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America Is Not Palestine: Josh Barro Is Wrong About A Thing

arkady2023-11-02Culture Politics

I don’t think I’ve heard of Josh Barro before, though I probably have. But he made it into Wonkette’s tabs post this morning, so here we are. His post-to-which-they-linked is not entirely wrong, as most things aren’t, but it does…

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That’s Entertainment: Things To Do At Home When You’re On Strike

arkady2023-07-13Culture

WGA and SAG-AFTRA are on strike together now, which cuts off two of the most important parts of the entertainment industry’s supply chain. When a big strike happened 20-some years ago we ended up with reality TV. So, that’s not…

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You Should Read This: Your Stuff Is Actually Worse Now

arkady2023-07-07Read This

From a few months ago by Vox’ Izzie Ramirez, you should read Your stuff is actually worse now. If you’ve been wondering why the same make/model of thing you’ve been buying for years keeps not being quite the same each…

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That’s Me In The Corner: Privileging My Religion

arkady2023-06-05Law

Well, not me; I don’t have a religion. But a lot of people do. And a lot of them think that means they should get special consideration from the law. They shouldn’t. Today’s example: California bill would allow Sikh motorcyclists…

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Artificial Stupidity: Bruce Schneier Is Wrong About A Thing

arkady2023-05-16Culture Technical

Now, I have been a big fan of Bruce Schneier’s work in cryptography for decades, so it pains me to say this but he’s wrong about the state of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Very, very wrong. In a recent blog post…

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Be Sensible: It’s Not Self-Defence If You Started It

arkady2023-04-24Law

I have talked about self-defense before (They’re Comin’ Right For Us: Fixing Self-Defense); in that one, I argued that you should have to be correct about being threatened. It’s not enough to “feel” threatened. Your feelings are not more important…

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Legal Zombies: Laws Should Not Come Back From The Dead

arkady2023-04-17Law

When the courts declare a law to be unconstitutional, it should actually be removed from the books. It shouldn’t just be ignored. If I understand correctly, the actual term is “unenforceable”, but it’s the same thing. The courts will ignore…

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Expansive Freedom: The 1st Amendment Is Too Limited

arkady2023-04-05Culture Law

The United States has stronger restrictions on State interference in personal speech than any other country, so in that sense the 1st Amendment is doing pretty well; it’s doing a good-but-not-great job preventing press interference and an OK-but-not-good job protecting…

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Let’s Be Clear: Both Sides Of The Civil War Were Wrong

arkady2023-03-29Culture Law Politics

Contrary to popular belief, neither side of the U.S. Civil War was really into “freedom”. They were both fighting for the power to control other people. This tends to get skipped over in modern discussions, since the current culture war…

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On Reparations: You Cannot Right A Historical Wrong

arkady2023-02-27Politics

I’m going to ignore the other problems with the idea of slavery reparations for the moment and focus on just one: It is simply too late for the United States to make reparations for slavery. To be reparations, anything the…

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