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by aestetix 9y ago
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.
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Noisebridge will close without your help(noisebridge.net)
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What I read about the current climate in the US reminds me a lot of how things were in the months after 9/11. While I don't have unbiased data like in the link, I can share a personal anecdote: In the months after 9/11, if yo
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> You think women have one "application" and men have another. I disagree. We have what application we choose, that's real freedom. I wasn't actually referring to sex here, I was using this to explain why everyone is
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>"Your observation that "humans aren't all the same" is orthogonal to the ideal that humans should be treated equally despite their physical characteristics which are outside of their control. I cannot control what ge
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by aestetix 9y ago
I think getting arrested is only one way in which these consequences can occur. Remember, government is at least in theory a formalized reflection of social arrangements. Think more about what it was like during McCarthyism. If you were acc
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I disagree with pretty much everything in this post. I think what is reasonable to say is that while we are all created equal in the sense that we are human, that's far as as natural equality extends. Some of us are taller, shorter, we
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I was more using that as an example to separate speech from the person saying it. In terms of speech that offends, we can only control what we say, not what people think about it, nor whether their thought is reasonable. Therefore, punishin
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"A major fault in @sama's essay is a false dichotomy: that we must choose between some sad world of uncontested ideas (even if they have major faults e.g hurting marginalized groups in society a la "gay people are evil"
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That's not entirely true. What if you get misquoted in a newspaper? By the time the newspaper prints the correction, the damage has already been done.
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Two more essays on this topic are "Repressive Tolerance" by Herbert Marcuse ( http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/60spubs/65repressivetole... ) and John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" ( htt
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'First, the rhetoric of some of the most wealthy & powerful people in the history of the world being "unable to say" things is ridiculous.' I read this first line and already knew I disagreed with this essay. Speech
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I think a better solution is to have some core principles that Youtube's censorship team abides by. If the video in question doesn't violate all the principles (or X number of them), then it remains up. Of course that is difficult
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I think this is spot on. I probably won't read Wilson's translation -- I recently read Fagles', and am not keen to re-read for sake of a new translation, although might be interested in a comparison of translation differences
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While the list of books is fantastic (I've read many of them) I'm skeptical of reading them all within a year while not having that be the primary focus of your life. How did you read them? Did you just speed read them all? Some o
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I've read all Caro's work. I greatly enjoyed them all, although the last book felt like it lost its way about halfway through. Hopefully volume five will be back on track.
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by aestetix 9y ago
I read it a few years ago, but I must second _Master of the Senate_. Probably the best book on American politics I have ever read.
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Twitter to monitor you 'on and off the platform' post Dec 18(tweaktown.com)
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The Google Bus Lottery(medium.com)
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Twitter's new guidelines for verified status(twitter.com)
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by aestetix 9y ago
Confirmed all three work. This issue is absolutely awesome.
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Twitter employee on last day of job deactivated Trump’s account(washingtonpost.com)
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by aestetix 9y ago
Is there data on that? I've heard this theory before but never seen any evidence to back it up.
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The DUHK Attack (Don't Use Hardcoded Keys)(duhkattack.com)
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Robert Scoble resigns from Transformation Group over sexual assault allegations(facebook.com)
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“The Great War” channel hit by YouTube's demonetizing algorithm(youtube.com)
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When Ello first arrived, I saw it as a very welcome competitor to Twitter/Facebook, and was using it. The questions of "how will Ello make enough money to survive?" came up. I was one of the vocal supporters of a paid account
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Ex-Google Engineer Hires Lawyer Shortlisted as Trump Nominee(bloomberg.com)
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OpenNIC(opennic.org)
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Startups Anonymous(startupsanonymous.com)
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