By now I hope you can see, if you did not see it before, how deeply important robust doctrines of objective morality and rationality are to securing a civilization.
Without them, civilization disintegrates.
StartThis
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Larry's old (but still maintained for testing purposes) Minifeed site. Please go to Sangerfeed.org for my latest.
South Korea is taking Big Tech to task for its privacy violations. Not enough, but a start.
theregister.com/2021/08/26/faceb…
French citizens boycott vaccine passports by eating right in front of empty restaurants
Love it!
Well, I guess I should post this, if many corporations are going to require the jab of their employees:
The No Vax Mandate Job Board
gab.com/groups/49159
FDA approval of a vaccine does not mean the vaccine is safe. You know who supplies 45% of the FDA’s funding? “Industry user fees” aka Big Pharma.
“When someone calls you a ‘conspiracy theorist,’ they have already lost the argument, because that epithet is a way to prevent discussion from taking place.”
Tactical point: when the left falsely accuses you or your race or your religion or politics as “white supremacy,” respond to them as if they said “white supremacism.” Make them *own* and attempt to *defend* their shameful calumny.
I played another challenging B-flat hornpipe from Donegal, once slowly and then up to a lively speed: “The Low Level.”
Remember how certain far-left politicians, activists, and journalists (if you can call them that) pushed hard to create lists of Trump supporters “who never would be missed”?
What ever became of that noble effort?
What’s email? A single, open network.
What’s the blogosphere? A single, open network.
What’s Twitter? A closed network.
What are ActivityPub, Matrix, and Diaspora? Multiple, unintegrated, but open networks.
"We are making standards to drive the technology that will connect the world’s encyclopedias in a single, open network."
Larry Sanger hasn't learned a damned thing from the Wikipedia debacle, or that a "single open network" is a contradiction. t.co/iR06vlUweK
— Dr. Hugh Akston (@DrHughAkston1) August 25, 2021
Isn’t it interesting how, even as the Establishment does all it can to label assorted opinions as mere “conspiracy theories,” it becomes increasingly unobjectionable to own up to being a conspiracy theorist in certain cases?
We’ve had enough of Big Tech.
It’s time for some serious Small Tech.
Our first press release mentions the software that runs my self-owned social media feed: Minifeed, version 1—almost done. v2 will be fully public, free, and OSS and is in the works.
Informed consent is still a thing. You need to understand your rights and the tiny relative benefit that will accrue to you if you are vaccinated, and the relatively significant negative side-effects of the vaccines. Yes, still.
For decades, from the 60s on, we thought it was virtuous to be non-judgmental and non-confrontational in the face of increasingly bizarre practices, beliefs, and movements.
And here we are. Drowning in insanity.