- Kit Perez continues her series on the death of critical thinking in the freedom movement: Part III and Part IV.
- Patent trolls have lost some of their malign power recently. Will the Supreme Court restore it? (This looks like one of those no-win situations from a freedomista perspective.)
- Staggering variety of clandestine trackers found in Google Android apps. Expect similar violations in the iPhone versions of these and other apps.
- Commander Zero reminisces on the modern history of survivalism.
- Are your kids (or you) ready for a modest Muslim Barbie this Christmas?
- Get ready for more of this self-righteous madness: the case for Hillary Clinton in 2020.
- Legal satire: court admits expert testimony on the helpfulness of water-dunking as a means of discerning truth.
- No dogs, no cats, no cute furry things. Just funny tweets for and by parents of small children.
Oh, the parent twitters had me hysterical for a while. I raised two boys… and we all survived!
One of the things I remember from that time is the onset of sheer terror… when I couldn’t hear anything from the boys, and I knew they were not asleep. They once had matching Tshirts that said: US Wrecking Team. And it was true. 🙂
Well, if you liked that, ML, you’ll probably like this: Corgi butts!
http://cheezburger.com/4076293/15-adorable-corgi-booties-that-will-get-you-through-the-day
Before heroes like Chelsea Manning or Edward Snowden there was John and Bonnie Raines (among others.
R.I.P Dr. Raines you did good
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/obituaries/john-raines-84-who-evaded-capture-in-an-fbi-break-in-dies.html
That, in a nutshell, is the state of privacy for the vast majority of people. That and most are happy with the tradeoffs. Of course, ignorance comes into play as well. On top of that, I’m sure there are many who are simply tired of the constant effort required to safeguard privacy. Among my friends, I can think of only one who doesn’t have a mobile phone of any sort.
Myself — Totally agreed. I didn’t know Raines had died. But all those “thieves” were heroes not only for what they did but for the fact that they managed to keep their mouths shut about it even as they got the word out to journalists.
The documentary 1971 in which most of them finally decided to go public is excellent and I highly recommend it.
Thanks, Claire, for the link to corgi butts. LOL Laddie has a tiny stump, so he wags the whole back end while he jumps around. I call that his “corgi dance.”
I found this to be a pretty good summary of rationality in the light of modern discoveries of how the human brain and mind actually work. It might require a little more mathematics than the average person can appreciate but I cannot judge that very well.
https://www.amazon.com/Rationality-AI-Zombies-Eliezer-Yudkowsky-ebook/dp/B00ULP6EW2/
It is also available online at no additional cost beyond your time and determination.
https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences
In fact, the LessWrong WIKI sequences are good places to gain some insight into how rationality and ethics work — and why they work.