Privacy

I already can't get to about 30% of the sites I visit on Android because my "browser is out of date". And about 80% of the sites I visit on my computer requires I "verify you are not a bot".

I already stopped watching most streaming media because of the constant stream of advertisements.

I stopped looking for a job because every month another 90k of my peers are laid off, and most of the jobs on LinkedIn are the same ones I applied for a year ago (all ghosts). Yet the official jobs reports are always showing growth.

I'm writing this at a coffee shop in the middle of a bike ride. Kinda nice.

I'm starting to feel like I'm back in college before the internet was more than a CERN URL.

I kinda like it. Since I finally accepted that I am retired last week after a year of stress and fear, I'm starting to feel human again. Maybe in a few more weeks I'll actually start enjoying my old activities again.

The rich won. They own everything and everyone who could stop them. It will be decades before they destroy each other, so in the mean time we have to rely on each other for survival and find joy in what is left.

We need to find a way to opt out of civilization, because being connected to it in any way means the government owns us.

They know who we are, where we are and everything we do and possess. It is trivial to erase us if their algorithms decide we are a threat. If we exist in society, we are at their mercy. End of story.