Apple just updated the Twitter app on my phone so it’s no longer called Twitter but X, and changed the logo so the bird is gone. I’m reflecting on a journey that has been several years coming. I was addicted to Facebook years ago, but when they forced me to download a messenger app separate from the main app to chat (apart from WhatsApp that I already had) and realized the surveillance system they were creating I walked away and basically quit their platform. I found a new home in some online forums using Tapatalk to feed my social media addiction. I paid for a lifetime subscription to the app, but then the dev came out with Tapatalk 2.0 (basically the same app w/ more features) and the TOS changed and they wanted me to pay again. By this point however the communities had grown so toxic that as my interests changed I couldn’t even continue on the forums and walked away again. For a little while it felt freeing to be off everything, but then I got hooked in with Reddit. I had always dabbled in Reddit but I was never a daily user. And then I was. Until the owner decided to change an API so that my preferred app could access Reddit. Again I was disappointed and heard the voices saying Reddit wasn’t what it used to be, saw the writing on the wall, and felt like it was time to move on. But on to what? Well, I had been co-dependent on Twitter during this time but now I was putting 100% of my time on social media towards Twitter. With Elon came changes: some good, but also some I didn’t like. I’m afraid of and against an all-in-one app like WeChat or Facebook + messenger + LibraPay. I know Apple and Google are interwoven into society in so many ways but I find myself turning more towards sovereignty, FOSS, and Bitcoin. So, I think it’s time to walk away from Twitter/C and embrace NOSTR fully. It suits my values. So I’m sad, but also happy today!

James Madison must’ve been a time traveler. It’s as if he could see into the future: "There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison (1788)

Plato, who was never seen laughing, and had given himself the model of avoiding the evils and unpleasant situations of society, was asked two questions : “What are the behaviors of people that surprise you the most?” Plato enumerated them in order: “They get bored in childhood and hurry to grow up, but then they miss their childhood. They lose their health to earn money, but they pay money to regain their health. Worried about tomorrow, they forget about today. In the end, they live neither today nor tomorrow, they live as if they will never die, but they die as if they had never lived.” Then came the second question. “So what do you suggest?” The sage enumerated again: “Don’t try to make anyone like you, the only thing to do is to leave yourself to be loved. And the most important thing to achieve happiness in life, is not to have the most, but to need the least.

Was this an intentional mistake, or did they not even know?

Everyone is trying to sell you something. Everything is an advertisement.

Everything is is psy-op.

Did you all know that Puerto Rico, a US territory, celebrates July 4th with fireworks. Like, I understand America wants to commemorate the date they won their independence from England by saying ‘enough of this bullshit, we’re not going to be your puppet colony any more.’ But why does Puerto Rican, who are under USA’s thumb, celebrate the 4th? It’s kind of ironic, no?

Good job Weather Channel, I definitely am interested in this info now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/139u74n/ai_generated_hamburger_commercial/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf NGL, I’m terrified

My Bitcoin Twitter feed is now flooded with random people I don’t follow talking about advancements in AI.