Regular reminder that there are billions of people alive right now, and every single one of them matters. I don't just mean this in a moral sense, I mean this in a practical sense.

Any one of us might end up doing something that causes significant change or prevents something really bad.

Ok, so here's a compromise halfway between what we have now and the moral position, copyright abolition:

For every fake DMCA takedown by the Copyright Cartel (or abusive ex's, or literal fascists), it should be legal to murder one IP lawyer or Copyright Cartel executive.

#copyright #dmcaabuse #copyrightAbolition

The new Deputy Director of the FBI, Bongino, said that Trump should do like "The Dark Knight Rises", and “set up a courtroom” in the White House and “just start making judicial decisions.”

This is why I'm constantly going on about the need to think critically about how even .01% of the population will react to media with a power fantasy in it, no matter how narratively disparaged. Doesn't matter if it was a critique of the left/jacobins, every latent fascist sees this shit and just goes WANT!!!

 In an incredible legal victory for animal rights activists and a stunning rebuke of the State's (Multnomah County District Attorneys) willingness to grossly overcharge, CLDC is thrilled to share the resounding trial win for our client who was acquitted of all charges today!

➡️ Check out our website to read the full blog post: https://cldc.org/animal-rights-activists-found-not-guilty-in-multnomah-county/

re the zizian "death cult" thing:

My priors are that abuse is super common and my heuristics are that accusations are usually onto something so believe accusations of abuse. Thus when folks say that CFAR covered up widespread sexual abuse in rationalist circles, I'm like yeah, sure, makes total sense. And when folks say this Ziz person ran an abusive sleep deprivation cult, I'm like yeah, sure, makes total sense. That doesn't mean assigning absolute credence, but like, it's all a good bet.

I'm always on about how what the rationalist community is missing is the robust social norms of eg anarchism.

But another aspect is anarchism gives a sense of identity, commonality, and place, that's more historically sweeping. The rationalists are very big into feeling like they're inventing everything important on the spot from scratch. Whereas anarchism has two centuries of experience and experiment to pull from, and a wider sense of continuity with millennia of liberation struggles.