General Opinions
Against Most of What We Call Advertising: Much of advertising is mind poison. It is a constant source of psychological manipulation, security/efficiency/privacy concerns, and other ills. It is long past the time that we consider a new, or rediscover an old, paradigm for discovery of products if we need them or wish to browse them.
- Strongly recommend uBlock Origin or DNS-level adblocking for anyone using the internet and especially strongly recommend not using any paid service that still contains ads even when paid (cable TV, streaming services, etc.). Corporate and capitalist incentives when crossed with advertising result in a rather toxic mixture.
- Your local business trying to stay in business by letting you know they have a cafe is a different situation and when existing outside of the "ad serving" industry, and instead, in a directory, or by word of mouth, or via means that do not involve any of the current paradigms problems (privacy, security, efficiency, manipulation, accessibility/readability, etc), I take less issue with it.
Right-to-Repair: You bought it, you should own it. Period. You should have the right to use it, modify it, and repair it whenever, wherever, and however you want. Ownership should be absolute. Once you've purchased a product, complete control over its use, modification, and repair should rest with you— no questions asked.
Information/knowledge should be free and available to all instead of paywalled and locked up by private corporations. Scientific studies/papers are a prime example.
Anti-DRM: DRM is defective-by-design
Luddism: The Luddites were right and for decades have been misrepresented as anti-technology. The Luddites were onto something. It was a pro-worker movement, against the use of worker-hostile technology specifically. It may very well be time for us to take a militant-luddite approach to modern technology.
Adversarial opposition to numerous applications of technology considered to be some form of AI: By adversarial, I mean that I philosophically support efforts to disrupt and actively fight against AI systems, while disclaiming that I do not specifically condone any particular activities, nor am I encouraging any activity that may fall outside the bounds of legality.
AI Views: I have a separate page for more detailed views on Artificial Intelligence that I hope to flesh out over time with additional nuance.
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