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Christmas shopping (haiku)

on December 19, 2020

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Christmas shopping

a line of customers

at the food bank

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Dilemma of being here

Facebook, Apple, Google, Netflix (owned by the Bernays family), Amazon, Microsoft, Disney, Sky and all the Big Tech Big Media corporations. You can't get away from them. Open source is significantly funded by these companies (Google Summer of Code... contributions to the Linux kernel..... big name open source libraries....) Censorship, privacy busting, poor products, poor working conditions, fake news, and enormous political influence. Is it wrong to use their products and services - reading this is doing exactly that...? Should we ditch as many as possible and put our personal technology back 15 to 20 years? Is it OK to continue using their services? Or is there some good lurking somewhere within? Is boycotting big tech as silly as green activists boycotting electricity? Even using "other people's" services you can bet somewhere in the infrastructure they will be hosted on Amazon or Google servers, even Apple use Google servers. Should we be bothered about ...

Dramatic Clouds

Walney Channel looking south on 23 February 2024

Too Much Brain

Having too much Brain is bad for you. It demands your attention, constantly knocking your reality door, pestering for this and that. Like a purpose. Or meaning, as if the sheer joy of being alive isn't meaning enough. Over thinking, fighting back against any attempts at meditation or physical discomfort, it demands to be noticed. The constant nagging to be entertained, flitting from one experience to another in some strange desire for success (and, therefore, immortality). It's only when you calm it down that you start to see real change. The path is revealed in the silent moments between synaptic impulses. Too Much Brain will eventually go away, but you will continue long into the deep night.

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