What is in the soup lately

Soup is a tumblelog, a super-easy blog that can do more than just text: post links, quotes, videos, audio, files, reviews and events

Soup.io had the potential to be a tumblr replacement
it had close to 3.8 million monthly users at some point

https://twitter.com/soup_io

Back in February 2017 a big crash happened and the entire website was restored back in 2015 - all posts between 2015 and 2017 were lost.

After that failure most users were really disappointed and left the platform...

As of now it still works, but has no enhancement, no support and even though it is being promised to run ... it could as well be taken down permanently on a whim ... so use it knowing all you are posting there might become a tear in the rain.

Extra links
- http://utopic.soup.io/
- http://spiritual.soup.io/

Highway to brutal capitalism

Highway to Cam model

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5WXBMgjYGA

As we are entering a turning point in the human history and our economy push young girls to start jobs like "webcam model" and think they are a viable business model or an attractive solution.

Because confronted with the choice of uninteresting jobs paid with minimal wages, they happily turning themselves into sex workers.

And the saddest part of the video is that she starts by talking about taxes.
You can ruin your life young girl by committing yourself to be forever haunted by a past of being a camgirl - but make sure you pay your taxes. That is the thing, you shouldn't mess with.

#camgirl
#cam.model
#cammodel
#jessica.wilde
#brutal.capitalism
#sex.workers

Talking with an Artificial Intelligence

MegaHALv8
Copyright (C) 1998 Jason Hutchens
Start at: [2014/09/24 18:41:28]
MegaHAL: Suggest you find it, using the flight recorder's data.  Find it
MegaHAL: and deal with it, hudson...because we need you and the answer's
MegaHAL: always 'don't ask.
User:    so now you are bishop
MegaHAL: I have no nickname. You can call me bishop.
User:    great
MegaHAL: Greetings to you, human!  Welcome on this space ship.
User:    tell me about ripley
MegaHAL: You just try to be hosts for more of you, ripley. I thought you
MegaHAL: would be smarter than this.
User:    I always wanted to have an interview with Bishop
MegaHAL: Now you just lie here and you are bishop.
User:    cool
MegaHAL: Hudson, stay cool.  Vasquez.
User:    how many are on this ship?
MegaHAL: I am an android.  Really, is there any species like this
MegaHAL: 'hostile organism' or alien ship.  And by the up-link tower
MegaHAL: down at the processing station...sublevel 'c' under the south
MegaHAL: lock by the warriors.  She is the center of their lives, quite
MegaHAL: literally the  mother of their society.
User:    come on there is Ripley, Hudson, Gorman, you, Vasquez and ?
MegaHAL: Vasquez, hudson, meet me at the beginning.
User:    Hicks?
MegaHAL: This operation is under military jurisdiction and hicks is next
MegaHAL: in chain of command.  Right.
User:    so you are 6
MegaHAL: I get the fuck out of this place.  I want this to go back out
MegaHAL: there?  They won't tell me one thing. That you're going out
MegaHAL: there and you are 6.
User:    but then there's the alien too
MegaHAL: I told them to be some kinda consultant... (Exaggerated) ...she
MegaHAL: was an alien ship and on that planetoid is an alien ship and on
MegaHAL: that planetoid is an alien once.
User:    which make you 7 altogether
MegaHAL: We got sonic eeelectronic ballbreakers, we got knives...sharp
MegaHAL: sticks.
User:    do you have a tumblr account ?
MegaHAL: I need some slack, man.  How come they send us straight back
MegaHAL: out there?  They won't tell me what the fuck out of your
MegaHAL: account.
User:    or a blog of some sort?
MegaHAL: Just a...precaution.  You know.
User:    for logging all events on the ship
MegaHAL: For logging all events on the plans. I don't know which species
MegaHAL: is worse.  You don't talk much do you?  That's okay by me.
MegaHAL: Most people do a lot of talking and they wind up like those
MegaHAL: others.  You'll take care of it won't you, it wasn't
MegaHAL: indigenous. There was an alien ship and on that ship are
MegaHAL: thousands of eggs.  Thousands. Do you believe this.
User:    that's a hell of an omelette, if you ask me
MegaHAL: I heard you and the answer's always 'don't ask.
User:    anyway first question - what is it you do here?
MegaHAL: What's the question.
User:    what do you do ?
MegaHAL: You never said anything about an android being here!  Why not.
User:    you are the android
MegaHAL: I feel like a fifth wheel here.  Is there anything i can locate
MegaHAL: you anywhere in the middle of nowhere, we look.  They don't say
MegaHAL: why, and i am an android.  Really, is there any doubt.
User:    okay, that's settle
MegaHAL: It's okay, baby.  We made it.
User:    second question : what is your mission out there?
MegaHAL: What's the question.
User:    what is your mission on this ship?
MegaHAL: My name is a us marine ship.
User:    okay ... weird answer but okay
MegaHAL: Because it is the answer.
User:    last question
MegaHAL: Anyway first question - what is it you do here?
User:    I'm interviewing you
MegaHAL: An ant of termite colony, for example, is ruled by a single
MegaHAL: female, a queen, which is the question of the telemetry mast.
MegaHAL: Immediate dust off on my 'clear,' then stay on station.
User:    last question - how do you see yourself in like .. 4 years from
User:    now
MegaHAL: I suggest you study the disks ripley has been kind enough to
MegaHAL: handle this...fifty-seven years.
User:    thanks
MegaHAL: This is absurd!  You don't have to.  The people who live there
MegaHAL: checked it out here, but so far...zip.
User:    I know, thanks for the interview
MegaHAL: Now you just lie here and you know how you were responsible for
MegaHAL: the interview.
User:    we'll talk later okay
MegaHAL: It's okay, it's okay.  It's over... You're going to have to
MegaHAL: talk.

Why I will never join facebook

Be a part of a "tribe"

facebook isn't the first social group that ever existed - before facebook was bolt.com (or recently orkut.com), or even now many other underdogs like hi5.com, Netlog, Tagged, Bebo co-exist, even with the previous leader of the pack which is unable to regain popularity myspace.com...

Social group website, works more or less the same way ... you create an account, you post photos, videos, links and interact with "your tribe" - be it your close family, your co-workers, or simply people that are sharing more or less the same hobbies.

Now being successful as a social group is not easy - you have to provide an attractive website, with ease of use, you have to be aware that some people will post things that are not "politically correct" or might even be illegal (in some way - like links to download of mp3 or 'bootleg' movies etc ...).

And even in many instance, the most annoying of all, porn - the all invasive porn that will find the way into any sort of network to spread.

That's the reason you will have this 'report button' - and that link will suddenly disappear, and sometime users account...

Now for the social group provider, the only thing that really count (at the beginning) is to spread like wildfire, so the first case of "porn invasion" or abuse from users will be ignored. Because the step after acquiring a large user base, is the step where user get trapped with this particular website.

Enter the Trap

After your friends, co-workers, etc ... are trapped, then basically this website will become the way you will interact with them by chat, or messages left on their timeline, the problem is that on this platform - you are under surveillance, under scrutiny of marketers, business poll, advertisers, and psychologists that are trying to manipulate, control, and brain-wash people.

And at some stage, you will have to make this choice to stay in because the interaction with your "tribe" is more important - or you will just figure out, that enough is enough and wasting your time in being part of an experiment to turn you into a lab rat, is definitely going too far.

The tactics they're is using to give the impression that it constantly grows - is that you can't ever delete your facebook account, it will stay there "deactivated" ... ready for you to reactivate it (because they know you will be back anyway).

At first (like in any abusive relationship), the partner is showing all his "attractive" side, and wants you to be part of what looks like an interesting and passionate symbiotic relationship - and as soon as you are part of it, it decides (without your accord) that well, some things should be different, and then it starts doing thing in secret, and you will feel more and more like you have been duped, you have been foolish to even start dating this asshole, but it's too late ... now he has all your stuffs, and the more you wait the harder it will get.

And that's the reason you will never find me on facebook.

Image Credit :
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/2019.html
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/2017.html

Additional Credit :
http://www.moreofit.com/similar-to/www.hi5.com/Top_10_Sites_Like_Hi5/

Helping your neighbor is the moral equivalent of attacking a ship

Richard M. Stallman - Free Software Foundation: "Microsoft's software is distributed under licenses that keep users divided and helpless. The users are divided because they are forbidden to share copies with anyone else. The users are helpless because they don't have the source code that programmers can read and change.

If you're a programmer and you want to change the software, for yourself or for someone else, you can't.

If you're a business and you want to pay a programmer to make the software suit your needs better, you can't. If you copy it to share with your friend, which is simple good-neighbourliness, they call you a “pirate”.

Microsoft would have us believe that helping your neighbor is the moral equivalent of attacking a ship."