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These things make work, education and health worse..a total scam.
I am not sure love of personal use tech has any connection with or relevance to science.

Some convenience I get. Even my onc is one WhatsApp. I wish it wasn’t Facebook’s.

Edit: Another problem with narratives shaped by contemporary tech is that they warp human thought-if you have nothing hide, why be private. Streisand effect. Greta Garbo.
It is all based on people who are willingly in the public eye; like the net and socializing (which I don’t understand in the flesh or online..Why?); or at least don’t mind it.

It seems to leave out human experience of some kinds. My only pull was ever abstractly political or work driven never social. Scientists are observers of nature by nature,. And often people who like to be left alone. I don’t think that can be changed. You can either be observed or work. Not both. And not all of us can tune out the spectacle. I am going to purge my journal and go offline.. Or maybe not. Its mostly rants about creeps rather than personal overshares (that would not fit at all). I do support rants about creeps so eh…I will look at it later. I would totally rant about creeps..I don’t like uncharacteristic behavior. Who are these people who share and what is wrong with them? I have taken enough bot or not tests by now that I should get to trash creeps anonymously without it being about me ;-/. And DU is fairly obscure…

I can’t focus like this. Yeah tech is a waste of time and life and this is all too much. Too much connection and noise instead of quiet. But otoh creeps can’t barge in. They will go to prison if they do. It breaks my concentration and that is annoying. I will definitely file complaints, but that will be easier with a functioning head.

This isn’t the world of science. It is the world of bloated entertainment and a kind of Omelas.
If there was a multiverse this would be the one of the shittiest possible ones.
I am in the bottom 25 percentile in real science (ie science with Pentlands and Google types and Musk etc deleted) in this one and this universe would overall be in the bottom 25%. It is one run by religion, histrionics, games and war. Not science. A mean-spirited Idiocracy.

And as the pacifist in 3-body got, no one from this (including me) in any part of this universe should be allowed to go anywhere else and break those places too. As a thought experiment. Look at the mess we have made of what we have as is. Sorry..just a thought.
This is all such junk. No wonder Trump is president. That fits. If I think in terms of scifi rather than science, I come to a very different conclusion from the tech creeps.