Preamble
Over the past few generations in particular, the vast majority of our global communities have been built in increasingly hostile manners, resulting in forced obligation and surveillance mechanisms across the various machines that power our modern society. Unfortunately, with the recent boom of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and a moral panic around AI, I have increasingly identified such change as evidence of a crisis, and I have also been muted or even banned from certain communities over concerns of being a large language model (LLM). Sometimes, I even identify myself as a bot online, as I remain faceless on applications and social media/networking platforms across the board, and even some of my reactions and sensitivities match bot-like sensitivities. Notwithstanding the artificial intelligence (AI) epidemic, I am also afraid to speak up about being a victim of numerous additional crises, even when the overall cultural situation seems to be improving depending on the various perspectives on society. Such crises of concern to me are often the most particularly isolating crises regarding society and stereotypical expectations, since I have recently switched to free-and-open-source-software (FOSS, sometimes with “libre” as FLOSS). Over my journey as an everyday user of Linux-based systems, I have shifted my identity in directions away from the predominating lifestyle and often stereotypical norms and the prevailing expectations and toward the influences that actually matter the most in society, despite significant pushback.
Is Outreach Possible?
Unfortunately, modern society and the current systems intact tend to encourage partial definitions of “health” and “well-being” that fail to cover the true definitions of both terms in a literal sense. Because of our modern dystopian environment, in-person locations for such outreach are currently few and far in between, with virtually zero meaningful sense of hope for the future. However, though online cannot replace in-person outreach, there can be hope for the future, not against loneliness (unfortunately), but against feelings of selfishness and potentially unfair comparisons that may result from unfair advantages and disadvantages in circles in society. But even then, the risk of unfair comparisons is (mostly) only present when the services being utilized are proprietary and thus unethical.
Expressing the 'Top-Flex Identity!
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