fuck your AI and fuck your scrapers

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 				<p>I open my RSS feed reader. There's a post at the top of the screen. <em>It's okay to be low-IQ,</em> it reads. <em>It's okay to be a follower. It's okay to not think. It's okay to not have a hobby or anything you're interested in. It's okay to accomplish absolutely nothing in life, do nothing, be nothing, become nothing.</em></p>
 				<p>And I find it so revolting, so viscerally upsetting, that I have to resist the urge to puke all over the keyboard and end up breaking yet another one of my laptops.</p>
 				<p>"I think I've found my criteria," I whisper to myself.</p>
-				<p>I'm not buying the propaganda that says I have to "slow down". Even though I've managed to free myself from the <a href="../../2021/may/rebirth.html">"life purpose"</a> that demanded I make a piece of art far beyond my technical skills with no assistance whatsoever, there is still a voice in my head, an exhortation, to keep going and, at the very least, finish the book I'm working on before I die. Because <strong>what am I without the will to create?</strong> What am I without the words I build my mausoleum with? What kind of life would I have lived without pushing myself to do something sans the approval or assistance of my parents, with what feels like the whole of the world pushing back, demanding I crawl back into the cardboard box of mediocrity and stay there?</p><p>I look to my brothers for a guess, a potential example. I want to shake their shoulders, demand them to answer, "How do you live like this, never creating anything of your own volition? How does your soul survive only <a href="../../2020/february/consumeproduct.html">consuming</a>, myopic, too lazy to see there's a whole world beyond this ivory tower? Is there even a soul still in your body? <em>What are you allowing yourself to become?</em>"</p>
+				<p>I'm not buying the propaganda that says I have to "slow down". Even though I've managed to free myself from the <a href="../../2021/may/rebirth.html">"life purpose"</a> that demanded I make a piece of art far beyond my technical skills with no assistance whatsoever, there is still a voice in my head, an exhortation, to keep going and, at the very least, finish the book I'm working on before I die. Because <strong>what am I without the will to create?</strong> What am I without the words I build my mausoleum with? What kind of life would I have lived without pushing myself to do something sans the approval or assistance of my parents, with what feels like the whole of the world pushing back, demanding I crawl back into the cardboard box of mediocrity and stay there?</p><p>I look to my brothers for a guess, a potential example. I want to shake their shoulders, demand them to answer, "How do you live like this, never creating anything of your own volition? How does your soul survive only consuming, myopic, too lazy to see there's a whole world beyond this ivory tower? Is there even a soul still in your body? <em>What are you allowing yourself to become?</em>"</p>
 				<p>What am I, really?</p>
 				<p><em>Nobody else has ever offered to give me a whole world before. Nobody else has ever thought me worthy of that kind of freedom.</em></p>
 				<p><em>Even if I can't give you anything else? Another income, stability, a comfortable existence...</em></p>

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-				<p>The nice thing about being the admin of Let's Decentralize is that, whenever I wish there was a way to do something on the Internet anonymously, I already have a mental record of which of those things I can do simply by hopping onto Tor Browser. Need to look at a public Twitter feed? <a href="http://hikariu7kodaqrmvu3c3y422r6jc7gqtpvvbry6u7ajvranukx6gszqd.onion/rollcall/tor.html#nitter">Peep that shit using a Nitter instance</a>. Need to look up a weird health symptom or something potentially incriminating (like if it's spelled sodium <em>nitrite</em> with an I or <em>nitrate</em> with an A)? <a href="http://hikariu7kodaqrmvu3c3y422r6jc7gqtpvvbry6u7ajvranukx6gszqd.onion/rollcall/tor.html#searx">Searx instances</a> have an awfully hard time tracking <code>127.0.0.1</code>. Publishing code for a project that enables the user to do something illegal, like <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221022233636/https://deemix.app/">download massive amounts of music off Deezer</a>? Codeberg and Notabug are pretty Tor-friendly, but you can do one better by <a href="https://letsdecentralize.org/rollcall/gits.md">using a hidden service</a>.</p>
+				<p>The nice thing about being the admin of Let's Decentralize is that, whenever I wish there was a way to do something on the Internet anonymously, I already have a mental record of which of those things I can do simply by hopping onto Tor Browser. Need to look at a public Twitter feed? <a href="http://hikariu7kodaqrmvu3c3y422r6jc7gqtpvvbry6u7ajvranukx6gszqd.onion/rollcall/tor.html#nitter">Peep that shit using a Nitter instance</a>. Need to look up a weird health symptom or something potentially incriminating (like if it's spelled sodium <em>nitrite</em> with an I or <em>nitrate</em> with an A)? <a href="http://hikariu7kodaqrmvu3c3y422r6jc7gqtpvvbry6u7ajvranukx6gszqd.onion/rollcall/tor.html#searx">Searx instances</a> have an awfully hard time tracking <code>127.0.0.1</code>. Publishing code for a project that enables the user to do something illegal, like <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221022233636/https://deemix.app/">download massive amounts of music off Deezer</a>? Codeberg and Notabug are pretty Tor-friendly, but you can do one better by <a href="https://letsdecentralize.org/rollcall/gits.txt">using a hidden service</a>.</p>
 				<p>Unfortunately I also have a bad habit of <a href="../september/browsers.html">giving moids on the Internet the time of day</a> and falling victim to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221022234415/https://lifehacker.com/what-cunninghams-law-really-tells-us-about-how-we-inter-1848733445">Cunningham's law</a>. So when I booted up <a href="https://codeberg.org/lethe/beres">Beres</a>, the worst RSS feed reader in existence (I should know; I made the damn thing), and saw that our (formerly-)favorite moid was <a href="https://archive.ph/S4Q8R">failing at technology <em>yet</em> again</a>, naturally I felt the urgent need to respond. Thankfully I managed to calm myself before sitting down to write this post. I decided to not make you slog through a misandrist rant. You're welcome!</p>
 				<p>The argument of the aforementioned article is twofold:</p>
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