Even if it’s impossible for you actually to quit … How often to you think to yourself, “That’s it. I’m done with the Internet”? Absolutely never. What a ridiculous idea! Never, but I understand the temptation. Rarely. Maybe once a month. Once a week — or more. At least once a day. Other Please Specify: Created with QuizMaker As always, feel free to elaborate, vent, rant, question my (or your) sanity, etc. in comments.
Category: Privacy and self ownership
Owning our own information and telling Big Brother to get lost
You’ve seen two parts of Kit’s piece on Strategic Relocation, and the first part of my “staying put” counterpoint. I don’t know whether Kit has more to post, but here’s my second and final part. Kit’s arguments are more dynamic, as you’d expect from the “go” rather than “stay put” viewpoint. But together I hope we both offer food for thought. We originally wrote these for people less advanced in the ways of freedom than most readers of this blog, so if you like them you might want to send the links to young upcoming freedom seekers or people you…
Yesterday at the American Partisan blog, Kit Perez posted a piece on strategic relocation. She promises more on that topic. I know she’s already got more because what she posted was part of a book she and I explored writing on personal freedom. We put together a chapter. Then, despite getting positive feedback from a couple of reality checkers, we decided not to pursue the project for now. The conceit of the book was that we would write point-counterpoint. For instance, in the chapter on location, she’d write on the advantages, problems, and strategies of moving, and I’d write on…
Laddie and friends have arrived at Joel’s Gulch. Nothing but the bare notice so far, since it was late when they got there. But all who made it happen can be proud of themselves. I’m sure we’ll be hearing fun updates soon. —– Good news is most welcome in a summer that’s had too much of the other kind. The week MamaLiberty died, I learned a local acquaintance had also departed the world. S was in his early 60s when he died of cancer. I never knew S well, but I’d known him for decades and done business with him.…
Yesterday was pleasant and relaxing. But there was this one startling moment. We were about to get out of the car at one of our stops when Furrydoc’s smartphone suddenly screeched with a voice crying, “Alexa, play _____” (with the blank part being a particular streaming song list from Amazon). The voice belonged to one of Furrydoc’s office staffers, and she recalled the moment the previous day they were all trying in vain to get Alexa to deliver them a little Jimmy Buffett for their Friday afternoon wind-down. I think merely talking to Alexa is creepy enough. Furrydoc — having…
Last spring I sat down to create a third edition of The Freedom Outlaws Handbook. I knew major updates would be needed, particularly in the areas of freedom technology and privacy. Eleven years had passed. Tech changes. Ventures fail. Laws tighten. Rarely, laws loosen (but it does happen). I was prepared for that. I wasn’t prepared for devastation. But devastation confronted me as I attempted to revise item after item. Mere rewrites were futile. Mere replacements didn’t exist. Site after site, option after option had disappeared. Sometimes they’d merely disappeared, broke, obsolete, unable to deliver on their promises, or neglected…