Ruined by an Ethical Trap → Capitalism is a Scam

At novaTopFlex, we believe that capitalism is a scam, ruining various systems, including education, transportation, and other significant (and insignificant) facets of care. Such systems have become increasingly deteriorated by way of the capitalist successes, and the ethical trap of the scam cannot end without significant advocacy. As novaTopFlex, we believe in the use of free-and-open-source software and open products to emulate, if not idealize, a future centered upon great ethics in society.

Ethical Software for an Ethical Society

-> Mastodon (self-hosted or on existing instances of various sizes)

-> Lemmy (self-hosted or on existing instances)

-> PeerTube (host or guest)

-> GitLab (for Git repository storage)

-> LibreOffice (including Collabora) (for office editing and workflows)

-> OpenStreetMap (guest) (for mapping, cartography, GIS, etc.)

-> QGIS -> Geographic Information System(s) with a Qt backend

-> Proton Mail (guest) (for privacy)

-> Additional software following the same patterns of ethical standards should also be implied as if listed above, regardless of whether the software is actually listed above.

QGIS Project Update → March 27, 2025 (T-65)

The novaTopFlex QGIS project has now covered approximately three-fourths of Illinois, most of Indiana (except select northern areas), part of southern Michigan, all of Ohio, all of West Virginia, the western part of Pennsylvania, the western part of Maryland, the western part of Virginia, most of Kentucky (except an area at the western end), a corridor in East Tennessee, and a continuation of this corridor into Georgia and Alabama, as shown below:

April 5, 2025 (T-56) → Update(s)

The novaTopFlex QGIS project has continued gaining interest in largely rural areas, but also in a few minor urban cores and suburban systems, particularly in the State of Alabama. The extreme northeast of the State of Mississippi, largely east of the Corinth area, is also covered.

April 22, 2025 → Update(s)

The novaTopFlex QGIS project has covered a vast expanse of Middle Tennessee, though not completing the entire Grand Division within the state. Two (2) new states have been covered within the project (North Carolina and South Carolina), and coverage within the State of Georgia has been highly extended across the northern extremes of North Georgia, often defined by locations immediately south of the thirty-fifth (35th) parallel north of the equator (35°N). Areas covered in both Carolinas extend east to just west of the Landrum (SC)-Tryon (NC) area or, more broadly, to between Asheville to the north, Greenville to the southwest, and Spartanburg to the southeast. The new coverage area has been focused around numerous US Numbered Highways in the region, specifically those routes numbered 19, 23, 64, 74, 76, 129, 176, 178, 276, and 441. Within East Tennessee, the QGIS project has now covered segments of US 411 within the region. US 70N and US 70S are now nearly “clinched” in the project.

QGIS Project Update → March 6, 2025

QGIS Project Origins

The novaTop QGIS Project is an ongoing project (since July 2024) of creating polygons for advocacy for OpenStreetMap and other contributions. This map may also be used to associate with new individuals through both novaTopFlex and geoTopFlex personalities.

Current Status

Currently, novaTopFlex is interested in Springfield, Illinois, quickly approaching the inner city from the suburban areas. After the “hole” in Springfield is completed, I will continue for locales north of US 136 in the State of Illinois, largely east of the Illinois River. Eventually, interest is anticipated to change to Pennsylvania and New York, from west to east in both states.

Ruined by an Ethical Trap

As novaTopFlex, we do not believe in ethical traps that may occur within our society. Whether the trap is discrimination or capitalism, we do not believe in the unethical consequences of the situations. We do not believe in any platform of exploitation, including of both individuals and entire societies. We believe in systems that drive liberation, not tyranny, and definitely not exploitative properties.

novaTop Examples

We are primarily associated with the open-source, anti-proprietary software, hardware, and comprehensive technology communities, believing in the anticapitalist solution as well as the antidiscriminatory solution to hardware and software in particular.

The novaTop QGIS Project intends to become another opportunity to identify further ethical traps and issues in our society. So far, all of Ohio and West Virginia and large portions of Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, and select other states have been covered with polygons of varied shapes and sizes, representing communities from large to small, from urban to rural, from clearly existing to nonexistent, from alive to extinct, and from safe to dangerous (including biohazardous locations, which will be covered soon).