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New comment by webdoodle in "Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI"

webdoodle — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:17:14 +0000

As the author suspects: "That makes unionizing or anything like that just kind of impossible. "

It's preemptive union busting.

New comment by webdoodle in "The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldn't Rent Your Megaphone from Zuck"

webdoodle — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:29:15 +0000

I organized a peaceful protest in Sun Valley Idaho in 2021 on Reddit, and within 10 days my account was suspended, all my 15 years of posts and comments deleted. This was done in parallel with an operation conducted by an army of psyop bots that would try to scare people about it, claiming I was a terrorist, crazy, etc.

I was surveilled and harassed by the FBI during this time as well.

I've put some of this online on substack

https://webdoodle.substack.com

New comment by webdoodle in "How Quickly Can the DoD Rebuild and Recast the Munitions Industrial Base?"

webdoodle — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:52:38 +0000

Most military facilities become so polluted they can't be used for anything else safely after.

New comment by webdoodle in "A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't"

webdoodle — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:39:11 +0000

Is this strictly humor, or is there practical knowledge here? Honestly can't tell.

New comment by webdoodle in "Borland Turbo Basic"

webdoodle — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:21:04 +0000

They used Turbo Basic in Dbase 3 & 4 as well. It was so useful that Foxpro built a migration tool to port your dbase databases and code to Foxpro. Some of the first floppies I carried with me everywhere were my Dbase databases and basic programs.

New comment by webdoodle in "Spymarks, not Watermarks"

webdoodle — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:14:03 +0000

I ditched my smartphone nearly 7 years ago now. I quit online gaming before that. I described it like this to the head of AI for the state of Montana: "I'm airgapping myself against how this technology will be abused."

New comment by webdoodle in "Teleoperated Humans"

webdoodle — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:08:30 +0000

The wiki describing the US in this story reminds me of the opening scenes to Soylet Green.

New comment by webdoodle in "Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger"

webdoodle — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:40:49 +0000

Stop Operation Mockingbird

New comment by webdoodle in "US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them"

webdoodle — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:39:38 +0000

Yep, this doesn't feel organic at all. Meta must be pretty desperate if they are going to go against the blue to sell spyglasses.

New comment by webdoodle in "New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal"

webdoodle — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:09:53 +0000

Citizen's United was the nail in the coffin for honest journalism, because it sold out to those with the largest wallets. If you truly want truth in journalism support independent journalists financially, and with your attention. Ignore corporate media.

New comment by webdoodle in "Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine"

webdoodle — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:23:12 +0000

Ironically most of the people reading this are doing so on an always connected phone with a fused battery, that they can't trust, because they don't control it. It also has significantly more capabilities that a flock camera, and they likely pay for it too.

New comment by webdoodle in "Flock Safety's controversial CEO just got a taste of his own medicine"

webdoodle — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:21:50 +0000

Don't listen to these hecklers, you have every right to your privacy, and should demand it. Anonymity is paramount if people want to be able to talk without repercussions. Gaslighting, heckling and other forms of harassment are to convince you to self censor. Don't take the bait. Ignore them.

New comment by webdoodle in "11,000-year-old sculpture of man riding a leopard found in Turkey"

webdoodle — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:51:05 +0000

This is most likely the explanation. Apex predators will often try to kill the seed of an enemy by tearing off their junk. It's much less dangerous than trying to kill the enemy, and it serves the same purpose of ending their genetic line.

New comment by webdoodle in "Radiation link in flight attendant's breast cancer, French court finds"

webdoodle — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:47:11 +0000

Speculation: Most forms of breast cancer occur because of bad protein production from a specific gene. My guess is this flight attendants breast cancer isn't from any known breast cancer gene.

New comment by webdoodle in "Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future"

webdoodle — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:59:31 +0000

Is it really cheating if the system is vulnerable? What about things like a filibuster or slow walking an order?

New comment by webdoodle in "My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes"

webdoodle — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:33:17 +0000

This list is incomplete without Eric Hoffer's True Believer, which is probably a reference/source for all of these other books. It's basically how to build a fanatic, a cult and a mass movement. It's also required reading for Terrorism studies classes, and CIA personnel, the latter, using it to conduct regime change in banarepublics and oil bearing nations.

Of course now it's used on everyone who uses smartphones and social media.

It's a Brave New World, and you're carrying the main tool to mind control you in your pocket. Bonus, you probably pay for it too!

New comment by webdoodle in "CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s"

webdoodle — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:23 +0000

> many tech leaders cite patriotism and national renewal in their quest for military contracts, but mutual self-interest is what drove cooperation in the past

How can they be patriots when they do so at the expense of the 1st, 4th, 5th and 10th amendments to the U.S. Constitution? That's not patriotism, it's terrorism.

New comment by webdoodle in "A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare"

webdoodle — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:25:12 +0000

2 is 1, one is none. I hope they do regular backups too.

New comment by webdoodle in "A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare"

webdoodle — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:23:36 +0000

FlightAware (ADSB) and MarineTraffic (AIS) systems hide data upon request too. Which is why it's important that citizen scientists run there own receivers.

New comment by webdoodle in "AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot"

webdoodle — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:54:28 +0000

AI the ultimate yes man, who can't be held accountable, can't be prosecuted, and can't be shutdown.