#rebel — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rebel, aggregated by home.social.
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It’s never made sense to wait for someone else to do it for you. THAT’S WHY…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_u56dIE2KAhttps://word.undead-network.de/2026/08/26/its-never-made-sense-to-wait-for-someone-else-to-do-it-for-you-thats-why/
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The Three‑Point Clarity Framework
article 3 part 3Your signature structure.1. Systemic HarmAggressive advertising is not a Meta problem — it is an industry problem.The same behaviours exist across Facebook, Google, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and every major platform.2. Regulatory MomentumMeta’s losses create legal precedent.States now have leverage to challenge the entire advertising ecosystem.3. Industry‑Wide TransformationIf Meta is forced to redesign its systems, every major platform will follow — voluntarily or […]https://jayleebenjamin.wordpress.com/2026/08/23/the-three-point-clarity-framework/
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Facebook: The End of “You Didn’t Ask for This” Advertising
Facebook’s advertising model is built on interruption.You scroll, and Facebook throws suggestions at you — products, pages, groups, videos, political content, emotional triggers, and behavioural predictions.This model is now legally vulnerable.Three things will change first:1. Forced Suggestions Will Be RestrictedFacebook will no longer be able to inject content you didn’t ask for simply because the algorithm predicts you might react to it.2. Behavioural Targeting Will Be LimitedThe […] -
Oh I'm such a #rebel !
I use @wikipedia when the masses ask #Claude...
I read books and articles instead of asking #ChatGPT...
I listen podcasts and music and reject any #AI generated content
I interact with real people, IRL !Paradigm shift: As of now, hacking has become a low tech activity
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ARTICLE: “Why Artists Should Never Trust Instagram Music Promotion Ads”
The Problem No One Talks AboutInstagram has become one of the biggest advertising platforms in the world — but for musicians, it’s also become one of the most dangerous.Every day, artists are shown adverts promising:“Guaranteed streams”“£3 promotion”“Blow up your music overnight”“AI video creation for artists”“Wholesale promotion”None of these claims are real.None of these services are legitimate.And none of them follow the rules set by Spotify, Apple Music, TikTok, […] -
I’ve learned something important about these bait‑posts
As a mixed, queer artist who builds everything from lived experience, I’ve learned something important about these bait‑posts that keep circulating online — especially the ones targeting LGBT people or any group that’s easy to provoke.They’re not created for people like us. They’re created to harvest engagement.Artists who write from identity — who build music from truth, not templates — feel these posts more sharply because they’re designed to pull emotional focus away […] -
“Symphony of Solitude” by JAYLEEBENJAMIN
"Symphony of Solitude" by JAYLEEBENJAMIN Symphony of Solitude is a song about the kind of loneliness that comes from being visibly different in a world that rewards invisibility.It’s about the years spent walking through life feeling like an outsider - not because of anything you did, but because of who you are, how you look, how you speak, and how people project their assumptions onto you before they ever bother to know you.Growing up mixed-race, gay, and visibly “not the masculine […]https://jayleebenjamin.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/symphony-of-solitude-by-jayleebenjamin/
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Music single”Symphony of Solitude” by JAYLEEBENJAMIN 2
Symphony of Solitude is a song about the kind of loneliness that comes from being visibly different in a world that rewards invisibility. It’s about the years spent walking through life feeling like an outsider - not because of anything you did, but because of who you are, how you look, how you speak, and how people project their assumptions onto you before they ever bother to know you. Growing up mixed-race, gay, and visibly “not the masculine template,” you didn’t have the option […] -
Libraries hold a special place in my heart, for reasons both intellectual and sentimental.
Librarians are guardians of knowledge, champions of freedom, and friends of the people. They are community members, dedicated to helping connect poor people with relevant information, so they can improve their minds, educate themselves, and access job resources.
After I became a #whistleblower in 2023, and was made #homeless , this notion was challenged.
Librarians would block my access, call the police, and have me arrested. If you find this hard to believe, please see my whistleblower website. The PDF linked, has an appendix giving the “receipts” ( documents to corroborate my account ).
http://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/
I had applied to be a board member of the libraries in Hawai’i after attending their meetings, and saw some corruption there.
Scroll to the bottom of this page, and see the photo of the board members. How many native Hawai’ian faces do you see? Any Japanese or brown folks?
https://folkhawaii.com/about-us/
Their former Director of Membership, Bobby Gebbia, lied in court, before the judge and cameras, saying I was a board member, though I was not granted a membership.
In Hawai’i, librarians appear to be part of the occupying forces, whitewashing colonialism, insidiously taking over and erasing the true history of Hawai’i, which I heard from talking to local old timers.
250 years ago, Hawai’i had not heard of Jesus, and had its own deities, ( Goddess Pele, the creator, Kaneloa, etc. )
Then Captain James Cook invaded, and 90% of the natives were wiped out.Then Samson Dole attacked with soldiers, threw out the natives, turned their land into plantations, and turned the natives into day laborers on the plantation, on their own land.
Contrary to popular belief, Hawai’i is not a part of the USA, but a belligerently occupied territory,
1887-1897: Hawaiʻi Rebelled against the USA.
Hawaiʻian people did not choose to be part of the USA.
King David Kalākaua was forced to sign what is called the "Bayonet Constitution". Queen Liliuokalani asserted that Kalākaua's life was threatened: "He signed that constitution under absolute compulsion."Now Hawai’i is full of churches, their own gods are vanishing from memory, thanks to the “librarians”. There’s poverty, a drug epidemic, and seething discontent on the streets. Hawai’ian people are heavily overpoliced, thrown into jail without cause, and denied #justice in the #courts of the occupiers ( #USA ).
All this is hidden from the casual tourist, content to visit a golf course on the sacred land, that has been bulldozed, and be served drinks by little brown people ( usually from the Marshall Islands, Hawai’i locals have mostly left for minimum wage jobs in mainland America ).
Billionaires, like Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, and Oprah Winfrey, “own” huge chunks of the land.
Chinese billionaire, Eva Liu, has controlled the Punalu’u Black Sand beach, with a sweetheart deal ( $1 ), and is proposing erasing this natural landmark, spawning site of the endangered Saddleback Turtles, and building resorts there, in the name of “development”.
In 2022, the Hawai’ian people had a setback in court.
( Hawaiian Kingdom v. #Biden ; December 14, 2022 )Librarians have been instrumental, in manipulating minds, and pushing through these insidious #imperialist agendas, and disenfranchising and displacing the local people.
#Earth #environment
#library #libraries #librarian #librarians #liberty #hawaii
#bigisland #imperialism #colonialism #capitalism
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🤖✨ Oh, the audacity! 🚀 Some #rebel decided to ditch a perfectly good #AI #Code #Reviewer and create their own. Now they can bask in the #glory of reviewing their own code changes locally, because who needs #efficiency or progress? 🙃
https://github.com/mukundzha/avouch #Ditching #HackerNews #ngated -
THE COLLAPSE OF AGGRESSIVE ADVERTISING: FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, AND THE NEW RULES
ARTICLE THREE parts 1For more than a decade, digital platforms have relied on a simple formula:predict what you want, push it at you, and keep pushing until you click.Facebook perfected it.Google industrialised it.Instagram and TikTok normalised it.And YouTube built an entire creator economy on top of it.But the Meta case has changed the direction of travel.The legal pressure applied to Meta is not limited to Meta — it applies to the entire advertising ecosystem.The behaviours under […] -
America cannot read! We are a nation of illiterates.
#stupidity #readingIsEssential #illiterate #icecream #courts #rebel #USA
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the kinds of narratives that circulate online, especially when they target LGBT people
I’m sharing this because it’s important to recognise the kinds of narratives that circulate online, especially when they target LGBT people or any marginalised group. I haven’t engaged with the original poster, and I won’t — not because the topic isn’t important, but because some individuals post deliberately provocative content with no intention of having a reasonable or good‑faith conversation. Their aim is to provoke, divide, and generate as much reaction as possible. The […] -
“We are all individual and we’re different — that covers it all.”
You’ve seen:- labels invented for fun - labels used to troll - labels used to vent frustration - labels used to mock LGBT people - labels pushed online as if they’re official - labels preached at the public without explanation This is exactly what happened with that LinkedIn post you mentioned — a giant list of labels presented as if they were established categories. That is preaching. And it does make people switch off.Your reaction is logical:> “If you want to be taken […] -
Everyone who walked into Heaven for the first time carried something with them
The arches under the Embankment. The descent into the underworld. The first night at Heaven.I wasn’t the only one who arrived nervous.Everyone who walked into Heaven for the first time carried something with them — fear, hope, loneliness, lust, confusion, excitement, guilt, courage.It didn’t matter who you were.It didn’t matter where you came from.It didn’t matter how confident you pretended to be.Heaven stripped you down to your truth.I remember stepping down those stairs — the […] -
PART 1 — The Myth of “AI Slop”
People throw around the phrase “AI slop” without understanding what it actually means. They use it as a blanket insult for anything created with AI, even when the work is original, directed, and crafted. The truth is simple: AI slop is not about the tool — it’s about the effort.Most of the content people complain about is:genericlow‑effortcopy‑paste promptsmass‑produceddirectionlessmade without intentionThat’s what “slop” really is.But people make a mistake: they assume […]https://jayleebenjamin.wordpress.com/2026/08/09/part-1-the-myth-of-ai-slop/
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First Big‑City Club Night (London Version)
First Big‑City Club Night (London Version)A hidden London gay club, early 1990s, located down a narrow Soho alley. The exterior is mid‑century brick with a black door and no signage. Inside, the entrance hallway is dimly lit with deep burgundy walls, scuffed skirting boards, and posters for past club nights pinned to a corkboard.A small wooden table near the door holds stacks of Boyz magazine and The Pink Paper, their neon covers glowing under a single overhead bulb.The young man, now in […]https://jayleebenjamin.wordpress.com/2026/08/08/first-big-city-club-night-london-version/
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Reaching for Gay Times” the moment before a young queer person reaches for a lifeline that could change everything.
Reaching for Gay Times” A small, narrow London newsagent on a busy street in Soho, late 1980s. The interior is cramped, with tall shelves of crisps, chocolate bars, newspapers, and magazines. Fluorescent strip lights cast a pale, humming glow across the shop.In the centre stands a 19‑year‑old young man, slim build, medium height, dark brown hair styled in a shy, careful fringe. He wears a faded denim jacket, a white T‑shirt, and black trousers, typical of late‑80s London youth […] -
The Mission: A Spiritual Blueprint Made Visible
The Mission: A Spiritual Blueprint Made VisibleEverything I create — from The Principles of Love and Compassion to Rise Above the Hatred to Rebel With a Cause — is built on the same spiritual architecture:- love as a revolutionary force - compassion as clarity - justice as spiritual responsibility - identity as sacred - difference as divine - truth as healing - rebellion as awakening - art as transmission This is not performance. This is not branding. This is not […]https://jayleebenjamin.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/the-mission-a-spiritual-blueprint-made-visible/
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Why “The Principles of Love and Compassion” Still Matters
Why “The Principles of Love and Compassion” Still MattersMy first album was the seed of everything I create now. It was the moment I realised that love and compassion are not soft — they are revolutionary.It remembers:- the spiritual truth beneath the noise - the humanity beneath the politics - the dignity beneath the discrimination - the divine nature of difference It was ahead of its time because I was ahead of my time.---The World Forgets Because Forgetting Is […] -
Outsourcing, Contractors and Medical Providers: The Cost Explosion in civil service
PART 2 — Outsourcing, Contractors and Medical Providers: The Cost ExplosionThe public has no idea how much money is wasted on outsourcing.Inside DWP, HMCTS, and other departments, you saw:- cleaning companies failing to clean - catering companies failing to provide safe food - maintenance companies failing to fix basic issues - medical companies failing to assess correctly - debt collection companies failing to collect - training companies failing to train - casework companies […] -
Why my songs and “Rebel With a Cause song” Exist?
Why my songs and “Rebel With a Cause song” Exists is for this reason. Backlash against equality and inclusion and LGBT.Rebel With a Cause is the sound of refusing to bow to systems built on lies. It is the sound of clarity cutting through confusion. It is the sound of someone who has stopped asking for permission to exist.It remembers:- the activists who fought before us - the communities who resisted in the shadows - the people who were punished for telling the truth - the ones who […]https://jayleebenjamin.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/why-my-songs-and-rebel-with-a-cause-song-exist/
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Rebel with a Cause: The Story Behind the Outcast Rebel Movement
Love as a revolutionary force" Rebel with a Cause: The Story Behind the Outcast Rebel Movement : rebel with a cause musicactivist electronic music, UK rebel artist “Rebel with a cause” isn’t a slogan - it’s my life. For over 25 years I’ve stood up for LGBTQ+ people, disabled people and workers who’ve been ignored. My music is the voice of that fight.The album I’m a rebel with a cause - the mixes captures the energy of resistance through electronic and dance-driven soundscapes. […]