If you’re using Android, a free app i recommend is Newpipe (available on Github and F-Droid). It can play in the background, no advertisements, and playlists can be made, but no account sign-in. Must be done manually unless you import the url of your playlists on YouTube into the search / share into the app if the playlist is public
There’s other YouTube based apps on F-Droid that don’t play ads such as SkyTube, ViMusic, etc
Also note that if you want to support the creator(s) behind the content, disable ad blocking /use non-adblocker program anywhere on the channel and websites etc
Replying to previous privacy related post as a ‘privacy series’ thing
Things to consider, for alternatives, with an open mind. Not ‘fear mongering’ it’s a good idea to look at other viewpoints to determine what else we can do
(Picked what i could remember for now) A few Mentioned:
Incognito Bitcoin Wallet
Bitpay
Alternatives to ChatGPT
Collosal AI
Consider local alternatives
To take back control over your own data. You dont need to settle on trends or mainstream and think for yourself
Rebels creating causes. I’ve met that “revolutionary” many times, as many others have. It always was absurd. The same type who read too many books and think they’re smarter than everyone else because of it, who have no wisdom to speak of, and it shows when juxtaposed someone who has plenty of it. I wonder if that kid ever grew up?
the main problem with rebels is, as lacan puts it, they believe on an “ideal state of society” while they’re actually serving a master beyond their own free will, which means that they’re truly alienated and not truly free to begin with.
a master that dictates how “things are supposed to be” and “how they should be”, this inevitably causes that revolutions don’t lead to an ideal society, but to a new order of things managed by a new master.
this can be exemplified by the russian revolution.
Lenin believed that after killing all the kulaks (bourgeoisie) and monarchs, the working class would rule the systems of production and economy, which would make things more equal for everyone in russia.
but the revolution only created a new form of order, ruled by a new master, the soviet political class, a new bourgeoisie, meanwhile the working class was left apart to root.
so, the question for psychoanalisis really is… “which master are you willing to serve to?”
My most recent piece of knowledge is that once you start lowering your vibrations or denying who you are to fit in, experience pleasure or for any other imaginary benefit it can be very hard to get back up and its possible to end up confused and trying to find your goal, direction or self only to end up as low vibrational version of you again and again, more and more confused each time.
Once you are guided to your spiritual path and true self do not turn your back from it, or you may forget how to be who you really are, pleasures will turn into prison, and you wont connect with those who you try to fit in with in any meaningful way either.
Its better to be alone, than to be without yourself
Capital is not an object like any other. Instead, the operation of capitalism is the (absent) background against which all sociality responds, producing a “Real” limit to the possibilities for political action.
Consequently, the reproduction of the circuit of capital can be understood as independent of any of the demands of “reality”. This conception is not strictly ahistorical, but represents the rise in a self-fulfilling and self-revolutionizing finance capital such that:
It is “real” in the precise sense of determining the structure of material social processes themselves: the fate of whole swathes of the population and sometimes whole countries can be decided by the “solipsistic” speculative dance of Capital, which pursues its goal of profitability with blessed indifference to how its movements will affect social reality. Therein lies the fundamental systematic violence of capitalism … it is no longer attributable to concrete individuals and their “evil” intentions, but is purely “objective”, systematic, anonymous.
Beyond the “structural violence” of the symbolic Real, Žižek argues that capitalism maintains a “grip” upon subjectivity through the incitement of enjoyment, which under late capitalism is not prohibited but rather demanded. These demands upon the body are a form of superego enjoyment, which Žižek suggests has become the prevalent form of contemporary enjoyment under late capitalism.
Consumerist fantasies, accompanied by the ideologicalfantasy of liberal democracy, present capitalism as a realm of freedom. Conversely, Žižek argues that this freedom functions only as “activity” – as opposed to the proper Lacanian Act– that presents the illusion of choice while maintaining the systematic reproduction of capitalism (TS : 374). Consequently, it is only with the radicality of the Lacanian Act that the possibility for rupture exists. Th is possibility of these radical acts is dependent upon the disruptive presence of the Real within capitalism.
