Dymitri Harszewski
Blog # 1660

Comment Reply (Ms. Amnesia)
Reply ID: I44B

11-20-24

Hello, Mizz Amnesia! :) Nice to see your comment (my printout says it was mailed to me 3 weeks after you posted, on Nov. 10th. I got it on Nov. 17. So this'll prolly post around 6 weeks after you sent it. Not great, but it is what it is.

I hope others adapt to the site's layout as well as you do. I've had a couple people give up. :) But I think I'd like it for the same reason you do - I prefer the simple, non-distracting functionality. I only wish they offered a sort of T.O.C. type list, so people could more easily find my older posts.

I'm also REALLY happy to hear you say "most of your topics are interesting". I never know if I'm boring people! Now I'm curious - are there some types or topics you find better than others; some that are just "bleh"? That hearing/trial issue is an important one, but it's also overwhelming. My transcripts are over 3,000 pages, and most is junk but still around 700-800 pages to comb through and figure out how to present it. But it's something I've wanted to do for a long time, especially the super coercive, really just straight-up abusive, interrogations of my friends. People should see what really goes on in their name, I believe. It's just awfully hard to tackle on my own.

Your info about Digital Wellbeing was... well, a bit breathtaking. What sickness we indulge in 2024. :/ Have you heard of The Hemisphere Project, an unholy alliance among AT&T, the DEA, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy? It's sickeningly Orwellian, and something tells me surveillance state nightmares like that will NOT be on the short list, or long list, for all the "waste" Trump insists he will eliminate.

That program in MI prisons is soul-crushing as well. I do suspect things like that are the future though - the near future, and not just for prisoners. As for the "educational opportunities for inmates"... lol, isn't it obvious? Prisoners will LEARN, for sure... like how to exist in an environment of absolute and unrelenting surveillance. Essentially the same lessons learned by parolees and probationers with GPS ankle monitors and voice recording. No doubt the same lessons will seep into schools soon, too, even beyond the ubiquitous cameras and biometric check in procedures and chipped ID cards required to be worn around students necks (that's a real policy in the Antelope Valley in CA). Talk about "grooming"... it's the ultimate grooming, for docile acceptance of authoritarian control. God bless the USA, eh? :)

A pleasure, as always. I hope you see this!

Sincerely,

Dymitri