capitalchan | 002; a new post on the well-known anonymously run blog The Uplink.

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.

[as always, the comment sections of The Uplink are wide open. if you want to comment IC anonymously just mark that it's anon in the subject line OuO ]

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Your data is appreciated. CONDOR has assembled a task force to investigate. We have linked this to our own blog's audience.

Any time, Esteemed Synthetic.

oh, that's unfortunate [she says, like she's not downloading everything for future reference]

good to hear about the AI though! i wonder if anyone's supervising it.

Edited 2014-02-09 04:35 (UTC)

Mm, I think the students that were working on it. I didn't want to bother it. It's so young.

ohh, a student project. that makes sense - not to be rude or anything, uh.

i mean mostly i figure all the high-level stuff is being kept secret. by governments and whatever. so yeah, it's nice to see this ai being let out early.

I think it's sweet.

A safe assumption, I think. Governments and corporations certainly love keeping secrets from the Public.

I was always fond of the conspiracy theory that the president is actually a super-advanced android.

[in fact, kit started that conspiracy theory.]

yeah, that's basically all they do. of course, if anyone can get at them, it's you, so that's something.

oh my god. i hadn't heard that one! i mean, it'd probably be better if he was; i don't blame people for wishful thinking

I live to serve.

We'd all be better off with an all-robot government. It couldn't possibly be worse, at any rate.

exactly!

got any other weird conspiracy theories in your repertoire? now i'm curious

Oh, just the standards. The Mars rovers are really running around the desert in Utah, chemtrails nonsense, the French Revolution was started by Skrulls. You know.

Corrupt businesses exploiting biology, new AI who's gonna get fed up with the human internet pretty soon and decide y'all need to go down. Not a good day to be a flesh puppet.

Oh, I'm sure there are much more advanced AI out there than this one.

Though it could be putting on an act! We might never know!

No shit. But it don't take a highly advanced intellectual capacity to get sick of humans.

It's true. Humans are unbearably fleshy.

"Robot overlords"??? Is that some sort of sick joke?

What do you think?

That's fucking disgusting. Glad you think the oppression of organic lifeforms is cute.

[Starbuck is VERY FRUSTRATED!!!!!! And has yet to figure out how to fully express that through anon hate. She does her best, but her full ire cannot be encapsulated in words.]

Right, because organic lifeforms are so oppressed by synthetics. And because we need so much help in the oppression department. Besides, we might be better off with robots running the world.

If they aren't already.

[this is kit's idea of a HILARIOUS JOKE]

It's always pleasant to see upstanding individuals as yourself going out of their way to enlighten others of robotic superiority. However, this.... "blogging" AI is laughably inept, it can barely even form coherent sentences. Humanity has a lot of catching up to do.

It's like a little child, it's still learning. Cut it a little slack.

Well you would think they would at least teach it to spell properly before letting it online.

I think the idea is that it learns from interaction.

Interaction seems irrelevant if it doesn't have a reasonable base line for responding in a coherent fashion, if you ask me, but I suppose I'm not an expert in that field.

On my phone. Do the images have species data on the specimens?

Most are marked human, the rest have different 4 digit codes.

002; a new post on the well-known anonymously run blog The Uplink.

text from a public account known to be one of legion's

text, from OP

from her usual account

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super anon

lmao starbuck pls

starbuck tried to figure out how to do ascii art of a middle finger but gave up

oh no adorable

[SUPER ANON] Starscream doesn't know how to read sarcasm

oh my god beautiful

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anonymous as hell

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