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  • Systems and structures and their cells

    Capitalism and all that, all this big-tech stuff — any large corporation, whatever sweet little thing it may have been in the beginning, will in the end become a dumb, all-consuming monster.

    The essence is not only in the biggest structure itself, after all, but in its units, its cells — that is, in people.

    All that struggle for resources, eternal confrontation, lucky/unlucky random — this is a normal process. TBH, I would not expect anything else here. Even our own cells are constantly confrontating each other in some way for resources and places. Capitalism and all those corporate structures SUCKS but THAT IS NORMAL (at least for this era).

    But I suppose it is still worth fighting and improving all of it, so that at least it becomes cleaner to make it better, and all that. It is really quite a bad system for now, needs lots of improvement, balancing, but most people usually just agree and eat any shit other guys giving them. This is normal but not until forever.

    I understand it is not perfect, bad world, but why we are all here? To improve it! And it is not LIFE who is to blame, it is UNIVERSE with all its ENTROPY and CHAOS. Its infinite fight of life with its pursue for ORDER against universe with its pursue for CHAOS. Yet still they are both together “in same boat” and can even sometimes find harmony in all that.

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  • Life and death

    Only those truly live who have understood death completely.

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  • Untitled

    It begins when the old taboos of primitive society stop working; when society grows, becomes more complex, and starts to change. At that point, human being begins to ask questions — and, more than that, is forced to ask them.

    Something like this happened in the time of ancient Athens, with the rise of the first democratic forms of society. The old order, in which everything was explained by dogmatic taboo, myth, and religion, began to lose its power.

    But this process is still not finished. There are still much of wrong minded forces trying to stop democracy, real philosophy, and open critical reasoning. They usually call people back to the “good old days,” as if the past was a lost harmony. But most often this nostalgia is only a mask: behind it stands oligarchy, defending its wealth and hierarchy against progress of open society

    From the break with the old order came critical thinking: the first real tradition of asking questions. And from the same source came science afterwards. Good quality philosophy is the mother of science, it’s ancestor.

    Knowledge begins when a person no longer believes blindly in what has been handed down by wealthy lords, but begins to ask, to doubt, and to try to understand for real.

    But proper knowledge requires a proper method: a movement away from dogmatism and prohibitions, toward reasonable criticism, facts, openness, and the recognition of the universal rights of human dignity.

  • My lifestyle: minimalism

    Only minimalism can save you from all this consumerism and capitalism , from all this bullshit. Besides, with minimalism you are always ready to move, ready to face any problem.

    I mean it as a lifestyle.

    I have been living like this for years, and this approach has truly proven itself: whether times are extremely hard or unexpectedly abundant, I stay mobile, prepared, and free from excess.

    There is more to say, but I will not go into everything. Minimalism helps you stay free: you do not carry what owns you, and you do not take more than you need.

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  • Thoughts about color of grey

    How little we, as human beings, grasp the depth and complexity of reality.

    I look at the colour grey: pure grey, the exact middle between black and white. On a monitor, it is only a fill, a point in a transition, a calculated balance of light.

    But then I begin to think of pure grey outside, on a wall, under real light. Suddenly it becomes something entirely different. It is no longer a simple colour. It is an event, a presence, a surface, a condition. It belongs to the wall, to the air, to the hour of the day, to my own perception.

    The grey itself almost disappears, and what remains is the experience of it: the context surrounding it, the phenomenon of its appearing to me.

    In that moment, I understand that even the simplest thing is immeasurably deeper than it seems.

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  • The Moment Belief Starts

    I am curious asin the exact moment when the mind decides that information is true. Not truth in the abstract. Not a full theory of knowledge. I mean the practical moment inside consciousness when a person reads, hears, or sees something and thinks: “That’s right. That’s true.”

    This moment is important because it often happens faster than reasoning. A person may feel certainty before they have checked the evidence. The mind accepts the information not because it has been proven, but because it fits.

    It fits what the person already believes. It fits what they fear. It fits what they want to be true. It fits the mood they are already in.

    That is where the problem begins.Today, people do not only search for information through search engines. They search through AI bots, TikTok, YouTube, podcasts, influencers, screenshots, comments, and short clips. Information arrives mixed with performance. It comes with confidence, editing, music, repetition, outrage, and social approval.

    A person watches a video or talk to a bot. The speaker sounds sure. The explanation is simple. The comments agree. The claim connects with something the viewer already feels. Then the mind says:“Yes. That’s true.”But maybe nothing serious has happened yet. Maybe there has been no real checking. Maybe the person has only received a feeling of certainty.

    That feeling matters. It is not meaningless. Sometimes the feeling that something is true comes from real recognition. The mind sees a pattern and correctly understands it. But the same feeling can also be produced by manipulation. Propaganda works because it can imitate the feeling of truth without giving truth itself. There is so much propaganda everywhere today. in

    Propaganda does not always need to force belief. It only needs to make belief feel easy. It gives the mind a complete-looking answer. It removes confusion. It gives a target for anger. It creates a story where everything seems to connect. The mind, its simple, old ancient part, it likes that.

    This is why the first feeling of “that’s true” cannot be trusted by itself. The real question is not only:“Is this information true?” The deeper question is: “What made me accept it?” Did I accept it because the evidence is strong? Or because it matches my existing view? Did I check it, or did I just recognize my own bias inside it? Did I find truth, or did I find a sentence that made my emotions feel organized?

    There is a difference between truth and the feeling of truth. Truth can survive questions. The feeling of truth often wants questions to stop. That is the key moment: when questioning stops…

    The mind becomes vulnerable when it treats certainty as proof. Certainty is only a mental state. It can be caused by evidence, but it can also be caused by repetition, authority, fear, group identity, or good presentation.

    So the disciplined mind has to pause at the point where belief begins. It has to ask:“What is the evidence?”“What would prove this wrong?”“Who benefits if I believe it?”“Why did this feel true so quickly?”“Am I thinking, or am I reacting?”

    This does not mean doubting everything forever. That is another failure. A person needs to believe some things in order to act. But belief should not begin and end with a feeling.

    The mind falls into propaganda when it mistakes emotional certainty for truth. The search for truth begins when the mind notices its own certainty and questions it before obeying it.

    That moment — the moment when the mind says “that’s true” — is not the end of thinking. It is exactly where thinking should begin.

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  • Inner flow

    You do not have to control every movement inside your mind.

    Sometimes it is enough to step aside and let the flow move on its own: like, let the water drain, the glue set, the ice freeze. Not every tension demands an immediate solution. Some things become clearer not when you press harder, but when you stop interfering.

    Simply look away for a moment. Let your thoughts settle, let the contradictions reveal themselves, and let the inner noise slowly find its shape.

    This kind of abstraction does not always bring a quick result, but it gives you something else: an understanding of how processes move inside you. Where the flow accelerates, where resistance appears, where you can truly influence the situation, and where it is better to let it stabilize by itself.

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  • The Only Ideal

    There is no perfect form, no perfect ideal, you must understand… except the simplest one.

    Not that banal simplicity, but the one that comes after you have tried and understood all the complexity.

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  • Posture and gait

    Feet should never move faster than the head. Action should never outpace sense

    And when I say this, I mean not only the abstract idea but the real physical presentation too: it literally just looks better when a person walks straight and without a hurried, rushed, unbalanced appearance.

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  • I correct

    I feel too much violence in my words recently. I do not like that, my style is not like that as well.

    There are various levels of subjective and objective violence phenomenon appearance and one of the fundamental ones – contextual, word and sense violence.

    Yes I do not like many things and we ought we speak them, since how to improve then?But starting from today I am going to write in more accurate and sophisticated way. I still keep fighting, but not in rude and violet style, it is not efficient.

    For me words like Fuck You and Stupid Mutherfucker often sounds way too raw. In my ideal, I strive to keep more neutral stance usually.

    So, as I said, I am gonna take slightly different approach about my words from today.

  • This universe is not a positive one, its symmetry is not what you expect it to be

    This universe is not a positive one. Worse, what you expected, most likely will happen, not good. Especially all humans. Humans are a savage, temporary evolution breed. We were brought here to endure and suffer, to give painful birth to next-level humans—super humans. All current nations and races are the same. If you live closer, you’ll see a general trend is the same. Though I still love people. Beautiful, bright creatures. But our destiny is hard. What helps is some geniuses and luck—these are the only ones which moving all that mass of shit forward.

  • I’m totally against of age verification because it is a lie and a trojan horse

    US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed

    A comment I could not agree more with:

    hypeatei 3 hours ago | parent | next [–]
    I’m not sure why Meta’s lobbying is harped on so much when all of Big Tech benefits from this; Zuckerberg is just the fall guy. Tech companies love the idea of identity / age verification so they can target ads more effectively. My general feeling is also that privacy is a thorn in their side when it comes to integrating more deeply into people’s lives.There are also state actors at play here who would love if computing without ID became a very niche thing to do. Obviously their top line would be “fighting terrorism” and “saving the children” but in reality we’ve seen how these organizations (ICE, NSA, etc.) abuse their power and spy on people without warrants.tl;dr: there is much more at play here than Facebooks interests alone

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  • As about Ai…sometimes its useful, yep. But in somebody else’s cloud? No, thanks.

    I like AI. But in somebody else’s cloud? But cloud USA bullshit? No, thanks. All those chats you put there will be used against you someday.

    I use AI neutrally and as little as possible. If you use it too much, you become a dumb, lazy idiot. I use it for some coding assistance, some research, grammar and typo correction. Nothing more. It is bad for real creativity. I honestly tried

    A good alternative is local models. If your hardware is super slow and old, you can rent a GPU to offload the work and rent computing power. llama.cpp, Linux, CLI, Hugging Face, all that. I use it. There is some optimized local models for open source android too (Grapheneos, LineageOS)

    There are plenty of models that are no worse than ChatGPT. Fuck OpenAI and Anthropic, after all, that’s just another USA’s big tech disaster. They spy and collect and sell your personal data, that is just disgusting. I do not trust them. Plus all the overhype, remember they lied about agi to become real in 2025, just to collect more dollars from investors? They just want to take your money and data
    and take advantage after all.
    There is no real nobility or perspective there, if you still have not abandoned them, that’s bad for you.

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  • Turbo enshittification

    Google and Reddit officially turned into complete trash today, like so many other products. Completely removed them from my life already. Turbo enshittification is everywhere now. Most of those American corporations we used to think were fun and good in the 2000s have turned into absolute garbage.

    If you listen to the masses and chase profit instead of value, you rot fast. The best things are built with the best people and the real values in mind, not for the default crowd, people with no taste, no opinion, no standards, or just for more money. It does not work like that.

    But I do not care much. That is their problem, not mine. I will throw it aside and move on with better alternatives. Keep moving, keep searching for the new. Bad times for the internet today, but I feel no its death yet! Just fucking boycott all that spam and corporate bullshit, there are still nice places around.

    Also, venture capital is a super bad thing. Keep your business private and free of that disaster, do not chase illusionary profits, usually what you will get is just slow decay and pollution, after all.

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  • Thought experiment about consumerism

    Things, things… just pieces of junk, really. Sometimes I think: what if everyone lived simply, in caves with bare walls, and even without clothes? Then what meaning would life have for people? Today it often feels like consumerism is everything — work just so you can buy more things, basically.

    But an experiment in emptiness like that shows something: things are vanity, trivia, a distraction. Yes, things are symbols and, in a way, form our material foundation, but I’m referring to the meaning behind them.

    So how would a person live in that world? They would try to understand the earth, themselves, and the universe. They would strive for movement, struggle, and travel. That already sounds more solid, doesn’t it? Don’t you live just to buy another product, to consume another thing? You’ve got to distinguish between contemplating and consuming there.

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  • Why the System Failed

    What happened? How could USA fall so low with shit they’ve got as “current administration & president” now?

    I’ll answer you simply. It’s because of concentrated capitalism: too much money in the hands of a few greedy fools, plus social media manipulation. Normal people got tired of all the oligarchy-driven bullshit and the disadvantages that come with it. Social media was already stupid, and then it pumped the masses full of even more shit. That’s basically the only thing big social media actually does: rot the brain.

    That dirt and absurdity happened because of too much capitalism and too much greed for money in the system. For example, why did social media become so bad? To make money. Why do all those tech billionaires bend the knee to that asshole? Never forgive that, by the way. Apple, etc. — the way they hand him gifts like gold… it’s because of money.

    Money, money, money. USA shit all over itself. Its reputation is damaged forever.

    Plus, size matters. The USA is obviously an overgrown monster with too much of everything, and that creates imbalance. Smaller states live better. I predict the states will divorce and each go its own way someday. California will probably be the first. But I can’t guarantee that — that’s just how I feel.

    Lost its sense, lost the real compass of why we’re all here and what we really need. Extreme capitalism in the USA and the kind of extreme socialism seen, for example, in Argentina both suck. There’s no final solution. You just have to keep balancing between drive and sustainability. Society is a super complex thing, and both forces should be maintained appropriately: let smart people create and get rich, but support ordinary and vulnerable people for real, and never let the super ultra-rich appear. There should be a middle class as the base, and some rich people too, but you should never truly obey the rich because, after all, it’s all luck. And even if you are smart enough to outperform normal folks, you still need them.

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  • There is a moment when growing up feels complete

    There is a moment when growing up feels complete. You say to yourself: that is it, now I understand how life works. I know what fits me, how to behave, even how to dress. Knowledge becomes a kind of line, and crossing it gives a strange calm. As if confusion is behind you.

    But every point of knowledge is also a stopping place. We think we have found the answer, when maybe we have only found a form that lets us rest for a while. What we call understanding may be nothing more than a temporary shelter from uncertainty.

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  • About real leaders

    A leader is not the one who is wealthier or has more connections. A true leader is someone who fights first, takes the hardest burdens on himself, and accepts more risk. But willpower alone is not enough. A true leader is always smart, understands ordinary people, and helps them because he knows he is just one part of society after all. So true leadership is not something that comes from luck. It is simply a stronger human being who truly helps others. Anything else is bullshit swallowed by lazy masses.

    Contrary examples of fake leaders are d trump, putin, hitler, other similar authoritarian liers. Never obey assholes like that. They are idiots brought to power by luck, like a virus in life, maybe just to keep us awake after all. Yes they lead a group of idiots like them, but not the humanity. Fuck them really, and anyone like them. If your place has a leader like that, boycott, protest, or just ignore them and leave. Don’t feed that disaster! And stop spreading any neutral/positive attention about them, it only makes things worse. If it’s bullshit, it’s bullshit, why ever care. Give it time. Only harsh occasional critics, enough for them. I don’t read news and never talk about their nonsense in usual life. Trump said this trump said that… total crap. What the fuck.

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  • Believe me.

    Something essential in life is learning how to love struggle—problems, conflict, fights. Otherwise, they will overwhelm you. I learned that early, and in my own way, I came to value them.

    Life has given me a lot of harsh things, honestly, ever since childhood. I’m a full orphan, raised in aggressive Russian ghettos, but I overcame everything myself and left Russia many years ago, around 2019 or so, before the war. I’ve kept moving around since then. I’m a cosmopolitan, not a national person. I’m an Earth guy. I belong to this planet, not to a nation, believe me.

    My personal trick is simple: I remind myself that struggle is natural to us. We are built to fight, to endure, to overcome through difficulty. That idealized, perfect life—I tried it. You eat well, buy everything you want, remove all friction. It becomes unbelievably boring. I walked away from that because I wanted to stay fit, stay sharp, keep a critical mind, and continue fighting through struggle.

    After a while, I got used to it. Now I just keep moving forward. I don’t ask childish questions like, ‘When will I be rich?’ or ‘When will I be happy?’

    Never underestimate the role of luck in life. When I meet people, I never want to know how much money they have—that’s random. I only care about how honest, critical, and open-minded the person in front of me is. Everything else doesn’t matter much.

    But it’s important to remember that human fights aren’t tiger fights. Let any physical blood stay in the past; it’s ancient and outdated. We fight with intellect, with sense, with concepts, with ideas. You don’t punch—you troll, you laugh. Of course, you should always be ready to punch if needed, only to protect yourself against undeveloped Neanderthals. But you never play dirty, as much as possible. Keep it intellectual.

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  • On things

    What matters is how flexible a thing is, how adaptive it is.

    For example, a tiling setup like Sway with a bunch of terminals is, today, a more optimal thing than some stale Windows with a pile of limitations, donkey-level productivity, and crippled multitasking. In a Linux (or any other open source) terminal-based tiling workflow you can hold a lot of tasks at once, switch between them quickly, fully control the machine, and accordingly scale and widen your spectrum of actions.

    Or take clothing. All those polished little suits and over polished outfits do not even naturally fit human nature. They fit more the nature of a peacock. Human essence is struggle, movement, and constant improvement of oneself and one’s environment. In that sense, the most broadly usable clothing is smart technical fabrics, muted tones, strength, durability, and a certain basic simplicity. That also belongs to the concept. If the thing is not bullshit, then you are always ready. And even when you are not, it still does not get in your way.

    This width of distance, this breadth of application, this capacity of a thing to remain useful across situations — that is the essence of the object.

    And that essence is the key indicator of its value for us, as human beings.

    All the best things in this world can look sophisticated, yet the core concept is always simple inside. If it is a thing, it should simply work well — honestly and openly, without complexity or greedy tricks. If a thing can survive real, deep testing of its core necessity, then it is a good one. A simple experiment: imagine the hardest times. Would that thing survive and help you, or would it sink faster than you notice? Apple, Windows, Google, any luxury, bullshit corporate jobs, 80% of modern age politicians — all of it would not just fail quickly, but betray you the moment things became real.

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  • “PrO Ai”

    Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only

    Anthropic does a somewhat similar thing. If you visit their ToS (the one for Max/Pro plans) from a European IP address, they replace one section with this: Non-commercial use only. You agree not to use our Services for any commercial or business purposes and we (and our Providers) have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity. It’s funny that a plan called “Pro” cannot be used professionally. – Source

    I’m sick every time something requires me to sign another ToS. No, I don’t agree with your corporate bullshit. Usually, if I run into ToS, especially a sophisticated one, my mood automatically switches to anonymous mode, or I just leave.

    I can’t shake the feeling that big tech, cloud AI, and all that are a disaster, just like social media rot. At the core, both AI and digital community are great ideas, but they are often packaged and delivered to the market by greedy, manipulative assholes, which in the end just leaves so much pollution.

    llama.cpp / Hugging Face / tuned open-weight models — that is much closer to the real thing. If it is USA corporate ToS junk, no matter how big and sell trained it is, then it should be used only in a hard sandboxed setup and as anonymously as possible. They have grown to used to spying on everything, openly selling your private data, and doing other dark shit.

    Don’t get me wrong, not everything made in the USA is bad. It is just that their reputation for blindly chasing profit above everything else, after so many years of it, speaks louder than anything. I really don’t trust anything closed-source coming from there. Small USA companies – probably you can try, big ones – red flag, corporate cloud – very red red flag.

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  • Algorithmic feeds

    Introducing so-called smart, algorithmic feeds to social media many years ago was not progress. It was open disrespect toward users. It was basically a message: we will decide what you see, what you think about, what gets your attention — and you will take it. That was the moment social media started to rot. Not only the platforms themselves, but the whole idea behind them. From there it got worse: less freedom, less real choice, less direct human connection, more manipulation dressed up as convenience. And people accepted it. That is the worst part. They got used to being fed garbage and called it normal.

    I never had much to do with big-tech social media because from the start it felt false and rotten. I used it a little during one year at university, mostly because it was hard not to, then dropped it. I left university too. The modern education system is flawed, inefficient, and I wanted no part of it. That was over ten years ago, and I have never regretted choosing my own way.

    Freedom and independence are not easy, but they are worth it. Harder life, maybe — but cleaner. More effort, but also more truth. What you build is yours. And most important: real experience, full spectrum of all colors, covered with the highest reason, that is one of best values to us, humans.

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  • Post USA & SaaS, Sovereignty-First Software trends

    SaaS is not dead yet, but its spell is breaking. For years we were told to rent everything, trust the cloud, and let distant companies hold our data, workflows, and memory. That bargain now looks dumb and weak. I feel people are tired of subscriptions, surprise pricing, lock-in, and software that stops feeling like a tool and starts feeling like a landlord.

    AI speeds this up. When code is cheaper and faster to produce, the value shifts away from access and toward control. If a product can be copied, replaced, or rebuilt quickly, then the real question becomes simple: who owns the data, who controls the machine, who can leave without begging. That is why self-hosting, local-first tools, and software that runs in your own account or on your own server suddenly feel less like a hobby and more like common sense.

    Politics matters here too. The United States has damaged its reputation badly. Years of instability, wars, populism, corporate capture, and now dumb authoritarian leadership have made “just put it on American big tech servers” sound reckless to many people. Outside the US, that trust is just fading away right now. A new world order is taking shape: more fractured, less innocent, less willing to hand critical systems to companies tied to one empire’s laws and moods.

    This is why the next era is sovereignty-first. Not anti-tech or anti-business. Rather anti-dependence. People and companies still need software. They just want software they can inspect, move, back up, repair, and survive with. The winners in this era will not sell captivity. They will sell reliability, support, migration, security, and calm. There is pain in adapting to this. Ownership is harder than renting. But it is worth it. There is something clean and beautiful in standing on your own ground again.

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