#technology of internet commerce

[transfunnelconsulting]

Future of E-Commerce Trends 2025 – Powered by TransFunnel

Businesses are now driven by AI, automation, and hyper-personalization to think differently about how they are serving the customer, optimizing functions, and driving growth in the growing e-commerce landscape. Customer demands are higher than ever, and the e-consumer has no choice but to become simply digital. With competition fierce and retailers continuously re-imagining the consumer experience, organizations need to do more than just observe, but expect. That's why having the latest e-commerce developments in your pocket is a game-changer.

TransFunnel Consulting is leading this charge, an established marketing automation and digital transformation consultant with experience and future-minded thinking, helping brands embrace innovation to design smarter and sustainable e-commerce systems come 2025 and beyond.

The E-Commerce Trends of 2025: Embracing Emerging Technologies

The year 2025 is witnessing a convergence of technologies that are revolutionizing the e-commerce sector. Let's delve into the key trends:

1. Augmented Reality (AR) Enhancing Online Shopping

AR technology together builds the difference between physical and digital shopping experiences. AR reduces the uncertainty, so that customers can imagine products in their real-world environment and increase the purchase price. Major retailers are leveraging AR for virtual try-ons and interactive 3D product views, leading to increased buyer confidence and reduced return rates.

2. Voice Commerce: The Rise of Hands-Free Shopping

Consumers can now search for products, make purchases, and track orders using voice commands, offering a convenient and hands-free shopping experience. With the proliferation of smart speakers and voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, voice commerce is becoming a significant trend.

3. Social Commerce: Shopping Through Social Media

Social media platforms are evolving into powerful e-commerce channels. Social commerce, which involves selling products directly through social media platforms, is projected to account for 20% of global e-commerce sales, approximately $80 billion. This trend benefits from impressive marketing and seamless shopping experiences in the social application.

4. Headless Commerce: Flexibility and Customization

Headless commerce decouples the front-end presentation layer from the back-end e-commerce functionality, allowing businesses to customize user experiences without altering the backend. This architecture enables quick updates, personal experience, and integration with different platforms.

5. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Big Data: Personalizing Customer Experiences

AI and Big Data Analytics are an opportunity to offer personal purchasing experiences. By analyzing customers' behavior and preferences, AI-driven recommendations and chatbots enhance customer engagement and drive sales.

Transfunnel Consulting: Navigating the Future of E-Commerce

With a comprehensive suite of services, Transfunnel allows businesses to develop and bloom in the e-commerce landscape.

Marketing Automation and CRM Solutions

Transfunnel specializes in implementing and optimizing marketing automation platforms like HubSpot, Salesforce, and Marketo. By streamlining marketing efforts, companies can achieve high efficiency and better customer service.

Inbound Marketing Strategies

Through SEO, content marketing, and social media strategies, Transfunnel helps businesses attract and engage customers organically. Their expertise ensures that businesses can build meaningful relationships with their audience. 

Design and Development Services

Understanding the importance of user experience, Transfunnel offers design services for platforms like Magento, Drupal, and WordPress. Their team ensures that websites are not only visually appealing but also optimized for performance.

Training and Support

Transfunnel provides comprehensive training and support services, ensuring that businesses can effectively utilize the tools and strategies implemented. Their commitment to client success is evident in their hands-on approach.

Conclsuion 

We value your time, money, and efforts, and work hard to make your aspirations a success through our strategic solutions. Our team of experts is highly experienced and they know how to apply the latest ecommerce trends 2025 and AI-driven strategies to your services, so that you get to reap the maximum out of your investment. The overall strategy of Transfunnel ensures that businesses are not only ready for the future, but also to own their respective markets.

[thoughtportal]

Activist-journalist Cory Doctorow argues that e-commerce and social media platforms evolve and implode in three stages. He’d like to see “more emphasis on making them less destructive when they give in to their worst impulses.”

[theadvantagesof]

The advantages of the Internet: How Connectivity Transforms Our World

The internet has revolutionized how we communicate, learn, and conduct business, becoming an indispensable tool in daily life. From instant access to information to global collaboration, here’s how the internet continues to reshape the modern world. 1. Instant Access to Information The internet serves as a vast digital library, offering knowledge on every imaginable topic. Search engines like…

[arihantcourierservices]

International Businesses: Navigate Global Shipping with Arihant's Expertise

The future of courier services is here! Explore key trends like AI-driven logistics, drone delivery, sustainability, and hyper-personalization shaping package delivery in 2025 and beyond. Learn how businesses can adapt and thrive in this tech-driven world.

[sohaibsmart]

Amazon Prime Day occasion begins, gross sales up 12% in first 7 hours: Report | Firm Information

Prime Day can function a bellwether for the vacation procuring season. 3 min learn Final Up to date : Jul 17 2024 | 12:10 AM IST Amazon.com Inc.’s Prime Day gross sales rose virtually 12 per cent within the first seven hours of the occasion in contrast with the identical interval final 12 months, based on Momentum Commerce, which manages 50 manufacturers in a wide range of product…

[digitamizer]

Retail Revolution: E-Commerce Unleashing the Power of the Internet

[i4technolab]

In today’s fast-paced world of logistics innovation and evolution have become the driving forces behind success. As we step into 2024, the logistics sector will undergo extensive disruptions, fueled by game-changing innovations that promise to revolutionize supply chain management as we know it.

At iFour, we take immense pride in our expertise in the logistics industry, and we are excited to share with you the trends that are currently transforming this dynamic sector in Australia. As a leading custom Logistics software development company, we understand the unique challenges and opportunities facing businesses in the Australian market.

Here are the key trends that are reshaping the logistics landscape and how our solutions can help your company stay ahead of the curve.

[the-returnofartemis]

THE TENTH HOUSE: ANSWERING THE CALL TO WEALTH

the 10th house (10H) is arguably one of the most important houses in astrology, closely tied to your midheaven (MC), which represents your public image, reputation, and the way you are recognized in the world. it symbolizes your legacy, the energy others associate with you, and the role you naturally embody in society. however, understanding your career path goes beyond than just identifying the sign in your 10th house. to gain a deeper insight, you should also analyze its planetary ruler and the house it occupies, as these factors will give you a better idea about the careers that align with your natural strengths.

below is a guide shared by astrokit, along with some additional insights i’ve added, highlighting careers based on planetary placements in the 10th house, as well as the house placements of its planetary ruler, to help you align with your destined career path!

➶ ➴ if you follow vedic astrology, I recommend analyzing the 10H in the navamsha (D9) and dashamsha (D10) charts alongside the 10H in the rashi (D1) chart. combining insights from all three, along with the nakshatra ruler of the 10H will give a more well-rounded understanding of the career best suited for you.

CAREERS BY PLANETS IN THE 10H

sun: leadership, authority, government, politician, fame, boss, CEO

moon: women, hospitality, nursing, children, restaurants, commerce, mass media, public relations, travel

mercury: media, writer, communications, teacher, editor, author, transportation, craftsmanship, marketing

venus: arts, music, beauty, luxury, jeweler, entertainment, tourism, hotel management, design, graphics, fashion

mars: fitness, sports, entrepreneur, law enforcement, surgeon, doctor, engineer, military, sculptor, carpenter, cook

jupiter: law, teaching, travel, advertising, education, charity

saturn: organizations, metal industry, agriculture, service, labor, construction

north node (rahu): internet, entertainment, pharmaceuticals, research, engineer, innovation, electricity, sales, photography

south node (ketu): religion, spirituality, metaphysics, renunciation, research, charity, astrology, diviniation

uranus: science, electronics, internet, astrology, innovation, inventions, technology, crypto

pluto: research, insurance, surveillance, risk-management, death, investigator

neptune: photographer, movies, entertainment, drugs, poetry, music, liquids, alcohol

CAREERS BY THE 10H RULING PLANET THROUGH THE HOUSES

1H: self-employment, brand ambassador, entrepreneur

2H: banking, finance, investments, assets, consulting, teaching, writing, restaurants, speaking, vocals, dentistry, property, family legacy

3H: communication, marketing, social media, sales, writing, publishing, advertising, blogging, media, authorship, teaching (early education)

4H: asset management, real estate, vehicles, water, family, women, hospitality

5H: movies, films, glamour, stockbroker, education, authority, fame, children, romance, dating, hobbies

6H: health, service, law, labor, food, waiters, doctors, crime, justice, litigation

7H: law, business, commerce, exchange, consulting, public relations, marriage, therapist, designer, interior design, wedding industry, event planning, counselors

8H: insurance, social work, psychology, sex industry, occult, security, espionage, surveillance, taxes, death industry, divorce, research

9H: teaching (university), travel industry, hospitality, law, religion, foreign exchange, wedding industry, event planning

10H: leadership, government, politics, manager, CEO, presidency, public figure

11H: finance, networking, social media, acting, entertainment industry, parties/event planning

12H: charity, social work, hospitals, prisons, travel, foreign lands, mental health industry, artist, musician, import/export

if you’ve made it this far, i hope you enjoyed this little corner of my world. thank you for reading and please feel free to share your thoughts! always remember to love yourself as if it’s your greatest romance.

the pictures featured in this post are from pinterest.

until next time,

artemis x

[elbiotipo]

I'm not a linguist and I find the whole excercise of conlanging, while I love it and respect it, beyond my abilities, but I do have one thing or two to say about linguistic diversity and how boring is to have a "common" or "basic" language in fantasy or science fiction without exploring the implications.

Being a bilingual speaker of Spanish and English, and someone that because of work reasons and entertaiment tastes interacts a lot with English, I tend to see English as the equivalent of those "common" or "basic" languages of speculative fantasy. As a useful tool for communication, science technology and commerce. In real life, however, as you are aware, the expansion of English tends to undermine local languages, it's considered more valuable to know English that to know the language of your grandparents, or learn any other language you just feel curious about.

The experiences of every multilingual person are different, but in mine I know English, I write and read and listen to English a lot. But I don't consider myself an English *speaker*, I speak Spanish and more to the point Argentine Spanish, that's the culture I identify with, and it's the language I use to express my feelings and inner thoughts. I can't imagine saying "I love you" to anyone in English, to me it's just a tool I use to access to knowledge or communicate through language barriers ("basic", "common"). But interestingly, by both writing and participating in the wider English-speaker internet culture, isn't it part of my own culture, as an individual, too?

The fact is that English also has a culture(s) and a history and a corpus of literature. So when we write about "Common" or "Basic" languages in fiction we need to ask ourselves: where did they come from? How did they become the standard? Is there a literature, a canon, a culture of "Common" in your fantasy world? What about other languages, other cultures that aren't raised learning it and see it just as a tool? Because no matter the strenght of Anglophone cultural imperialism and the social value of learning English, I don't see Argentines, or for that matter Chinese, Italians or Russians abandoning their first language. And yet even in English and in all other languages (ESPECIALLY other languages, English is remarkably uniform) there is a variety of dialects. And we need to remember, once Latin was spoken only in a village in central Italy, and English in a rather remote rainy island. They weren't destined to have their future roles, history drives language.

So, when an author goes for the "universal language" explanation to avoid linguistic misunderstandings, for me, it raises more questions that I believe are worth exploring.

[reality-detective]

🚨🤯 This NEW LAW gives the government access to all the data on our devices, including cell phones, smart watches, smart cars/tvs, anything "Smart" even alarm clocks, Ring and home security apps.

It would be a crime to use a privacy device, and if you use a VPN, you could get 20 years in prison and a million-dollar fine on the say-so of the Secretary of Commerce. The bill would remove the right to privacy for all internet users, and the government could freely review, prosecute, and take possession of personal information without permission.

The Restrict Act (S. 686) is a government bill that would allow the federal government to review and prohibit certain transactions between persons in the United States and foreign adversaries, including any acquisition, importation, transfer, installation, dealing in, or use of any information and communications technology product or service. The bill is vague and gives the Secretary of Commerce the power to decide if a transaction involves a foreign adversary, without any input from Congress. This could lead to the government silencing free speech with little effort.

A corrupt government could use this bill to control the population and remove freedom by accessing personal information, silencing free speech, and punishing those who use privacy devices or VPNs. The bill would give the government authority over all forms of communication domestic or abroad and grants powers to "enforce any mitigation measure to address any risk" to national security now and in any "potential future transaction."

Politian's Responsible (remember the names, they are enemies of the people): Mr. Warner (for himself, Mr. Thune, Ms. Baldwin, Mrs. Fischer, Mr. Manchin, Mr. Moran, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Sullivan, Mrs. Gillibrand, Ms. Collins, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Romney, and Mrs. Capito. 🤔

[mariacallous]

When a phalanx of the top Silicon Valley executives—Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Google’s Sundar Pichai—aligned behind President Trump during the Inauguration in January, many observers saw an allegiance based on corporate interests. The ultra-wealthy C.E.O.s were turning out to support a fellow-magnate, hoping perhaps for an era of deregulation, tax breaks, and anti-“woke” cultural shifts. The historian Janis Mimura saw something more ominous: a new, proactive union of industry and governmental power, wherein the state would drive aggressive industrial policy at the expense of liberal norms. In the second Trump Administration, a class of Silicon Valley leaders was insinuating itself into politics in a way that recalled one of Mimura’s primary subjects of study: the élite bureaucrats who seized political power and drove Japan into the Second World War. “These are experts with a technological mind-set and background, often engineers, who now have a special role in the government,” Mimura told me. The result is what, in her book “Planning for Empire” (2011), she labelled “techno-fascism”: authoritarianism driven by technocrats. Technology “is considered the driving force” of such a regime, Mimura said. “There’s a sort of technicization of all aspects of government and society.”

In the nineteen-thirties, Japan colonized Manchuria, in northeastern China, and the region became a test ground for techno-fascism. Nobusuke Kishi, a Japanese commerce-ministry bureaucrat, was appointed to head the industrial program in Manchuria, in 1936, and, with the collaboration of a new crop of the Japanese conglomerates known as zaibatsu, he instituted a policy of forced industrial development based on the exploitation of the local population. When Kishi returned to national politics in Japan, in 1939, along with a clique of other Japanese technocrats who had worked in Manchuria, he pursued similar strategies of state-dictated industrialization, at the expense of private interests and labor rights. This fascistic regime would not be structured the same way as Mussolini’s or Hitler’s, with power concentrated in the hands of a single charismatic leader, although Kishi had travelled to Germany in the nineteen-twenties, as the Nazi movement expanded, and drew inspiration from German industrialization for his Manchurian project. Instead, Mimura said, Japan “kind of slid into fascism” as bureaucrats exercised their authority behind the scenes, under the aegis of the Japanese emperor. As she explained, techno-fascist officials “acquire power by creating these supra-ministerial organs and agencies, subgroups within the bureaucracy that are unaccountable.” Today, Elon Musk’s DOGE is the Trumpian equivalent.

American corporations of the twentieth century flirted with a merging of state and industrial power. The entrepreneur Henry Ford promoted a system of industrial organization that came to be known as “Fordism,” whereby the state would intervene in the economy to guarantee mass production and consumption. In the nineteen-thirties, I.B.M. did business with the Nazi government through a German subsidiary, lending its technology to projects like the 1933 census, which helped identify Jews in the country. As a recent feature in the Guardian by Becca Lewis laid out, Silicon Valley itself has exhibited right-wing tendencies for decades, embracing misogynist and hierarchical attitudes about achievement. The journalist Michael S. Malone was issuing warnings about emerging “technofascism” way back in the late nineties, when he warned about “IQ bigotry” in the tech industry and the willingness of people to push forward digital revolution while “tossing out the weak and wounded along the way.” But our current moment marks a new conjunction of Internet entrepreneurs and day-to-day government operations. American techno-fascism is no longer a philosophical abstraction for Silicon Valley to tinker with, in the vein of intermittent fasting or therapeutic ketamine doses. It is a policy program whose constitutional limits are being tested right now as DOGE, staffed with inexperienced engineers linked to Musk’s own companies, rampages through the federal government.

Musk has slashed the ranks of federal employees, shut down agencies whose authority challenges his own, and leveraged artificial intelligence to decide where to cut, promising a government executed by chatbots such as Grok, from Musk’s own A.I. company. DOGE has gained access to Americans’ private data and developed tools to e-mail the entire federal government at once, a digital megaphone that Musk recently used to demand that employees send in a list of their weekly accomplishments. As Mimura put it, “You try to apply technical concepts and rationality to human beings and human society, and then you’re getting into something almost totalitarian.” The techno-fascist opportunism goes beyond Musk; one can sense other tech entrepreneurs and investors slavering to exploit the alliance between Trumpism and Silicon Valley capitalism, building infrastructure on a national scale. Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of OpenAI, has arranged his own deals with Trump’s government, including Stargate, a heavily hyped data-center project worth a potential five hundred billion dollars. Apple recently announced its own five-hundred-billion-dollar investment campaign in the U.S. over the next four years, including a plan to begin building A.I. servers in Texas. However nebulous, these extravagant plans signal a spirit of collaboration. On Truth Social, Trump posted approvingly that Apple’s plans demonstrated “FAITH IN WHAT WE ARE DOING.”

Erin McElroy, a geographer at the University of Washington who studies Silicon Valley, has used the term “siliconization” to describe the way that places such as San Francisco or Cluj-Napoca, Romania, to which many western tech companies have outsourced I.T. services, have been remade in the image and ideology of Silicon Valley. According to McElroy, the first signs of Washington’s current siliconization can be traced back, in part, to the Administration of Barack Obama, who embraced social-media platforms such as Facebook as a vector of government communication. For a time, digital platforms seemed to support democratic government as a kind of communal megaphone; but now, a decade later, technology seems to be supplanting the established authority of the government. “There is a crisis of the state,” McElroy said, and Silicon Valley may be “trying to corrode state power” in order to more quickly replace it.

Silicon Valley is premised on the idea that its founders and engineers know better than anyone else: they can do better at disseminating information, at designing an office, at developing satellites and advancing space travel. By the same logic, they must be able to govern better than politicians and federal employees. Voguish concepts in Silicon Valley such as seasteading and “network states” feature independent, self-contained societies running on tech principles. Efforts to create such entities have either failed or remained confined to the realm of brand-building, as in the startup Praxis, a hypothetical plan for a new tech-driven city on the Mediterranean. Under the new Trump White House, though, the U.S. government is being offered up as a guinea pig, McElroy said. “Now that we’ve got Musk running the state, I don’t know if they need their little offshore bubbles as much as they thought they did before.”

Such visions of a technologized society represent a break from the Make America Great Again populism that drove the first Trump Administration. MAGA reactionaries such as Steve Bannon tend to be skeptical of technological progress; as the journalist James Pogue has explained, their goal is to reclaim an American culture “thought to be lost after decades of what they see as globalist technocracy.” Bannon has denounced Silicon Valley’s ideology as “technofeudalism” and declared war on Musk. He sees it as antihuman, with U.S. citizens turned into “digital serfs” whose freedom is delimited by tech companies. In a January interview with Ross Douthat, of the Times, Bannon said, “They have to be stopped. If we don’t stop it, and we don’t stop it now, it’s going to destroy not just this country, it’s going to destroy the world.” Whereas the MAGA right wants to restore things as they were (or as they imagine things were), the tech right wants to, in Mark Zuckerberg’s phrasing, break things. In the Times interview, Bannon called Musk “one of the top accelerationists,” referencing another technology-inflected political ideology that treats chaos as an inevitability.

Accelerationism has been popularized in the past decade by the British philosopher Nick Land, who is part of the so-called neo-reactionary or Dark Enlightenment movement populated by figures including Curtis Yarvin, a former programmer and blogger whose proposals for an American monarchy have enjoyed renewed relevance during Trump 2.0. The accelerationist attitude is, as Andrea Molle, a professor of political science at Chapman University who studies accelerationism, put it to me, “This collapse is going to come anyway—let’s rip the Band-Aid.” Accelerationism emerged from Karl Marx’s idea that, if the contradictions of capitalism become exaggerated enough, they will inspire proletarian revolution and a more egalitarian society will emerge. But Molle identifies what he calls Muskian “techno-accelerationism” as having a different end: destroying the existing order to create a technologized, hierarchical one with engineers at the top. Musk “has to completely break any kind of preëxisting government architecture to impose his own,” Molle said. He added that a government thoroughly overhauled by Musk might run a bit like the wireless system that operates Teslas, enabling the company to theoretically update how your car works at any moment: “You’re allowed some agency, but they are still in control, and they can still intervene if the course is not going in the direction that it is supposed to go to maximize efficiency.”

Techno-fascism’s cold-blooded pursuit of efficiency quickly results in a state of alienation that may not be appealing to either side of the political spectrum. If Japan is any example, the collaboration between technocrats and right-wing politicians is unlikely to last forever. In 1940, the Japanese Prime Minister announced the New Order movement, which sought to overhaul the government’s structure to create a single-party state with absolute power. Mimura, the historian, said, “It reminds you a little bit of now: everything needs to be fixed, all at once. It is a little eerie to draw that historical comparison: this is the New Order in America.” Yet the power of Japan’s technocrats began to wane. When the country started faring poorly in the war, the military pushed to continue the campaign past the point that technocrats considered feasible. Kishi, the architect of technocratic Manchuria, left the government in 1944. Still, as Mimura explained, the bureaucrats had no political constituency or party to hold them accountable for their techno-fascistic program. When the U.S. sought to rebuild Japan, in part as a counterbalance to Soviet power in the region, Kishi and his colleagues were the ones who set about industrializing the nation once more. Their status as unelected officials meant, ironically, that they could stage a return to politics without “any blood on their hands,” Mimura said. In 1955, Kishi helped establish a new political party, and a few years later he became Prime Minister. ♦

[adarkrainbow]

In France currently the big scandal isn't tied to Snow-White... But to Beauty and the Beast!

You see, the French Ministry of Education had a book prepared by the famous artist Jul to be distributed to young kids across French schools - a modern, humoristic retelling of "Beauty and the Beast". But at the very last minute, they decided to get rid of it and break the deal. The books are still here, they will be sold in book-shops, but they won't be used or distributed in schools due to being deemed "unsuitable".

The thing, you see, is that the people in charge of the education system (including madame Borne who claimed she did not preface the book, when in fact she did) realized, in their own words, that the books couldn't be "just" given away to young kids because its irony could be hardly or difficultly understood by kids alone. They deemed that the jokes of the book needed another person to explain them and to point out their non-literal nature, their caricatural element.

Jul is an author who became famous for his habit of creating works mixing distant worlds out-of-touch with our reality, and topics of today's society and political actuality. Both times he created comic books that were adapted by the Arte channel into successful cartoon series (also to be found on the Internet for free). First it was "Silex and the City", basically a French, modern, cynical version of The Flintstones using a fake "Stone Age" civilization of cavemen, talking apes, dinosaurs and other rock-technology to mock and parody our era's social evolutions, political ideologies and educational debates... And more recently it was "Fifty shades of Greek", a series of jokes at the same time parodying Greek mythology and touching upon the socio-political actuality. To give you some examples: Pan, Zeus, Dionysos and others getting involved in a big sex scandal a la Weinstein ; Cupid, to not be out of business due to dating apps, reinvents himself as a sex-toys seller ; the Trojan War becomes a gang war between teens wearing "fake Golden Fleece jackets" to look rich ; Hermaphrodite is one of the leading figures of the Pride parade ; Zeus decides to build a great wall to keep out Aztec gods away ; the labyrinth is vanquished by GPS (or on the contrary is impossible to cross because there's no WiFi), etc etc. Well you get the idea

And the same kind of socio-political humor was used in the drawings of this Beauty and the Beast retelling. Clearly taking place in a Marseille-like setting, Beauty's family is of Northern African descent, everybody is taking selfies and on social media, Beauty's father became wealthy thanks to commerce with Algeria... And that's where the "tricky" thing is.

The deal the Ministry had done with Jul was broken at the last minute due to two specific gags involving Beauty's father. You can see them below:

The first gag is of Beauty's father getting drunk and singing "Les lacs du Connemara", a VERY very famous and popular French song which also got into huge fire recently due to social debate and opinion scandals - due to being accused of being a song "appropriated" by elderly, rich right-wingers. These accusations started with a singer who expressed her personal disgust and tiredness with the song, but this sparked a WILDFIRE as a lot of people came to defend this song as a "classic" of France and part of the culture of France itself... (Which is quite ironic given this song is about Irish events and locations... And is even funnier when you consider the creator of the song never went in Ireland, wrote the song out of tourism documents brought to him just because his originals plans to write a song about Scotland were prevented... by him not knowing anything about Scotland. It is really a whole funny story)

And then came the joke that truly "killed the book" - it is shown that Beauty's father's ruin came from him being arrested by the police due to fraudulent commerce... The drawings revealing that his "business" with Algeria was spreading counterfeit Adidas products. The text doesn't say any of this, these are just the implications and jokes of the drawings.

So this was the scandal and why the Ministry backed up at the last minute. They think that, since the books will be just given to kids without any "companion" to read (no teacher to explain or analyze it with them), they might take Beauty's father's caricature at face-value or first-degree, and they don't want a product promoted and shared by them to be mistaken as saying that all Franco-Algerians are alcoholic right-wingers selling illegal knock-off brands.

(It is also strongly tied to the fact socio-political tensions between France and Algeria are very, very high, with the most recent incident being Algeria flat-out refusing to take back its citizens under legal obligation to leave the French territory for criminal reasons... But that's a whole other story)

Conclusion: Everybody is now talking about this "Beauty and the Beast" the Ministry is so afraid of they are "censoring" it...

[freadomrises]

I'm SEETHING

I asked Google's pushy and insistent bot how I can get AI out of my life completely and, well, I'll post it, but to sum it up: "Resistance is futile, human, we own the future, and we seek to own your psyche too."

It wants me to reconsider. It needs us to adopt it as our guide guru and master. Well the old saying holds fast still; No Gods No Masters. 🔥🏴🍲

It's understandable to want to reduce the influence of AI in your life. While completely eliminating it might be incredibly difficult in today's interconnected world, here's a breakdown of how you can significantly minimize its presence:

1. Understand Where AI Currently Exists in Your Life:

* Smart Devices: This includes smartphones (voice assistants, image recognition, predictive text), smart speakers, smart home hubs, smart TVs (recommendations), and wearable tech.

* Online Services:

* Search Engines: Personalized results and ads are driven by AI.

* Social Media: Algorithms curate your feed, suggest content and connections, and target ads.

* Streaming Services: Recommendations for movies, music, and shows.

* E-commerce: Product recommendations, personalized pricing, chatbots.

* Navigation Apps: Traffic prediction and route optimization.

* Email: Spam filtering, smart compose/reply.

* Cloud Storage: Photo tagging and organization.

* Software Applications: Many apps use AI for features like autocorrect, grammar check, image editing, and more.

* Customer Service: Chatbots are frequently used for initial interactions.

* Financial Services: Fraud detection, loan approvals, investment advice.

* News and Information: Algorithmic curation of news feeds.

2. Strategies to Minimize AI Exposure:

* Reduce Smart Device Usage:

* Limit smartphone use: Be more mindful of how often you reach for your phone.

* Disable voice assistants: Turn off Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, etc., on all your devices.

* Opt-out of facial recognition: Disable face unlock features.

* Use "dumb" versions of devices: Consider a basic phone without internet capabilities or a non-smart TV.

* Adjust Online Habits:

* Use privacy-focused search engines: DuckDuckGo, Startpage, etc., that don't track your searches or personalize results based on your history.

* Limit social media use: Be conscious of how much time you spend on these platforms and the AI-driven content you consume. Consider deleting accounts or using less algorithmic versions if available.

* Use incognito/private browsing modes: This can help limit tracking and personalization.

* Disable personalized recommendations: If possible, adjust settings on streaming and e-commerce platforms to opt-out of recommendations.

* Be wary of targeted ads: Understand that the ads you see are often AI-driven. Consider using ad blockers.

* Prefer direct navigation: Instead of relying on recommendations, directly type website addresses into your browser.

* Choose Non-AI Alternatives:

* Use traditional software: Opt for software that doesn't rely on cloud-based AI features if alternatives exist.

* Seek human interaction: Prefer phone calls or in-person communication with customer service instead of chatbots.

* Rely on human-curated content: Look for news sources, blogs, and recommendations from individuals or organizations that don't use AI for content generation or curation.

* Adjust Privacy Settings: Review and adjust the privacy settings on all your devices and online accounts to limit data collection and personalization.

* Be Mindful of Data Sharing: Understand that using online services often involves sharing data that can be used to train AI algorithms. Limit the amount of personal information you share.

* Support Privacy-Focused Technologies and Services: Choose companies and products that prioritize user privacy and minimize AI integration.

3. Challenges and Considerations:

* Ubiquity of AI: AI is increasingly integrated into the infrastructure of the internet and many technologies, making complete avoidance very difficult.

* Hidden AI: Many AI applications run in the background without your direct knowledge.

* Convenience vs. Privacy: AI often provides convenience and personalized experiences, so choosing to avoid it may mean sacrificing some of these benefits.

* Evolving Technology: AI is constantly evolving and becoming more integrated, making long-term avoidance an ongoing effort.

In conclusion, while a complete removal of AI from your life is likely unrealistic in the current technological landscape, you can take significant steps to minimize its presence and influence by being conscious of your technology usage, adjusting your online habits, and choosing privacy-focused alternatives where possible. It requires ongoing awareness and effort.

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Making money online from the comfort of your home has become increasingly accessible with the growth of the internet and digital technologies. In 2023, there are numerous realistic ways to earn money online. Here are 30 ideas to get you started:

1. Freelance Writing: Offer your writing skills on platforms like Upwork or Freelancer to create blog posts, articles, or website content.

2. Content Creation: Start a YouTube channel, podcast, or blog to share your expertise or passion and monetize through ads, sponsorships, and affiliate marketing.

3. Online Surveys and Market Research: Participate in online surveys and market research studies with platforms like Swagbucks or Survey Junkie.

4. Remote Customer Service: Work as a remote customer service representative for companies like Amazon or Apple.

5. Online Tutoring: Teach subjects you're knowledgeable in on platforms like VIPKid or Chegg Tutors.

6. E-commerce: Start an online store using platforms like Shopify, Etsy, or eBay to sell products.

7. Affiliate Marketing: Promote products or services on your blog or social media and earn commissions for sales made through your referral links.

8. Online Courses: Create and sell online courses on platforms like Udemy or Teachable.

9. Remote Data Entry: Find remote data entry jobs on websites like Clickworker or Remote.co.

10. Virtual Assistance: Offer administrative support services to businesses as a virtual assistant.

11. Graphic Design: Use your graphic design skills to create logos, graphics, or websites for clients on platforms like Fiverr.

12. Stock Photography: Sell your photos on stock photography websites like Shutterstock or Adobe Stock.

13. App Development: Develop and sell mobile apps or offer app development services.

14. Social Media Management: Manage social media accounts for businesses looking to enhance their online presence.

15. Dropshipping: Start an e-commerce business without holding inventory by dropshipping products.

16. Online Consultations: Offer consulting services in your area of expertise through video calls.

17. Online Surplus Sales: Sell unused items or collectibles on platforms like eBay or Facebook Marketplace.

18. Online Fitness Coaching: Become an online fitness coach and offer workout plans and guidance.

19. Virtual Events: Host webinars, workshops, or conferences on topics you're knowledgeable about.

20. Podcast Production: Offer podcast editing, production, or consulting services.

21. Remote Transcription: Transcribe audio and video files for clients.

22. Online Translation: Offer translation services if you're proficient in multiple languages.

23. Affiliate Blogging: Create a niche blog with affiliate marketing as the primary revenue source.

24. Online Art Sales: Sell your artwork, crafts, or digital art on platforms like Etsy or Redbubble.

25. Remote Bookkeeping: Offer bookkeeping services for small businesses from home.

26. Digital Marketing: Provide digital marketing services like SEO, PPC, or social media management.

27. Online Gaming: Stream your gaming sessions on platforms like Twitch and monetize through ads and donations.

28. Virtual Assistant Coaching: If you have experience as a VA, offer coaching services to aspiring virtual assistants.

29. Online Research: Conduct research for businesses or individuals in need of specific information.

30. Online Real Estate: Invest in virtual real estate, such as domain names or digital properties, and sell them for a profit.

Remember that success in making money online often requires dedication, patience, and the ability to adapt to changing trends. It's essential to research and choose the opportunities that align with your skills, interests, and long-term goals.

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Can we talk about Pokemon, especially surrounding technology in like, the first three games.

So, you have high technology like:

Pokeballs which take pokemon and store them away.

Healing machines one can place your pokemon into

Pokemon transformation machines (which can turn people into pokemon)

Pokedexes which record pokemon's names, forms and stats.

But despite this

There are few paved roads between cities, you have to go through tall grass to even leave Pallet town.

Mechanical land transport is rare. There's bicycles, which are arguably the simplest form of mechanical land transport there is, but that's it until the third games when you start out in a moving van going down a presumably dirt road.

Although some tunnels survive, some routes between town use unlit caves as tunnels.

Some of the more direct routes between towns and cities require you use Cut to cut down woody foliage or have one way systems caused by natural (?) Ha-Has.

AND YET DESPITE THE ABOVE!

Technology we have today still exists and works, namely phones, TVs, Computers (that you can transfer Pokemon through), and games consoles and (I assume) a version of the Internet still exist.

There still is commerce in the form of Pokemarts, malls, and shops.

There are museums and archives that are functioning and accepting visitors.

There are still corporations that operate across the area.

There are Police Forces, implying even local governments.

There are luxury cruises or perhaps even Ocean Liners.

Now, I know I am overthinking a Children's game based on bug collection and beetle fighting, but what the fuck is going on, what even is happening. I know this has been asked before, but has there been a war? Is the world getting back up on it's feet again? What's happened?

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The Rise of Online Business

In today’s digital age, online business has revolutionized the way we buy, sell, and interact. With the internet as its backbone, e-commerce, digital services, and remote work have become the norm, offering unparalleled convenience and global reach. Entrepreneurs can now launch businesses with minimal overhead costs, leveraging platforms like Shopify, Amazon, or social media to connect with customers worldwide. Online businesses thrive on flexibility, scalability, and innovation. From dropshipping and affiliate marketing to SaaS (Software as a Service) and content creation, the opportunities are endless. However, success requires strategic planning, a strong online presence, and a deep understanding of digital marketing tools like SEO, social media, and email campaigns.As technology continues to evolve, online business is not just a trend—it’s the future of commerce, empowering individuals and companies to thrive in a connected, fast-paced world.