Who are the member(s) of your chosen family/ies?
For me:
-My big sister's friends circle.
-Some Discord communities, including one was frequenting long before it moved to Discord and one specifically designed for neurodivergent people.
Ex-conspiracists, what made you stop believing conspiracy theorie(s) you believed?
Let's be clear: i'm not saying conspiracies doesn't exist. By conspiracy theories, i mean the plots whose existence is at best highly unlikely, at worst totally senseless, notably if:
-They are breaking the laws of physics.
-They are too costly (logistically and/or financially) to be profitable.
-They are defended by untrustworthy sources (populist or cult leaders, random people, celebrities without expertise in the concerned domain, parodies taken seriously,...).
-They are often involving far-right's scapegoats.
-They are involving a large amount of people.
-They reject science by principle.
-The interests of the supposed conspirators are unclear or incoherent.
-Their so-called proofs are incoherent, manipulated or are proving nothing at all.
-They would be funny if they were published as parodies in The Onion.
What's your funniest professional deformation?
When the automatisms you acquired during your job are invading your private life.
When i was an intern in a big store, i had to fight against the reflex of storing the shelves during my own shopping sessions.
What does mean "being SA’d"?
What's the story behind your pet's name?
I'm the human of a cat named Piccolo, because when he was a kitten, he meowed like a little flute.
Are you asking which CEOs are the most cynical?
Yeah, sort of
What are the most cynical corporations that currently exist?
For me, commercial social medias: they make money by spreading hate, violence, authoritarianism and misinformation.
Lol, it's the Schrödinger's guilt. The news is supposed to be uplifting both because the guy is praised as a hero for killing someone and because he is presumed not guilty.
Personally, i don't have any sympathy for him, regardless he's guilty or not, some things he said are really disgusting.
At some point, defeatism is just realism, no matter the amout of hopium people try to sell to you.
Soil depletion, (micro)plastics in the water, biodiversity collapse, political instability, economical crisis, nuclear menace that is not a thing of the past anymore, sanitary crisis that will likely be worse than COVID, to name a few.
Actually, it's too late, because those in power are accelerating in the wrong direction and we are less and less able to prevent them to do so.
And even so, given the current state of the society, even the "best case scenario" will be enough to make it collapse.
Personally, the "renewable" energies aren't making me hopeful. Because they are absolutly not renewable, they can't be build without pollution because of the materials you need. And even so, climate change is not even the worst of our existential threats, there are many more, but strangely, people are only talking about climate.
I don't believe in the possibility of mass civil disobediance, especially in a context where most of people are either depolitized, either are voting massively for (wannabe) autocrats.
The post is right, but only on the paper, and not really in a world that is progressively taken over by ecocidal autocrats whose program is to kill every bit of efforts in climate fight, so even the smallest progress we made will soon be distant memories and fighting will be increasingly dangerous and difficult and, ultimately, virtually impossible. And the locked-in catastrophes are now sufficient to collapse our already fragilized geopolitical context.
People saying it's "not too late" are systematically downplaying the current political context, wich make their message pretty unconsistent.
What's the last straw that made you quit commercial social medias (Meta,TwitterX, etc...)?
I remember what made me quit facebook, way before it became Meta: the TV serie Person of interest. It gave me a big awarness of the scale of mass surveillance. I already had the project to quit because of Zuck's shenanigans and the lack of interest i had in the platform, but this was the last straw for me.
What was the most cartoonish moment of your life?
I had a drum that was stored on a huge wardrobe and was pretty unstable. One day, as i opened the wardrobe, the drum fell on my head. I laugh about it today because fortunately, the wound was not as severe as i though at first.
English is not my mother language, i used an automatic translator for this word. In french, this is called "sas d'entrée".
How did you hurt yourself in a very stupid way?
I was running for my train. After entering in the station airlock, for a reason i still can't explain, i turned right instead of continuing straight ahead and BAM, i hit a glass with my face. Now i have a little scar, fortunately hidden behind my eyebrow.
What's the funniest thing your pet did?
My cat has a new obsession: sticking his head out of the cat flap, seeing that it's raining, staying still, coming back in, meowing at me like "Daaad, it's raining" and starting the cycle again.
-Karl Marx: his ideology, that intended to fight oppression, was only used to build dictatorships.
-Martin Luther King: institutionalized racism is still alive and well.
-Marsha P. Johnson: the current situation of american queer -and especially trans- people in America is self explanatory.
Impunity of members of UN security council
If a UN resolution is vetoed by at least one of the members of the UN security council, the said resolution is thrown in the trash. That means that if a war crime is serving the interests of at least one member of the UN security council, its full impunity is de facto guaranteed. Even worse: some of the members are notably war-thirsty and 2 of them aren't even democratic. And there is no way to change this way of functioning because it also can be vetoed by the said members. How many crimes have been made possible because of that?
Cyberbullying
Not a single judiciary system is able to tackle a phenomena that can happens from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world an can imply a handful of thousand of persons. Big tech does not have legal obligation nor financial or ideological interest to tackle it because forcing them would be unconstitutional. The rare cases where justice give a fuck about it, you get at best the condemnation of a bunch of nobodies after years of legal procedure during which the bully continues, and most of your bullies are still unpunished and free to launch a punitive expedition.
Totally disagree. The rise of populist politicians using xenophobic rhetoric is the proof that this mechanism is still strong.
Populism
This is as old as the democracy itself, and we still don't know how to fix it. People are so easily driven by their emotions and stubborn about their political opinions that you only have to exploit cynically their low instincts to take the power, especially in a crisis context. And once populists are in the power, they hardly give it back.
What's the worst present you've ever received?
It can be low effort, passive-aggressive, insulting or derogatory towards your convictions.
If SimpleX donesn't work with ID's, how can it be sure to deliver the messages at the right person ?
I have read the documentation, but i still don't understand how simpleX know that the messages are delivered to the right person if it doesn't use ID's. Could someone explain it schematically ?
Thanks
What's the Schrödinger's cat equivalent in your profession/main activity?
Needless to say i'm talking about the oversimplified and misleading version of the Schrödinger's cat paradigm, where he is both dead and alive until you watch it.
I don't have a job but i follow theater courses at an academy. And my improvisation is both funny and awful until i show it to others.
What's the worst Xmas/new year eve you've ever lived?
One year, we decided to pass the new year eve in an uncle's house at some god forsaken hole with our dog. After a neverending trip during wich our dog farted in the car, we finally arrive. The said uncle was a radical ecologist, wich is not a problem per se, except when his only conversation subject is about the ecological collapse, not the ideal subject for a good atmosphere, with in addition to that my sister's BF, who was with us, doing his Mr. know-it-all show. Then we went to sleep, and i realize that i forgot my earplugs. No luck, everyone in my family was snoring very loudly, including the dog. Result: i didn't sleep at all and looked pretty much like a zombie the next morning.
Without hesitation, the smell of persons who didn't took a shower for a long time, the only smell so far able to make me puke.
What's the funniest belief you had when you were a child ?
When i was a child, i believed autopilot really worked like in the movie Airplane, that it was an inflatable dummy.