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Something about this makes me wonder how Richard Stallman is doing these days.
by ftxbro 4y ago
Something about this makes me wonder how Richard Stallman is doing these days.
- Gigachad 4y agoObviously this is just a coincidence but it is amusing that he has been pretty much removed from public view right around the time most of the stuff he warned about finally came true. He has been ranting on about ebooks since they were invented. But it took over a decade for the “technically they could do this” to become “they are doing this”
- RobotToaster 4y ago>Obviously this is just a coincidence Are you sure about that? Given the concerted smear campaign against him?
- snerbles 4y agoPretty sure parent comment was being sarcastic.
- op00to 4y agoStating Epstein rape victim was 'Entirely Willing' is horrible and disgusting. Calling it a ‘smear campaign’ is dishonest.
- RobotToaster 4y agoIt would be, if he ever said that, but it's a lie. What he said was "the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates." He has also stated that Epstein should be considered a serial rapist.
- cauch 4y agoThat sounds like Boris Johnson's defense (about the partygate) "yes, the investigation shown that people were hugging and partying right in front of my eyes, but you have no proof that my brain recorded these information, so you have no proof I've lied when I've said I did not notice". Presenting herself as entirely willing does not mean that suddenly the person who is "consuming" is not participating to a sexual assault when this person is conveniently closing a blind eye on either or not she has been coerced: Epstein already had a bad reputation and was a registered sex offended at the time, including for coercing minor to have sex. It is just bs to play coy and say "weeeell, maybe he did not know", and just show the person saying that is going out of their way in semantic to reshape the discourse into victim blaming.
- jay_kyburz 4y agoMy ebooks are doing just fine on my hard disk DRM free. Don't blame the technology. My next reader will be a Kobo, but my Kindle that is not connected to the internet is still going strong.
- Gigachad 4y agoStallman was always in support of drm free ebooks. The problem is that virtually all consumers are using drm restricted books.
- geodel 4y agoNot much better I'd guess. Last time he was news when woke crowd was really after his blood.
- flangola7 4y agoI still have yet to hear a coherent and succinct definition of "woke."
- stkdump 4y agoIt's a smear word for 'people that care about people'
- peanutcrisis 4y agoFrom the perspective of someone left-leaning, it’s an illiberal faction of the left that has very specific beliefs about race, gender, and sexuality that not everyone agrees on, and an extreme but unsubstantiated set of explanations for them and how to resolve them. They’re very good at baiting and switching too, using language that we agree to be good and can get behind, but don’t mean what we think it means. Because of this sophistry, it’s easy for them to denounce their opponents as morally bad people for rejecting their views, when their views weren’t the good things we thought it meant in the first place. This moving of goal posts is precisely what you’re doing right now. Someone who explains the same thing better than I do: https://helenpluckrose.substack.com/p/defining-woke-and-wokeness https://helenpluckrose.substack.com/p/defining-woke-and-woke...
- krapp 4y agoHacker News hasn't burned down recently so I assume he's doing fine.
- op00to 4y agoStill eating toe jam and believing raping children is ok.