Hi Jake [and all],
On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 23:04:57 -0700 Jake Orlowitz jorlowitz@gmail.com wrote:
The Aaron Swartz Documentary was released this weekend. I don't know what quite to say except that you should watch it, and it's free (cause it's CC-licensed).
Watch on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHNNHsycaCY
Watch on internet archive: < https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz%3E
Purchase from Takepart.com: http://www.takepart.com/internets-own-boy
Thanks for the recommendation - I'll consider watching it.
I don't know what the family or filmmaker would want in contributions, but I know two organizations that would benefit from donations, now as much as ever:
DemandProgress: http://www.demandprogress.org/
Electronic Frontier Foundation: http://www.eff.org
Does the EFF really need more money? I remember paying relatively generously for all the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humble_Bundle s which raised 10s of millions of money for the EFF. I think many other charities (including the Wikimedia foundation) don't have a shortage of money either, but they do have shortage of people's (paid or volunteer) *time*.
Like I note here - http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/philosophy/putting-all-cards-on-the-tab... - most people think of laziness vs. productivity backward, because a really productive person has a lot of free time, while a person without free time is underproductive and lazy. This page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarah_Michelle_Gellar&oldid=6...
notes that:
[QUOTE] Gellar is an active advocate for various charities, including breast cancer research, Project Angel Food, Habitat for Humanity, and CARE. Of her charitable pursuits, she says, "I started because my mother taught me a long time ago that even when you have nothing, there's ways to give back. And what you get in return for that is tenfold. But it was always hard because I couldn't do a lot. I couldn't do much more than just donate money when I was on the show because there wasn't time. And now that I have the time, it's amazing." [/QUOTE]
At the moment, I have a lot of time, but am not self-sustaining and will accept offers or one-time donations for support: http://www.shlomifish.org/meta/donate/ , and am also contemplating such future ventures such as Stand-up philosophy: https://plus.google.com/+ShlomiFish/posts/GUpTuA6641x .
Government law makers and bureaucrats who prevent really productive individuals, organisations and even - corporations from "getting shit done" are the ultimate in laziness, time wasting, and value destruction, and our civilisation can prosper incredibly if we simplify the laws, depend more on computers to do the dirty work for us, and rethink the various "moral" or "ethical" fashions that we have.
Stay cool and smashing and become even more so.
Regards,
-- Shlomi Fish ("Rindolf").
P.S: if you have a problem with my post, please write it to the list or as a last resort to me in private. See the story of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamsa_and_Bar_Kamsa for why an appeal to authority is antisocial and destructive. If you have a problem with me, tell me about it and I'll try to improve.