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The Cement of Society Is...
... submission to the laws of society (George Berkeley, 1712): "And since the bond and cement of society is submission to its laws, it plai...
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How to Escape from Immoral Mazes
Previously in sequence and most on point: What is Success in an Immoral Maze?, How to Identify an Immoral Maze This post deals with the goal of avoiding or escaping being trapped in an immoral maze…
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The election of the doge
The ruler of Medieval Venice was chosen by an exceptionally complex ten-step process of alternating random lots and elections.
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I was emailed after abandoning a registration form. I did not click Submit
We had a baby recently and my wife and I were online shopping for breast pumps. Our health insurance...
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Body found in Canada identified as neo-nazi spam king
The body of a man found shot inside a burned out vehicle in Canada three years ago has been identified as that of Davis Wolfgang Hawke , a prolific spammer and neo-Nazi who led a failed anti-government march on Washington, D.C. in 1999, according to news reports.
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A False Economy Powered by Ads and Lies
Tech companies like Facebook, Amazon and Alphabet continue to post record profits despite a slew of controversies and bad press.
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Repairability
My Macbook Pro I have a Macbook pro retina 15 inch, that I bought in 2016. A few days back, the battery started bulking up and the laptop ha...
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Covid and Cascading Collapses
I’ve been looking at this chart a lot over the past few weeks.
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CIA Document from WikiLeaks Sheds Critical Light on U.S. Politics and Wars
The Agency knew that their best asset for selling their wars was Barack Obama -- the same reason so many in the security state were eager to get rid of Donald Trump.
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“I took FSFE to court. This is my story”
er the first lockdown in Berlin this year I filed a public case in the Berlin Tribunal of Labour Court against the president of Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), Matthias Kirschner, for workplace...
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As a former social media analyst, I'm quitting Twitter
Yet Another Quitting Twitter Story
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The Fraying of the US Global Currency Reserve System
Published December 2, 2020 Since autumn of 2019, I’ve been bearish on the dollar, meaning I have a longish-term outlook towards a weaker dollar. This view began forming when the Federal Reserve cut interest rates in summer 2019, and then the view solidified with a catalyst after an overnight repo rate spike in…
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Iowa Caucuses, the Blob, and the Democratic Party Cartel
Hi, Welcome to BIG, a newsletter about the politics of monopoly.
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The President and the Bomb, Part IV
Why the problem of "the President and the bomb" isn't about the "crazy President," but something far more pernicious and possible.
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Thoughts about the difference between European and American H/W and S/W design
I have just recently discovered that my previous post about Commodore BASIC went modestly viral, not only featuring on Hacknernews but getting its own story on Hackaday . Gosh. This in itself has provoked some discussion. Its also resulted in a lot of people telling me that NO COMMODORE WAS…
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Quantifying the Adpocalypse
Someone is off sides - advertising revenue in the time of COVID
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“It'll all be over by Christmas” (Part 2)
On April 16—gosh, it feels like an entire year ago—I made some predictions about where we were going. How do they hold up?
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Visions of Alt-Berlin in “Man in the High Castle” (2017)
An MIT urban planner looks at the alternative vision for a Berlin that was designed to last a thousand years, but never built.
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They told you not to reply (2008)
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