Is this thing on?

Hello, weirdos, freaks and geeks of Nostr. I keep forgetting to post on here, but I am onboard. Here is a blog post that shows you kinda what I am about

Free as in Freedom: Asterisk.

I just wanted to help people.

I'm an old schooler, who has lived it all. Happy to work on Product if anyone needs it. Not for free... too poor from teh shadow-banning these days ;-) But yes. Good to know you.

I wrote this last week. I keep forgetting to post on here, but will get there :-) "When Everything is Awful and Everyone is Upset".

When everything is awful and everyone is upset

Nobody likes a smartarse

Me trying to explain Elon Musk and Cat Turd in 2013 https://x.com/tealou/status/1693496076454826376

If you spend 5 minutes on Threads, you’ll understand that Zuck got his Metaverse. Just no graphics cards or stupid goggles required. At least Elon and @jack seem to be on the other side of that. Seem. I don't know who to trust in tech anymore, but I have to trust someone. All I know, is that Threads IS THE METAVERSE. He just pivoted. Instead it just leverages our own brains and self-bullshit, with no need for expensive hardware. It’s just digital Soma, man. Yuck. (And if you don’t know what Soma is, I’d like to suggest you have better ways to spend your time than on Threads or Twitter and read a little more.) Honestly it all just creeps me the fuck out. Toilet paper runs, egg panic buying, clearing of shelves... never buying a house and thinking it is your fault, wanting what others have, thinking 'virality' is your goal, mindless "positive" distractions and empty platitudes pushed to the front - anything real brushed aside. Our opinions, desires, dreams and lives dictated by one company whose only customers and only interests are to serve those who control our food, medicine, water and shelter. And can take it away at a whim. I don't know about you, but I tend to think technofascism and this concentrated power is bad. I will always try to turn it around, but honestly, I am just creeped out. Really creeped out by how many people are falling for it. All I know is that I am screwed, because I won't be giving in. I will be trying to keep as many people in the real, messy and uncomfortable real world as I possibly can. Saw what you will about Twitter, but I want to make it so that we can at least be free from that crap. It has its issues, yes (mostly another side who tell you they're the alternative, but they're actually just trying to sell you their version of the same thing) but holy shit does Threads creep me the fuck out. Zuck got his wish. "the warm, the richly coloured, the infinitely friendly world of soma-holiday. How kind, how good-looking, how delightfully amusing every one was!" - Brave New World.

There’s nothing wrong with liking Threads and thinking it’ll kill Twitter. It won't, but you can think that. There’s also nothing wrong with me thinking Threads is stupid, and that people who like Threads are stupid and making fun of them on Twitter, which, will federate and be fine and be its own thing. Or, playing both sides for my own amusement and profit. That’s the beauty of these things called civil liberties, democracy, and freedom of expression and freedom of association, and participation... that the Internet was supposedly built to enable. That was the promise I thought there was. I know it's very inconvenient, to have to hear that maybe you aren't all that great, and I don't think you're all that clever or interesting... but so long as I am not crossing a line into harassment and keep it above the waist/in good humour/am giving you tough love, it is as much my right to call you a vessel for corporate nonsense and doublethink as it is for you to be one. If you are a little more open-minded, and humble, you might even take some of that tough love on board, and might listen and achieve actual change, actual progress, and do something over and above a pitch deck to help the structurally disadvantaged. People are angry on Twitter because they've been dispossessed and are angry and hurting. They need an outlet for their anger because the powers that be aren't listening, keep promising and never delivering. and are too busy tweaking their decks and talking about how "nice" Threads is, without those vulgar and horrible people who say horrible things. I mean, imagine being upset by the current system AND SAYING IT OUT LOUD to the people who hoard all the resources and power and don't share. The nerve of them. Don't they know who is allowed to speak? Honestly? I am perfectly fine with you existing on the internet. I am not some dude still holding grudges against AOL from September 1993. I, in fact, encourage it, because I get a lot of amusement and comedy mileage from laughing at you. I want you to have a curated experience, a portal that makes people enjoy the internet as much as I have over the years. You become my problem when you start telling me that I am not allowed to like Twitter, want to start policing what isn't on your branded portal and Fisher Price Internet, and don't want me to have my own non-bland, non-stupid beliefs and ideas. So, Threads lovers and Twitter haters, how about you just... leave everyone alone and make it okay for me too and stop censoring people and policing thoughts. Or, better yet, learn how to coexist on something built for all of us, not just you and your brand partners and Human Resources Managers. How about we all part ways, and live and let live. One day, you might even learn to step out of this bubble you've made for yourself where you are great, you are right, and everything you do is for the best... and maybe, with a little help, look within and see that maybe, you ain't so great, take the feedback, reflect on the substance and realise that you are actually part of a very big problem. Thanks.

Threads A Thread

Good to see that #nostr has gotten a little better in the #ux department since the last time I checked. Well done!

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