Get on Fediverse, get on Urbit, learn how to use FreeNet, I2P, Lokinet and Tor. Compartmentalize your identities. Run all major media platforms from alternative front-ends - such as Nitter for Twitter and Invidious for Youtube. These can be self-hosted too. Use Searx instead of Google - it's many times more powerful if you know what you're doing and you can self-host it as well.
VPN-wise I'd recommend PIA and ProtonVPN- though the former has come under some scrutiny due to recently changing hands. Run your own email server - if it's too time-consuming - Proton and Tutanota are the widely accepted options. If you keep active social media profiles - don't actually visit the website - set it up to send you alerts instead. Same with the news media - use RSS or newsletters. Other messaging app options not mentioned by Curtis include Wire, Tox and Ricochet. Services like SimpleLogin, Blur and Anonaddy can hide your email and Blur can even hide your credit card number(though it'll be compelled to give it out instantly if asked).
If you're in the EU - send everyone GDPR requests. There should be copypasta floating around that can be used as a template. Otherwise, get your data into your local storage and out of their hands as soon as possible. Deleting things does have an effect - storing data is costly, analyzing it even more so. Even if it takes a year for your shit to disappear off their servers - it's something.
Don't use shit like Gab or Parler unless you want every fed and Antifa member at your door in the near future. Also, don't ever, ever fedpost or encourage violence. Don't even insinuate it.
Tell this to every fucking boomer you know. And yes, I was just looking for an excuse to post all that.
50 years ago, I was committing insurrection at the Capitol (51, actually) along with 500 000 other overprivileged cathedral wannabe applicants. My peers who had not achieved draft class II-S status were far, far away. At 5:30 AM I was warming by a fire set in a 55 gallon oil drum. Standing next to me was Benjamin Spock (yes, HIM). He was BEAMING. "These are my children", he said.
Well, I eventually took up work in the now shrinking reality-based sector, and said goodbye to all that.
From time to time over the decades, I have run into one of these idiots. I don't know who coined the term "silver ponytails", but you catch my drift. Some of them have children and even GRANDCHILDREN living out the hippie fantasy - drug addicts, STD patients - most of them don't have Ayers-scale trust funds.
But now, I turn around, and what do I see - they have taken over the STATE.
But now, as then, there is a hidden hand. When I really started to go off the deep end in 1969, I was fortunate to have a meetup with some local and national leaders of "the movement". Peace? Love? Fuggedabout it.
They were the people who supported the invasion of Czechoslovakia. They were Maoists. They were pretty good at shapeshifting then, and I'm sure the people running this coup are still pretty good at it.
Everything old is new again in the Biden Spring. The NPR subscribers are weeping tears of joy.
These idiots have nothing. There was nothing ever of value in DC but legitimacy~ and its gone. They have 25,000 troops guarding a big barricaded ...nothing. An old demented pervert and his body servant wander through an empty mansion, muttering promises and threats.
When I think about what's bad about the American extended regime, I think of two things:
*The idea that history has stopped happening
*The cult of work
For the first case, I hold up the capitol rioters as an example. Rather than a cool conspiracy to take over Washington from the inside, they took their phones and filmed themselves conducting a pointless riot. They filmed themselves because they believe that history can't *really* be happening, it has to be conducted behind a veneer of observation and measurement.
The extended version of this is that there's too much "glue" holding everything together, and so nothing interesting and surprising can ever happen. That's why, as a futurist, I find the dialogue surrounding the singularity to be so disappointing. People have been trained to believe that amazing things, like the singularity or indeed the rebirth of Christ, just can't happen because they don't have that film of observation, instantaneously and completely.
The cult of work, on the other hand, consists of the menace of "unemployment" (we have always been at war with Eastasia...) and the glorification of consumption and production. Contemporary unemployment is, in my view, a kind of trickle-down effect wherein there aren't enough good jobs for good working people, and then lazier less competent working people (like myself) have to compete for shit jobs, the competition itself being the shittest part, even though many of us don't need to be molly-coddled by the system and don't want children.
Take Eliezer Yudkowsky's Fun Sequence. This was a series of essays on how an AI could plausibly keep humans entertained, basically. But I find it shocking that anyone needs to be told that. It's the cult of work preventing people from being more like well-rounded people who can entertain themselves and don't need to spend all their time working to be humanely productive.
Also, the dire future predicted by Robin Hanson and his Em economy. Again, the cult of work has pushed out other ideas that would deflate Hanson's evil Ems concept. (For example, what if there's an intelligence trap in the universe that causes excessively intelligent AIs, or people, to kill themselves out of boredom, whereas less stellar AIs and Ems and people find it easier to enjoy life at a measured pace? Or what if there are ideas and "Basilisks" that scare the living shit out of Ems but not ordinary people, again handing the advantage to people who don't want to spend all their time doing miserable work?)
You! Yes, YOU, computer guy; please help! What should my curriculum be to learn how to do computer things. I’m learning Java and Algorithms right now. Next steps? Follow Khan Academy path? Automate the Boring Stuff with Python? I want a theoretical framework that will help my know what my unknowns are, at the very least.
Things like edge.network look pretty promising as dissident tech. I think we are closer than we think to a solution(s).
Yes, DNS et al will absolutely be targeted (they already have been, iirc).
Also, going to take a moment to shout out Rod Dreher's Live Not By Lies, great and inspiring dissident material about Christian dissidents behind the iron curtain (even if you haven't 'taken the cross' yet).
"Maybe someday the government will make Intel make a bunch of backdoored chips—but this doesn’t happen easily." Moldi are you trippin'? Isn't this precisely what the Intel Management Engine or AMD's PSP are all about?
> One day it will be obvious to all that they have failed, and we are up there;
Having grown up in the Soviet Union I fear that such a hope is unfounded. If there was no the successful prosperous USA at the time to look upon and compare - there will be no hard evidence that the system has failed.
And you will not be “up there”, you will be in the city of Gorky, excommunicated as Andrei Sakharov was. M-m hate speech offender registry? no less than a mile to a nearest Internet connection?
Also, "marsupial judiciary" was worth the subscription in itself. If we can just get ads for monocles, it will have beat my one year subscription to The New Yorker hands down!
Get on Fediverse, get on Urbit, learn how to use FreeNet, I2P, Lokinet and Tor. Compartmentalize your identities. Run all major media platforms from alternative front-ends - such as Nitter for Twitter and Invidious for Youtube. These can be self-hosted too. Use Searx instead of Google - it's many times more powerful if you know what you're doing and you can self-host it as well.
VPN-wise I'd recommend PIA and ProtonVPN- though the former has come under some scrutiny due to recently changing hands. Run your own email server - if it's too time-consuming - Proton and Tutanota are the widely accepted options. If you keep active social media profiles - don't actually visit the website - set it up to send you alerts instead. Same with the news media - use RSS or newsletters. Other messaging app options not mentioned by Curtis include Wire, Tox and Ricochet. Services like SimpleLogin, Blur and Anonaddy can hide your email and Blur can even hide your credit card number(though it'll be compelled to give it out instantly if asked).
If you're in the EU - send everyone GDPR requests. There should be copypasta floating around that can be used as a template. Otherwise, get your data into your local storage and out of their hands as soon as possible. Deleting things does have an effect - storing data is costly, analyzing it even more so. Even if it takes a year for your shit to disappear off their servers - it's something.
Don't use shit like Gab or Parler unless you want every fed and Antifa member at your door in the near future. Also, don't ever, ever fedpost or encourage violence. Don't even insinuate it.
Tell this to every fucking boomer you know. And yes, I was just looking for an excuse to post all that.
This is quite good.
50 years ago, I was committing insurrection at the Capitol (51, actually) along with 500 000 other overprivileged cathedral wannabe applicants. My peers who had not achieved draft class II-S status were far, far away. At 5:30 AM I was warming by a fire set in a 55 gallon oil drum. Standing next to me was Benjamin Spock (yes, HIM). He was BEAMING. "These are my children", he said.
Well, I eventually took up work in the now shrinking reality-based sector, and said goodbye to all that.
From time to time over the decades, I have run into one of these idiots. I don't know who coined the term "silver ponytails", but you catch my drift. Some of them have children and even GRANDCHILDREN living out the hippie fantasy - drug addicts, STD patients - most of them don't have Ayers-scale trust funds.
But now, I turn around, and what do I see - they have taken over the STATE.
But now, as then, there is a hidden hand. When I really started to go off the deep end in 1969, I was fortunate to have a meetup with some local and national leaders of "the movement". Peace? Love? Fuggedabout it.
They were the people who supported the invasion of Czechoslovakia. They were Maoists. They were pretty good at shapeshifting then, and I'm sure the people running this coup are still pretty good at it.
Everything old is new again in the Biden Spring. The NPR subscribers are weeping tears of joy.
What is the great object of taking DC?
Power?
Well why?
Legitimacy.
Which is gone.
These idiots have nothing. There was nothing ever of value in DC but legitimacy~ and its gone. They have 25,000 troops guarding a big barricaded ...nothing. An old demented pervert and his body servant wander through an empty mansion, muttering promises and threats.
Holy ---- — these writings are like crack. Keep them coming!
When I think about what's bad about the American extended regime, I think of two things:
*The idea that history has stopped happening
*The cult of work
For the first case, I hold up the capitol rioters as an example. Rather than a cool conspiracy to take over Washington from the inside, they took their phones and filmed themselves conducting a pointless riot. They filmed themselves because they believe that history can't *really* be happening, it has to be conducted behind a veneer of observation and measurement.
The extended version of this is that there's too much "glue" holding everything together, and so nothing interesting and surprising can ever happen. That's why, as a futurist, I find the dialogue surrounding the singularity to be so disappointing. People have been trained to believe that amazing things, like the singularity or indeed the rebirth of Christ, just can't happen because they don't have that film of observation, instantaneously and completely.
The cult of work, on the other hand, consists of the menace of "unemployment" (we have always been at war with Eastasia...) and the glorification of consumption and production. Contemporary unemployment is, in my view, a kind of trickle-down effect wherein there aren't enough good jobs for good working people, and then lazier less competent working people (like myself) have to compete for shit jobs, the competition itself being the shittest part, even though many of us don't need to be molly-coddled by the system and don't want children.
Take Eliezer Yudkowsky's Fun Sequence. This was a series of essays on how an AI could plausibly keep humans entertained, basically. But I find it shocking that anyone needs to be told that. It's the cult of work preventing people from being more like well-rounded people who can entertain themselves and don't need to spend all their time working to be humanely productive.
Also, the dire future predicted by Robin Hanson and his Em economy. Again, the cult of work has pushed out other ideas that would deflate Hanson's evil Ems concept. (For example, what if there's an intelligence trap in the universe that causes excessively intelligent AIs, or people, to kill themselves out of boredom, whereas less stellar AIs and Ems and people find it easier to enjoy life at a measured pace? Or what if there are ideas and "Basilisks" that scare the living shit out of Ems but not ordinary people, again handing the advantage to people who don't want to spend all their time doing miserable work?)
I'll just check if yarvin has a new article before bed... everytime
"Our single focus must be on gaining and holding this high ground of reason and truth."
I will put that on my screen as a constant reminder.
As always, Curtis: I love to read your texts and it encourages me to think about ways to get some of the necessary work done.
It is an honour, Mr. Yarvin.
Catch me at the local Community College studying to reverse engineer Tik-Tok
I KNOW I NEED TO TRY URBIT, YARVIN. STOP MAKING ME FEEL GUILTY THAT I HAVEN'T.
You! Yes, YOU, computer guy; please help! What should my curriculum be to learn how to do computer things. I’m learning Java and Algorithms right now. Next steps? Follow Khan Academy path? Automate the Boring Stuff with Python? I want a theoretical framework that will help my know what my unknowns are, at the very least.
Things like edge.network look pretty promising as dissident tech. I think we are closer than we think to a solution(s).
Yes, DNS et al will absolutely be targeted (they already have been, iirc).
Also, going to take a moment to shout out Rod Dreher's Live Not By Lies, great and inspiring dissident material about Christian dissidents behind the iron curtain (even if you haven't 'taken the cross' yet).
Apply today to the Dead Link Poets Society - The most *exclusive* poetry club on Urbit - ~walfer-marren/dead-link-poets-society
"Maybe someday the government will make Intel make a bunch of backdoored chips—but this doesn’t happen easily." Moldi are you trippin'? Isn't this precisely what the Intel Management Engine or AMD's PSP are all about?
its urbit guys. time to start up my urbit agian
> One day it will be obvious to all that they have failed, and we are up there;
Having grown up in the Soviet Union I fear that such a hope is unfounded. If there was no the successful prosperous USA at the time to look upon and compare - there will be no hard evidence that the system has failed.
And you will not be “up there”, you will be in the city of Gorky, excommunicated as Andrei Sakharov was. M-m hate speech offender registry? no less than a mile to a nearest Internet connection?
Also, "marsupial judiciary" was worth the subscription in itself. If we can just get ads for monocles, it will have beat my one year subscription to The New Yorker hands down!