Bandcamp has banned all music made with AI

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Jan 22, 2026:
I am intuiting a rough, no frills ;-/ protocol for how to proceed as a former academic scientist/a citizen scientist wrt reality monitoring, but ..reality. This is reality, not a simulation of reality and there are no experts I trust I can consult right now. And it would be an insult to reality to say that reality isn’t better for me than a forced monoculture of lousy ideas with heavy influence by the private sector and private sector friendly forces.

I don’t come into your labs or hospitals demanding jobs or treatment. You can’t come into my home, adding insult to injury wrt education, mental health etc.

It is cool..Google marketshare! Yes! Tech yay! Computers!!!! Sorry..so lame..;-/. I cut my teeth an EECS dept so I don’t see anything impressive here, but I do see a lot of very questionable decision making that I will from now on constantly have to thwart.

Please enjoy the world the cs creeps build where you want them. This is my home. No billionaire or king is anything but an intruder as is the everyperson mob..seriously ;-/.

I really don’t want the right to hijack a point about telemarketers and advertising and things most people hate, thanks to my side’s tendency to attack its own or just be lame. Yeah I have some privilege and I am not the one using it to kick out all arguments except for the most polarizing or least relatable ones. That too regardless of whether they apply in a specific situation or not. It makes it hard for people to tell when it is truly an issue. Godwin’s Law and every other pointless except online or within cs meme or joke or idea, when it is just this one field.

This is not how i wanted my life to turn out, but if I have to do this, I resist both the overarching monoculture of the net along with superficial customised quirkiness, at a time when we have the legit right to without histrionics, throw away the scripts of the past (they got us to this point..How good could they have been? Yasha Levine’s wife Evgenia is another of the few people out there I would trust to decode reality for me far from my usual haunts).

Everyone is too lame and polite in science and the admins are an unambiguous “they”. There is no need for histrionics or “tough love”.

Its as simple as this: the private sector seems to get away with theft, deregulation, no consequences etc. without in any way contributing anywhere near their fair share. This isn’t Kids Nation etc sadly. It is the Idiocracy and well building an internet of humans wasn’t going to go that easily.

I am always wary of being identified as lame for superficial lameness. I was never in any fight and now i think i am and i was frozen on a particularly useless version of “Fight-Flight-Freeze-Fawn”. Flight is my default strategy as I can’t take these guys on academically (I am struggling to finish one paper); sanity and decency otoh I can give a shot to, but I literally do not know how to behave as a person I am not. I was trying not to be in situations like these.
My fellow rabble would commiserate precisely if/where they understood. Besides, well..instinctively deprived of the sense that one can even plot or scheme..lol..I just understood something the same way I got in 2023 that keys is a reference to cryptography.
Hmmm…This is an oddly constricted space to be manoeuvring in. Why is everything in this severely limited by what is obviously fake..entertainment, reality tv, ..
I cant stand the thought of fully fleshed out takes on this same bs in various bad flavors.
Lina Khan was awesome. No wonder Reid Hoffman didn’t like her. Yasha Levine/Lina Khan and of course my fellow Greens are the only people who have felt real to me after I gor cut off from academic colleagues/doctors etc -mostly they would get it and be as inept in terms of stage managing stuff that typically is in the disgraceful realm of media and politics.
I like the Limits to Growth. That is how I know how to behave. The billionaires and oligarchs do behave like superfit cancer cells, but so do other overcompensated people who yell at worse off people …
If all this is working out for everyone else..awesome! But whatever the deal is, I do not see a reality where it is working out for me or in anyway fair and most importantly it is not even a rip off or cliche anyone can pull off without really commiting to lies or fraudulent post outcome sincerity or anger. Yes it is all bad and awful and atrocious, but some stuff isn’t and it is separating the two.
I’ll keep it simple. Income..that is what it comes down to. Commensurate payment for effort or for exploitative use of a space for technologies no one in that space buys into withour clear liability private sector or state.
These are my devices and this is my home.
And if these other less tangible things are a factor, you don’t get to make decisions for other people or just completely throw off all responsibility. And I reserve the right to not buy into this wide-eyed shit. I don’t pull it except with the home team where it isn’t..those are my friends or potential allies etc.
It is not the same as an acrimonious dispute or worse a communication issue. There is rarely that much friction once I identify people, but it is hard to find them in the mess of randoms in between-creeps, charlatans, histrionics etc etc

I have a horror of three things: blah drivel, fake non blah and creepy self or other commodifying non-blah.
It is not personality to be identifiably eccentric. That sort of misses the point and is broad enough to be from some constantly navel gazing, awful, self referential Judd Apatow made mediocre thing..It would be as hacklike as that Robin Hanson guy..clunky evol psych.

But my people..the left..we do have some strategies that may have served the purpose of being the poor man’s tool back in the day..dissecting and analyzing those we can only look at from the outside. But they are being gamed inside this war machine. In part because i bet it is more banality of evil than directed malice (and thats the trickiest kind/l..because we can all try to be non malicious. We can’t be sure we wouldn’t avoid mistakes.

Like you may be too busy as a doctor to know why this time-sucking nuisance being shilled as a cure-all (as they always are) is not actually genuinely convenient or useful, but more an aggressive industrial push from industries with no products or services..
Well anyway. I have togo work and think about it more..
Subterfuge doesn’t come to me easily anymore than to say Nathan Robinson or Troy Farah for example.. But clunky manipulation is still enough sometimes and so..well I guess I was trying to say that I am not a fool, just because i acn’t be bothered about how I come off unlessit matters. This seems adequate for the level of effort care sense or principle I have seen so far..I mean no one’s fault but thats hardly the type of person you want having their way with your home or street. Honestly incompetent best case. And its bs that that is an academic or medical failure. This is because of the private sector’s degree of unchallenged influence and the culture that results which is pretty unforgivable as of this date and there is no point in trying to hijack that for politics or profit.

Original Subject Line: I am of the view that criminal liability is the only deterrent at this point

They just do whatever they want - all those parasites in tech.

Now I am not a writer (as most of the fairly execrable writing in my journal would attest to). But I do love reading - paperbacks or hardcovers, not the kindle. I am not a luddite, but I choose what I use (that came out sounding like something you would find on a ghastly Substack page). And I find ai written writing to have the effect of nails on chalkboard.

It is mimicry. If a human did that, most everyone but the rare super douches (i.e. our industrial and political leaders, their sycophants and media) would find it grating.

I have been looking at some of my own DU journal in distaste. It is not that I disagree with some of it (the parts that are most choleric I certainly agree with .. ;-/..I didn’t want my personal signature to be an aspect of myself I don’t like that much..).

Something about the insipid corporatized cheeriness of those things (Scarlet Johanssen in Her comes to mind) made me feel that only vicious and dour writing would be human ..But thats also bs. Because it angers me even more when those things start to sound cynical, world-weary, skeptical, sarcastic.

The point is they have no depth. Ed Zitron wrote about it in his piece on Dudesy.
The average woman who starts to sound bitter isn’t a damn llm. It is usually someone groped irl by a series of loathsome creeps..bounced out of many jobs and hospitals and so on. Movies and reality tv themselves have started feeling like theft. Even sans ai, the data mining and the commodification of human life is disgusting.

It is lazy. You don’t have to use your imagination even as a human when you can scrape the web for content (though ai makes it easier).

My writing is all human written..no bots. But the writing has the same grating, anonymous insipid quality I associate with this sort of person (a nightmarish person who voted for Trump and was boosted by that ass Bill Ackman/Musk etc - Stepfanie Tyler):

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-musk-tech-venture-capital-execs-maga-1235060567/
She apparently voted for HRC and Biden, but had a change of heart…she is also a grifty ai booster.
Anyway, I checked out her blog to see if she has had buyer’s remorse yet (was curious about this peculiar representative of the vacuous swing voter class) and it isn’t clear.

But the writing really struck me in how derivative, insipid and shallow it is.

I don’t use ChatGPT since I think it should be..well let’s just leave it at this - I reflexively grind my teeth & clench my fists at the thought of ChatGPT ;-/. You know how it is hpd.

But it is also all at the end of the day perilously close to a persona without a definite endpoint as I have which is criminal liability. If the public doesn’t start this they will not only destroy all our livelihoods and for these substandard pieces of junk. But also move us further into surveillance states where we can be targeted for retaliation.
If Trump 2.0 isn’t the wake up call, what is? Authoritarianism is generally on the rise everywhere. The business class (a small set of small businesses aside) in tech is the instigator of it not against it. They have no real products or services and are engaged in a coup.
Project 2025, the rampant parasitism and destruction of the public sector, attacks on all regulatory bodies is a part of it.

And they can’t toss marijuana legalization into that noxious mix. I use pot. I don’t steal in depraved ways from other people. All this overexposure is bad for my health and work.

I saw something in “Call Me by Your Name” (an actual work of art and a favorite of mine -the book and the movie) that struck me..one of the characters says that people who read books like to hide. That actually fits. I have always loved books and I like peace and quiet. The sole reason I regret not having a kid is, I have no one to leave my books to. And I love my home. I HATE encroachment into my home. And that is what these creepy tech cos don’t get. I don’t want to be connected. This lowers quality of life. Who would choose theft of their life except a grifting future influencer?


Back to why I hate the effect all this has on one..It makes fairly laidback people like me into neurotic people, since I don’t like being annoyed with inexplicable drivel affecting my home..it is not even a smart home.

As for my crummy writing, while I am not happy with my skill/knowledge/memory/spatial awareness etc, I do have basic language skills. However, that still doesn’t make me a good writer and that isn’t a goal anyway. It is offensively like writing like a human llm or logorrhoea. I can’t decide which is worse/
A by the book dishonest shrink working with data miners could argue that these lengthy rants with many tangential rambles are like Trump’s weave indicative of sickness.

It is all making me furious.

I am pretty sure that woman uses ChatGPT and you can see it in her style. I find it somewhat parasitic to use someone else’s ideas or work even with attribution.

I do it only with a specific, definite real world goal - to warn off any ai or data companies. Trying to indicate that “Hey, I am wise to you and gearing up to press charges some day if your data hygiene is poor enough that you can read this message posted in an online community anonymously and connect it to me. Don’t use my home or devices or street.”.

Reading that woman’s blog made me realize why I feel such revulsion. If my posts aren’t llm written, my whole situation is artificial..

I had this job at a place I really disliked. I didn’t want to be this douchebag in bed with some creepy tech cos/spooks. This totally shallow woman with no sense of self who is just batted around..I am not a human research subject.
I do trust the old school NIH, but not once these parasites from Google/Facebook/Musk/Palantir/other small creepy tech cos etc. pile on.

Anyway, I get why my own writing here often disgusts me. I think blatantly artificial situations make people sound like bots. I really dislike the parts of my life that were deformed by these tacky VR or mixed reality adjacent things that this journalist Yasha Levine writes about. Like that movie Existenz. I am not even a gamer.

It made me think back to that hideous job (long before the Sandy Hook conspiracies). Early on a guy sat next to us during a lab lunch at the cafeteria and I caught this snippet of conversation “I could believe all the people here are actors”.

I found it a baffling statement at the time. Now I figure that is how an alt right troll could think. I usually associate that type of stuff with fishing or authentic paranoia (hard to tell sadly). That sleazy Project Veritas would be an example of astroturf, alt right trolling rather than the more sympathetic actual issue (people who think they are targeted individuals..this tech environment probably doesn’t help with that and I am often furious that a simple complaint about deregulated garbage tech will be treated that way. I actually have sympathy for those guys..).


There are even people who think everyone online is a bot and even more scarily might dox someone in their home to verify they are not a bot etc. Or most risibly that a bot has become sentient a la that asinine Google engineer Blake Lemoine.
It is all so daft. The fuss around these stupid llms is inane. And their souped up versions would be more grating - goddamn parlor tricks.

I altogether disapprove of all of it except maybe in rare academic contexts or if DU was trying to handle the bot issue using different strategies. Such rare things I am sympathetic to aside, the stuff I see here or back then, is just outrageous and creepy, where real and can disorient a person and throw off their sense of reality.

This entire set of industries needs draconian oversight and regulation by the left.
These are more tools for these right wing nuts to exploit..