OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT, althought that bit is obvious) has unveiled ChatGPT Atlas. Their new chromium-based browser with ChatGPT integrations right out of the box.

Asceticism is a lifestyle characterized by self-discipline and a withdrawal from worldly pleasures. Multiple phylosophies and some religions have reached the conclusion that suffering is the only path to excelence, and convenience is a path for destruction and bad-habit making.

That’s why I find myself yelling at clouds, because we were promised that in the golden age of information, wisdom would be inevitable. But iall we’re seeing is innocent people fooled by a system that instructs them to avoid knowledge, as thinking is evil, inconvience is no better than dead, and 🎵 boredom is a crime 🎵.

We must reject this simplification of the contemporary life and build strength, build independence from the people that see us as nothing more than a wallet.

While it may be depressing to think about the current state of the world, we must (as in, moral obligation) be optimistic. Defeat is the moment that they take over your hope. Do not let these corporations dictate your hope and your worries about the future, as that’s the moment that you’re building your the bird building its own cage.

A concrete mantra

For today’s enemies, the thing that they fear the most is strong people organizing A necessary step in entrenching a fascist regime is separating strong-willed people from each other.

Because mobilized people are strong, having people in the streets is powerful; But a handful of well organized people are unstoppable.

If you really want to make a change in your community, make sure to be organized, have a plan. Ensure your supply lines, identify who your threats are and who aren’t and engrain on your brain that you are uniquely a via for profit.

Immediate action

There are lots of ways to act. As for immediate, easy action I can think of:

• Check out your local communities and interact with people of similar ideas in your city.
• Use small, personally-owned webpages. If you’re in a stable financial situation, donate to the ones you use the most!
• Migrate from corporate-owned social media (e.g. Twitter) to open ones (e.g. Mastodon), if you cannot find one, use an alternative open front-end. For example, instead of using Youtube, I use Invidious (no ads, no tracking, no fingerprinting, and it establishes a better relationship with the platform)

Always remember that you’re not alone, there are people interested in taking ownership of their digital lives out there, and they aren’t as rare as you might think.

From my part

I’ll be posting some tutorials on degoogling your life, self-hosting and my journey through finding alternatives and separating myself from the algorithm.

If you’re interested in this kind of content, I have an RSS reader and might work on a mailing list.