In January 2018, Deutsche Bank produced an 81-page report, “US Income and Wealth Inequality”,

But that failed when Congress took another step and passed an amendment to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act in 1986, which held that no owner or operator of an underground storage tank could transfer that liability to someone else.

In Chile, two million Chileans were estimated to have been killed by the Pinochet regime

Can you imagine a world without limits? Having to navigate a citywithout any limits on how people drive, for example? Or no limits onwhat harm we may do to others? Societies need limits to allow thecommon pursuit of individual and societal wellbeing.

The concept understands humans tobe social beings and assumes that living within societies is associatedwith collective responsibilities, which includes the acceptance of cer-tain limits on individual freedoms.

Theconcept of consumption corridors combines notions of human needs,individual preferences, and freedom as the basis for a good life for all.

Why do we not see a man like Kandiaronk as an importanttheorist of human freedom? He clearly was

the Enlightenment project, one now seen inrevolutionary quarters as a false dream of liberation that has insteadunleashed unspeakable cruelty upon the world

The freedom objection to effective climate governance says that we must make a tragic choice on behalf of freedom. We must choose the loss of some present and future lives in order to preserve a way of life, the lynchpins of which are individual freedom, private property, steep social and monetary inequality, economic growth, and energy-intensive production and consumption. Yet the lives some would choose to lose need not be lost if the right and the good—living up to the best in our humanity and being morally responsible—were seen in new ways.

“Better dead than Red,” as people used to say when I was growing up in America’s heartland during the Cold War.[9] Apparently, it’s better to be dead than Green now. That argument is made in public with a straight face. It is not enough, then, to interpret climate denial (as well as vaccine denial, and even pandemic denial) as merely venal or ignorant, though much of it is that. This denial goes deeper and is more philosophically significant because it is rooted in a broken conception of individual freedom in a political morality whose time is passing, if not already past.

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There would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature.

When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under hte breath: "free, free, free!" The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes.

And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome.

News outlets make myriad subjective judgment calls pursuant to processes that are not made public to readers/viewers and that are often not written down or audited after the fact.

Alas, lawmakers are way behind the curve on this, demanding new "online safety" rules that require firms to break E2E and block third-party de-enshittification tools: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/online-safety-made-dangerous/ The online free speech debate is stupid because it has all the wrong focuses: Focusing on improving algorithms, not whether you can even get a feed of things you asked to see; Focusing on whether unsolicited messages are delivered, not whether solicited messages reach their readers; Focusing on algorithmic transparency, not whether you can opt out of the behavioral tracking that produces training data for algorithms; Focusing on whether platforms are policing their users well enough, not whether we can leave a platform without losing our important social, professional and personal ties; Focusing on whether the limits on our speech violate the First Amendment, rather than whether they are unfair: https://doctorow.medium.com/yes-its-censorship-2026c9edc0fd

That same enshittification is on every platform, and "freedom of speech is not freedom of reach" is just a way of saying, "Now that you're stuck here, we're going to enshittify your experience."

“What We Mean When We Talk About Freedom of Speech” is based on the research of Sky Croeser, Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University in Perth, Australia.

Activists within this movement, as well as academics writing about online harassment, have tended to ground their discussions of the problem with reference to free speech discourse. However, this language, with its grounding in the Western liberal tradition, comes with considerable limitations. I argue here that an intersectional approach requires us to explore a much more radical rethinking of the political traditions in which we ground responses to online harassment.

The real question isn’t whether platforms like Twitter and Facebook are public squares (because they aren’t), but whether they should be. Should everyone have a right to access these platforms and speak through them the way we all have a right to stand on a soap box downtown and speak through a megaphone? It’s a more complicated ask than we realize—certainly more complicated than those (including Elon Musk himself) who seem to think merely declaring Twitter a public square is sufficient.

This tweet, along with the reinstatement of Donald Trump’s Twitter account, has caused a whirlwind of discussion and debate on the platform—the same arguments about free speech and social media as the “digital public square” that seem to go nowhere, regardless of how often we try. And part of the reason they go nowhere is because the situation is both more simple and more complicated than many of us want to recognize.

governments create an official version of rules (e.g. laws and regulations) ina machine-consumable form, which allows rules to be understood and actioned by computer systems in aconsistent way.

The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential. This means that the person involved should have legal capacity to give consent; should be so situated as to be able to exercise free power of choice, without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion; and should have sufficient knowledge and comprehension of the elements of the subject matter involved as to enable him to make an understanding and enlightened decision.

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engineers and product people just hate working on features “sold” by the sales department without asking them in an effort to meet objectives for bonuses.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. (Lao Tzu)

https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2015/10/the-californian-ideology-after-twenty-years/

. Barbrook shows how this futurist prophecy is borrowed from America’s defunct Cold War enemy: Stalinist Russia. Technological progress was the catalyst of social transformation. With copyright weakening, intellectual commodities were mutating into gifts. Invented in capitalist America, the Net in the late-1990s had become the first working model of communism in human history.

You can also go to the Ruby OAuth Client Library to download the source code and run: 1gem build intuit-oauth.gemspec to build your own gem if you want to modify certain functions in the library.

Source: Karim Douieb via core77

ι δυσάρεστες αυτές τάσεις περιορίστηκανκαι η Ελλάδα επανήλθε στη βασική φιλελεύθερη κοίτη τηςπαράδοσής της.

τις άλλες γλώσσες, χρησιμοποιείται κατά κανόνα ο ίδιοςόρος (monarchy) για δύο ξεχωριστές έννοιες, που στα ελληνικά υπάρχει ηευχέρεια να αποδοθούν με δύο διαφορετικούς όρους: «βασιλεία» και«μοναρχία». Κατά συνέπεια, μπορεί στα ελληνικά να γίνει λόγος για«βασιλευόμενη δημοκρατία», ενώ στις άλλες γλώσσες το ίδιο ακριβώςκοινοβουλευτικό πολίτευμα ορίζεται ως «συνταγματική μοναρχία»(constitutional monarchy).

The freedom to play with ideas, and to explore new ways of thinking, critiquing, deploying, and analyzing ed tech provided by metaphors, is much needed if we are to develop a better appreciation of its possibilities, implications, and limitations.

the interconnected world of the open internet

It can be exhausting to backchannel and “find buy-in” for every little thing.

Indeed, judging from the accounts of the many employees who have now gone on record about this issue, the “debates” that have been happening at Basecamp are precisely the kinds of conversations that happen when you have a diverse workforce. Different issues affect different people differently, and being able to speak freely about those differences is the hallmark of a healthy culture. But by framing these discussions as “acrimonious debates” rather than “challenging conversations,” Hansson has positioned himself not as a peacemaker, but as a tyrant hell-bent on taking his toys and going home; shutting down discussions rather than holding space for growth and discovery.

Littlefeather, who had acted in a few films before her infamous moment, says that the federal government threatened to shut down any talk shows or productions that put her on the air.

youthful infatuation

Can they reshape the contours and boundaries of their socialsituations instead of being shaped by them?

Underneath whatever threads they have already identified with, there isalways a pregnant potentiality of thoughts yet to be shaped.

This is the paradoxical practice of Zen. How can we take care of the ordinary things and people in our daily life with care and attentiveness and still understand and know their impermanence? In practicing these two views simultaneously, we can come to understand freedom and to completely inhabit our one precious and unique human life. They mutually support each other and yet retain their distinctive qualities. We don’t call something that is white, black and yet we understand that white and black share the same essence. This understanding defines a good Zen practice. We take care of cause and effect from the basis of operation of boundless, timeless, open awareness.

“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.” ― John Waters, Role Models

We will continue to listen and work to make Hypothesis a safe and welcoming place for expression and conversation on the web

In France, a wealthyvoter giving 7,500 euros (the current ceiling) to his preferred politicalparty has a right to a tax deduction of 5,000 euros, financed by the restof the taxpayers.

The intent of this specification and related tools is to expand the reach of development containers, allow the usage of containers by themselves or different orchestration technologies, and allow any tool to manage and create them.

and they've been focused on using Docker or Docker Compose

First, the majority population in eastern Virginia were enslaved blacks. Whites lived in constant fear of slave insurrection. Everyone knew about the 1739 slave rebellion in Stono, S.C., when blacks broke into a store, decapitated the shopkeepers, seized guns and powder, and marched with flying banners, beating drums and cries of “Liberty!” Up to 100 joined the rebellion before being engaged by a contingent of armed, mounted militiamen. Scores died in the ensuing battle.

It is a fact that lands have been sold for five shillings, which were worth one hundred pounds: if sheriffs, thus immediately under the eye of our state legislature and judiciary, have dared to commit these outrages, what would they not have done if their masters had been at Philadelphia or New York?

Some minds are agitated by foreign alarms. Happily for us, there is no real danger from Europe; that country is engaged in more arduous business: from that quarter there is no cause of fear: you may sleep in safety forever for them.

“By the way,” she wrote, “in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.” She went on, “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”

“As with many of the articles with which these proceedings are concerned, the respondent does not merely identify information, put the material before the public, and ask questions arising from it. He acts as arbiter, presenting the matter on the basis that his belief, opinions and interpretation of the information, assuming that is the right word to use, is “the full truth,”” the judges noted in their opinion [PDF] on March 25.

According to Kerr, Dorrian, who presided over both Salmond’s trial and Murray’s contempt of court proceedings, “has led the campaign to get rid of juries in the cases of sex offenses in Scotland.”

Προπαγάνδα λοιπόν είναι να θεωρείς ότι οι Πούτιν, Ζελένσκυ και Ερντογάν έχουν ως κοινό τους γνώρισμα τον αυταρχισμό, γιατί η αλήθεια είναι ότι το κοινό ανάμεσα τους είναι ότι έχουν, σε αντίθεση με τους Δυτικούς ομολόγους τους, ικανούς να τα καταφέρουν αντιπάλους που απειλούν την εθνική γραμμή. Μπορεί κάποιος να βρει μία δυτική χώρα που να υπάρχει ισχυρή νόμιμη αντιπολίτευση, που πραγματικά να απειλεί την εθνική γραμμή;

PUTIN DOES HAVE THE CAPACITY TO DRIVE THAT NARRATIVE EVEN IN THE CASE OF WHAT'S GOING TO BE A MUCH WORSE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE THAN WHEN ANYONE IN THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN EXPERIENCING FOR A CENTURY.

The European Union, in an unprecedented move, has decided to prohibit the broadcasting and distribution of content by these outlets throughout the European Union

When the C.D.C. published the first significant data on the effectiveness of boosters in adults younger than 65 two weeks ago, it left out the numbers for a huge portion of that population: 18- to 49-year-olds, the group least likely to benefit from extra shots, because the first two doses already left them well-protected.

StopTheMadness is a web browser extension that stops web sites from making your browser harder to use

Other companies look five years ahead and make plans for the next year. They prefer to think like farmers: Look 20 years ahead, and plan only for the next day.

If the youths chose it for themselves I should have wondered less; but they do not choose it; they have it thrust upon them, and for the most part are disinclined towards it.

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Back in 1981, a State Department insider boasted that we would "turn Nicaragua into the Albania of Central America"-that is, poor, isolated and politically radical-so that the Sandinista dream of creating a new, more exemplary political model for Latin America would be in ruins.

οι καταλήψεις δεν είναι μόνο εξ ορισμού εφήμερες, αλλά έχουν επιπλεον την επίγνωση ότι είναι εφήμερες.

Κάθε κατάληψη πληρώνει ένα “κοινωνικό ενοίκιο” κάθε μέρα σε εργατοώρες που αν αμοίβονταν -ακόμα και με τον πιο υποτιμημένο βασικό μισθό- θα επέτρεπαν στα μέλη της να ζουν άνετα ως ιδιώτες. Αυτό το κοινωνικό ενοίκιο είναι μια σύνθεση του λόγου της, των δράσεων της, των διαδικασιών που ακολουθεί, των χρήσεων που απελευθερώνει, των πόρων που βρίσκει για να αντικαταστήσει το χρήμα, των κοινών τόπων που δημιουργεί.

Παρόμοια ΔΙΑΣΚΕΠ μπορούν να οδηγήσουν στον γνήσιο εκδημοκρατισμό του τοπίου των ΜΜΕ, επαναπροσδιορίζοντας τον τρόπο σύστασης του Εθνικού Συμβουλίου Ραδιοτηλεόρασης, με σύσταση του Συμβουλίου και ανάδειξη των μελών που θα αποσυνδεθεί από τη Βουλή και θα περάσει στη δικαιοδοσία των ΔΙΑΣΚΕΠ. Κοινωνικοποιώντας την ΕΡΤ, η οποία για να αποκτήσει πραγματικά δημόσιο χαρακτήρα, θα πρέπει να διοικείται από Διοικητικό Συμβούλιο, το οποίο θα εκλέγεται από το ΔΙΑΣΚΕΠ-ΜΜΕ και θα λογοδοτεί αποκλειστικά σε αυτό, χωρίς την κυβερνητική ποδηγέτηση. Περαιτέρω, θα χρειαστεί μία αναθεώρηση της σύμβασης με την Digea -Ψηφιακό Πάροχο Α.Ε. που αποτελεί μια ελληνική πατέντα συνδυασμού παρόχου δικτύου και παρόχου περιεχομένου.

Europeans were constantly squabbling for advantage; societies ofthe Northeast Woodlands, by contrast, guaranteed one another themeans to an autonomous life – or at least ensured no man or womanwas subordinated to any other. Insofar as we can speak ofcommunism, it existed not in opposition to but in support of individualfreedom.

A.Smith, Έρευνα για τη φύση και τις αιτίες του πλούτου των Εθνών, Το Βήμα, Εκδόσεις Ελληνικά Γράμματα, 2010.Σ. Λατούς, Το Στοίχημα της Απο-ανάπτυξης,Εκδόσεις Βάνιας, 2008.Ζ.Κ.Μισεά, Το Αδιέξοδο Άνταμ Σμιθ, Εναλλακτικές Εκδόσεις, 2008.Κ.Πολάνυι, Ο Μεγάλος Μετασχηματισμός, Εκδόσεις Νησίδες , 2007.Τ.Χομπς, Λεβιάθαν, Εκδόσεις Γνώση, 2006.Γ.Βαρουφάκης, Θεωρία Παιγνίων, Εκδόσεις Gutenberg, 2007.N.Gr.Mankiw, M.P.Taylor, Αρχές Οικονομικής Θεωρίας, Εκδόσεις Gutenberg, 2011.M.Ridley, Οι ρίζες της Αρετής, Εκδόσεις Καστανιώτης, 1998.Α.Σεν, Για την Ηθική και την Οικονομία, Εκδόσεις Καστανιώτη,2000.Ζ.Ζ.Ρουσώ, Πραγματεία Περί της Καταγωγής και των Θεμελίων της Ανισότητας ανάμεσα στους Ανθρώπους, Εκδόσεις Σύγχρονη Εποχή, 1999.Φ.Έγκελς, Η Καταγωγή της Οικογένειας, της Ατομικής Ιδιοκτησιας και του Κράτους, Εκδόσεις Σύγχρονη Εποχή, 2013.Ο Παπαλάνγκι, Οι Λόγοι του Φυλάρχου Τουιαβίι από το νησί Τιαβέα του Νότιου Ειρηνικού, Εκδόσεις Ύψιλον, 2010.Μ.Μπούκτσιν, Η Οικολογία της Ελευθερίας, Εκδόσεις Αντιγόνη, 2016.Μ. Σαντέλ, Τί δεν μπορεί να αγοράσει το χρήμα, Εκδόσεις Πόλις, 2016.

Προς την κατεύθυνση αυτή ήταν οι τελετές Πότλατς, που για αιώνες διοργάνωναν οι τροφοσυλλέκτες κυνηγοί της βορειοδυτικής ακτής της Αμερικής, στις οποίες κατέστρεφαν τα πλεονάσματα, δηλαδή αποσυσσώρευαν τον πλούτο.

The crowning reward of general planning is that it will preserve a freedom of inquiry, a freedom of opportunity, that it is not only rational and efficient, but is also a part of a good way of life" (192).

We will suggest that there isa reason why so many key Enlightenment thinkers insisted that theirideals of individual liberty and political equality were inspired byNative American sources and examples. Because it was true.

As Barbara Alice Mann suggests to us (in personalcommunication), bourgeois women may have especiallyappreciated the Jesuit Relations because it allowed them toread about discussions of women’s sexual freedom in a formthat was entirely acceptable to the Church

Rather, what Rousseaupresented was more of a parable, by way of an attempt to explore afundamental paradox of human politics: how is it that our innate drivefor freedom somehow leads us, time and again, on a ‘spontaneousmarch to inequality’?8

And this explains, again, why this ended up being a book, not about equality, but about freedom: about how early humans, just like us, were keenly aware of their own freedom and determined to use it.

what they see as our three basic freedoms: the freedom to disobey, the freedom to go somewhere else, and the freedom to create new social arrangements?

δικαιώνεται» από μία παράνομη εκστρατεία φόβου (για έναν πραγματικό βέβαια ιό

οι υιοθετήσεις τεχνικών επιτήρησης εγείρουν σημαντικές ανησυχίες –  όσον αφορά τις μακροπρόθεσμες συνέπειες τους στην επιβολή ολοκληρωτικών καθεστώτων. Δημιουργούν δηλαδή την εντύπωση της δρομολόγησης πολιτικών και ηθικών «εκπαιδευτικών μέτρων» που καθιστούν τα εγγυημένα ανθρώπινα δικαιώματα και την προστασία των προσωπικών, καθώς επίσης των ιατρικών δεδομένων, παρωχημένες έννοιες – με την επίκληση τους «εγωιστική»!

Δώστε ένα πακέτο στα μίνιονς του Kaiser και εύχομαι το billions να είναι ΚαλοPfizer Και όταν θα επέλθει η ανοσία στην αγέλη θα δούμε πόσες μέλισσες θα υπάρχουν στην κυψέλη και εν τέλει

τα κανάλια που βρίσκονταν σήμερα στα δικαστήρια είχαν έρθει για την υπόθεση του ψευτογιατρού, αλλά δεν καλύπτουν βεβαίως την αθώωση των μελών του Ρουβίκωνα. Θα ήταν πολύ πρόθυμα να καλύψουν το θέμα αν είχαν τη χαρά να μπουν φυλακή οι κατηγορούμενοι.

ένα αποκλειστικά λευκό σώμα ενόρκων

“It’s just unfortunate that these are the circumstances that we’re talking about Mastodon again,” he tells me. “I would much prefer it was something specifically about Mastodon. Rather than, you know, Gab.”

Yet our investigation revealed that YouTube blocked advertisers’ ability to find social justice content, potentially restricting ad revenue for those YouTubers.

Τα δίκτυα του Fediverse και τα πλεονεκτήματά τους

even if you share a photo of someone who was like killed by an Israeli soldier you go to jail and you go to jail for the amount of like

«Νομίζω ότι είναι καιρός για τον λαό και τις ελίτ της Γερμανίας», δήλωσε προ ημερών σε συνέντευξή του στην Deutsche Welle o Παλαιστίνιος αναλυτής Αλί Αμπουνιμάχ, «να σταματήσουν να τιμωρούν τα παιδιά στη Λωρίδα της Γάζας για τα εγκλήματα που πραγματοποίησαν οι ίδιοι εναντίον των Εβραίων της Ευρώπης». Το αποτέλεσμα ήταν ότι ο σταθμός απολογήθηκε στους τηλεθεατές γιατί του έδωσε τον λόγο και διέγραψε τη συνέντευξη.

They keep our options open. They will allow the Commission to choose non-open technologies where there are good reasons to do so, while encouraging us to plan for future open-source alternatives.

so we're going to ask first who thinks capitalism albeit with tweaks and reforms is still the best economic system we've got so if you think that give us a wave

I want to to encourage you to join DiEM25 because we are doing an enormous amount of work. Yesterday

So there's a rich society for the very wealthy and the owners, the illegitimate owners of capital, but no society for the general population and that's basically neoliberalism, in a nutshell.

These are not laws of nature. These are structures designed and imposed by the very wealthy,

no consultation with anyone. This is just the organized international capital saying here's the way we can rob people for the long term by imposing the kinds of extensive property rights which guarantee monopoly pricing opportunities, indefinitely.

at the level of increasing the so-called reputational risk to compel those who illegitimately own capital to use it in the common interest.

but it's also the question of property rights. [

So the only way to do that, Yanis, is to manage capital mobility - trans-border capital flows -

Γιατί λοιπόν να μην είμαι ελεύθερος να πουλήσω ή να αγοράσω από κάποιον ένα νεφρό; Γιατί η πορνεία να μην είναι ένα επάγγελμα σαν όλα τα άλλα, μια προσωπική υπηρεσία, που ο νόμος της προσφοράς και της ζήτησης καθορίζει την τιμή της; Γιατί να μην αποκτήσω ένα παιδί πληρώνοντας μια παρένθετη μητέρα; Γιατί να μην επιτρέπεται η χρήση εμβρύων για τη δημιουργία νέων καλλυντικών ή να μην χρησιμοποιήσουμε την γενετική μηχανική για να δημιουργήσουμε μωρά με προσχεδιασμένα χαρακτηριστικά; Επίσης γιατί να μην μπορεί ένας φυλακισμένος να αγοράσει την αναβάθμιση του κελιού του, ένας γιατρός να πουλάει έναντι μιας ετήσιας αμοιβής τη διαθεσιμότητα του τηλεφώνου του κι εμείς να διαθέτουμε το μέτωπό μας ως διαφημιστικό χώρο;

then with this paper um they said we want to have open source whenever it makes sense so without explaining when it is like this and also they

"Over the past few years I've come to appreciate that freedom of [mental] movement is the key," he said, highlighting the nature of liquidity in putting thoughts to the page. "When you look about the freedom of your own hands moving, you have such incredible freedom of movement."'