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1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> |
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2 <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:base="http://"> |
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3 <title type="text">The occasional scrivener</title> |
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4 <subtitle type="text">Gustaf Erikson's weblog.</subtitle> |
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5 <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://gerikson.co… |
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6 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="en" href="https://ger… |
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7 <id>tag:,2004:/</id> |
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8 <generator uri="http://www.blosxom.com/" version="2.1.2">Blosxom</gene… |
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9 |
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10 |
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11 |
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12 <updated>2021-06-11T18:13:00Z</updated> |
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13 |
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14 <entry> |
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15 <id>tag:,2021:/comm/Why-u-no-gemini</id> |
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16 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://gerikson.com/bl… |
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17 |
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18 <title type="text">Why Gemini is not my favorite internet protocol</… |
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19 <published>2021-06-11T12:16:00Z</published> |
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20 <updated>2021-06-11T18:13:00Z</updated> |
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21 <category term="/comm"/> |
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22 <author> |
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23 <name>Gustaf Erikson</name> |
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24 <uri>https://gerikson.com/blog</uri> |
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25 </author> |
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26 <content type="html" xml:base="http://" xml:lang="en"> |
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27 <p>TL;DR: the Gemini protocol removes too much functionality for i… |
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28 interesting to me.</p> |
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29 |
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30 <h3>What is Gemini?</h3> |
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31 |
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32 <p><a href="https://gemini.circumlunar.space/">Gem… |
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33 descendant, successor of Gopher. Gemini primarily emphasizes developer |
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34 simplicity, and secondarily user privacy.</p> |
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35 |
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36 <p>This comes with significant trade-offs for the author, |
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37 however. Compared to standard vanilla HTML4, there are no inline |
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38 links, no provision for media other than text on a page, and the |
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39 styling of the content is left to the client.</p> |
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40 |
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41 <p>My background in web publishing - I&#8217;ve been fascinate… |
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42 since I was a kid and I&#8217;ve been involved in printing zines and… |
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43 student newspapers etc through the years. The idea that I can publish |
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44 what I want, when I want, at whatever lengths I want, for effectively |
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45 free, is still mind-blowing to me, almost 30 years since I copied some |
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46 <abbr title="Hyper Text Markup Language">HTML</abbr&g… |
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47 |
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48 <p>Here&#8217;s where Gemini falls down for me.</p> |
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49 |
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50 <p>First, there&#8217;s no official client. The fact that it&a… |
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51 implement a client means there&#8217;s a Cambrian explosion going on… |
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52 the filtering die-back has not yet occurred. This might change in the |
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53 medium future.</p> |
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54 |
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55 <p>Second, the styling limitations are crippling. I can probably s… |
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56 without having images etc. on the same page, but the lack of inline |
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57 links (each link has to be on its own line) leads to stilted, |
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58 quasi-academic jargony text like this:</p> |
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59 |
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60 <blockquote> |
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61 <p>Check out my cool blog[1]! It&#8217;s full of cats! </… |
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62 |
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63 <p>[1] <a href="https://gerikson.com/blog">https:/… |
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64 </blockquote> |
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65 |
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66 <p>I&#8217;m not going to abandon three decades of hypertext a… |
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67 to make a developer&#8217;s life slightly easier.</p> |
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68 |
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69 <p>Third, Gemini puts the cart before the horse when it comes to |
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70 privacy. The solution to widespread tracking and user surveillance |
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71 isn&#8217;t a bespoke hairshirt protocol that no-one is going to use… |
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72 solution is widespread legislation that makes using people&#8217;s p… |
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73 data for targeted advertising illegal or very expensive. (This is not |
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74 limited to Gemini. A great many influential Internet people are |
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75 convinced politics is utterly broken, so &#8220;technical solutions&… |
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76 that&#8217;s left).</p> |
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77 |
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78 <p>Gemini, to me, is part of the nostalgia for a past that never r… |
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79 was - the halcyon days of the Internet, before <a href="https://… |
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80 September</a>. But time is the |
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81 great filter. What has survived from that era is not the spam, the |
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82 pointless Usenet arguments, the shitposting, but finely polished |
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83 nuggets. If you weren&#8217;t there, it might have seemed a paradise… |
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84 was, and it wasn&#8217;t. It was today&#8217;s internet, but tex… |
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85 proportionally even more white dudes.</p> |
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86 |
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87 </content> |
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88 </entry> |
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89 |
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90 <entry> |
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91 <id>tag:,2021:/comm/Death-of-a-channel</id> |
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92 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://gerikson.com/bl… |
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93 |
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94 <title type="text">Death of a channel</title> |
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95 <published>2021-06-05T14:32:00Z</published> |
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96 <updated>2021-06-05T14:35:00Z</updated> |
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97 <category term="/comm"/> |
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98 <author> |
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99 <name>Gustaf Erikson</name> |
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100 <uri>https://gerikson.com/blog</uri> |
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101 </author> |
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102 <content type="html" xml:base="http://" xml:lang="en"> |
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103 <p>This is a short write-up of how a channel on Freenode was hijac… |
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104 staff, and how it was effectively deleted.</p> |
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105 |
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106 <h3>Background</h3> |
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107 |
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108 <p>The channel #photography was founded on Freenode in 2001, as a … |
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109 to discuss photography. Its single-hash status was challenged by |
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110 Freenode staffer lilo, and it was changed to #photogeeks to comply |
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111 with the requirement for single-hash channels to be associated with a |
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112 project.</p> |
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113 |
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114 <p>In 2006, the channel #photo was registered to discuss photograp… |
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115 se, and not gear. Quite soon the channel became social in nature, and |
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116 it was hidden and a password set.</p> |
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117 |
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118 <p>Over the years, about a dozen people used this channel as a soc… |
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119 space to discuss everything under the sun.</p> |
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120 |
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121 <h2>Hijack</h2> |
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122 |
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123 <p>When the takeover of Freenode by Andrew Lee occurred, the chann… |
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124 registered on Libera.chat, and on 2021-05-21, the topic was updated to |
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125 say</p> |
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126 |
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127 <pre><code>09:07 -!- gustaf changed the topic of #photo to:… |
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128 </code></pre> |
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129 |
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130 <p>On 2021-05-26, the channel was hijacked:</p> |
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131 |
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132 <pre><code>05:02 -!- freenodecom &lt;~com@freenode/staf… |
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133 05:02 -!- mode/#photo (+o freenodecom) by freenodecom |
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134 05:02 -!- freenodecom changed the topic of #photo to: This channel has … |
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135 05:02 &lt;@freenodecom&gt; This channel has been reopened with r… |
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136 05:02 -!- mode/#photo (+o freenodecom) by OperServ |
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137 05:02 &lt;@freenodecom&gt; The new channel is ##photo |
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138 05:02 -!- mode/#photo (-s+t) by ChanServ |
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139 05:02 -!- mode/#photo (+spimf ##photo) by freenodecom |
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140 05:02 -!- freenodecom &lt;~com@freenode/staff&gt; has left #pho… |
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141 05:02 -!- mode/#photo (+f ##photo) by freenodecom |
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142 07:37 &lt; gustaf&gt; &lt;abbr title="what the fsck&quo… |
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143 07:37 -!- #photo Cannot send to nick/channel |
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144 </code></pre> |
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145 |
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146 <p>(all times are in CEST).</p> |
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147 |
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148 <p>A few hours later, Andrew Lee (rasengan) sent a network-wide wa… |
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149 informing users that an attempt to enforce newly instituted rules |
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150 against advertising other IRC networks had been overly broad and |
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151 targeted more channels than intended.</p> |
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152 |
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153 <p>It&#8217;s clear that our channel was included in this.<… |
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154 |
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155 <p>Users were encouraged to submit a request to Freenode staff to … |
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156 their channels back.</p> |
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157 |
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158 <h2>Aftermath</h2> |
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159 |
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160 <p>The &#8220;regulars&#8221; of the channel were contacte… |
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161 the Freenode channel was now closed. Most moved over to Libera. A few |
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162 mentioned that they were permanently leaving Freenode.</p> |
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163 |
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164 <p>As a good faith effort, prompted by Freenode promoters, I attem… |
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165 regain control of the channel at Freenode, but was informed that |
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166 having a single-hash channel was not according to policy. The request |
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167 was denied.</p> |
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168 |
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169 <h2>Discussion</h2> |
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170 |
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171 <p>I&#8217;ve written this post to present my side of the stor… |
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172 weeks, I&#8217;ve been told on Freenode that the widespread channel |
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173 hijacking of 26 May 2021 (some reports say that 700+ channels were |
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174 affected) was either not as widespread as reported, or &#8220;justif… |
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175 stem the flow of users to Libera.</p> |
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176 |
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177 <p>I&#8217;m also a member of the channel #lobsters, which suf… |
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178 fate. However, in that case, <a href="https://lobste.rs/s/1z77ly… |
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179 the Freenode channel was |
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180 locked</a>. Based on |
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181 Lee&#8217;s rationale, I actually find the hijack justified, as ther… |
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182 presumably people who would prefer to remain on Freenode and discuss |
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183 the site there. However, note that there very little warning before |
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184 this happened. There was no attempt to contact the project to present |
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185 Freenode&#8217;s case as a better IRC host than Libera. Freenode ins… |
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186 unilaterally decided they knew better than the project&#8217;s thems… |
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187 |
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188 <p>When Libera was announced, I did not feel that the urgency pres… |
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189 by the staff there was entirely justified. Never would I imagine that |
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190 Andrew Lee would, within a week, exceed those warnings by a wide |
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191 margin.</p> |
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192 |
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193 <p>He and the current Freenode staff have proven that they cannot … |
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194 trusted to be stewards of communities, by hijacking channels and |
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195 disrupting them. They have proven to be incompetent, by affecting more |
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196 channels than intended. They have proven to be discourteous, by |
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197 requiring channel owners affected by their incompetence to apply, hat |
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198 in hand and papers in order, for their channels to be reinstated. And |
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199 finally, they&#8217;ve proven to be bad business people, by alienati… |
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200 their future customers and torching their future income stream.</p> |
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201 |
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202 <h2>Future</h2> |
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203 |
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204 <p>I&#8217;m nostalgic for my almost 17 year old Freenode acco… |
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205 time passes, the more bitter I become. I&#8217;m going to hang aroun… |
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206 some channels to see how things work out. I&#8217;m open to a more h… |
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207 approach from Freenode staff and boosters. But if I feel I can&#8217… |
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208 part of a network that treats its users as peons to be exploited, I&… |
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209 out.</p> |
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210 |
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211 </content> |
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212 </entry> |
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213 |
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214 <entry> |
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215 <id>tag:,2021:/photo/2021-05</id> |
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216 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://gerikson.com/bl… |
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217 |
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218 <title type="text">May</title> |
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219 <published>2021-05-31T23:23:00Z</published> |
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220 <updated>2021-05-31T22:09:00Z</updated> |
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221 <category term="/photo"/> |
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222 <author> |
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223 <name>Gustaf Erikson</name> |
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224 <uri>https://gerikson.com/blog</uri> |
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225 </author> |
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226 <content type="html" xml:base="http://" xml:lang="en"> |
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227 <p><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www… |
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228 |
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229 <p><a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2020-05.html&qu… |
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230 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2019-05.html">Ma… |
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231 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2018-05.html">Ma… |
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232 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2017-05.html">Ma… |
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233 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2016-05.html">Ma… |
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234 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2015-05.html">Ma… |
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235 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2014-05.html">Ma… |
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236 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/May-2013.html">M… |
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237 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2012-05.html">Ma… |
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238 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/alt/Copenhagen-2011.html"… |
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239 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2010-05-02.html">… |
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240 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/Sicklasjon.html">… |
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241 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/Goin-pro.html">M… |
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242 |
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243 </content> |
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244 </entry> |
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245 |
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246 <entry> |
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247 <id>tag:,2021:/books/read/Agency</id> |
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248 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://gerikson.com/bl… |
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249 |
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250 <title type="html"><em>Agency</em> by William Gibson</ti… |
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251 <published>2021-05-26T19:02:00Z</published> |
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252 <updated>2021-06-08T11:29:00Z</updated> |
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253 <category term="/books/read"/> |
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254 <author> |
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255 <name>Gustaf Erikson</name> |
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256 <uri>https://gerikson.com/blog</uri> |
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257 </author> |
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258 <content type="html" xml:base="http://" xml:lang="en"> |
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259 <p>This is Gibson&#8217;s worst novel. Not recommended.</p&… |
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260 |
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261 <p>It&#8217;s in the same (multi)verse as <em>The Periph… |
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262 |
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263 <p>While that novel had engaging characters, this one doesn&#8… |
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264 Jackpot protagonist, Wilf, shows us the horrifying prospect of the |
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265 repressed Englishman surviving global collapse and an 80% die-off of |
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266 humanity. The present-day character has no inner life to speak of. I |
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267 have no clue how she managed to get in a relationship with her world&… |
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268 Elon Musk analog. We&#8217;re supposed to believe that Eunice, the A… |
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269 the Jackpot side uses to try to avert nuclear war, is this |
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270 fantastically engaging personality everyone loves, but in the end |
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271 she&#8217;s basically sassy Magic Negro. The novel has entire chapte… |
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272 describing drives through the Bay Area.</p> |
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273 |
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274 <p>In the end it reads as therapy for Gibson to cope with the Trum… |
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275 |
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276 </content> |
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277 </entry> |
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278 |
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279 <entry> |
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280 <id>tag:,2021:/books/read/The-Mirror-and-the-Light</id> |
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281 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://gerikson.com/bl… |
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282 |
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283 <title type="html"><em>The Mirror and the Light</em> by … |
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284 <published>2021-05-20T18:51:00Z</published> |
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285 <updated>2021-05-25T07:27:00Z</updated> |
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286 <category term="/books/read"/> |
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287 <author> |
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288 <name>Gustaf Erikson</name> |
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289 <uri>https://gerikson.com/blog</uri> |
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290 </author> |
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291 <content type="html" xml:base="http://" xml:lang="en"> |
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292 <p>Mantel concludes the trilogy about Thomas Cromwell as he reache… |
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293 |
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294 <p>As I&#8217;ve mentioned before about this trilogy, this is … |
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295 |
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296 </content> |
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297 </entry> |
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298 |
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299 <entry> |
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300 <id>tag:,2021:/photo/2021-04</id> |
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301 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://gerikson.com/bl… |
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302 |
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303 <title type="text">April</title> |
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304 <published>2021-04-30T23:23:00Z</published> |
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305 <updated>2021-05-02T14:27:00Z</updated> |
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306 <category term="/photo"/> |
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307 <author> |
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308 <name>Gustaf Erikson</name> |
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309 <uri>https://gerikson.com/blog</uri> |
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310 </author> |
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311 <content type="html" xml:base="http://" xml:lang="en"> |
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312 <p><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www… |
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313 |
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314 <p><a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2020-04.html&qu… |
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315 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2019-04.html">Ap… |
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316 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2018-04.html">Ap… |
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317 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2017-04.html">Ap… |
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318 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2016-04.html">Ap… |
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319 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2015-04.html">Ap… |
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320 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2014-04.html">Ap… |
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321 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/April-2013.html">… |
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322 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2012-04.html">Ap… |
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323 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2011-04.html">Ap… |
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324 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2010-04.html">Ap… |
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325 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/Cherry-blossoms.html&quo… |
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326 |
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327 </content> |
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328 </entry> |
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329 |
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330 <entry> |
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331 <id>tag:,2021:/alt/corona2020/Corona-14000-dead</id> |
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332 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://gerikson.com/bl… |
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333 |
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334 <title type="text">14,000 dead in Sweden</title> |
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335 <published>2021-04-24T12:28:00Z</published> |
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336 <updated>2021-05-02T14:23:00Z</updated> |
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337 <category term="/alt/corona2020"/> |
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338 <author> |
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339 <name>Gustaf Erikson</name> |
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340 <uri>https://gerikson.com/blog</uri> |
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341 </author> |
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342 <content type="text" xml:base="http://" xml:lang="en"> |
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343 |
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344 |
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345 </content> |
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346 </entry> |
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347 |
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348 <entry> |
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349 <id>tag:,2021:/books/read/Pacific-War-Trilogy</id> |
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350 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://gerikson.com/bl… |
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351 |
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352 <title type="html"><em>The Pacific War Trilogy</em> by I… |
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353 <published>2021-04-13T19:44:00Z</published> |
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354 <updated>2021-04-14T13:23:00Z</updated> |
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355 <category term="/books/read"/> |
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356 <author> |
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357 <name>Gustaf Erikson</name> |
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358 <uri>https://gerikson.com/blog</uri> |
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359 </author> |
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360 <content type="html" xml:base="http://" xml:lang="en"> |
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361 <ul> |
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362 <li>Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942</l… |
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363 <li>The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944&l… |
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364 <li>Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944–1945&… |
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365 </ul> |
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366 |
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367 <p>An excellent and readable account of the (US) war in the Pacific |
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368 against Japan in World War 2. Highly recommended.</p> |
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369 |
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370 </content> |
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371 </entry> |
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372 |
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373 <entry> |
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374 <id>tag:,2021:/photo/2021-03</id> |
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375 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://gerikson.com/bl… |
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376 |
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377 <title type="text">March</title> |
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378 <published>2021-03-31T23:23:00Z</published> |
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379 <updated>2021-04-01T07:35:00Z</updated> |
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380 <category term="/photo"/> |
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381 <author> |
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382 <name>Gustaf Erikson</name> |
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383 <uri>https://gerikson.com/blog</uri> |
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384 </author> |
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385 <content type="html" xml:base="http://" xml:lang="en"> |
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386 <p><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www… |
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387 |
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388 <p><a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2020-03.html&qu… |
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389 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2019-03.html">Ma… |
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390 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2018-03.html">Ma… |
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391 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2017-03.html">Ma… |
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392 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2016-03.html">Ma… |
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393 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2015-03.html">Ma… |
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394 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/2014-03.html">Ma… |
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395 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/March-2013.html">… |
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396 Mar 2012 | |
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397 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/March-2011.html">… |
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398 Mar 2010 | |
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399 <a href="http://gerikson.com/blog/photo/Last-day-of-winter.html&… |
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400 |
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401 </content> |
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402 </entry> |
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403 |
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404 <entry> |
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405 <id>tag:,2021:/books/read/Confessions-of-a-Long-Distance-Sailor</id> |
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406 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://gerikson.com/bl… |
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407 |
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408 <title type="html"><em>Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor&l… |
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409 <published>2021-03-27T22:11:00Z</published> |
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410 <updated>2021-03-28T08:17:00Z</updated> |
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411 <category term="/books/read"/> |
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412 <author> |
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413 <name>Gustaf Erikson</name> |
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414 <uri>https://gerikson.com/blog</uri> |
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415 </author> |
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416 <content type="html" xml:base="http://" xml:lang="en"> |
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417 <p>A self-published book <a href="https://www.arachnoid.co… |
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418 |
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419 <p>A worthy entry in the long roster of such accounts.</p> |
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420 |
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421 </content> |
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422 </entry> |
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424 <entry> |
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425 <id>tag:,2021:/alt/corona2020/One-year-of-WFM</id> |
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426 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://gerikson.com/bl… |
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427 |
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428 <title type="text">One year since WFH started</title> |
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429 <published>2021-03-17T05:55:00Z</published> |
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430 <updated>2021-03-17T05:55:00Z</updated> |
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431 <category term="/alt/corona2020"/> |
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432 <author> |
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433 <name>Gustaf Erikson</name> |
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434 <uri>https://gerikson.com/blog</uri> |
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435 </author> |
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439 </content> |
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440 </entry> |
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441 |
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442 <entry> |
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443 <id>tag:,2021:/alt/corona2020/Pandemic-1yr-anniversary</id> |
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444 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://gerikson.com/bl… |
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445 |
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446 <title type="text">One year since WHO declared a pandemic</title> |
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447 <published>2021-03-11T05:54:00Z</published> |
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448 <updated>2021-03-17T05:54:00Z</updated> |
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449 <category term="/alt/corona2020"/> |
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450 <author> |
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451 <name>Gustaf Erikson</name> |
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452 <uri>https://gerikson.com/blog</uri> |
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453 </author> |
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457 </content> |
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458 </entry> |
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461 <id>tag:,2021:/books/read/Libra-Shrugged</id> |
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462 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://gerikson.com/bl… |
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463 |
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464 <title type="html"><em>Libra Shrugged: How Facebook’s dream … |
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465 <published>2021-03-10T19:09:00Z</published> |
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466 <updated>2021-03-28T08:09:00Z</updated> |
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467 <category term="/books/read"/> |
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468 <author> |
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469 <name>Gustaf Erikson</name> |
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470 <uri>https://gerikson.com/blog</uri> |
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471 </author> |
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472 <content type="html" xml:base="http://" xml:lang="en"> |
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473 <p>A short account of how Bitcoiners tried to create a Facebook cu… |
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474 |
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475 </content> |
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476 </entry> |
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477 |
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478 <entry> |
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479 <id>tag:,2021:/books/read/18th-Brumaire</id> |
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480 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://gerikson.com/bl… |
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481 |
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482 <title type="html"><em>The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonapa… |
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483 <published>2021-03-10T10:41:00Z</published> |
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484 <updated>2021-03-28T10:37:00Z</updated> |
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485 <category term="/books/read"/> |
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486 <author> |
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487 <name>Gustaf Erikson</name> |
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488 <uri>https://gerikson.com/blog</uri> |
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489 </author> |
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490 <content type="html" xml:base="http://" xml:lang="en"> |
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491 <p><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/18… |
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492 here</a>.</p> |
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493 |
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494 <p>Come for the class analysis, stay for the <em>bon mots<… |
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495 |
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496 <p>It&#8217;s probably fitting that the only way obscure Frenc… |
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497 remembered today is through their skewering in this piece.</p> |
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498 |
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499 <blockquote> |
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500 <p>Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts a… |
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501 personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first |
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502 time as tragedy, the second time as |
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503 farce. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Caussidi%C3… |
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504 for Danton, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Blanc… |
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505 for Robespierre, the Montagne of 1848 to 1851 for the Montagne of |
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506 1793 to 1795, the nephew for the uncle. And the same caricature |
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507 occurs in the circumstances of the second edition of the Eighteenth |
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508 Brumaire.</p> |
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509 |
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510 <p>The period that we have before us comprises the most motley mix… |
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511 of crying contradictions: constitutionalists who conspire openly |
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512 against the constitution; revolutionists who are confessedly |
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513 constitutional; a National Assembly that wants to be omnipotent and |
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514 always remains parliamentary; a Montagne that finds its vocation in |
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515 patience and counters its present defeats by prophesying future |
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516 victories; royalists who form the <em>patres conscripti</em&g… |
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517 republic and are forced by the situation to keep the hostile royal |
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518 houses they adhere to abroad, and the republic, which they hate, in |
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519 France; an executive power that finds its strength in its very |
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520 weakness and its respectability in the contempt that it calls forth; |
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521 a republic that is nothing but the combined infamy of two |
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522 monarchies, the Restoration and the July Monarchy, with an imperial |
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523 label – alliances whose first proviso is separation; struggles whose |
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524 first law is indecision; wild, inane agitation in the name of |
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525 tranquillity, most solemn preaching of tranquillity in the name of |
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526 revolution – passions without truth, truths without passion; heroes |
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527 without heroic deeds, history without events; development, whose |
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528 sole driving force seems to be the calendar, wearying with constant |
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529 repetition of the same tensions and relaxations; antagonisms that |
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530 periodically seem to work themselves up to a climax only to lose |
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531 their sharpness and fall away without being able to resolve |
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532 themselves; pretentiously paraded exertions and philistine terror at |
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533 the danger of the world’s coming to an end, and at the same time the |
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534 pettiest intrigues and court comedies played by the world redeemers, |
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535 who in their <em>laisser aller</em> remind us less of the … |
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536 than of the times of the Fronde – the official collective genius of |
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537 France brought to naught by the artful stupidity of a single |
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538 individual; the collective will of the nation, as often as it speaks |
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539 through universal suffrage, seeking its appropriate expression |
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540 through the inveterate enemies of the interests of the masses, until |
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541 at length it finds it in the self-will of a filibuster. If any |
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542 section of history has been painted gray on gray, it is this. Men |
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543 and events appear as reverse |
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544 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schlemihl"&g… |
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545 shadows that have lost their bodies. The revolution itself paralyzes |
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546 its own bearers and endows only its adversaries with passionate |
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547 forcefulness. When the “red specter,” continually conjured up and |
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548 exercised by the counterrevolutionaries finally appears, it appears |
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549 not with the Phrygian cap of anarchy on its head, but in the uniform |
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550 of order, in <em>red breeches</em>.</p> |
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551 |
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552 <p>The coup d&#8217;etat was ever the fixed idea of Bonaparte.… |
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553 he had again set foot on French soil. He was so obsessed by it that |
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554 he continually betrayed it and blurted it out. He was so weak that, |
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555 just as continually, he gave it up again.</p> |
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556 |
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557 <p>The army itself is no longer the flower of the peasant youth; i… |
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558 the swamp flower of the peasant lumpen proletariat. It consists |
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559 largely of replacements, of substitutes, just as the second |
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560 Bonaparte is himself only a replacement, the substitute for |
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561 Napoleon. It now performs its deeds of valor by hounding the |
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562 peasants in masses like chamois, by doing gendarme duty; and if the |
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563 natural contradictions of his system chase the Chief of <a href=&qu… |
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564 of December |
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565 10</a> |
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566 across the French border, his army, after some acts of brigandage, |
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567 will reap, not laurels, but thrashings.</p> |
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568 </blockquote> |
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570 </content> |
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571 </entry> |
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573 <entry> |
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574 <id>tag:,2021:/alt/corona2020/On-Dates</id> |
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575 <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="https://gerikson.com/bl… |
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576 |
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577 <title type="text">On the dates</title> |
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578 <published>2021-03-01T17:09:00Z</published> |
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579 <updated>2021-03-01T18:13:00Z</updated> |
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580 <category term="/alt/corona2020"/> |
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581 <author> |
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582 <name>Gustaf Erikson</name> |
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583 <uri>https://gerikson.com/blog</uri> |
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584 </author> |
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585 <content type="html" xml:base="http://" xml:lang="en"> |
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586 <p>When I started recording the dates when Sweden&#8217;s deat… |
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587 |
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588 <p>I used to set the dates when I noticed Swedish media report the… |
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589 |
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590 <p>This has led to some reshuffling - especially on <a href=&qu… |
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591 |
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592 <p><a href="https://gerikson.com/blog/alt/corona2020/Coron… |
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593 |
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