@stark Yeah, I have no problem with you or your perspective as such: it is certainly well-intentioned. I am grateful as someone who has never engaged in hate speech terrorism that I have a very broad freedom of speech and the value in maintaining it comes at the cost of some who will use it nefariously (just like a right to privacy or a public park or a library).

@stark He does a regular column at Locus and it is frequently very engaging, especially if you are into things like copyrights and digital freedoms. Cory Doctorow is also just a nice guy.

@erose Yes, which is the opposite of the digital promise: we were supposed to have *more* things and *less* centralization.

DRM is feudalism: https://locusmag.com/2019/09/cory-doctorow-drm-broke-its-promise/ #feudalism #scams #freedom #books #drm

@stark That etc is the hard part: who counts? Again, this *will* get weaponized. It is better to have freedom that is very broad but gets abused than it is to have freedom that is curtailed and consequently *is* abused.

@stark Dog whistling and also musing aloud about certain groups (e.g. punching Nazis). Remember that all of this well-intentioned stuff that is supposed to protect minorities can (and will!) get weaponized against them, too.

American law enforcement needs to stop deputizing companies and universities: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/no-i-wont-start-spying-on-my-foreign-born-students/2019/08/29/01c80e84-c9b2-11e9-a1fe-ca46e8d573c0_story.html I have felt strongly about this for awhile but this op-ed really puts it into perspective how we have to protect the intellectual freedom and political neutrality of the college campus. #education #academia #lawenforcement #immigration #racism

@stark We need to err on the side of caution when it comes to speech that we (claim) incites violence. Otherwise, we give the state very broad authority to stamp down things like dissent.

Design is for everybody: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614167/why-are-products-for-older-people-so-ugly/ I was a little put off from this article because it is about a for-profit (a B Corp, tho) and it goes on a little long but brings up an important way that the elderly are overlooked. #design #usability #accessibility #seniors #elderly #ageism

After Western Sahara and Tibet, the grossest ongoing colonial genocide is in West Papua: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/29/west-papua-deaths-as-protest-turns-violent Papua merdeka! #westpapua #racism #colonialism #genocide #indonesia

@stark E.g.?

Common First Amendment arguments refuted: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/free-speech-cliches-media-should-stop-using/596506/ #firstamendment #freespeech

Add RSS to your site: https://kevq.uk/please-add-rss-support-to-your-site #rss

@skroo That sounds difficult. At the risk of trivializing your own struggles with anxiety (not my intention), your avatar fills me with a sense of existential dread mixed with despair and a healthy dash of anxiety.

@F1r3_Dragon Thanks for this.

Anxiety looks different in men: https://www.wsj.com/articles/anxiety-looks-different-in-men-11564494352 It is much more likely to be expressed as frustration or anger, managed with drug use, and lead to suicidal thinking. #anxiety #suicide #men #substanceabuse #mentalhealth

Those of you interested in Web design should take the One HTML Page Challenge: https://onehtmlpagechallenge.com/ What can you do without huge React libraries or relying on Python scripts and databases on the backend? #webdesign #html #css #javascript #svg

A Chinese immigrant discusses how young Chinese studying in the United States can support their authoritarian government against Hong Kong democracy protestors: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-20/hong-kong-chinese-students-propaganda #hongkong #peoplesrepublicofchina #authoritarianism #democracy #freedom #freedomofthought #unitedstatesofamerica #academia

@Beaker96 @altamaha You are.

@altamaha Tell it to Hong Kong. Cantonese is an amazing language and Hong Kongers are an amazing people.