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This is the personal web site of Richard Stallman. The views expressed here are my personal views, not those of the Free Software Foundation or the GNU Project. For the sake of separation, this site has always been hosted elsewhere and managed separately. If you want to send me GPG-encrypted mail, do not trust key servers! Some of them have phony keys under my name and email address, made by someone else as a trick. See gpg.html for my real key. Don't watch TV coverage of Covid-19! FSF Giving Guide Canadians: I suggest you seek election advice at a local chapter of agroup that pushes to curb global heating and has the courage to say,"Canada should stop exporting fossil fuel." It will at least use theright goals to suggest who to vote for in your area.Join a Friday climate strike.This page is made by scraping Fridays for Future so you can get theinformation without running any Javascript code. I would be very gladif they made the information on their own site accessiblefrom the Free World; then we could simply refer people to their siteand do without the scraping etc. I am looking for a few more volunteers to help install newpolitical notes on the site. If you'd like to help me in thisway, please write to rms at gnu period org. Is your bank pressuring you to use biometric ID?If so, please write to rms at gnu dot org.It could be useful if you document what is happening. Please join the Free Software Foundation to support its work for your freedom. "They" is plural —for singular antecedents, use singular gender-neutral pronouns. Link Policy The largest part of the site is the political notes, and they are typically updated every day. send me examples of how proprietary programs have been designed to be addictive.I'm looking for people to check a few sites for me regularly and show me any new articles that I would like to see or link to. If you would like to help me in this way, please write to rms at gnu dot o r g.send me examples of how proprietary programs have been designed to cause programmed obsolescence of products.write site-specific Firefox extensions or local scripts to operate specific web sites.help maintain and operate savannah.gnu.org.experiment to find good ways to attach fruits to a Grav-mass tree.help web sites put free licenses on their Javascript code. Civil Liberties Minute: graphic by Susan Henson Americans, you may wish to copy this icon to your own page, as a way of showing what patriotism means to you. Upcoming talks No upcoming talks Urgent action items Everyone: demand that the Florida Department of Education and GovernorDeMentis justify their claim that math textbooks they rejected teach"critical race theory" (or anything else objectionable about race).Refer to the explanation of what critical race theory really is. US citizens: call on the Senate to confirm Nancy Abudu as appeals judge. US citizens: call on your senators to reject the TRUST Act, designedto cut Social Security and Medicare, each time Senator Romney tries tosneak it in. US citizens: call on Biden to expand workers' power. US citizens: call on Biden to stop offering new leases for offshore oil drilling. To sign without running nonfree JavaScript code from the web site, use the Salsalabs workaround. US citizens: Demand that Big Food and Soda disclose their global political activities and spending. US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Green New Deal for Cities Act. US citizens: tell Biden you support regulation of "ghost guns". US citizens: call for justice for Patrick Lyoya — fire and prosecute the killer thug. Also call for a federal investigation into the murder andracism in the Grand Rapids Thug Department, and support alternative approaches to policing. US citizens: phone the White House and call on Biden to finalize the non-nuclear deal with Iran. Boycott Chevron, in the name of Steven Donziger. Recording of Guantanamero Listen to the recording of Guantanamero, a protest song written in Spanish. The recording is in Ogg Vorbis format. To install an Ogg Vorbis player, see the FSF's Ogg Players page. There Ought to Be a Law It should be a crime to knowingly approach a person while maskless inside a building or vehicle. *The pandemic has taken surveillance of workers to the next level.* The extreme of this is represented by the Amazon warehouse, where a worker's every move is controlled by the computer system. This is one of many reasons to refuse to buy from Amazon. Unfortunately, surveillance of workers is not limited to Amazon. I think states should pass laws to limit surveillance of workers. It should cover independent contractors as well as employees. The law should completely forbid demanding that workers run any specific software on their own computers (keep in mind that portable phones are computers); the employer who wants that must furnish the computer at no charge. A hundred years ago, having your face photo circulated as a suspect could direct persecution at you — for instance, making it impossble to get a job. Now it can cause you to be arrested randomly for walking down the street. If stores use face recognition inside the store, they should not be allowed to use photos for matching against people in the store except for photos they have taken in that store, and photos of people convicted of theft and fraud. The corrupter has pardoned his former agent, Michael Flynn, who was convicted for lying to the FBI about what he did for the corrupter. This is a corrupt practice. I think we need to limit the president's power to pardon so that presidents cannot do this in the future. More items where there ought to be a law. Quotes Here are some quotations that I particularly like. Most recent Political Notes and News Items (RSS Feed) See the current pol-notes page for more. (You may need to scroll down for more text if there is blank space in this column.) The four factors of the apocalypse:global heating, global hating,global eating, global mating. [More Cartoons] Copy this button (courtesy of R.Siddharth) to express your rejection of Facebook. Support the Green PartyRepublican ElectionRigging Tactics Evoting The Olympics Why everyone has a reason to fear massive surveillance Churchandstate.org.uk E-booksNon-oppressive CommercialE-booksDon't use FacebookFacebook's facerecognition demonstrates a threat to everyone's privacy. Itherefore ask people not to put photos of me on Facebook; youcan do likewise.Of course, Facebook is bad formany other reasons as well.Boycott Harry Potter Books, Movies, etc.Internet Music EULASBusiness Supremacy TreatiesCountries to Stay Away FromNo national identity cardsI'd like to make a list of countries that do not require a nationalidentity card, and have no plans to adopt one. If you live in or haveconfirmed knowledge of such a country, please send email to rms atgnu.org.Here's my list of countries with no national ID cardsand no plans for one: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK.Australia's previous government tried toinstitute national ID cards, but the Labor government droppedthe plan.India has mostly finished imposing a national biometric ID numberin a grand act of oppression.Switzerland has national ID cards which are optional,but they or some other government ID card are needed for some purposes.Iceland doesn't have ID cards as such, but theyhave ID numbers that citizens are forced to use frequently.For example, the national ID number is often required torent a video or use a gym.Denmark issues non-photo ID cards with a "person number", and manyservices use this card to identify people.Norway will impose a nationalbiometricID card.Ireland- national ID card by stealth.ACLU: thefive dangers of national ID cards.Wikipedia has a list of identity card policies by country.BordersStay away from certain countries because of theirbadimmigration policies.Flight connectionsAvoid flight connections in these airports becauseof theirtreatment of passengers.The Lifelong ActivistPeople often ask how I manage to continue devoting myself toprogressive activism (such as the free software movement) foryears without burning out. The best way I can answer is byrecommending a book, The Lifelong Activist by Hillary Rettig.I disagree with the book on one theoretical point in the lastpart of the book: we shouldn't think of political activism asbeing marketing and sales, because those terms refer tobusiness, and politics is something much moreimportant than mere business. However, this doesn't diminishthe value of the book's practical advice about borrowingtechniques from marketing and sales.Disclosure: I am friends with the author.Bob ChassellWriting (mostly science fiction) by myfriend Bob Chassell who recently died.Solidarity Economy and Free SoftwarePersonal Declaration of Richard Stallman and Euclides Manceon Solidarity Economy and Free Software.Falkvinge articlesI have reposted some of Rick Falkvinge's articles.As posted on his site, you can't see them in a browserwithout running some nonfree Javascript code which is apparentlynon-free. These versions show the same text, without the obstacle. Long-term action items Political Articles These are my political articles that are not related to the GNU operating system or free software. For GNU-related articles, see the GNU philosophy directory. You can also order copies of my book, Free Software, Free Society, 3rd edition', signed or not signed. The Russian Army has become the Putin Forces (March 2022) The definition of "racism" must not be formulated based on who the perpetrators are (February 2022) Why we should get rid of corporate landlords, and an easy method (August 2021) Worker-owned internet services can still be dis-services (June 2021) Necessary Changes in Society (March 2021) On the Firing of Jeffrey Toobin (November 2020) The Broken Trust Model of Policing Police (October 2020) An Extinction Rebellion activist comments about the London police by Clark Killick (October 2020) What sort of laws would give us real privacy? (December 2019) My Talk atMicrosoft (September 2019) Surveillance Ordinance (November 2018) How the Ramayana endorses caste bias (April 2018) Better Genderless Pronouns in English (April 2018) A radicalproposal to keep your personal data safe. (April 2018) What Mary Had (May2017) Anonymousinternet payments using pay phones (Apr 2017) When people areconscripted by the DMCA into the War on Sharing. (Dec 2016) If you feel your organization needsa "presence" inFacebook.(Dec 2016) How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand? Yes, You HaveSomething to Fear. (August 2016) A proposal for resolving the dispute over the South China Sea. (July 2016) Is duckduckgo.com partially enforcing the "celebrity threesomeinjunction"? (May 2016) Adapting the Marseillaise to the greatest threat to civilization. Proposing the Logo Sea Turtle — for Whales (October 2015) Controlling When the Cameras Record (August 2015) A few words to Greece (June 2015) Fixing Too Big To Fail (Apr 2015) Enslaved Workers What I said about Hrant Dink in my talks in Turkey (Apr 2015) Earth under attack from planet Koch. Fine government contractors for hiring ex-officials (Feb 2015) Suggestion to the target of a witch hunt (Feb 2015) Nonexistence (Feb 2015) The Thermocene Epoch (Feb 2015) Digital Voting. (Jan 2015) My letter asking the judge not to sentence Jeremy Hammond to prison. (Jan 2015) It is a bad idea to have computers count the votes in public elections. Internet Voting: don't even think of it! The patent system is, at best, not worth keeping. (February 2014) Why We Need A State (November 2013) We can put an end to "too big to fail" with an innovative tax that also defeats corporate tax-dodging. (August 2013) Exxon and the Letter Exx. (April 1, 2013) Fixing too big to fail (February 2013) Why internet music "sale" is a bad deal. (January 2013) On-line education is using a flawed Creative Commons license (September 2012) French Translation Redistributable Scientific Publishing (April 2012) My Doctor's Office Asked me to Lie (August 2011) Responding to Beggars UK extreme pornography law. My criticism of theThe Zeitgeist Movement.The Venus Project is more or less the same idea. The states need to form a union. Additional Political Articles are on a separate page Political notes "Those who profess to favor freedom, yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." Frederick Douglass, American Abolitionist, Letter to an associate, 1849 Here are notes about various issues I care about, usually with links to more information. The current notes are here. For all previous notes, see this page. See this page for information on efforts to maintain links in the political notes. Political notes about the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, Italy are being archived on their own page. Media/Press/Bios Richard Stallman's bio and publicity photos, and other things of interest to the press, have been moved to a separate page. Travel experiences How it happened that I planned speeches at Israeli universities, then cancelled them. Richard Stallman's travel blog My visit to Machu Picchu Stories about visits to Tikal and Greece Photos about my travels Photos of me working on my laptop at various placesAll of my photos, organized by location, from my trips.Photos people like best,among those I have taken and posted here. OSCON More Photos from OSCON myvisit to Switzerland in May 2003 (and the same photos at the original photographer's site.) Some pictures from Vaasa where I slipped on icy ground in the airport, broke my elbow, and gave my speech by telephone from the hospital bed my trips to Greece In Singapore in March 2001, a lovely parrot (50k jpeg) became enamored of me, while others enjoyed my recorder playing (91k jpeg) my visit to China in May/June 2000. I also visited Tibet unawares, because nobody told me that JiuZhaiGou was part of Tibetan territory annexed by China since the conquest my visit to Brazil: some from Rio de Janeiro and some from Porto Alegre where the Software Livre 2000 event was held. my trip to SloveniaA photo of me by Blake Livingston (may be used under CC-BY-SA). Scientific Links Homeopathy debunked, and thoroughly, as pseudoscience. Some humor The berry torture. The Free Software Song, by Richard M. Stallman. You can listen to a performance of the song: Free Software Song performed by Thor Here is a variant of this song called "The Free Firmware Song". A song parody, Colors of the Lisp, by Jefferson Carpenter. Earth under attack from planet Koch. On doxing, and how to spell it. Futon Physics A Spanish cartoon: La Ruleta Española. The Night before M-x-mas Here I am wearing my "power tie". Wine snobs get their comeuppance. Here I am struggling to open a bottle of water. My application to an join Marian Henley's ex-boyfriends list. My funny poetry and song parodies. My Cartoons My Puns in English (Little Leaguer, August 2019). My Puns in Spanish (New pun: Apostasía April 2019) My Puns in French (New pun: Microsoft à l'école July 2019) My Puns in Portuguese My Puns in Italian (New pun: Quale pesce fa starnutire? New 10/2018) My Puns in German (New 02/2016) Linguistic Swifties (Now with: Wintu, Penutian, Cochiti, Taos, and Towa.) --Saint IGNUcius-- The Church of Emacs will soon be officially listed by at least one person as his religion for census purposes. There are no godfathers in the Church of Emacs, since there are no gods, but you can be someone's editorfather. Stallman Does Dallas: "I have to warn you that Texans have been known to have an adverse reaction to my personality…" The Dalai Lama today announced the official release of Yellow Hat GNU/Linux. Pre-Zen Studies. I found a funny song about the Mickey Mouse Copyright Act (officially the Sonny Bono Copyright Act) which extended copyright retroactively by 20 years on works made as early as the 1920s. If you are a geek and read Spanish, you will love Raulito el Friki, who said "Hello, world!" immediately after he was born. Here's an archive of this now-defunct comic strip. Sleeping with Stallman at MIT. Un malentendido gracioso. ESR's favorite programming language: Objectivist C. American Extremists My Small Mouth The huns and the writs. No Kludges in Cluj (June 2014) Hammer into Anvil Fiction Made for You (December 2012) (local copy) Esperanto translation A science fiction story: Jinnetic Engineering (in Portuguese, Farsi, Spanish, Armenian, Russian, French, and Italian). The Right to Read Books My book of essays about the philosophy of Software Freedom, is available from the GNU Press. Stallman on Love Love and Dance My Childhood Sweetheart Made for You My Former Personal Ad Non-Political Articles Am I Doctor Stallman? Avec des chapeaux French song parody. My radio program of Music fromGeorgia, originally broadcast on WUOG in Athens, Georgia on Oct 13, 2014. Resolving the trolley problem Quantum Theory and Abortion Rights A proposal for gender neutrality in Spanish, suitable for both speech and writing. Origin of the POSIX name. On Hacking: In June 2000, while visiting Korea, I did a fun hack that clearly illustrates the original and true meaning of the word "hacker". My Childhood Sweetheart Love and Dance Predicting the attack on Pearl Harbor Certificate of confusion Links Thanks I would like to thank: Positive Internet for hosting this web site.Graziano Sorbaioli for improving the layout of the main page. Please send comments on these web pages to rms at gnu period org. Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Richard Stallman Verbatim copying and redistribution of this entire page are permitted provided this notice is preserved. Verbatim copying and redistribution of any of the photos in the photos subdirectory is permitted under the Creative Commons Noderivs license version 3.0 or later. You can copy and redistribute the photo of me playing music to the butterfly under the Creative Commons Noderivs Nocommercial license version 3.0 or later. Any other photos of me in this (the toplevel) directory may be copied and redistributed under the Creative Commons Noderivs license version 3.0