Techbro with lukewarm takes. Hates both state & corporate censorship, but also just wants people to get along. In the last year I've lost over 260lbs, feel free to ask me about it! #SelfHosting #Monero #WeightLoss Pray for peace, always. 🕊️
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Last Notes npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Did Gen Z even experience Moore's law at all? npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…dq4x More generally I've noticed that "trauma aware" circles are lightyears ahead MAHA commentators on how the "mental health" complex has been used to silence victims of abuse. Peter Breggin is a reference for some of it given his work, but there seems to be a broader movement and history that doesn't seem to totally overlap with post-covid medical freedom circles. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…dq4x I'd definitely love to know if you have any good resources or accounts on this. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel I've begun looking into this, ngl it seems to be a huge "medical freedom" fight that hasn't gotten a lot of recognition in "mainstream MAHA" circles. A conspicuous absence... https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/b7cb92b0100f81d7f97f0c6b74b182d8b7aa79b27f3e98970ed4605fb59c2aa5.jpg npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Am I too paranoid if I believe Big Tech was built expressly for this purpose? https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/d0039cc52fe48d7c42a12387c78e53922a9350f020764ce6f10938b2c79683c1.png npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…l6wj what do you mean? npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel For those digging into the latest Epstein revelations... What's your take away? npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Bad news. I destroyed another db... npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel I'm really enjoying using #Mitra with pl-fe I haven't felt this comfy since I stopped distro-hopping and installed Arch. Would definitely recommend the combo for a personal instance! npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Bros I'm finally below 300! 🎉 #WeightLoss https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/ac4e8c69c327c17469e3e46939f84691cda8c5b1ae05ec8938ea64bbb9a4ee92.jpg npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Unfortunately, ‘revolutionaries’ are often just as willing to sacrifice your life for their mission as the tyrants. Just because one seems to have a noble cause, it doesn't mean you can trust them to restrain themselves to noble means. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Pretty sus if you ask me https://news.mit.edu/2025/nuno-loureiro-professor-director-plasma-science-and-fusion-center-dies-1216 https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/7f4a5a0952d3489855ea28202fe909d6afacb43fd7810cf453e83509c340541c.jpg npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Art is about the choices we make Making things myself has changed the way I appreciate other people’s work. I used to understand the word “appreciate” as establishing the value of something. I thought that appreciating a Van Gogh painting meant seeing why Starry Night is so damn popular, because if you don’t, something is just wrong with you. Only since recently do I understand appreciation in the sense of love and gratitude. Failing to paint one landscape after another make me appreciate just how difficult it is to convey emotion in just a few brush strokes. Lessons learned from making art npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…78zf salty soybeans are tasty I just wish the ones at the store weren't shipped from China. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel I find it amusing that many people AI generating images to post won't even bother to select the best of many attempts and clearly just post the first image that the machine puts out. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel I need a shitposting alt.... npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel I have no idea what's up with #XMR but wow. https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/5541bafe9a65235da49bc2b0ecf232c24c1d852343cda4cbcdba63e56f0ea27d.jpg npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…tsag I basically feel that every wednesday, without having the audacity to think I'm anyone's favorite account npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/db19b2c0dfb392c8eb48f2a6ca436406833b12c71cac2e0d7b78d865a0ff1c25.jpg npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Scott Carney is saying Trump traded Ukraine and Taiwan for Venezuela, does that sound right? (Geopol isn't my area at all) npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…nptm oh! Thank you! npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel New years resolution: catch up on tech toil 😫 npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…lhe9 this violates the NAP npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel This is a pattern that's hard not to find almost everywhere these days. https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/ef21187d0d0aafcd6a00f7ce9d193e127de76287cc09a40607b1bc4923cfa983.png npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Is 2025 the year of gifting people Linux install USBs? 🤔 npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel RE: https://qoto.org/users/reclaimthenet/statuses/115748835520832201 #nevent1q…smhv https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/6528e4437bf27b9d8114189ba553fedecdc855e0e74426db8061757622dd05b7.gif npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel A Few Thoughts and Observations about the Recent Huge Computer Parts Price Increases npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel That was a bold, but pretty stupid move. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Looking forward to becoming 'formerly obese' and eventually 'formerly overweight'. Possibly achievable in the next year or so... npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel The military industrial complex read The Sovereign Individual and laughed their asses off. You can't stop me if I have Bitcoin and encryption! "Lol, lmao" beeped the assasination drone. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel CBC: saving lives is bad actually. She has to suffer for the greater good apparently. https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/9cb96a6b5cb623b7092f3d21157ae178b6b8752cb6fc180f214e742571b7d581.jpg npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…kdvp an absolute apocalypse for low-end Android devices. (You can have 1gb of ram to run all our bloat...as a treat). But I genuinely believe the plan is to phase out general-purpose computing power for the masses... https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/3bb7eee8c9ff05c68268a6b2fabfd5ad35913863ff4e38d05a4f607a7085a294.png npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…2wy3 #DeltaChads keep winning npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel It's equal partspaers terrifying and funny to see chicken hawks in government squack about 'mobilizing for war'. They've sold out sovereignty and any real independence for decades if not longer. But remember, the war doesn't have to be winnable or even viable for them to throw bodies at keeping themselves in power. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Is there any fedi-themed merch? Do any of the big instances have any? Or would someone have to get it made themselves? #AskFedi npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel When she's a keeper https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/7e674b61a431dce02d2af9c04d7a160b250e03ecd3700c10a5f52a626bd61c87.mp4 npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Massive Lunduke L https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/429050f866598baae77e4fd5ac0000aa3e64bc2e260b02c958bc448b57f4f55a.png npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel New record! 🚴 20 minutes on the exercise bike in zone 2! npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…r5ne very good points, you reminded me I wanted to bring up 'risk management' for the powerful as a driver for these kinds of things. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel I was sent this very technical presentation on the potential of a 'digital control grid'. The presenter is very skeptical that technology is sufficiently advanced to run an individualized technological slavery system. I'm currently writing up my response, but I'm curious for thoughts from any of you who have the time to sit through this. In truth, I wholeheartedly disagree with many of the conclusions and assertions made, but I found much of it to be a valuable overview of critical concerns. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel "Depart from me I never knew you..." ☠️ https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/dda2ca634f434fd3982bb29e90f8876f833f3193e554a1c13d675937f961d0fb.jpg npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Lunduke's rust hate is irrational and dumb. I wish he would get people excited about building FOSS projects and communities instead of sour grapes mudslinging. https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/8452be63253a282eb46243d19f5043599a8ad2e2dc89cb2abfeeb4b6034915f1.jpg npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel 🙏 Praying for @nprofile…p3pv and starnix network as a whole! RE: https://mstdn.starnix.network/users/splitshockvirus/statuses/115684620877439450 #nevent1q…ttpl npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel ❤️🔥 https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/f50c294e0b6b847c6f10598d83431b4e039266b7e6be05e3b87972a19807985b.jpg npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel "It's not capitalism it's...." Nobody cares. This isn't a new pattern, it's just becoming more blatant as power consolidates. https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/7c9bc7939f8cbd7ae42cbac1369d1614d53981306c51e1fa99145e2c2eb70901.png npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Fediverse means that instances federate. RE: https://social.tchncs.de/users/werawelt/statuses/115674150584699938 #nevent1q…8qev https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/a30b05b0e35ecf041e9985627d7cb042d88d75dfc119473bd2f5f3d2addc0754.gif npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Goes way beyond just government. NDAs, court settlements and all kinds of things turn every meeting into "smoky back rooms". https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/de9df8d254b4c5c870688bcd3ef0c806d8fdbb6949663cc1391f4cf9732d7295.jpg npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel RAM prices are going to cause software performance to be a national security crisis. Good time to be proficient at low-level languages I'm sure.... npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel The future is finger licking good https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/2e0dc07b93183a44152640044fd413b08b5c773a7bcedd8d2d08128bda2d2ce6.png npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Old boss same as the new boss... Kinda https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/6e7170205b961e3388b2e2d2ab07bc87d76033ac513f4764508ab5df9acb88aa.jpg npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…fgvc pretty! npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel gOS hammering the timeline. https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/1910ce01e5c4243ce7da3144a8966258fc4f110d8450d83dfa71c18d62abae44.gif npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel First the police state, then they remove any impediments to their edicts. To be frank, I think this is bigger than just domestic opposition to foreign wars. https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/0e2bd5c47194f88150bd49cbf63653da9d63860a5feeeedd0379fd4effa6d6d1.png npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel I'm personally convinced that three well-known fallacies / concepts are basically psyops to intellectually fortress bad ideas. You'll notice that all three of these have been utilized to entrench policies that basically everyone now acknowledges were terrible ideas and could never have worked. 1) Slippery Slope Fallacy This 'fallacy' is often used to dismiss concerns related to exponential growth/decay. While not all slopes are slippery, there certainly ones that are. Anyone intuitively understands how consolidating power compounds, so it's silly to dismiss people pointing at that. I think this is overused because people generally struggle with non-linear thinking, so it's easy to keep people in line by telling them to dismiss all non-linear ideas across the board. 2) The backfire effect The idea boils down to the fact that a lot of people aren't going to simply rewrite their entire philosophy on life because someone claims something that doesn't match their lived experience. Anecdotes aren't data, but data doesn't always perfectly map onto people's actual lives. People perpetually live in a n=1 experience, so there's a lot of room for error. This means that there's a lot of research done into more subtly undermining people's perception rather than trying to get them to accept lies directly. 3) Dunning-Kruger (This might be my most controversial claim here.) The problem boils down to the idea that people with 20% of domain knowledge can often call out those with a lot more of it. The misdirection is the assumption that one must have a complete understanding of a field to call bullshit on assertions made by those with a large amount of knowledge. This effectively 'raises the bar' by arguing those outside the club can't actually make any real arguments about all kinds of things, entrenching that position. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Years ago I had a dream that I was in a coma for 7 years. At the time, I genuinely had no idea what that was about. But In hindsight, it seems like a really prescient warning. Especially at that time, much of my life was a haze of numbness. My adaptations to the pressures and stressors were not just blocking out my life, but beginning to compound into self-destruction. Looking back, it really looks like a prescient warning to me of what I was entering, that also showed that it would come to an end eventually. With this in mind, I can see that I am so back like never before. I am excited to make the best of the road ahead now that I am unshackled from much of the darkness. Thanks for being cool fedi people, it has helped a lot. https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/c5b7553c4fe12a1a1f31876d369e67400ddefd11512cfab411a364dd8d832fbb.gif npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Crisis over, sanity salvaged! npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…jqam that would be the silver lining... npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel RIP my sanity. It was a good run. ☠️ npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…0ttv Why not both? @nprofile…x9w9 allows you to use XMR for donations and even subscriber-only posts. I'm personally fairly critical of Odysee these days. IPFS is cool but I'm not sure if webtorent effectively provides the same benefits with less hassle... npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel New low of 315.7! The last month has been very successful! #WeightLoss https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/2a1aa29d86f306fa8694e6744203435dad5741cbf84db3980089bf2b3c6f17a0.png npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel GTA VI will burst the AI bubble https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/be577d5dd09dcade33644682aff073bc3cfd3c3c8431080f47cf3831118507da.jpg npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…fhzh Iirc the ratio is by weight so it's nore that you cant just dump a ton of silver onto them without balancing it with gold. @nprofile…5nt5 @nprofile…ydzq npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Please save your best posts for when I happen to be online 😅 RE: https://metalhead.club/users/swampgas/statuses/115642705278652103 #nevent1q…ur3u npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…u5xy suddenly all those "you should just rm -rf" jokes all over the Internet are a LOT funnier these days. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel I want to run guix so bad but I'm feeling filtered (struggling to build an image with all the packages I want) 😭 npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…efpk I agree and it's exactly why they're pushing LLM chatbots into everything. People talking directly to other people is a threat to power that can no longer be tolerated. Hence #ChatControl and other #MassSurveillance rollouts worldwide. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…jqam It's just stereotyping and pattern recognition. Using a blunt, simple heuristic to keep the community safe with no care for collateral damage. https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/d9efa90db6d46abce148d8f42440ce3894b0b47e11a673d85d8c283430a4cd87.gif npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Canada prepares for war While their motivations may differ, all of these countries are operating in lockstep. For many decades, globalization has flattened communications. Global cooperation now usurps national sovereignty. Nation states no longer operate in isolation. Their policies are the world’s policies. Sovereign citizens are global citizens. Local laws are international laws. Where one goes, the rest follows. This also applies, dangerously, to modern warfare. I suspect something big is on the horizon, and it is not the threats that we are told we should be afraid of, it is the unspoken threats that loom over us. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…2xdp you can only tell if she really likes you by her showing interest in your 'tism fixations. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel I'm pretty skeptical of wayland hate these days. A great way for malevolent forces to neutralize FOSS would be to turn non-issues into chaos that people just want to avoid all together. RE: https://snug.moe/notes/afoay5wswvdt2hqd #nevent1q…6vay npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Being able to append spd-say 'All done!' at the end of a script that takes a while is pretty nice. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…veee test npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…e4vm I'm putting this down on the optimistic side 🤣 npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future of tech... Why? npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel curl -s https://gabe.rocks/sharing/gnu.txt | spd-say -e npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel The same people who wants to spy on you and throw back doors into thinks also want to throw you into endless meat-grinders. RE: https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458972034139959296/entities/urn:activity:1838537807866372096 #nevent1q…5wwu npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Economist outlines why econ gaslighting won't fix the fact that a majority of Americans are actually living in poverty. https://open.substack.com/pub/michaelwgreen/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel I don't think anarchists can double-dip voting itself being useless and an act of aggression. I'm willing to grant how it can be either, but not both at the same time. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel The kids are... losing their minds 🫣 https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/4ff5831de078d444094f67f18b928eb344968a97a351afa1c6f8fcf5cb06bdfd.png npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Net Zero / Degrowth in action https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/f3e6e70e8442b658d7f9dad22d1cff6614db2677f909f673b24b264ccef8ba9e.jpg npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Doing a mini-dive into "complexity science" which I would summarize so far as "stop micro-managing everything and we can actually live so much better". Seems like one of the many simple "low-hanging fruit" ideas that sound outright utopian to people who take everything that is for granted. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel You could kill basically every centralized social media service with a modern social web CMS that is designed with ordinary people in mind. I don't think there are too many barriers to make this a reality. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel I put together this feels reel, I hope you enjoy. https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/fa502dd6747b4ee3ad30bea1c250f2ac1da449332ee1c1870d1ceac3b53f7aa7.webm npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…r5ne how so? npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel New audio log! Double milestone #WeightLoss #WeightLifting npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Looks like I've been beaten to the punch but I'll have more to say for sure. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel cc @nprofile…r3cv @nprofile…p3pv @nprofile…v9qh 🏋️ npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel I'm very proud of today's PR! My first time overhead pressing 1 plate ever! https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/0b8e1d4ce98cdeb4f3c4df5204ce6f057c488083c798d9bef8e388e2d5d46ce6.webm npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…yxtg To be perfectly fair, comparing it to the overall population isn't quite appropriate because there are a variety of risk factors (such as age) that predispose people towards it... at least until they continue the mass rollout to other areas (mental health, youth, etc) But I have no doubt that the over-representation is large even when you account for those factors. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…pe7f Very cool, thank you! npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…pe7f Can you share what enhancements made it work better? npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel I am preparing to go to war against Braxman shortly after gOS publish their side. He has taken advantage of too many good people for me not to point at the mountains of evidence he's a fraud if not an outright malevolent force. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Braxman definitely needs to be taken down a notch. I have no clue how he gets so many views. RE: https://grapheneos.social/users/GrapheneOS/statuses/115568468582959459 #nevent1q…qxu5 npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Geezer and his boy https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/7dd83de0ae2aee2f9fea602ff6d6f88bb70f0852af137d7a161642a3f7873f9f.mp4 npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…r5ne so many signs of a very grim future ahead. https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/545b3f29a8b7e7128f16152cbd64cf67a218541d5d4465885d34acffade8d72e.jpg npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Something tells me the price for failing that test is quite high. https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/3a4cc0b874ebda8f7ee2155ebfec42026c8908eea7aa79709f423763efd46703.jpg npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Ngl I love having a for vanity address: http://gabriel262me3lgv3w7xohtesg3laoojmtye644pwirhdm73qmedmsqd.onion/ npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel @nprofile…yt9z You're definitely right that "Armory Forge: The infinite machine gun maker" would attract a lot of unhelpful attention. But I still think it's important to consider that steps like this are often the first step before actual censorship and other more nefarious things roll in. Good to see the community was at least paying attention to it. npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Why software/hardware freedom matters. https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/b7dcc2256789396f8984888c123f5bff8a7f3d3e302a8b033cdf9ae5337b6ee4.jpg https://fedi.libresolutions.network/media/904b9c22bcff6319f1522b12788f91ae5ccdbaafb680fb8a069acade505ea2ca.jpg npub17wvpjrz32m395u3zgjtk3mz65t6ch5ykcyyr4k8cafkcaazlcyrs4zl5ms Gabriel Lauren Southern (again) confirms the 'alternative media' is more controlled and more weird than the most paranoid speculation would guess.