I didn't used to be a "militant" #FOSS user, but I've been bitten too many times by companies with #proprietarysoftware. For example, #Reason DAW, #Zbrush - both companies that decided to say fuck you to perpetual licenses. Now, I try to avoid any proprietary application. I recently went looking for a good notes app and everyone loves #Obsidian. As soon as I saw it was closed source, I noped out and settled on #Joplin. These companies will eventually fuck over customers so I won't waste my time.
Usually. But when it comes to free online content, you're often the subject or intended spreader of somebody's propaganda. Some rich asshole is willing to pay to ensure a story that serves their agenda is able to go viral, rather than good faith research/reporting that takes teams of people lots of time and work to figure out. Why doesn't #Reason magazine struggle with fundraising etc like other journalistic enterprises?
any good #DAW recs on #linux? i know #reason isn't available on linux and #flstudio is ok i guess. #lmms is cool but very limited and hard to work with. i like to click and write midi notes mostly. #musicproduction
“Do not hide behind such [altruistic] superficialities as whether you should or should not give a dime to a beggar. That is not the issue. The issue is whether you do or do not have the right to exist without giving him that dime.”
—#AynRand, from “Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World”
Reality is a bitter pill when you’ve been fed a steady diet of religious fantasy. While life always was random, I felt safer when I could explain it as “God’s will” or “Satan’s handiwork.” I felt extremely exposed & vulnerable without my Cosmic Big Brother watching over me. Step by step, I learned to own my life. Divorcing religion is painful - but it’s also liberating. I love my life ♥️ #independence#criticalthinking#identity#reality#science#equality#reason#SecularHumanism#atheist#joy
My best (or most self-satisfying) guess is that the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is correct, and there is in fact a universal wave function with no wave function collapse. It’s mathematically the simplest model of “existence” and includes all possible realities occurring simultaneously (I presume including ones in which there is no existence). This would suggest that we’re subjectively aware of only one of an infinite series of possible quantum outcomes all happening parallel to, but subjectively inaccessible to, each other.
But that’s a guess that makes sense based on my extraordinarily limited understanding and subjective experience; I don’t pretend it is the “answer” or that I’m meaningfully capable of even answering a question like that.