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1. ⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️ (pnathan@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 12-Mar-2018 17:05:54 EDT ⚗️⚗️⚗️ pnathan ⚗️⚗️⚗️

   https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201611/are-we-forfeiting-control-over-our-digital-lives

   A good article on Stallman. It's worth asking ourselves here the epistemological question: "are ideas separate from the idea-holders".

   because by many accounts rms isn't a stellar human being, but he believes his ideals with great purity.

   is it possible - as the classical Western ideal says - for an idea and the idea-carrier to be separated?

   idk. monday afternoon musings when I'm not excited about work.

   1. Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Mar-2018 03:40:30 EDT Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅

      in reply to
      @pnathan Stallman is definitely eccentric, but on all the main points he was right. Before Snowden many people didn't believe that government surveillance was a problem, or that only "the bad people" would be spied on. The reasons why software needed to be free also didn't become clear until the abuses of the software industry started to become obvious.
      1. Klaus Jónsson Zimmermann (kzimmermann@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Mar-2018 07:14:41 EDT Klaus Jónsson Zimmermann

         in reply to
         @bob I guess one needs to feel the pain to learn firsthand the good from the evil