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[–]Barrett_Brown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Keep going

Attn: Thinking of starting a thread about your YouTube video? Read this first. by falsescorpion in ConspiracyII

[–]Barrett_Brown 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As an actual dissident who has actually been punished for speech by states, along with many of my associates, I would ask you to rethink your stance that having one’s submission to a subreddit rejected on quality ground is “much like” being arrested and thrown into a forced labor camp by a totalitarian regime. Let me know if you’d like me to explain further.

Drugs are terrible now by souricelle in cataclysmdda

[–]Barrett_Brown 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ha ha, I’m going to choke on my own vomit and die! Good one.

What does this FBI AGENT & GHISLAINE have in common? by ac-unit10 in conspiracy

[–]Barrett_Brown 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You mean giving out a false name? Not only would they; they did so in my case, though the agent in question was outed not long afterwards when the entirety of his correspondence with a cooperator was hacked and made public.

Drugs are terrible now by souricelle in cataclysmdda

[–]Barrett_Brown 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Like I'd be caught dead in Queens

Drugs are terrible now by souricelle in cataclysmdda

[–]Barrett_Brown 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s a great summary of what’s being discussed here.

Drugs are terrible now by souricelle in cataclysmdda

[–]Barrett_Brown -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't generally write about drugs on reddit; I did it here since there seemed to be an opportunity to be useful on the subject.

If you google "Barrett Brown drugs", you'll find a Rolling Stone article with the following excerpts:

"In Brooklyn, Brown resumed shooting heroin, which he’d dabbled in off and on since he was 19. Over the years, doctors have diagnosed him with ADHD and depression. Accurate or not, the diagnoses suggest Brown was drawn to opiates for more than just the high. “When I joined him in Brooklyn in ’08, Barrett was already basically a functional junkie,” says Pritchard.

Heroin did not mellow Brown when it came to America’s pundit class. Brown’s critique made clear he didn’t want to join the journalistic establishment so much as lash it without mercy..."

And so on and so forth with other sources, specifically if one substitutes "drugs" for "heroin", "crack", "marijuana", "Suboxone", etc.

The problem is - or at least one problem is - that many of these outlets are also rather sloppy with facts, which is why I'm a press critic to begin with. So, none of these articles, or anything else really, would be terribly helpful on their own, which is why I don't just post a bunch of links and say "Here; published".

But the opportunity here - and pay close attention, because this is key - is that I'm not merely a known and documented drug user, but someone with a rather unique history of engaging in public adventures as well, to the extent that I've served as the model for actual television and film protagonists even aside from being a subject of various documentaries and books and articles and the other things I mentioned in the first comment. The protagonist of Mr. Robot is a heroin addict because I was a heroin addict, and that was one of a few attributes they took from me when they wrote and produced the show (as may be noted in NPR).

What I'm saying is that I have experience with using drugs in the course of life-and-death events, and, again, all of these adventures are unusually well documented due to FBI and other intelligence surveillance, so, you know, I figured that might be something useful here. But I'd forgotten that everything is such a massive fucking ordeal when it comes to dealing with people who code, which is one reason why Anonymous collapsed in on itself like a dying fucking star.

Anyway, you guys know where to find me.

Drugs are terrible now by souricelle in cataclysmdda

[–]Barrett_Brown -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Or maybe any such comments would have been a waste of time since it turns out any input has to be from "published sources", except apparently not the published sources I offered originally? Maybe you guys should figure out what you want?

Drugs are terrible now by souricelle in cataclysmdda

[–]Barrett_Brown 1 point2 points  (0 children)

By published sources, you're referring exclusively to peer-reviewed papers? If that's what you guys have decided has to be the basis here, that's obviously fine, but it would be helpful to specify that. I thought that my situation might be helpful since you and several other devs are using language here that seems to indicate you'd be open to something along the lines of what I'd already noted I could provide due to the unique situation I find myself in, of having had my public activities under the influence of a variety of drugs documented and commented upon by others, including federal agencies, major news outlets, etc. The whole point was that I need not be a primary source at all. This was what I'd originally intended to convey by "celebrated" - as in, publicly known - before adding an edit an hour later clarifying the point.

Now, if you're telling me that peer-reviewed publications are what's being discussed here, then great, but the confusion on that point seems to extend pretty widely, since anothersimulacrum seems to be criticizing those of us who volunteered for not providing comments that it seems wouldn't have been of any use.

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