Liberal YouTubers

I remember that. I deleted a lot of my old DU posts because I wasn’t sure exactly how fascist adjacent the trump admin was gonna be.

Like I still don’t want people I knew irl in the US to be impacted by my web activities. But because locally for me these really corrupt industries have been such a creepy nuisance invading all these areas of life, work and health that I am ready to file a complaint and sadly using DU (as my sole web presence) to make it clear to tech companies and individual techies and random creeps etc that

I think when Toronto shut down Sidewalks Lab because it’s as creepy as Saudi Arabia’s virtual city Noom, what all the creepy people in these cottage industries took away was “go via the backdoor”.

Even the digital id in my country was set up by this super creepy guy Alex Pentland.

I wasn’t ever web savvy or unsavvy I guess. But I use all tech in its most straightforward sense.

Like I get the model of the web in straightforward ways but it has been leeching into my life in such clueless ways that a complaint was inevitable in my country.

I can believe Mirt is the friendliest place . Well you can count on me to be a foot soldier of the right things any which way in my role ;-/.

I feel like Mirt for my neighborhood against these parasitic industries that are hoping that I am the rare anti and that people who get nothing out of these encroaching technologies and creepy entertainment/data mining or other junk can exploit this place.
Well they picked the wrong neighborhood.

It’s hard to explain Rhiannon.. but Noom and Sidewalks Lab is the closest. When I read stuff like this (on the one hand it explains some stuff but on the other it’s like “oh all this has already happened and you are just this nobody with no say”. Yeah that’s not how reality works):
https://aeon.co/essays/the-sovereign-individual-and-the-paradox-of-the-digital-age


It’s not about authenticating oneself. Tech savvy should mean getting that “Joan is awful” is part of the content machine/ things don’t move that fast. People will demand easy explanations without a cottage industry of bogus “classes”.

You are retired I remember. I am not and it angers me that my job and life and resources are exploited endlessly.

During the pandemic I was not only for the vaccine but also for a ban on wet markets and disgusted by “cultural” arguments etc.
Similarly the real solution to ransomware is not forcing people into rando programs to sober up etc but to ban use of data in ways that exploit people and where that happened complaints are inevitable/.ooo inevitable/


Heh..lol…sorry Rhiannon. I don’t make much sense these days unless you remember that I am battling tech as a rando who is not a technophobe or crazy but just hates being ripped off using one’s own human insecurities. Inside the system ransomware is worse than outside.

But DU has been a real source of comfort.

It’s hard to explain this to people who make their living off the web without violating the rights or privacy of peope like me. Because people tend to get confused if they just see an indignant person rambling on about something.


I guess what I am saying is I saw the start of the worldview in full force in the US with the federal govt gone and more and more deregulation and it worries me but not enough to forget what democracy, women’s rights etc mean let alone simpler ethical standards.