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RICHARD STALLMAN'S PERSONAL SITE


The photo comes from wikimedia.org
"Richard_Stallman_at_LibrePlanet_2019" by Ruben Rodriguez



I continue to be the Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project.
This is my long-term commitment and I plan to continue.
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This is the personal web site of Richard Stallman.
The views expressed here are my personal views, not those of the Free Software
Foundation or the GNU Project.
For the sake of separation, this site has always been hosted elsewhere and
managed separately.

If you want to send me GPG-encrypted mail, do not trust key servers! Some of
them have phony keys under my name and email address, made by someone else as a
trick. See gpg.html for my real key.

Richard Stallman has cancer. Fortunately it is slow-growing and manageable
follicular lymphoma. Treatment put it into remission, and he can expect to live
many more years. However, he now has to be even more careful not to catch
Covid-19.

FSF Giving Guide





ROBERT REICH EXPLAINS HOW THE BULLSHITTER AND REPUBLICANS ARE TRYING TO SPREAD
CHAOS TO DISCOURAGE NON-FASCISTS FROM VOTING. AFTER CREATING AS MUCH REAL CHAOS
AS THEY CAN, THEY PRETEND THERE IS EVEN MORE OF IT, HOPING AMERICANS WILL GIVE
UP AND NOT VOTE, OR SUPPORT A FASCIST STRONG MAN.

I URGE YOU TO VOTE IN DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES FOR THE PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE, IF
THERE IS ONE. AND IN THE FINAL ELECTION I URGE YOU TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS, UNLESS
A LIBERAL INDEPENDENT HAD A GOOD CHANCE OF WINNING.


CANADIANS: I SUGGEST YOU SEEK ELECTION ADVICE AT A LOCAL CHAPTER OF A GROUP THAT
PUSHES TO CURB GLOBAL HEATING AND HAS THE COURAGE TO SAY, "CANADA SHOULD STOP
EXPORTING FOSSIL FUEL." IT WILL AT LEAST USE THE RIGHT GOALS TO SUGGEST WHO TO
VOTE FOR IN YOUR AREA.


JOIN A FRIDAY CLIMATE STRIKE.
THAT PAGE IS MADE BY SCRAPING FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE SO YOU CAN GET THE INFORMATION
WITHOUT RUNNING ANY JAVASCRIPT CODE. I WOULD BE VERY GLAD IF THEY MADE THE
INFORMATION ON THEIR OWN SITE ACCESSIBLE FROM THE FREE WORLD; THEN WE COULD
SIMPLY REFER PEOPLE TO THEIR SITE AND DO WITHOUT THE SCRAPING ETC.


I AM LIMITING THE NUMBER OF NEW POLITICAL NOTES PER DAY SO AS NOT TO OVERLOAD
THE VOLUNTEERS WHO INSTALL NEW NOTES. IF YOU'D LIKE TO HELP, PLEASE WRITE TO RMS
AT GNU PERIOD ORG.


IS YOUR BANK PRESSURING YOU TO USE BIOMETRIC ID? IF SO, PLEASE WRITE TO RMS AT
GNU DOT ORG. IT COULD BE USEFUL IF YOU DOCUMENT WHAT IS HAPPENING.


PLEASE JOIN THE FREE SOFTWARE FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT ITS WORK FOR YOUR FREEDOM.


"THEY" IS PLURAL — FOR SINGULAR ANTECEDENTS, USE SINGULAR GENDER-NEUTRAL
PRONOUNS.

Link Policy

The largest part of the site is the political notes, and they are typically
updated every day.

I'm looking for people to
 * learn how to HTML-craft and remotely-install political notes
 * send me examples of how proprietary programs have been designed to be
   addictive.
 * check a few sites for me regularly and show me any new articles that I would
   like to see or link to.
 * help me in maintaining stallman.org by occasionally looking for articles on a
   given point in the news.
 * send me examples of how proprietary programs have been designed to cause
   programmed obsolescence of products.
 * write site-specific Firefox extensions or local scripts to operate specific
   web sites.
 * help maintain and operate savannah.gnu.org.
 * experiment to find good ways to attach fruits to a Grav-mass tree.
 * help web sites put free licenses on their Javascript code.

If you would like to help me in any of these ways, please write to rms at gnu
dot o r g.

Civil Liberties Minute:

GRAPHIC BY SUSAN HENSON
AMERICANS, YOU MAY WISH TO COPY THIS ICON TO YOUR OWN PAGE, AS A WAY OF SHOWING
WHAT PATRIOTISM MEANS TO YOU.


UPCOMING TALKS

 * [ No upcoming talks. ]


URGENT ACTION ITEMS

   

   

 * US citizens: call on Congress to ban carrying guns at polling places.
   
   

 * US citizens: call on CNN to apologize to Rep. Rashida Tlaib for falsely
   claiming she had attacked the Michigan Attorney General for bring Jewish.
   
   In fact, Rep. Tlaib reproached her for arresting peaceful protesters.
   
   

 * US citizens: call on the Senate to pass Sanders's resolution to block weapons
   sales to Israel.
   
   When Sanders was young, he went to Israel and lived in a kibbutz. That he now
   advocates refusing to arm Israel is proof of how clear the case is for that
   policy.
   
   

 * US citizens: call on NYC Mayor Adams to stop trying to force retiress onto
   Medicare "Advantage" plans.
   
   These insurance plans are convenient for people who are basically well, but
   can get incredibly expensive for people who are sicker. When that happens
   they are far more expensive than basic Medicare.
   
   

 * US citizens: call on Michigan Attorney General Nessel: Drop charges against
   campus protesters.
   
   

 * US citizens: call on Congress to tax Elon Musk before he becomes a
   trillionaire.
   
   If the wrecker grabs the presidency, he will twist laws to help Musk become a
   multi-trillionaire by the end of the wrecker's fourth term in office.
   
   

 * US citizens: call on Georgia officials to sue to stop MAGA election
   interference.
   
   

 * US citizens: call for abolition of the death penalty.
   
   

 * US citizens: call on Senate Democrats to abolish the filibuster to restore
   reproductive rights.
   
   

 * US citizens: call on DoorDash, Google, Walmart, CVS, and other major
   corporations to stop funding Mark Robinson's Nazi-excusing and queer-hating
   campeign for governor of North Carolina.
   
   

 * US citizens: Support the USDA's proposed regulations to limit the amounts of
   added sugar in foods included in school meals.
   
   

 * US citizens: call on Comcast to stop funding anti-abortion campaigns.
   
   

 * US citizens: call on Networks, Media, and Press to stop "sane-washing" the
   corrupter.
   
   

 * In the US: call on CNN and Josh Kraushaar to issue a retraction to correct
   their false reporting on Rep. Rashida Tlaib.
   
   

 * US citizens: call on the Pentagon to stop funding Elon Musk's anti-democracy
   power grab.
   
   

 * US citizens: call on the DOJ to investigate Texas Republicans' voter purge.
   
   

 * I'm looking for a cartoonist who would like to draw cartoons for me once in a
   while. If you're interested, please write to rms, which refers to me, at the
   location gnu period org.

 * Boycott Chevron, in the name of Steven Donziger.


RECORDING OF GUANTANAMERO

Listen to the recording of Guantanamero, a protest song written in Spanish. The
recording is in Ogg Vorbis format. To install an Ogg Vorbis player, see the
FSF's Ogg Players page.


THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW

 * *China-owned British Steel said to have requested £600m of taxpayer support.*
   
   Whether the owners are Chinese is a question that there is no need to ask,
   because the state should never give money to a business "to support it."
   Instead it should offer to lend money to the company for suitable repayment,
   or else buy equity at a fair price.
   
   These two ways of supporting a company avoid giving the owners an opporunity
   to rip off the state -- which the company's owners are likely to try to do,
   if they can, regardless of which country they are from.
   
   With a policy like this, it wouldn't matter which country the company's
   owners are from.

 * California is proposing an interesting approach towards antisocial media
   platforms.
   
   It is exciting that SB 976 turns towards restricting recommendation
   algorithms. But these options should not be limited to minors — every user
   should have this choice. (Please do not refer to teenagers as "children";
   that feeds the US tendency to treat them like children and retard their
   development.)
   
   However, I suggest taking a step beyond just choosing to use or not use the
   platform's addiction system. Recommendation algorithms should be completely
   separated from platforms!
   
   If you want to use a nontrivial recommendation algorithm, you should be able
   to choose it yourself and use it anonymously. You could send it the URLs you
   want it to base its choices on. These might be some of the pages you had
   visited, and perhaps pages you had not visited.
   
   Then it should send you its recommendations. You could pass all, or just
   some, or none of those recommendations to the platform to look at them.
   
   AB 1949 is admirable because it gives a small boost to privacy for users of
   all ages, not only for children. It isn't enough, though — users should also
   be guaranteed the right and possibility to access through the Tor network and
   to use aliases. And collection of a user's data by the state should require a
   warrant against the user.

 * The door plug that blew out of a Boeing 737 Max 9 airplane was missing four
   bolts meant to hold it in place. They were missing because Boeing maintenance
   removed them and did not put them back in again.
   
   Some workers actually made the mistake, but they were working as part of a
   work system that Boeing management was responsible for setting up and
   running. That's where the real fault is.
   
   I suggest passing a law to require aircraft manufacturing and repair
   companies to have a certain fraction of licensed commercial pilots on their
   boards. Perhaps 66%.

 * Private equity is gobbling up large parts of the US nursing home business.
   This puts patients in danger since private equity can amass lots of money,
   create an oligopoly, and get away with abuses.
   
   The study suggests that "regulation may be needed." I will take a stronger
   stand and call for firm limits — perhaps even prohibiting private equity
   combinations from owning home nursing businesses.
   
   I'v also proposed prohibiting private equity from buying up lots of rental
   housing.

More items where there ought to be a law.


QUOTES

Here are some quotations that I particularly like.


MOST RECENT POLITICAL NOTES AND NEWS ITEMS

(RSS Feed)

You can now read the political notes on Mastodon.


URGENT: GUNS AT POLLING PLACES
12 OCTOBER 2024

US citizens: call on Congress to ban carrying guns at polling places.




MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE
12 OCTOBER 2024

US universities are confused and conflicted about how to deal with strongly
opinionated students and their disagreeing view.




ESCALATION WITH IRAN
12 OCTOBER 2024

Since Iran's missiles have shown they can hit Israel and do damage, further
escalation by Israel could result in a long war of attrition




55,000 BIBLES
12 OCTOBER 2024

Oklahoma Republicans have found a clever way to corrupt the election: by buying
bibles from the corrupter's campaign. The price will be over 3 million dollars.

They don't openly admit that the purchase has to be from his campaign, but they
make that inevitable by specifying details that other printed bibles don't fit.

Government purchases coming directly or indirectly from electoral campaigns
ought to be illegal.




BRETT KAVANAUGH
12 OCTOBER 2024

Accusing the wrecker of restraining the FBI from thoroughly investigating the
rape accusation against Brett Kavanaugh when he was nominated for the Supreme
Court.




ENERGY INDUSTRY
12 OCTOBER 2024

The head of the UK "energy industry" has been chosen as the new head of the
"Climate Change Committee.

I know nothing more about her besides that point about her previous experience,
but that one point is enough to make me suspect that the fox is now in charge of
keeping us chickens safe.




PROJECT 2025
12 OCTOBER 2024

*Project 2025 would "unequivocally" lead to more hurricane deaths, experts
warn.*




ACTIVIST’S VISA
12 OCTOBER 2024

An Australian official is moving to revoke the visa of a visiting Palestinian
who said, speaking in an event this Oct 7, that it was the occasion for
“considerable celebration” as the anniversary of HAMAS's hostage taking and
killings. Now the Australian is considering revoking his visa on grounds that he
advocated terrorism.

The official said, "But he did prove the point that many of us are making in the
lead up to the rallies on Monday, which is that the only reason you would
organize a pro-Palestinian protest on Monday, is if you thought it was worthy of
celebration." This seems to be valid.

Both HAMAS and subsequently Israel were responding to terror attacks. Both had
grounds for belligerence if it were in accord with international humanitarian
law. Both entities' retaliations instead violated that law, committing
atrocities.

I defend freedom of speech in a very firm way. I don't think anyone, whether
citizen or visitor, should be prohibited to express those views, even though I
strongly disagree with those views.




SHASTA COUNTY
12 OCTOBER 2024

A Republican official, extreme right-wing by the standards of 2022, is now
organizing the fight to defend some basic idea of truth and justice against the
wave of trumpery.




LEAD PIPE RULE
12 OCTOBER 2024

The corrupter ordered the US to adopt a nearly no-op rule about poisonous lead
and copper pipes. Now it has been replaced with a plan to eliminate nearly all
lead in American's faucet water.




HARRIS MEDICARE PLAN
12 OCTOBER 2024

*Harris announces plan for Medicare to cover long-term care at home.*

This would be a big help for partially or completely disabled Americans, and not
just those 65 years old or older.




DIRTY TRUTH REPORT
12 OCTOBER 2024

*Utilities Only Planning Enough Clean Energy to Replace Half of Fossil Fuel
Generation by 2035, New Sierra Club Report Finds.*

They still plan to build lots of gas-fired power plants. Using fossil gas cause
more global heating than coal.

This demonstrates that existing laws, plus existing pressure from well-informed
public opinion, are not sufficient to decarbonize rapidly.




ENVIRONMENTAL REFORMS
12 OCTOBER 2024

A government can be far better than blatant plutocracy and still be weak in
resisting plutocracy's destruction of the eco-sphere. Australia's Labor Party
seems to be an example.




CHRIS MINNS’ PLAN
12 OCTOBER 2024

*NSW [(a state in Australia)] premier says police should be able to ban
pro-Palestine protests because they are too expensive.*

This has met with opposition.

Bravo for resisting this.

I agree that we should avoid the terms "pro-Israel" or "pro-Palestine" because
those terms tend to push society into a dichotomous choice.

My wish is well-being, peace and freedom for both peoples.

Decades ago, large demonstrations were run by organizations, and the
organizations appointed and trained Marshalls to keep the protest on the track
of nonviolence. I am sure that practice greatly reduced the cost of policing, as
well as the probability that the official thugs would go on a rampage against
protesters.

That isn't 100% effective at preventing rampages,

but it surely helps.




DEFORESTATION
12 OCTOBER 2024

*Demand for beef, soy, palm oil and nickel hindering efforts to halt demolition
by 2030, global report finds.*




MAIM AND KILL
12 OCTOBER 2024

Robert Reich described how Bridgestone defeated the US government legal effort
to compel Bridgestone keep its factory workers safe. Bridgestone responded by
saying it would shut the factory rather than install the safety measures.

It announced that threat by making a false assertion: that it would be
"uneconomical" to run the plant if it had safety measures. With the usual
meaning of those words, that was not true: Bridgestone would have made a profit
even with the safety measures installed. But it might have made less from that
plant than from a hypothetical replacement plant somewhere else, without the
safety measure.

To put an end to this sort of practice, we need laws that will prevent
businesses from winning disputes in that way. Reich explains other changes that
would have strengthened his hand.




TIMOR SEA GAS PROJECT
12 OCTOBER 2024

Australia and East Timor were formerly very hostile, but now they are making
joint plans to collaborate in planet roasting by extracting undersea fossil gas.

The world must hope that they can't come to agreement on the details.




NARGES MOHAMMADI
12 OCTOBER 2024

Narges Mohammadi has been imprisoned in Iran since 3 years ago. A year ago she
received Nobel peace prize, and the screws made her imprisonment harsher.




GUT ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
12 OCTOBER 2024

*An Oil Giant Railroads Its SCOTUS Connection To Gut Environmental Law.*




VEHICLE-TO-EVERYTHING
12 OCTOBER 2024

Engineers are proposing a system for every car to communicate constantly with
every other nearby car, as well as with nearby pedestrians (does that mean,
their snoop-phones?) and local non-mobile surveillance systems.

The result would be total surveillance of everyone.

It may be possible to design such a system such that it doesn't identify any car
or any person. That could be safe as well as beneficial. But we cannot expect
the manufacturers of today's "connected cars" to value their customers' privacy.

If I were going to buy a "connected" car such as are made today, I would choose
a model that people know how to disconnect. I expect that each antenna needs to
be either removed or covered with a Faraday cage such that it cannot receive or
transmit.



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The four factors of the apocalypse:
   global heating, global hating,
   global eating, global mating.

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Copy this button (courtesy of R.Siddharth) to express your rejection of
Facebook.

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E-BOOKS

Non-oppressive Commercial E-books

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DON'T USE FACEBOOK

Facebook's face recognition demonstrates a threat to everyone's privacy. I
therefore ask people not to put photos of me on Facebook; you can do likewise.

Of course, Facebook is bad for many other reasons as well.

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BOYCOTT HARRY POTTER BOOKS, MOVIES, ETC.


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INTERNET MUSIC EULAS


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BUSINESS SUPREMACY TREATIES


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COUNTRIES TO STAY AWAY FROM


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NO NATIONAL IDENTITY CARDS

I'd like to make a list of countries that do not require a national identity
card, and have no plans to adopt one. If you live in or have confirmed knowledge
of such a country, please send email to rms at gnu.org.

Here's my list of countries with no national ID cards and no plans for one:
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK. Australia's previous government tried to
institute national ID cards, but the Labor government dropped the plan.

India has mostly finished imposing a national biometric ID number in a grand act
of oppression.

Switzerland has national ID cards which are optional, but they or some other
government ID card are needed for some purposes.

Iceland doesn't have ID cards as such, but they have ID numbers that citizens
are forced to use frequently. For example, the national ID number is often
required to rent a video or use a gym.

Denmark issues non-photo ID cards with a "person number", and many services use
this card to identify people.

Norway will impose a national biometric ID card.

Ireland - national ID card by stealth.

ACLU: the five dangers of national ID cards.

Wikipedia has a list of identity card policies by country.

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BORDERS

Stay away from certain countries because of their bad immigration policies.

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FLIGHT CONNECTIONS

Avoid flight connections in these airports because of their treatment of
passengers.

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THE LIFELONG ACTIVIST

People often ask how I manage to continue devoting myself to progressive
activism (such as the free software movement) for years without burning out. The
best way I can answer is by recommending a book, The Lifelong Activist by
Hillary Rettig.

I disagree with the book on one theoretical point in the last part of the book:
we shouldn't think of political activism as being marketing and sales, because
those terms refer to business, and politics is something much more important
than mere business. However, this doesn't diminish the value of the book's
practical advice about borrowing techniques from marketing and sales.

Disclosure: I am friends with the author.

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BOB CHASSELL

Writing (mostly science fiction) by my friend Bob Chassell who recently died.



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SOLIDARITY ECONOMY AND FREE SOFTWARE

Personal Declaration of Richard Stallman and Euclides Mance on Solidarity
Economy and Free Software.

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FALKVINGE ARTICLES

I have reposted some of Rick Falkvinge's articles. As posted on his site, you
can't see them in a browser without running some nonfree Javascript code which
is apparently non-free. These versions show the same text, without the obstacle.

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LONG-TERM ACTION ITEMS

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POLITICAL ARTICLES

These are my political articles that are not related to the GNU operating system
or free software. For GNU-related articles, see the GNU philosophy directory.
You can also download copies of my book, Free Software, Free Society, 3rd
edition.

 * A way to recognize misleading political propaganda (July 2024)
 * Fight Modern Slavery, but Leave Astronomy Alone (May 2024)
 * Let Benevolence Shine (December 2023)
 * What I learned about gender and language from talking about the Virgin of
   Emacs, and how I made use of that in practice (October 2023)
 * Many governments invite schools to invite companies to snoop on students
   (June 2022)
 * To Endure, Peace Needs to Weaken Putin But Not Ruin Him (March 2022)
 * The Russian Army has become the Putin Forces (March 2022)
 * The definition of "racism" must not be formulated based on who the
   perpetrators are (February 2022)
 * Why we should get rid of corporate landlords, and an easy method (August
   2021)
 * Worker-owned internet services can still be dis-services (June 2021)
 * Necessary Changes in Society (March 2021)
 * On the Firing of Jeffrey Toobin (November 2020)
 * The Broken Trust Model of Policing Police (October 2020)
 * An Extinction Rebellion activist comments about the London police by Clark
   Killick (October 2020)
 * What sort of laws would give us real privacy? (December 2019)
 * My Talk at Microsoft (September 2019)
 * Surveillance Ordinance (November 2018)
 * How the Ramayana endorses caste bias (April 2018)
 * Better Genderless Pronouns in English (April 2018)
 * A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe. (April 2018)
 * What Mary Had (May 2017)
 * Anonymous internet payments using pay phones (Apr 2017)
 * When people are conscripted by the DMCA into the War on Sharing. (Dec 2016)
 * If you feel your organization needs a "presence" in Facebook. (Dec 2016)
 * How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?
 * Yes, You Have Something to Fear. (August 2016)
 * A proposal for resolving the dispute over the South China Sea. (July 2016)
 * Is duckduckgo.com partially enforcing the "celebrity threesome injunction"?
   (May 2016)
 * Adapting the Marseillaise to the greatest threat to civilization.
 * Proposing the Logo Sea Turtle — for Whales (October 2015)
 * Controlling When the Cameras Record (August 2015)
 * A few words to Greece (June 2015)
 * Fixing Too Big To Fail (Apr 2015)
 * Enslaved Workers
 * What I said about Hrant Dink in my talks in Turkey (Apr 2015)
 * Earth under attack from planet Koch.
 * Fine government contractors for hiring ex-officials (Feb 2015)
 * Suggestion to the target of a witch hunt (Feb 2015)
 * Nonexistence (Feb 2015)
 * The Thermocene Epoch (Feb 2015)
 * Digital Voting. (Jan 2015)
 * My letter asking the judge not to sentence Jeremy Hammond to prison. (Jan
   2015)
 * It is a bad idea to have computers count the votes in public elections.
 * Internet Voting: don't even think of it!
 * The patent system is, at best, not worth keeping. (February 2014)
 * Why We Need A State (November 2013)
 * We can put an end to "too big to fail" with an innovative tax that also
   defeats corporate tax-dodging. (August 2013)
 * Exxon and the Letter Exx. (April 1, 2013)
 * Fixing too big to fail (February 2013)
 * Why internet music "sale" is a bad deal. (January 2013)
 * On-line education is using a flawed Creative Commons license (September 2012)
   French Translation
 * Redistributable Scientific Publishing (April 2012)
 * My Doctor's Office Asked me to Lie (August 2011)
 * Responding to Beggars
 * UK extreme pornography law.
 * My criticism of the The Zeitgeist Movement. The Venus Project is more or less
   the same idea.
 * The states need to form a union.
 * Additional Political Articles are on a separate page


POLITICAL NOTES

> "Those who profess to favor freedom, yet depreciate agitation, are men who
> want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and
> lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This
> struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both
> moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without
> a demand. It never did and it never will."
> Frederick Douglass, American Abolitionist, Letter to an associate, 1849

Here are notes about various issues I care about, usually with links to more
information. The current notes are here. For all previous notes, see this page.


See this page for information on efforts to maintain links in the political
notes.

Political notes about the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy are being archived on
their own page.


MEDIA/PRESS/BIOS

Richard Stallman's bio and publicity photos, and other things of interest to the
press, have been moved to a separate page.


TRAVEL EXPERIENCES



 * How it happened that I planned speeches at Israeli universities, then
   cancelled them.
 * Richard Stallman's travel blog and restaurants reviews
 * My visit to Machu Picchu
 * Stories about visits to Tikal and Greece


PHOTOS ABOUT MY TRAVELS



 * Photos of me working on my laptop at various places
 * All of my photos, organized by location, from my trips.
 * Photos people like best, among those I have taken and posted here.
 * OSCON
 * More Photos from OSCON
   
 * my visit to Switzerland in May 2003 (and the same photos at the original
   photographer's site.)
 * Some pictures from Vaasa where I slipped on icy ground in the airport, broke
   my elbow, and gave my speech by telephone from the hospital bed
 * my trips to Greece
 * In Singapore in March 2001, a lovely parrot (50k jpeg) became enamored of me,
   while others enjoyed my recorder playing (91k jpeg)
 * my visit to China in May/June 2000. I also visited Tibet unawares, because
   nobody told me that JiuZhaiGou was part of Tibetan territory annexed by China
   since the conquest
 * my visit to Brazil: some from Rio de Janeiro and some from Porto Alegre where
   the Software Livre 2000 event was held.
 * my trip to Slovenia
 * A photo of me by Blake Livingston (may be used under CC-BY-SA).


SCIENTIFIC LINKS

 * Homeopathy debunked, and thoroughly, as pseudoscience.

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SOME HUMOR

The berry torture.

The Free Software Song, by Richard M. Stallman. You can listen to a performance
of the song: Free Software Song performed by Thor Here is a variant of this song
called "The Free Firmware Song".

A song parody, Colors of the Lisp, by Jefferson Carpenter.

Earth under attack from planet Koch.

On doxing, and how to spell it.

Futon Physics

A Spanish cartoon: La Ruleta Española.

The Night before M-x-mas

Here I am wearing my "power tie".

Wine snobs get their comeuppance.

Here I am struggling to open a bottle of water.

My application to an join Marian Henley's ex-boyfriends list.

My funny poetry and song parodies.

My Cartoons

My Puns in English (Little Leaguer, August 2019).

My Puns in Spanish (New pun: Apostasía April 2019)

My Puns in French (New pun: Microsoft à l'école July 2019)

My Puns in Portuguese

My Puns in Italian (New pun: Quale pesce fa starnutire? New 10/2018)

My Puns in German (New 02/2016)

Linguistic Swifties (Now with: Wintu, Penutian, Cochiti, Taos, and Towa.)

--Saint IGNUcius-- The Church of Emacs will soon be officially listed by at
least one person as his religion for census purposes.

There are no godfathers in the Church of Emacs, since there are no gods, but you
can be someone's editorfather.

Stallman Does Dallas: "I have to warn you that Texans have been known to have an
adverse reaction to my personality…"

The Dalai Lama today announced the official release of Yellow Hat GNU/Linux.

Pre-Zen Studies.

I found a funny song about the Mickey Mouse Copyright Act (officially the Sonny
Bono Copyright Act) which extended copyright retroactively by 20 years on works
made as early as the 1920s.

If you are a geek and read Spanish, you will love Raulito el Friki, who said
"Hello, world!" immediately after he was born. Here's an archive of this
now-defunct comic strip.

Sleeping with Stallman at MIT.

Un malentendido gracioso.

ESR's favorite programming language: Objectivist C.

American Extremists

My Small Mouth

The huns and the writs.

No Kludges in Cluj (June 2014)

Hammer into Anvil


FICTION



Made for You (December 2012) (local copy) Esperanto translation

A science fiction story: Jinnetic Engineering (in Portuguese, Farsi, Spanish,
Armenian, Russian, French, and Italian).

The Right to Read


BOOKS

My book of essays about the philosophy of Software Freedom, is available from
the GNU Press.


STALLMAN ON LOVE

Love and Dance

My Childhood Sweetheart

Made for You

My Former Personal Ad


NON-POLITICAL ARTICLES

Am I Doctor Stallman?

Avec des chapeaux French song parody.

My radio program of Music from Georgia, originally broadcast on WUOG in Athens,
Georgia on Oct 13, 2014.

Resolving the trolley problem

Quantum Theory and Abortion Rights

A proposal for gender neutrality in Spanish, suitable for both speech and
writing.

Origin of the POSIX name.

On Hacking: In June 2000, while visiting Korea, I did a fun hack that clearly
illustrates the original and true meaning of the word "hacker".

My Childhood Sweetheart

Love and Dance

Predicting the attack on Pearl Harbor

Certificate of confusion


LINKS


THANKS

I would like to thank:

 * Positive Internet for hosting this web site.
 * Graziano Sorbaioli for improving the layout of the main page.
   

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