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The problem is due to the erosion of the meaning of words and the aggressive labeling of every single group in the world (and I consider this something that both sides engage in) that the definition itself depends upon words that no longer carry meaning.

Words like “right-wing” have no meaning because the “right” is nothing like the “right” historically and they stand for nothing. You could slice the population into segments separated by the decade of birth, and every group would have a completely different definition of “democrat” and “republican,” “left-wing” and “right-wing.” Even worse, someone who is classically liberal can be labeled “right-wing” and “fascist” for being pro-life, even though they are pro-legalization of drugs, pro-lgbtq rights, and pro-social assistance.

Definition two is modern, and an attempt to associate people with someone like Stalin, which is bad faith and I will always reject it.

I see this as no different or any less bad than people referring to modern democrats as “socialists” or even “communists.” It’s wrong both technically and morally to attempt to associate those with whom you disagree with mass murderers, unless they are going around killing 10’s of thousands of people unprovoked.

It is far too easy to say you stand against a vague, anamorphic cloud of an idea than to name the person and the specific policy you are against. Virtue signaling without taking any risk of being required to back it up.

“I have a problem with X leader because of Y policy which is bad because Z” opens up the floor to discussion, debate, and either being proven true or false. “Stand against fascism” does not.

Nuance by its very definition requires specificity, and jargon culture is very much an influential part of the shit show politics has become.

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The best definition of right wing vs left wing, that I find easiest to understand, is essentially the battle between order vs chaos, extropy vs entropy, creation vs destruction.

If you could punch one person on this list and get away with it who would it be?

Anthony Fauci

Justin Trudeau

Jay Powell

Jamie Dimon

Elon Musk

Bill Gates

I think Dimon has the most punchable face. It looks soft and squishy but I’d still have to go with Fauci.

Elon Musk.

Musk is the biggest fraud on the list, IMO. The others, with them I feel like I know what I am getting and can can guess their motives.

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Yes

I hope you all like buffalo chicken because I might start a food truck that makes only buffalo chicken.

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And I posted this on nostr. That means it's GOING to happen and you all HAVE to eat it. It's, like, the law–or something.

I hope you all like buffalo chicken because I might start a food truck that makes only buffalo chicken.

#meme #memestr #memes #nostrmemes

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I wish I had the ability to explain this to my etherean friends who are socialists and think communism is good.

SimplifiedPrivacy.com

How Streaming Services train you for Obedience

With novel ways of thinking about propaganda and obedience training, this short post will recommend:

a) stop watching television

b) stop streaming services

c) stop Spotify/music streaming

Television not only rots your brain with low level dribble, but you are a passive consumer. The goal of television is to force-feed you content, instead of having you actively decide or evaluate choices. This trains you to accept authority, as eventually the two choices can turn to one.

In his famous book from 1928 titled “Propaganda”, Edward Bernays, who produced media for the United Fruit Company (and therefore the CIA), to overthrow Latin American governments, pushed the idea that propaganda ought to reduce the choices the consumer make. He promoted the idea that propaganda should push the consumer down to binary thinking. [1]

Even if you were to decide between things to torrent on your PC, that would be better than just turning on the TV and consuming whatever is on. Because torrents force you to research options from an infinite dataset and then make a choice, which is training your mind to question and consider alternatives.

By using streaming services, it creates a cycle of dependence on the provider and the elimination of your privacy. Streaming services force Digital Rights Management (DRM), which is insecure technology that uproots the autonomy of your electronics to become an obedient receiver of commands from the media company, in order to ensure copyright compliance. While this seems like a trivial matter, DRM represents a fundamental shift in the dynamics of power, to have electronics that you own, become subservient to a master other than you. Furthermore, you open yourself up to security vulnerabilities as hackers try to uplift this new-found foreign power.

According to Monero core developer ArticMine, DRM is so insecure, that he does not even trust American cybersecurity firms to diagnose vulnerabilities, because they can’t legally break DRM. Instead, he says it’s a shame that war has prevented the use of Russian companies that can properly diagnose problems. [2]

Services like Spotify reduce the need to research musicians on your own. You accept whatever the popular choices are for a genre and avoid making decisions on what comes next. Furthermore, Spotify and music streaming services like it, reduce the need to interact with others. When I was a teenager, asking other kids what music they liked was how I did research. This made the process of exploration into an activity into itself. Today, you’re hooked into what the AI predicts you’re least likely to close the app after a few seconds if they put on. This merges your unique independent tastes into whatever appeals to the most people who are consuming.

Sources:

https://simplifiedprivacy.com/stream/

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I have often thought about this. Not specifically the obedience aspect. More about how I have noticed that I don't enjoy music as I used to.

I have wondered if, at least in part, that having unfettered access to music has in a way cheapened it. I remember that I used to buy an album, and I would listen to it for weeks and weeks. Now I churn though music. Granted I could just pace myself, but the platforms do not lend themselves to this kind of behavior IMO.

Discovery is different too. It was a skill, maybe even an art, that each person has to develop. Now we don't, or at least I feel I don't have to anymore.

The question is: is that a reflection on me or the tech?

Now that I am following ~800 people on here, I am finding I need to train my self to not scroll endlessly trying to catch up on all of them.

People I follow: it's not you, it's me. I WANT to see what you have to say. But for myself, some will have to fall through the cracks.

The Daniel 🖖

A hilarious normie moment on LinkedIn this weekend:

The Wall Street Journal posted an article about the bitcoin ETF approvals. Of course, it was paywalled and requires a $10 weekly subscription to read it.

I commented:

It would be great to be able to pay for the content of this single article using bitcoin, as opposed to a subscription.

And (I shit you not) someone with a PhD in computer science (according to their bio) replied:

Why? What would make it great?

Waiting several hours to see if the transaction goes through?

Complex management of your bitcoin address?

I think you're confusing 'bitcoin' with 'micro-transactions'. And if there is one thing bitcoin is totally unsuited for, it's micro-transactions. Only 8 transactions per second, shared between the whole planet. Nobody wants to wait hours or days or weeks to find out if a micro-transaction payment cleared on-chain and they can finally view the article.

My response:

Have you not heard of the Lightning Network? It's not 2015 anymore.

Just unbelievable. 🤣

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One of the draw backs of living in a bubble.

Things like the experience discussed are always a great reminder to me that the vast majority do not know anything about Bitcoin. Or at least very little. Not that I know much more.

On top of that, most of them are not curious, outsource all of their thinking or have too much pride and are incapable of any meaningful introspection.

You can insert anything else in bitcoins place and it all still works.

It's fair to say I am probably just as guilty of the same flaws. Regardless, these types, in my view, are not worth engaging with.

I've set up urbit on a VM, but never bought a planet. I might dabbled in it again this year. We'll see.

Justin Murphy has some good stuff, I unsubbed a while back because I was getting too wrapped up in the new right content instead of focusing on trying to grow myself amongst other things. I know he's a big Nick Land fan, I have yet to read much of him yet.

I definitely will check it out, thank you.

This is your profile, but if you click the following tile, this screen below pops up and you can follow all

Ah, I use plebstr.

I can't say for certain. I would guess not due to him being elitist. When he talks about his time on usenet, he refers to the time when it was exclusive as when it was best.

I think he wants or wanted as many barriers to entry as possible to keep the user base as elite as possible.

Interestingly enough, urbit uses ethereum.

I've set up urbit on a VM, but never bought a planet. I might dabbled in it again this year. We'll see.

Justin Murphy has some good stuff, I unsubbed a while back because I was getting too wrapped up in the new right content instead of focusing on trying to grow myself amongst other things. I know he's a big Nick Land fan, I have yet to read much of him yet.

Frogfren17 ⚡️🐸 bitcoin liberation

How do i follow all?

I have been clicking follow on each on.

I did not see a follow all buttin.

This is your profile, but if you click the following tile, this screen below pops up and you can follow all

Wonder if he'd ever consider nostr, considering he's abandoned urbit

I can't say for certain. I would guess not due to him being elitist. When he talks about his time on usenet, he refers to the time when it was exclusive as when it was best.

I think he wants or wanted as many barriers to entry as possible to keep the user base as elite as possible.

Interestingly enough, urbit uses ethereum.

Isn't there a recipe site built on nostr?

I think the best advice I saw regarding nostr was from nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 . Follow a lot right away, then curate from there.

The plebstr client makes it very easy, as you can open someone else's profile, view their follows and click follow all.

Cameri🐦‍🔥

My first truly functional language for sure.

But I’ve done a bit of functional programming with JS/TS.

Likewise. Thanks for sharing what you are up to! I find stuff like this inspires me to stay focused on learning.

Cameri🐦‍🔥

I’m watching it 1.25x w/o issue

Thx for sharing

Is this your first functional language? If not, what others have you dabbled in or used?

Sweet! I have this on my to-watch list. I've also been following some of this cirriculum too:

https://functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/

Any time I get tic tacs I like to pretend I have a pain in my leg, insult everybody constantly, and solve medical mysteries.

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