And that turtle runs Logo(s).

Okay, so now the situation is reversed and Apple has pulled the app. Thank you, Apple, for complying with the democratic will of the people in suppressing this intolerable insurrection against the Communist Party and the sovereign Nation State of China! Your capitulation—while against my beliefs as a free Westerner—demonstrates the proper geopolitical subordination which a company which once-operated under the Jolly Roger ought to impart upon its proper masters. Thank you for relinquishing the last bastion of hope that those scoundrel, pirate Hong Kongians dared premise their future upon, for the sake of righteous order. Your compliance will not be unrewarded.

If you had accused me of using the term "conversely" wrong, I'd have conceded. In fact, I'll pretend that's what you did say, and then agree with my strawman of you.

Conversely, let's praise our benevolent walled gardeners for allowing people's purchased, personal property to do the one thing they were programmed to do—run computer programs. Thanks you, Apple! I'm so happy you've exercised the immense private power you've controlled over the world, above and beyond all governments democratic and otherwise, in a way which accords to my beliefs!

They were going to call it Erect Egret, but then thought better upon considering all the immature jokes that would be made about it being a rEgretful release, etc.

You're right. Fool me once...

Her individuality is subsumed by collective identity, and so she has to bend-over-backwards ensuring that her personal experience of reaping the rewards of social progress is not at odds with a broader cultural narrative of continued oppression which still applies to her as a member of a group. The evidence of her life, as she has experienced it, would be detrimental to the work of socially-constructing a generalized view of what woman's lives are like were she to give it unvarnished. She feels the pressure to qualify her case as exceptional and state she's lucky to have been micro-agressed against, since by all accounts which aren't her own her life should have afforded her much worse.

Within the structures of the group she identifies as being a member of, despite the fact that they don't speak for her by failing to reflect her lived experience, she is one of the lucky ones who is obligated to use her voice to speak for those not so lucky. Which means there is absolutely no way to please her as an individual: her identity exists within this convoluted relation to others which makes their good treatment of her disadvantageous to her group identity, and bad treatment a needed validation she is lacking and must make-up for by bad-mouthing and suspiciously-eying people who did nothing wrong.

Dammit, I spent the last week thinking Marvin Minsky had sex with a 17yo because journalists couldn't do their fucking jobs properly? And so did Stallman, and it got him out of both MIT and the FSF? This is such high-grade bullshit that I'm going to explode.

The metaphors out-paced the originals which inspired them. I remember when I first saw someone sit down at a Windows computer and search for "Solitaire" in a web browser, winding up in a Javascript implementation flanked by advertisements. Paul Levinson calls it anthropotropism: the desire to just interface with the computer as one does with people. We'll optimize toward it, than acclimatize the laggards towards it, and then become possessed forever more by it. Unless something drastic happens. The whole transitionary period was merely an over-convoulted blip of a single generation (you and I) bridging the domain between the physical, meatspace universe and the interactive, television-derived future.

Unless mass literacy happens. My sig is a clue.

There are other philosophers beyond Stallman?

Burying that stuff is a crime against humanity...we may need that energy.

At the Nuclear Waste Management presentation I attended regarding "burying" spent fuel rods, the facility was a giant underground warehouse accessible by elevator. The rods were the size of a lipstick container encased in a coffin-sized container with multiple layers of shielding. Each rod would then be lifted on a regular forklift to sit on a shelf. I don't see a reason why they couldn't just be taken off the shelf and brought back up the elevator in the future.

Stores have been adding bluetooth sensors to all of their store shelves to track customers throughout the space with pin-point precision. It's much more precise for this purpose than cellular or wifi signals. This would probably be correlated with video camera footage, so that profiles of your shopping habits could be consistent over weeks or months or years. I'd rather not be forced to walk around with a tracking beacon permanently turned on in order listen to my podcasts or music.

It's a pretty basic mistake to miss side-channel attacks like this by only thinking about the security of the protocol itself.

"Richard Stallman has some intense views, but seems to be proven right more times than not"

Actually, I'd love to see that headline reported on a regular basis.

It's a conservative, safe sort of "right". Easy-to-use computing has lead to people who are totally incapable of enumerating the pluses and minuses, because they are only trained in the rituals of manipulating illusory, high-level interfaces. Since computers have been given to people who are completely out-of-touch with the nature of the physical objects as-they-are, they rely on voices like ours to wake them up to the serious realities and ramifications. There are ways to keep in touch with one's "social network" without using a social network, but in their somnambulatory, marketer-lead stupor they're helpless but to give their entire lives away these corporations and become enthralled to their manipulations.

Facebook is not "fine for anyone who likes it", because what they like is sharing photos with Grandma across state-lines, not becoming enslaved to an illusory, mediated world-view. I think Derrick de Kerckhove presents an optimistic view of people's identity being replaced, possession style, by their "digital twin", and I hope to have him on my podcast soon to further discuss the ramifications.

Being technically right isn't the same as doing the right thing.

...has just allowed people to be drawn so far away from the practical concerns of personal computing that they don't even feel what is going on until its too late. Parents used to be terrified in the 90s to let their kid talk to strangers on the internet; now they'll leave a kid with an internet connected computer as a baby sitter with no qualms. We've been habituated to computers without maintaining any of the safeguards or justifiable feelings of concern which were felt when personal computers were new and scary.

Only now are people starting to realize that the reasons for concern never went away, and that their lowered guard has allowed all the worst-possible scenarios to happen.