Polyglot, vlogger, individualist, capitalist, eurosceptic. Leftism is a mental disorder. freedomalternative.com I despise Twitter, therefore I troll.
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To paraphrase a classic, what you are about to read is the equivalent of someone telling you in 2007 about the madness of COVID-19. But this will happen. The correction on sexual politics is long overdue and it started somewhere in the post-pandemic period.
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AVAST (Czech company) was great. Then a US company bought it and turned it into spyware.
Skype (Estonian) was great. Then Microsoft bought it and killed it because it didn't spy.
RAV was great. Bought by Microsoft and killed because it actually cleaned desktop viruses [1/2]
Avast sold your browsing history while telling you it was protecting your privacy.
for six years.
Avast antivirus and browser extensions collected URLs, search queries, timestamps, and cookie data from hundreds of millions of users. the pitch: we protect you from online tracking.
Behind the scenes: Avast ran a subsidiary called Jumpshot. Jumpshot packaged that browsing data and sold it to over 100 third parties, advertising companies, marketing firms, data brokers, investment companies.
The data included every webpage you visited, exact timestamps, device and browser type, city, state, country and a unique persistent device identifier attached to your profile.
Avast said it anonymized the data before selling it.
the FTC said that was false, the identifier allowed buyers to trace specific individuals across every website they visited over time.
8 petabytes of browsing data accumulated by 2020.
before 2018 Avast didn't mention any of this in its privacy policy at all.
The FTC fined them $16.5 million in 2024. Avast called it "resolving its investigation of past provisions." they shut down Jumpshot in 2020 after Motherboard first reported it.
$16.5 million is roughly what Avast made selling your data in a single quarter.
the antivirus watching your traffic to protect you from trackers was the tracker 😂.
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Apiary (Czech) was actually useful for devs. Got acquired by Oracle and quietly killed because it was way better than every equivalent American tool. Same happened to Ukrainian-made Maxymiser.
Noticing a pattern yet?
Btw, it accelerated with Indianification of Silicon Valley.
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Turned this into a long article (even more examples and some analysis).
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"Fuck dem elders" is going to be a popular position in 10 years. Even among a significant minority of elders.
But not in the US. As per usual, the US will be behind the curve. It will be France and Scandinavia first. Then the rest of Europe. Then Asia.
Usually I agree with you and I’m a staunch Republican but if you take away my Social Security I’m a Democrat for the first time in my life. I spent my entire life planning for retirement with Social Security a major part of it and paid into the systems as a young person so that the older generation could have some support
I’ll make a deal with you, pay me back every penny I put into it and every penny my employers put into it on my behalf at 5% interest and you can take away the monthly checks.
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The "tech" grift is the medical cartel's best friend.
Both are illegitimate professions and enablers of totalitarianism so of course they get along with each other so well.
Both profit off of engineers (who, unlike doctors and coders, are in fact a legitimate profession).
Why does every single medical device need to connect to Silicon Valley software?
My 79-year-old grandmother has worn hearing aids for almost fifteen years.
Her old pair had a tiny physical wheel: roll it up for louder, roll it down for quieter, click it to turn it off. Simple. Reliable.
Three months ago, her clinic told her that model was obsolete and fitted her with a new, $4,000 "state-of-the-art" digital pair.
No physical dials. No volume switches.
The audiologist proudly told her:
“Everything is seamlessly controlled right from your smartphone app!”
Last Thursday, the app pushed an automatic software update overnight.
It logged her out of her profile. When she put them in her ears that morning, the aids defaulted to muted mode.
She spent four full days in total, isolating silence.
She didn't know what an update was. She didn't know her password.
She genuinely thought her hearing had completely failed overnight and spent the entire weekend terrified to leave her bedroom.
When I stopped by on Sunday and saw her sitting in tears, it took me forty-five seconds to reset the Bluetooth pairing and log back into the app.
A basic medical device that keeps an elderly woman connected to the human world shouldn't become completely useless because an iOS app had a bug.
We aren't modernizing products to help patients. We’re doing it to force software ecosystems onto people who just want to hear their grandkids.
Have you had to rescue an aging relative from an unnecessarily "smart" medical gadget?
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It's shit like this that I have in mind when I say that the medical profession in its totality is illegitimate and it's a cartel.
Doctors are well-paid not because they're good (most are objectively not), but because they actively prevent innovation and competition.
If you want to understand why healthcare is so expensive, I'd start with a Supreme Court case about teeth whitening.
Around 2003, spas and small kiosks in North Carolina were offering teeth whitening for a fraction of what dentists charge.
So dentists complained to the state dental board. That dental board looks like this:
- 6 of 8 are practicing dentists, elected by other dentists
- 8 of the 10 who sat on the board during this period earned substantial fees from whitening
The board sent 47+ cease-and-desist letters, warning non-dentists that they're committing a crime by practicing dentistry without a license. The board also sent letters to mall operators, advising them to expel whitening kiosks.
All this worked! These kiosks shut down, prices stayed high, dentists stayed happy.
Regulatory capture like this exists all over in healthcare. What makes this case notable is that someone actually sued the NC dental board, in a case that went all the way to the supreme court.
In a 6-3 ruling, the SC ruled that if a board is run by those who participate in the market without proper supervision - that looks like a cartel, therefore, antitrust law applies.
I have to believe there are so many other potential cases like this in healthcare, just waiting to be pressed on. I'd love to see more of this.
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Ageism has always been a thing. It got turbocharged more recently because nuance became haram. Also child labor laws didn't help either.
It's not just "tech". It's quite a bit of everything.
Ageism in tech is a real issue. There just are no companies willing to take a chance on a 52 year old engineer with literally decades of experience. Hard to understand, if you ask me.
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Some people don't live in reality.
In reality 3 teenagers can cut the electricity on 6k+ sq km. 200 teenagers can throw a middle European country in a weeks-long blackout.
50,000 teenagers can terminate every single tech bro in Europe in under a week. 100k in North America.
My theory on the future of work:
In 5-10 years, huge percentages of white-collar and blue-collar jobs will be wiped out by AI and robotics. UBI will come in fast to provide basic housing and living needs to counter mass layoffs. Many won't know where to turn for work, but also for meaning and purpose. Degeneracy and hedonism will rise in many, but so will creativity and expression in others. This will begin a great split in society. Some will fall into deep states of unconsciousness and sedation. Others will begin to awaken into greater degrees of consciousness and spirituality. Read Revelation and you can see this potentiality prophesied.
In 25 years, we will live in a completely different world than the one we see now. Everyone will have personal robots. AI will be fast and powerful beyond comprehension. Very few people will have to do work they don't enjoy. The concept of work as we know it will be totally different. How much love and happiness you can provide to humanity will become more valuable than how productive you are (AI will blow all humans out of the water from a productivity standpoint). As long as you contribute to the collective happiness of humanity, you will be rewarded. Even if you don't, your baseline needs will be taken care of, but the cost is that your spirit will feel empty. It will be a strange time. We will have to relearn what it means to live a life of meaning, to grow up, and to provide value to the world. Humanity will be on the edge of total freedom and infinite abundance. But it will be strange. It will feel too good to be true. There will be a lot of nihilism and hopelessness. It may become darkest before the new dawn. We will have to turn back to nature, children, shamans, and spiritual texts for meaning and direction as individuals and as a species.
In 50-100 years, as long as we don't destroy things, there will be nothing left to do for the sake of survival. All there will be to do is create, play, explore, and love. Nothing else will matter. Being a creator will be the only thing that exists. But you won't create for money. You will create for the sake of creation, because creation is intrinsic to your nature as a human being. It will be like being a kid again, but all the time. The concept of jobs, careers, and money as we know it will be ancient relics of the past. We will look at them as forms of mental and spiritual slavery that we imposed upon our own race. Humanity will exist in a new Golden Age of abundance, free to create, play, love, and express themselves. All that will matter is community, family, love, creativity, and spirituality.
It is our return to Eden, as long as we don't fuck it up first.
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>We also can't bring back fraternities, communities, or guilds
Civilizations that think like this deserve to die off and be replaced by civilizations and people groups that do not think like this.
AI shills and technooptimists are subhumans. Basically all of them at this point.
There's no reason to imagine that there's only one solution to loneliness. Yes, it would be preferable if everyone got married and had families. There's no way to make it happen, not so long as feminism and the pill exist. We also can't bring back fraternities, communities, or guilds. Certain things are simply gone.
In lieu of that, an AI that can perfectly simulate a human being is a perfectly fine answer to the search for connection. There's no psychological reason why it's not.
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CNN continues to be one of the best cheerleaders for the Trump administration.
The US State Department directed millions of dollars originally earmarked to promote human rights to promote far-right causes including Afrikaner rights in South Africa, safeguarding "Western civilizational norms," and documenting "backsliding" in Europe related to mass migration, a source familiar with the matter told CNN. cnn.it/471EYZQ
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Oh look, just another teacher who is also a sexual abuser.
Not all female teachers, but almost always a female teacher.
The sister of Baywatch star Noah Beck is facing fresh allegations that she groomed a second student while teaching at an Arizona high school, allegedly supplying him with alcohol and marijuana trib.al/h8x1AGu 🔗
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It's amazing that our American friends needed almost 50 years to collectively figure out the college scam. Still, better later than never.
If you love your child(ren), you don't send them to college. If you truly love them, you don't send them to any gov't school at all.
Spending 4-8 years on a luxurious vacay funded by parents or government turns out to be a thing for low-opportunity-cost people. Anyone in a real profession faces super rigorous credentialing systems post-college in any case.
Record-Low 31% Say College Education Is 'Very Important' news.gallup.com/poll/715133/…
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No GoFundMe link? 🤔
This is horrifying.
A 6-year-old South Carolina boy called his grandmother to say he was hungry and his mom wasn't home. She rushed over with a friend of his mom and found him and his 3-year-old sibling severely injured.
Investigators say the two kids had about 50 stab wounds between them, some down to the bone. Warrants allege their mother, 35-year-old Taylor Gosnell, attacked them with a baseball bat and a circular knife. She's charged with two counts of attempted murder plus two weapons charges and was denied bond. Her 6-year-old may lose his arm.
Pray for those babies.
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The death penalty is no longer common in the world. However, there are still 54 countries (1/4 of the World) that actively use it. Of those, 53 have zero incidents of botched executions.
The Burgers are safe. Their own govt can't even kill two-legged monsters properly.
BREAKING: Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is still alive after two lethal injections, her lawyer says in a motion to again halt the execution. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ahe…
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Enshitification exists because of grifts.
And grifts are possible thanks to ZIRP and tens of millions of suckers believing the grift pitch.
A startup founder told me yesterday they raised $2M to build an autonomous AI agent for enterprise data retrieval.
I looked at their tech stack. it's literally just a vector database, 3 openai api calls in a loop, and a postgres table.
Their monthly api bill is $14000.
A single indexed sql query would do the exact same job for $20/month on a basic vps.
We are living in the biggest compute burning bubble in human history.
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