Modern “Freedom” Means Being a Slave to Impulses

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Which of the following two people is more free:

1. A drug addict.
   
2. A average man who is only not a drug addict because he lives in a country where drugs are regulated or shamed in a way to make them hard to obtain.
   

Most modern people will have a kind of cognitive disson … ⌘ Read more

On the blog: Developer Journal, World Press Freedom Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/05/03/press.html #programming #project #devjournal

Huntsville station ⌘ Read more…

Penpot - Design Freedom for Teams - This is quite cool, going to try this out next time I need to design something. ⌘ Read more…

On the blog: Developer Journal, National Freedom Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/02/01/freedom.html #programming #project #devjournal

Advancing developer freedom: GitHub is fully available in Iran ⌘ Read more…

On the blog: The Fight of the Century (and The Last Century) https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/09/06/enlight.html #quora #freedom #philosophy #politics #rant

Peter Saint-Andre: The High Freedom of Great Conversation ⌘ http://stpeter.im/journal/1644.html

Luke on Golden Age ⌘ http://www.socialmatter.net/2017/10/23/golden-age-episode-4-software-freedom/

Got my new ThinkPad in the mail today. An X61T. Installed Arch on it, everything went well. May go to Parabola eventually for extra freedom.

On the blog: Developer Journal, Culture Freedom Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/05/18/freecul.html #programming #project #devjournal #bicker #uxuyu

Freedom is ________. “ The California Sunday Magazine https://story.californiasunday.com/freedom

Proto-internet trolls’: Johann Friedrich Struensee and freedom of expression in 18th century Denmark - European studies blog https://blogs.bl.uk/european/2018/06/johann-friedrich-struensee.html

Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende’s Chile https://www.informatics.indiana.edu/edenm/EdenMedinaJLASAugust2006.pdf

The Journal of Controversial Ideas”academic freedom sans responsibility is reckless | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/the-journal-of-controversial-ideas-academic-freedom-sans-responsibility-is-reckless/

‘Free your mind and your ass will follow’ is absurdly optimistic. Freedom of mind is necessary but not sufficient for freedom of ass. In the short term, wokeness makes your life harder because you become aware of how bad things are.

Supporting Fast Payments for All “ and Economic Freedom | MetaFilter https://www.metafilter.com/176954/supporting-fast-payments-for-all-and-economic-freedom

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net This is completely contrary to what people want. People don’t care about how something works. They want to use something that’s premade and that they can use without learning anything about it. Decentralization is a technical Detail, nobody cares about. Just like security or freedom. It’s all nice to have if it comes for free, no time investment and no convenience cuts. So the only way to establich decentralization is by making it better, cheaper and easier to use than centralized services. #sadtruth

Footnotes to Plato | Spinoza’s philosophy of freedom – Steven Nadler https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/spinoza-philosophy-freedom/

The modern state, not ideas, brought about religious freedom | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-modern-state-not-ideas-brought-about-religious-freedom

not tentacles, just arms with lots of joints - sometimes they break and heal crookedly but there’s enough freedom that it doesn’t matter

Despite the myth, he’s a gentle fellow, kind to adventurers and would-be rescuers. Yet, only those who abandon him ever see freedom again.

We grant you freedom↵No leaders↵No masters↵Earth is free to rule itself now↵Merely a speck of light from our escape capsule

Freedom fighters planting logic bombs for the surveillance AIs to gobble up, causing combinatorial explosions in their algorithms.

Moved to a Droplet
Having wished for a while to run this little site on SSL —as well as having the freedom to do more things— which GitHub does not allow, I have finally decided to move to a virtual server of my own. At $5 a month per droplet, DigitalOcean was the provider of choice.

DigitalOcean droplets web interface is very clean, simple, responsive and functional. Spawning the server took 54 sec … ⌘ Read more

No more Freedom Fries?
It was really interesting to read on the BBC News:

A pro-Iraq war US congressman who campaigned for French fries to be renamed “freedom fries” is now calling for US troops to return home from Iraq. Republican Representative Walter Jones is to introduce legislation demanding a timetable for the withdrawal.

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“I just feel that the reason of going in for weapons of mass … ⌘ Read more