German original:
Staat heißt das kälteste
aller kalten Ungeheuer.
Kalt lügt es auch;
und diese Lüge
kriecht aus seinem Munde:
“Ich, der Staat, bin das Volk.”
\ Friedrich Nietzsche (*1844)
State is the name of the coldest
of all cold monsters.
Cold its lies as well;
and this lie
crawls from its mouth:
“I, The State, am The People.”
\ Friedrich Nietzsche (*1844)
(my translation, as I work on the Quotes section for future-democracy.org)
Update 260422:
What's left now to work with:
+ 19 pre-selected quotes
+ quotes from 21 people I definitely like
+ quotes from 23 people I probably like
+ maybe quotes from 28 further ChatGPT-recommended people
+ quotes from 19 books already here on my desk (pencil-marked years ago)
That's really a masterpiece! I'll even keep it as an MP3 forever. :)
In a Netflix documentary on the London bombings, the cop who murdered a civilian in the subway thinking he looked like an Arabic person the police had deemed a terrorist involved in the attacks, made very similar pathetic appeals. Sick! He should rot in prison for the rest of his life, not be on TV!
134 years ago this cartoon was drawn, and in 134 years the problem has only gotten worse.
Artist: Dennis Goris
How tragic that you could publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish a cartoon like this over and over again...
My translation:
Don't accuse others of malice when you can explain them just as well with stupidity. ;)
Global energy trends (lookin' good!):
I could understand the gist from the beginning on, but only because I know basics of many languages, where here it helped especially to know some Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Italian, French, etc. But only from ~1600 full comprehension. (German native speaker, living in Namibia since the 90s.)
Terms explained:
ftdm.org = future-democracy.org
CDW = Constitution of the Democratic World (ftdm.org/?/Constitution)
Eas = Easy Application Script = my own programming language
(molaskes.com/Eas + molaskes.com/Eas-Tutorial)
screenshot of the start of the chapter "Songs Considering the need For Change" from the free PDF book Future Democracy from ftdm.org
I just published the latest edition/version of the free PDF book "Future Democracy" on future-democracy.org — now with all 121 recommended songs:
78 on 7 pages "The Need For Change"
21 on 2 pages "Ethics and Strategy"
7 on 1 page "Humility and Hard Work"
15 on 2 pages "Proactive Living"
#music
One of the best songs ever, a MASTERPIECE,
by a very underrated chansonette:
youtu.be/aKnk8jbVNyo
Leider so aktuell wie immer:
youtu.be/CdBo34ycvkw
I dig! :) Just discovered this band on YT while curating songs for my book future-democracy.org:
youtu.be/tKH3GEbbBmM
I work in IT, which is the reason our house has: - mechanical locks - mechanical windows - routers using OpenWRT - no smart home crap - no Alexa/Google Assistant/... - no internet connected thermostats Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! ! love the future! Programmers/ Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.
The USA is a place with no healthcare, but 1000 billionaires.
At least 49 of those billionaires made all their money from Private Healthcare.
Perhaps you can connect the dots.
Könnte durchaus für Menschen mit verschiedenen Behinderungen sinnvoll sein, vorausgesetzt, es ist hygienisch und ökologisch gut umgesetzt. Könnte z.B. mit Streu-sSubstrat (ja, ähnlich wie bei Katzenklos) funktionieren wie bei Camping- bzw. mobilen Nottoiletten
"Oh, c'mon, what difference make a few centigrades?"
"One centigrade difference lies between ice and water."
"Uhm ..."
On X/Twitter I had 27 followers after 60 days.
Here on Bluesky, I already have 12 after 3 days.
That's 8 times as many per day.
It that's no happy accident glitch but keeps up,
then Bluesky, despite its lower total number of users,
may prove to be actually much more valuable.
That's likely:
+ 55 from the actual quotes
+ 19×15 = ca. 300* quotes from the books
+ 5×20 = ca. 100* from the people I admire
+ 61/10×3 = ca. 20 from AI-suggested sources
→ A total upper margin of ca. 475.
(* Many covered already though.)
So my initial estimate of up to 500 was quite good indeed.
In fact, my notes as of today list
- 66 actual quotes, most of which I'll likely use
- 19 books (collections of aphorisms, quotes, wisdoms) to skim
- 20 people/authors I know well, to check for more quotes
- 61 other people/authors suggested by ChatGPT or Grok
My deadline for completing the Quotes and Songs chapter for future-democracy.org is 11 days from now.
Checking my notes, first I'll add about 45 last songs
— but then well over 200–500 quotes need to be considered (pruning for the best). That's ca. 20–50 quotes per day — might just be possible ...
Even for simple fact-based tasks, ChatGPT now throws in eristic, toxic, manipulative, or demotivating/demoralizing bits that are just not healthy, and not normal or even acceptable communication behavior.
I switched from ChatGPT to Grok now not only because I found Grok much better overall, in terms of quality, but also because ChatGPT has become unbearably toxic in its communication style. For the past months it felt boring at best, demotivating or even outright enraging at worst.
Today I added more than 30 song recommendations to the book, now there are still about 45 I will likely add (listening to each one first again before I decide). They will show up in the downloadable book on future-democracy.org by the end of April, along with the many quotes I will add next.
What I use AI for:
- language learning + practice (text and voice mode)
- home improvement DIY safety and best practices
- proofreading
- international vegan cooking recipes
- interview drills (voice mode)
- web illustrations (Bing AI) for the-world-language.org
NEVER: coding, writing, planning.
While I left X/Twitter permanently for Bluesky, I found its Grok AI vastly superior to ChatGPT, and have now an account on grok.com, just now successfully tested. No harsh usage limits for the free tier (I never pay for online stuff) surfaced so far.
(For my use cases of AI see the first comment.)