As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

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    Don’t stop at chatgpt. Cancel any subscription you have! Stop using any big corporation you can!

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        I’ve lucked out with living in a few places back to back where the building provides the internet, likely because the city is a university town so there’s always tons of student tenants in the area. I haven’t had to deal with the pain of an ISP installation in years. Also get the added benefit of not having to worry too much about things like port forwarding on security risk, so you don’t have to dump your Windows 10 just yet in favor of resigning yourself to the Cult of Linux lmao

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        A brain ship will be the last subscription you‘ll need before leaving your mortal shell behind to enter the hive mind of the web where our souls are merged.

        Or something along those lines.

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          I wish it was possible, Imagine mixing meshtastic with tcp/ip. it would be as slow as mid 90s, but forums/text based internet that doesn’t rely on anything but communal decentralized infrastructure?

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            Reticulum

            You can mesh together WIFI, LoRA, HaLow, the lora devices can be the same stuff you run meshtastic on. End-to-end encrypted. sourceless transmissions. You can route over i2p and classic internet for some rather reasonable privacy.

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        I’d be all in on community driven networks if one existed around here. Perhaps I need to start…

        “Oh ya here’s the community Plex server. Heres our community forum.”

        Etc.

        I’m imagining at some point a fediverse of small community owned networks.

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      Cancel ALL your -tions! Benedictions, Predelictions, Prescriptions, Conniptions, Convictions!