The title of this video is a little misleading. But it absolutely demolishes in explaining why Charlie Kirk is nowhere near a Martin Luther King https://youtube.com/watch?v=D6LI4noNM1U&si=0jMrB-QnySISu83j #CharlieKirk #YouTube

It's Time to Ditch Plex https://melkat.blog/p/ditch-plex/ #Plex

I will be the first one to point out that technology could be a lot easier for people, we could be teaching technology a lot better than we are, but there is an undercurrent that I can’t ignore anymore. People are more than willing to understand and actively notice the issues with algorithm driven social media, billionaire controled social media, and otherwise, but they just refused to leave. If I get frustrated with this Stockholm syndrome behavior, I am blaming the victim. The below is a post from a popular account. I am moderately tech savvy. I cannot code to save my life. I can edit code, and I can clean up code, but I can’t write code from scratch to save my life. I don’t know how to do everything on the terminal yet, even though I sincerely think that the terminal is the pinnacle of user experience, There’s a lot of things I don’t know, but I have my own Website. I have figured out this place. I have my own website on my own server that I pay for and that the community pays for. At some point, I really do have to wonder, do people like the fight more than the liberation? I’m not sure how to articulate my frustration without blaming the victom.

I feel like a lot of people like The fight more than the notion of actively living free.

I don’t know what to call it yet, but it’s very much troubling.

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Facebook doesn’t want Closer to the Edge. They want a neutered, housebroken, polite little blog that says “civil disobedience” with a smile and a curtsy. They want us to ask permission to speak, to soften our words until they feel like buttered toast sliding down the throat of a billionaire. Instead, we told the truth with barbed wire metaphors and jokes sharper than Zuckerberg’s hairline, and now they’re clutching their pearls like the hypocritical little tyrants they are.

Mark Zuckerberg’s empire flagged us, throttled us, and threatened to delete our content — not because we lied, not because we were wrong, but because we made them uncomfortable. They don’t mind violence — Facebook’s full of it. What they mind is when you name the perpetrators and expose the power protecting them. That’s the unforgivable sin. We quoted an insurrectionist verbatim. We called for nonviolent civil disobedience and, God forbid, suggested that the metaphorical tires of authoritarianism deserve to be metaphorically slashed on the way out. That was too much for Mark.

Let’s be clear: they didn’t catch us in an accident. They restored our post after we appealed — admitted we were right — then weeks later flagged the same fucking post all over again. That’s not a glitch. That’s gaslighting with a blue checkmark.

And now they’re threatening to delete more. They’ve told us that come October, some or all of our content might vanish. Will it be a post? The entire page? They won’t say. They don’t have to. That’s the point of the threat — keep the sword dangling just long enough to make you flinch. But we’re not flinching. We’re not deleting a single word. If it’s good enough for Substack, it’s good enough for Facebook, and if Facebook doesn’t like that, they can shove their community standards up the same place they hide their ethics.

You want to know the difference between Substack and Facebook? Substack powers our website. Substack publishes us because we have readers who subscribe, not advertisers who need to be coddled. Substack isn’t run by a dead-eyed billionaire cosplaying as a human being while his platform gorges itself on surveillance capitalism. Substack doesn’t throttle us, mute us, shadowban us, or send us warnings dressed up as content policy love notes. We write, you read — that’s the deal. No middleman, no algorithm trying to decide if your anger is brand-safe.

We’re not going to post all of our articles on Facebook anymore. Not until Zuckerberg lifts the restrictions. We’re not going to feed the machine that’s trying to strangle us with our own words. If you want us, if you want the raw, unfiltered, unthrottled truth, you’ll find us on Substack, where the only standards are the ones we set for ourselves.

We won’t beg, but we will tell you this: we can’t do this without you. Your support keeps us writing, fighting, publishing, and defying. It keeps the lights on, the servers paid for, and the fire burning hot enough to make Zuckerberg sweat in his sad little Metaverse.

Thank you to every reader, every subscriber, every amplifier of this work. You’ve made Closer to the Edge more dangerous to the right people than we ever imagined. Facebook may decide to pull the plug on us, but your support will help ensure our survival

We’ll see you at the Edge.

Hey nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqeyt462nnc6ahs7qf8zznhklsfega2wfc5hhwedwtxs687fhyp5us0l4zed do you know anybody that got executable applications and python to run on this? I can’t tell how far they are, but it is Lennox under the hood, but is trying to be an open source version of Windows. ReactOS 0.4.15 released | ReactOS Project https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-0415-released/ #Windows #OpenSource

Mainstream gaming press is strange today. Gaming media are acting as if #Nintendo invented the online version of playing with friends and not everybody needs to have the game. https://www.nintendo.com/us/gaming-systems/switch-2/features/gameshare/ #Gaming #Games

rkingett deleted branch fix/blank-icon-announcement at rkingett/myblog https://github.com/

We stay strong against hate and hatred https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html #Codeberg

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqudc0u66a5ws7fa6d46p4fry5sqgyd2ek2z7jd5vsc2t2fjf22hlsauj2ca nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq85yr3dmdcvhmlv222y7k6xjhpz8jzpqlajsdzuplcsq8knf9t22s3tlmch That’s another thing, I was looking for a simple video. I think it was a book review, and then I got 50 results of product ads. I did not come to YouTube to shop. It’s the most wild thing ever

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqy59uehrrjt3d879ztewmgtz288uzg5kc55pcumnp3xvmpp4gwlwq2r76lf I do the iPhone app and the browser, and obviously, it doesn’t work in the YouTube app but that extension is the only way I can watch YouTube in the browser now

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq85yr3dmdcvhmlv222y7k6xjhpz8jzpqlajsdzuplcsq8knf9t22s3tlmch You can say that again!

I wish YouTube creators would understand that it’s becoming a chore to watch YouTube videos. The ads before, and during, videos are getting to the point of absurdity. Just as an experiment, I just let the ads play for one video. No ad skipping. There was an ad that was an hour long and it was a advideo that was made to look like it was a YouTube video. I don’t remember what the person was talking about, but it was clearly an ad on top of your video. For the love of your audience everywhere, I beg you to look into publishing video podcasts. People can watch your podcast in any podcast app and ads aren’t taking away your audience. #YouTube

In my quest to find something with the power of #EMacs including the text expansion feature, but something with traditional Windows keybinds/keyboard commands, Control S to save, as an example, I kept being redirected to Sublime Text. I heard VIM isn't screen reader accessible. I actually really like EMacs but my muscle memory just isn't adapting. Is there something similar for Windows? I do like Doom Emacs though I do use #LibreOffice as a basically a glorified text editor but any other suggestions?!

Link at end, but If you unknowingly bought an audiobook with #AI narration, #LibroFM will refund you! More should do this! Just have a link to the audiobook, the date you bought it, and let them know it's AI narrated so they can flag it https://blog.libro.fm/an-update-on-libro-fms-response-to-ai-narration/ #Audible #AudioBook #AudioBooks nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqkt3hutklgrma64ykjwk4trxq9rtyfnxhkjz729g4pd9xl7hzhrjs9l9vtz nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqqv0vgh4kxhj0rt2mky05082kzfenr75y7654nfgs2yt2sxvz65js4rjgdx

How Engineered Dependency Erases Our Autonomy https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/how-engineered-dependency-erases-our-autonomy/ #AI #AIHype #Technology #SocialMedia #Privacy

Meet the underpaid workers in Nairobi, Kenya, who power OpenAI. https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/30/meet-the-underpaid-workers-in-nairobi-kenya-who-power-openai/ #AI #OpenAI

Had my literary agent actually stipulate that for my projects, I wanted human editors, human audiobook narrators, human cover artists, or else I'd take my book elsewhere. Don't let #Publishing trick you into pretending they hate AI or are against AI because they love #AI and so, you need to be extra firm on this and yes, they are fighting us every step of the way.