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A Fediverse game-changer I believe. Fediver$e (or Fediverse) ?

LE$$ Googl£ link$$$$$

More open source software / FOSS like Invidious

Fediverse or support Google more

What do you think?

Do you choose life? https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=0q27InlH8I0 (music)

@invidious

Example - Mastodon etc to give option to use Invidious links or educate at least @Gargron

#Invidious #Software #Mastodon #Fediverse
#FreeSchool #Decentralised #Design
#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2024 #FLOSS #FOSS #OpenSource

A quote that highlights living poor as a conscious way against being born in Consumer-Capitalism:

"...since 1978, my wife and I have chosen to live below the official poverty line of our country, as a way of sabotaging the monster killing our world, which is The Economy. Consumerism is consuming everything, and is the cancer of our planet. "

- Bob Rich

Source for reference
(not need to visit or connected):
https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-strike-a-balance-between-expressing-outrage-about-climate-change-and-staying-optimistic-about-the-future/answer/Bob-Rich

Money song - sung by Mike Adams (Health Ranger) educationally!

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=73g8puUKz0c

OldGames.sk - Retro Music JukeBox

https://www.oldgames.sk/en/music-from-old-games.html

- Click button in middle of screen for popup player
- or Stream link at the bottom

█ Great interface...
█ See albums / cover / track names

#8Bit #music #culture #tech #technology #8bitart #Gaming #RETRO #retrocomputing #chiptune #FREESCHOOL #Dos #PC #80s #90s #Amiga #Amstrad #IBM #homebrewcomputer

Free media sites / Creative Commons CC0 or similar...

♥ https://Freesound.org
♥ https://Openverse.org
♥ https://Newgrounds.com

Why these?
█ All in 1 Portal or Free Music, Movies, Games, Audio, Art, Podcast...

█ Community made! Lots of people...

█ BASIC sites (tested in old browser) / less tech per page / retro forum style

█ Minimal-ish: Audio loads with spectrum interface fast!

█ No youtube style waiting or much extra code

█ 1-click download buttons!

❌ There is said to be adverts on some like Newgrounds.com though I don't see (I have Ublock Origin / Adblock Latitude) but should be said.

❌ Usual US sites are almost as bad as China or Partner sites for adverts etc

✔️ Terms and conditions and Privacy I read... mostly minimal.

Best I could find in total.

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Example audio - which I have on repeat!

🎵 NairyBaptiste - Name Z
= https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/1292162

(says name needs crediting / attribution but other that is fine / actually great made by amazing almost-anon / random people!)

Can use in films and other mixes!

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♥Fast loading, simple, no login
♥1-click instant download
♥Home-grown work

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Previous Posts / Creative Commons Info:

1. https://qoto.org/@freeschool/108521587337709305

2. https://qoto.org/@freeschool/111900738094980331

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#Free as in #CC0 (or very near / no bad repackages of licenses)

#CreativeCommons #media #CC

#Art #Music for #Fediverse

#FEDIVERSE #TIP = INSTANT NOTIFICATIONS *PER USER*

█HOW TO TEST IT? ENABLE / DISABLE?
👤 On user profile page: 👤
click follow :follow
(or you already follow) and
🔔 then click bell 🔔 button which appears only after follow is accepted.

█Instant notifications means posts are not piled up so much or lost in 100's of other follows- buried in the timeline... they are more of a priority or valued seeing the pop up and disappear quite discreetly and without interaction needed with popup.

█Then when bored go to browse timeline for the other people you probably have forgotten or don't have time for!

█So this way you read 1 by 1 as it pops up for a few seconds on screen, and ignore or reply. This helps considering replying in the now sense and not later.

█No need catch up later so much, read now and while people need each other / don't want to forget !
#activitypub #mastodon #pleroma, #funkWhale #castopod #Bookwyrm #writefreely #pixelFed, #forgeFed, #misskey #peertube

Power of Mind - You have it...

Just need to test what you mind like to access yourself in combination with everything else.

#MindPower #FreeSchool #PowerOfMind #MindHack #Spiritual #Wallpaper #Cosmic #Feeling #Energy

Consciousness Layers -
Physical, Mental, Emotional, Spiritual
- from UNGRIP documentary,

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=GA_vTdn3pqM

Screenshot image ~14.40mins

#Sentientism #Philosophy #Liberation #Humans #Animals #Suffering #Video #Notes #Quotes #Altruism #Evidence #Reason #Utilitarianism #Consequentialism #Ethics

Sentientism with Peter Singer - Ep #156 - A bit of an introduction

Sentientism from guest view and his stories growing up...

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=1Q6NCSFYtb09m21s

█ More videos from same source:
https://invidious.fdn.fr/channel/UCMfzOpbOeXRhZBXYRHkpPEg

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NOTES / QUOTES
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@09.21
But then I asked him (brother was a Rabbi) does he really believe in God, in the Jewish conception of the word God. And he said, "Well, when I say God, I mean, whatever it is in the universe that is a force for good"
And I said maybe that means "Some human beings, not all of them."
And he said "Maybe that is what it means."

@13.10
Voluntary assisted dying - choose when to die, especially if ill or quality of life is so bad and not much chance of changing- to choose when to die.

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On Mastodon...
@Sentientism

On Website...
https://sentientism.info/

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TRANSCRIPT (FROM VIDEO PAGE)

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00:00 Welcome
- Animal Liberation Now! - why now?
- Sentientism's links to ancient themes of naturalistic, sentiocentric thought & Peter's work
- Sentientism's 1) naturalism, 2) sentiocentrism & ethical pluralism, 3) implications of not needlessly harming or killing
- "What needlessly killing amounts to... is a question... that could have a lot of discussion"
- "In terms of what really matters in itself I agree that Sentientism is the right view"
- The challenges of the words speciesism & sentientism - too many syllables!
- Peter's entry on our "I'm a Sentientist" wall: sentientism.info/we-are-sentientists

06:12 What's Real?
- Non-religious Jewish parents "they came to Australia as refugees from the Nazis, leaving Austria"
- Mother "a fervent agnostic... there isn't reason to believe in a god or a supernatural being or life after death"
- "In some parts of the US it's almost necessary to belong to a religion to have a community"
- Rabbi cousin in Mobile, Alabama "When I say god I mean whatever it is in the universe that is a force for good... (e.g. some human beings)"
- "I kind of thought of them as fairy stories"
- Childhood meeting with Catholic kids "don't ask him any more questions - he'll only blacken his soul & go to hell... I wasn't in the least frightened"
- Good aspects of religions: "they tend to promote charity to the poor" (zakat, tithing)
- Negative aspects of religions: Religious wars & "very often a conservative force against what I see as progressive reforms"
- "If there were no religious teachings against #abortion I don't think the US would be divided over the issue"
- Voluntary assisted dying "fortunately that legislation is spreading"
- Why religious organisations get social licence to continue #sexism , #homophobia , #transphobia
- "[Religious] teachings about sex which have been a very negative influence... making people feel guilty"
- "The highest rate of unwanted teenage pregnancies in the US is precisely in the most religious parts"... rejecting contraception ("that would be sinful" - sex outside of marriage), getting pregnant, then facing abortion prohibitions
- #Descartes was a sentiocentrist (but thought only "ensouled" humans can suffer). That's why you need naturalism too!
- "I think consequences matter" #consequentialism & #utilitarianism
- "Perhaps you want to embrace people who are religious & who are sympathetic towards animals & bring them towards #sentientism ?" The work of Andrew Linzey, Charles Camosy, David Clough
- Previous guest Lisa Kemmerer: • "Compassion is a boundless capacity" ...
- #Sentiocentrism vs. #Sentientism as #Anthropocentrism vs. #Humanism
- "I totally agree with you about the value of evidence & reason"... #effectivealtruism
- Religious effective altruists use evidence & reasoning but "would leave evidence & reason at the door for some of their specifically religious beliefs"

26:25 What Matters?
38:58 Who Matters?
01:10:05 How Can We Make A Better Future?

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Mastodon...
@Sentientism

Website...
https://sentientism.info/

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If online is all you have, then make more relative contact with people.

Find things relative to you and them that really are mutual and healthy for thinking / doing.

Talk to people... Find a way...
Serve and Allow people in.
Offer more and Ask more from people.

To spend money more than make sense of the world...

...seems the mainstream way....

Better it seems to spend money that spend time thinking about why the easiest pre-set thing to do is so easy and just follow the crowd it's parental ignorance that give Kudos to kids for for '

ollowing 'blind and "just do it for me" or "it's ok it's legal" and 100 other lines...

#parents #etc# #society based on #monetary #action #freeschool

Weddings - waste of money / just a big over-spend... compared to what's going on?... mis-education, misdirection, just plain forgetting?

Can seem unrelated how weddings compare to climate change or changing the world but basically shows a false sense of priority by individuals and overall a sign showing commonly people might not even think things through or even think it's ok and just want to blow money almost. To spend money more than make sense of the world better...

That's the main point above if ever it's not clear....

So while they think about marriage the climate and everything is / has gone so almost, so "what use is marriage" one might ask apart from literally tying a knot / making a promise and legal stuff and yes maybe a party... hard to stop that avalanche of thought... but what about others... (that's the summary)

Here's the quote to connect the common sense bit together...

"We certainly can’t count on individuals doing the right thing. Not when the average couple still believes a wedding is worth spending the equivalent of what could feed them for five years (or pay their mortgage for two). "

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I mean the writer Phil sounds a bit like me about weddings (the ease of falling into social norms when neither person might not be religious (at all) and not really together long either) so does put it into context the "caring for planet" side of things asking in the rest of this text (copy will be be further down) when do people actually start caring and acting if all they do is things like this?

Almost more than each other or at the same time it's about saying- "wait a minute honey this is kind big-money-spending but also what are we not doing with our life (as growing our own food, helping the next generation) and how about we putting more love around everywhere, etc and not just spending it in each other isolated?)...

I remember buying a ring or two and taking it back, and also glad not to have tied the knot then. It's just not a place and time for these things and love often doesn't last.

The quote is from overall newsletter style send out every month of two about really living himself, now in Scotland but was in Spain recently before, and revolved around conscious being and eco-logic living. Conditions for "small is beautiful" type ways...

The send out on different topics is generally anti-system topics, as it can't but not be, and in each one more of a point-by-point controlled speech / rant pointing to more exact things but I thought anyway this one could be as mini-example and weddings are uncommon for a subject + good point about spending crazy amounts (weddings, crazy spending, real meaning of life on dying planet or just not really thinking ahead)

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A Simpler Life (blog monthly)
by phil rooksby - February 11

End Time approaching.

And with it, lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Just because global warming doesn’t feature as the main story in the news any more doesn’t mean temperatures aren’t still rising. This summer there are going to be so many new forest fires and areas hit by drought that parts of British Columbia (Canada)/ Alberta (Canada)/ Saskatchewan (Canada)/ Manitoba (Canada)/ Ontario (Canada)/ and Minnesota (USA) will probably become permanently uninhabitable. Right now, in the middle of winter, Spain is experiencing drought.

Here in Shetland a 3C rise in sea temperature has killed off 75,000 tons of farmed salmon. Around the coast of the Scottish mainland the rise was even higher, 6C. This could mean the end of fish farms in the UK.

We have to wake up to the fact that this is our new future. Major crop failures will be next, which given the ridiculous number of people there are on the planet right now, means starvation. Especially in the UK. Not that long ago the UK was self-sufficient in food, but then there were just 4 million of us. Today it’s 68 million and rising.

Oddly enough there is not a single sign of concern, not in the news or from our political leaders. Indeed it’s been very much the opposite. Shetland Islands Council (SIC) just unilaterally decided (as is their way) to cut yet more of the most necessary services (even though it is still the second wealthiest council in the UK), to divert more money into the pockets of its political and business friends. This time a private company called EnQuest, who wants to start producing hydrogen fuel from seawater. What that has to do with the council's remit is anyone’s guess, but even the most stupid among us can see such a venture is pointless, if there’s not going to be anyone left to use it. Same goes for the millions they want to spend building a new school. What SIC and our MSP/ MPs need to be focussing on right now is how we are going to deal with this climate emergency, and food security comes at the top of my list. Being able to grow enough food in Shetland for when TESCO is no more.

We certainly can’t count on individuals doing the right thing. Not when the average couple still believes a wedding is worth spending the equivalent of what could feed them for five years (or pay their mortgage for two). Then topping that off by having children. They haven’t even begun to realise what is happening out there.

They’re still eating meat/ fish/ and dairy, for goodness sake. Despite a plethora of information about the health risks of industrially produced food, as well as the obvious toxicity of eating anything taken from of our polluted oceans. They certainly don’t care a jot for the suffering of those creatures either. Makes me weep.

We have to be the most mentally deranged species on the planet. To watch ourselves become extinct and do nothing, while buying yet another Lottery ticket and praying to a god.

The only question left then, is what will it take before we (in the UK) wake up to what’s really happening? This summer will certainly be a turning point. Then after that there’s no going back, next stop extinction.

http://a-simpler-life.co.uk/2024/02/11/end-time-approaching/

"Breaking this cycle is why the #fediverse matters."...
- @wjmaggos

#Fediverse #Quotes #Comments
#FreeSchool #Favourites

█ Full post below (also good)...

"The problem is at the collective level. A world where a few corporations have so much influence over what everyone pays attention to is not a healthy society. It's bad for democracy.

Breaking this cycle is why the #fediverse matters. We decide here."

❤️ 💗 Love is a protocol! 💗 ❤️

Fediverse is networking our love and passion - mostly for peace work! People like me are woeking on it! 🚀 🎈

See Example: My definition of love using a vocabulary of other words for you / family / parter(s) to think about and work on!

https://qoto.org/@freeschool/110949550185613050

Can you imagine how powerful and even good it might feel to have so much power at your finger tips...

Like Icarus- are tech people trying to touch the clouds in the same way?.... to feel that warm glow?

Must be similar - having a mass of electrically-charged information-processing stuff at your finger-tips that can do almost anything - lights blinking like crazy... like an extension of your own being!

Touching and even Owning the clouds... Icarus style: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icarus

Obviously can be too much for one person to "fly too close to the sun", but perhaps many will try and industry knows it too.

In the right hands, it might just win it for us as a more responsible version of the status-quo... called Fediverse but ultimately something will cut somewhere...

So I wouldn't encourage anyone to try to touch the cloud or indeed think it can be all done remotely without A LOT of conscious humanity involved almost before or in between all that industrial BIGTech...

Something more like this for real happiness:
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😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃
😃 😃 🖥️☁️ 🖥️ 😃 😃
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P.S The image is a modification. It shows Icarus flying into a walled garden 😉

Image Credits (original) - George Tsiagalakis (Wikipedia):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ikaria_and_Ikarus_graffiti_at_Evdilos,_Ikaria_island_-_Greece.jpg

#cloud #computing #AI #Tech #Technology
#conscious #Capitalism #Fediverse #FreeSchool

Comments from Video...
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=Lf2nvSuqfyg

@rwess said:

Good one! The larger and longer (in time) you can make the moral scope the better.

Unfortunately I'm not sure we're up to it. 4 things:

█1) I hate guys like Stalin but he was right in this: “a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic” - same goes for other immoral acts, like torture, or any abuses for economic reasons (e.g. various forms of slavery).
Similarly, Asimov's famous metaphor: "If two people live in an apartment, and there are two bathrooms, then both have what I call freedom of the bathroom, go to the bathroom any time you want, and stay as long as you want to for whatever you need. Everyone believes in the freedom of the bathroom. But if you have 20 people in the apartment and two bathrooms, no matter how much every person believes in freedom of the bathroom, there is no such thing. You have to set up times for each person, you have to bang at the door, aren't you through yet, and so on. And in the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. The value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies." - Morality and dignity are intertwined, and fragile.

█2) Also, I think the S-risks in "the wild" are usually greatly overstated. If the ecosystem is healthy and balanced the number of survival niches for all kinds of sentients is immense and there is plenty of pleasure. If the ecosystem is "tight" and survival niches become squeezed (e.g. due to human incursion) then the S-risks increase greatly.

█3) I would pay the $5 in "Pascal's mugging". I'd maybe ask a few more questions though - and if the mugger answered that he was investing it in Bitcoin, for the long term, to save those masses of suffering beings in the future - I'd give him $10. 😁

█4) We humans are great exploiters and deniers. We will teach AI that behavior; we already have. AI will either replace us or fix us (if it deems it worth its while.) - or maybe it will just "fix" us like we "fix" cats and dogs, and we'll just naturally die out from lack of procreation... So it goes... (as Vonnegut would say).

#FreeSchool #Interesting
#Video #Comments