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RICHARD STALLMAN'S PERSONAL SITE


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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.

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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.


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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.


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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
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 * send me examples of how proprietary programs have been designed to be
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   given point in the news.
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   programmed obsolescence of products.
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   web sites.
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 * help web sites put free licenses on their Javascript code.

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 reject military conscription.
   
   

 * US citizens: Call on various pharma companies to drop the lawsuits that aim
   to stop Biden from lowering the prices of medicines.
   
   

 * US citizens: call on Congress to pass Bernie Sanders's Social Security
   Expansion bill.
   
   

 * US citizens: call on Congress not to allow a military draft.
   
   If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
   
   

 * US citizens: call on Congress to ensure no American citizen is denied the
   right to vote on account of felony convictions.
   
   If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
   
   

 * Everyone: call on T-Mobile, CVS, GM, and Elevance Health to stop funding the
   right-wing Republican Attorney Generals Association.
   
   

 * Everyone: call on Vanguard's new CEO to take the lead in defending the
   climate.
   
   

 * US citizens: call on Congress not to cut SNAP benefits.

 * 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.


HURRICANE EARLIEST CATEGORY 5 EVER
7 JULY 2024

A surprisingly powerful hurricane caused near total devastation in two Caribbean
islands; nearly all buildings there were destroyed.

Each hurricane's devastation centers on a few places, but which places are hit
each time is random. Any place in the hurricane zone could be devastated by the
next hurricane. As global heating makes for more powerful hurricanes, buildings
that formerly were probably safe become vulnerable.

(Different terms are officially used, rather than "hurricane", for similar
storms in other parts of the world. For simplicity I write "hurricane" to refer
to all of them.)

But hurricanes are just one of the dangers we are increasing. There are also
wildfires, floods, desertification, ecological disruption, and the spread of
tropical diseases and parasites. Many of these disrupt food production, and that
is likely to cause mass starvation later this century.

To argue about how much some countries owe other countries because of global
heating is divisive and shortsighted. All of humanity (and a lot of nature) is
in danger from global heating. Instead of divisiveness, civilization must unite
to curb global heating and decrease the future danger we are creating.




ISRAEL STRIKES GAZA SCHOOL/SHELTER
7 JULY 2024

*Israeli strike on Gaza school kills 16, say Palestinian officials,* and injured
50. The school was serving as shelter for 7000 people who had fled other places
in Gaza.




GLOBAL TRADE MYTH
7 JULY 2024

Robert Reich: *Debunking Myth #6: “Global trade is good for everyone!”*




CEASE-FIRE DEAL, GAZA
7 JULY 2024

There has been some progress towards a cease-fire deal for Gaza. But it is still
blocked by the most bloodthirsty member of Israel's governing coalition. This
calls for the US to increase the pressure until that party cannot stand against
it.




LABOUR AND GREEN PARTY TAKES, UK
7 JULY 2024

Many former Labour supporters voted for Labour reluctantly, solely to eliminate
Tory rule. Many others voted Green. Next time, with less threat from Tories, the
Green Party may win many Labour seats.

Competing with the Greens could pressure Labour to stand for what, before
Starmer, it used to stand for. But if it does not do that, many former Labour
voters will become Green voters, and Starmer will continue making Labour into
the image of the former competent but cruel already cruel Tory Party.




PROJECT 2025 ALOOFNESS
7 JULY 2024

*[The corrupter] attempting to claim to "know nothing" about Project 2025.
Critics point out political roadmap for a potential second term created by "more
than 20 officials Trump appointed."*




PEACE NOW REPORTS ANOTHER LAND GRAB
7 JULY 2024

Peace Now, an Israeli organization that aims for peace between Israel and
Palestine, reports that Israel's latest seizure of land in the West Bank is
larger than usual.

Israel continually seizes parcels of land near the Jordan River so that a
Palestinian state would be surrounded.

It also declares land to be a "military zone" as an excuse for expelling
Palestinians.




RANKED-CHOICE VOTING PUSH, BOSTON
7 JULY 2024

Boston's city council has asked the state of Massachusetts to allow Boston to
use ranked choice voting.




TEN ACTIVISTS, PRISON SENTENCES, KHM
6 JULY 2024

Imprisoning environmental protectors is not limited to corrupt western
democracies. Cambodia, which is controlled by a hereditary "prime minister" in
the name of a hereditary king, does it too.

Now that China has a policy of investing abroad to gain influence, it has a lot
of influence in many of its smaller neighbors. Cambodia would seem to be one of
them.




(SATIRE) RIGHT V. WRONG
6 JULY 2024

(satire) Supreme Court Overturns "Right v. Wrong"

How prescient!




(SATIRE) DAILY CRIME-SPREE WINDOW
6 JULY 2024

(satire) *Supreme Court Rules [the corrupter] Has Immunity For Any Crime
Committed Between 9 And 5.*

(satire?) If Republicans take power, they will give their followers "herd
immunity", meaning immunity for any crimes they commit in the course of
following those leaders.




(SATIRE) CHIEF JUSTICE GRAFT BENEFITS
6 JULY 2024

(satire) *Clarence Thomas Torn Over Case Where Both Sides Offer Compelling Scuba
Trips.*




ACTIVIST COUNTER-PUNCH, AFG
6 JULY 2024

An Afghan human rights activist who is a woman was arrested by the Taliban, who
gang-raped her in jail. The rapists made a video to silence her with. When
released, she fled the country, and they sent her a copy, threatening to publish
it if she continued to criticize them.

Far from being intimidated, she sent it to news organizations.

That is courage. She does not have anything to be ashamed of -- the rapists do.

The article reports on other cases of Taliban's raping, even killing, women they
arrested.

I suppose they brutalize men also who criticize them, perhaps in different ways.




A HUMAN-ORIENTED VS A GDP-BASED ECONOMY
6 JULY 2024

*Obsession with growth is enriching elites and killing the planet. We need an
economy based on human rights.* Meanwhile, the number of poor people is
increasing.

The flaws of GDP as a measure to target increase in are clear. What I don't know
of is a good replacement. I tried looking at proposals, but the few I saw were
flawed in other ways. Then I tried trying to invent one, but did not come up
with anything good.




SPENDING NEEDED, UK, US
6 JULY 2024

The UK and the US both have many crucial national needs that call for spending
money. If a party tries to woo wealthy voters whose priority is not to pay more
tax, by promising not to raise taxes, it has made a choice not to address the
long list of pressing national needs that require spending more money. By making
this choice for Labour, Starmer has limited it to small change.

Many Britons supported the Labour Party precisely because its goal was to do
something about that. It rejected Communism, but advocated an increased level of
Socialism. Now Starmer thinks to drag them along for lack of a better
alternative.

However, the Liberal Democrats have now pledged to raise taxes on the wealthy to
fix the NHS.




PARENTS' FEARS MISLEAD
6 JULY 2024

How parents' unreasonable anxiety drives them to give children snoop-phones and
never let them go off by themselves.




JEREMY CORBYN STANDS, UK MP
5 JULY 2024

Jeremy Corbyn won reelection to Parliament, defeating the Starmer Labour
candidate running against him.




TOP ELECTION-CANDIDACY STORY IN VEN
5 JULY 2024

Maduro in Venezuela is a bully and does not respect democracy. Now he may be
ousted, but what would come next?

The article tries to spread Maduro's deserved condemnation on his predecessor,
the late President Chávez. That is unjust: Chávez was popular. He was reelected
honestly, after the people had defeated a coup attempt arranged by the US. He
gave Venezuela more socialism but did not eliminate capitalist business or
democracy.

Maduro, by contrast, is not honest and has not done good for the people. He
inspired strong opposition, which he overcame by undermining democracy. But his
opposition (including coup leader Guaido, backed by the US) has not deserved
support either. It showed signs of working to restore the pre-Chávez
plutocratist authoritarianism.

Opposition candidate González is described as a stand-in. For whom, I have to
wonder. Will he be an improvement over Maduro, or another authoritarian
plutocratist?




"YES YOUR INNOCENCY" PRESIDENCY, US
5 JULY 2024



*[The corrupter] would be free to obstruct justice in second term, after [the
recent] immunity ruling.*




REGULATIONS IN AN ADMINISTRATIVE STATE
5 JULY 2024

Robert Reich: *Last week, the Supreme Court made it much harder for the FTC, the
Labor Department, and dozens of other agencies — ranging from the Environmental
Protection Agency to the Food and Drug Administration, Securities and Exchange
Commission, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau, and National Highway and Safety Administration — to protect
Americans from corporate misconduct.*



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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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