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Fuck You, Apple, Spotify, Google, and All the Same Parasites
I’m done with greedy big tech music-streaming platforms like those mentioned. Starting today, I’m boycotting them. From now on, all 240+ of my albums will be available exclusively on Bandcamp, and soon on my website as well.
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Simplicity
There is no perfect ideal, you see… except maybe in simplicity
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On True Nobility, Great Leaders, and Bad Actors
The EU is compromised by corrupted, bad actors such as Hungary and Slovakia.The US is compromised by corrupted bad actors (the current administration and in general the very corrupted class of ultra rich, read: toxic oligarchy). And there are tons of examples like this. A seemingly “good” system, idealistic in the minds of its supporters,…
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LABEL AI CONTENT
UK Plans To Require Labels On AI-Generated Content It’s a complicated issue to try to block and fine everyone who doesn’t label AI-generated content, but overall I still can’t shake the feeling that normal, working law really could help with one of the most underrated AI-related threats: spam, misinformation, slop, junk, and all the other…
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Reddit and OIL funded Propaganda
Despite being a daily Reddit user since 2008, I’ve actually stopped using the website. It’s full of stupid Iran and Palestine propaganda. Pathetic masses. Arab oil money doesn’t smell. I’m not Jewish, and I don’t care about Israel, but you’d have to be an explicitly dumb idiot to think Hamas or Iran are good. They…
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Developers: Resist and refuse
https://keepandroidopen.org
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Another Spider-Man movie. Another recycled corporate product dressed up as an “event.”
https://reddit.com/comments/1rx0ef1 (New Spider Man Movie Announced) Another Spider-Man movie. Another recycled corporate product dressed up as an “event.” At this point it is hard to call this culture in any serious sense. It is not imagination. It is not artistic risk. It is the industrial reproduction of familiarity by studios too greedy and too cowardly…
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The United Kingdom is escalating its censorship and mass surveillance.
Yes, I noticed it too. It’s stupid, no doubt. You don’t playgames with privacy and security; these are two of the main pillarshuman society stands on. The UK doesn’t seem to be in its bestform today. The United Kingdom is escalating its censorship and mass surveillance. When Mullvad tried to address this with the TV…
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If he knows he is wretched
“Man’s greatness lies in the fact that he knows he is wretched.” Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
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It’s time to Leave Google Behind
Google is tightening the cage again. Now they want every Android developer to identify themselves, register their apps, and pay tribute just to distribute software. Not only inside the Play Store — the pressure is creeping toward the entire ecosystem. Let’s stop pretending this is about “security”. It’s about power. The original idea of Android…
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American Movies
Never been watching American movies, with very few exceptions — a couple of early-early Hollywood detective movies + David Lynch. I prefer French/British/Italian movies spanning around the 1950–2000 era, that’s what I really like. No jokes, I am a big fan of those French movies. Random circumstances led me to watch some Apple TV and…
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What phone I use?
Answering recent tech related questions: I got a random Pixel 6 (not Pro) from a guy for about $150 or so. It works great with the latest GrapheneOS. Everything is perfect: the battery lasts a long time and the phone never gets hot. I have all the apps I need, including books (Librera), maps (OsmAnd),…
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Style
Too much of one brand is always bad style, need to keep variety to get it all better.
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Stability Without Openness or Progress Is Slow Decay Made to Look Respectable.
After spending time in places like Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, and to some extent Brazil, I came to a hard conclusion: closed and protected systems do not only damage the economy. They also damage everyday life, public expectations, business culture, and even the way people think about what is normal. This is not about saying that…
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What I think about hate
Hate just does not work well. One should rather maintain an emotionally cold stance, focus on the brain and the highest reason-driven fighting — in the long term, it is much more efficient… and one will not take so many wrong steps in the ways hate usually leads us. I do not replace hate with…
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Statistical Patterns of Taste
Let’s take, for example, my own music. It’s obvious that if we take 100 random people from the same or a related culture, some of them—maybe 3–7—will dislike all that stuff. A big middle mass will ignore it, and a small number may become fans. Other outcomes are usually decided by ads and capitalism growing…
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US VS THEM
I think folks all over the world are good in their own way, and we should be looking for peace and unity. The very essence of humanity is its mother—society: for example, language itself arose thanks to society, and necessity. I doubt this whole ‘us vs them’ thing is natural — usually, evil comes from…
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Mass culture (48524)
Oddly enough, the phenomenon of mass culture does the opposite—it actually diversifies people—because mass culture is always a surface; superficial. I wouldn’t expect anything genuinely good from a mind seeded with modern mass culture. It’s cheap and plastic—like those tiny chemically dyed party bombs: bright and busy on the outside, but junk inside.
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High-Level Schemas and Representations in Electronic Minds
What if I ask about the highest-level representations in an electronic mind—or, more modestly, about whatever functions as a top-level organizing schema (a “point of support” for the currently active module)? The routing of perception and the distribution of information in any intelligent system appears to be hierarchical. In humans, the highest-level representations often orient…
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What You Plant in Your Mind
Whatever seeds you put in your mind will grow there.If you feed your head with endless social media and daily news noise, your thoughts become crowded with fear, gossip, and confusion. Politicians, celebrities, sport and other noise will serve as substratum for any new thoughts.But if you read good quality books, science, and ideas that…