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Cory Doctorow on "intellectual property"

jeudi 27 mai 2021 à 02:00

Cory Doctorow has endorsed my denunciation of "intellectual property" as a bogus overgeneralization.

See "Did You Say 'Intellectual Property'? It's a Seductive Mirage", for how I stated the point.

Doctorow does a good job of explaining the point, and will reach a bigger public.

Eliminating the filibuster

jeudi 27 mai 2021 à 02:00

How Democrats can maneuver the political process so that Manchin votes reluctantly to eliminate the filibuster.

It seems to me that they are working on a plan like that.

Cancer Alley chemical plant

jeudi 27 mai 2021 à 02:00

The construction of a new, potentially polluting chemical plant in Cancer Alley is running into government resistance.

Instead of trying to clean up Cancer Alley, how about if we move the people out of there? Here's how we could do it.

Help out each of the families that lives in the polluted area, paying enough that it can afford a home in a city some distance away.

Set up bus lines from those cites to the area where the polluting plants are, taxing all chemical plants nationwide to pay to run them.

Put all new chemical plants in such a zone, so that they won't pollute places where anybody lives.

Fashionable ways to impress people

jeudi 27 mai 2021 à 02:00

A guide to the fashionable ways to impress people, for those who can't afford a mansion.

Republican anti-mask anti-vaxxer punished

jeudi 27 mai 2021 à 02:00

Nevada's legislature has given a strong punishment to a Republican anti-mask anti-vaxxer. She is barred from speaking or voting in the legislature unless she apologizes for breaking the chamber's mask rule.

Her firmness in defense of principle would be admirable, if not for the fact that the principle being defended is "Spread disease!"

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