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Capitalism is a hostage situation -Not an economy

Our current #mainstreaming path of paywalls stacked on paywalls isn’t life, it’s a trap, we need a way out. In our everyday lives, we’ve come to accept the absurd:

You pay to eat food grown on land you don’t own,

Pay to sleep under a roof that someone profits from,

Pay to drink water privatized by corporations,

Pay to breathe, because the air is poisoned by industries that sell you both the problem and the solution.

And if you miss a payment? Game over. That’s not a […]

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😐 Ich finds ja spannend, wie viele Leute gerade im Rahmen der Einführung von Werbung bei #WhatsApp nölen, man möge bitte nicht andere zentrale Dienste wie #Signal und Co empfehlen und nutzen, sondern föderierende wie #Matrix und #XMPP. Ich finde es nicht verkehrt, darauf hinzuweisen. Aber ignorant bis arrogant finde ich es, so zu tun als ob das alles total trivial und easy wäre. Die meisten Leute wollen einfach nur Chatten und und das im Idealfall auch möglichst sicher. Die mentalen Kapas für komplexe Lösungen sind leider zunehmend begrenzt.

XMPP und Matrix sind auch heute noch in der Föderation Clusterfucks, die meilenweit hinter der Usability und dem Komfort der zentralen Dienste hinterherhinken. Das liegt teilweise auch ihrer föderierenden Natur – aber wie weit sie dann tatsächlich von einer reibungslosen Nutzbarkeit in vielen Szenarien weg sind, ist das größte Problem. Gut zu sehen am Beispiel Matrix/Element, wo man alles hätte besser machen können. (1/?)

The Transition9 movement works for the natural integration of human and next-level artificial intelligence in harmony with a new nature-inspired computing architecture.

We've described Transition9 in rather technical terms to date.

The far harder challenge is writing about it in ways everyone might understand regardless of their own expertise, experience, and talents.

Here is Transition9's “Explain it to me like I’m a teenager” 🙂

transition9.ai/explainer.html

transition9.aiTransition9The natural integration of human and next-level artificial intelligence in harmony with a new nature-inspired computing architecture.

Myown #UnplugTrump to more digital sovereignty

If you’ve been following my blog, you know that I’m gradually moving away from “classical” Big Tech social media, focusing more on Mastodon and my own homepage.

On Mastodon, I came across Elena Rossini and followed her journey toward greater digital sovereignty. Inspired by her example, I decided to give up my YouTube channel in favor of a self-hosted PeerTube instance.

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The IT Blog · Myown #UnplugTrump to more digital sovereigntyIf you've been following my blog, you know that I'm gradually moving away from "classical" Big Tech social media, focusing more on Mastodon and my own homepage. On Mastodon, I came across Elena Rossini and followed her journey toward greater digital sovereignty. Inspired by her example, I decided

OK, after countless hours and months of waiting for parts to arrive, I finally have a decent prototype!

Everything fits nicely. The mounting holes line up with the PCBs. The wires are messy, but that is just because it's a prototype.

Next up: many hours of testing and trying to get the current sensor reporting what the solar panels are generating.

I'm actually kind of frustrated.

Once more we see a #socialmedia exodus and not a single one of the fun content creators I love from say #Instagram make their way over to #Mastodon, #Pixelfeed or #Loops. Why?

BECAUSE NO DIRECT #MONETIZATION!

Do you understand what weeks or months of labor looks like? If no #ad revenue, if no #superchat, if no #donate button, then why even make the effort?!

The #fediverse needs to grow up and carve out direct paths to monetization.

#Decentralize the bag!

I made this link for sharing in group chats but I'll also share it here:

🌹🌹🍞ldnont.loaf.group/s/Big_Tech_c 🍞🌹🌹

It links to the Chris Hedges discussion I linked to earlier with Saima Akhter, Hossam Nasr, and Tariq Ra’ouf, formerly of Meta, Microsoft, and Apple respectively.

I really want to convince other activists in #LdnOnt to start using alternative social media like Mastodon and Nextcloud. You can start without leaving Meta!

London, Ontario LOAFBig Tech is complicit in genocide.mdLondon, Ontario LOAF - L Organizing Against Fascism