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jfz9580m

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12. Thanks EarlG

Mon Jan 5, 2026, 10:35 AM

Jan 5

I decided just now to kill the “bot” in my own head (after reading a post on Yasha Levine’s Substack).

I shall control and then kill the “bot” (by which I mean the ADD riddled loss of behavioral control which results in a futile chase of where stray thoughts lead causing detriment to my real work in routine science) by starving it of attention and food. That sounds rather bot like itself.. whatever..Gah. I hate bots.

I shall only use the internet on Saturdays and Sundays I have decided. I would rather be offline entirely. But I have to engage with society some and everyone is online and I don’t enjoy it but to extricate myself from the net, I have to use the net. It is all making me very whiny ;-/. But oh well.
I really hate bots.

It is kind of tragicomic that you are dealing with bots and ai online and I with ones affecting my unruly mind/overly taxed free will. It is somewhat relevant, since I blame poor education systems and these junk fueled economies which I suspect will churn out many more students and adults like me in coming years. And a low tech, tech and exploitative industry free personal fix as a proof of concept.

I will delete this post as it sounds like a bot wrote it. But I will take the actions in it. That should kill the bot in my own head. After i see how those things make associations, I feel more distaste than ever for ai. A human brain can identify that as trash since no one would invest in an employee whose thoughts are like that - in real science anyway. But these rubbish internet companies use this lame rot to build empires. It is such fucking charlatnry (that sounds more like me, except that is fracked out since that stuff you think and don’t say).
These things are parasites that copy your lamest behaviors with lame associations and then they turn you into a self cannibalizing paransite who destroys their own resources now mimicking these horrible things. This is junk tech and the fixes thrown at it are insults to human intelligence.

Oh well..;-/. We are all be predated on by these useless things. I shall delete this post, but going forward just as an exercise I shall post botty posts before later deleting them. I haven’t thought about how to turn myself back into a normal human rather than a solitary person who turned into a person who sounds like a horrible bot.

The profanity was all mine ;-/. It does relieve ones feelings. Posting it is I think what corporate shrinky types would huffily cite as “poor impulse control”. I will tell them where they can stick their impulse control.

Sorry ;-/. Life eh…

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PSA: If you do not like seeing YouTube video threads on DU's Latest page, do this [View all] EarlG Jan 5 OP

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