Fuck Nationalists, White Supremacists, Nazis, Fascists, The Patriarchy, Maga, Racists, Transphobes, Terfs, Homophobes, the Police.
I experienced the reverse of this when I spent 4 years biking around Los Angeles. Road rage…gone, even when I eventually got back into the coffin on wheels. And now I just get frustrated when friends and relatives get unreasonably angry with cyclists and pedestrians.
Like I have relatives who are completely nice people until they get behind the wheel, when they become just the most angry I’ve ever seen them even when just driving down a calm non-busy street…it’s unreal.
TLDR; I’m vehemently agnostic.
I believe that if there is a “God” entity, that it is incomprehensible and not worth attempting to understand.
I also don’t believe in an anthropocentric “God”, in that “God” doesn’t inherently value nor not value humans as somehow special nor damned. I also don’t believe “God” cares nor doesn’t care about humans or existence.
I also don’t believe in inherent meaning, nor that there is some form of divine justice. Those are human lenses through which we interpret the world, and are unlikely to apply (at least in the same way as a human) to the supposed viewpoint of an eternal omniscient omnipotent entity that created the universe and will supposedly one day close the door on time and its own existence.
In short, I’m one bleak motherfucker and it doesn’t matter if “God” exists or not. Either way, I don’t get to survive death. What is eternal about me is inherently not a part of me. It is mortality, true mortality, mortality of the consciousness and the ego and the individual that defines the individual. When that dies, "God” or not, either way there is no individual to somehow surpass death.
There’s too many solid reasons to be upset with, well, not AI per say, but the companies that implement, market, and control the AI ecosystem and conversation to go into in a single post. Sufficient to say I think AI is an existential threat to humanity mainly because of who’s controlling it and who’s not.
We have no regulation on AI, we have no respect for artists, writers, musicians, actors, and workers in general coming from these AI peddling companies, we only see more and more surveillance and control over multiple aspects of our lives being consolidated around these AI companies and even worse, we get nothing more in exchange except for the promise of increased productivity and quality, and that increase in productivity and quality is a lie. AI currently gives you the wrong answer or some half truth or some abomination of someone else’s artwork really really fast…that is all it does, at least for the public sector currently.
For the private sector at best it alienates people as chatbots, and at worst is being utilized to infer data for surveillance of people. The tools of technology at large are being used to suppress and obfuscate speech by whoever uses it, and AI is one tool amongst many at the disposal of these tech giants.
AI is exacerbating a knowledge crisis that was already in full swing as both educators and students become less curious about subjects that don’t inherently relate to making profits or consolidating power. And because knowledge is seen as solely a way to gather more resources/power and survive in an ever increasingly hostile socioeconomic climate, people will always reach for the lowest hanging fruit to get to that goal, rather than actually knowing how to solve a problem that hasn’t been solved before or inherently understand a problem that has been solved before or just know something relatively useless because it’s interesting to them.
There’s too many good reasons AI is fucking shit up, and in all honesty what people in general tote about AI is definitely just a hype cycle that will not end well for the majority of us and at the very least, we should be upset and angry about it.
Here are further resources if you didn’t get enough ranting.
So power. Power is doing well in you’re book.
Fine. I’m not gonna argue that, most people would agree with you. I’ll just reiterate you and I have a fundamental disagreement on what doing well and what a good life is. Because to me doing well and a good life are defined by so much more than just whether or not you have power over people.
If you think they’re doing well, you and I have a fundamental disagreement on what a good life is.
Raising your children specifically to be Fascists, Homophobes, Transphobes, Xenophobes…etc.
Yeah, it’s licensed under the GNU Affero License and therefore you can review the source code and modify it as you see fit. Classic FOSS.
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox
Giving their code a brief once over, their scripts and patches are relatively straight forward with good commenting and their documentation is acceptable imho.
Additionally investigating their defaults in about:config reflect similar defaults in the Librewolf/ Mullvad/Arkenfox defaults that were present in the Mull browser.
Overall Ironfox is about as good a Firefox fork for Android as you’re going to find.
I’m a Night Owl and have been from a very young age. I also wish Night Owls were more just considered a thing in this society rather than labeled lazy or deviant. But hey, if you don’t conform to the Capitalist mold, you’re apparently whatever people want to negatively label you as. Unless you’re a Night Auditor, Night Security Guard, Fireman, or Soldier, then you’re a (somewhat) acceptable part of the machine.
Anyways, here’s a BBC article on why humans might have evolved to have different sleep schedules. It’s an interesting read IMHO.
Cool, where’s my gorilla arms and double jump enabling fortified ankles? Oh, and quickhacks that let me kill someone just by looking at them?
No? Just the endless commercials, horrific environmental collapse, and universal crushing depression? Damn… who knew Cyberpunk 2077 would be considered a Utopian vision when compared to the Dystopian present reality?
The answer: everybody.
Heavy metal or heavy metals?
Don’t even try and front Eda, of course it was! 🥰
And download all the music you want without an account using yt-dlp.
Truly curious. Like what?
God I fucking hope you’re right. If both the military and police become fascist (even if in all but name), it won’t just be the USA that is completely fucked.
Might I interest you in a podcast?
I thought that was just taking out the trash, a standard public service.
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The movie industry is in such a different place than when Jay Sherman last graced us with his presence I wonder how they’d go about making a The Critic Revival. But I’d give it a whirl. I loved The Critic.
Apparently The King Of The Hill Revival is still not out yet, so I spoke too soon. Lol. Here is an article on it though.
I loved The Critic, but so many of it’s jokes and plot were very relevant to the time period of the 1990s, I don’t know how they could reboot it. That said, I hear King Of The Hill did a great job in this regard (I still haven’t watched the new ones).
So who knows, maybe they should bring The Critic back.
Lol, I’ve done this exact thought experiment. Heck I practically brainstormed a version of Eternals in my head once, but instead of being Gods posing as humans, they were mortal Reincarnated Individuals who knew everyone/everything was reincarnated, but what gave them advantages in this world was that they remembered their past lives, and could use that accumulated knowledge for good and for ill.
Its a cool little concept that somebody will turn into a TV series/Movie/Video Game at some point I’m sure.