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Martin Björnsson's avatar

Thank you! This ... Is right up my alley! I have been thinking of this ever since we standardized the internet. Gotta sleep now, but ill be back!

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Pala Najana's avatar

Glad to hear it resonates with you, Martin. Curious to hear your thoughts!

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Martin Björnsson's avatar

What do you think? Too long? :?

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Pala Najana's avatar

Hey Martin, sorry for not responding. My weeks are incredibly packed at the moment. I will get back to you as soon as my time allows. Really appreciate that you took the time to share your thoughts! :)

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Martin Björnsson's avatar

Now. First a small Q/A interview with myself:

* So, Martin, why have you made your remaining lifes biggest mission to counter this utter shit until its no longer needed?

- Because I always knew it could go like this. :P There was a specific bend to get around, when EVERYBODY had start using the net so it was just a comodity and nohting you thought actively about how it woked. ...

And not everybody helped keep it clean anymore, a variant of the natural error reporting that everybody did back then, because it was actively appreciated - ONE of the things that this society needs to learn from the collected IT experience. I'll carry it there somewhere and throw it on somebodys desk and say "Behold!" ;D

I knew this was going straight down the drain when the one monopolistic, closed forum Facebook started to not appreciate and execute my obviously correct fraud reports anymore. >;P Actually, go fuck yourself, Zuck! :P We all FELT that you were a different kind than us.

Because HE didnt solve the *hardest* problem first, the *challenge* to be proud of having solved! He just threw everybody in there, without a thought about solving how to keep it CLEAN so it didnt bubble up lies instead of truth (just as you are into!) and accidentally wreck the goddamn world! :P To us it was obvious that had to be solved, we had seen the newspapers comment sections :P

And we also saw that SOME bright people managed to solve it, <3 like Stackoverflow, which was a brilliant resource for programming Q/A, and of course the programmers knew how to use it and never abuse it, to keep it working. I have a feeling that Quoras mechanisms come from there...? They are among the best. But I also got new ideas recently, hehe! More later.

And you certainly *dont* have a moral license for making the worlds largest fucking market to defraud everyones granny! :P The utter asshatery, the reverence just out of richness and worldly success, and the prancing around like real Visionary on top of that! ... He shall fucking have it! >:P I tell you, i have lord of the rings so i know better than wishing death on people, he may have some gollum-like part to play yet... but IF this leads to a new french revolution, )(which ChatGpt is as worried about as I am, the patterns of radicalization and polarisation are almost exaclty the same - no wonder, this IS a renaissance after an info tech revolution, and those are always extremely tricky.) - if that happens, HE is one of the main responsibles for it and if he died in it - it would be just straight up Kali doing her job administering Instant Karma. :P

Also, we saw the power of big data as force vectors floating aound in the air, back then. since we worreid quite a bit about government surveillance - and the enormous "gravity forces" of THAT much and complete user data for whole generations! would inevitably lead to attracting all SORTS of bullshit clever-seeming ideas about how to use that. We felt it in our very creative spines - "what can you do with THAT much data... :O GODDAMNED! Would not recommend!" :P And sure enough, cambridge analytica came along.

The real power of internet is emerging though, and as soon as we get their monopoly shot to hell by interoperability woth other services, like THEY did to Myspace in the beginning, but are activately stopping everybody from doing now. :P) - letting people leave and still be in touch with their worked up network of friends. And federation, so you dont have all the data at ONE service provider. Real competition always solves it.

And then the surveillance ads ("be your own Goebbels!" :P - and the whole worlds bloody communcatiors actively and uncritically LEARENED this, ALWAYS "engage" with feelings, and nobody kept an eye on what happened if EVERYBODY did that - thats right, inflation. That drove the quickest and strongest feelings straigt to the top, and the others drowned. Because by then we had an info OVERFLOW society, which flips the "info market" old rules totally. But nobody knew. :P

Its very akin to how Maggie Thatchers "never explain, never apoligize" that every politician since have learned, its the basic MO for neoliberalism, to hide that it HAS no explanations, and no economic founding whatsoever! :P Its just a patch for equally one eyed marxism, but soon goes way too far towards the other ditch, but nobody knows that, and its hard to prove. :P

But we seriously underestimated how much we were going to have to EXPLAIN this that was totally self-evident to us, for everyone. For starters, REALLY intelligent people never really understands how rare they are - I have understood it now, and that drives me to take at LEAST as much space as the half-intelligent asshats, or wellmeaing, but with no real clue, and loads of false faith, gladly do. :P Those two who always think that they are smartest because they dont undertstand the smarter ideas.. like.

Whoa. ;) Now Im finished for today. ;) Hope you had something out of this..? :)

Two last thoughts:

1) have you found Cory Doctorow, canadian writer and lovely insightful pioneer blogger? He describes the deteriorating process that always sets in when the investors need monetization to bring their money and profits back, finally. He calls it "enshittification." , and that is now what it is know as in the still living parts of real hackerdom. ;D

2) The soultions I found, I found with this ADHD/meditation/inner socratic dialog brain trick: - "GAAH" WHY do I STILL ALWAYS get angry over them ALWAYS doing this exact shit, its SO depressingly predictable... <- eh, what did I just think? ;D Then there *is* a pattern to use! HAHA!" >:)

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Henry's avatar

Monetary garnishment and physical detainment penalties for obvious lies as spread to others by persons in any position to influence others. Any declarations of fact need to be fact checked before being aired or disseminated to the public under penalty of law. Perhaps this will quiet some of the idiots down?

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