Maximize free will
September 7, 2012 – First guest post for Pythagoreanism.com! Written by Corey Wlodarczyk If the buy-in requires the sacrifice of freedom and the game is mandatory, are we still talking about a free world? Historically, the United States has considered it a constitutional right to be able to discharge debt, and has condemned debtor’s prison….
At this point, I feel like this is the only avenue I have of expressing a crucial message pertaining to the effort for world peace. There seems to be kind of a fever pitch toward war with Iran right now, and it has to stop. (Today’s NYT article on the matter) This is the beginning…
Transparency is my cause. Transparency is a necessary element of being collectively human. We need more transparency in government. We need to know where and how election fraud happens, and fight it. We don’t know anything without transparency. We need more transparency in finance (I’m leading by example on this). And we need transparency online,…
Listen to the author read this entire article out loud (9:05) February 27, 2012 So, Facebook reads your text messages, according to the the London Sunday Times in a subscribers-only article, referenced all over the blogosphere today (Fox News, Tech Crunch, and many others). If you have the Facebook mobile app, then that same mobile app, without asking…
Censored: If, and only if, justice, then peace. Why, war, why? Carl Rittenhouse Larson February, 2012 For the record, my poetry, shown above, has been censored. This is a fact. Most likely, it was censored by an algorithm, but still. In a way, it was written by an algorithm. I’m thinking about getting “Censored…
February 21, 2012 I recently challenged Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg to a duel of words. I posted an image to my Facebook wall, along with thousands of other people, who posted the same image to their own walls. Eventually, that image was taken down, from everyone’s wall, by Facebook. The image wasn’t lewd, it wasn’t…
February 19, 2012 Charlie Dent is a politician from Pennsylvania who has introduced the Enemy Expatriation Act (EEA), which would revoke the citizenship of American citizens suspected of links to terrorism. The interviewer’s only decent question is whether the EEA would strip convicted terrorists of their citizenship, or just those suspected of terrorism. Dent responds by alluding to “investigations,”…