Linux-fueled Thoughts Unhinged

I have some remaining thoughts on the Creepshow Art situation. Most of it isn't really worth continuing a proper part in the previous post about this, but I wanted to get some thoughts out of my head... mostly because I poisoned my own mind with this toxic crap.

Injustices

Why don't truly messed up people get punished, while there are innocent people still jailed for smoking a marijuana joint but doing nothing criminally?

These jacked up lawmakers can't grandfather MA laws to get victims of the “”“war on drugs”“” out?

C'mon! We're paying many politicians with taxpayer money to literally be adult children?

This is pathetic!

I guess the following Louis Rossmann inspired thought is correct: the more you look at the situation at hand, the more you don't understand — just like an Impressionist painting.

These YouTubers Don't Care About You!

I would've posted a link to the Bo Burnham song “Kill Yourself” from the 2016 Netflix special Make Happy, but the video with German hardcoded subtitles was copyright struck a little more than 1 year ago... it was sort of important, because it showed the full context Burnham built up to the song, while every other uploaded excerpt start where Burnham begins to sing.

But that's when I started internalizing Burnham's message and recontextualizing his message to that it was actually usable to me: these “”“commentary”“” YouTubers don't care about you.

Omnia and karl weiss (and please, at least pronounce German names beginning with a “W” with an audible “V” sound — that is the correct German pronunciation; I've sat through enough higher level STEM to know this), while they state facts that are essentially true, I don't think I would like them as people.

I won't dispute the jester when the jester states that $1+1=2$ (when the domain and codomain are $\mathbb{Z}$), for those who are fussy), but I really don't think people who are even leading productive lives would be making commentary videos. I mean, who the heck are these 3 people donating money to Omnia so that she can make inflammatory commentary videos? I don't mean to be a MAGA boomer when I say this, but go outside or something.

(I was going to say, “Get a real job!“, but that was going back too close to “Okay, boomer” territory.)

So, these YouTubers used to be friends with Shannon, but now they're basically throwing Shannon to the curb.

It's one thing to have a response video, such as from Ready to Glare, or to have an actual video with something to say, such as from Emily Artful.

However, people like Omnia are just trying to make some extra money from the YouTube ad revenue algorithm — which isn't sustainable anyways. I've heard that YouTube takes a 40% cut from your earnings — thanks YouTube... or is it Google? Alphabet? I don't know anymore. I hate these socialized leftist corporations.

Yes, yes — all of these commentary YouTubers are profiting off of the Saṃsāra like black boxed algorithm of controversy in all of mainstream social media. That isn't news, per se.

The only thing left to say, without wasting more oxygen on these worthless people is that they don't strike me as role models at all.

And just like politicians, political pundits, and objectively fake and pretentious philosophers, I hope I never become a commentator — demonstrated by these tools, they look like they are wasting everyone's time in the name of and for the sake of SEO (search engine optimization — a.k.a, clicks and views).

(I don't know how I feel about old-ish commentary, such as from the Enlightenment — I'll have to leave that out for myself to figure out on my own time.)

Anyways, besides Snowden's first post on Substack I think that the following tweet from Snowden, featuring an excerpt from Chimamanda Adichie really shows the opposite end of the implications mainstream social media has on society at large, and how these “”“commentary”“” YouTubers contribute to the the unjust power structures that these social media companies are imposing on the rest of society without anyone's consent (inching ever so closer to the 1984 dystopia private companies and oppressive neoliberal totalitarian governments secretly covet):

“[Y]oung people... are terrified to tweet. The assumption of good faith is dead. What matters is not goodness but the appearance of goodness. We are no longer human beings. We are now angels jostling to out-angel one another. God help us. It is obscene.” — Chimamanda Adichie, mirror of modified homepage on June 16, 2021

I will not watch crap anymore and I will not be happy with being given crap anymore.

Reminds me of GrapheneOS Room on Matrix, But Worse

I mean, I always knew that Micay and the GrapheneOS moderators (well, back in March 2021 — I don't know how they're doing now) are only somewhat better than the people on Kiwi Farms and Lolcow, with respect to relative comparison.

However, Shannon and Co.™ make the GrapheneOS room on Matrix look like Mr. Roger's Neighborhood in comparison.

Anyways, I've had enough — just like how the EFF writeup of the Fireside Chat with Edward Snowden states:

There is a looming backlash of people who have had quite enough.

And I have had enough of Big Tech taking away the revolution that was supposed to be the people's revolution: YouTube in 2010. But it was all taken away by corporations wanting to profit off of these sites of genuine interactions.

It's time to take back the internet for ourselves.

And for the record, I think it was a mistake to lift the moratorium (well, restriction — but you know what I mean) of the commercial use of the Internet in 1991.