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diff --git a/content/entry/a-retrospective-on-my-free-software-absolutism.md b/content/entry/a-retrospective-on-my-free-software-absolutism.md
index cb94c40..2072d7f 100644
--- a/content/entry/a-retrospective-on-my-free-software-absolutism.md
+++ b/content/entry/a-retrospective-on-my-free-software-absolutism.md
@@ -29,11 +29,11 @@ I've been using one for a while now. I still believe they're harmful in all the
 
 ### Free Software
 
-This next one will probably shock you the most if you're a long-time reader of mine. After all the hubbub on my journal about the [harms of proprietary software](/2020/10/20/use-free-software/ "Journal Entry: Use Free Software"), [dropping classes over it](/2020/03/30/rejecting-discord-and-google-colab/ "Journal Entry: The Tipping Point - Rejecting Windows, Zoom, Lockdown Browser, and the Lockdown Monitor"), [sacrificing my career for it](/2023/09/05/gaining-clarity-after-walking-off-a-job-on-orientation-day/ "Journal Entry: Gaining Clarity After Walking Off a Job on Orientation Day"), and [building an unsuccessful career plan to avoid it](/2021/06/16/my-career-path/ "Journal Entry: My Career Path")...
+This next one will probably shock you the most if you're a long-time reader of mine. After all the hubbub on my journal about the [harms of proprietary software](/2020/10/20/use-free-software/ "Journal Entry: Use Free Software"), [dropping classes over it](/2020/03/30/rejecting-discord-and-google-colab/ "Journal Entry: The Tipping Point — Rejecting Windows, Zoom, Lockdown Browser, and the Lockdown Monitor"), [sacrificing my career for it](/2023/09/05/gaining-clarity-after-walking-off-a-job-on-orientation-day/ "Journal Entry: Gaining Clarity After Walking Off a Job on Orientation Day"), and [building an unsuccessful career plan to avoid it](/2021/06/16/my-career-path/ "Journal Entry: My Career Path")...
 
 I now have a Windows machine and use proprietary software.
 
-I've even subjected myself to remote proctoring software, which I [dropped out of university over](/2020/03/30/the-tipping-point-rejecting-windows-zoom-lockdown-browser-and-the-lockdown-monitor/ "Journal Entry: The Tipping Point - Rejecting Windows, Zoom, Lockdown Browser, and the Lockdown Monitor") back in 2020.
+I've even subjected myself to remote proctoring software, which I [dropped out of university over](/2020/03/30/the-tipping-point-rejecting-windows-zoom-lockdown-browser-and-the-lockdown-monitor/ "Journal Entry: The Tipping Point — Rejecting Windows, Zoom, Lockdown Browser, and the Lockdown Monitor") back in 2020.
 
 
 ## On Giving Updates
diff --git a/content/entry/antinatalism.md b/content/entry/antinatalism.md
index 5d1a2e1..e569ce7 100644
--- a/content/entry/antinatalism.md
+++ b/content/entry/antinatalism.md
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ Benatar has cited [historical evidence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinatali
 ## Famine Relief
 David Benatar also argues that:
 
-> "...in a situation where a huge number of people live in poverty, we should cease procreation and divert these resources, that would have been used to raise our own children, to the poor." - Wikipedia, licensed CC-BY-SA 3.0
+> "...in a situation where a huge number of people live in poverty, we should cease procreation and divert these resources, that would have been used to raise our own children, to the poor." — Wikipedia, licensed CC-BY-SA 3.0
 
 To create a new being and increase overconsumption and overpopulation without confidence that the new being would enjoy life all at the cost of being able to definitively improve the life of an already existing person seems selfish. So I agree. It's better to spend your resources on something that definitely reduces suffering and increases well-being without creating extra problems. So that wraps up Benatar's arguments.
 
diff --git a/content/entry/automation-bullshit-jobs-and-work.md b/content/entry/automation-bullshit-jobs-and-work.md
index 9f8c3fb..6a4529c 100644
--- a/content/entry/automation-bullshit-jobs-and-work.md
+++ b/content/entry/automation-bullshit-jobs-and-work.md
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ He also notes in [his 2013 essay](https://web.archive.org/web/20220902061001if_/
 
 Another example of this is people who criticize protesters for not being at work. "Get a job!" they shout. If you go to enough protests, and I've been involved in a few, then you'll probably eventually hear that phrase. I'm reminded of a relevant paragraph about [Fractal Wrongness](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Fractal_wrongness) from RationalWiki (CC-BY-SA 3.0):
 
-> "Debating a person who is fractally wrong leads to infinite regress, as every refutation you make of that person's opinions will lead to a rejoinder, full of half-truths, leaps of poor logic, and outright lies, which requires just as much refutation to debunk as the first one—kind of like a recursive Gish Gallop, where each point both surrounds and is surrounded by an equally wrong argument." - RationalWiki
+> "Debating a person who is fractally wrong leads to infinite regress, as every refutation you make of that person's opinions will lead to a rejoinder, full of half-truths, leaps of poor logic, and outright lies, which requires just as much refutation to debunk as the first one—kind of like a recursive Gish Gallop, where each point both surrounds and is surrounded by an equally wrong argument." — RationalWiki
 
 I imagine this is what it would be like to debate the kind of person who shouts "get a job" at protesters.
 
diff --git a/content/entry/avoid-using-cryptocurrency.md b/content/entry/avoid-using-cryptocurrency.md
index 0f7b081..eca6c4d 100644
--- a/content/entry/avoid-using-cryptocurrency.md
+++ b/content/entry/avoid-using-cryptocurrency.md
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ You could try using only proof of stake cryptos. But, for the most part, those a
 ## Freedom and Privacy Versus Energy Consumption
 We seem to have hit a "hard conflict" as I would put it in my post about [Integrated Activism](/2021/06/30/integrated-activism/). I recommend reading that as it may help understand where I'm coming from in this post. Anyway, I'll borrow a quote from that post here:
 
-> "...you are going to run into situations where two or more social issues are in a "hard conflict" and there's no easy way to respect them all. What you have to do in situations like those is to figure out your priorities." - Me, Integrated Activism
+> "...you are going to run into situations where two or more social issues are in a "hard conflict" and there's no easy way to respect them all. What you have to do in situations like those is to figure out your priorities." — Me, Integrated Activism
 
 In this case, the social issues at conflict are privacy and freedom versus energy consumption. You can either keep your economic privacy and freedom or not encourage a system which wastes obscene amounts of energy. But you can't currently do both. Perhaps once Ethereum, the 2nd most popular cryptocurrency, transitions to proof of stake it will become more feasible to do both, minus the privacy of course. For reference, I talk about this exact solution explicitly in Integrated Activism under the "Clever Solutions" header. However, at present, it's not possible to maintain both freedom and privacy and energy efficiency. So I return to the same question I posed earlier. What should you do in the face of this conflict?
 
diff --git a/content/entry/book-stolen-focus-why-you-cant-pay-attention-and-how-to-think-deeply-again.md b/content/entry/book-stolen-focus-why-you-cant-pay-attention-and-how-to-think-deeply-again.md
index 8240cb7..dec66fc 100644
--- a/content/entry/book-stolen-focus-why-you-cant-pay-attention-and-how-to-think-deeply-again.md
+++ b/content/entry/book-stolen-focus-why-you-cant-pay-attention-and-how-to-think-deeply-again.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-title: "[Book] Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention - And How to Think Deeply Again"
+title: "[Book] Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention — And How to Think Deeply Again"
 date: 2022-12-06T00:00:00
 draft: false
 ---
diff --git a/content/entry/documentary-line-goes-up-the-problem-with-nfts.md b/content/entry/documentary-line-goes-up-the-problem-with-nfts.md
index 7be2154..af4b2f6 100644
--- a/content/entry/documentary-line-goes-up-the-problem-with-nfts.md
+++ b/content/entry/documentary-line-goes-up-the-problem-with-nfts.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-title: "[Documentary] Line Goes Up - The Problem With NFTs"
+title: "[Documentary] Line Goes Up — The Problem With NFTs"
 date: 2022-03-15T00:00:00
 tags: ['computing']
 draft: false
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ IOTA had a centralized coordinator, meaning that it wasn't even decentralized. I
 In hindsight, I never should've had anything to do with IOTA to begin with. It's a cryptocurrency with the goal of transacting internet of things data. As a privacy guy, I don't even like the internet of things. So it made very little sense for me to invest in it.
 
 ## Safe Network
-After IOTA, I still didn't see the full picture. I thought IOTA was a scam project going nowhere, but there still had to be projects with real promise. So I found yet another ponzi to throw my money at - [Safecoin](https://safenetwork.org/). Safecoin didn't use a blockchain or a directed acyclic graph. It was entirely new and much more aligned with my goals.
+After IOTA, I still didn't see the full picture. I thought IOTA was a scam project going nowhere, but there still had to be projects with real promise. So I found yet another ponzi to throw my money at — [Safecoin](https://safenetwork.org/). Safecoin didn't use a blockchain or a directed acyclic graph. It was entirely new and much more aligned with my goals.
 
 So naturally, I did some careful research and only then invested. Just kidding. No I didn't. I "invested" (gambled) before doing sufficient research. I did learn a lot about the technology. It's meant to be an open, decentralized, encrypted data store. They have a distributed hash table for routing and data storage. They developed a novel consensus mechanism. The Safe Network team recognized the [scalability problems of blockchain](https://yewtu.be/embed/i-RLdU8Y0Qc?local=true). Self-encryption seemed to make sense.
 
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ In November of 2021, I wrote an entry titled [Future-Proof Digital Timestamping]
 ## Stephen Diehl
 A month later in December 2021, I stumbled across [the blog of Stephen Diehl](https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog.html), where I found extremely harsh criticism of cryptocurrency which I'd never heard before. Here's an excerpt:
 
-> "Crypto is a cesspit of people swapping claims on non-economic nonsense in one giant orgy of internet memes and fools trying to screw each other playing mutual harm negative-sum games while chanting “we’re all going to make it”. All this while the house takes an enormous rake and changes the rules of the game to its liking whenever it likes." - Stephen Diehl, The Internet’s Casino Boats
+> "Crypto is a cesspit of people swapping claims on non-economic nonsense in one giant orgy of internet memes and fools trying to screw each other playing mutual harm negative-sum games while chanting “we’re all going to make it”. All this while the house takes an enormous rake and changes the rules of the game to its liking whenever it likes." — Stephen Diehl, The Internet’s Casino Boats
 
 Pretty much all of his blog posts about cryptocurrency are this critical. I read several of his posts and found myself largely in agreement. I actually started to feel dumb that I ever put money into cryptocurrency or even considered being a part of a cryptocurrency project.
 
diff --git a/content/entry/dr-phil-is-a-bully.md b/content/entry/dr-phil-is-a-bully.md
index 3127d7a..578799c 100644
--- a/content/entry/dr-phil-is-a-bully.md
+++ b/content/entry/dr-phil-is-a-bully.md
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Again, there is no therapeutic value in this. The domestic abuse victim already
 
 ## Sending Teens to an Abusive Deadly Labor Camp
 
-For troubled teens, Phil has long promoted Turnabout Ranch, a place he called "a very serious, responsible place" that runs a "therapy" program. Except it's not therapy. Turnabout Ranch is filled with unqualified staff who create a highly abusive and dangerous environment. Multiple former patients have spoken out against the facility accusing them of torture and sexual abuse, most notably [Danielle Bregoli](https://yewtu.be/embed/GteqbsYGv1I?local=true "BHAD BHABIE - Breaking Code Silence - Turn About Ranch abuse Dr. Phil | Danielle Bregoli").
+For troubled teens, Phil has long promoted Turnabout Ranch, a place he called "a very serious, responsible place" that runs a "therapy" program. Except it's not therapy. Turnabout Ranch is filled with unqualified staff who create a highly abusive and dangerous environment. Multiple former patients have spoken out against the facility accusing them of torture and sexual abuse, most notably [Danielle Bregoli](https://yewtu.be/embed/GteqbsYGv1I?local=true "BHAD BHABIE — Breaking Code Silence — Turn About Ranch abuse Dr. Phil | Danielle Bregoli").
 
 I understand she might not be everyone's cup of tea as a social media personality, but she tells the truth about the ranch. If you don't believe her, just read [the Yelp reviews](https://www.yelp.com/biz/turn-about-ranch-escalante "Turnabout Ranch Yelp Reviews"). I'll list just a few here:
 
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ As Danielle Bregoli pointed out in the video I linked above, it's very hard to b
 
 If I were to create a comprehensive list of everything awful about the Dr. Phil show, I'd probably have to write about every episode. Unfortunately, I don't have the time for that. But I will mention a few more notable things.
 
-Besides what I've already mentioned, I also found out that Phil and/or his production crew allegedly created a [toxic workplace](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/krystieyandoli/dr-phil-show-employees-allegations "Current And Former “Dr. Phil” Employees Say The Set Is A Toxic Workplace. The Show Says Everything’s Fine."), apparently believed in the pseudoscience of polygraphs, humiliated a depressed young adult for living with his grandmother, told a mother not to let her son play with barbie dolls, [made spectacles of schizophrenic people](https://yewtu.be/embed/r073eeGR78Q?local=true "Shelley Duvall - Phil McGraw Interview Analysis"), encouraged guests to act crazy for ratings, allegedly provisioned alcohol to an alcoholic and gave him a Xanax (a deadly combination) before coming on the show, allegedly withheld a guest's medication to make them seem "crazy", and actively sought out vulnerable people including Britney Spears, to which he later issued a [non-apology](https://web.archive.org/web/20230528201653if_/https://www.drphil.com/pages/page-britney-spears/ "Dr. Phil's Statement about His Visit with Britney Spears").
+Besides what I've already mentioned, I also found out that Phil and/or his production crew allegedly created a [toxic workplace](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/krystieyandoli/dr-phil-show-employees-allegations "Current And Former “Dr. Phil” Employees Say The Set Is A Toxic Workplace. The Show Says Everything’s Fine."), apparently believed in the pseudoscience of polygraphs, humiliated a depressed young adult for living with his grandmother, told a mother not to let her son play with barbie dolls, [made spectacles of schizophrenic people](https://yewtu.be/embed/r073eeGR78Q?local=true "Shelley Duvall — Phil McGraw Interview Analysis"), encouraged guests to act crazy for ratings, allegedly provisioned alcohol to an alcoholic and gave him a Xanax (a deadly combination) before coming on the show, allegedly withheld a guest's medication to make them seem "crazy", and actively sought out vulnerable people including Britney Spears, to which he later issued a [non-apology](https://web.archive.org/web/20230528201653if_/https://www.drphil.com/pages/page-britney-spears/ "Dr. Phil's Statement about His Visit with Britney Spears").
 
 
 ## The Psychology Community Doesn't Respect Him
diff --git a/content/entry/extreme-capitalism-ruins-everything.md b/content/entry/extreme-capitalism-ruins-everything.md
index 6eaad68..c845e7a 100644
--- a/content/entry/extreme-capitalism-ruins-everything.md
+++ b/content/entry/extreme-capitalism-ruins-everything.md
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ I'd like to include his latest tweet:
 > The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
 > Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
 > Pharma buys off Congress. No action on drug prices.
-> Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction." - [Robert Reich](https://x.com/RBReich/status/1532412155667984384#m)
+> Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction." — [Robert Reich](https://x.com/RBReich/status/1532412155667984384#m)
 
 He's right. It doesn't matter what else we push for politically. If we can't get money out of politics, we won't see any change as long as it's against the interests of the wealthy. You can learn a lot more about inequality from him than me, since he has basically dedicated his life to it. I highly recommend checking him out.
 
diff --git a/content/entry/free-will-is-incoherent-part-1.md b/content/entry/free-will-is-incoherent-part-1.md
index 756d720..de07378 100644
--- a/content/entry/free-will-is-incoherent-part-1.md
+++ b/content/entry/free-will-is-incoherent-part-1.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-title: "Free Will is Incoherent - Part 1"
+title: "Free Will is Incoherent — Part 1"
 date: 2020-06-19T00:00:00
 draft: false
 ---
diff --git a/content/entry/free-will-is-incoherent-part-2.md b/content/entry/free-will-is-incoherent-part-2.md
index 72dc169..b954cdd 100644
--- a/content/entry/free-will-is-incoherent-part-2.md
+++ b/content/entry/free-will-is-incoherent-part-2.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-title: "Free Will is Incoherent - Part 2"
+title: "Free Will is Incoherent — Part 2"
 date: 2020-08-22T00:00:00
 draft: false
 ---
diff --git a/content/entry/future-proof-digital-timestamping.md b/content/entry/future-proof-digital-timestamping.md
index f08eee6..395dba0 100644
--- a/content/entry/future-proof-digital-timestamping.md
+++ b/content/entry/future-proof-digital-timestamping.md
@@ -40,10 +40,10 @@ As it turns out, [SHA-1 is still good enough for OpenTimestamps](https://peterto
 ## Bitcoin Falling Out of Favor
 There's actually another problem with OpenTimestamps: It depends on Bitcoin. Bitcoin was the first cryptocurrency. Don't get me wrong, it was great for its time. But by today's standards, it has several severe design flaws:
 
-* Not anonymous - blockchain is transparent.
-* Environmentally destructive - uses proof of work.
-* The mining is undemocratic - ASICs required.
-* Value isn't backed by an asset or service - no smart contracts.
+* Not anonymous — blockchain is transparent.
+* Environmentally destructive — uses proof of work.
+* The mining is undemocratic — ASICs required.
+* Value isn't backed by an asset or service — no smart contracts.
 
 With all these design flaws, Bitcoin should've fallen out of favor years ago. Supposing people come to their senses and it does fall out of favor, it will lose its value. Then miners will quit mining. There will be nothing to secure the blockchain and it will be possible to rewrite blockchain history. Thus the timestamps won't be secure.
 
diff --git a/content/entry/give-up-hope-take-action.md b/content/entry/give-up-hope-take-action.md
index e29c22b..d6a2874 100644
--- a/content/entry/give-up-hope-take-action.md
+++ b/content/entry/give-up-hope-take-action.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Most people are living in a fantasy land either denying these facts because they
 
 My attitude towards the current state of things is similar to that of the co-founder of [Extinction Rebellion](https://rebellion.global/), Clare Farrell:
 
-> "Hope for me feels like the opposite of admitting that you have to do it. ‘I hope someone else will fix it.’ That’s a disaster. Hope dies and action begins." - Clare Farrell
+> "Hope for me feels like the opposite of admitting that you have to do it. ‘I hope someone else will fix it.’ That’s a disaster. Hope dies and action begins." — Clare Farrell
 
 The situation is probably hopeless and nobody is doing anything about it. It's not just the politicians. Average, everyday people aren't even doing the mildest, least objectionable political activities like signing petitions or going to nonviolent protests.
 
diff --git a/content/entry/i-wish-i-could-endorse-the-waking-up-app.md b/content/entry/i-wish-i-could-endorse-the-waking-up-app.md
index 43ebd7f..9be1944 100644
--- a/content/entry/i-wish-i-could-endorse-the-waking-up-app.md
+++ b/content/entry/i-wish-i-could-endorse-the-waking-up-app.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ If you've been reading my journal for a while, you know I'm a strong proponent o
 
 As a beginner meditator, it can be very difficult to stay on task. It's common to sit there for a half hour trying to meditate only to later realize you were thinking the entire time. There's immense value in having someone there to interrupt you when you're going off-track. Sam explains all this in the first session of the course. Since a lot of people only know what the mainstream media has told them about meditation, I'd like to include a quote from Sam's website to offer a more accurate perspective:
 
-> "The purpose of meditation isn't merely to de-stress, or to sleep better, or to learn to be a little less neurotic. The purpose is to radically transform your sense of who and what you are." - Sam Harris
+> "The purpose of meditation isn't merely to de-stress, or to sleep better, or to learn to be a little less neurotic. The purpose is to radically transform your sense of who and what you are." — Sam Harris
 
 I think the Waking Up app is one of the few apps where the marketing doesn't oversell the benefits. If you stick to the program and put in the effort, you can radically transform your experience of the world. It's not just marketing.
 
diff --git a/content/entry/inception-rejecting-discord-drawio-and-visual-studio.md b/content/entry/inception-rejecting-discord-drawio-and-visual-studio.md
index a316cd4..f986db0 100644
--- a/content/entry/inception-rejecting-discord-drawio-and-visual-studio.md
+++ b/content/entry/inception-rejecting-discord-drawio-and-visual-studio.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-title: "Inception - Rejecting Discord, Draw.io, and Visual Studio"
+title: "Inception — Rejecting Discord, Draw.io, and Visual Studio"
 date: 2020-03-30T00:00:00
 tags: ['computing', 'siue']
 draft: false
diff --git a/content/entry/integrated-activism.md b/content/entry/integrated-activism.md
index 288593e..272f054 100644
--- a/content/entry/integrated-activism.md
+++ b/content/entry/integrated-activism.md
@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ There's a lot going wrong in the world and, as an activist, there are infinite s
 Sometimes there are clever ways to get around conflicts of interest between two social issues. For instance, using proof-of-stake consensus for blockchains instead of proof-of-work mitigates the energy consumption problem of cryptocurrencies. It preserves the good qualities of cryptocurrency while mitigating the purely bad qualities.
 
 ## Hard Conflicts
-### Darknets - Good and Bad Content
+### Darknets — Good and Bad Content
 Other times, there just isn't a clever way around a conflict. For example it's very difficult to create darknets that only permit "good" content. Who is the authority on what content is good and not good? One must either allow all content, or come up with a complex "scoring/rating" system for content on the network. But then the scoring system may be abused to censor "good" content. There's no simple solution.
 
-### Prisons - Privacy and Safety
+### Prisons — Privacy and Safety
 Prisons are another example. A privacy advocate like myself doesn't want prisoners under 24/7 video surveillance. However, just removing the cameras causes safety problems for prisoners. I wouldn't just advocate removing the cameras without making any other changes, because that could be dangerous. I'd rather see guards employed to watch the prisoners, but that creates budget issues for the prison since it has to employ more guards. Also, guards may be corrupted to turn a blind eye whereas camera footage is a different story. What's the solution?
 
 ### Free Software and Organizing
diff --git a/content/entry/its-not-necessarily-irrational-to-believe-things-you-cant-justify-to-others.md b/content/entry/its-not-necessarily-irrational-to-believe-things-you-cant-justify-to-others.md
index 36c4b57..1633ecb 100644
--- a/content/entry/its-not-necessarily-irrational-to-believe-things-you-cant-justify-to-others.md
+++ b/content/entry/its-not-necessarily-irrational-to-believe-things-you-cant-justify-to-others.md
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ There's this idea that people who can't defend a belief to others are always unj
 >
 > If this finding ends up being generally an approximation of how our brains work, it could explain a lot about what's happening to global conversations, particularly around the Internet and on social media specifically. It also suggests a possible solution; make the data quickly available. Make it as seamless as possible to re-load those facts and figures into your working memory, and make it as unpleasant as possible to rely on shortcuts and logical tricks when arguing a point."
 >
-> - TameAntelope
+> — TameAntelope
 
 TameAntelope hits the nail on the head here. Believing something you cannot justify to others isn't necessarily irrational. If you recall a time when you did have all the relevant facts and figures in your head, and computed the conclusion, then it does make sense to stick to that conclusion even after you've long forgotten the justification for it.
 
diff --git a/content/entry/merchants-should-stop-accepting-cryptocurrency.md b/content/entry/merchants-should-stop-accepting-cryptocurrency.md
index 4104b10..59ad205 100644
--- a/content/entry/merchants-should-stop-accepting-cryptocurrency.md
+++ b/content/entry/merchants-should-stop-accepting-cryptocurrency.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ date: 2022-08-17T00:00:00
 tags: ['computing']
 draft: false
 ---
-In my last journal entry titled "[[Documentary] Line Goes Up - The Problem With NFTs](/2022/03/15/documentary-line-goes-up-the-problem-with-nfts/)", I talked about my history with cryptocurrency (henceforth referred to as [digital tulips](/glossary/)), how I regret ever getting involved, and I promoted a documentary explaining how it's essentially a planet-destroying ponzi scheme. In this entry, I want to build on that and talk about why merchants shouldn't accept digital tulips as a form of payment.
+In my last journal entry titled "[[Documentary] Line Goes Up — The Problem With NFTs](/2022/03/15/documentary-line-goes-up-the-problem-with-nfts/)", I talked about my history with cryptocurrency (henceforth referred to as [digital tulips](/glossary/)), how I regret ever getting involved, and I promoted a documentary explaining how it's essentially a planet-destroying ponzi scheme. In this entry, I want to build on that and talk about why merchants shouldn't accept digital tulips as a form of payment.
 
 ## Disregard For The Environment
 As I stated in my entry "Avoid Using Cryptocurrency", the consensus mechanism used by the most popular digital tulip schemes consumes an unreasonable amount of energy. By comparison, the per-transaction energy consumption of fiat is basically zero. By accepting digital tulips, you demonstrate that you don't care about the harm your business does to the environment.
diff --git a/content/entry/my-career-path.md b/content/entry/my-career-path.md
index 5b01cfb..39fc6f7 100644
--- a/content/entry/my-career-path.md
+++ b/content/entry/my-career-path.md
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ After I started attending SIUe, I found a job working for the IT department ther
 ## Unraveling
 Career-wise, my life was going pretty smoothly. The moment that changed was when my coworker accidentally red-pilled me by mentioning a name: Richard Stallman. From there, I did some research, learned about free software, became privy to the ethics of computing, and the rest is history. You can read about the rest in the very first posts of my blog:
 
-[Inception - Rejecting Discord, Draw.io and Visual Studio](/2020/03/30/inception-rejecting-discord-drawio-and-visual-studio/)
+[Inception — Rejecting Discord, Draw.io and Visual Studio](/2020/03/30/inception-rejecting-discord-drawio-and-visual-studio/)
 [Rejecting Discord and Google Colab](/2020/03/30/rejecting-discord-and-google-colab/)
 [Rejecting Visual Studio](/2020/04/30/rejecting-visual-studio/)
-[The Tipping Point - Rejecting Windows, Zoom, Lockdown Browser and The Lockdown Monitor](/2020/03/30/the-tipping-point-rejecting-windows-zoom-lockdown-browser-and-the-lockdown-monitor/)
+[The Tipping Point — Rejecting Windows, Zoom, Lockdown Browser and The Lockdown Monitor](/2020/03/30/the-tipping-point-rejecting-windows-zoom-lockdown-browser-and-the-lockdown-monitor/)
 
 In short, it was causing me a lot of stress trying to avoid proprietary software while getting my degree. When Covid hit, it was a major catalyst for proprietary software. Using proprietary software became mandatory for remote test-taking. It dawned on me that there would be no way for me to complete my computer science degree, or any degree for that matter, in freedom even after talking with professors and the department chair about the issue.
 
diff --git a/content/entry/on-cultural-appropriation.md b/content/entry/on-cultural-appropriation.md
index dfe8729..713564f 100644
--- a/content/entry/on-cultural-appropriation.md
+++ b/content/entry/on-cultural-appropriation.md
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ draft: false
 ---
 There seems to be moral confusion about why cultural appropriation is bad. I'd like to use this entry to clear that up. We'll start with the Wikipedia definition of cultural appropriation:
 
-> "Cultural appropriation is the inappropriate or unacknowledged adoption of an element or elements of one culture or identity by members of another culture or identity" - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation), [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
+> "Cultural appropriation is the inappropriate or unacknowledged adoption of an element or elements of one culture or identity by members of another culture or identity" — [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation), [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
 
 Let's spend some time on that definition. First of all, it uses the weasel word "[inappropriate](/glossary/)". This is not a straw man picking on a particular definition either. I've seen several online articles accusing people of cultural appropriation that use words like "inappropriate", "offensive", "distasteful", and "disrespectful". These words tell us absolutely nothing about why cultural appropriation is morally wrong.
 
diff --git a/content/entry/paying-close-attention-to-experience.md b/content/entry/paying-close-attention-to-experience.md
index e2cf0dc..864849e 100644
--- a/content/entry/paying-close-attention-to-experience.md
+++ b/content/entry/paying-close-attention-to-experience.md
@@ -106,4 +106,4 @@ Well don't assume. Instead, pay attention to experience and accept what you find
 # Trust Thyself
 Above all, trust yourself. If what I say here doesn't match your subjective experience, then disregard me. I don't know what it's like to be you. What's true about my mind is different from what's true about yours and you'll only learn about yourself through careful observation, not by reading my journal. I'm just trying to inspire you into taking the first step and hopefully following all the way through till the end.
 
-"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." - Siddharta Gautama
+"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." — Siddharta Gautama
diff --git a/content/entry/private-online-shopping.md b/content/entry/private-online-shopping.md
index 6d2a1ca..3be64a0 100644
--- a/content/entry/private-online-shopping.md
+++ b/content/entry/private-online-shopping.md
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ To reduce harm to privacy, I'm going to evaluate each threat one by one and offe
 ## Real Name and Address
 Giving out your real name and address is a privacy threat that doesn't exist when interacting with a cashier in a physical store. As long as you're not using a dis-loyalty program, you never give the cashier your name or address. So they can't identify you that way. The online marketplace is a different story. It asks for both.
 
-### Mitigation - Give a Fake Name
+### Mitigation — Give a Fake Name
 There's a simple solution to the name problem. Give a fake name instead. It's legal and packages don't necessarily rely on names for shipping anyway. That said, there may be some potential negative consequences that could happen:
 * The package could get lost.
 * If several people live at the address, the package could be given to the wrong person.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ The potential consequences might not present a problem for you or they might be
 
 Other than that, you'll have to make your own choice if the privacy is worth the risk.
 
-### Mitigation - Give a Different Address
+### Mitigation — Give a Different Address
 The address problem isn't so easily solved. The address isn't redundant information. It's actually used for shipping. The cheapest mitigation is to use a geographically close friend's address for the package. Have them receive the package on your behalf. While possible in theory, there are several reasons this may be a bad idea, so I don't recommend it.
 
 Instead, you should pay for a proper mailbox service. A mailbox service can offer a real address that you can use online and a place to store your package until you go pick it up. The mailbox service may be willing to accept packages with a pseudonym, fake name, or no name at all, as well as your real name. Some mailbox services may hold your package and require you to show ID to receive it, which could get complicated if the package name and your real name don't match. This is why you should ask about their protocol for non-matching names before you register with the mailbox service. If you can make it work, a fake name combined with a mailbox service can fully anonymize you to the seller.
@@ -37,31 +37,31 @@ Instead, you should pay for a proper mailbox service. A mailbox service can offe
 ## Mailbox Service's Records
 Keep in mind that, if you choose to use a mailbox service, you aren't anonymous to that service. It's common for mailbox services to keep digital records of the sender, their address, the receiver, the type of package, weight, size and other information for months, years or even indefinitely. If the mailbox service ever has a data breach, the data will be available to everyone. Using a mailbox service is still better than the online marketplace knowing your name and address because at least the mailbox service doesn't know what you bought. Almost all online marketplaces automatically share your data with third parties. By using a mailbox service, you're not immediately identified, but the mailbox service's records still pose a privacy issue.
 
-### Mitigation - Choose a Service With a Short Data Retention Period
+### Mitigation — Choose a Service With a Short Data Retention Period
 Some mailbox services keep records only for a few months. Others keep records for years. For some, how long the record is kept depends on the type of package and if it has tracking or requires a signature. The only way to find this stuff out is by doing your research and asking questions about their mail record retention policy before you register. It's important to choose the service that keeps records for the least amount of time.
 
 ## Email Address
 So you've given a fake name and your mailbox service's address which has a short data retention policy. But now, the marketplace wants your email. But giving out your email is nearly as identifying as giving out your real name. What to do?
 
-### Mitigation - Give a Throwaway Email
+### Mitigation — Give a Throwaway Email
 Don't give a fake email. You may be required to confirm the purchase over email or receive some other important information that way. This mitigation is comparatively easy: Simply create a one-time use email address for the purchase and never reuse it. Do this every time you make a purchase.
 
 ## Phone Number
 The bad news is the marketplace might still require a phone number. The good news is marketplaces don't usually require phone number verification for buyers.
 
-### Mitigation - Give a Fake Phone Number
+### Mitigation — Give a Fake Phone Number
 Since marketplaces don't verify the number, you can make one up. The marketplace will probably only text it details of your order. I don't know of an online marketplace that forces buyers to verify their phone number. If you run across one, my advice is find a different marketplace. There's plenty out there.
 
 ## Browser Fingerprinting and IP Address
 If you made it this far, then you've managed to not explicitly give out any personal information. Unfortunately, because the web is a privacy disaster, this isn't enough. There are dozens of other ways to leak your identity without it being obvious. For example, many online shopping sites have proprietary JavaScript and cookies which facilitate tracking buyers across the web. Your IP address is also identifying information which can be used to deanonymize your purchases. But do not fear, for Tor Browser is here!
 
-### Mitigation - Use Tor Browser
+### Mitigation — Use Tor Browser
 The best way to avoid browser fingerprinting and leaking your IP address is installing [Tor Browser](https://www.torproject.org/download/). Tor Browser protects you from browser fingerprinting while making it very hard for the site to figure out your real IP address. Use Tor Browser on the highest security setting that doesn't break site functionality. If "safest" mode breaks the website, try "safer". If "safer" mode breaks the site, use "standard". I also recommend using the [LibreJS](https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/) addon to prevent proprietary JavaScript analytics scripts from running in your browser.
 
 ## Tor is Blocked
 If you can't access the site on the "standard" security setting in Tor Browser, then it probably blocks Tor exit nodes. Some sites do allow you to browse while using Tor, but won't let you purchase anything. You just have to find out which ones are Tor friendly and which aren't by trial and error. If a site isn't Tor-friendly, all is not lost. There is still hope with Proxychains.
 
-### Mitigation - Use Proxychains
+### Mitigation — Use Proxychains
 If you still insist on using that website for your purchase, you can configure [proxychains](https://proxychains.sourceforge.net/) to hide the fact that you're using Tor while still getting the privacy benefits of the Tor Browser. Just search for the IP address and port number of an open proxy.
 
 If you've properly configured Proxychains and Tor Browser is still not letting you visit the site, then most likely the site does some kind of anti-spam browser fingerprinting to determine if you're a real user and Tor browser is getting you flagged as a bot since it's resistant to fingerprinting. You could use a different browser proxied through Tor, but at this point I'd just look for the item on a different website. If the website requires browser fingerprinting, then you can't expect to buy anything anonymously.
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ I wish I could say that's all because it feels like the overhead for making a pr
 
 Any payment system that identifies you can't be used for privacy. Until something like [GNU Taler](https://taler.net/en/) becomes popular, we're left with 1 option that offers real payment anonymity: cryptocurrency.
 
-### Mitigation - Monero
+### Mitigation — Monero
 Since most places require some form of ID verification to buy cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency ledgers allow transactions to be easily traced, no cryptocurrency is suited for an anonymous purchase, except for 1: [Monero](https://www.getmonero.org/) or XMR. It's so private that [the IRS is offering $625,000 to anyone who can crack it](https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2020/09/14/irs-will-pay-up-to-625000-if-you-can-crack-monero-other-privacy-coins/). You can acquire Monero through centralized or peer-to-peer exchanges. The great thing about Monero is you don't need to acquire it anonymously to make an anonymous purchase with it. Coins are untraceable and transactions are unlinkable. Feel free to acquire the Monero however is most convenient for you. Localmonero.co is a solid option that doesn't require any identification or proprietary JavaScript and it has a Tor onion service. Just remember to store the coins on the Monero wallet on your own machine, not on an exchange. Also I recommend proxying the Monero client through Tor to prevent transactions being linked to your IP address.
 
 Unfortunately few online stores actually accept Monero. Bitcoin still reigns supreme. Luckily there are coin swap services online that accept Monero and pay out Bitcoin. Kilos' KSwap is one example. It requires no sign up, no JavaScript and it's a Tor onion service.
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ The hidden fees are of course embedded in the exchange rate. When you go to buy
 ## Third Parties
 Many sites you run into have no problem giving your IP address and other identifying information to third parties. If you follow all the steps above, you don't have anything to worry about. But if you skip some steps or you just want to be thorough, you should still take note of the online shop's privacy policy.
 
-### Mitigation - Read the Privacy Policy
+### Mitigation — Read the Privacy Policy
 Every online shop has its own privacy policy. Read it carefully before you make a purchase so that you understand what's going to happen to the data you provide. If you provide all fake data, then the privacy policy doesn't affect you. However, if you provide any identifying information during a purchase, even non-obvious identifying information like your real IP address, you should read the privacy policy. Just be aware of how the data you provided is going to be used.
 
 ## Conclusion
diff --git a/content/entry/psychedelics-are-a-rite-of-passage.md b/content/entry/psychedelics-are-a-rite-of-passage.md
index a6519df..450dab5 100644
--- a/content/entry/psychedelics-are-a-rite-of-passage.md
+++ b/content/entry/psychedelics-are-a-rite-of-passage.md
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Psychedelics have undeniable, life-transforming benefits. They offer a way of lo
 
 Terence McKenna, American ethnobotanist and advocate for psychedelic drugs, once said:
 
-> "I think of going to the grave without having a psychedelic experience like going to the grave without ever having sex. It means that you never figured out what it is all about..." - Terence McKenna
+> "I think of going to the grave without having a psychedelic experience like going to the grave without ever having sex. It means that you never figured out what it is all about..." — Terence McKenna
 
 While I don't think sex is comparable to psychedelics, Terence did have a point. Healthy people who abstain from psychedelic drugs are missing out on an important life experience.
 
diff --git a/content/entry/re-atomic-habits.md b/content/entry/re-atomic-habits.md
index e7a8a1b..e1c489b 100644
--- a/content/entry/re-atomic-habits.md
+++ b/content/entry/re-atomic-habits.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ It often happens to be the case that getting people to develop certain bad habit
 
 It's difficult to organize collectively against these economic incentives because the rich write the laws. Barring comprehensive changes in existing economic or political systems, I predict that it will continue to get more difficult to maintain good habits and avoid bad ones, [regardless of any individual efforts made](/2023/09/10/individual-vs-collective-advice/ "Individual vs Collective Advice").
 
-If you take the principles of Atomic Habits in the larger context, I think you also have to conclude that we can't just try to improve our habits individually, but that we must take collective action for a system of government and an economy that makes it easy for us to have good habits rather than the insane system we have now that allows a handful of CEOs to get rich making large fractions of the population obese by marketing ultra-processed junk food and [driven insane by addictive manipulative social media platforms](/2022/12/06/book-stolen-focus-why-you-cant-pay-attention-and-how-to-think-deeply-again/ "[Book] Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention - And How to Think Deeply Again").
+If you take the principles of Atomic Habits in the larger context, I think you also have to conclude that we can't just try to improve our habits individually, but that we must take collective action for a system of government and an economy that makes it easy for us to have good habits rather than the insane system we have now that allows a handful of CEOs to get rich making large fractions of the population obese by marketing ultra-processed junk food and [driven insane by addictive manipulative social media platforms](/2022/12/06/book-stolen-focus-why-you-cant-pay-attention-and-how-to-think-deeply-again/ "[Book] Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention — And How to Think Deeply Again").
 
 When human well being and corporate profit are in conflict, human well being must prevail.
 
diff --git a/content/entry/rejecting-visual-studio.md b/content/entry/rejecting-visual-studio.md
index c09e5bf..e6ef99e 100644
--- a/content/entry/rejecting-visual-studio.md
+++ b/content/entry/rejecting-visual-studio.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ draft: false
 This semester I took Intro to Artificial Intelligence at [SIUe](https://www.siue.edu). Artificial Intelligence is a senior level course. I'll call the professor, "Professor X" to preserve anonymity.
 
 # Story
-## Assignment One - Cats
+## Assignment One — Cats
 Since my time giving in to using Visual Studio in software engineering class and seeing the inner conflict that caused, I was much more prepared to stand up for my beliefs in A.I. class. The very first assignment we got was to write an A.I. that solves a "cat in the hat" problem involving finding certain values for the height of the cats and number of cats in each hat (each cat has a hat with more cats except the cat at height one). I was intrigued. I could have written a program that simulates the cats, but I instead went for an analytical approach and derived two single logarithmic equations that yielded the values efficiently. I still wasn't sure how to solve both equations, so I developed a binary search algorithm for the right value instead. I was disappointed however when after reading the specification I discovered the project had to be completed using Visual Studio and written in C++. Visual Studio is proprietary software made by Microsoft that requires users to agree to a license agreement (which I read) and submit themselves to privacy-invading telemetry. Ew.
 
 I was not thrilled about this, so I opted to write my program using a different IDE and compile it with the gnu-c++ compiler. I wanted to get ahead of this so there wouldn't be any issue, so I emailed Professor X explaining why Visual Studio is proprietary malware, or at least potential malware. Professor X responded that he did not believe it is malware and I should use it anyway. So I responded over email again explaining my beliefs about free software and why students ought not be required to use Visual Studio. He said he would consult with his colleagues about it and the grader as well. Professor X and the grader got back to me explaining that they couldn't change the assignment just for me as there were over thirty students in the class and allowing students to submit their work differently would be too much hassle. Maybe don't ask students to use proprietary software?
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ The professor and grader agreed, just for this one time, to regrade my program t
 ## Assignment Two and Three
 The second assignment was Huarong Path, also called [Klotski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klotski). It is a sliding puzzle where you try to get a particular piece into a particular spot on the board by sliding all the tiles around until you have the piece in the destination spot. There are many heuristics you can develop for this, but I found that implementation was just as important as heuristics. The third assignment was Fore & Aft where you try to reverse the positions of the differently colored pegs. Imagine a large square broken into four quadrants, but two quadrants that are diagonal to one another are missing, and there is one empty center peg and the quadrants have differently colored pegs. The rules are that you can move any peg into an empty adjacent peg or jump over pegs like in the game checkers. I ended up using [A*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm) to solve the puzzle. I was able to submit these two assignments with only the source code files, so I didn't have to use Visual Studio and there was no problem.
 
-## Assignment Four - N Queens Puzzle
+## Assignment Four — N Queens Puzzle
 Fast forward to the fourth assignment. It was an N Queens puzzle. For N=8, this is better known as the [8 Queens Puzzle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle). This was my favorite puzzle to write a solution for. I found a simple [hill-climbing algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_climbing) from our textbook that was much faster at finding solutions than was asked of us. We had to find three unique solutions. I just allowed my program to take as input the board size as well as the initial position of the first queen. For some reason it was stipulated that we had to enable one queen in the solution to be "fixed" to a certain square so she was guaranteed to be there. It didn't take me long to have this solution written up and submitted, but my grade unexpectedly returned with a failing grade for the assignment. It was because gnu-c++ allowed specifying C arrays without a size, but the standard C++ compiler didn't, so it didn't compile in Visual Studio.
 
 When I turned on warnings when compiling with gnu-c++, I immediately saw what the grader was talking about and fixed it. The grader allowed me to fix it since it was just an issue with the compiler compatibility and not my code. I got full points back for this assignment. I was told after the first assignment that it would be my responsibility to make sure my code worked in Visual Studio and if it didn't, I would be graded accordingly. But the grader was willing to allow this to slide since it was such a minor issue and strictly to do with compiler compatibility.
diff --git a/content/entry/social-media-alternatives.md b/content/entry/social-media-alternatives.md
index 635ed95..e7ea2fd 100644
--- a/content/entry/social-media-alternatives.md
+++ b/content/entry/social-media-alternatives.md
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ draft: false
 ---
 You don't want to miss out on social media, but you also don't want to deal with tracking scripts, ads and other nonsense that comes along with using proprietary walled garden platforms. Luckily there are publicly available privacy-respecting alternative front-ends for these popular social media sites:
 
-* Instagram - Bibliogram ([source](https://sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram/))
-* Reddit - Teddit ([source](https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit))
-* Twitter - Nitter ([source](https://github.com/zedeus/nitter))
-* YouTube - [Invidious](https://invidious.io) ([source](https://github.com/iv-org/invidious))
+* Instagram – Bibliogram ([source](https://sr.ht/~cadence/bibliogram/))
+* Reddit – Teddit ([source](https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit))
+* Twitter – Nitter ([source](https://github.com/zedeus/nitter))
+* YouTube – [Invidious](https://invidious.io) ([source](https://github.com/iv-org/invidious))
 
 There is also an Android app in [F-droid](https://f-droid.org/) called [UntrackMe](https://f-droid.org/en/packages/app.fedilab.nitterizeme/) which redirects YouTube, Twitter and Instagram links to their free alternatives. Reddit support was just added 2 weeks ago.
 
diff --git a/content/entry/start-fresh-in-every-moment.md b/content/entry/start-fresh-in-every-moment.md
index b5e08e3..2748698 100644
--- a/content/entry/start-fresh-in-every-moment.md
+++ b/content/entry/start-fresh-in-every-moment.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Before I get into this subject, let's get the obvious out of the way so that I d
 ## People Have Patterns of Thought And Behavior
 Newton's first law of motion states:
 
-> "Objects tend to keep on doing what they're doing unless acted upon by an unbalanced force." - Sir Isaac Newton
+> "Objects tend to keep on doing what they're doing unless acted upon by an unbalanced force." — Sir Isaac Newton
 
 The same is true for people. People tend to keep the same patterns of thought and action. That's why we have the word "personality". A personality is just observed patterns in thoughts and behavior. This isn't to say people are incapable of change, just that it's not the default. The default is people keep doing what they're doing.
 
diff --git a/content/entry/the-cult-of-productivity.md b/content/entry/the-cult-of-productivity.md
index 77cdbb9..0ae6e7f 100644
--- a/content/entry/the-cult-of-productivity.md
+++ b/content/entry/the-cult-of-productivity.md
@@ -46,6 +46,6 @@ In conclusion, just ask questions and practice unproductivity. Why is working lo
 
 See? Questioning the assumptions of the cult of productivity is easy. You can apply these questions to your own personal life and come up with new ones. All it takes is some out-of-the-box thinking. You can encourage others to do the same and deprogram themselves. Form your own opinions. Don't just go along with whatever the corporate media and the government tells you. They want good, obedient workers that produce without ever questioning why. But you don't have to blindly follow what they say. Choose to be your own independent thinking person. I'll end with a quote.
 
-> "Think deeply about things. Don't just go along because that's the way things are or that's what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think." - Aaron Swartz
+> "Think deeply about things. Don't just go along because that's the way things are or that's what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think." — Aaron Swartz
 
 Thanks for reading. Don't forget to share this post if you enjoyed it.
diff --git a/content/entry/the-tipping-point-rejecting-windows-zoom-lockdown-browser-and-the-lockdown-monitor.md b/content/entry/the-tipping-point-rejecting-windows-zoom-lockdown-browser-and-the-lockdown-monitor.md
index 0a54a84..fc4208b 100644
--- a/content/entry/the-tipping-point-rejecting-windows-zoom-lockdown-browser-and-the-lockdown-monitor.md
+++ b/content/entry/the-tipping-point-rejecting-windows-zoom-lockdown-browser-and-the-lockdown-monitor.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-title: "The Tipping Point - Rejecting Windows, Zoom, Lockdown Browser, and the Lockdown Monitor"
+title: "The Tipping Point — Rejecting Windows, Zoom, Lockdown Browser, and the Lockdown Monitor"
 date: 2020-03-30T00:00:00
 tags: ['computing', 'siue']
 draft: false
diff --git a/content/entry/thoughts-on-spirituality.md b/content/entry/thoughts-on-spirituality.md
index e556a5f..4118880 100644
--- a/content/entry/thoughts-on-spirituality.md
+++ b/content/entry/thoughts-on-spirituality.md
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ So just meditate. Don't worry about having an ulterior motive and don't worry ab
 # Spiritual Bypassing
 Do watch out for other ways that the ego can creep back in though. Many novice meditators, after having insights about the nature of the mind, become convinced they're permanently enlightened and try to act as if they are all the time. This can be very psychologically destructive. It's called [spiritual bypassing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_bypass), a term coined in 1984 by American psychologist [John Welwood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Welwood). I'll let Wikipedia explain it:
 
-> "On the other hand, when spiritual bypass is used as a long-term strategy for ignoring or suppressing unaddressed mental health issues, negative consequences can include "the need to excessively control others and oneself, shame, anxiety, dichotomous thinking, emotional confusion, exaggerated tolerance of inappropriate behavior, codependency, compulsive kindness, obsession or addiction, spiritual narcissism, blind allegiance to charismatic teachers, and disregard for personal responsibility" - Wikipedia, [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
+> "On the other hand, when spiritual bypass is used as a long-term strategy for ignoring or suppressing unaddressed mental health issues, negative consequences can include "the need to excessively control others and oneself, shame, anxiety, dichotomous thinking, emotional confusion, exaggerated tolerance of inappropriate behavior, codependency, compulsive kindness, obsession or addiction, spiritual narcissism, blind allegiance to charismatic teachers, and disregard for personal responsibility" — Wikipedia, [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
 
 It's not a hard trap to fall into. I think staying humble is a good way to avoid it. Admit that you don't have it all figured out, that you're probably not "permanently" enlightened, and you still get lost in thought and let your emotions get the better of you from time to time.
 
diff --git a/content/entry/video-vengeance.md b/content/entry/video-vengeance.md
index 3ba96bb..4797ed6 100644
--- a/content/entry/video-vengeance.md
+++ b/content/entry/video-vengeance.md
@@ -3,5 +3,5 @@ title: "[Video] Vengeance"
 date: 2020-12-29T00:00:00
 draft: false
 ---
-[Darkmatter2525](https://yewtu.be/channel/UCLhtZqdkjshgq8TqwIjMdCQ?dark_mode=true) explains punitive prison systems (5min 43sec - 11min 43sec).
+[Darkmatter2525](https://yewtu.be/channel/UCLhtZqdkjshgq8TqwIjMdCQ?dark_mode=true) explains punitive prison systems (5min 43sec – 11min 43sec).
 Click [this link](https://yewtu.be/embed/LX2VeWumRQ8?local=true) to watch only the relevant part of the video.