@bagder @Aissen #RichardStallman = fast via email + for specific things.

I did video conversion for him:

But when the work ended, so did #communication about other things I could do.

#RMS = less socially improving in the sense of building up a #movement with the #fans (developing with people)

Instead we're just developing software (even Mastodon) and a #tech #answer & not much people #pioneering social itself on top.

Agree?

Evidence = 0-replies / lack of activity / rare deep replies / etc

@tamsin
@Nicovel0 Hello - Are you interested in the revolution which I see as bettering #communication between the good people (not only hating Tech?)

Please get in touch. Here's how / why:

Short version = Good people are in a loop of hating things more than building #trust or comms between the skilled people so there's near-0 progress - just fear left over.

Yes know the bad, but improve actual communication / social, not just 1-way posts, avoiding things and media.

Does that makes sense?

@aral But let's level up more than talking OK?

i.e.

✅ [Talking about] Genocide [is good]

but we're still not

❌ Opposing genocide [...via opposing #banks who pay for wars AND increasing the #trust / #communication #transaction between us ?]

You are currently doing the same talking but maybe I'm blind and ask how you are building community from your fans directly [or fans / supporters let me know].

Waste of the fans / community as a resource [to improve #communication / #trust between us]

@taufic At the same time, we have to increase #constructive communication and see who / how we can #trust people and then increment with the right people MORE.

I think we can do it online - but we need people to trust and find those strong in themselves like me to talk and #seed a better tree of #communication / #relationship

Even with #anonymous people we have the #logic and #principles that need no #identity attached.

What do you think about that?

I recently started, "Just asking questions," with my family.
You know, the way Tucker Carlson does.
Now none of them are speaking to me anymore.
I haven't copyrighted this yet -- and I don't know if Tucker Carlson has either.
So feel free to do this with the people in YOUR life.
Bong hits 4 Jesus.
#Family #Communication #TuckerCarlson

A quotation from Schopenhauer

But, as we have seen, many people try to conceal their poverty of thought under a flood of verbiage.
 
[Aber freilich suchen viele Schriftsteller gerade unter dem Wortüberfluß ihre Gedankenarmuth zu verbergen.]

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher
Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. 2, ch. 23 “On Authorship and Style [Über Schriftstellerei und Stil],” § 283 (1851) [tr. Saunders (1890)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/schopenhauer-arthur/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #schopenhauer #arthurschopenhauer #communication #content #eloquence #logorrhea #loquaciousness #pithiness #thought #verbiage #wordiness #writing

@mroach OK messengers worth a try...

1/ #ICQ with #NinaChat servers ?
https://nina.chat/

2/ #Retroshare #P2P #Share #Anything
https://retroshare.cc/downloads.html

#messenger #communication #P2P #filetransfer #chat

Also maybe useful for you @Vash
https://mastodon.social/@Vash@mstdn.games/114646841648412488

Also Mike Roach @mroach Jul 24, 2025 said:

I've got ICQ up and running on my fresh Windows 2000 install on the Tecra 8000!

Nina.chat is keeping #AIM, #ICQ, and #Yahoo Messenger alive!

I'm 353734 on there

https://nina.chat/

@elsua54
What am I looking for + want to help create?

- for them to use us more directly.
- to use their own software - not just the #software #roadmap loop - but towards the art of #communication #roadmap / loop.

"Developing people not just developing computers mostly" would be my tagline / short version.
Whatever meaning to each to try get AND give ourselves to each other.

#Mastodon, #Loops, #Jitsi can actually huddle us together. These circles are literally the revolution + better #loop.

#ThoughtProvoker 🤔

#Communication is what makes a social network #social.

Not blocks and shadow bans. They help make a social network safe.

#SX #SocialWeb #ReimagineSocial

A quotation from Kerry Greenwood

He yelled louder, because it is well known to English people that foreigners only pretend to speak those nasty foreign tongues but really understand English if it is shouted loudly enough.

Kerry Greenwood (b. 1954) Australian author and lawyer
Phryne Fisher, Book 16, Murder in the Dark, ch. 4 [Sylvanus] (2006)

More about this quote: wist.info/greenwood-kerry/8511…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #kerrygreenwood #phrynefisher #missfishermurdermysteries #communication #foreignlanguage #foreigner #loudness #shouting #understanding #yelling

A quotation from Schopenhauer

To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
 
[Viele Worte machen, um wenige Gedanken mitzutheilen, ist überall das untrügliche Zeichen der Mittelmäßigkeit; das des eminenten Kopfes dagegen, viele Gedanken in wenige Worte zu schließen.]

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher
Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. 2, ch. 23 “On Authorship and Style [Über Schriftstellerei und Stil],” § 283 (1851) [tr. Saunders (1890)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/schopenhauer-arthur/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #schopenhauer #arthurschopenhauer #communication #content #eloquence #genius #loquaciousness #mediocrity #pithiness #thought #wordiness #writing

Website to recommend #tools to avoid supporting #ChatControl (available in EN, FR, DE and NL)

source: exitchatcontrol.org

#tool #utility #software #encryption #communication #eu #europe #law #surveillance #spy #chat #messenger #freedom #humanrights #democracy #politics #society #help #support #tutorial #knowhow #knowledge #security #cybersecurity #news
Exit Chat Control · Become Ungovernable

I share some thoughts about a 2024 IAI article by Paul Pietroski.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/words-do-not-refer-alone

I agree with Paul directionally, but I think he could have gone further – and perhaps he has since – so I compare his view to my own in a Substack article. I'm not sure whether he'd disagree with the extensions. Check it out.

#language #philosophy #semantics #ontology #reality #words #video #podcast #blog #substack #iai #lemonade #communication #meaning

A quotation from Cicero

For indeed it is possible that a man may think well, and yet not be able to express his thoughts elegantly; but for any one to publish thoughts which he can neither arrange skillfully nor illustrate so as to entertain his reader, is an unpardonable abuse of letters and retirement: they, therefore, read their books to one another, and no one ever takes them up but those who wish to have the same license for careless writing allowed to themselves.
 
[Fieri autem potest, ut recte quis sentiat et id quod sentit polite eloqui non possit; sed mandare quemquam litteris cogitationes suas, qui eas nec disponere nec inlustrare possit nec delectatione aliqua allicere lectorem, hominis est intemperanter abutentis et otio et litteris. Itaque suos libros ipsi legunt cum suis, nec quisquam attingit praeter eos, qui eandem licentiam scribendi sibi permitti volunt.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 3 (1.3) / sec. 6 (1.6) (45 BC) [tr. Yonge (1853)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #author #clarity #clique #communication #elegance #entertainment #expression #organization #selfindulgence #writing #writinggroup

@elsua54 Even with financially stable people, the low skill in #communication or low #confidence / frequency of practice with strangers means helping themselves / others needs help itself first if world is to be friends with others a bit more.

This is evident of Mastodon (low replies, low depth, brilliant software, none of movement actually working on how people communicate / a movement beyond software).

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1882-08), “Talk and Talkers (A Sequel),” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 46

More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #relationship #argument #talking #communication #coexistence #conversation #disagreement #discussion #dispute #engagement #husband #marriage #partnership #spouse #wife

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Robert Louis Stevenson quote

The good news: Claude Fable 5 is back.

The bad: Claude suggests chatting in English.

https://substack.com/@brywillis634737/note/c-286996142?r=pvxh5&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web

I was chatting with Claude and suggested either French or English was fine, but it suggested I'd be better off sticking to English because of its training data.

#artificialintelligence #claudeai #llms #training #data #communication #bias #blog #substack #note #français #writing #brainstorming #workflow #analysis

A quotation from Earl Long

Don’t write anything you can phone. Don’t phone anything you can talk. Don’t talk anything you can whisper. Don’t whisper anything you can smile. Don’t smile anything you can nod. Don’t nod anything you can wink.

Earl Kemp Long (1895-1960) American politician, orator.
(Attributed)

More about this quote: wist.info/long-earl/6396/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #earllong #hueylong #communication #detection #discretion #offtherecord #secrecy #trail #evidence #surveillance

EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/double-threat-to-private-communications-undemocratic-chat-control-backroom-deals-and-imminent-concessions-spark-relaunch-of-fightchatcontrol-eu/

#HackerNews #EU #Chat #Control #Privacy #Legislation #Backroom #Deals #Communication

Disclaimer: My worldview is different from many, if not most, people; yet I want to participate in the social space that is the internet. The challenge is that I am taken as oppositional and a contrarian for the sake of, I don’t know, trolling. The simple fact is that my minority view is a very considered position that is different. There is no ‘for the sake of’ in play.

https://substack.com/@brywillis634737/note/c-281128241?r=pvxh5&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=masto

#philosophy #note #blog #announcement #substack #opposition #communication #ontology #epistemology

New post: Highly Verbal Does Not Mean Words Are Easy

https://lanie.work/advocacy/highly-verbal-does-not-mean-words-are-easy/

#Advocacy #Accessibility #Disability #Neurodivergent #Communication #Writing #Ai #Personal

This article is less about what philosophy is about and more about why we can't particularly know some things, and why not.

👉 https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/what-is-philosophy?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=masto&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#blog #substack #philosophy #language #ontology #semantics #semiotics #epistemology #etymology #communication #Heidegger #Derrida #Foucault #Wittgenstein #Nietzsche #Gadamer #Peirce #Gallie #McGilchrist #languageinsufficiency

Exploiting Slack's video embeds to achieve E2EE communication

https://v1c.rocks/log/exploiting-slack-video/

#HackerNews #Exploiting #video #embeds #to #achieve #E2EE #communication

Slack #E2EE #Communication #Video #Embeds #Cybersecurity #Exploits

Ontological grammar with examples, including Olivia Rodrigo's babydoll, and more
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/ontological-grammar-moral-kinds-and

#philosophy #blog #substack #video #poscast #language #communication #institutions #courts #morality

Ontological grammar is subjacent to active cognition and verbal faculties.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/the-grammar-of-ontological-grammar?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=masto&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Many people label those who disagree with their positions as stupid or acting in bad faith, but the notion of ontological grammar liberates me from discussions of subjecthood, agency, and intent.

#philosophy #language #blog #podcast #substack #grammar #perspective #grammar #ClaudeAI #subjecthood #agency #intent #communication #understanding

Wouldn't it be fun if someone invented a telephone booth in today's surveillance society?

You could only make or receive a call after facial recognition + govt. ID verification.

And Superman would be arrested for public indecency the very first time he tried to change into his hero outfit.

#surveillance #phone #communication

Inform your friends and family about these tools.

#Briar ... https://briarproject.org

"Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in."

#Retroshare ... https://retroshare.cc

"Retroshare establish encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services on top of it: forums, channels, chat, mail... Retroshare is fully decentralized, and designed to provide maximum security and anonymity to its users beyond direct friends. Retroshare is entirely free and open-source software. It is available on #Android, #Linux, #MacOS and #Windows. There are no hidden costs, no ads and no terms of service."

#RicochetRefresh ... https://www.ricochetrefresh.net

"Ricochet Refresh is an open-source project to allow private and anonymous instant messaging."

#OnionShare ... https://onionshare.org

"OnionShare is an open-source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network."

#DeltaChat ... https://delta.chat

"Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app."

#Bitmessage ... https://bitmessage.org

"Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide "non-content" data, like the sender and receiver of messages, from passive eavesdroppers like those running warrantless wiretapping programs."

#TorBrowser ... https://www.torproject.org/download

"Protect yourself against tracking, surveillance, and censorship."

#I2P ... https://geti2p.net

"The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a fully encrypted private network layer. It protects your activity and location. Every day people use the network to connect with people without worry of being tracked or their data being collected. In some cases people rely on the network when they need to be discrete or are doing sensitive work."

#Hyphanet ... https://www.hyphanet.org/

"Hyphanet is peer-to-peer network for censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting publishing and communication. The original Freenet."

#BitChan ... https://github.com/813492291816/BitChan

"BitChan is a decentralized anonymous imageboard inspired by BitBoard and built on top of Bitmessage with Tor, I2P, and GnuPG."

#DarkMX ... https://darkmx.app

"DarkMX is a new decentralized communication app that utilizes Tor hidden services to allow you to easily have an anonymous, reliable, and censorship-resistant presence on the internet. You can chat. You can share files. You can search other people's files. You can keep a contact list and send private messages to your friends. You can create your own custom .onion site, available to anyone with a Tor Browser."

#Decentralized #TOR #AntiSurveillance #Anonymity #Anonymous #Privacy #Filesharing #Networking #Communication #P2P #F2F #PeerToPeer #Censorship #AntiCensorship #FreeSpeech