination with the draconian and harsh terrain it is extremely insulting.
You stuff yourself with factory farmed meat and then a chance to attack Fauci..I have no ties to Fauci but I like very few people. This was painful.
I don’t go and yell at indigent people or hurt feelings deliberately but if I don’t yell and I am not cynical, that doesn’t mean I am not skeptical about stuff that is a bit daft. I only yell about it when it is the elites because those people should be..yelled at.
And I like Fauci. I have no idea why someone like that would do a thankless job and get flack which all those flatulent fartarses at Google/Facebook and Stanford MIt and Harvard don’t but they should.
Not nazi doxing and bs.
My overall point is that these people are now capaciously taking more and more space offering unwanted products and rubbish and without any permission or explanation and I am taking this court not for money.
I have my own money. It isn’t much but it is enough that I don’t have to endorse the most disgusting thing I have ever seen around which and sappy narratives about the past 5 or 14.5 years are a lie.
I am going to go to Yasha Levine. I don’t know: I finally feel like my old self. And I think I have left out about 5000000 other rants better than the earlier ones but that’s not my income source
And the little exposure I have to real campaigns has shown me that nothing changes easily work or activism: but this is in its nascent stages still and I want to be clear.
I will be filing complaints about the whole.
But it will get worse with more lies, force or more moronic gatekept narratives.
Oh yeah that was what I wanted to say. I don’t buy thee narratives around the net: it has some limited utility. It won’t change the world. It can be entertaining but mostly it is bullshit and all these scammy psych and other cottage industries analysing this pointless and worthless junk and forcing more of it should die.
They can all meet the standards I try to meet which isn’t musk’s Hardcore or trumps rubbish/ but the old school nih like my main mentor.
This is poor data hygiene. Bad ai and big data and altogether reprehensible and bad. And I ..I will talk to my last mentor’s wife to resolve this. He wasn’t like this and he was okay. But I am not in the mood to hear excuses or justifications.
He wasn’t a bad guy who would retaliate etc/ but I have the same view of his institution and his acceptance of that place as he should of my disastrously bad skills and knowledge and I don’t need some scammy sleazy little creep at that place to yell and be all stern. I can self police. Something they should try.
This isn’t the spectacle. I still haven’t said anywhere near as much as I want to communicate.
Aside from Yasha Levine, one person who gets it some is Ed Zitron (though no one should ever be friends with Cory Doctorow ;-/ ..jk).
But these things are high end scams.
Zitron pointed out that Google made a service worse so you have to spend more time using it. That totally fits everything I saw. And this trash needs to be gone
I am not a Luddite: I like things that confer utility to my life not some scammy tacky little tech creep and that’s why these industries will die. But they cost me 15 years and this whole stupid worldview-part draconian and part pap without a middle ground of humane decency without stupidity has to at some point become a thing
Because this was fucking stupid.
Hell and damnation
And a stop calling me crazy/a bot or a fraud or stupid. I tried to ensure your stupidity to not make a scene and that didn’t go well and look what happened
I support this post. It isn’t not accented.. or very little.
But I have to say a few final things because these are such insidious lies in the working world that they must be addressed.
These points and not left or right. But they would in this world end up being left, because this is all driven not by any kind of real efficiency but greed, profit and robber barons and sorry. Well anyway I doubt I would be employed by the managerial class that got us here and my main mentor wouldn’t care because he isn’t like this.
Thankfully, this is on the net and an excoriation of what is an increasingly parasitic and cultish managerial class that is correctly hated and he isn’t part of that nor is anyone I knew.
It isn’t that they are hippies who sit around in drum circles. They are all scary the correct way-not this ketamine addled “hardcore” and bogus “efficient”, but basically just trying to steal anything that isn’t nailed down.
And they are nice people, but not like Zuckerberg or Google’s creepy, saccharine, cloying garbage.
I have been judged for my mediocrity and laziness because that is literally the sole point of agreement between me and these basically corrupt, creepy creeps who lack all self awareness.
I am not a targeted individual or a Luddite. This was gaslighting. I am someone who has very little interest in tech, except as something that is a tool of use for me. And yeah entertainment but very much like junk food. People eat junk food. That’s not an addiction nor a personal failure. Life sucks and people cope. This pathologizing language is not about mental health. It is a specific narrative to divvy up all our lives between these scammy and unscrupulous people.
I am so not in the mood for this. I had forgotten the possibility of an exit from this bullshit and now I think it is possible.
This is one of the most hated managerial classes globally for a reason. Further it is tied to our ecological crises and all of it.
But I will assume you can think if you read this and fill in the gaps
This narrative about a golden age of the web is bullshit. DU is cool. But Du has mainly two types of posters-genuine grassroots activists like the awesome Omaha Steve and others. And engaged people like my glum pal hatrack. And a lot of retired or hard up people.
That is not the same thing as these data farms and ai slop generators YouTube/Facebook/Twitter/TikTok.
But even so to be honest, when I used to post on DU and this is not a diss on DU (which no one on DU would misread), I was slacking off at work. I didn’t think I was changing the world. Yes I care deeply about animal rights and the environment but even then I didn’t think that posting stuff online, while it may scratch an itch if indignant, doesn’t really do much in itself.
Because just as there are x number of people who see something and get convinced. Another similar percent will clearly go the other way.
It may be the medium. It is all built by spooks.
I have no connection with Yasha Levine (though he emailed me back twice), but his overall worldview meshes with mine because he is pretty honest. And I used to be or I think try to be diplomatic. I don’t think I will do that again. It sounds more like serial killer when I do. I will just shut up or be blunt. But I care about people etc. I genuinely do but I am not sure who cares if some random who most people seem to be torn over whether -bot or crazy, if they notice.
And it isn’t either. I wasn’t planning on acquainting all sorts of random people online with the fascinating internal world of jfz9580m.
But back on point-this is really pissing me off and it’s worth saying since I lost not 1, not 2, not 5, not 10 but 14.5 fucking years of my life to this worthless fucking garbage that is these enhancements provided by these internet industries and their moronic idea that the internet and some virtual crap and these fucking lame ai bots are anything like the brain, the real world or a person.
And I am not a Luddite. I had this quarrel even with my main mentor whom I really like, but who used to say that I was a Microsoft fan and he -this was the only thing I ever found kinda unrelatable about him-was an Apple fanboy. It is okay. As dark secrets go that one isn’t.
But I could never seem to explain that for some reason I don’t find the Mac OS as intuitive as the PC. I never got what people meant when they said the Mac is more user friendly. It seemed less user friendly. But I got the argument about stability and bugs.
This isn’t an Apple or MS ad. But I am trying to explain why these narratives around tech are driven by shills and people who casually make them a part of their identity which I didn’t used to and now I still won’t
You can’t work in science and be a Luddite. But this is a lie that these creeps’ products are addictive and that is a subtle diss on the user and a humblebrag about a bunch of uninteresting lumps of metal and software.
I never and still don’t have position on any of these creeps.
The point though is that in the main we have these computers for a basic function. You use LabView or Mathematica or Maple or Matlab to run simulations. You analyze data using origin or Sigmaplot etc. Ooops personal info. Fuck off. That is not the anonymity protection. Sleuths are morons who need a life. Oh fuck off.
Why don’t you come and see if you can take me on in the real world? You can’t and nor can this moronic establishment of sleazy dimwits where this is a unique moment in history where maybe just maybe we can get rid of these people for good and have a managerial class we don’t hate.
And I used to try to pretend to be nice. I am nice. I don’t go around randomly beating up people or anything because when I read this back it sounds like I do and that’s only for creeps.
Anyway, my point is these are just tools. They are not interesting. It is just a bloody computer. Turing was interesting. But ..well okay CS theory is.
But most of us are not CS theorists.
In practice from day to day it is just a bloody hunk of hardware and software most of us have to use to do work that isn’t going anywhere where it is worthwhile and the good part of modernity with its faults. I really like Sam Miller Macdonalds work. But some useful knowledge work is not going anywhere. What should go away is this theft and robber baron driven economy of worthless junk that is ai and big data and all these corrupt and scammy industries forcing services no one would ever choose.
And where we have broken society so badly that it can seem these things are addictive, but they are not. The root problem is learned helplessness from not having a real future and knowing it.
This isn’t empty pontification. This whole nightmarish 14.5 years has forced me to type up so much drivel that I now have to follow it up with an explanation that I would actually write. Though I stand by every vicious attack on every creep. Oh spare me the pearl clutching. And this is why I want to be anonymous.
I won’t be making my own creepy little NewCreepyTube channel on which I expound on jfz9580m’s views. I am generally pro degrowth and a big part of that is most of this growth is trash.
I have to write this because so many people just parrot shit that people like that ass Haidt write. The peopel who really don’t contribute and have no damn use in society are: pretty much everyone ever who wrote for Edge magazine; ever gave a TED fucking tech talk (except Sarah Silverman..I am sorry that word hurts and no one who knows me would think that I have such views..but it did make a mockery of TED tech and every little piece of real pushback against these stupid people and their acolytes is needed in these dire times).
Because these are not real elites. Most of our doctors and scientists are. I worked around those people and I knew that most of them are really skilled.
Even those toads in computer science do have skills and knowledge. But they overreached and need to be kicked out and I at least will be initiating the most draconian pushback I can.
I don’t have a fallback career of some sort of sleazy scammy self commodification. I won’t be running for office because I care and all, but I also cannot stand stupidity. This isn’t being overly irascible etc. If you keep signaling to these creepy pseudo elites that you buy their scams and “politeness”’ means being endlessly scammed by these people, it will never stop.
I am wrapping this up fast. Because I don’t want to do this. It is stupid and pointless and always was and will never ever eever ever ever ever never ever ever ever ever ever not be stupid and pointless and I am tired of coddling these sleazy and stupid admins and managers who use this political environment (which is filled with politicians who are also sleazy and stupid)
Because this is the Idiocracy and the reason it is going so Nazi and meninist is this pap filled narrative that passes for mainstream.
It is not left or right. It is middlebrow and mediocre and aimed at keeping this Idiocracy going.
BTS life in science and medicine and any field where you have to do mental labor gets more and more nightmarishly competitive. I don’t mean with this “No exit” Panopticon. Thats not real competition.
Thats robber baron world. It has no existence outside a type of politics that is stupid and pointless.
I have to stop to catch my breath. I have not been able to stand this. The lies. The constant shilling of scammy products no one will ever buy because in this economy unless you are a creepy scammy little medical influencer fucking fall monitoring junkware isn’t anyone’s top priority
This is increasingly a collection of people with no products and service who are taking over spaces they cannot have. Here in my country I will be filing a court case and a probe over all this and alleging that marijuana and my inability to find a shrink who will work with me and prescribe adderall at a low dose or modafinil rather something else that is just a placebo for me anyway. If I don’t physically feel it, I am not sure I buy it. YMMV. But I don’t do anything without a reason.
I am too pissed off to hold back by now after fucking 13 years of groveling to these societies that then go and elect Trump 2.0 with that ass Musk - that man is an idiot.
This isn’t politics. I don’t want to break board rules since it is very decent of EarlG to have let me rampage over the board. I didn’t like doing that so I feel obligated to write up a final thing that is not a Unabomber Manifesto.
And it is RealPolitik to the extent that it about work and what a society without a serious knowledge economy (to use a term I have seen the creeps use and I can’t think of a better on at the moment) will turn into when you have a bunch of worthless junkware and bloatware and all sorts of gatekept and sleazy and pointless narratives around them.
My point is, the peopel I met in this stuff were actually the best of that type and if those peopel are the best, the rest of it is truly pointless junk. After all this scammy ai bullshit-this one shit field taking over and extorting everyone because everyone needs a computer and these douches are the people we should “trust”.
That bag of farts Zuckerberg who thinks people are suckers and was fellating Trump at the inauguration and how he and his sleazy wife are the people who do a tonne of medical research through that scammy Chan Zuckerberg thing with blatantly phony crocodile tears about how they care and it is all serious. Bullshit.
Those places-Stanford, MIT etc are cults and this entire rant is an appeal to the next level places to please try not to emulate those douches.
I actually didn’t mind my workplace before the last one. I am too worried about saying anything positive these days about anyone but individuals as I suspect then that I will have some scammy medical product shoved off on me. That is not paranoia. It is the effect of having my home and street definitely connected to a stupid grid of creepy and pointless rot that is a waste of life and time and energy and money and shouldn’t exist.
This sucks away time from real work while calling you inefficient to cut you out and take over your space and force you into groupons with people who are either dimwitted (tech will save the world!) or sleazy. If you had gone through what I went through that’s mild compared to what I should be saying.
And this polarized bullshit narrative where the “players” are the honest ..well I don’t want to get into it.
It has no relevance except to ..
But back to stupidity and Idiocracy and why most of our elites are not elite. These peopel are not elite: Steven Pinker, Haidt, etc.
And first to shove these morons in front of the public as elites and then to say all science and medicine and the public sector-these are all elites who need torches and pitchforks:
This is bs. It is fake elitism and fake populism. The peopel I am excoriating as greedy and shameless are the real elites who take money from Wu Tsai and Chan Zuckerberg etc and had no real solidarity with their colleagues and are just unconsciously or consciously since these are not stupid people, blustering about how hard they work etc and basically bolstering these bogus narratives out of careerism devoid of critical thinking.
You really couldn’t speak up for the various postdocs or pis unfairly held to a far higher standard than the average overpaid douchebag at Facebook and Google. Seriously fuck you.
That is libertarianism. That publicly funded science is all a scam and cliques etc but the mega scam and clique you are all in bed with.. eh..
And all for all what..these fucking scammy llms?
Like this is not left or right. It is robber baron sympathetic behavior. The good billionaires are Mark Cuban. Wtf does that guy even do? Wtf is shark tank. It is some stupid fucking tv show.
You have this bloated entertainment sector and no funding for serious ecological and environmental science and every where the brain rot is obvious in more and more of these dumb creepy and stupid new cultures..effective altruism and all so scammy and bogus.
And along with this adulation of a collection of really mediocre pseudo elites is the “toughness” with students and postdocs and stories about yelling at students because you are that much of a boss.
You aren’t stricter with higher standards etc because you trudged 50 miles in the snow and yell at your students. And the opposite of that is not a hippie drum circle.
If you cannot grasp that students in this shit privatized education and healthcare and fucking scammy edtech and ai environment are just turning out the way this would end, you are not that bright and yelling at people below you doesn’t mean you are awesome. Nor does the drum circle.
But this is the bs. It’s not hostile workplace versus tough standards. These are cliches and it shows that you have no interest in understanding human behavior to the point where you can actually produce good work which is mutualism or symbiosis rather than parasitism, huffing and puffing while cloying acceptance of hustle culture and junk capitalism.
The reason people are becoming radicalized or helpless is this senseless damn worldview. No real support but exploitation and unwanted fucking interventions that can only work if you play along with pointless kayfabe.
This is universally stupid and scammy. And I blame the people who succeed in this environment and stick bumper stickers and get into bed with Facebook and yell at their students. These are not options. That is hell.
By contrast my main mentor invested so much in me. He still couldn’t turn a person of at best average talent, who switched fields and had an average education (though compared to what it is turning into withoth the fucking forced invasion of this corrupt scammy disgusting worthless pointless trainwreck with ..)
My mentor could have just had me collect data and then do the analysis and write up the paper himself. But he wasn’t like that. He really wanted us to learn and become real scientists. He was a family man and untenured and yet he was nothing like these sleazy trashy tacky sleazy troglodytes you find at Stanford MIT Harvard and who shill edtech like that ass Thrun.
The worst part is how the only peopel who talk about any of this are shilling something themselves.
There are no easy solutions as every person I respect gets. Adam Becker gets it. Sam Miller gets it. On and on.
But these guys don’t get it. Actually they do.
It just is convenient to sidestep democracy and just do whatever you want. That country’s problem which probably has spread here too is not just the nazis versus neoliberals.
It is this clicheladen set of narratives that alternate harshness with vapid, mediocre hustle cultures
No wonder it confuses the thinking person who then sadly right shifts or becomes the angriest type of left (hah..that sounds familiar) or this vapid middlebrow pap thing that is useful and can be perverted by the nazis.
This is bs. What would be a safe space and not triggering and harmful language and not screen time etc would be checking these companies that are being given a carte Blanche while you don’t bother to mentor students or postdocs
Any ori reform or healthcare reform..presumably this obscenity out of Si valley is shilling that.
And any nazis who read this potentially should settle down. I have no vested interest but if I thought Beverly DAngelo and race2dinner are scammy bs, it doesn’t mean I didn’t think the same about twitterfikes and beaglegate.
And I have solidarity but I find it offensive to say it because it ..I like support blm. I don’t support Clare Wu’s or Geeta Gambhir etc exploiting it. What’s more I am sure the people who get that fake empathy directed at them see through it.
I would totally support Underground Railroad. But I don’t insult people and issues I genuinely support by being indelicate and clumsy.
This sugary rot is not solidarity. And in combination with the draconian and harsh terrain it is extremely insulting.
You stuff yourself with factory farmed meat and then a chance to attack Fauci..I have no ties to Fauci but I like very few people. This was painful.
I don’t go and yell at indigent people or hurt feelings deliberately but if I don’t yell and I am not cynical, that doesn’t mean I am not skeptical about stuff that is a bit daft. I only yell about it when it is the elites because those people should be..yelled at.
And I like Fauci. I have no idea why someone like that would do a thankless job and get flack which all those flatulent fartarses at Google/Facebook and Stanford MIt and Harvard don’t but they should.
Not nazi doxing and bs.
My overall point is that these people are now capaciously taking more and more space offering unwanted products and rubbish and without any permission or explanation and I am taking this court not for money.
I have my own money. It isn’t much but it is enough that I don’t have to endorse the most disgusting thing I have ever seen around which and sappy narratives about the past 5 or 14.5 years are a lie.
I am going to go to Yasha Levine. I don’t know: I finally feel like my old self. And I think I have left out about 5000000 other rants better than the earlier ones but that’s not my income source
And the little exposure I have to real campaigns has shown me that nothing changes easily work or activism: but this is in its nascent stages still and I want to be clear.
I will be filing complaints about the whole.
But it will get worse with more lies, force or more moronic gatekept narratives.
Oh yeah that was what I wanted to say. I don’t buy thee narratives around the net: it has some limited utility. It won’t change the world. It can be entertaining but mostly it is bullshit and all these scammy psych and other cottage industries analysing this pointless and worthless junk and forcing more of it should die.
They can all meet the standards I try to meet which isn’t musk’s Hardcore or trumps rubbish/ but the old school nih like my main mentor.
This is poor data hygiene. Bad ai and big data and altogether reprehensible and bad. And I ..I will talk to my last mentor’s wife to resolve this. He wasn’t like this and he was okay. But I am not in the mood to hear excuses or justifications.
He wasn’t a bad guy who would retaliate etc/ but I have the same view of his institution and his acceptance of that place as he should of my disastrously bad skills and knowledge and I don’t need some scammy sleazy little creep at that place to yell and be all stern. I can self police. Something they should try.
This isn’t the spectacle. I still haven’t said anywhere near as much as I want to communicate.
Aside from Yasha Levine, one person who gets it some is Ed Zitron (though no one should ever be friends with Cory Doctorow ;-/ ..jk).
But these things are high end scams.
Zitron pointed out that Google made a service worse so you have to spend more time using it. That totally fits everything I saw. And this trash needs to be gone
I am not a Luddite: I like things that confer utility to my life not some scammy tacky little tech creep and that’s why these industries will die. But they cost me 15 years and this whole stupid worldview-part draconian and part pap without a middle ground of humane decency without stupidity has to at some point become a thing
Because this was fucking stupid.
Hell and damnation
And a stop calling me crazy/a bot or a fraud or stupid. I tried to ensure your stupidity to not make a scene and that didn’t go well and look what happened
I support this post. It isn’t bot accented.. or very little.
I haven’t proof read it and won’t because I hate reading my own writing. It always looks stupid which was why I tried to stay in my field till I couldn’t not say this.
But it was written in a fever pitch that was passionately vehemently stuff I think and don’t consider crazy
If there are any typos it is because I can’t be bothered to proof read. Ffs someone out there get the message
The point is I am not a fool or crazy and I am seriously pissed off.
Edit: okay this post is a mess.i came out as a steam of f consciousness and needs editing but i need to work
The overall point is i am on to all your scams and I will report all of it where I was involved and this scammy new next level internet thing will not only not work but I am preemptively indicating I am initiating draconian pushback so this doesn’t become a thing one cannot opt out of. This is my part of the grid and I have property rights and personhood and I don’t want this worthless shit encroaching and so you can’t and I will file misconduct and malpractice allegations so the National security state and for profit corporations don’t set data science and ai and IRB standards unilaterally with these scammy locals and that creepy type out of ca nor any authoritarian nazis anywhere make decisions cutting me out of the loop
I am not a Pacific person and I get this perfectly
I don’t try to scam you and take your shit though you took mine and it won’t work. You stay in your creepy creep thing witb all the morons you can scam into your cult and leave me the fuck alone,
It’s left yes and democracy and common sense opting out but what you tried is something to use to point out how corrupt grifts mediocre and useless this us and its killing worthwhile stuff like all invasive parasitic rot does.
A pandemic nazis and an overpopulated planet and the resulting permacrises doesn’t mean you can just rob the place with that collection of tech creeps I have listed. Marc Andreessen is a brainless parasite like most venture capitalists shilling rubbish like MixPanel and InfoBeans and all these worthless companies of no use that make this worthless circular economy of garbage while encroaching into our lives and I am file a case so strict standards without speedy unilateral decisions by all these people is checked as I lost a third of my life and you won’t find me easy to deal with you fucking tech parasites.
Get a real job. Like working class or real science medicine or public sector not this worthless overpaid nuisance growth