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diff --git a/content/entry/atom-and-rss.md b/content/entry/atom-and-rss.md index 1cbc193..0fd5577 100644 --- a/content/entry/atom-and-rss.md +++ b/content/entry/atom-and-rss.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ title: "Atom and RSS" date: 2020-12-17T00:00:00 draft: false --- -# Atom/RSS Most netizens are vaguely familiar with this symbol: [RSS icon [IMG]](../../../../resource/feed-icon-28x28.png) It represents Atom[1] and RSS[2]. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 3.0[3]): diff --git a/content/entry/autism-and-memory.md b/content/entry/autism-and-memory.md index b518565..8fbb644 100644 --- a/content/entry/autism-and-memory.md +++ b/content/entry/autism-and-memory.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ title: "Autism and Memory" date: 2022-07-20T00:00:00 draft: false --- -# Autism and Memory Memory function in autism has been studied for decades.[1] The research is fascinating to me because I have high-functioning autism and it helps me describe things I already implicitly know about myself. People with high-functioning autism such as myself have both difficulties and strengths in memory compared with neurotypicals. In my entry, Coming Out as Autistic[2], I recall a few anecdotes which illustrate the weakness of my short-term memory, starting with middle school English class: diff --git a/content/entry/businesses-should-be-required-to-accept-cash.md b/content/entry/businesses-should-be-required-to-accept-cash.md index e6ae0b1..6c8e4c3 100644 --- a/content/entry/businesses-should-be-required-to-accept-cash.md +++ b/content/entry/businesses-should-be-required-to-accept-cash.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ title: "Businesses Should be Required to Accept Cash" date: 2022-04-22T00:00:00 draft: false --- -# Businesses Should be Required to Accept Cash Businesses in the U.S. don't have to accept cash as payment for purchases, but I think they should have to. There's even a push in some countries to go completely cashless. This, in my view, would be a huge mistake. Cash helps the elderly, the poor, the unbanked, immigrants, journalists, and dissidents. Cash is the only way to purchase goods and services anonymously in regular stores. Taking away the option to pay cash makes life harder on those trying to avoid mass surveillance and turns stores into Big Brother's little helpers. In order to protect the right to privacy, we need the right to private everyday transactions, and for that we need the right to pay cash. diff --git a/content/entry/comparing-multi-factor-authentication-methods.md b/content/entry/comparing-multi-factor-authentication-methods.md index 7d28c4d..0346f5e 100644 --- a/content/entry/comparing-multi-factor-authentication-methods.md +++ b/content/entry/comparing-multi-factor-authentication-methods.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ title: "Comparing Multi-Factor Authentication Methods" date: 2022-08-05T00:00:00 draft: false --- -# Comparing Multi-Factor Authentication Methods I made a nice little chart comparing multi-factor authentication[1] methods from a user standpoint. Despite some of the information in the chart being slightly subjective and depending on one's threat model, I still think it's useful. So here it is: ## Multi-Factor Authentication Chart diff --git a/content/entry/identifying-and-processing-emotions-with-alexithymia.md b/content/entry/identifying-and-processing-emotions-with-alexithymia.md index d7f2f61..0609c5e 100644 --- a/content/entry/identifying-and-processing-emotions-with-alexithymia.md +++ b/content/entry/identifying-and-processing-emotions-with-alexithymia.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ title: "Identifying And Processing Emotions With Alexithymia" date: 2022-07-02T00:00:00 draft: false --- -# Identifying And Processing Emotions With Alexithymia ## Introduction As a person with autism[1], I suffer from alexithymia[2]. Alexithymia is the inability to identify and describe one's own emotions. Alexithymia exists in non-autistic people as well, but it's not very prevalent. It is very prevalent in people with autism. It's something I'm only just beginning to effectively manage at 23 years old. Better late than never though, right? diff --git a/content/entry/manufacturing-agreement.md b/content/entry/manufacturing-agreement.md index 644bb81..6257c13 100644 --- a/content/entry/manufacturing-agreement.md +++ b/content/entry/manufacturing-agreement.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ title: "Manufacturing Agreement" date: 2021-08-21T00:00:00 draft: false --- -# Manufacturing Agreement You might think I'm writing this to lecture you that you should read the terms of service (ToS) and privacy policy (PP) agreements of the online services you use. While you definitely should, that's not my point. I'm writing this to share my observation that not agreeing to the ToS and PP is often impractical. And for that reason, in cases where it is impractical to refuse, we shouldn't consider it agreement. Rather, it is illegitimate, manufactured agreement. In order for this post to give a more balanced perspective, I'm first going to give online services their due, then users. diff --git a/content/entry/merchants-should-stop-accepting-cryptocurrency.md b/content/entry/merchants-should-stop-accepting-cryptocurrency.md index 568c231..eb9ad5c 100644 --- a/content/entry/merchants-should-stop-accepting-cryptocurrency.md +++ b/content/entry/merchants-should-stop-accepting-cryptocurrency.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ title: "Merchants Should Stop Accepting Cryptocurrency" date: 2022-08-17T00:00:00 draft: false --- -# Merchants Should Stop Accepting Cryptocurrency In my last journal entry titled "[Documentary] Line Goes Up - The Problem With NFTs"[1], I talked about my history with cryptocurrency (henceforth referred to as digital tulips[2]), 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 diff --git a/content/entry/the-dream-of-life.md b/content/entry/the-dream-of-life.md index a2e401a..d23076b 100644 --- a/content/entry/the-dream-of-life.md +++ b/content/entry/the-dream-of-life.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ title: "The Dream of Life" date: 2022-07-06T00:00:00 draft: false --- -# The Dream of Life ## Meditation is Not Trivial In a journal entry I made last year titled "The Addiction to Thinking"[1], I claimed that the normal human condition is to be spellbound by incessant thinking every minute of the day. That is, to be thinking without being aware of the thinking. I went on to claim that the lack of awareness of thinking causes nearly all of our psychological suffering. Near the end of the entry, I offered substantial evidence that there's actually an alternative to living this way. diff --git a/content/entry/the-narrative-self.md b/content/entry/the-narrative-self.md index 15848c2..8b49d9a 100644 --- a/content/entry/the-narrative-self.md +++ b/content/entry/the-narrative-self.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ title: "The Narrative Self" date: 2021-12-12T00:00:00 draft: false --- -# The Narrative Self We all have a voice inside our heads. This voice tells us a story about how our lives are going. When you identify with that story, that is called your "narrative self". Some psychologists believe that selfhood is narrative in nature. To put it more concretely, they believe our core sense of who we are is shaped by and large by the ongoing narrative taking place inside our heads. For most people, if not everyone, this narrative can be generalized as "There is some problem that prevents me from being fulfilled, some 'next thing' that needs to be completed before I can be fulfilled." So life takes on the character of a very long emergency where we're confronted with a never-ending series of problems that each promise lasting fulfillment if only we solve the next one. diff --git a/content/entry/the-nonlinearity-of-intelligence.md b/content/entry/the-nonlinearity-of-intelligence.md index a072237..c66cd34 100644 --- a/content/entry/the-nonlinearity-of-intelligence.md +++ b/content/entry/the-nonlinearity-of-intelligence.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ title: "The Nonlinearity of Intelligence" date: 2020-12-12T00:00:00 draft: false --- -# Intelligence is Nonlinear The word "sports" covers a wide variety of activities. It's so broad that its usefulness as a word is limited. What can you say about sports? "I like/dislike sports. I play/don't play sports". If you talk about "popular sports", "contact sports" or "mind sports", there's so much more you can say than if you're just talking about "sports". And if you pick a particular sport like basketball then you open up a world of things you can talk about. You can talk about rules of the game, the history, famous players/teams, statistics, etc. In the same way, you can talk about "intelligence" in a general sense. But when you're just talking about intelligence, it's hard to say much. So instead, to make it more interesting, you can differentiate between mathematical intelligence, social intelligence, historical intelligence, philosophical intelligence, etc. For many people, talking about intelligence in a linear or binary way doesn't accurately describe their situation. Let's look at a few case studies. diff --git a/content/entry/website-assange-defense.md b/content/entry/website-assange-defense.md index bdce783..69c95ad 100644 --- a/content/entry/website-assange-defense.md +++ b/content/entry/website-assange-defense.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ title: "[Website] Assange Defense" date: 2022-08-24T00:00:00 draft: false --- -# Assange Defense Wikileaks[1] is an international non-profit organization that publishes classified news leaks from anonymous sources. Usually the news leaks expose high-level corruption and violations of human rights and civil liberties. Julian Assange[2], the founder of Wikileaks, is being politically persecuted for publishing documents that exposed U.S. war crimes. Academics, journalists, activists, human rights groups, and politicans have all come out against this. diff --git a/content/entry/website-chat-control.md b/content/entry/website-chat-control.md index e319fd2..4f4f368 100644 --- a/content/entry/website-chat-control.md +++ b/content/entry/website-chat-control.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ title: "[Website] Chat Control" date: 2022-07-30T00:00:00 draft: false --- -# Chat Control The EU wants to indiscriminately scan all EU citizens' private chats, emails, and messages without a warrant.[1] As always, the EU has chosen one of the four horsemen of the infopocalypse[2], pedophiles, as their stated reason for indiscriminately violating innocent people's right to privacy. The EU basically wants to make private digital communication impossible. This is clearly a case of the remedy being worse than the problem. The increased surveillance will do much more harm than good. As the Chat Control website created by Pirate Party member and German digital rights activist Patrick Breyer points out, there are more effective approaches to combating child pornography which don't harm the privacy of every innocent person and target teenagers for harmless sexting. diff --git a/content/entry/website-wait-until-8th.md b/content/entry/website-wait-until-8th.md index 057909e..9a0626d 100644 --- a/content/entry/website-wait-until-8th.md +++ b/content/entry/website-wait-until-8th.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ title: "[Website] Wait Until 8th" date: 2022-07-04T00:00:00 draft: false --- -# Wait Until 8th ## Praise Wait Until 8th[1] is a cause to empower parents to keep their children off smartphones until 8th grade. It's been promoted by multiple major news outlets. I agree with what I've read so far on their blog page[2]. They have some really good points and I recommend for anyone interested to go read it. Overall the cause seems well intended and I think we need more causes pushing to keep screens out of kids' hands. diff --git a/content/entry/why-biden-should-expand-the-supreme-court.md b/content/entry/why-biden-should-expand-the-supreme-court.md index f5b8019..2d326de 100644 --- a/content/entry/why-biden-should-expand-the-supreme-court.md +++ b/content/entry/why-biden-should-expand-the-supreme-court.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ title: "Why Biden Should Expand The Supreme Court" date: 2022-07-03T00:00:00 draft: false --- -# Why Biden Should Expand The Supreme Court The U.S. Supreme Court has gone rogue. It contains three appointees by the wannabe dictator[1] insurrectionist and two from George W. Bush. Both of these men only won because of election rigging tactics, making them and their appointees illegitimate to boot. And then there's one George H. W. Bush appointee. diff --git a/content/entry/why-you-cannot-get-rid-of-your-ego.md b/content/entry/why-you-cannot-get-rid-of-your-ego.md index 32cabed..68a7420 100644 --- a/content/entry/why-you-cannot-get-rid-of-your-ego.md +++ b/content/entry/why-you-cannot-get-rid-of-your-ego.md @@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ title: "Why You Cannot Get Rid of Your Ego" date: 2022-05-08T00:00:00 draft: false --- -# Why You Cannot Get Rid of Your Ego I'd like to clarify the idea of "losing one's ego", a concept I mentioned in my last entry, Thoughts on Spirituality[1]. First I need to define the word "ego" because it's used in many different ways. When I say "ego", I don't mean "egotistical" or "egomaniac". I'm talking about the "I", the supposed unchanging center to experience. It's the thing that feels emotions, has moods and thoughts, senses the senses, and possesses a body. |