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Caveat/Warning: Some of this material may be offensive or unpleasant. It is not anti-psychiatry/anti-science nor hateful. It is satire and anti charlatanry. The point is that using the language of health and wellness charlatans get away with: conflicts of interest (e.g.: tech/defence contracting connected sleazy, lightweight and mediocre fluff is not the best fit for serious mental health sciences), misogyny, encroachment, intrusions on seclusion for no valid reason, harassment and the shilling of worthless crap (which would be harder without such guff). I have also slammed anti-psychiatry and wellness influencers like Laura Delano. I don’t like any self-serving charlatans. I try hard to be an honest person and am tired of suffering liars, morons etc. YMMV ;-/.
Finally, this is recommended only for someone whose critical thinking skills are advanced enough that they don’t make serious decisions about health or anything based on satirical cartoons (involving oblique references) online. I am not a fan of explanations as a rule. This is directed at specific things and you may not get what I mean. Don’t take this as relevant to you if you stumble on it. Imo you can’t child proof the world-especially at this level(the internet has lots of far worse shit). Shrug. I’ll take it down if it is flagged as harmful or offensive. If anyone even reads it. I put it up for my own sake really. It is intended only for well adults.

I focus more on the misogyny than on the sleazy women I came across (not that there was any shortage of such persons) because :1) I dislike the tacky “catfight!” dynamic that titillates creeps and plays to the lowest common denominator and 2) weight for weight the average sleazy woman gets the message faster than the average creep (who never seems to get it).
(I am an autodidact in creep/sleazebag psycho-sociology!) There are always the corner cases ;-/.
Absurdist Kafkaesque reality. Shrug.


This was a fun exercise I started mid July, going by the time stamps on my images. I posted it on DU July 21, 2025 if not earlier. And I completed the series with the last image I posted yesterday (August 18, 2025). I made the mock thought stream a week or so earlier.

I am very proud of my scrawls though, because I had fun drawing them. A final post wrapping up something I was experimenting with. The text is a bit disjointed, but I have to go work, after a long hiatus for all sorts of hideous and complicated reasons.

I have never suffered from mental illness. If I did, while I wouldn’t talk about it, I wouldn’t explicitly deny it either. I honestly don’t really see any stigma in illness. Another area where I feel out of sync with such hoary chestnuts. But if you aren’t ill, you aren’t.

Existential angst perhaps and chronic stress worsened by sexual harassment and intrusions on seclusion. Ruth Cain had a good piece in The Conversation about it.

Usually you end up like this guy or worse if you don’t have the slightest intention of pacifying the technolibertarian crew running most places ;-/.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr46npx1e73o

It’s hard for anyone to be well these days, but I try.
Don’t take life so serious, it ain’t nohow permanent is me motto…I was never big on that sharing/ vulnerability stuff ;-/. I likes me defense mechanisms just fine!

But enough about me .

I found some relief in viciously caricaturing the types of men I encountered/lousy tech I was plagued by during a 13 year period from 2012-the present. That’s behind me now.

These are not misandrist or anti-psychiatry ;-/. They are anti-stupidity and anti-corruption though. I liked most of my shrinks even if I didn’t agree that I needed much shrinkage (especially unsolicited shrinkage).

Some of these caricatures are a bit broad ;-/.

Anyway I made these as a tribute to all the creeps i met or read about over the years. I suppose they generally mock meninists; a specific type of Yimby; incompetence; contemporary tech; influencers; advertising etc.

Influencing is a particularly bizarre concept-the movie Tusk comes to mind as a cautionary tale ;-/. The walrus body horror one..

How Creeps and Opportunists Affect Free Will:



Parody Paper on Creeps Figures:


Proportionality


Crazy Catlady vs Creeps



Advanced Crazy Catlady vs Creeps



(Explanatory Footnote: Advanced schizophrenia! Not the basic kind! ;-/)

This looks a bit like a creepy man I met in a state office where I had gone for something related to digital id. He picked his nose, which is not depicted to keep things tasteful.

Musical Pervert


This is not Sundar Pichai

Advanced Musical Pervert


Him


It's a Bird... It's a Plane... No, It's a Creep!

20 years ago The Male Creep was considered an endangered species (mostly by male creeps). But by 2025 we can rejoice in the fact that the Creep Population is no longer in decline..



I had originally named this next one “The Saint” till I remembered that it’s in the name of a viciously racist book. I changed it to The Martyr and to be inclusive (focused as I usually am on our creeps here in the Global South), I threw in a couple of Nazis.

It ended up looking a bit like a holographer/defence contractor (Lockheed Martin) who sexually harassed me in 2014. My dad is a military vet and disapproves of defence contracting.

The Martyr


The Martyred


I went to school in the US. But I moved back to Podunk, Global South (which I view with an affectionately satirical eye).

Most men I meet irl here are nice-my doctors, the delivery men who come here etc. Podunk, GS has an oblivious charm as long as it doesn’t start going the way of SP’s “Cancelled”.
BTS creepy defence contractors, creepy technocrats and corrupt officials are a concern. But hopefully, that’s in the past.

Govts classify stuff and have classified projects. For that to work it has to be limited hangout and not about the enrichment of corrupt oligarchs and kleptocrats.

I’ll give you an example of how things work in some parts of the Global South I have visited (culture!). A type of industrialist exploits a specific type of bullshit framing (which I think is overused even on any semi-legit left; e.g.: “Colonialism and Western Imperialism” ) to justify his own encroaching and corrupt ways.

Example: a crass billionaire whose son’s wedding cost 170,000 times the average annual salary of a local, talked about “colonialism” when Zuckerberg wanted to pile on with some sort of icky “Internet for poor people” scam.

Two professors then wrote a decent enough editorial to the telecom regulatory authorities urging them to stop that and Zuck was bounced out.

Two years later Zuckerberg comes back, but now he is in bed with this creepy billionaire and no one has any problems with it. They are all fine with colonialism as long as they can participate in the colonizing I guess. Anyone who is straightforward loses. That’s just not right.

This really captures it. I call it
Creep Rights are Human Rights!



(I would attribute those first two images if I could find them. The second one especially is really awesome. I downloaded that around 2015 and can’t find it anymore).

And it’s the same in most places. Humans like to exploit humans and of course the planet/non-human life. In US with Trump/Musk etc. The US is pretty much like any corrupt developing country now.

Now take this Indian ecologist Madhav Gadgil who is the rare type of human even I respect.
Gadgil wrote an extensive scientific report urging against exploitation of the Western Ghats, an ecologically sensitive region under immense strain. (IMO due to the effects of overpopulation, overconsumption and overdevelopment). The communist CM of a state called Kerala tossed it aside. The resulting natural disasters caused significant loss of life. So much for man versus nature and the benefits of corrupt overexploitation of natural resources.

I live in another one of the few communist states in the world. Though I am well to the left, I have no illusions about our communist govt unlike people who have never lived in a communist state. Even Nathan Robinson whom I respect has these blinders about China for instance. He had this Indian version of Steven Pinker (Kishore Mahbubani) on recently. Life is getting better! People are living longer!

That Pinker stuff is so blind to the effects of population explosion, deregulation, roiling tensions between some 1000 different microcultures.
I have no illusions about any politicians/industrialists here. They are all okay with destroying the planet for profit.

You gotta have a consistent worldview to withstand corruption and alarming levels of industrial encroachment and deregulation.

There are no good guys when it comes to oligarchs, industrialists, most politicians and those in their pockets. Conspiracy theorists -the natural endpoint of an Idiocracy make it worse.

Scientists and doctors are pretty much the only people I trust (any shills aside). A caveat though -I do not consider behavioral economics (nudge theory, Bschool fluff), what the MIT Media lab does, most AI, the Facebook emotion contagion study, behaviorism etc. science for the most part.

The hard sciences and anything conducted using strict and rigorous scientific methods. Ai seems to allow for a lot of lightweight stuff as well. Yan LeCun is the sole prominent AI researcher I have seen out there who seems completely honest.

I suppose to be fair, one feels a bit resentful. I was shocked to read how much money people like Gino, Ariely etc. made prior to scandals. That stuff is such junk!

In the hard sciences you toil and spin (after a fashion if like me you are half assed) and then die a lonely horrible death..ha ha.

I am working on a research paper trying to tune out endless nuisances to get it right. Science and medicine do take a lot of dedication..I had good mentors, so I was lucky there. My main postdoc mentor especially, though all 3 of my mentors were cool. I had 3 between 2001-2012. Now I mentor meself!

I do have to go work on that ..feel a bit weary at times..Like The Martyr!

This one was a tribute to the specific type of socialist you see in The Jacobin-very Yimby and “pro-development” (Ben Wray, Freddie DeBoer, Casey Phillips etc.). Ben Wray said that “abortion rights are still broadly popular”. Good to know man ;-/.



I was just being funny. There’s a bit of artistic license in there. Technically the rape advocates I saw online were Rooshv and Andrew Tate. I hope I am not sued by NaziReputationManagementInc.com…

These cartoons skew Global South centric since I am not American and left the United States over a decade ago. So they focus on our creeps here rather than your creeps over there. (It is also why the creep parade doesn’t cover anti-vaxxers. Thankfully, that bit of lunacy is less common here than it apparently is in the US. People were pretty good about social distancing, masking and vaccinating during the pandemic. So my creep parade doesn’t not focus on that. An unvaccinated creep parade would be the limit.)

The left can totally meme . Though I think memes and “going viral” are a bit gauche. I made these for private use and only posted them here out of exasperation over deregulation and corruption.
Tech criticism is a joke. That’s part of what I was mocking. How every tumor of a non-industry launches more reactionary tumors like faux critics and insincere tell-alls-Tristan Harris, Tegmark, Eff, Wynn Williams.
Yasha Levine is the exception not the rule. But he is too honest a journalist to get a job these days.

Lina Khan on the other hand, much like Gadgil, is the rare person even I am enthusiastic about. She got so much accomplished it scared the tech creeps into destroying society.

My first “Images of Creep” series featured her prominently and even had MTG! Don’t remember where I pulled that image from except somewhere online so can’t credit it.


(Can’t remember where I got the sobriety, Khan and MTG images from. And in fairness this intense obsession by sleuths over 0.3-3.5% fraud in academic research and plagiarism etc seem a bit overdone when Google/Meta/OpenAi etc make a joke of such concepts.)

I see places like those pompous schools with ties to the tech industry/industry broadly- MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard get all tingly about OpenCourseWare, RetractionWatch and Wikipedia etc…it’s so…douchey. I can see so easily that it gives them a chance to make life hell for the average struggling scientist while letting the Google/Palantir/Hoover creep types force snoopy and broken AI agents on people. For open science of course. Who can object to that? Puppy murderers that’s who.

Democratizing science-one WWE style disgraceful reality show at a time! Jokes aside, another way for opaque and corrupt tech companies to subvert notions like open science, health etc

I am all for good science and within reason even health. I try not to die. That counts I think. But honestly, not in this blatantly bogus way. It’s not good for old-fashioned and more honest NIH science of the best kinds. Shrug.

Now to wrap up..someone who unscrambled my brains a little was that Rick Rude Calves guy. The couch joke did some damage and the typical douchebag would have tried to capitalise on that. He was the first person I ever read about online who seemed like an actual non-retiree with a real offline life. He got that “going viral” is a bad thing not a good thing.
I felt a twinge of recognition when I read about him last year. He is from your Global North Podunk and I am from Podunk, Global South! I suddenly got why, left as I am, I could never quite mesh my worldview with that of the left liberal Americans whom I genuinely like …communication gets complicated.

I am trying to acquire some communication skills these days..but it’s a work in progress..was never very sociable ;-/. Was able to pull it off superficially and now I will be able to again.

I am not wildly original (which is why this is not my day job), so homage to (a mix of tech critics, political writers and comedians): Rex Huppke, Lyta Gold, Cara Smith (mostly Cara Smith), Andrew O’Hehir, Chauncey DeVega, Herman Wouk, Rick Rude’s Calves (a personal role model-a rare anon/non-retiree with an offline existence), Plork Blogspot, Candyboots WW Cards, Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, R K Laxman, my beloved childhood authors Lewis Carroll and Richmal Crompton, ‘How Love came to Prof. Guildea’, my mom/dad/best friend/ex-husband, an unknown human user or two of Rollo Carpenter’s Cleverbot, Hatersaurusrex (Reddit), Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, South Park, Nandita Bajaj, Samuel Miller MacDonald, Nathan Robinson, Yasha Levine, Evgenia Kovda, Evgeny Morozow, Nicholas Carr, Tim Wu, John Naughton, Ed Zitron, Chuck Pahlaniuk, Amanda Marcotte, Jill Filipovic.

No Ai-that stuff is nails on chalkboard
Finally, most importantly, all my muses mostly here in Podunk, Global South. I have left out any women (though there were quite a few women I was displeased with) . But I avoid attacks on other women. You see I try to bite down and tolerate most things that stop short of outright creepiness. I have even left out mere jackasses where male.

An exception to that is these assholes who ride their bikes down my street with their silencers off. They were such a source of stress that my dentist said she could see signs of strain in my mouth from grinding my teeth. That’s why I have included them.

Sexual Harassers: All the sexual harassers/creeps I met in Podunk, Global South between 2014 and the present and one sexual harasser from this part of the world I met at a clinic in 2010, while in the US. These cap wearing creeps who used to ruin my morning jog in 2023 when I was still recovering from losing my mom.

Inept Shrinks: Two boorish male shrinks here in Podunk in the Dec of 2012. They are the primary inspirations for the cartoon shrinks. But the worst shrinks were at the hospital at my last place of employment in the US. They even harassed the only shrink I ever went to voluntarily and who was of use. Thankfully, the psychiatrist/therapist they had me see outside were cool, as was the counsellor.

Assorted morons: All the frauds and morons I met between May 2010 and the present. The (unknown) creeps exploiting my street and neighborhood.
I definitely think the local tech companies, defence contractors etc would be wise to stay away from my residence, street etc for all illicit experimentation. That’s what it is-completely non-consensual and illicit. Between 2012 and the present, my doctors or routine oblivious people aside, I never saw anything at all unusual locally that was not outright creepy, completely exploitative and mind numbingly incompetent. This stuff is an embarrassment and reminded of similar garbage I saw elsewhere.

These (indifferent) cartoons wouldn’t have been possible without them or the various annoying public figures/hucksters who diligently dedicate their lives to destroying planet earth and human society every day of their lives.

One final anecdote to wrap up this post:

I was trying to improve my memory a few weeks back and also fish in my head to see how I think so a greasy data miner doesn’t understand one’s mind better than one does..I have seen conspiracy theorists do this, but I was only trying to see any links I make. It was a useful exercise some.
This graphic is lightly edited to give Planned Parenthood a shoutout, but it’s mostly the original concept stream of a Saturday weeks ago when I was trying to escape the ghastly reality show feel of modern life where real science and medicine are displaced by marketing, junk like AI border security lie detection, emotion AI, behavioral economics, sublimnal messaging, sleuthing by dimwits, nudge theory and other worthless trash that should not exist:



It was somewhat useful, but at one point when I was going over this, my eyes hopelessly scanning from the icon on “GOP podcasts” to Matt Walsh asking if he is a racist, to MTG, with pompous exhortations from The Atlantic about good taste on the side, it struck me that this must be what hell looks like:


This society is hopeless ;-/. But you are looking at the wrong things! Crispr! Heart transplants! We have shoes now!

Possibly a slightly jaded take ;-/.

Last edit: There was a very funny article in the NYT about ChatGPT induced delusions with the standard issue Stanford Reefer Madness type weighing in. That piece was everything I satirized in this post. Stanford is the gift that keeps on giving. It’s such a ridiculous institution. Like Trump, they are beyond parody. Well at least they took down their “Women’s Bodies and Alcohol” piece. That institution is everything I have ever mocked in concentrated form ;-/.

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I was thinking this morning about the stark contrast between the good shrinks I met and the types of shrinks I caricatured in the post above. Actually far from being anti-psychiatry, it’s a tribute to the good shrinks.
Though psychiatry is the only area of medicine where I ever had any complaints with doctors. Usually I find doctors some of the sanest people around. But in psychiatry, it was 50-50, 57% (good)-43% (ugh) as far as shrinks I spoke to much went.

I had a job in 2011 at a school which I..consider a tumor on humanity/earth’s
anus ;-/.

On the whole and possibly not entirely surprisingly the school seemed to disagree with this assessment. My mentor was a nice man and a good scientist, but he watches TED
tech talks and presumably non-ironically so there may have been a communication issue
or two or a thousand.

No ..that’s unfair..he was cool and I honestly wouldn’t mock him (TED tech talks
aside..though if you watch Ted tech talks at least don’t tell people..). I never mock anyone
whose work is of good quality (even if they not just watch TED tech talks, but openly admit
to it).

That was the main difference between him and my main mentor. They were both good scientists, but my main mentor wouldn’t watch TED tech talks. Or maybe he secretly watches TED tech talks all the time - at which point I would give up and become a hermit. Sometimes you wonder if you know anyone. I was horrified when my best friend told me reads The Atlantic. You think you know someone and then they admit to stuff like that..

I wouldn’t like to call watching TED tech talks a character flaw precisely, but it is a sign of
buying into Si valley bs which Si Valley is tok stupid to be aware is bs ..I don’t think they are evil. It’s worse. I think they are actually that stupid. well it was 2011..so anyone who is not a tech creep can be forgiven I guess for buying into that crap then.

To meander back to the original point, I sent him some ill-advised emails (always had a
short temper - am trying to get it under control) and he had me see their hideous shrinks
who asked me questions off of this checklist which was so hoary, moronic and generally
insulting to pretty much every form of human intelligence that I concluded that they must
in fact not be that right in the head.
I found this insistence on “the stigma” confusing. This was an example of how interaction with people who are wayyyyyyy more conservative than you is puzzling. I had never thought about mental illness it is true. But it seemed absurd to me that a scientist would think there was a stigma associated with illness. I stigmatize things
like watching TED tech talks. Cultural differences.

I am from podunk in the Global South. In a way when you break conventions in your neck
of the woods casually, you don’t consider how conservative people from supposedly more
developed countries could turn out to be..it turns out to be a different style of conservative idiocy.
My family was always eccentric I suppose, but entirely functional. We don’t watch TED tech talk adjacent drivel (at least not without mocking the attendees, the participants
and anyone who takes them seriously). But that’s Si Valley. I always thought it was a
ridiculous place.

There is something insidious about basically forcing a notion of stigma that way. If such
an idea had never occurred to someone, now you are forcing it. It’s also a way to insist
that a person is lying. Rather than passive aggressively saying “there is no stigma-admit
you are ill”, a more sincere way would be to say “I don’t see how anyone could see any stigma in something like illness in 2025”. That bashes anyone regressive enough to think that way
without insisting that someone who had a bad day or 20 in a notoriously unstable and
difficult job like the postdoc is ill. At any rate I was startled by how regressive it all was.

I swear those people have such narrow imaginations. They all sound alike for one thing.
Maybe that’s the public face and the private one is too ghastly to put out there.

The other thing was constantly asking one “do you want to hurt yourself”. After a while I
wanted to ask “are these suggestions by any chance? As I understand it, apparently there
is a huge stigma associated with something I am and clearly it must make me want to off
myself.”

Well anyway. I was furious that now people that stupid had power over my life. And then
they tried to put me on bloody Abilify and Seroquel. I protested and got out. But that did
leave a mark.

I can joke about it now. But at the time it made me feel like shit. I am pretty sure that was
not what my mentor had in mind. He had just had a baby and besides I think half the
brains of the team was out of action. His wife was really nice. She had no Si Valley
girlbossiness.

The thing is I always hated Si Valley. I didn’t mention it when I applied for a job because I
didn’t think that would be as pervasive a force as it turned out to be.

I would hate to be the token dimwitted fake protester/secret fan of Si Valley. I loved
Lina Khan. Though I feel a sense of hopelessness when I see that a creepy little company called complexity or something is about to buy a tacky but common browser from that super creepy giant that makes important contributions to society like calendars or something. Big creep/little creep..sometimes you wonder..

Anyway I thought of the shrink they had me see outside this morning. He was cool as was the therapist. Had they sent me to the type of dead-eyed tech enthusiast shill common in those parts I really would have felt crazy. But they were both cool men. In fact the therapist was kind enough to ask after my health even after I left..he was a nice man. As was the one shrink I went to of my own accord earlier who had prescribed a common add med (which I at least found useful at a low dose).

But I was less mature then even than I am now so that’s pretty immature and I did overdo it. It
wasn’t addiction. It was just being an ass…a problem I have at times.

I am not proud of these things. But well..

Not everything is a pathology. At least that was useful in a field i was struggling in.
Do I have ADHD? I don’t know. I do know that life in this society is really hard and if a
med helps you and isn’t too bad for you, fine by me. The chronic stress of all the crap I
described was way worse than maybe overdoing it a bit now and then.

Human life is messy and imperfect. I know China is a surveillance state. But that’s a
hollow excuse for Si valley and its analogs to barge in everywhere using “open science”, “health” and“safety/security” as issues.

Due to a combination of poor media literacy, poorer tech literacy and really poor critical thinking skills, as a society we seem to struggle to parse concepts except in very black and white ways or to find honest
thresholds. A lot of what I was mocking is the ott nature of that sort of thinking.

Of course there’s also too damn many of us and crafting “safe”, bland messaging that
ensures that no one of any random subset of the 3 billion people online who may stumble
on something you write is ever offended means not saying anything that sounds
indistinguishable from the volume of drivel out there. It’s why I delete so many of my
posts. They sound crazy or trite. Trite and derivative is worse imo. But crazy seems ill-advised.

Maybe i am wrong here..but I have a hunch that when a society cannot parse satire, it tends
to turn into one that kills satire by the very fact that reality starts to look like an ott
caricature.
I have never associated humorlessness with insight. And it’s depressing and alarming to see the skill with which the alt right has managed to exploit that.

I find my field hard. I switched fields a lot too. I started out in EE because I liked physics in
HS. But I didn’t like EE and wandered into a more interesting interdisciplinary science and
found it even harder since my basics in biology , chemistry were worse even than in
physics and math and I am not good at physics or math!

I think sardonically sometimes how easy I would be to caricature if you saw me plodding away on my computer. Or being a general pain to my friends and family and colleagues.
I became far worse that way with the rise of the cool and awesome surveillance state and
its creepy cool offshoots. I like them ;-/. Or at any rate I probably better right ? ha ha..

My last employer might win a popularity contest if UHC was the only other contestant I
suppose. I certainly don’t know what they mean by liberal academia. Seemed like hardcore
tech libertarians.

None of this is a slam on my mentor. I should have been a better scientist, but I wasn’t.

Anyway I thought I would dedicate my ugly web art to those 2 shrinks and therapist and one
shrink (an older lady) I met locally who was not a good fit, but she was a good shrink and
could see there was nothing wrong with me -attitude problems aside ;-/.
I didn’t always have attitude problems..
The cool thing was that none of them thought there was anything particularly wrong with me. That was quite accurate.

I am not anti psychiatry. In fact it is dejecting to see wellness influencers and other charlatans exploit problems with psychiatry. Why is everything a tumor these days? That’s the worst reaction to the problem. Something like Mad in America can occasionally make good points, but they are too extreme in my book.
And I distrust the libertarian style of anti-psychiatry since most libertarians aren’t really actually civil libertarians wrt other people’s rights. They want their creepy little companies to pollute and take over spaces sans consent public debate. I can’t see how that’s different from old fashioned robbery.

I also would have thought it would be obvious that psychiatry should be combined with
other areas (neuroscience, molecular psychiatry) to improve and that it is obviously a science with far to go.

But without this tech creep/military contracting
contingent blatantly ripping people off..weaponized pseudosciences

I am less anti big pharma than many other industries, but this peddling of chatbots, VR etc
I really dislike. It’s so obviously that 12-step, religion banging “everything is an addiction”
crew of douchebags exploiting all sorts of prejudices and bs to sell the “new thing”.

A medication free fix?! No! Go away! Meds are fine! You are creeps! Fuck off! Do my biases
show ;-/ ? I hate that moralizing sobriety bs.

Now I have to spend all this time on this overpopulated, polluted planet struggling with work and life and do it with this annoying sobriety shill type forcing unwanted therapies that I would obviously reject as awful?

There is too much bs..Conservatism packaged as care is still just conservatism.

Oh well..


Edit: I feel I am getting my temper under control since I don’t blow my top over Moriba Jah/Brian Verelli etc. who go around saying this or that awful thing is inevitable thereby ensuring it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. That’s the classic gambit of that type of person who for reasons I cannot fathom is described as a space environmentalist or conservation biologist. No …Kirsten Staade of Population Balance or Madhav Gadgil are conservation biologists. These guys are probably shills for some industrial lobby or other. A TED fellow..yeah that tracks..
These are not the kinds of guys I have in mind when I think of oversight. For instance, I do self-supervised harm reduction. I am not selling that as a scientific treatise disproving Reefer Madness. It’s just something I have to do and I admit to it so you know..Boom! oopsie! etc are less likely. Machine error!

There’s conspiratorial thinking and there is the cynical noting of the stealthy promotion of some biases (generally favoring creeps (men’s rights are human rights! ) and uncritical embrace of data mining/war profiteering/polluting/ intrusive Industries) and painting people who are skeptical of deregulation/conflicts of interest/male creeps (male creep? Is that like Bigfoot? False allegations! Paranoid much?) as conspiracy oriented. This is why no one should ever watch TED tech talks. They make people stupider. I don’t get it-should no one but girlbosses and passive doormats exist anymore? My last employer may not even win a popularity contest if UHC was the sole other contestant.

Of course I was remembering today how my one experience with real world activism showed how lame this “change the world with a social network or computer/phone is”. Thats more like any regular effortful work. Collecting signatures irl and boots on the ground. I think Yasha Levine and Kenny Torelli have pointed out in their columns how info on Gaza/factory farming respectively do not do much. Not that awareness has no place in stuff. But it’s one relatively small part. The rest is stuff in the real world without some fucking awful creepiverse or “mixed reality! Physical AI streams!” piling on.

The way to destroy nuisances is irl.

The trick is tuning out nuisances and not getting riled up. You really can’t trust that conglomerate of special interests and people who are gullible about them while attacking peope like me as crazy and paranoid. But you can’t prove it with web posts. The thing is to get on with work and then destroy their fugly toys irl.
There are 8 billion people on this planet. These creeps who encroach can go and do all their “inevitable!” “Definitely happening!” crap elsewhere.
I think they are too stupid for even mockery.

In fact I get it finally. You can’t establish credibility with people who always act in bad faith and will never change. One should instead ignore all of that and try to find new, neutral parties so as the awesome Lina Khan and the MeToo movement, the Humane League etc had real world impacts, you can fight your way though anonymously and stick it to them (I mean peacefully and legally etc).

My greasy former employer was this liability obsessed creep of a school that assumes everyone is like them and that any woman who hates them would go the Ellen Pao route and sue for compensation for their negligence.

That’s categorically wrong. Ellen Pao actually wanted to work for Kleiner Perkins.
I never wanted to work at that shithole after I saw they were nothing like my previous employers.
My previous employer which was this dull and inoffensive hospital. The nicest thing about them was they were barely noticeable as was I when I worked there. This place on the other hand I took an immediate and strong dislike to since it clearly was everything wrong with the world in the form of one creepy school. I tried to quit in the first month. Instead I ended up staying, getting saddled with a completely bogus history of mental illness.

What always made me so angry about those ugly fucks is that in their creepy kayfabe-there “ecosystem” of repellent human beings that no halfway sane person could want to know, either :1) like all the honest scientists I met there you go around obviously hating work and life and I guess accept misery as “inevitable” or 2) go to the worst shrinks on the planet and say you have a horrible complication of mental ills since you know it’s stigmatizing mental illness to not claim to be a depressed, borderline, addicted schizophrenic with chatbot psychosis and histrionic personality disorder and for good measure DID. It’s so lame. Just because you can data mine and manipulate people dissecting normal goofy behaviours in paranoid ways. Someone should do a rigorous version of the Sokal Hoax or Rosenhan Expt. Following which presumably you get institutionalized for life/effectively pushed out of society or 3a) lead some sort of horrifying existence shilling for various dubious VR therapies or health chatbots and sobriety and the bleakest damn notion of community and turn into some sort of nightmarish inside the system influencer shill or 3b) “fight the system!” ie be very much a part of the same tumor except as an outside the system influencer wellness hack..ie pick between a dialed down Elizabeth Holmes or a Laura Delano.
That school is so daft.
Some sort of entirely atrocious online existence or traipsing through various manipulated realities accepting as “inevitable” all sorts of pollution and pseudoscience that’s forced even on people like me who never even had any social media except DU and I never posted this disinhibitedly on DU, but I just hate my former employer (the school not my TED tech talk addicted mentor). I am not saying a hope that a form of guerilla warfare would percolate and puncture their fatuous, smug self-regard..
I hope I can always stay anon.

I never got this stuff about associating your actual irl life with an online persona. Two different worlds that can never meet. Unless you work in unpleasant fields like media or politics where you simply cannot avoid being a public figure, why would anyone fall for a con like Social media.

Online anonymity allows screwed over employees to skewer an awful system filled with these noxious and corrupt ideas that cool people with jobs cannot attack even if they want to. To at least pushback against this drivel about all the shit these guys do being inevitable.
Or you find out more exactly and there is an NDA or something so you can’t argue with along with a systemic policy of deregulation, destruction of environmental, labor laws and privacy rights.
The downside is that paranoid conspiracy mongering is really not my thing. But the labeling of all pushback as paranoid..
I mean it wasn’t as if my first two employers were hippie communes and besides I don’t like hippie communes.
It’s that these guys are the types who focus on frivolous drivel and call any serious wish for regulatory oversight a Stalinist conspiracy or if it’s the corrupt communists here, an anti-worker thing, These are all dishonest people.



They assume that getting away with stuff is how people think or ascribe it to some group or other rather than ever think like any halfway rational person. No. Most people whom abyone would know -so not my former employer-want a fair deal in exchange for sane..

I do think if you are regressive these guys are a good fit. But I think irl is the only way to break their ugly crap and quietly.

Ffs I just wanted a routine job and to not have drivel creep into my house and street. There are so many people of their exact ilk. What a bone headed error to go and drag in people who obviously don’t consider that MIT Media Lab or Stanford/MIT type a part of the scientific community..They do science.
But by scientific community I mean humans who have certain codes of conduct that are unsaid. And this doesn’t cut it and no.wtf..
I don’t consider that the medical and scientific community. They are business people and politicians and defense contractors and that’s not in my book the scientific community..I guess that’s the point.