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  1. May 2021
    1. This means representing the interests of the electorate without destroying the existing political and socio-economic stability that Chileans have come to value.

      It sounds as a covert funny fiddle with the economy, or you will lose your power "by the people":

    1. left theorists such Nikos Poulantzas, Ralph Miliband, and André Gorz, Ed became deeply engaged with the question of how to democratically transform the state and how rupture with capitalism might be achieved in technologically and materially advanced societies where the classically Leninist strategy of dual power seemed to lack relevance.

      The communist theorists still relevant today for abolishing capitalism.

    1. Ασκείται όμως από τις 11 (μέχρι πρότινος) ομάδες σε όλο τον κόσμο που συμμετέχουν στο Product Policy Forum, το οποίο διεξάγεται κάθε δύο εβδομάδες online προκειμένου να επιθεωρήσει την εφαρμογή των κανόνων κοινότητας,

      Το "Εφετείο" του fb.

    1. that involves looking up where to find Guix's source code, `git clone`ing it, finding the Guix revision I'm currently on with `guix describe` so I can check out the same one for consistency's sake, `make`ing it, `guix environment guix`, using `pre-inst-env`, etc

      This is a direct response to the question, so it makes sense to write it out, but Spitz's piece (linked earlier) Open source is not enough describes the problem adequately.

    1. At the very least I would have expected the Court to have held back from making sweeping conclusions about his intentions and desires without first hearing from him under examination and on oath on the witness stand during his trial.

      Condemning someone on an accusation that has not been formally addressed to the accused, and never given the opportunity to apologize, is a tell-tail of an injust trial.

    2. In saying this it is essential to stress that the protection of witnesses and complainants in sexual assault cases is a paramount priority, and that the need to take steps to provide them with protection by securing their anonymity is not at issue.  However, to use this obligation to prevent balanced reporting of a case, especially one like Salmond’s, which had important public and political implications, seems to me to go too far and looks oppressive.  It appears to extinguish the right to a fair and open trial, which can only be secured by fair and balanced reporting. 

      The balance between the protection of the anonymity iof secret witnesses (eg in cases of sexual allegations), and the publicity of the trial (guaranteeing its fairness), is a tough one.

    1. Το 2017 πάρθηκε μια στρατηγική απόφαση και είναι δηλωμένη επιλογή του Ζούκερμπεργκ να μειώσει στην πλατφόρμα τον χώρο όπου διενεργείται πολιτική συζήτηση γιατί μια τέτοια δραστηριότητα δεν είναι ιδιαίτερα επικερδής αλλά δημιουργεί προβλήματα στην εταιρεία.

      Unfair: limiting political talk means that only mainstream players are allowed to disseminate political messages.

    2. Η Facebook φορολογείται στην Ιρλανδία, αλλά κάνει μπίζνες με τις διαφημίσεις χωριστά σε κάθε χώρα.

      The 1st step to check Facebook is to demand to be taxed wherever its ads are shown.

  2. Apr 2021
    1. Προσδίδοντας οξύ τόνο στην πάλη αυτή, μπορούμε να ερεθίζουμε τις μάζες. Μια τέτοια πάλη επιτείνει τη διαίρεση των μαζών με βάση τη θρησκεία, ενώ η δύναμή μας βρίσκεται στην ένωση».

      Θέλει προσοχή γιατί η διαμάχη εδράζεται στο θυμικό, όχι στη λογική Χρειάζεται aikido επιχειρηματα.

    2. θα δαιμονοποιεί τα φυσικά και κοινωνικά φαινόμενα, θα «θεοποιεί» τις συμφορές της ανεργίας, της φτώχειας, της αρρώστιας κλπ., και θα χρησιμοποιεί την άγνοια του ανθρώπου για να γεννήσει στη συνείδησή του το Θεό.

      Κοινωνιολογία - Θρησκεία: 0 - 1

    1. Μια σειρά δημοσιευμάτων έδειχναν πως οι λογοκριτές δεν ήταν άλλοι από τους υπαλλήλους της Teleperformance, της εταιρείας που, όπως είχε αποκαλύψει η «Εφ.Συν.» σε συνεργασία με το Investigate Europe και το Reporters United (30/4/2020), ανέλαβε εν κρυπτώ τη διαχείριση της γραμμής του ΕΟΔΥ για τον κορονοϊό («Η μυστική συνεργασία ΕΟΔΥ - Teleperformance και τα 6 σκοτεινά σημεία της»).

      Πόσοι γνωρίζουν ότι η εταιρεία που λογοκρίνει το ελληνικό Facebook έχει ολοκληρωθεί από την ελληνική Κυβέρνηση?

    1. Οι Σταγιάτες είναι ένα χωριό που έγινε πανελληνίως γνωστό, όχι μόνο για το γεγονός πως αγωνίζονται για  να κρατήσουν ελεύθερα τα νερά τους που εδώ και εκατοντάδες χρόνια ήταν έτσι και τώρα θέλουν με διάφορους τρόπους να τους τα πάρουν στο δήμο Βόλου, είναι ένα χωριό που εφαρμόζει κατά τη δική μου άποψη την άμεση δημοκρατία. Είναι ένα χωριό από τα λίγα στην Ελλάδα που οι λίγοι κάτοικοι, λίγοι μεν αλλά ουσιαστικοί αγωνιστές, κάνουν συνελεύσεις, παίρνουν αποφάσεις και τις υλοποιούν. Είναι ένα κλασσικό παράδειγμα άμεσης δημοκρατίας όπου όλοι συμμετέχουν, παίρνουν τις αποφάσεις και τις υλοποιούν.

      Αραγε το καλοκαιρι πλημυριζει απο μαυροκοκκινους τουρίστες :-)?

    1. τον λεγόμενο τρίλογο ή τριάλογο (trilogue ή trialogue), τις τριμερείς διαπραγματεύσεις μεταξύ της Κομισιόν, του Συμβουλίου και του Ευρωπαϊκού Κοινοβουλίου, στις οποίες αποφασίζεται το 75% της νομοθετικής παραγωγής της Ε.Ε. σε συνθήκες πλήρους αδιαφάνειας.
    2. Η οργάνωση προσέφυγε στο ΔΕΕ το οποίο αποφάσισε το 2013 ότι τα έγγραφα έπρεπε να δημοσιευθούν. To ΔΕΕ υποστήριξε ότι το Συμβούλιο δεν είχε δικαίωμα να απαλείφει ή να καλύπτει τα ονόματα των κρατών-μελών στα έγγραφα που αναφέρονταν στις διαπραγματεύσεις μεταξύ των κρατών-μελών, καθώς οι πολίτες είχαν το δικαίωμα να γνωρίζουν τι λέει η κυβέρνησή τους όταν τους εκπροσωπεί.
    3. «Το Συμβούλιο βλέπει τον εαυτό του σαν μια ομάδα διπλωματών που λειτουργεί σε μια διπλωματική σφαίρα με όρους εμπιστευτικότητας», σχολιάζει η κ. Ο’ Ράιλι. «Και αυτό, παρά το γεγονός ότι από τεχνική και νομική πλευρά είναι ένα νομοθετικό όργανο».
    1. Όποιος δεν θέλει έναν στενό ορισμό του gaslighting τον παραπέμπω στην ταινία του Netflix “Death to 2020” και στον εξαιρετικό ρόλο της Λίζα Κούντροου (η Φοίβη από τα Φιλαράκια) όπου ενσαρκώνει εξαιρετικά την Αριστοτελία Πελώνη του Τράμπ.

      Documentary: Death to 2020

    1. Regardless of an explicit requirement, it is an implication of membership in the academic community that its members have a responsibility, and a right, to contribute to the intellectual corpus of their time.

      So who then is, or isn't, a "member" of the "academic community?" And is it incumbent that members "produce ideas" within their defined fields, or does their membership entitle (require?) them to speak more broadly than that?

    2. I had always understood that academic freedom was associated with job security; however, and forgive my naïveté, I was disappointed to learn that academic freedom was inexorably tied to tenure. Before that revelation, I had always thought of academic freedom as a principle complemented by tenure, not contingent upon it.

      This is the thorny heart of the problem - does the freedom only flow from the power to protect it?

    1. you're quite willing to make compromises when it comes to using non-free software

      I get the sane feeling, from 12:00 and afterwards, that's the main accusation: FSF is very anti-proprietary, which drives people away.

      But that's a discussed-to-death issue, and the consensus is the FSF is not a run-of-the-mill activist organization, they do (and should) go to the extremes to defend freedom.

  3. Mar 2021
    1. Βλέποντας τις μεγάλες ιδιωτικές πλατφόρμες (φατσοβιβλία κ.λπ.) στις μέρες μας, αντιλαμβανόμαστε ότι δεν διαμορφώθηκε απολύτως καμία αθηναϊκή αγορά (το ιδανικό), αλλά ενισχύθηκε απεριόριστα το «Ολα για την κυκλοφορία» (η πραγματικότητα).
    2. Σε αυτή τη συγκεκριμένη κρίσιμη φάση, μια χαλαρή ένωση συγγραφέων, χάκερ, καλλιτεχνών και επιχειρηματιών από τη Δυτική Ακτή των ΗΠΑ πέτυχαν να διαμορφώσουν μια ετερογενή ορθοδοξία για την εποχή της πληροφόρησης - την ιδεολογία (;) της Καλιφόρνιας. Αυτή η νέα πίστη (;) αποτελεί μια σύντηξη των κουλτουριάρικων μποέμ του Σαν Φρανσίσκο και των βιομηχανιών υψηλής τεχνολογίας της Σίλικον Βάλεϊ, συνδυάζοντας δηλαδή τα πνεύματα των χίπις και των γιάπις, και σχηματίζοντας μια υπερβολικά αισιόδοξη εικόνα του μέλλοντος.

      Ενδιαφερουσα νυξη για την θρησκευτική φύση της πίστης στην τεχνολογία.

    1. while the former study centered English curricula, the latter focused on empowering students as producers and creators of knowledge, was grounded in freedom, and aimed to improve the critical thinking and critical literacy skills students already had

      It is helpful to look at these examples next to each other and to unpack what is really different about the approaches and what it looks like to be "grounded in freedom."

      It reminds me of another post written by author Latrise Johnson in the NCTE blog which helps to get underneath why we need diverse books in the first place (ie. not just for the sake of diversity):

      https://ncte.org/blog/2016/04/students-dont-need-diverse-literature-just-diverse/

    1. the types of activities that were averted by BLM protests were potentially riskierfor disease spread than outdoor civil rights protests: restaurant and bar-going and retail shopping.
    2. Event-study analyses provide strong evidence that net stay-at-homebehavior increased following protest onset, consistent with the hypothesis that non-protesters shiftedtheir activity in response to the perceived heightened risk of contagion and protest-related violence.
    3. BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTS AND RISK AVOIDANCE:THE CASE OF CIVIL UNREST DURING A PANDEMIC
    1. In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his tongue his own, he can scarce call anything his own. Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech ... Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom, and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech, which is the right of every man ...

      It’s interesting to see this being debated today with the fight over freedom of speech in social media. You could argue that social media is today’s version of the earlier pamphlets.

    1. Dominic Minghella. ‘Wow. SAGE Scientist Prof Andrew Hayward on Newsnight Unequivocal: “I Won’t Be Getting My Family Together for Christmas.” Young People and Old People Together a Recipe for Disaster/Snatching Defeat from Jaws of Victory/Wait till Easter and Have a Proper Get-Together. #Newsnight’. Tweet. @DMinghella (blog), 25 November 2020. https://twitter.com/DMinghella/status/1331374249001578497.

    1. Δυστυχώς τελευταία άγνωστοι προκαλούν διαρκώς φθορές και βανδαλίζουν βαγόνια.

      Δεν είναι άγνωστοι, έτσι απλά. Είναι νέα παιδιά που συμπεριφέρονται έτσι λόγω πανδημίας, αφού η πόλη "αδειάζει" 21:00-5:00.

      Θα έπρεπε ο Δήμος να αναθέσει σε ψυχολόγους να μελετήσουν πως προέκυψε τέτοια ασυδοσία από νέα παιδιά, και να μην στηριζόμαστε μόνο σε αστυνομικά μέτρα.

    1. The US is trapped in a post-Trump hate and rage, cultivated by FOX news and right-wing militias.

      It seems the Americans have no antibodies to he right-wing propaganda, as Europeans do.

    1. 10 Τεχνικές Χειραγώγησης

      1. Η τεχνικη της αποπροσανατολιστικης «ψυχαγωγιας»
      2. Η τεχνικη της κατασκευης προβληματων και παροχης λυσεων
      3. Η τεχνικη της υποβαθμισης
      4. Η στρατηγικη της επιμερισμενης αναβλητικοτητας
      5. Η στρατηγικη της απευθυνσης στο κοινο σαν να ειναι ανηλικα παιδια
      6. Η τεχνικη της απευθυνσης στο συναισθημα παρα στην λογικη
      7. Η τεχνικη της παρατεταμενης αγνοιας
      8. Η τεχνικη της «φυσικης» μετριοτητας
      9. Η τεχνικη της ενοχοποιημενης εξεγερσης
      10. Η τεχνικη του να γνωριζεις τα ατομα καλυτερα απ’ οσο γνωριζουν τα ιδια τον εαυτο τους
    1. Για τα 100 χρόνια από τον θάνατο του Kροπότκιν | Αναρχικό Στέκι Φιλοσοφικής

      100 χρονια μετα, οι αυθεντικοί αναρχικοί δεν θελουν να ενωσουν αλλα να διαφυλάξουν την ιδεολογική τους καθαρότητα.

    1. Αναλυτικοτερη απαντηση του Fb για τα κοωιματα των άρθρων και φραγες σε λογαριασμούς.

      ΔΕΝ ΔΟΥΛΕΥΟΥΝ τα annotations :-(

    1. Careful wording by Fb to evade criticism for en-mass censorship on greek users, some of them, journalists covering demos for Koufontinas.

    1. Η υπουργός της δεν είναι απλώς επικίνδυνη για την Παιδεία και τους τους φοιτητές. Χρησιμοποιώντας πρακτικές των πιο σκοτεινών εποχών, η κ. Κεραμέως υπηρετεί το σχέδιο να μείνει ανάπηρη η ήδη καχεκτική δημοκρατία.

      Το αντίθετο: η Κεραμέως ειναι, παραδόξως, "χρησιμη", αφού η αντιδραστική της πολιτική της ευθγράμισε, για πρωτη φορά στη μεταπολίτευση τους φοιτητές με τους καθηγητές τους!

    1. το Δικαστήριο της Ε.Ε. αναφέρει ότι οι τροποποιήσεις στον τρόπο λειτουργίας του KRS «μπορούν να παραβιάσουν το δίκαιο της Ε.Ε.» και ενώ δηλώνει αναρμόδιο για να εκδώσει το ίδιο απόφαση για το ζήτημα, αλλά πρέπει να το κάνει πολωνικό δικαστήριο

      Πως ομως θα κρινει το ιδιο το Δικαστικό Σώμα τον εαυτό του, αν ειναι αλωμένο από διορισμένους Δικαστες?

      Οι ευρωπαικοί θεσμοί αποφευγουν να αναγνωρίσουνε τα σώματα Ενόρκων ως το μονο Δημοκρατικό θεσμό που μπορεί να λύσει αυτό το κοττα-και-τ'αυγό παράδοξο προς την κατευθυνση της Δημοκρατίας. Υστατη πρόφασή των, οι Ανεξάρτητες Αρχές.

  4. Feb 2021
    1. Ries suspected Voulgarakis of the leak. Calling him “a less reliable ally,” Ries said Voulgarakis “has allowed rumors to circulate that the U.S. is behind [the] major eavesdropping case in Greece.”

      Ο Βουλγαρακης δεν τα'χε καλα με τους Αμερικανους.

    2. Minister of Public Order George Voulgarakis and several other officials finally held a televised press conference in February 2006.

      Ο Βουλγράκης ανελαβε την παρουσίαση του σκανδάλου στα ΜΜΕ.

    1. απαγορεύουμε σε μέλη τρομοκρατικών οργανώσεων, όπως ο κ. Κουφοντίνας, να χρησιμοποιούν τις πλατφόρμες μας, καθώς επίσης, αποκλείουμε δημοσιεύσεις που επιδοκιμάζουν ή υποστηρίζουν αυτά τα άτομα και τις ενέργειές τους κάθε φορά που λαμβάνουμε σχετική γνώση.

      Στην απάντησης της Fb δεν αναφέρεται καμία εξαίρεση για ιστορικούς, δικηγόρους, fair use, απλή φίμωση.

    1. A free cultural work (free content) is, according to the definition of Free Cultural Works, one that has no significant legal restriction on people's freedom to: use the content and benefit from using it, study the content and apply what is learned, make and distribute copies of the content, change and improve the content and distribute these derivative works.
    2. A free cultural work (free content) is, according to the definition of Free Cultural Works, one that has no significant legal restriction on people's freedom to:
    1. While Trailblazer offers you abstraction layers for all aspects of Ruby On Rails, it does not missionize you. Wherever you want, you may fall back to the "Rails Way" with fat models, monolithic controllers, global helpers, etc. This is not a bad thing, but allows you to step-wise introduce Trailblazer's encapsulation in your app without having to rewrite it.
    1. Ο μυθος του "χτισίματος του Πρύτανη", ξεκινησε το 2006 στην Ξανθη όταν ο πρυτανης Καραμπίνης τους ειχε μηνυσει, το γραφειο ηταν αδειο και οι δικαστες δικαιωσαν του φοιτητες. 1 χρονο αργοτερα τον επαυσε το πειθαρχικο για διαπλοκη.

    1. Ίσως όμως να μην περιμένατε την, για μια ακόμη φορά, εθνικά υπεύθυνη στάση του ΚΚΕ που αφού αφιέρωσε πάνω από 30 σελίδες σε τεύχος της Κομμουνιστικής Επιθεώρησης να αποδείξει ότι η "αυτοδιαχείριση" είναι κάτι κακό για τους εργάτες (δες εδώ)
    2. author: avanti_maestro

    1. The Rights Retention Strategy ignores long-standing academic freedoms

      It’s not entirely clear what is meant by this statement. This is incredibly inflammatory rhetoric for most academics who take academic freedom very seriously - for very good reasons. However, the academic has the freedom not to accept a grant if they fundamentally disagree with the funder’s desired approach to effective dissemination of the research they support. Furthermore, the rights retention strategy (RRS) is in place to give the authors more freedom of choice over what happens to the version of record (VoR). Because of the RRS, the author can submit to the most appropriate journal for the research regardless of whether it explicitly provides a compliant route to publication (assuming the journal takes the submission forwards) or whether or not the author can access funds to pay a publication charge (APC) in a hybrid subscription journal.

    1. Πρέπει να ξαναβάλουμε τον Mαρξ στη θέση του, σαν έναν από τους μεγάλους στοχαστές της ανθρωπότητας, αλλά όχι σαν προφήτη, όχι σαν Θεό, όχι σαν έναν άνθρωπο που έγραψε τα εμπνευσμένα βιβλία, την καινούρια Aγία Γραφή, τις μεταρρυθμίσεις της κοινωνίας.
    2. οι άνθρωποι θα εξακολουθούν να χρησιμοποιούν διάφορα επιχειρήματα, τα οποία ακούμε διαρκώς εδώ και μερικά χρόνια, ότι αν επιχειρήσει κανείς να αλλάξει αυτή τη φιλελεύθερη καπιταλιστική δημοκρατία, θα καταλήξει στο Γκουλάγκ, στη Σιβηρία κ.λπ.

      Castoriadis against the Gulags taboo used by Conservatives to claim TINA.

    3. Η επανάσταση δε σημαίνει χείμαρρους αίματος, την κατάληψη των Χειμερινών Ανακτόρων κοκ. Η επανάσταση σημαίνει τον ριζικό μετασχηματισμό των θεσμών της κοινωνίας.

      Typical Castoriadis about revolution & imaginaries.

    1. Πρώτον, οι κυβερνήσεις πρέπει να καταργήσουν όλους τους κανόνες και τις ρυθμίσεις που εμποδίζουν τη συσσώρευση κέρδους, το οποίο θα πρέπει να είναι αφορολόγητο. Δεύτερον, οφείλουν να πουλήσουν όλη τη δημόσια περιουσία σε ιδιωτικές εταιρείες και τα κέρδη, αντί να πηγαίνουν στο κράτος και να τα ξαναεπενδύει στην κοινωνία (δημόσια έργα, παιδεία, υγεία, κ.λπ.), να δίνονται όλα στους ιδιώτες. Τρίτον, κατάργηση του κράτους πρόνοιας και περικοπή όλων των κοινωνικών δαπανών. Αυτά συνοδεύονται με ένα πλήθος λεπτομερειών: ιδιωτικοποίηση ιατροφαρμακευτικής περίθαλψης, ταχυδρομείων, παιδείας, συγκοινωνιών, λιμανιών, δασών κ.λπ. Ακόμα και πάρκων. Επιπλέον η εργασία δεν θα έχει καμία προστασία και δεν θα υπάρχει κατώτερος μισθός

      Σύνοψη του νεοφιλελεύθερου μοντέλο σε 3 βήματα, με τα λόγια του Κοροβέση.

    2. Π.χ. στην έκκληση της Χαϊδελβέργης, που υπέγραψαν 264 επιστήμονες, με αφορμή τη Συνδιάσκεψη για το περιβάλλον στο Ρίο ντε Ζανέιρο το 1993, υπήρχαν ανάμεσά τους και 59 νομπελίστες που απέρριπταν την οικολογία σαν μια «άλογη ιδεολογία που αντιτίθεται στην επιστημονική και βιομηχανική πρόοδο»
  5. Jan 2021
    1. It appears that Canonical is continuing it's vice grip of unliateral, maybe dictatorial control on the development of Snap to the benefit of Ubuntu, but to the detriment of groups like Linuxmint, and all other non-Ubuntu based Linux distributions - like CentOS/Redhat, Suse/openSuSe, Solus, Arch/Manjaro, PCLinuxOS, etc, that are pushing Flatpak as a truly cross-distro application solution that works equally well and non-problematic for all. .
    1. Init Freedom is about restoring a sane approach to PID1 that respects portability, diversity and freedom of choice.
  6. Nov 2020
    1. Portable... your .name address works with any email or web service. With our automatic forwarding service on third level domains, you can change email accounts, your ISP, or your job without changing your email address. Any mail sent to your .name address arrives in any email box you choose.
  7. Oct 2020
    1. And though flags from this software don’t automatically mean students will be penalized—instructors can review the software’s suspicions and decide for themselves how to proceed—it leaves open the possibility that instructors’ own biases will determine whether to bring academic dishonesty charges against students. Even just an accusation could negatively affect a student’s academic record, or at the very least how their instructor perceives them and their subsequent work.

      The companies are hiding behind this as a feature - that the algorithms are not supposed to be implemented without human review. I wonder how this "feature" will interact with implicit (and explicit) biases, or with the power dynamics between adjuncts, students, and departmental administration.

      The companies are caught between a rock and a hard place in the decision whether students should be informed that their attempt was flagged for review, or not. We see that, if the student is informed, it causes stress and pain and damage to the teacher-student relationship. But if they're not informed, all these issues of bias and power become invisible.

    1. To silence circular dependencies warnings for let's say moment library use: // rollup.config.js import path from 'path' const onwarn = warning => { // Silence circular dependency warning for moment package if ( warning.code === 'CIRCULAR_DEPENDENCY' && !warning.importer.indexOf(path.normalize('node_modules/moment/src/lib/')) ) { return } console.warn(`(!) ${warning.message}`) }
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    1. Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett), the first enslaved African American to sue for her freedom in the courts based on the law of the 1780 constitution of the state of Massachusetts, which held that "all men are born free and equal." The Jury agreed and in 1781 she won her freedom. Her lawyer had been Theodore Sedgwick.
    1. Half-freedom," as this sys- tem came to be called,

      I cannot stress how much this pisses me off. They gave black people "half freedom." That's how vicious and cruel slave owners were. They couldn't even fathom giving them full freedom.

  8. Sep 2020
    1. Les dividendes sont concernés par le prélèvement forfaitaire unique, ou PFU, de 30%.

      .qa what is the tax to pay for dividends? 30% flat

    1. How to Export Your Content If you log into Graphite before August 15th, you can download each file in any of the available formats offered. If you'd like a bulk download, I recommend (for the technically inclined) using the exporter tool I created. For those less technically inclined, Blockstack may have some options for you. Remember, Graphite never owned your content. Never had control of your content. And that was the real power of its offering. 
    1. Consider this, you that are here present, that yet remain in an unregenerate state. That God will execute the fierceness of his anger, implies that he will inflict wrath without any pity… you will be a vessel of wrath fitted to destruction; and there will be no other use of this vessel but only to be filled full of wrath: God will be so far from pitying you when you cry to him, that ’tis said he will only laugh and mock (Proverbs 1:25-32)…

      This is a very I stress very condensed version of these verses in Proverbs. I grew up Southern Baptist, My granddaddy was a preacher in NC, for 75 years. So I know all about church on Wednesday AND Sunday and whatever other day seemed fitting. I myself broke away from that and creating my own religious freedom by becoming Lutheran.. If you know anything about Lutherans they are pretty closely inlined with Catholicism. So Granddaddy was NOT happy. And I myself may or may not have received a scare tactic sermon... But let me finish proverbs for you the next verse or two from this if you will. After consulting all 3 of my bibles, yes all three different versions; the famous KJV, the NIV, and the NASB, it clearly states: Proverbs 1;33 "But whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm". Imagine if he would have finished his sermon with these words.

      I imagine this made life even harder on them economically; being afraid to trade and do business with neighbors who may not be living up to the preacher's standards. Think about all of the trade relationships that may have been severed.

  9. Aug 2020
    1. In such a manner, then, the three universal institutions instantiate the three temporal ecstasies which, properly speaking, define humanity’s abode on the earth. Religion, matrimony, and burial of the dead embody the linear openness of time. Religion is born of the idea of providence. It implies an awareness of the future. Burial of the dead is grounded in reverence for the past, for the ancestral, in short for what we call tradition. Tradition comes to us from the domain of the dead. Both religion and burial, in turn, serve to consolidate the contract of matrimony, which mantains the genealogical line in the present.

      Contextualize: This passage is about the beginnings of Humanism and the forest as a subject or element that caused the appearance of what we know as civilization. The scene takes place in the West, in a landscape abundant with forests in all directions, in which the people who inhabited it were lonely, without parents, or responsibilities, nothing. They lived a life without rules or restrictions, what the author describes as "bestial freedom." They visualized the space in a horizontal sense, because the density of the forests did not let them see more. The forest respresented the unknown.

      As everything in nature is part of a cycle, forests dry up and between darkness, light passes through and creating the idea that there is something else than the forest, that's when the giants become aware of the sky and visualize the space vertically. Thus was born the first act of human enlightenment: forest clearing and the appropiation of it for the creation of the three human institutions: religion, matrimony and buried of the dead. The forest becomes the obstacle and threat to the progress of the human being.

  10. Jul 2020
    1. Defamation law walks a fine line between the right to freedom of speech and the right of a person to avoid defamation. On one hand, a reasonable person should have free speech to talk about their experiences in a truthful manner without fear of a lawsuit if they say something mean, but true, about someone else. On the other hand, people have a right to not have false statements made that will damage their reputation.
  11. Jun 2020
    1. Antislavery discussions were disallowed in drawing up what t he writers were pegging as humankind’s ultimate constitution of freedom.
    1. Such is the security of this architecture, that it has prompted law enforcement agencies around the world to complain that they now cannot access a user’s messages, even with a warrant. There is no backdoor—the only option is to compromise one of the endpoints and access messages in their decrypted state.
  12. May 2020
    1. It should be every elected official’s goal to help find ways to free employers from dictatorial rules that hinder their growth. ObamaCare does the opposite, and that’s why the self-insurance option needs to be preserved.
    1. Now personal data exports include users session information and users location data from the community events widget. Plus, a table of contents!See progress as you process export and erasure requests through the privacy tools.
    1. They collect very little data so their "export" feature is very simplistic: just an in-browser JSON dump of localStorage and cookies.

      Browser Data

      We use data on your browser to offer features on this website. We do not store this data, but we can offer a view of your browser data at any time.

      View Browser Data

    1. The right to data portability Under certain conditions, users have the right to obtain (in a machine-readable format) and use their personal data for their own purposes.
    2. Users have the right to access to their personal data and information about how their personal data is being processed.
    1. The other pressing issue is that users have lost the right to run private extensions in the release version of Firefox, without needing to hand over their source code to Mozilla.
    2. What I don't like is how they've killed so many useful extensions without any sane method of overriding their decisions.
    3. I know, you don't trust Mozilla but do you also not trust the developer? I absolutely do! That is the whole point of this discussion. Mozilla doesn't trust S3.Translator or jeremiahlee but I do. They blocked page-translator for pedantic reasons. Which is why I want the option to override their decision to specifically install few extensions that I'm okay with.
    4. In general, developers are free to maintain their add-ons in the manner they choose. Is that generally pro- or generally anti-freedom?
    5. honestly it looks a lot more like typical tech company anti-freedomism
    6. What's terrible and dangerous is a faceless organization deciding to arbitrarily and silently control what I can and can not do with my browser on my computer. Orwell is screaming in his grave right now. This is no different than Mozilla deciding I don't get to visit Tulsi Gabbard's webpage because they don't like her politics, or I don't get to order car parts off amazon because they don't like hyundai, or I don't get to download mods for minecraft, or talk to certain people on facebook.
    7. They don't have to host the extension on their website, but it's absolutely and utterly unacceptable for them to interfere with me choosing to come to github and install it.
    8. It's no less beyond the pale than when apple actively sabotaged people's devices to force them to upgrade or amazon deleted people's already bought and downloaded ebooks. It's completely unacceptable and frankly should fall under consumer rights laws.
    9. I appreciate the vigilance, but it would be even better to actually publish a technical reasoning for why do you folks believe Firefox is above the device owner, and the root user, and why there should be no possibility through any means and configuration protections to enable users to run their own code in the release version of Firefox.
    10. We must consider introducing sensible default options in Firefox, while also educating users and allowing them to override certain features, instead of placing marginal security benefits above user liberties and free choice.
  13. Apr 2020
    1. At Brown’s sentencing, Judge Lindsay was quoted as saying “What took place is not going to chill any 1st Amendment expression by Journalists.” But he was so wrong. Brown’s arrest and prosecution had a substantial chilling effect on journalism. Some journalists have simply stopped reporting on hacks from fear of retribution and others who still do are forced to employ extraordinary measures to protect themselves from prosecution.
    2. This principle equally applies to the laws of our country; we should never violate basic rights even if the consequences aren’t immediately evident.
    1. data liberation is best provided through APIs, and data portability is best provided by building code using those APIs to perform cloud-to-cloud migration
    2. The data liberation effort focuses specifically on data that could hinder users from switching to another service or competing product—that is, data that users create in or import into Google products
    3. At Google, our attitude has always been that users should be able to control the data they store in any of our products, and that means that they should be able to get their data out of any product. Period. There should be no additional monetary cost to do so, and perhaps most importantly, the amount of effort required to get the data out should be constant, regardless of the amount of data. Individually downloading a dozen photos is no big inconvenience, but what if a user had to download 5,000 photos, one at a time, to get them out of an application? That could take weeks of their time.
    4. Want to keep your users? Just make it easy for them to leave.
    1. The second way we avoid locking you into 1Password is through the ability to export data to a more neutral format. Not all versions are yet where we want them to be with respect to export, and we’re working on that. But there is usually some path, if not always a simple click away, to export your 1Password data.
  14. Mar 2020
    1. Users have the right to obtain (in a machine readable format) their personal data for the purpose of transferring it from one controller to another, without being prevented from doing so by the data processor.
    2. Users have the right to access their personal data and information about how their personal data is being processed. If the user requests it, data controllers must provide an overview of the categories of data being processed, a copy of the actual data and details about the processing. The details should include the purpose, how the data was acquired and with whom it was shared.
    3. The Right to access is closely linked to the Right to data portability, but these two rights are not the same.
    1. The iPhone restricts users to operate inside a sandbox. But when you buy an iPhone, you own the iPhone hardware. Android for the iPhone gives you the freedom to run a different operating system on that hardware.
    1. users “should be able to use [the iPhone] hardware the way they want” rather than dealing with sandboxes that “create limits and boundaries” on the devices that they own
    1. This is another total nonsense decision from incompetent law makers. Why not make website owners keep their online businesses online by force, even if they stop making money, just for the sake of "free information"?
    1. While Americans tend to prioritize individual liberty, Europeans are more inclined to value the role of the state. Americans are generally more tolerant of offensive speech than Europeans. That has translated to a greater impetus to regulate tech in Europe.
  15. Feb 2020
    1. they can always opt to not attend, or during a video call they can work on other things if they want
  16. Jan 2020
    1. Now, Google has to change its practices and prompt users to choose their own default search engine when setting up a European Android device that has the Google Search app built in. Not all countries will have the same options, however, as the choices included in Google’s new prompt all went to the highest bidders.As it turns out, DuckDuckGo must have bid more aggressively than other Google competitors, as it’s being offered as a choice across all countries in the EU.
  17. Dec 2019
  18. Nov 2019
    1. Chained to the wheel of progress uncontrolled;

      Does a deeper understanding of the incarnation in Christ provide for a boundary that provides control?

  19. Oct 2019
  20. Aug 2019
    1. he nation money by reducing administrative costs, eliminating the administrative expenses of marketing and advertising private health insurance,

      So will this make a money cheap in different countries like Mexico

    2. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., with his “Medicare for All” legislation—suggest Americans would enjoy a health care utopia if only the government took over.

      I feel there will be to much regulation to go through

    3. much lower in a Medicare-like system than under a system dominated by private insurance.

      That is based on what there income looks like

  21. May 2019
  22. Apr 2019
    1. While the predominant value of existentialist thought is commonly acknowledged to be freedom, its primary virtue is authenticity.[6] In the view of the existentialist, the individual's starting point is characterized by what has been called "the existential attitude", or a sense of disorientation, confusion, or dread in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world.[7] Many existentialists have also regarded traditional systematic or academic philosophies, in both style and content, as too abstract and remote from concrete human experience.[8][9]
  23. Feb 2019
    1. Is the freedom of the individual served by neoliberalism? Centrality of the state for this freedom, which NL denies. “neoliberal thinkers deliberately sustain the fiction that ‘the market economy’ is a natural and spontaneous order that must be placed beyond politics … The question of how authority can be something other than domination and private power shaped the ideas and action of those who built the tradition of constitutional democracy in western societies from the 16th to the 20th centuries … basic needs were those that had to be met before the individual could practically enact the status of a free subject or person. It was such needs provision that made it possible for individuals to be both personally secure and to enjoy an equality of opportunity to develop as individuals free to discover their talents and gifts … the representation of market society as a spontaneous order is pitched to the punters while, within the tent of the doctrine’s initiates, it is fully understood that the state has to be both a strong state, and to be re-engineered in order to impose neoliberal institutional design.” YeatmanFreedom.pdf
  24. Jan 2019
    1. "The art of never finally answering that question."

      Ah, but isn't there a beautiful freedom that comes with not having to fit into any certain box? I don't want to be cliche here, but it gives the whole idea of rhetoric a whimsical feel. What it needs to be and do are situational.

  25. Dec 2018
    1. 2:16

      Well, here I am on YouTube, watching a Hypothes.is video and commenting using it. I'm annotating YouTube, which is pretty open in terms of what people can say in the comments, and almost universally derided as being where the dregs come to say whatever they want, bringing civil discourse along for the ride.

      I believe in freedom of speech and eliminating censorship, but what is it about this new platform that will prevent the problems of the old? Here we are, at the intersection.

    1. they lose more girls because of personal academic strengths,” Geary said. “In more liberal and wealthy countries, personal preferences are more strongly expressed.

      Because girls aren't being forced to do science there are less of them in scientific fields... glad I get to choose my career path!

    1. a loss of personal freedom

      Personal freedom is quite a misconstrued concept. People miss the fact that vaccinations are not as personal as they seem to be. Vaccinations have a significant effect on the population through herd immunity.

      Can someone clarify in general, what the hell is personal freedom?

  26. Nov 2018
    1. Freedom of intramural expression means that teaching personnel is not only allowed to teach according to their knowledge, but that they can take part in the administration of their institutions. This is supported by the freedom of extramural expression, which gives teachers the capacity to share their research outcomes and disseminate the knowledge acquired.

      participation in activities to share research outcomes.

    1. They can spew hate amongst themselves for eternity, but without amplification it won’t thrive.

      This is a key point. Social media and the way it amplifies almost anything for the benefit of clicks towards advertising is one of its most toxic features. Too often the extreme voice draws the most attention instead of being moderated down by more civil and moderate society.

  27. Oct 2018
    1. To interpret bell hook’s definition of “freedom” is to acknowledge that education in its current form advantages or disadvantages people to different degrees. Consider Kimberlé Crenshaw’s definition of intersectionality as a weight or influence originating from systems of power that affect individuals with varying degrees of pressure. From the perspective of intersectionality, schools, curriculum and pedagogy are bound to the same systemic forces that perpetuate systemic inequality. hooks and Friere’s understanding of freedom is an unparalleled level of disruption; it demands a de-centering of the standard narrative within society and education. Despite the best intentions of schools and individual praxis, without an acknowledged and proactive deconstruction of power structures, education cannot deflate the pressure of an oppressive system. “Education as the practice of freedom” demands that self-actualized educators open and centre the conversation and the cannon around marginalised voices and their narratives.
  28. Sep 2018
    1. "The ideas of the First Amendment are not designed to deal with what it took to make the materials [of pornography.]" [5:56-5:59]

    2. "The 'freely choosing women'... As if you've raised a freely choosing black person [who decides to 'freely choose'] to clean toilets. That's the equivalent. You call that freedom. It's called freedom when women choose to do it and it's sex because people believe that sex is free. However, pornography is selling yourself for sex. The idea of money is supposed to make it free. Usually, when people have sex with another person and choose to do it, they're not being paid, it's free because you're not being paid. In other words, this is an arm of prostitution." [NOT VERBATIM] [3:53-4:31]

  29. Aug 2018
    1. Und hier werden Eltern die Kinder weggenommen und sie bekommen gar nichts? Nicht einmal einen Zettel?«

      how can this be possible and legal in a western democracy? how bad are we allowing our world of men to still become?

  30. Jul 2018
  31. Jun 2018
    1. An FOI request involves a written query for records, a submission fee

      I disgaree to the idea of associated fees for requesting government information because this can be a potential barrier to the freedom of information ideology. I think everyone should enjoy this freedom regardless of their economic status.

  32. Apr 2018
    1. Nay if we may openly speak the Truth and as becomes one Man to another; neither Pagan, nor Mahumetan, [59] nor Jew, ought to be excluded from the Civil Rights of the Commonwealth, because of his Religion.158

      I was taken by just how clearly Locke, in the 17th century, speaks in support of religious diversity and a separation between church and state (I highlighted many remarks and passages in this work). This will be a powerful document to allow students to read in conjunction with the first amendment.

  33. Jan 2018
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    1. t]here is one Internet, which should remain open for consumers and innovators alike, although it maybe accessed through different technologies and services.

      Internet should remain open to everyone.

    2. There is more that I would have liked in this Order. Iwould have preferred a general ban to discourage broadband providers fromengaging in “payfor priority”—prioritizing the traffic of those with deep pockets while consigning the rest of us to a slower, second-class Internet.

      Where should the FCC draw the line between protecting rights and controlling every aspect of the internet?

    3. turning point in the struggle to ensure the continued openness of the Internet against powerful gatekeeper control.

      Net Neutrality established to keep internet open and safe from monopoly.

  35. doc-0g-c0-docs.googleusercontent.com doc-0g-c0-docs.googleusercontent.com
    1. the FCC’s 2015 heavy-handed utility-style regulation of broadband Internet access service, which imposed substantial costs on the entire Internet ecosystem.

      All internet users were being either overcharged or undercharged for the amount of internet that they were making use of.

    2. The Federal Communications Commission today voted to restore the longstanding, bipartisan light-touch regulatory framework that has fostered rapid Internet growth, openness, and freedom for nearly 20 years.

      This is the main point of the article which explains how the FCC is changing the jurisdiction of internet usage and consumerism.

  36. Nov 2017
    1. individual action shall leave us free to do whatever does not violate the equal rights of another.

      In this annotation, though I understand there is a contradictory aspect of this statement, (given UVa's history of gender and racial exclusion) that’s not where I’d like to focus. Rather, I ask, existentially, are there harms to societal freedom? Currently, our society values the idea of being an individual more and more. According to the famous sociologist Peter L. Berger, modern society's concept of dignity is reliant on an individual emancipating himself from certain societal rules. Our society's thirst for uniqueness can be seen as harmful. Later in the report, Jefferson writes about how molding individuals into habits of reflection will “render them examples of virtue to others & of happiness within themselves.” But, now I ask, is our modern day search for “dignity” getting in the way of what other’s consider virtuous? Increasingly people feel loneliness and estrangement from themselves and society. Can there be too much freedom?

    2. instil into them the precepts of virtue & order.

      I selected this excerpt because it is rare for an institution to prioritize the successful instillment of virtue & order. UVa's student led honor system, similar to the precepts of virtue and order, is a malleable form of governance that changes over time. Other institutions have cheating policies and varieties of regulations, but UVa's untaught loyalty to honor creates a sense of trust that is unmatched. Precepts are normally societal rules that regulate behaviors and thoughts; however, though it is similar, our UVa community determines our precepts. This power instills students with dignity, which leads to internal acceptance of our society's virtues; rather than the confinement experienced by other individuals who aren't granted governance.

    1. Perhaps a future with great user experience in AR, VR, hands-free commerce and knowledge sharing could evoke an optimistic perspective for what these tech giants are building. But 25 years of the Web has gotten us used to foundational freedoms that we take for granted. We forget how useful it has been to remain anonymous and control what we share, or how easy it was to start an internet startup with its own independent servers operating with the same rights GOOG servers have. On the Trinet, if you are permanently banned from GOOG or FB, you would have no alternative.
  37. Sep 2017
    1. the benefits & blessings of which the legislature now propose to provide for the good

      The authors of the Rockfish Gap Report affirm that religious worship is not conducive to a truly liberal arts education, going so far as to propose "no professor of Divinity." Yet religious language is smatter throughout the document (such as "blessings," "faithfulness," and "religious worship.") In the Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom which Thomas Jefferson also drafted, it is written,"all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities." In this way, the assertions of both texts are consistent, but the biases of the authors are apparent in their use of religious language. This demonstrates that a collective view of what a society should be is not necessarily reflected in individual beliefs.

    1. Even if government may (and perhaps must) monitor and regulate the way that drugs or TMS devices affect our health and safety, there may be aspects of the way we use such cognitive enhancement tools that should be reserved by the Constitution (or perhaps through other means) solely for free and unrestricted individual choice.

      Except mind altering drugs often affect more than the individual themselves. Autonomy out to give way, in instances like these, to the greater public good/safety. Our choices always affect more than just ourselves.

    2. Thus, the Court has drawn on the Constitution—and specifically its “due process” requirements and the safeguards they raise against arbitrary restrictions on bodily freedom—to assure that government does not impose such treatment on prisoners or mental patients without powerful reasons.

      This is false. For instance, there are countless documented cases in which the state has forcibly sterilized prisoners or used unwilling sterilization as a means of obtaining early parole for segments of the population deemed lesser (i.e., women of color, poor people, etc.)

    3. Indeed, as noted earlier, one well-known thought-enhancement technology is written language itself and perhaps use of language more generally. As Levy writes, “speech does not merely allow us to articulate thoughts that we would have had in any case. Instead, it allows us to externalize our thoughts and thereby treat them as objects for contemplation and manipulation. Externalized thoughts can be worked over, criticized, and improved.”21:38-39

      This is an interesting concept, particularly with regards to writing, because many people, myself included, think as they write. I often times do not even really know what I think about a topic until I start writing about it. Essays, for example, are usually difficult to start, but I end up figuring out what my argument is by the end because the process of writing itself has allowed me to think through the subject in a way normal biological cognition would not normally allow me to.

  38. May 2017
  39. Mar 2017
    1. before they stuck a concrete university here.

      boxes natural movement learning freedom

    2. I was loving teaching as never before. I was experiencing less and less frustration doing what I loved.

      Identity Self-directed learning. Emotion