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Related: About this forumTodays my 15th DU Anniversary
I went to update my star membership then realized that SOMEONE GIFTED ME ONE!
Thank you kind, anonymous friend!
I love you all.
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(13,003 posts)Thank you
tblue37
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(13,003 posts)So at 15, I'm now a high school freshman. You're 20 so you get to buy booze next year!
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(13,003 posts)You've always been so kind. It's DUers like you who keep me here.
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(13,003 posts)Thank you!
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(13,003 posts)jfz9580m
(16,504 posts)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 its 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).
Its really stupid (inelegant real time disentangling of the human in the machine from the machine or some such thing. Thankfully wont be a thing..scary..)
. Some rubbish from profile ..was meant to scare creeps away or something..dont 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 wont 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
Its 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 Naughtons 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 Zuckerbergs 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. Id be in The 12 monkeys army in a fictional world against those guys. Except its 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.