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Maybe I'm persistent
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It takes time and effort to post everything in both the corporate media world of Medium, where people can follow and clap and whatnot as well on my own site. Sometimes being persistent with my open tech advocacy feels thankless, but I'm here to remind you (myself) it's not. I've made sure my site holds all my public written posts. I've published and stored artifacts around the web using open licenses. For over a decade I've been fiercely anti-Facebook, a fairly annoying and radical position that has cost me a more colourful social experience.
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But my Facebook boycott has given me a comfortable blanket of perceived partial data privacy. My scattershot digital creations are *especially* useful for my own work, and openness + nonprofits is a niche that I thrive within. My blog is a gift that keeps on giving, full of insights that I refer back to. Most of all, I take comfort in the fact that whatever corporate Internet does, they'll do it with little power over me. It isn't GAFTA that runs technology, it's the people quietly battling on with the perspective that it's OUR Internet and the world still needs an open one.
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The same two posts on We Are Open's blog (which happens to be a Medium publication):
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So on I go with my time consuming labors of love. Ensuring longevity. Making decisions about my digital existence. For months I've been thinking about shutting down my Patreon page and leaving the platform. I'm feeling a preference and a fondness for my Ko-fi page, and, to be honest, it has a lot to do with the *feel* of Patreon. I don't know...the CEO Jack Conte plays accordion and so I'm basically wanting to boycott the platform because of that. Do you have opinions?
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Maybe I'm opinionated
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clearly the esoterics got a hold of this word before I learned it :/
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I have an opinion on Clubhouse, in case you were wondering. I've done no research, but Clubhouse is lame and poorly thought out. Just thought I should let you know. Chat Roulette as Audio is not a good idea. The people funding these kinds of ideas are the same people who fund planetary destruction – privileged morons who don't use their brains no good. Isn't it time technologists show some responsibility?
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I'm irritated by the Clubhouse crew because the entire business model is based on exclusion. Our society is constantly banging on about how we aren't good enough. That other people are "better". Creating caste systems and strengthening disconnection. Leading people down the path of individualism, when actually, we're all made up of the same damn thing. My broken little brain gets overwhelmed.
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Some more overwhelming things: The energy and climate crises, Bitcoin, Nazis, half the stuff that happens in Dubai.
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Maybe I need help?
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What I need is a more active understanding that nothing really matters, but I can't seem to find the inner calm of eternity. My rational and emotional brain is constantly at odds with one another. How do you deal with the overwhelming world? Is it this difficult for you too? Is it possible to train away the neuroses?
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I'm actually in a really good mood, so idk how I've managed to write that last paragraph to sound so hopeless. It's ok, acceptance makes things easier, at least.
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