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An excellent and intriguing video ad for a site which aims to "strike the hidden root of violence"; Lost Liberty Cafe. Violence is oppositional to liberty, but unfortunately most people don't see the sources of violence hidden in plain sight because they learned to doublethink it away.

Electronic Frontier Foundation has established a Surveillance Self-Defense site at ssd.eff.org which appears to be a rather complete resource on how to legitimately defend yourself from government (and other) surveillance. I found this from this article which among other things also points out why this isn't just something for those who have something to hide. Quoting:

"Microsoft has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against TomTom alleging that the device maker's products, including some that are Linux-based, infringe on patents related to Microsoft's FAT32 filesystem. This marks the first time that Microsoft has enforced its FAT patents against the Linux platform, a move that some free software advocates have long feared could be disastrous."

An article about a new movement (and an institute to go with it) of seasteading, that is, homesteading the high seas as the new frontier of colonization. It would allow those who long for independence of the current governments to break free and build sea based societies of their own.

Being forward looking and ambitious I think of seasteading as no more impossible than building space stations in Earth's orbit or even colonizing Moon, Mars and beyond. Just because it hasn't successfully been done just yet doesn't mean it cannot be done, naysayers be damned.

When an author signs a publication contract, insofar as it contains strict and traditional copyright notices, he is pretty much signing his life away. It used to be that the publisher would maintain control only so long as the book is in print. Today, with digital printing, this means forever: your lifetime plus 70 years.