@katoshi would be true...unless created and sold again by those same people (making it political still)...and also not possible without them and the things already put in place (empire).
So I guess I'd like to stick to this line to see where we get - as actually apart from things like matches and making your own wheel, which it's all near impossible, the controlled iteration feels deliberate without being too conspiritual (but yes they conspire- now more than ever as 'business' itself is about power / empires).
Any and every toy and tool can be / would be taken away if at all seen as any threat to power and control iterated by gov or banks.
(e.g. even matches, if it would change balance in power and freedom that much, it would be removed (or safety mechanism / another layer put on).
Indeed anything released to public, (if it encouraged more freedom most effectively) simply would be removed / not allowed / co-opted. Can't have risk to happen to their own self-given jobs of ruling / keeping power.
Much like all tech that has embedded seemingly these thoughts, we might only get democracy or voice AFTER political tech has been installed and and agreed.
Gov's would never let that happen.
Maybe makes sense put that way since we're born into each iteration of power and control and it seems we naturally wouldn't see the accumulative changes or intentions - the plans of power, let's say).
I accept more-neutral tech before or more innocence in the past (also from lack of access to modern techniques of exploitation) but now more than ever all processes have been corrupted (extremified, maximised, dug into etc, effected, steroided up etc.)
Kind of like salad that no longer touches any soil and is purely chemical fed. Just meanings have been lost so muvh more and more, though you might see and even think the taste of a salad. It almost isn't or provides less as biodiversity etc as it is grown and in other ways bad / negative (the sewage fir ecample) eventually becoming downfall of, well, humanity via tech itself (and waves of power-iterating people) doing things having lost sight of humanity from almost beginning.
Just less chance or space for neutrality is nearer today's reality. The focus as time goes on and development is all geared for other purposes already.
Who and what funds things is perhaps too hard to see and can make tech look innocent from the many default things underneath aforementioned.
@katoshi Not sure if tech is neutral or having hard time thinking if it's not profit and regulations first AND THEN whatever on top (as long as primary forces are in place with profit and regulations).
Internet was commercialised - before it was a laughed at geeky dialup texty nerdy component soldering thing until bigboys / U$ Investment / vulture capitalism etc got involved and broadband.
Wasn't much respect for people or much money doing forums / dial-up file silos / meetup events, though the telephone backbone made it real cheap and even free locally.
Now look... just the neutrality by government or bank related things is usually pure filth first and then people can play around like it's neutral / be advertised to / harvested / laws subtly passed or forced.
No free lunch. We are lunch since it's inception made from innocent Tesla's who they would prefer resell / manipulate than give tech free / neutrally... or you think people still play nice / towards freedom or even gov × banks are neutral?
Successfully got a #RaspberryPi visible on the public Internet for the first time in a long time.
#Cloudflare tunnels don't mess around yo.
@dclr42 just needs a picture to match... woukdsend me into more of a fit!
@freeschool I can dig it
Junta del Buen Gobierno (Joining of Good Government)
In this place is strictly forbidden the traffic of weapons and consumption of alcohol or drugs.
No to the destruction of #nature, #zapata is alive, the fight goes on,
You are entering #zapatista territory
In rebellion the people here demand and the government obeys.
@dclr42 This made me chuckle much more than once :) my thanks.
@undefined @AAMfP ? Didn't understand that... could you clarify?
@freemo I didn't mean that by what I said, though that might be one variety of respect.
I meant they can exist therefore get my respect or be acknowledge even in negative sense. Bad example might be respecting that Hitler or bad people manage to get people's vote somehow.
Don't have to like them.
@sgryphon @freemo
□Because of the encouragement to start using / communicating with those types of ma$$ive corporations around mostly those who wanted to escape them?
□Because of their past record / history / size / ability / threat / force in markets / existing info on us?
□Because corps don't care?
■To communicate while being undermined is not good.
■Less communication with Gmail the better in the sense of your text / communication being copied / offered up for harvest to them when you mail them (and your friend).
Do any of these hit home?
Burns: Well, everybody knows, ‘war is hell`
Hawkeye: War isn’t Hell. War is war, and Hell is Hell. And of the two, war is a lot worse.
Father Mulcahy: How do you figure that, Hawkeye?
Hawkeye: Easy, Father. Tell me, who goes to Hell?
Father Mulcahy: Um, sinners, I believe.
Hawkeye: Exactly. There are no innocent bystanders in Hell, but war is chock full of them – little kids, cripples, old ladies. In fact, except for a few of the brass, almost everybody involved is an innocent bystander.
-- MASH
A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.
@freemo
I go further in respecting... I respect they exist as my default but then slide the slider down if it's really needed..
For example: I respect bastards are good at what they do but they don't respect me.
I respect others respect other things.
I don't need their respect conditionally to respect them.
Does that fit into one of the types of respect you mean?
@AAMfP
Gutenberg didn't have book info I wanted to link to (The Little Prince, or the sequel pictured). Any other online book sites non-Amazon?
To learn how to love and forget how to hate...
...it's not too late, to learn how to love and forget how to hate...
- Ozzy Osbourne
(from song Crazy Train - Official Animated Video)
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=tMDFv5m18Pw&t=55
And lyrics on screen here + cover version
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=AikHu3opgC0
It's about changing / opening our minds...
I give people time and I thnk that's the difference to others online who really don't have or give time and give up on people really easy... (don't mean to be competitive, no put-downs, just I more dedicate time to others and weave us together).
So you don't even have to read any of this because EVERYTHING needs time + communication and without that a lot is broken and even less human even if it's for good...
Just follow and put notifications on to TEST MY FEED.... the rest below is just over-info for most poeple.
Open Learning School or Freedom University...
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A lot you might be at length and depth, but if you're easy about it, you can take the best and even take me along to understand life with others!
To learn and do everything practically! (this is a practical living (and gets stuff done as much as we can).
Fan of Fediverse!
Quick Look - peace-loving work / services:
█ Mini-Podcast (few mins each, examples below)
█ Picture remixes / video remixes
█ Lessons without being too 'teacher' about it. Teacher has teeth for eliminating doubt.
█ Food for thought as gentle soul also.
█ Unique ideas - often impossible for professionals (they are burdened by financial repsonsibility and therefore associational risk in saying things). I'm more diverse and occasionally direct (with respect, though I don't shy away from reminding people).
█ Not too embarrassing to say "I don't know" but can still chase things.
█ More responsive than casual users usually because people think having 'job' is enough in life. I say it's not! And even faimily is of no use if it's only getting worse (in everything!).
Podcast Examples:
1. Gary Ackerman's thoughts on AI
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/111867522723922385
2. The Little Prince book
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/111845561003150354
3. Fantasy genre from a fan's perspective
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/111845709367492677
I help people create audio / edit educational audio / podcast / music / visual short videos / transcript text
+ I like to add a bit humour while being quite strict in my own politics (opinions) but open / inviting for others to tell me what I should do if they can explain more than just a short comment (I don't mind it's healthy for me at least if you have logic and can stand yourself explaining).
FreeSchool is about Learning towards Freedom (which is about Uniting everyone slowly, even "1 by 1"... Easy with The Fediverse!
Not virtue signalling here only, but practise of EVERYTHING as we go. Judged by getting in contact (many have) and having courage to communicate (or seeking it from others is ok, EVERYONE needs a bit of courage or hand-holding to make big personal changes). Who else is there for example if family doesn't understand?
Learning and watching can be good and staying out of people's way, BUT better is doing something every day and helping each other with some tough decisions / lessons... and then being bold enough to do them. 1... 2... 3 that is all that's needed.
Let my posts do most of the talking.
Put me on notification (click bell that appears after follow ia accepted) and if it's not interesting switch off after and tick me off the list of potential people to follow daily!
Media version of my posts here... open link for later... good for visual scrolling version and judge me on that I don't mind...
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/media
I'm usually impressed with my media gallery as I work on posts a lot usually or hit the "Aha!" moments and capture it (other people may forget it for years, not me!).
Freedom is about *making it work together* better like using #Mastodon on the #Fediverse daily for better platforms with more #bestpractices and 'best' people to help us which I kind of collect here and
when it's #1 comment!
I am measurably better because I reply and stick to everything to the end(!)
No cancelling friendship suddenly without saying why or being moody!
Freedom is to Learn, Respect and Love eventually and ️to Unite!
Practically it's also like Tetris - add yourself to the puzzle and watch it all happen...
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talk more on Mastodon and the Fediverse and puzzle it all out using better ways to less use the other bad commercial / extractive people...
L£$$ of the less caring people like the ggl's / ytb / gmail / mainstream communication points etc who are offering lots of space 'free' and it's not free of peace there.
We GIVE to real people (TIME NOT JUST MONEY).
There's no buy-in solution - we have to make it with selotape or whatever we have - it's not shameful to bring whatever you have.
FreeSchool is terminology put together from many good things from past (coined in 1950's/60's. I / we become it eventually through being.
It's a movement for Freedom via Learning it all (learning self included and less active stuff) and doing the learning *together* --> https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeschool.
I encourage you warmly to participate with me as a I have time and then spiral out naturally to others (we are part of humanity and so naturally a sort of evangelism or ecological pyramid of life as we choose to spread lesser suffering while accepting consuming is part of it).
Less-commercial in orientation (in everything) and happy to think / work for free.
Naturally you will hesitate if someone is sure of themself or ok standing on shoulders what we copy do the best from humbly but not too sterile either.
Based on just emotions ruins almost everything, which seems very common - very ungraceful - so don't disconnect... do it gracefully at least!
A "school" of thought is here you can interact / ask and make best together as free/low cost as possible.
Even a bad answer you can take best from (of course I won't know all your situation when I suggest something but I don't need to answer 100% - you also need to help me!).
Leave perfectionism, we are all imperfect humans! Let's do it... Choose something ANYTHING and keep the thoughts rolling together...!
All content under the Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA-NC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/?ref=chooser-v1 Thereby, ideally, only using tools and resources that are #FLOSS #OpenSource. #nobot