Richard Stallman
Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project, original author of GNU Emacs and the GNU General Public License, and long-time president of the Free Software Foundation.
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Their wordsTo suppose that this rock art image has a precise message encoded in little details, as writing would have, has no factual basis that I know of.
↗Urgent: Raise the Wage Actstallman.org 1st of 10 in this piece
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Our reading
Ancient rock art may convey a valuable but imprecise message that could someday be understood
Their wordsNonetheless, ancient rock art is precious, because it may convey a not-so-detailed message that would nonetheless be amazing to understand, if someday we can.
↗Urgent: Raise the Wage Actstallman.org 2nd of 10 in this piece
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Their wordsI am pretty sure that the US made some sort of vicious secret intervention, because the newly elected? president is a magat.
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Their wordsFinland made great progress towards eliminating homelessness by giving people houses which they could feel was home. Alas, right-wing government has cut some of the spending and is driving homelessness back up.
↗Urgent: Raise the Wage Actstallman.org 4th of 10 in this piece
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Their wordsThe systems are really dangerous, but we cannot trust the companies that develop them to protect us from them.
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Their wordsHistorically, whenever companies get power over what people's computing facilities can do, they use it against us, building malicious functionalities, designed to benefit them, into the software they invite us to use.
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Their wordsThe president of Ecuador is turning the country into a dictatorship by banning parties that don't support him.
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Global heating is being deliberately inflicted rather than occurring as a natural disaster.
Their wordsGlobal heating is an intentional outrage, not a natural calamity. It is being done to us knowingly.
↗Urgent: Raise the Wage Actstallman.org 9th of 10 in this piece
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Their wordsRepublicans' long-term strategy, since Reagan, is to spend a lot of money (mainly on things that won't benefit non-rich Americans), refuse to raise taxes, and therefore greatly increase the national debt.
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Their wordsRacism today: when a white person faces accusations of wrongdoing, the accusation is against per alone. When a black person faces accusations, racists use that to cast aspersions against blacks in general.
↗Urgent: Raise the Wage Actstallman.org 12th of 10 in this piece