Recently, (the previous time) FTB was down for several days because of our hosting service’s response to a DMCA takedown request. The whole story is weird, and has some odd implications. “I am not a lawyer” sort of applies here, but there’s more to it than that.
The failing New York Times sometimes manages to churn forth something important. I’m recommending this article. [nyt]
Fascist boot-lickers seem to think they’re funny. But I just think they’re stupid.
Someone over at PZ’s, in a comment, mentioned “confederate flag toilet paper.”
In my recent post about government’s manifest failure in the face of climate change, GerrardOfTitanServer naturally cropped up and started banging the “Nuclear is our only option” drum. I got so annoyed – he has pulled several comment threads into the weeds in the past – with him that I implied that maybe he could fuck off a little bit.
I regret that. The philosophical ideal would be to not be King Thag of This Blog, and fall back on my authority – which is real as far as bits in this corner of the internet go – I should have had the patience to engage, instead. So, I thought about GerrardOfTitanServer’s arguments for, oh, 5 minutes, and noticed a few gigantic, glaring holes in them. This posting is about that, and I welcome and invite anyone who wants to argue with GerrardOfTitanServer to go ahead.
This can be the GerrardOfTitanServer thread and, note to GerrardOfTitanServer: do not continue to drag other comment threads into endless text-walls of argumentation or I’ll shut you down. You’ve got your thread, now, here you go, this is it.
Trying to figure out if this is “stupid cultural appropriation” or just plain stupid.
Alfred Nobel managed to transition to being a “philanthropist” after a lifetime of building munitions. Usually, when people talk about Nobel’s legacy, they say he felt guilty for inventing dynamite (probably because of the branding: “dynamit nobel”) but he also owned and operated the Swedish steel-maker Bofors, [wik] which he turned into a cannon-maker so successful it’s still very much in business.
I came at this one from a weird angle. One of the Pacifica Radio Archive shows I listened to was an interview with Betty Friedan (FTV074) @13:53 during a question period someone asks: [Read more…]
These seem like a great way to keep score.
The FBI announced that they arrested a white supremacist who was planning to blow up a synagogue. [slate]