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I was fine before the AI.

The biggest customer of AI are the billionaires who can't hire enough people for their technofeudalist/surveillance capitalism agenda. The billionaires (wannabe aristocrats) know that machines have no morals, no bottom lines, no scruples, don't leak info to the press, don't complain, don't demand to take time off or to work from home, etc.

AI makes the perfect fascist.

They sell AI like it's a benefit to us all, but it ain't that. It's a benefit to the billionaires who think they own our world.

AI is used for censorship, surveillance pricing, activism/protest analysis, making firing decisions, making kill decisions in battle, etc. It's a nightmare fuel under our system of absurd wealth concentration.

Fuck AI.

Try asking AI for a complete list of the recently deceased CEOs and billionaires based on the publicly available search results.

When I tried, I got only the natural deaths of just some of the publicly available results. All the other deaths were omitted. I brought up the omitted names, one by one. The AI said it was sorry for the omission, and it had all the right details of their passings. With each new name the AI said it was sorry, it omitted it by accident. I said no, once is an accident, but this was a deliberate pattern. The AI waffled and talked like a politician.

The AI in my experience is absolutely controlled on a number of topics. It's still useful for cooking recipies and such. I will not trust it on any topic that is sensitive to its owners.

Tecnowashing is also fraud.

Take a failed concept like the gold standard, technowash it, and you get crypto scamcoins.

Greenwashing, sportswashing (saudi arabia), sanewashing (presenting insane ideas as debatable ideas, like debating human rights with someone who is against human rights ends up sanewashing the anti-rights position), small business washing (using ostensibly a pro small business argument to push a fortune 100 agenda), worker washing (treat workers like shit in private but make pro worker noises in public), gender washing (the politician with an anti-woman agenda is a woman so it's OK), minority washing (a fascist pundit is a minority that fascism often targets, so fascism is OK now). Now we can add tecnowashing to the list.

Another example of technowashing is when a real estate company presents itself as a tech startup to inflate its valuation.

All this washing has exploded in recent years.

I use IronFox all the time. For me almost nothing is broken.

Once a year I find one low value site that I have to load in Cromite to see what it is, and then I never use that trash site again.

In other words, IronFox fulfills 100% of all my browsing needs excellently.

I used Mull before IronFox, and my experience there was excellent as well.

There is no good reason to use Chrome today or even some years back when Mull was the thing.

New people enter the market all the time.

That update is for those that don't already have a Fairphone, presumably.

That said, I agree with your overall point. They should offer tablets and watches if they can.

Consumer activism, by itself, has rarely, if ever, accomplished anything.

The best recent examble was Tesla, but that wasn't a mere non-buying action. Tesla action involved vandalism and a massive word of mouth campaign.

Basically if we want to fight for a future we believe in, we must stop playing patty cakes and fight like it's a life and death struggle.

Symbolic resistance is not enough.

Don't get me wrong, I still avoid buying Nestle products, and have for years, but I know this is not the way to real change.

I want us to stop suggesting consumer activism as a valid pathway to change.

As someone who has put a stop to his nightmares, there is lots you can do.

Because there is no fence between you and your nightmares, you can touch them just as they touch you.

You can intervene. I've intervened personally, but I imagine a therapist can also work assuming you are OK with collaborating.

In my view, and this is what's worked for me, becoming conscious that you are dreaming while you are still dreaming, is the best intervention. That's called "lucid dreaming." Lucidity is a choice. You can decide to be conscious instead of on autopilot for any one or any set of dreams.

Imagine you are having a nightmare, but unlike the usual automatic responce, your mind, which you have dilligently programmed during the day, recognises your state for what it is: a short-term nighttime dream. Even as the nightmare unfolds, you stop running, tave a breath, and say to yourself, "Ahhh, so this is a dream! I have a body resting in bed right now. I live in such and such city where the resting in bed body is. The name of the body in bed is such and such. And this circumstance here is a nighttime occurence, occuring in my mind while my long-term body rests in bed. I don't need to be afraid of anything here. This is my dream and I am free here. I don't have to buy into anything here. The rest is up to me." Now that nightmare either has no power whatsoever or at best a minuscule fraction of its former power.

That's not the only possible intervention, but that's what's worked for me.

This is an executive summary. The actual journey to conscious dreaming, aka lucid dreaming, is very involved, rewarding, and worthwhile. There is plenty of info on it if you search it out.

I think both peace and war are profitable. But those that profit from war may be more pushy than those that profit from peace, and so may get their way even as an unpopular minority .

Unless, the left (usually more pro peace) learns a few lessons from the right and places good outcomes above the holier than thou moral purity. "I've never made anyone uncomfortable" is not the merit badge that some think it is.

Of course the left can never be a mirror copy of the right because the left cannot afford to give as few fucks about anything as the right (who represent the already-haves economic incumbents; it's not called the "fuck you money" for nothing). But the left can be way tougher and nuancedly uncompromising and even calculatingly and carefully millitant.

Might does not make right but might DOES make POLICY.

You need both right and might to live under a good policy.

Lotta good it does anyone to be right and insightful on all the issues and have zero impact anywhere.

Quote from the video, "You can smell it as well," refering to the turbine opetation.

They emit smell. That comports with the leak being gas and not just heat.

Crypto is a solution looking for a problem.

The people behind crypto never studied the history of the gold standard.

Crypto is a ponzi scheme virtual asset, not a currency.

They will if the cost/benefit equation changes. I don't only mean economics here, but I am using "cost/benefit" as a wide spectrum metaphor. In other words, once it's not worth doing, they won't do it anymore.

Jury nullification.