IMPROVE PEOPLE _NOT JUST TECH_ @freeschool@qoto.org

Computing towards improving people (not just being users)...

Users of software need to improve so I think at some point developers also need to do this human-related work as a mutual attempt to "fix life" and not just a loops with mostly computers.

Again, not only engineer software but use it to improve people and interface with people more directly.
All towards togetherness with anything and everything.

Active #communication
More #Unity #Mutuality #Freedom #FreeSchool #computing #Mastodon #dev

The system likes total control.

The system, meaning your Government is a criminal enterprise.

And that criminal enterprise likes putting up muppets to make you think you have some say in the process.

#FreeSchool #Quote #Freedom
#Irish #Ireland #Globalism #Capitalism #Authoritarianism

Source Video: Globalists In Total MELTDOWN - Conor McGregor OFFICIALLY Announces Run For President of IRELAND!

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=SvwgnUDVYZ8&t=00m14s

To Follow or Not to Follow, that is the question.
- #FreeSchool
#Fediverse / #Mastodon #Tips

Selling $oul just so body can stay stay "Alive"?

#BodyMindSoul or just #Body ?
#FreeSchool #Mindset #Freedom

It might need others naturally to spread - but sticking to nature and principles of kindness is part of that main win:win, no matter what the ending is for me.

One day I'll find my destiny a lot more... and I hope you do too.
Could it be with you? (follow and decide ☑️ )

I know ❤️ / wisdom / understanding / education is part of it whether it's ✝️ or anything else Jesus-like (dead or alive I don't mind) but preferably alive spreading ❤️ + unity through to the next gen (with or without religion).

#Love #Unity #Freedom #FreeSchool

"...before you can have an educational revolution, family revolution, economic revolution, political revolution, you gotta have a psychological revolution" @16m16s

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=UDaFMtVYEyQ&t=16m16s

@garyackerman #Education #Revolution #FreeSchool #Mind #Power #Schools #Racism #Mindset #edtech #Psychology #DIY

The System Wants You to Fail
- Dr Umar Johnson (see Talk link)

Discuss this talk? / Any problems let me know!....

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=UDaFMtVYEyQ

Generally is about White power vs. Black people's suffering. And something related to maybe all races:

White Supremacy
............ vs ............
Pan-Africanism - Towards the unity of all the race 🌍 ....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Africanism

#FreeSchool #Freedom #Answers #Liberation #Humanism #Sentientism #History

#PanAfrican #PanAfricanism #BlackMastodon #BlackHistory #BlackFediverse #BlackFedi #Africa

AI article summary / best bits / skimmed sentences...

From source: "Are We Watching The Internet Die?"
https://www.wheresyoured.at/are-we-watching-the-internet-die/

+ [my added comments]

[About Reddit]
...millions of unpaid contributors made billions of posts so that CEO Steve Huffman could make $193 million in 2023 while laying off 90 people and effectively pushing third party apps off of the platform by charging exorbitant rates for API access,

Reddit also announced that it had cut a $60 million deal to allow Google to train its models on Reddit's posts, once again offering users nothing in return for their hard work.

[BUT LET'S FACE IT PEOPLE WILL DO THINGS THEY LOVE FOR FREE AND CAPITALISM CAPITALISES ON THAT - A HARD ONE TO SOLVE AS EVEN I DID OVERTIME FOR FREE AT WORK AND DIDN'T LEAVE TILL LATE OFTEN!! But not any more!"]

...ultra-rich technologists tricked their customers into building their companies for free.

[mentioned] Cory Doctorow's Enshittification theory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

Yet what's happening to the web is far more sinister than simple greed, but the destruction of the user-generated internet,

...

And it's slowly killing the internet.

⭐ Degenerative AI [great sub-title]

Generative AI models are trained by using massive amounts of text scraped from the internet, meaning that the consumer adoption of generative AI has brought a degree of radioactivity to its own dataset. As more internet content is created, either partially or entirely through generative AI, the models themselves will find themselves increasingly inbred, training themselves on content written by their own models which are, on some level, permanently locked in 2023, before the advent of a tool that is specifically intended to replace content created by human beings.

... Jathan Sadowski calls "Habsburg AI,"...so heavily trained on the outputs of other generative AIs that it becomes an inbred mutant, likely with exaggerated, grotesque features.

...as its models are trained on increasingly-identical content.

...generative features... immediately fed back into Azure's OpenAI models owned by its parent company Microsoft, which invested $10 billion in OpenAI in early 2023

Generative AI also naturally aligns with the toxic incentives created by the largest platforms.

Google makes up more than 85% of all search traffic and pays Apple billions a year to make Google search the default on Apple devices.

... a cottage industry of automation gurus are cashing in by helping others flood Facebook, TikTok and Instagram with low-effort videos that are irresistible to algorithms.

Generative AI is a perfect tool for soullessly churning out content to match a particular set of instructions — such as those that an algorithm follows — and while an algorithm can theoretically be tuned to evaluate content as "human," so can scaled content be tweaked to make it seem more human.

Google might pretend it cares about the quality of search results, but nothing about search's decade-long decline has suggested it’s actually going to do anything. Google's spam policies have claimed for years that scraped content (outright ripping the contents of another website) was grounds for removal from Google, but even the most cursory glance at any news search shows how often sites thinly rewrite or outright steal others' content.

As we speak, the battle that platforms are fighting is against generative spam, a cartoonish and obvious threat of outright nonsense, meaningless chum that can and should (and likely will) be stopped. In the process, they're failing to see that this isn't a war against spam, but a war against crap, and the overall normalization and intellectual numbing that comes when content is created to please algorithms and provide a minimum viable product for consumers.

We're watching the joint hyper-scaling and hyper-normalization of the internet, where all popular content begins to look the same to appeal to algorithms run by companies obsessed with growth.

... Quora, which now promotes ChatGPT-generated answers at the top of results),

I believe that their goal is to intrude on our ability to browse the internet, to further obfuscate the source of information while paying the platforms for content that their users make for free. Their eventual goal, in my mind, is to remove as much interaction with the larger internet as possible, summarizing and regurgitating as much as they can so that they can control and monetize the results as much as possible.

There's also no way to escape the fact that these hungry robots require legal plagiarism, and any number of copyright assaults could massively slow their progress.

It's incredibly difficult to make a model forget information, meaning that there may, at some point, be steps back in the development of models if datasets have to be reverted to previous versions with copyrighted materials removed.
It's incredibly difficult to make a model forget information, meaning that there may, at some point, be steps back in the development of models if datasets have to be reverted to previous versions with copyrighted materials removed.

Question everything they say. Don't accept that AI "might one day" be great.

Reject their marketing speak and empty fantasizing and interrogate the tools put in front of you, and be a thorn in their side when they try to tell you that mediocrity is the future.

You are not "missing anything.” These tools are not magic — they're fantastical versions of autocomplete that can't help but make the same mistakes it's learned from the petabytes of information it's stolen from others.

#FreeSchool #Answers = #BetterPractices #Human #Intelligence = #Humanism
#Freedom #Sentientism
--- vs. - --
#War #AI #BigTech #Capitalism #Commercialism #Greed #Profit #Abuse = Shallow-Understanding

Mastodon users?... Just u$ers?

Think of Fediverse as a drug.

I think every user gets a mental boost / a mental confirmation and witness from people who favourite signal or boost your work ⭐

There is literally a mental boost when you boost my stuff. (And I Thank you).

The world can literally run off these types of natural drugs and stimulations given to each other on Fediverse and extensions from that.

More local Fediverse eventually...
Probably we can becmoe more local and "in real life" again after all this online stuff gets it together and shows love. Even if the ratio is not 100%... just keep adding the %'s and watch as giving snowballs... and creativity grows more of the same in all directions of life...

👂 Being listened to and being heard IS WHAT WE CAN DO MUCH BETTER ON FEDI MORE THAN CRAPITALISM.

We do get heard here and can build more even if it's not 100%... keep snowballing the love.... and it will happen!

The world can literally run off this natural drug and stimulation more , often from giving and receiving praise on The Fediverse Network...

Fediverse as a love drug - share the love ya'll ✌️ 🕊️ ☮️

#Fediverse #Social #Media #Drugs #Online #Respect #Love #Mindset #FreeSchool

Google / YouTube links (without filter) on platforms like Mastodon kill it.

Kill is a strong word but if you see war outside and authoritarian states / government, then yes slowly or directly it's a death mindset to kill people off which I consider if it's long-term suffering and deliberate neglect, oppression by leaders.

Don't forget all Governments and it's companies registered to it use OUR EARNED money and OUR CLICKS for the pot of war eventually,so advertising is part of that.

Billion of users and links from us to them. 💰 = 💀

ANSWERS EXIST!
You can use INVIDIOUS LINKS INSTEAD @Invidious to filter exactly the same pages as a massive prevention of adverts!!!
TRY IT NOW!
https://redirect.invidious.io/

Platforms need to actively filter links AND at push to educate its users and train them not to leak data and usage from platform...

(Invidious filters YouTube for example and many Browser extensions could be listed).

One main reason why Mastodon exists is not to leak things.

Developers and users using google and it's links are leaking and letting Google in to their platform... even simply using YouTube links etc to track them.

(again you can use Invidious filter https://redirect.invidious.io/)

Extracting from our bodies towards bigger profits and pocketing it all is war - don't overlook this while people are starving or can't pay heating bills because they have monopoly.

You could also say it's not killing BUT SIPHONING OUR DATA / EATING US ALIVE, 'maximising profits'.

Google / YouTube links (without filter) on Platforms are killing it.

(I might need to phrase this better but take advice... and say it with love and not just blind emotions).

Leaking data / info from users OR developer accounts themselves on = ☠️ of platform and it's people )

I mention in Gargron here but respect if he doesn't want / can let me know. ℹ️ I just don't use github or much else and what better than Mastodon for #Mastodon #suggestion... to tuning the logic, philosophy, life using it's users to change culture!
Towards proper unity via more intelligent people💌 !

@Gargron

#FreeSchool #Answers = #BetterPractices / #Human #Intelligence = #Humanism
#Freedom #Sentientism
--- vs. - --
FastMoney (Bad Work) #War #AI #BigTech #Commercialism #Greed #Profit #Abuse

#Capitalism = Shallow-Understanding
= Mastodon users?... Just u$ers?

"Measuring" things has of course been a money thing or just a perspective of those that 'value' it (by price usually)...
Money can be good to make a person think more about spending it... but without the logic under than people are likely to fall into 'consumer' roles so that the opposite also happens when petrol becomes cheap, people will feel ok using tons of it.

The question where does Petrol comes from and it's effects are the underlying important analysis / calculation of it's effects.

So what's missing here?

It's the Education from TOP down, not just bottom up.

Because:
Top people want power.
Bottom people want to live (and then maybe power also after that!)

Making things hard to measure I think makes people feel easier about using it (Petrol, Diesel, Oil, #War who knows it's real cost other than FUCKING THE WORLD) but while I don't believe in opposite extreme either of (measuring everything too much or chaining people to it like water etc which they could themselves or be provided for as living beings). I think having education mitigates more of these errors.

But what am I talking about?! It's money first... not saving water 🌊 oil 🛢️ or animals 🐄 or humans 🙍 .

[Sorry I realise my mistake, assuming some intelligence perhaps, next post...]

Making #Money is #War #Politics #Economy not #Freedom #Economics #FreeSchool

It's about changing / opening your minds...

This post made so it's not in my bio and until I work out a better way

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Currently the problem is that I'm stuck about my audience being unable to read or give time to what needs time and slowly thinking about constantly in the brain or in another words:

1● People are unable / can't / don't want to read long parts of Humanism which ultimately underpins life
and
2● Only want life in short sentences which is dangerously always ignoring or misunderstanding people and life since again people, feelings, communication is not possible or healthy in SMS style messages (like if you were typing in an old phone,. Short Messages System is not enough for life and warming people / uniting people.

So I need some way in between as currently it's like 1 or 0 (or 1 or 2) thinking it's ok for everything in short... is misunderstanding humans not good and only good towards fascism from everything underneath being aesthetically "oh this looks-good and simple" style.

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FreeSchool helps Learn / Respect / Love things more...

I guess on 1 basic level I just want to make friends and think that is the way to solve thigns better. To heal / balance many things at the same time as everything else, eventually and all with more love if not more healthy and progressive wonder.

To possibly make friends with most of the world (I know all isn't really possible) but most of our interactions assuming and leading to friendship I think is good enough.

So my 'wall of text' here might be the first test to the longer version of myself. It reflects my dedication and human experience that confirms that depth should be OK even 1 step at a time (like a spiral staircase for others to read), so just start anywhere and learn to love what you can (and climb!).

If you think life / Fediverse is just 1 feel-good one-liner or short thing, and not climbing TOGETHER more often, then your cheating yourself and others in life.
This would be ok 'normally' BUT quicker than before it comes back to you if it's without caring in others.

If not you, then who?
If not now, then when?

You don't have to read this all in one go for example, but you can read it... bit by bit.

If things in life mean anything to you talk with me.
If you saw something you liked in a post work from there and mention me in that post.

All is quite relative and can be a better domino... / // /// /// /

Quick look / Summary
- #FreeSchool hashtag
- FreeSchool media https://qoto.org/@freeschool/media

If you understand a bit fo depth then we all have can learn to love life better (Freedom via learning / loving life in a school of people all doing the same in various amounts). Do try a bit or ask! Don't have to kill yourself here but helps a bit come out of your comfort zone.

Keeping each other in touch also helps keep each other's vibe alive and check back on our own stuff WITH each other.

Because EVERYTHING needs time + communication and without that ALL / A LOT is broken and even less human, even if it seems it's good without - that's short term... (like hospitals for profit that are the same evil formular for profit which is why there is OFTEN rebellion and strikes in these places (that should be more pure and less profit-squeezed). In one month the student, doctors, teach and police wereon strike in early 2023 (March I think).

But this more personal and customised.

Just follow me + put notifications on to TEST things.... not just blind faith... the rest below is just over-info

SO if you're searching for anything / love anything in the world (for the children / next generation or for this one) YOU HAVE FOUND IT (also in finding more of yourself).

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!

What do I do?

I give people time and I think that's the basic difference (without list of other stuff deeper than that) to others 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).

Quick Look - peace-loving work / services:
█ Fan of Fediverse! (give time to others, am not mean, don't put down people unless really it's asked for, weave peopel with consent)
█ 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...

█▬▄▀ ╚ ╦ ╝╠╧

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 #nobridge

From video which plays from where I mean:

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=QZJKIZCoH54&t=16m16s

"They want abundance so they think they want money..." @16m16s

@17.02 (....continues and you can join this next part to see what I mean more exactly)

"Too often we are chasing things that have nothing to do with the fulfilment of destiny."

So the video as it is might not be 100% but skip a bit of it out and join lines and you get something much better and again, not for all cases but he saves it big time with this 2nd part IF you believe in destiny or giving other people reasons to live (could be given by others or spiritual in some other mystical sense or unknown way but generally a purpose to live is not too far out)...

So the 1st part being practical and 2nd part more spiritual / reasons we can give ourselves as "destiny" <--- often we give up our own power to change the world and therefore say "destiny" doesn't exist! <--- because we didn't use or apply our power to bend things towards xyz or for xyz.

Like I always say "for the children" so that is a better destiny for us (as children ourselves growing and growing the next children as more chance in their destiny as it's a rolling history / more personal thing with us changing things in it!)

#Freedom #Liberation = #Answers = #FreeSchool #Humanism #Sentientism

#BlackMastodon #BlackHistory #BlackFediverse #BlackFedi #Africa #Americans #History #PanAfrican

It is "Survival of the fittest" to some degree but in some sense of the definition it has more to do with money and constantly trying to charge people more or 'find' money when money itself is a material de-valuing itself by Banks (inflation and compound interest added / loans that are liquidating everyone else's money). Totally deliberate bad maths. Inequality from root.

+ Housing prices / rent increasing etc while labour per hour stays almost exactly the same / quite static. That's cheating us again...

So many things to make for Hyper-competition forcing a lot of failure at the bottom of the pyramid and in exchange for people profiting and taking cream at the top. 🍨
Yum for them. boo for you. 🐄

Dog-eat-dog world... suggest more a of a fighting life... but I don't like eating or fighting others for someone else's profit.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dog-eat-dog

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Dog-eat-dog... in terms of looking after animals (looking after humans!)
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Instead of looking after dogs, we make them fight / work against each other / compete...

Same with humans (but we could look after humans as we do dogs now and even enjoy each other's time and improve a new system slowly).

The phrase "Dog-eat-dog" *might* indirectly infer that humans could go above this level of intelligence and not be like dog. *Perhaps* capable of being merciful in life and alleviating almost all human-added suffering (not just suffering for your dinner and dancing for other all day long but improve and enjoy yourself with others almost the opposite of slavery and not years of the same bad work only to die alone in the end). Woof! 🐶 #FreeSchool #Tips #Answers #Life #Quote

Less suffering and money-first / money-only mentality please.
Friendship on Fediverse might be the answer slowly but surely.

Start today (message me!). Small "Woof!"

Try using a knife only instead of a spoon to make things last longer (like dipping and licking honey instead of full spoon). Keep one entertained but not all-in / full scoops all the time.

#FreeSchool #Fasting / #Rationing #Food #Tip #Saving #Money #Planet #Agriculture

⚠️ Artist's Experience - Nothing is like doing artwork for 3 hours and then then looking back at previous versions and thinking, "wow that's much better!"

- #FreeSchool #quote

Pay-to-play systems. Life itself!

- #FreeSchool #Tips #Quote #Answers

Remember it is not just AI, it's the powerful behind it with their plans.

AI = [AI + THE POWERFUL HUMANS BEHIND IT]

AI is a tactically driven by those that have huge resources and wealth behind it for almost certainly getting them more [which is unhealthy greed] more power, more money, more respect?

It's not just AI on it's own, it's not just a hammer made.... people are using it beyond what we can see happening and have plan we don't see until it's too late or yers later understand what happened...

BETTER IS MORE ➡️ #Human #Intelligence
= #FreeSchool #Answers
= MORE #Learning #Humanism
#Freedom #Sentientism
-- vs. --
#FastCooking #AI #Technology #BigTech #Commercialism #Greed #Profit

#Capitalism = Shallow-Understanding

Slow cooking between learners, rather than fast and furious...

Slow Cooking between People = Better Learning
Harmony is *while* talking even if in disagreement. Shorter Time does not help this.

Solutions and Answers take Time.

Give more time and space regularly and see the talking, chances, opportunity increase...

Expect it in 15mins or just 2 sentences in a text box and you might as well jump into the fire of misunderstanding forever in a loop 🔄

The longer chain of thought over time wins (and includes shorter ones) BUT IMPORTANTLY: DOES NOT CUT OUT TAKING MORE TIME AND CARE FOR THOUGHTS AND PEOPLE.

#FreeSchool #Answers = #SlowCooking
#Freedom = #Human #Intelligence = #Learning
= #Humanism #Sentientism
-- vs. --
#FastCooking = #Capitalism #Shortcuts to Short-Understanding via #Technology #BigTech

Pan-Africanism - Towards the unity of all continental 🌍 Africa 🌍 ....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Africanism

#FreeSchool #Freedom #Answers #Liberation #Humanism #Sentientism #History

#PanAfrican #PanAfricanism #BlackMastodon #BlackHistory #BlackFediverse #BlackFedi #Africa