Notices by Toni Aittoniemi (gimulnautti@mastodon.green), page 2

Se let me get this straight:

Silicon Valley ”disrupted” communication. It was good for a while, but then gamifying it for engagement made us just get mad at each other & finally abandon truth for virality.

Then they disrupted dating. It was good for a while, but then gamification made people disengage, ghost each other and have less sex than ever before.

Now Silicon Valley wants to ”solve” all the loneliness they created with #AI companions! I think I know what the end result will be. 😡

True freedom of speech is not an absence of limitations, that is a naive simplification

True freedom is not an absence, but a presence

Lies are not freedom, speaking the truth against lies is

The powerful fooling the people is not freedom, speaking truth against power is

Corrupt people equate lies & oppression with freedom

True freedom is not predictable, predefined or a zero-sum game. It is not for the one, but for the many

True freedom does not manifest through subtraction, but addition

If they can’t see what we say, it’s not #federation.

If they can’t follow us, it’s not federation.

If it requires account duplication, it’s not federation.

@mosseri and the rest of you. #Threads, #bluesky, i’m talking to you. But you shut your ears, because all these tricks are ones you need. To continue your data-thieving business model.

The #GreatDataHeist of 2024, that’s you. Trying to do it to us, candidly, but I pay my dues in money, not privacy.

#fediverse, or don’t

Finnish critic of the far right & Russian influence operations had her appearance at a book fair again frequented by thugs. An un-cooperative thug had to be forcefully removed from the audience.

This dynamic has been going on since 2014, when Russia first invaded ukrainian Crimea.

You in the US may not be familiar with this kind of tactics, but Russia is the master of it. It always looks as if it’s some kind of homegrown resistance.

#farright #finland #russia
https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000010789895.html

UK #journalist Caolan Robertson reporting live from #kherson, #ukraine

”Russians wear their war crimes like a badge of honor, overlaying their killing of civilians with inspiring soundtracks and spreading on telegram”

”When I came here I thought the war was between Russia and Ukraine, but I’ve realised it’s Russia against everyone alive here”

On Operator Starsky’s channel. #nafo #RussiaIsATerroristState
https://www.youtube.com/live/JGJanQRmk9Q?si=bBGMWVP4LSC7rlUL

Insane Clown Posse drops a somewhat Kamala Harris -endorsing line. Not that I was expecting the juggalos to be on the other side.. ✌️🤡

#kamalaharris #Election2024 #icp
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/insane-clown-posse-violent-j-endorses-kamala-harris-daily-show-1236042721/

@NeonPurpleStar I made my 14-year old watch it with me. She wasn’t bored. Star Wars fandom pulled through! 😊

Pissedmagistus from Norway on capitalism != innovation. It’s funny how we still repeat this cold war propaganda slogan like it was god’s honest truth.

I mean, there’s a kernel of truth to it, but only if you compare it to Russian failboat communism.

This guy is my favourite Tiktokker.
#capitalism #tiktok

Wired Magazine wrote an article about us #fellas!

Shitposting cartoon dogs of the internet raised millions of dollars to send soon 500 trucks, probably 10000 drones, jammers, medical equipmment, you name it, directly to Ukrainian units!

We rock fellas! Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava!
https://www.wired.com/story/nafo-ukraine-russia-war/

#nafo #nafoexpansionisnonnegotiable #slavaukraini #RussiaIsATerroristState

When you attack #maga, whatever you do, don’t shame people for feeling good.

When you want to break an #addiction, the route to success is almost never direct, but finding a distraction.

Charismatic #populism hooks people into a narrative of self-aggrandicising heroism, and then tells whatever lies it needs to keep them there. The feeling, the affect, validates the transaction. Facts aren’t central at all.

The only place where an intervention might succeed is outside the pepe-zone.

Note that since May of this year, US military command has been trying to convince #spacex to stop #Russia from illegally utilising #starlink in it’s also illegal invasion of Ukraine.

Since Starlink is still working for Russia, and Shaheed drones with terminals onboard continue raining down on Ukraine, we know SpaceX isn’t co-operating.

If they aren’t cooperating, we also know who is ultimatlty responsible for that.

China now supports Russia’s territorial aims in Ukraine & Russia supports China’s aims in Taiwan through new ”partnership pact”.

If you are tired of war, you’re looking in the wrong direction.

Ukraine fighting back isn’t a pathway towards World War 3. It is preventing it from starting.

This is it. Wake up people.

#nafo #china #russia #pact #escalation #ukraine

@stevehayes What did the US do in Ukraine exactly?

What US assets were there, responsible for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?

You can try to answer, but you won’t find an answer that I won’t be able to debunk as bullshit fed to your media environment by Russia.

But we both seem to agree that this can either be the last battle of WW3 or the first one.

It is 1938, and Checoslovakia has chosen to fight.

If they’d won, Hitler wouldn’t have been able to escalate as badly. We are here.

Hey #nafo #fellas, anybody get their checks from #cia yet?

Mine seems to be running two years late...

Russian MP proposed fines for being childless. They have killed so many of their best & youngest they’re thinking of having not having children punishable by law.

Trump loves Russia, Elon Musk loves them too. It’s the same people over in Russia as MAGA lunatics. Their tactics are the same, they lie in the same way, they praise the same topics, they fear the same wokeness.

MAGA is the Russianisation of USA.

#russia #radical #conservatism #maga #nafo
https://www.intellinews.com/russian-mp-proposes-childlessness-tax-346767/

#copyright laws didn’t exist before the printing press. There didn’t exist a need to protect authors from mass plagiarism by machine.

Likewise, before generative #LLM #AI there was no need for copyright enforcement to cover infringement by statistical methods.

When technological paradigms shift, the threats humans need to be protected from shift also.

Have you longed for some wise people talking about #AI, who know what they’re speaking about, but aren’t at the same time in the ownership or beneficiary classes from these technologies?

So have I.

The myths Silicon Valley tries to sell us are busted here, but not in a dismissive or doomy way. Harari & Raskin recognize the amazing potential of AI, while they see also the potential of not having a functioning society at the end to enjoy the benefits.

https://youtu.be/DUi6evp98MM?si=ke5tj98p1fVPwMVT

If nothing else, Harari’s comparison of Silicon Valley to the Bolshevik party is priceless! 😃

The similarities are indeed striking: Here is a small group of people, who think they are a vanguard that can re-engineer society from scratch.

This small group of people think they know something the entire rest of the world doesn’t, and that they can engineer a utopia. And because they believe in it so hard, that gives them the permission to harm a lot of people on the way.

#siliconvalley #harari

Serving ruschist imperialists breakfast since 2022 #himars #nafo

Bringing stability to Russia, Putin style.
#russia #airbase #strike #nafo