End the War on Freedom

The title of this essay comes from a 2021 Christmas movie, the kind that run in places like the Hallmark Channel. But I think it better fits the American bishops’ approach to holy days of obligation. Regular readers know that I have criticized detachment of holy days from their historical context (e.g., Ascension Thursday becoming Ascension-next-Sunday) or the “pastoral” don’t-make-people-go-too-much-to-church-so-Saturday-and-Monday-holy days-sometimes-don’t-count rule (especially ludicrous when it comes to January 1, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God). Well, the latest installment of episcopal follies just exploded over this year’s status of Immaculate Conception. According to universal church calendar rules, when December 8 falls on a Sunday, Immaculate … Continue reading →

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In the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora! Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto famously said, after he directed the Japanese naval attack on Pearl Harbor, “I’m afraid we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.”  While there is no evidence that Yamamoto ever actually spoke these words in real life, they remain entrenched in World War II folklore. Fast forward to 2024 and a much different America.  If the November 5 election proved anything, it’s that America is not Martha’s Vinyard, or the Hamptons, or Washington, D.C.  Nor is it Oprah, Beyonce, or Taylor Swift.  America is East Palestine, … Continue reading →

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Figure 1 of this paper has the all important graph in 1h. I will show you how devastating that plot is. Executive summary Any competent virologist will tell you that if you want to reduce the risk of infection of a respiratory virus, increasing the level of mucosal IgA antibodies is required. And you want to increase the receptor binding domain (RBD) antibodies especially because these antibodies prevent the virus from attaching to the entry point receptors (ACE2) on your cells. So any vaccine that reduces your risk of infection has to increase the secretory IgA antibodies that target the … Continue reading →

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is selecting a number of hawkish people to fill his cabinet. There are currently a lot of hot takes what these appointees will do. Marco Rubio, the likely Secretary of State, may want to launch a new coup in Venezuela. Michael Waltz, the potential national security advisor, is pro-Ukraine, anti-Russian and anti-China. Elise Stefanik, a Zionist, will serve as the Israel’s second ambassador to the United Nations. If there were no limits either of these people would launch new wars. That Trump is selecting rightwing nuts is not unexpected. He needs their backing to push things … Continue reading →

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The soaring costs of home ownership are changing the metrics of unaffordability in important ways. We all know that buying a house is now unaffordable, but owning a house is increasingly unaffordable, too. Gordon Long and I have laid out the sobering explosion of the costs of homeownership, a rise that shows no signs of slowing, much less reversing. It would be nice to attribute it all to one source or one villain, but alas, it isn’t that easy. Costs are rising across the board for many reasons, none of which are reversible by enacting a policy tweak or two. For context, let’s start with … Continue reading →

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Below is my column in The Hill on the growing calls for an organized resistance to the Trump Administration by Democratic governors and prosecutors. They may find, however, that the resistance movement this time around will be facing significant legal and political headwinds. Here is the column: The single most common principle of recovery programs is that the first step is to admit that you have a problem. That first step continues to elude the politicians and pundits who unsuccessfully pushed lawfare and panic politics for years. That includes prosecutors like New York Attorney General Letitia James and politicians like Illinois Gov. J.B. … Continue reading →

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According to the World Meteorology Organization, the world began in 1885 when temperatures first were recorded.   And based on those recordings, which have been radically altered since that time, this is representative of a disaster caused by mankind.  The global mean temperature rose by 1.5’ Celsius.  The goal is for global temperatures to only rise by 1.5’ Celsius…  In addition, UN climate experts have claimed that global greenhouse gas emissions have ‘smashed all records’.  Records began in 1958.  Starting in the 1950s, scientists began drilling deep into the ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland to extract tubes of ice called ice cores.  … Continue reading →

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The primary mechanism our society uses to determine one’s eventual wealth and place in the social hierarchy is their academic performance. As such, many put forward an incredible sustained effort to succeed at each rung of the academic ladder, and in many cases, at the urging of their parents, begin that effort from a very young age. However, while a variety of justifications exist for the society adopting this convention, there are also major issues with it, such as: •Far too many who go through it and put in a sustained effort to “succeed” end up with nothing to show … Continue reading →

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Once it is averred that inequality is wrong and the government ought to do “something” to make people more equal, tyranny is always around the corner. Equalization methods and strategies may vary, but some degree of coercion is guaranteed once it is decided to equalize human beings. The philosopher Antony Flew characterized egalitarianism as a procrustean ideal—some must be stretched to breaking point, while others must be cut down to size, in order to ensure that all are enjoying equal life opportunities. As David Gordon often reminds us, this is why Murray Rothbard regarded “equality of opportunity” as an absurd and anti-human … Continue reading →

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H.L. Mencken was correct in his assessment of democracy and elections.  It’s about getting something for nothing, always and necessarily from someone else’s pot. Electing an executive, who in turn spends trillions of borrowed and stolen money every year – mainly to buy the next election, enrich themselves and their allies, always unaccountable, always unauditable, always failing to deliver more freedom and more prosperity – why, that how it works, isn’t it? Trump, with no third term to game, and with a new and extraordinary team of patriots, entrepreneurs and even soldiers, is returning to the White House.  He has … Continue reading →

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This has happened more than once, but it’s pretty delicious so I’m going to do this short epilogue. Yesterday I wrote about the dying viewership of the mainstream media, aka FakeNews. Today it comes out…… MSNBC shows hemorrhage viewers following Trump victory Fox News viewership was up by 60 percent from the previous year on … Continue reading Media Malfeasance- Epilogue →

Within the world of CAD there are the well-known and more niche big commercial players and there are projects like FreeCAD that seek to bring a OSS solution to the …read more

Once upon a time, computers didn’t really have enough resources to play back high-quality audio. It took too much RAM and too many CPU cycles and it was just altogether …read more

My guess is that they haven't released enough code to run a Bluesky of your own, because all the answers from people who say they know say the same thing -- "It doesn't work that way." You could write your own, but if we were to do that, why use their one-off API, use a standard instead, and we might have a chance to interop with other systems in a meaningful way. I don't blame them for wanting to cash out, but I do blame them for conning people into believing it's some kind of escape. Until I hear otherwise Bluesky is a dead-end, not worth investing your hope in. If you're migrating from Twitter this is no better. Keep looking. But I promise to let you know if I get any info that changes my opinion, so if I've got it wrong, people from Bluesky, just answer the freaking question in the post at the top of this page. Thanks.

Ansible simplifies package management on Linux systems, especially when using the yum module. In this guide, we will explain how to use Ansible’s yum module with the localinstall feature to install RPM packages from local files.

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In the past, Katoolin was a script that helped to install Kali Linux tools on your preferred Linux distro. Since Katoolin is no longer maintained, the recommended and modern way to use Kali Linux tools on your distribution is through Docker. Let's walk through how to install Kali Linux Tools on Ubuntu using Docker.

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If you ask someone who grew up in the late 1970s or early 1980s what taught them a lot about programming, they’d probably tell you that typing in programs from …read more

In a new installment on computer history, [Bradford Morgan White] takes us through the sordid history of Cyrix, as this plucky little company created the best math co-processors (FasMath) and …read more

Exciting news! VMware Workstation and Fusion desktop hypervisors are now free for all users, including personal, commercial, and educational. Here's more on that.

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