stillindigo

tiger mum.

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the golem.

a comic about pursuing creativity (and a thank you to Disco Elysium)

My heart is with all the victims and their loved ones, as well as the broader Jewish community in Australia. May the memories of the victims be a blessing.

so a surveillance state. great

also what the fuck is a teenage algorithm?? being interested in movies? video games? memes? you could say fucking makeup tutorials are indicative of a teenager bc they could be just learning how to put it on, this is literally an internet wide youtube adpocalypse where they just decide what is and what isn’t content aimed for kids

Shaming gen ai users is so reminiscent of the whole “how dare McDonald’s employees want a living wage!” when the actual damage of gen AI use lies with the unethical practices of the companies (via scraping, environmental, etc). Yes people using them doesn’t help, but if people stopped using gen AI it would be integrated in other, more insidious ways that society couldn’t avoid which is something they’re already doing btw. You probably use gen AI and don’t even know it, esp if you have any android or google products at all.

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3