People got tricked by capitalism again: too much advertising, false promises, and fake convenience, only to take the same bait again and again.

Email already has everything needed for proper, clean, universal communication.

People could simply improve it with proper thread sorting, contact management, mailing lists, chats, and groups. But nobody seems to care, because big companies want to pull users onto their so-called platforms, take their money and personal data, and keep them hooked.

Email gives people much more: a universal open standard, self-hosting, the freedom to choose any provider and migrate easily, no required apps or platform blocks, and easy control over their own data.

I can see the usual crowd effect here, together with the illusion that simplification always means improvement. First, a few fools installed WhatsApp because they thought it was fashionable and easy. Then more people followed them. Eventually, even sensible people were forced to install this garbage because EVERYONE WAS ALREADY THERE.

Two comments from the internet:

joe_mamba:

“I have messenger app fatigue at this point, at least where I live.

Doctors’ offices and official services use SMS.

Some of my close family and friends use Signal, at my insistence.

Distant boomers use Facebook Messenger.

Younger people use Snapchat.

Almost everyone else in the country uses WhatsApp, as that is the dominant messaging app.

My friends who live in Berlin use Telegram.

Online communities for tinkering and FOSS projects require Discord.

God, I miss the 2000s.”

jjav:

“Having to check 27 different places for messages, including individual sites like LinkedIn where people can message you, is completely ridiculous.

Just send me an email. It is universal and standardized, and no corporation owns it. No corporation can shut me out, unlike Facebook or other proprietary services.”

Half of what makes a melody good is not the sound itself, but the emptiness between notes and the timing: when the melody begins, and how much empty space comes before and after it, how long it is. Time, space, and emptiness are just as important as what fills them.

Money is not a precise measure of intelligence.

Poor people are not always fools. Very often, people are simply unlucky.

They may have made reasonable choices and still ended up in a bad position. Wrong timing, bad health, a weak family, a difficult country, one failed opportunity, one accident—sometimes that is enough.

Money is not a precise measure of intelligence, character, or human quality.

Most poor people are ordinary people. Not stupid. Not inferior. Just less fortunate.

Do not confuse success with wisdom, or poverty with failure of mind.

Luck distributes outcomes far less fairly than people like to believe.

Updated July 13, 2026

You have to be cool and noble—I mean not noble by rank, but noble in quality: elevated, worthy, with an optimized mind temperature.

Imagine someone sitting there, calm and confident, thinking about the essence of things and about what is real. Then he notices: “This track is nonsense. Let’s switch to the next one.”

That is the real trick: switching tracks of thought.

You switch them when they become stuck, dull, or useless. And while switching, there is sometimes a brief state of emptiness—as if you were changing channels on a television. One track has ended, but the next one has not yet begun.

Do not be afraid of that emptiness. It is part of the process. Keep switching. Keep searching for the better track.

Listen only to tracks that have proved themselves good, useful, interesting, and capable of bringing perspective.

But you also have to know how to find them. Build an algorithm: search, find, test, and discard.

Throwing things out is part of the process.

Do not become too attached to any single track. Listen to different ones: worthy tracks, respected ones, carried by respected flows. Not nonsense. Not imitation. Not fake material.

Do not judge music or tracks of thought only by their literal words. The main thing is the flow, the essence, and the wholeness—the total meaning that reaches you. Not merely what was said, but what was understood.

Do not listen to disgusting pop trash, the kind that circulates through the crowd. The crowd is full of fools, and they are being fooled. Do not fool yourself.

Build a cultivated flow of thought. Wind it up. Become aware of the context and of what is needed today.

Switch the tracks. Search for the better one.

“A civilization that worships convenience will soon forget what freedom costs.“

Source: I lost the source, it’s just a quote from somewhere

Consciousness and thoughts are different things.

Consciousness touches only part of thought. There is subconscious thinking.

With consciousness, we just experience the external world.

But thinking is partly controllable. A thought can be moved, almost like a hand. You can direct it, return it, bend it toward an object, or pull it away.

But consciousness? consciousness cannot be moved like thought.

Consciousness presents the phenomenon of being. And this is truly gold to just be here, if we really notice it.

Regarding the previous post, “Life is a Test,” what interested me was what I wanted to say and what I feel.

For something good, hardship is what makes it stronger and better.

For something bad, problems make it worse and weaker.

But it is also a direction of truth.

If your life path is truth, you are going to get better no matter what tests life gives you.

If you are dishonest and seek low-level values instead of truth, those tests can easily break you down.

Thinking at scale, I see life as a testing model. It produces as many variations as possible, puts them under pressure, and lets time sort them. What survives is not necessarily perfect, but it is what proves workable.

One day I stopped blaming life for everything and started seeings it’s universe against life. Life itself is not the bad or problematic thing. Life is not the source of the chaos. Life is the attempt to solve the chaos. It is constantly trying to make things work, to create order, to make existence better and more stable here.

The real resistance seems to come from the universe itself. The universe does not appear friendly to life. It brings instability, destruction, disorder, and endless problems. Life answers by adapting, organizing, repairing, and testing new forms.

Existence looks like a long-term, self-moving mechanism of conflict to move: life as order pushing against the universe as chaos. Life keeps generating solutions, while the universe keeps testing, damaging, and breaking them. Over time, only the forms tested enough might remain.

Only a legally elected, democratic, and accountable government has the right to demand a passport, ID, or similar documents.

A corporation does not have that right.

This is the line that keeps getting blurred. A state, when it is lawful and democratic, has public authority. It exists inside a legal and political system. It can be pressured, challenged, limited, or replaced.

A corporation is not like that.

Nobody elected Google, Meta or LinkedIn. Nobody gave these companies a public mandate to decide who is real, who is suspicious, who may speak, who may work, who may enter, who may be locked out. When they need to sort out spam and abuse problems, it is their problem, not of users.

So when a corporation asks for a passport, the first question should not be “is this convenient?” or “is this normal now?”

The first question should be: who gave them this power?

A passport is not just a file to upload. It is a state document. It belongs to the relationship between a person and a country. When a private company demands it, the company starts acting like a government, but without elections, without public responsibility, and often without any real explanation.

This is not security. This is private power expanding into places where it does not belong.

And the worst part is how easily society accepts it. First people complain. Then they adapt. Then they forget it was ever strange.

Today it is: upload your passport. Tomorrow it is: prove your identity to speak, to work, to receive money, to use basic services, to exist online.

At that point we are not far from Google City, Amazon City, LinkedIn City — corporate territories where private platforms have public power, but the public has no real control over them.

Corporations are already dangerous by their nature. They are not built to care about the human being. They care about numbers, documents, profit, risk, compliance, growth, data. Feels like cancer.

A person becomes a profile, a passport becomes just another attachment, a life becomes a form to approve or reject.

That is why this must be resisted. Some powers belong only to public democratic institutions. Not to platforms. Not to apps. Not to companies whose only real language is profit.

Power without elections is not legitimacy.

It is corporate rule and it smells just wrong.

And by the way, LinkedIn is an especially shitty place, after all I have seen. Avoid it as much as possible. Somehow, I think it is even worse than Meta in its internal structures. Maybe that is because of corporations’ fear of losing growth. Crap like that needs to be boycotted. All those corporations are fascist systems, a disaster for the body of society.

If a corp asks for a password, its the day I start leaving them.

Great ideas, and perhaps many future great ideas, are syntheses of other ideas.

Bitcoin, for example, is a synthesis of cryptography and money.

A computer is a synthesis of the idea of number and the idea of machine.

Try to find a great combo. And not just a combo, a match, but rather a fusion. Its a stainless steel, not iron just mixer with silver. You got some fundamental experience but you move forward by finding great new combinations between them.

I’m curious.

Why do all these billionaires and trillionaires do almost nothing with their money? Why this endless greed, this stupid chase after bigger and bigger numbers? You cannot even spend that much. You cannot eat that much. So what is it for?

What did they do for society? Anything? At least one project? I look at these American billionaires and I think: what did they actually do? In most cases, nothing. Just grabbed more, stacked more, hid more, counted more.

And I think this system will crack sooner or later. Not because people are complete fools and will stay fools forever. No. People are tired, lazy, busy, distracted. They have jobs, problems, bills, noise in their heads. They do not look around for a long time. They tolerate shit for a long time. They pretend it is normal for a long time. But not forever. Sooner or later they will notice what kind of shit they are living in. And then someone will have to pay for all this stupidity, greed, and arrogance.

Has even one of these billionaires or trillionaires done something really grand? Free universities? Free libraries? Free access to knowledge? Free cloud computing for students, scientists, small projects? Something huge, useful, open to people? No. They just keep dragging everything under themselves. But why? They do not need that much. Nobody needs that much.

Fuck this American system and ignorant rich people like that its stupid and just bad. Rotten and greedy. I do not want to go there to usa. You ultra rich guys who do not make any real good just free real projects for society you smell shit you are fools.

I remember rich guy Zimin he spent money on science, education, books. Dynasty, Vsenauka, freed popular science books. Vsenauka That is a good example of how rich money can be spent.

So what did you do, billionaire? What is the meaning of your money? You are a fool, a parasite, and a nothing if you had all this money and did nothing for society.

I don’t like Anthropic and their manufactured hype strategies. They act like: ‘Oh people, it’s so scary, it’s so powerful, we’re going to disable it,’ or: ‘Wow, it’s so good, it’s so powerful, maybe nobody should be allowed to see it.’ They even seem to be fooling the currently very stupid U.S. government to restrict it for the whole world. That is absurd and dirty. These guys just gonna lost a lot of trust of the smart people after all.

But what interests me most here is the kind of crowd manipulation they use. Small accounts and ordinary people start repeating that crap over and over again, creating another wave of fake hype. That is what scares me most, because today it is so easy to manipulate people through social media by spreading any kind of narrative just by screaming loud enough. You just scream loudly enough, abuse the topic long enough, and slowly people begin to believe almost any kind of nonsense. One day, that kind of manipulation is going to cost society a lot of blood.

I personally never use anything made by Anthropic, and I’m never going to. The things they do are shameful. I really don’t like these greedy capitalist practices, and I hope they eventually pay for this mess by losing people’s trust. And by the way, it is overpriced garbage. I’ll remind you all that there are plenty of well-polished local models and many other alternatives to their products

I think we do not understand objective reality well, but we live in a model of the world that our brain has constructed from each ones personal experiences, destiny and genetics.

The world of a child, a teenager, and a thirty-five-year-old person is different.

You live in your model of the world, not in the world as it truly is.

It takes hard work, deep understanding, and conscious self-refinement to comprehend pure reality as it is, at least at its most basic level.

Intellectual freedom is absolutely necessary for high quality thinking and real action. Long-term success is impossible without that.

A crucial part of freedom is allowing mistakes and criticism. Freedom is not a prepared path where every step is approved in advance.

We need room to try, be wrong, hear criticism, correct themselves, and learn. Without that, freedom becomes only a word.

Very often, almost everywhere, everything truly good, high, and valuable needs time.

You simply have to wait.

A tree grows for many years. You cannot buy that process. No amount of money can force it to grow in an hour.

The same is true for many other things: real ideas, strong projects, good brands, meaningful work, deep relationships. They need time to mature. They need years to prove that they are alive, strong, and worth trusting.

The best things rarely appear instantly. They ripen slowly. They become real through time.

People today admire artificial intelligence and create hype around it, as if it were something supreme. In reality, this is just late-stage capitalism spreading another narrative.

People seem to forget that artificial intelligence was created by the human mind.

The human mind, the reason, it is what is the highest. And it is ours. Sadly, many people often forget its true value.

It is what we should strive toward; it is what we should desire the most.

How often people forget this obvious fact becoming prey to capitalism and manipulative scams, striving for false, dead-end values such as money, sex, and glory — while the true gold is knowledge, the highest reason. I understand it’s continuous fight for resources, but still truth is truth.

Spinoza wrote well about the reason and mind and understanding, and the love of it.

Closing the blinds is not a confession. It is not an admission of wrongdoing, suspicion, or shame. It is a small boundary, drawn without apology.

Privacy works the same way. It is not designed for criminals. It is designed for people: for thought before speech, rest without performance, intimacy without audience, and freedom without constant inspection.

A person should not have to prove innocence in order to be left alone.

Found a quote in my notes, most probably it’s from the internet, sorry, but I forgot/lost the source…

My commentary: that’s right—the current system is not balanced, and hard times are coming, y’all.

Accept emptiness. Accept pain. Just accept it, and let yourself experience it. Don’t hide from it. Don’t replace it with something else. Just understand it.

I have known many hardships and much pain in life, and I know this: when you are alone, you learn to accept it. You take it as it is.

Then time takes its place. Slowly, what once hurt begins to change, and soon, you find yourself alright with it. Let time take its place. What hurts now will not remain the same foreve

People usually explain internet echo chambers in a very simple way: algorithms show users more of what they already like, so communities slowly become more radical and isolated.

That is true, but it is only part of the story.

A more interesting explanation came from researcher Petter Törnberg from the University of Amsterdam. His study showed that communities can become echo chambers even without algorithms pushing people in that direction.

The mechanism is simpler and more human. People leave when they do not agree…

In online communities, critics and outsiders slowly disappear because being surrounded by people who disagree with you is exhausting. Most users do not stay and fight forever. They mute the group, close the tab, stop posting, never come back.

Then the balance changes.

When one skeptical voice leaves, the community becomes slightly more homogeneous. Then the next person who disagrees feels even more isolated and leaves too. Over time, the group radicalizes itself not because everybody was convinced, but because the unconvinced disappeared.

This is what makes internet communication strange. Digital spaces look open, but they are actually extremely fragile. A real-life conversation forces people to stay in the room together. Online, leaving costs nothing.

So the internet does not always become extreme because people are manipulated by machines. Sometimes communities become extreme because disagreement quietly evaporates on its own.