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00:00 – 0:00:16 [Music]
0:00:16 – 0:00:18 Hello and welcome to a new episode of digression.
0:00:18 – 0:00:23 Where I occasionally deviate from the topic, let's leave it.
0:00:23 – 0:00:25 I'm always digressing.
0:00:25 – 0:00:29 Today's topic is a single fever dream.
0:00:29 – 0:00:49 After we had a really good talk on X, formerly Twitter, between Musk and Alice Weigl,
0:00:49 – 0:00:57 I mean, the woman can speak English better than me, but other people said that was just some "uh, uh, uh, uh, stammered"
0:00:57 – 0:01:02 and not very good in terms of content, I have only quasi summaries or quasi
0:01:02 – 0:01:08 I'm looking at a translated transcript because I don't have to.
0:01:08 – 0:01:17 Seen from the wild statements and mass false claims made there was the
0:01:17 – 0:01:30 Hu, really wild. I mean, the richest man, or at least one of the richest men in the world,
0:01:30 – 0:01:38 who has so much money, so much money, that if he gives every citizen in this world a
0:01:38 – 0:01:44 billion would give, he wouldn't even notice it great in his dividends
0:01:44 – 0:01:56 payments. Yes, he only agreed with these strange statements and was
0:01:56 – 0:02:05 I am also amused and pleased that different characters from the unattractive
0:02:05 – 0:02:13 History of Germany, Adolf Hitler for example, Communists were, because the NSDAP was a
0:02:13 – 0:02:25 It was the National Socialist Party. Yes, that's why communists were persecuted and people were persecuted.
0:02:25 – 0:02:35 They had a socialist mindset. Just like my grandpa who's in a backyard prison.
0:02:35 – 0:02:44 was then half tortured to death and then at some point was released and
0:02:44 – 0:02:50 He came home in a miserable state, to his wife and then a child.
0:02:50 – 0:03:00 Adolf Hitler was a communist and a socialist.
0:03:00 – 0:03:07 The other part of the fever dream is of course also what happened in the USA with the
0:03:07 – 0:03:15 Election of Trump, where I really thought people would have known better. But no,
0:03:15 – 0:03:21 Every day there is some idiot in the world who always convinces me
0:03:21 – 0:03:30 That it can get worse. I mean, Donald Trump's first term was already
0:03:30 – 0:03:39 Really hot. But what's happening now, that's going to get even worse because he's been
0:03:39 – 0:03:49 During his first term in office, he was able to strategically position the people. He's on the Supreme Court.
0:03:49 – 0:03:59 very conservative judges appointed and they are now in the majority and Trump knows now simply,
0:03:59 – 0:04:07 Hase is running again and in combination with Elon Musk and his social network Twitter or
0:04:07 – 0:04:16 now X and maybe even in the future even TikTok this will be really wild, because that is
0:04:16 – 0:04:26 a vigil, and I mean, if you've listened to the thank-you speech to Elon Musk,
0:04:26 – 0:04:33 It was clear that he thanked Twitter or X for winning the election.
0:04:33 – 0:04:43 I also found the kneeling of all the American tech billionaires worrying.
0:04:43 – 0:04:55 Considering that at the first presidential appointment ceremony, only a few companies
0:04:55 – 0:05:05 Astonishingly small sums have been donated, every company, Amazon, Google,
0:05:05 – 0:05:16 Facebook and didn't you see, all donated a billion, even Apple, well, the CEO,
0:05:16 – 0:05:24 He has donated one billion privately and has donated over two billion. So two million.
0:05:24 – 0:05:35 It's unbelievable what happened. I mean, it's not for nothing that people are leaving
0:05:35 – 0:05:44 social networks, especially Twitter, because such a concentration of power and such an opinion-making
0:05:44 – 0:05:54 You can't leave out crazy tech billionaires. And these praises to the ingenious
0:05:54 – 0:06:01 Genius Elon Musk are also really bad, because the guy is not an engineer, the guy is not an inventor,
0:06:01 – 0:06:13 the guy was born rich, made some smart decisions,
0:06:13 – 0:06:20 Reasoned, because I understood that correctly, sold the thing, did a bunch of things.
0:06:20 – 0:06:28 They made money and have made smart decisions ever since. But they are others
0:06:28 – 0:06:34 People who make money for him. They are engineers, scientists, workers,
0:06:34 – 0:06:44 They make the money they get. I mean, these billionaires earn average
0:06:44 – 0:06:52 Two million a day. This must be allowed to melt on the tongue and for the most part through
0:06:52 – 0:07:02 non-self-employed work. I mean, who can read 100 books a year, who can read incredible books?
0:07:02 – 0:07:09 Game hours, well, there is now the small Gamergate, can perform in games and
0:07:09 – 0:07:16 There are now an average of 150 tweets. I wonder how this manager
0:07:16 – 0:07:23 can still work, sleep, if he has at least one life of three people to
0:07:23 – 0:07:30 lead at the same time. To the point Gamergate, I mean, it's come out that he pays people,
0:07:30 – 0:07:36 which maintain their gaming-level channels or accounts;
0:07:36 – 0:07:39 Let him know what a great gamer he is.
0:07:39 – 0:07:49 If I find the links where this was stated,
0:07:49 – 0:07:54 I'll put in a show notes like this, if not, you'll have to watch it yourself.
0:07:54 – 0:08:07 You just notice I'm speechless, after I'm now here on Tuesday and on Monday in
0:08:07 – 0:08:16 the social networks me the videos and the comments on the introduction to the ceremony
0:08:16 – 0:08:24 I looked at it. First of all, this wild speech
0:08:24 – 0:08:25 Trump, that he has the, well, that he has
0:08:25 – 0:08:27 I have said before that the Gulf of
0:08:27 – 0:08:29 Mexico and the Gulf of America
0:08:29 – 0:08:29 Wants to rename.
0:08:29 – 0:08:36 Then only two genders
0:08:36 – 0:08:40 And many, many other things. worrisome
0:08:40 – 0:08:42 It is also the case that
0:08:42 – 0:08:45 This is already in the oldest
0:08:42 – 0:08:48 Constitutional documents. When someone in America
0:08:48 – 0:08:50 When he was born, he automatically
0:08:50 – 0:08:54 U.S. citizenship if he
0:08:54 – 0:08:56 will. And that's supposed to undo everything
0:08:56 – 0:08:58 be made.
0:08:58 – 0:09:02 By the way, almost 20 people are already complaining.
0:09:02 – 0:09:04 States, states, against it.
0:09:04 – 0:09:07 This was done by decree on Monday.
0:09:07 – 0:09:09 And then came Tuesday,
0:09:07 – 0:09:18 Nearly 20, I think it's 18, states want to sue against it. The cleansing of the
0:09:18 – 0:09:26 Illegal immigration has already spread to mainly democratically-led cities.
0:09:26 – 0:09:33 I said we don't work together. When the federal police come in, they'll do it.
0:09:33 – 0:09:40 We don't have the capacity to do that. I was particularly shocked by the
0:09:40 – 0:09:47 Hitler greeting, which Elon Musk made during his speech, which, interestingly enough, the Bild-Zeitung
0:09:47 – 0:10:02 as a symbolized throw of the heart to the audience and a human being,
0:10:02 – 0:10:06 who knows a little bit about history, that it was not a Roman greeting,
0:10:06 – 0:10:12 but this was a slightly modified version of a Hitler salute, in which one
0:10:12 – 0:10:22 Martially beats his fist on the heart and then raises his arm to Hitler's salute. If:
0:10:22 – 0:10:29 you've seen this and also videos of people who were there, who filmed with their phones
0:10:29 – 0:10:37 Everyone was shocked by what they saw when they saw it.
0:10:37 – 0:10:44 Look, then you think, in what kind of a broken world do we actually live? I mean,
0:10:44 – 0:10:52 that we somehow have a shift to the right, that's what you get when you look,
0:10:52 – 0:10:58 that until recently there was such a right-wing government in Poland, now we also have a right-wing government in France.
0:10:58 – 0:11:08 A right-wing government, whether it has formed from sieve wrath, one does not know exactly,
0:11:08 – 0:11:14 because they are still in the financial phase and in other countries right-wing populists everywhere
0:11:14 – 0:11:21 Becoming very strong around Germany, one is afraid and anxious now before February 23,
0:11:21 – 0:11:28 When we have the federal elections. And the opinion-making on social media, whether that's
0:11:28 – 0:11:37 Twitter, Facebook and hate are not seen, is already really violent. So what I'm doing
0:11:37 – 0:11:46 To hear, to see and to read. Society is deeply divided in
0:11:46 – 0:11:55 People who are very dissatisfied. I've seen an interesting TikTok once,
0:11:55 – 0:12:01 Someone had set up the steep thesis that the flashing cover of Christmas decorations
0:12:01 – 0:12:09 equates with the intellectual abilities of the inhabitants and the political
0:12:09 – 0:12:18 Of course, I found sentiment funny, because in the past only people had in dates,
0:12:18 – 0:12:24 these, these were so stars with at that time still so small glow-jumps, which blinked so fast
0:12:24 – 0:12:32 have, only housekeepers, who were particularly scolded in areas that were in dates as
0:12:32 – 0:12:40 social hotspots. And yes, it was always that way, we always called it that way.
0:12:40 – 0:12:49 "Asi stars" because it's framed, I know, but that stopped me immediately
0:12:49 – 0:12:53 This situation reminds me that I always find this very strange.
0:12:53 – 0:12:58 I have always felt that in socially weaker householders
0:12:58 – 0:13:07 The flashing lights were like that. And the day after Elon Musk's Hitler salute is natural
0:13:07 – 0:13:14 This is the big issue everywhere. And I had already read yesterday,
0:13:14 – 0:13:24 that some people, whom I stopped on X, formerly Twitter, have told episode, with the Roman
0:13:24 – 0:13:33 Greetings, as they called it, we are now leaving this platform and going to Blue Sky.
0:13:33 – 0:13:40 Yes, that is also a consequence for me. I'm not leaving Twitter now.
0:13:40 – 0:13:46 because I still use this for automated advertising posts for my content,
0:13:46 – 0:13:54 because I also think that you can stop this network now not only the whole opinion makers and
0:13:54 – 0:14:06 Trolls should be left, but also sometimes constructive and also a different visibility there
0:14:06 – 0:14:12 posting. I will no longer use it privately. So I'm just going to automate the mail
0:14:12 – 0:14:20 Post here for my content. Otherwise, I will leave the network. Why is there a threat to
0:14:20 – 0:14:34 Not an option? Yes, because Mark Zuckerberg is also doing well with the Trump administration, I believe
0:14:34 – 0:14:40 Fear that there will be reprisals. And just this whole
0:14:40 – 0:14:49 Stupidly supported. And I feel the same way, and now I've got a lot of people
0:14:49 – 0:15:01 Sources from the U.S. read that the automatically somehow Elon Musk and above all also
0:15:01 – 0:15:08 Donald Trump didn't do that. And I really do find that
0:15:08 – 0:15:14 because algorithmically controlled then stops the reach of these people around a
0:15:14 – 0:15:21 It is increased many times. This is hard tobak, so really hard tobak.
0:15:21 – 0:15:33 Yes, I'm curious what the future holds because for me, if I have the alternatives
0:15:33 – 0:15:41 I've mainly found for Facebook, then I'll leave that as well. So,
0:15:41 – 0:15:48 I will no longer post anything in private, but only my automated posts for
0:15:48 – 0:15:56 Attention to my production, which I am doing here as part of the Lautfunk publication cartel,
0:15:56 – 0:16:04 Talk about the music, the podcasts, the blog posts and when I make videos again. I will stop
0:16:04 – 0:16:10 Find alternatives sooner or later. I've also found one for Instagram.
0:16:10 – 0:16:21 This is Pixel …, what is it called? Exactly, Pixelfeed, also an open network,
0:16:21 – 0:16:28 similar to Mastodon, on which I have been active for a very long time, with an open protocol,
0:16:28 – 0:16:40 As far as communication is concerned, a decentralised structure. This means that there is no main server.
0:16:40 – 0:16:48 in the USA or so, but there are many small server structures that are interconnected with each other.
0:16:48 – 0:16:53 all are networked and if one fails, you can still use the other structures
0:16:53 – 0:17:04 Get access to your account or your content. Moving server instant to
0:17:04 – 0:17:11 Server-Instant is feasible with just a few clicks and as soon as I stop for Facebook
0:17:11 – 0:17:16 If I have found anything else, I will not post anything private on Facebook.
0:17:16 – 0:17:22 because I just don't want to support these crazy tech billionaires anymore and
0:17:22 – 0:17:31 I'm not that logarithmic, algorithmic bullshit anymore.
0:17:31 – 0:17:36 Content that I get displayed there, which I sometimes don't want to see,
0:17:36 – 0:17:46 Just don't support anymore. Yes, I am someone who also uses TikTok to consume,
0:17:46 – 0:17:56 Because I found a lot of interesting content creators there, mainly in the
0:17:56 – 0:18:03 are socially critical areas, i.e. tell about social inequalities or
0:18:03 – 0:18:14 also carry out political enlightenment or party members from different parties,
0:18:14 – 0:18:20 where I find the personality, i.e. the people interesting. This is not necessarily
0:18:20 – 0:18:27 always everything they say for their party and the idea, but stop,
0:18:27 – 0:18:37 Where I find people interesting. Yeah, I don't think you're talking about TikTok and YouTube.
0:18:37 – 0:18:43 It's already getting around. For YouTube, there are two or three alternatives.
0:18:43 – 0:18:54 4D-Vers, although they always have the problem, there you only always have a limited storage capacity.
0:18:54 – 0:19:01 And if you make videos yourself, then you know how quickly such a video gets 1-2 GB in size.
0:19:01 – 0:19:09 And if you only have 50 GB, that would ideally be 20 to 25 videos and then the
0:19:09 – 0:19:18 Storage full. And if you produce weekly content with one or two videos, that's one.
0:19:18 – 0:19:25 Fly shot. Yes, well, then you could say now, then I put on such a thing myself. The
0:19:25 – 0:19:32 Traffic should not be underestimated, which is only possible through communication between the instances.
0:19:32 – 0:19:38 It's happening. So I see this in my blog, which I have also connected to the Feediverse.
0:19:38 – 0:19:46 and thus the communication is the traffic, i.e. the data packets that are exchanged,
0:19:46 – 0:19:53 increased by a factor of two and a half thousand. Thank goodness I have a provider.
0:19:53 – 0:20:00 who puts my website on the net, where I have no limit on traffic. If I had
0:20:00 – 0:20:07 I would have to pay for it and that would be really bad. Yes, that's how it can happen if you
0:20:07 – 0:20:14 If you want to be visible, it's always difficult if you don't have commercial platforms.
0:20:14 – 0:20:24 want to use. That's such a thought anyway, especially now that there are more and more guests,
0:20:24 – 0:20:31 create dispots around us and maybe even stop when everything goes totally wrong,
0:20:31 – 0:20:39 an AfD leader, i.e. CDU, to the Federal Chancellor and that will then be Friedrich Merz,
0:20:39 – 0:20:53 Do I want to manage my own content? I want to be in charge of my data. And that's already
0:20:53 – 0:21:00 bad enough that I have to use big providers, like Google or Spotify,
0:21:00 – 0:21:05 to have a certain range. Spotify needs two lines.
0:21:05 – 0:21:12 Just like YouTube. Once for the podcasts, which are then played out there and to the
0:21:12 – 0:21:17 others also for the music that originates within the framework of the Lautfunkpublikationskartell.
0:21:17 – 0:21:24 This is more like seeing such a label, the publication cartel, which is then simply
0:21:24 – 0:21:35 Lautfunk means, but as an artist, space wave, I'm also active there. And it really is,
0:21:35 – 0:21:39 You can't get around with this big flat frog. I'd like it to be different. I mean,
0:21:39 – 0:21:50 There are plenty of alternatives, for example from the video verses. Wallen, Waylen, Waylen. The problem
0:21:50 – 0:21:57 Like I said, what about 50 megabytes? If that were at least 50 gigabytes,
0:21:57 – 0:22:04 I could publish a lot of the music I have. But I can't,
0:22:04 – 0:22:13 Because the few megabytes, that's an album and then that's full. From there, and I can't go,
0:22:13 – 0:22:19 Then set up all the instances yourself. Technically, I could do it because I can do it too.
0:22:19 – 0:22:28 I understand that. Hello, thank you, IT training. But I simply lack the money for it,
0:22:28 – 0:22:37 Because that's costly to constantly put any servers on the Internet. And even if
0:22:37 – 0:22:43 if you then have a physical server and you have several instant teas on it, you need IP addresses
0:22:43 – 0:22:54 and IPv4 addresses, v4, are expensive because rare. And it's as sad as it is. We have been 20
0:22:54 – 0:23:05 IPv6. And that's still not standard. The number of addresses is so high,
0:23:05 – 0:23:15 So astronomically high that, if you calculate this, in the known universe it is not so
0:23:15 – 0:23:23 Many stars give the address space as there. Really, that's enough for a few years.
0:23:23 – 0:23:32 If you think that you just need a V6 address, which you get for free,
0:23:32 – 0:23:41 but still not with every provider, you have the problem that people who work at the Telekom
0:23:41 – 0:23:51 have a specific type of connection, cannot access IPv6 addresses. Yeah, that's real,
0:23:51 – 0:23:58 20 years. This address space exists for 20 years and is still not fully used.
0:23:58 – 0:24:06 Yes, tech billionaires, crazy tech billionaires. Sometimes I would like to have a
0:24:06 – 0:24:18 billion. I mean, I'd just spend it on a house, on a production environment, and
0:24:18 – 0:24:25 Just want to live. Of the remaining, let's say 900 million, you can wonderfully
0:24:25 – 0:24:31 Rest and live in peace. Just relax in peace.
0:24:31 – 0:24:43 I follow a blogger, a tech blogger who also does YouTube and podcasts and blogs.
0:24:43 – 0:24:49 Jens Sascha Pallenberg, who comes from Waldrop. This is such a city next to dates where I
0:24:49 – 0:24:56 I grew up. He grew up in Baltrup and then lived in thorn and space and then
0:24:56 – 0:25:05 He moved out into the world and now lives in Taiwan. And he says he's very happy
0:25:05 – 0:25:09 If he now looks at what is happening so politically and also so on the net,
0:25:09 – 0:25:14 What's happening is that he's there. Unfortunately, this is not an option for me. I mean, I have
0:25:14 – 0:25:20 relatives in England. I have twice
0:25:20 – 0:25:26 He also lived in England for a while.
0:25:26 – 0:25:27 and worked. I'm an EM pensioner now.
0:25:27 – 0:25:32 I have a minimum working pension after
0:25:32 – 0:25:35 My stroke and I'm not in
0:25:35 – 0:25:37 Being able to work in such a way that I
0:25:37 – 0:25:40 of what I would deserve, that I
0:25:40 – 0:25:44 can live from it. And even in countries
0:25:40 – 0:25:49 Taiwan would be really complicated for me. I mean, my projects are through support
0:25:49 – 0:25:57 financed. I now have, thank God, one or two people throwing a few bucks in the pot
0:25:57 – 0:26:07 And so I have to pay the cost of the infrastructure, so I just have to pay the costs.
0:26:07 – 0:26:15 when I buy something new to produce, i.e. microphone, headphones, plug-in to
0:26:15 – 0:26:22 Sound editing and so on. In any case, I am not able to make a living
0:26:22 – 0:26:30 to worry. And the pension I'm getting is moving at the citizen's money level. Yes,
0:26:30 – 0:26:36 I don't think that if I emigrate abroad, I will continue to receive my EM pension.
0:26:36 – 0:26:44 Most importantly, I can make a living. So this option also disappears.
0:26:44 – 0:26:53 I tell you, when the intellectual and well-educated people leave a country,
0:26:53 – 0:27:02 Then it packs its own suitcases, then something happens. And I see aspirations, even in my
0:27:02 – 0:27:08 A circle of acquaintances, where people consider whether they should not sell their houses and so on and into the
0:27:08 – 0:27:15 Going abroad. Yes, so with me in the family there are also a few people who now have this
0:27:15 – 0:27:22 Retirement age is reached and they are no longer dependent on it and work. They also say,
0:27:22 – 0:27:30 If this continues, then they leave the country because the pension continues to come and if they
0:27:30 – 0:27:38 If you sell your house here, you could buy a palace in other countries. These are bad
0:27:38 – 0:27:46 Effects, changes we have now and I'm excited and I'm very sure
0:27:46 – 0:27:56 That fever dream has just begun. And of fever dream, of which I can give you
0:27:56 – 0:28:01 reports. I've had corona lately, and then I've had about 40 fevers in my life.
0:28:01 – 0:28:07 I lay in bed and dreamed the wildest things. But that Elon Musk on one
0:28:07 – 0:28:15 Introductory ceremony of the US president makes the Hitler salute, that has
0:28:15 – 0:28:28 I don't dream. This is going to be a wild time. I wish you a good morning,
0:28:28 – 0:28:34 Noon, evening or even night, depending on when you hear this and thank me for it,
0:28:34 – 0:28:40 That you listened. I'd love to see you next time you're at the next
0:28:40 – 0:28:47 Discrimination or another podcast within the framework of the Lautfunkpublikationskartell.
0:28:47 – 0:28:51 My God, what a word construction that I have created.
0:28:51 – 0:28:54 It must have been a fever dream where I invented it.
0:28:54 – 0:28:59 Say goodbye, your Sasha.
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‘Digression 46’ takes you into a world between reality and feverish dreams, where the lines between absurd developments and socio-political insights are blurred. From a heated discussion about tech billionaires to disturbing insights into the dynamics of power, this episode illuminates the absurdities of the present with a personal touch and sharp reflection. What about Elon Musk's controversial appearance, and what thoughts trigger Trump's return and the global shift to the right? Immerse yourself in an episode that makes you think and doesn't give you easy answers.