Notices by enoch_exe_inc (enoch_exe_inc@mastodon.social), page 2

@RuiSeabra @enoch_exe_inc I’m not defending censorship. In fact, I want to maximise free speech. However, because some speech naturally drowns out other speech, the relative power of some speech must be restricted, unfortunately, but necessarily.

@RuiSeabra @aral @ammdias Karl Popper could’ve read his classics better, for he misunderstood Plato and Platonism quite badly. He also wasn’t the first to discover the tolerance paradox; only the first to call it as such. To my knowledge, this was first laid out by political philosopher (and literal Nazi) Carl Schmitt in his book Political Theology (1922), arguing that liberals and their love of free speech would defend the free speech of those who sought to destroy it.

@ryanhoulihan Got it. Beginning new research project on practical means of electronic harassment and less-lethal directed-energy weapons for self-defensive active area denial against law enforcement during protests.

@ikanreed @ark_lamp_umbrella @privateger @seraph Unless you have no choice but to use regular etwitterpressions. At least they’re better than simple substitution. Clbuttic mistake. #ScunthorpeProblem

@GottaLaff @enoch_exe_inc Also, “nation of laws” is almost objectively untrue. I don’t know how 340 million+ people can believe it, but your society is organised into strict socioeconomic classes in which those at the top can blatantly break the law whereas those at the bottom are disproportionate punished for even minor infractions, all because the law assumes every person is totally identical and treated equally when this is obviously not the case.

@GottaLaff But, we CAN make him stop. Just arrest him and throw him in jail. There doesn’t need to be a legitimate reason; loads and loads of people are regularly tossed into jail for no good reason all the time, and America is arguably the world capital of mass incarceration.

@GottaLaff @enoch_exe_inc Spoken like a true liberal. What’s the phrase, “I don’t agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”? Well, fascism is extremely effective against liberalism for precisely this reason, and fascists have used this fact to undermine liberalism from within.

@ryanhoulihan It’s mainly for the nostalgic value that I play fire up the old DS emulator and load up those old Lego Star Wars and Harry Potter ROMs. I don’t play the new games, for I’m otherwise occupied with Factorio.

@ryanhoulihan Don’t worry. I pirate all my games, sometimes dedicating more hours to cracking the copy protection than playing the actual game.

@Gargron So far, it’s been more or less a hobby of mine. The programmer and computer scientist in me is more fascinated by how it works internally and what I can make it do than in the output it generates; meanwhile, the creative spirit in me is more interested in what it synthesise out of the large amounts of digital art I’ve created, edited, composited, et cetera, and fed into it.

Point is, these two things don’t have to exist in opposition.