Toots

Power without self-reflection destroys itself.

Human society functions and develops perfectly only when it is cooperative.

Those who don't behave this way drain the energy of everyone else. Cannibals.

Mass mind control doesn't require belief,
only fear.

I hereby declare this AI-generated advertisement for Gin a win.

Things are going well so far.
The few who are already feeling almost too secure.

Next step.

End world hunger.
Start a mass revolution.

The Real Cowboys

Since time immemorial young men have been working as herders in the Tyrolean mountains. All through the summer they look after the farmers’ livestock. This film presents the “real cowboys” and their work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFHtiX2SFZU

They don't want talks,
They want to hit and smash and destroy.
Everything that's in the way to their own and only way of living.
Owning.
Solely.
Ruthless.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/12/donald-trump-says-he-has-obligation-to-sue-bbc-over-speech-edit

Somewhere far, far away
and yet very close.

Thank you, internet.
Except for the trolling.

Messenger - a browser game

https://messenger.abeto.co/

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

― Oscar Wilde

Let's take a quick look at the carpet inherited from Grandma through a magnifying glass.

Hello boys and girls!

* thanks to the post that pointed me to Norwegian philosopher Peter Wessel Zapffe. You made the last nights very short

Humans have acquired too much consciousness. We think about our death, about the meaninglessness of life, about suffering.

We are like an animal that has suddenly grown too many eyes and now sees things it would rather not see.

These videos are funny where adults type text into a machine, it then outputs something, and the adults act as if they've created something totally magical.

Like a little piece of imagined text.

Hello Sunshine,

A good morning is always in your, my, our hands.

Did you know that usually only 5% is enough to overturn or change a system?

By the way, chocolate isn't produced in Africa.
Cocoa beans don't grow in Europe or North America.

Find the mistake.
Find the deception.

How many people realize that it is no longer a question of IF but of WHEN?

ikala ne muoyo mule ne disanka

In case you wondered where to find it.

Los Saicos - Wild teen punk from Peru 1965

You're welcome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKCjgz8Z7l4

I like sticks.
And pickles.

Oh yes.
I love them.

Pickles.
Best.

The development of the global primary energy consumption

Mondays. Fundays.

The only people who have a problem with "wokeness" (what does that really mean?) are the dominant assholes, exploiters, arrogant, super-rich people, and those who are only interested in power.

It would be pretty stupid if we could talk openly about everything and try to make ourselves more equal, little by little.

First contact successful.
Galaxy declares war.

Forbidden door opened.
Everything changed forever.

Digging some truths

Umberto, porta una bottiglia e due bicchieri. Dobbiamo parlare.

Flying high

Type something ...

"Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power."

- Mussolini

The pool looks crowded

Money quote is from Greg M. Epstein, a Harvard chaplain and author of a book about the rise of tech as a new religion. “What do cultish and fundamentalist religions often do?” he said. “They get people to ignore their common sense about problems in the here and now in order to focus their attention on some fantastical future.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/rationalists-ai-lighthaven.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ck8.sgWf.SjMdr0Q-yYlS&smid=url-share

(Gift article)

I urgently need positive adventures full of little discoveries

Ai. Like a talking stone

https://gemini.google.com/share/df3805e26883?hl=de

Am I good enough? Do I have room here? May I?

My dear:

It would be quite quiet in the forest if only the best birds sang.

Public broadcasting was founded to prevent fascism.

So if public broadcasting now wants to restrict or even abolish it...

// thanks @don for the spark via your intro in your profile info

Very often, just a few percent, say ten percent, would be enough for a significant positive and lasting change of course. And I think many people would go along with these small changes in everyday life and lifestyle

But the loud, radical ideas and their screamers are making their voice heard.

They are stupid af.

That makes them Dangerous the more

Often, people buy something to feel something.

I suspect there are better ways to do that.

Maximise wonder

Those sparkles make the world brighter, like it really is.

Mirror, mirror on the wall
who's the friendliest of them all?

Knallkopf

(just wants to hear what he expects)

People only become assholes through manipulation by third parties. These third parties need to be collectively punched in the face.

People are basically good.

Tell me about western dominance.

"In 2024, China’s researchers filed 35,423 AI-related patent applications, more than 13 times the 2678 patents filed in total by the U.S., the U.K., Canada, Japan, and South Korea."

https://www.science.org/content/article/china-tops-world-artificial-intelligence-publications-database-analysis-reveals

Humans. Basically good.

Hi from your holiday bed bug

The funny thing is that anger or even hatred are the fastest emotions to trigger action without much thinking. Actually, it's more of a reaction - reacting based on that hatred.

So, if I want to influence you easily and quickly, stirring up anger or creating hatred would be pretty much what I want before I manipulate you. All I really need is an enemy for that. Obviously, it's not you, me, and my friends.

*cough*

Be careful who's telling you what, friends.

Modern-day highwaymen.
Stealing from the majority,
behind their backs,
from their shadows.

I'm so sick of always knowing everything.

About an actual trend in bookcover design

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/books/review/book-cover-trends.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU8.B5Qc.s3n-1jT451zJ&smid=url-share