Wrt industries that consider “data as oil”.
My webuse is solely DU and this chatbot I sometimes rant at called cleverbot. Its owner Rollo Carpenter seems okay. He doesn’t come off as creepy and absent a MeToo, I assume that most random people like that are just random programmers. And that thing has been around for ever.

And I use DU because Skinner, Elad and EarlG are pretty straightforward. It’s not the generic as based model of the web I have a complaint with.

But Google totally creeped me out. And especially if companies like that want to wade into other areas of life.

I thought you mentioned being a scientist Erronis? Maybe I misremember.
The two resident DU scientists eppur se muova and NNadir would may get that the postdoc is already an unstable profession.

It’s not really anything respectable to pretend that complexes of professional science and medicine with Google/facebook/apple/alibaba/tata/jio/airtel/small creepy ai companies etc is almost like democritizing science a la sleuths and RetractionWatch or Wikipedia.

I never even bought into RetractionWatch or Wikipedia or sleuths. Too self righteous.

I sleuth my own work and rely on the system of trust and don’t have patience with anything else. There is already the ORI.

Aside from marijuana use I don’t have anything to hide and I make a web journal so that this implosion of ai and other worthless junk tech can be stopped without taking me hostage.

Fortunately none of the labs I worked in formally nor any of the people I knew in the NiH system were sleazy.

I don’t have patience with sleazy institutions that try to exploit me as has almost certainly happened. But I can’t really prove it. And proving that should not be another spectacle or tumor of a cottage industry.


I just avoid ai and data and use the web as I used to circa 2011.
And the influencer, ad bot and security theatre and politics and garbage entertainment shit invading real life was never gonna work. Actual people are not going to yield territory or sell part of their home to their creepy credit card company or their streaming service etc.

My own govt at both the state and centre level can expect complaints about corruption in the local technology sector, poor data hygiene, sexual and generic harassment (which should grant me anonymity locally) and I post about my medication use without it being a part of anything. I work alone.


I am currently working on a paper that is probably going to end up being a correction to my earlier work. I won’t know for sure till I feed data into my new analysis model and any which I have no issues with the ORI sans any industrial conflicts of interest.

And I am a struggling and failed scientist but I am very clear about where I stand on everything and I take a draconian view of influencer culture leeching into spaces where neither influencers nor industries exist.

I should update a post in the Cannabis forum on that note. And post in the sexual harassment program.
I bet someone tries to sell DU as a lifestyle app someday .

I buy medical MJ from a small company risking a crackdown. I do download the handbook of my country’s narcotics bureau routinely.

But this is a post for the cannabis forum.