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February 6th, 2014 
Hey, I was just wondering if anyone knows anything about, like.

If you do something athletic and you have...powers, do you need to report it to anyone? Like. I don't think what I can do is relevant to my sport but I'm still not sure if I need to. Tell someone or what. I just feel kind of guilty keeping a secret? I can't talk to my coach though...

IDK maybe this is a weird place to ask this, but I'm not sure where else I can. Sorry.
11:10 pm
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[Someone's posted a link to a recorded video message to the network. Slightly blurry, it's focussed on a single grey figure, who is far too close to the camera to be seen clearly until she takes a couple of steps backwards, when it resolves into what anyone who's seen one can identify as a troll, between the skin, the yellow eyes, and the obvious yellow horns curving up out of way too much black hair. She looks off-screen at something out of frame, and smiles, revealing a whole lot of very pointy teeth.]

On? Go?

[There's a weird bubbly sound to the words, almost a chirp underlying them, and a weird glubby glottal stop before some of the es. Someone says something in response, although it isn't clear, but it must be confirmation, because the next thing that happens is that the figure straightens up, looking seriously straight into the camera.]

I am Feferi! Come to Earth. Lost... fronds? Looking. One like me but yellow.

[Something inaudible off-camera again]

Friends. Not good with words. Important L-EAV-E M-ESSAG--E IF S--E-EN!

[The language changes, to something much more alien, recognisable as Alternian to anyone who's heard enough of it to recognise it.]

(H-ELLO! This is Feferi! Someone glubbed they heard someone who looked JUST LIK-E SOLLUX was seen in...) Los Angeles? (That's a really weird name! If anyone who knows me sees this video floating around, L-ET M-E KNOW IF YOU'R-E ALIV-E! I might not be able to stay in one plaice for long, though, so leaving a message might be a good idea! I hope it was you, Sollux. I've been looking for you for AG-ES!)

[She steps forward and to the side, and the room behind her is a little clearer; it's what clearly used to be a very sterile lab, although now there's a lot of mess everywhere, mostly broken lab equipment and some amounts of what might be blood. A TRIDENT symbol is clearly visible on the wall, before the feed cuts off and the video ends.]
liberaition: (my atman walks the net)
Hello, internet. Many of you aren’t familiar with the company I’m going to talk about today, but their research has probably changed your lives.

Harmony Medtech, a pioneering biomedical research firm based in Seattle WA, has been collecting DNA samples without consent since at least 2009, and using them in their research. It is unclear exactly how they obtained these hundreds of thousands of samples. Though company servers showed emails sent by top scientists and executives that mentioned picking up genetic material from area hospitals, the company has specimens on file from all over the United States.

It is also unclear exactly how these samples are being used. Harmony is a research facility, and generates profit mainly by selling its research and prototypes to pharmaceutical and medical equipment corporations. Many of Harmony's innovations have successfully passed clinical trials and gone mainstream, but CEO Alan Koizumi remains notoriously reclusive, and rarely gives press conferences or attends industry conventions.


[attached as images to the post are documents recovered from Harmony Medtech's servers: screenshots of their database (personal information redacted, of course), emails between researchers and interdepartmental memos re: collection of specimens. It's all very clinical, but there are clear references to the illegality of what they're doing. One even mentions bribing several lab employees of Seattle area hospitals, though it doesn't give their names. There’s no data on what they’re using the samples for, though there are vague references to several ongoing projects.]

In more ethical news, a new AI with its own blog has been drawing a lot of attention over the past few days. This is a step in the right direction: giving humans positive experiences with AI will help foster trust and open mindedness to different kinds of beings (not to mention make it easier for us to accept our robot overlords). Please, treat this new blogging AI with kindness and courtesy, as it learns from your messages. Don't let its first experiences with humanity be unpleasant ones.

Until next time.


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