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August 2, 2021

The Astonishing Hubris of a Global Experimental Vaccine

It is an objective, indisputable fact: never in the history of the world has there been a global push to administer an experimental medicine to all of humanity, billions of us, at the same time. I want you to stop and reflect on that. Imagine the hubris it required both to carry out this plan and…

July 29, 2021

You can now subscribe to LarrySanger.org

...and I will email you (or at least your spam folder) notices of new posts as they appear. Look to the column to the right (or below, if you're reading on a phone) for the sign-up form. That is all.

June 30, 2021

Wikipedia Is More One-Sided Than Ever

Some animals are more equal than others. "All encyclopedic content on Wikipedia," declares a policy page, "must be written from a neutral point of view (NPOV)." This is essential policy, believe it or not. Maybe that will be hard to believe, if you have read many Wikipedia articles on…

January 20, 2021

A first attempt at using WordPress for microblogging

Here is the brand spanking new Larry Sanger Microblog, which lives at a domain I had sitting around doing nothing: http://StartThis.org. As you'll see, it looks a little like a social media feed. I simply downloaded a theme, then spent the day fixing it up so it looked more or less right like a…

January 15, 2021

I am testing out using Quill to post to my blog...and other things maybe.

January 13, 2021

What Decentralization Requires

Decentralization. It's not just a hip happnin' buzzword. And it's not just for blockchain. It has been important, and it always has been—I was using it back in 2005 to describe the early Wikipedia—because it uses technology to guarantee, or at least safeguard, freedom. It removes control of…

January 10, 2021

We Want to Pay for a Good, Functioning WordPress Microposting Plugin

Skip down to the plugin requirements section We are deeply upset at Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and all the rest. Blocking President Trump from these giant corporate networks was just the last straw. Most of us already loathed these corporations for their violations of our basic digital…

January 4, 2021

Five-Year Humanities Plan

By request, here is the "five-year plan" that my older son is following. Introduction and educational strategy What this document is. This is a roadmap for the next five years of your course of study in humanities. It does not cover science, the parts of social science outside of…

January 3, 2021

An ActivityPub WordPress plugin

Matthias Pfefferle has made a WordPress plugin that converts your blog into a very, very stripped-down Fediverse server. What this means, basically, is that if you install this plugin on your WordPress blog, then your blog posts will appear as posts in ActivityPub Fediverse servers, such as (most…

December 31, 2020

An idea for theological self-education

I almost wrote: "a crazy idea for theological self-education" Let me describe what I am doing, and how I might want to go on doing it in the future. This description has two parts: (1) the method I propose to use for studying the Bible, and (2) the method I propose to use for getting an…