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jfz9580m

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21. Today I make a clean break with some hideous drivek
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 01:42 AM
2 hrs ago

Profile cleaning for a final data dump. Sorry berniesandersmittens. Pay no heed - harmless resident lunatic. Keeping for me own records.

(Definitely owe Yasha Levine. Or would have miserably stayed online to spite Jonathan Haidt by proving it’s not addiction, but spite that keeps people using the internet miserably. Yeah I should fix that..kept drinking alcohol miserably from 2018-2024 after having quit on my own in 2017. After coming across some awful Alcoholics Anonymous messaging got annoyed enough to take up drinking again…also a bad move..tchah..reflexive contrarianism - v bad).

It’s really stupid (inelegant real time disentangling of the human in the machine from the machine or some such thing. Thankfully won’t be a thing..scary..)

. Some rubbish from profile ..was meant to scare creeps away or something..don’t think it worked as planned, but has worked overall.

Real name: Not an American, just an Environmentalist

Home town/state/region: Podunk

Home country: Overpopulation Central

Current location: Global South

NIMBY Catlady GenX ;-/. Lina Khan/MeToo Supporter. Creeps and creepy industries will be destroyed.

https://metoomvmt.org/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/07/jeffrey-epstein-mit-funding-tech-intellectuals?via=indexdotco

https://www.salon.com/2025/11/30/the-left-was-right-about-larry-summers-all-along-democrats-didnt-listen/

https://dn720004.ca.archive.org/0/items/scum-manifesto/Scum%20Manifesto_text.pdf

Disclaimer: Complaints are always on the table with anyone who oversteps/overstepped any damn line in any bloody context just so we are always clear..best to be blunt these days..creeps will be destroyed. Not funny or jokey..do not be a creep. Women have enough problems and this creepily data mined, IRB/Informed Consent Free environment won’t last. Data was not oil, and if it was climate change is here. Creeps will be destroyed without mercy. Fools and knaves shall not be suffered any further.

Tastefully curated and elegantly, minimalistic leftist thought, that bit of unpleasantness aside:

https://www.nefariousrussians.com/

https://ketcham99.substack.com/archive?sort=new

https://indivisible.org/

https://www.currentaffairs.org

https://www.salon.com/writer/chauncey_de_vega

https://alexskopic.com/

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-becker/more-everything-forever/9781541619593/?lens=basic-books

http://www.christopherketcham.com/

https://www.truthdig.com/author/christopher_ketcham/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/07/26/the-unbearable-anthropocentrism-of-our-world-in-data/

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/there-are-many-threats-to-humanity.-a-low-birth-rate-isnt-one-of-them

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/18/barn-8-by-deb-olin-unferth-review-the-great-chicken-heist


https://www.claytondalton.com/

https://www.populationbalance.org/

https://populationmatters.org/

http://chrispackham.co.uk/

https://alor.org/Storage/Library/PDF/Limits-to-Growth.pdf

https://civilrightscorps.org/team/alec-karakatsanis/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/06/09/big-green-meltdown-over-planet-of-the-humans/

https://planetofthehumans.com/

https://marinabolotnikova.com/

https://debolinunferth.com/books/barn-8/

https://thehumaneleague.org/

https://www.ciwf.org/

https://www.dair-institute.org/

https://cowswithguns.com/

https://thetyee.ca/Bios/Andrew_Nikiforuk/

https://www.drhern.com/

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/

https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/rrr-campaigns

https://norml.org/

https://now.org/

http://worldwithoutus.com/about_author.html

https://freelanceastrophysicist.com/

https://www.nathanjrobinson.com/

Mental Health:

https://ia904508.us.archive.org/21/items/joost-meerloo-rape-of-the-mind/%20Joost%20Meerloo_Rape%20of%20the%20mind.pdf

https://theconversation.com/how-neoliberalism-is-damaging-your-mental-health-90565

Imagination & Art!:
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/sep/26/fake-street-art-sucks-perrier-replaces-williamsburgs-nelson-mandela-mural-with-huge-advertisement

https://kovda.org/

Theft by the wildly unoriginal - stealing gags from this chick …It’s errr ummm content curation for the attention economy! No? Just theft from actually funny, anonymous persons online?

https://plork.blogspot.com/2005/09/i-am-become-famous.html?m=1

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2020/08/the-dead-world-of-blippi

Obligatory Proof of Sanity:

https://www.audubon.org/news/no-5g-radio-waves-do-not-kill-birds

Tech Journalism, Regulation and AI!:

http://yashalevine.com/

https://thebaffler.com/salvos/all-effd-up-levine

https://rigint.blogspot.com/2011/09/we-are-monsters-weve-been-waiting-for.html?m=1

https://www.roughtype.com/?p=8325

https://www.wheresyoured.at/

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/

Fair and balanced:

https://chuckpalahniuk.substack.com/p/docotrs-reorders

https://unherd.com/2025/02/the-left-wont-let-go-of-woke/

Found via John Naughton’s Memex. Attribution!:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

https://www.thedriftmag.com/what-was-the-ted-talk/

Dystopian Workplaces/Workplace gameification:

https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/public_integrity/77/

(Creepily cheerful piece -very on brand for NYT)

https://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/17/data-crunching-is-coming-to-help-your-boss-manage-your-time.html

Music uncorrupted by Yimbys, Moonvertising and other anthropogenic nuisances| Noise & Light Pollution Free Zone:

https://xeno-canto.org/

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13290

https://birdnet.cornell.edu/

Misc/internet:

https://www.cleverbot.com/

https://www.theawl.com/2015/09/the-darkness-before-the-right/

https://www.noemamag.com/are-we-accidentally-building-a-planetary-brain/

https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/theory-psychology-justified-torture

https://intranet.royalholloway.ac.uk/english/documents/pdf/centrevictorianstudies/guildeaetext.pdf

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/let-their-words-do-the-talking/201712/looped-linear-thinking

https://www.columbia.edu/~jjl2217/The_Catbird_Seat_Annotated.pdf

(hat tip to LMSP. Data dump for memory. News sources gathered between: Sept 5, 2011-Dec 20, 2025)

Back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Occasional data dumps for personal memory (not inane internet dumps) aside, revert to well-intentioned, mediocre, dour taciturnity sans further inane metafictive explanations though (my brand!!!) Frack, frack, frack.. yeeesh. Cant a person ever shut up?

Even if Pulp Fiction level comfortable silence with a series of sleazy, tacky and creepy meninist data mining operations is hard. Just trying to indicate that though not paranoid, not one of Zuckerberg’s “suckers” nor that human grace (tolerance of truly harmless human folly -petty vanities, petty pride etc sans any creepiness or sleaziness) is the same thing as tolerance of creepy men or sleazy people or being a naive fool nor someone who just goes along with foul crap.

Had epiphany about my former employer finally. I’d be in “The 12 monkeys army” in a fictional world against those guys. Except it’s not a fictional world and how would it not destroy imagination (a key part of human thought) and genuine pragmatism
day to day, to be taken by the very types of people who however superficially lame and conventional you or they are, you think represent everything destroying reality with gameification and pollution/warping and perversion of every facet of human thought by forced engagement with an irredeemable institution that sucks.

My former employer is a douchebag . That Upton Sinclair quote applies as well. No point in studying and analyzing these things from within. Just becomes part of the same commodified Blob. A tumor. Probably used by underground gambling dens at the very least if no other form of commodification is possible. But if you manipulate the outcome of events that can be used for clock setting by good scientists with the kinds of genuinely corrupt criminal manipulations I saw in some cases (that creepy transactional right wing rot) that should be considered ..

We need new rules about messing with reality involving people who do not play with creeps and fascists and industries of self commodification. But destroying even hints of kayfabe and histrionics, though retaining the art of having a sense of humor about hating and destroying creep built structures without rampaging into undisturbed life is important.

Have never been mentally ill but the balance of cryptic and clear here without either being annoying is hard for even a human.

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