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Sumali Ekim 2019
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Johnathan Haidt is to the world of bits what Paul Ehrlich was to the word of atoms.
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Paul Ehrlich has died. He was 93.
He is survived by 8,300,678,394 people (134% increase from 1968), with a daily worldwide average calorie intake of 2,800 kcal (a 22% increase).
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It’s time to build an institution that helps humanity build a firewall against freakouts.
Louis Anslow@LouisAnslow
What if the death of Ehrlich gives birth to an uprising against irrational pessimism?
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It has never been more important to heed this.
Even if you think humanity does face new novel risks, irrational pessimism should be considered a fatal distraction from identifying and mitigating them.
Pessimists Archive@PessimistsArc
It is really important that we don’t forget the risks and harms of irrational pessimism.
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It is really important that we don’t forget the risks and harms of irrational pessimism.
Shawn Regan@Shawn_Regan
Paul Ehrlich in 1970: "The FCC should see to it that large families are always treated in negative light on television." If that doesn't work, then the government should "legislate the size of the family" and "throw you in jail if you have too many" kids.
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What if you had to upload your government ID or scan your face to use a VPN?
That's what the UK is proposing
Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥@senatorshoshana
I have a new substack called Papercuts! My first post: U.S. and U.K. lawmakers are cracking down on VPNs and your privacy will suffer
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They're tweeting out a dubious poll from a far right think tank that opposes abortion and gay marriage to manufacture consent for a law that would treat every single app on the app store as if it's porn (including weather and calculator apps).
Energy and Commerce Committee@HouseCommerce
The numbers don’t lie! The OVERWHELMING majority of voters agree—app stores should have to verify users’ age to prevent minors from downloading apps without parental consent. It’s not controversial, it’s common sense.
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Very normal stuff coming out of the UK.
Steve Laws 🏴@Steve_Laws_
The state is getting desperate
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Amazing moment @RossKemp realizes he’s been mislead by incel moral panic narrative mid-documentary.
Really refreshing.
Jonathan Wong@WONGthink
Ross Kemp made an entire docuseries on inceldom after watching Adolescence. This was the moment he found out.
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Imagine if this had been written into law and all book purchases required ID + a database of who read what.
That is what is happening with the internet now
Pessimists Archive@PessimistsArc
1908: the Lancet calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed
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You'll never guess Putin's pretext for creating "The Red Web", Russia's pervasive system of online censorship....
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A good way to ’think of the children’ is to not erode their future adult civil libraries
Jacob Mchangama@JMchangama
You'll never guess Putin's pretext for creating "The Red Web", Russia's pervasive system of online censorship....
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Technology journalists have failed to
1.) learn from history
2.) question moral panic
3.) treat the open web as sacred
The free and open web is experiencing a controlled demolition, the fate of the free word is at stake.
WRITERS AND EDITORS GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER NOW
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Lawmakers, who claim to care about children, could pass broader social and economic policies that we know would meaningfully improve children’s lives. Any policies that limit online access should centre on the most vulnerable children and adults. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Once built, this surveillance infrastructure will be abused, just as every prior expansion of government surveillance and censorship power has been. We must do everything in our power to stop these laws where we can and preserve a free and open internet. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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There was a time in the '90s when civil libertarians fought tooth and nail for internet freedom. They largely won.
Now, their gains risk reversal. More people are clamoring for age verification and a "papers, please" approach to accessing vast swaths of the web.
Here is @EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow's declaration on the occasion of the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
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