Richard Stallman's Personal Page (original) (raw)
Richard Stallman's Personal Site
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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.
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Richard Stallman has cancer. Fortunately it is slow-growing and manageable follicular lymphoma. Treatment put it into remission, and he can expect to live many more years. However, he now has to be even more careful not to catch Covid-19.
Robert Reich explains how the bullshitter and Republicans are trying to spread chaos to discourage non-fascists from voting. After creating as much real chaos as they can, they pretend there is even more of it, hoping Americans will give up and not vote, or support a fascist strong man.
I urge you to vote in Democratic primaries for the progressive candidate, if there is one. And in the final election I urge you to vote for Democrats, unless a liberal independent had a good chance of winning.
Canadians: I suggest you seek election advice at a local chapter of a group that pushes to curb global heating and has the courage to say, "Canada should stop exporting fossil fuel." It will at least use the right goals to suggest who to vote for in your area.
Join a Friday climate strike.
That page is made by scraping Fridays for Future so you can get the information without running any Javascript code. I would be very glad if they made the information on their own site accessible from the Free World; then we could simply refer people to their site and do without the scraping etc.
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Upcoming talks
- El Movimiento del Software Libre y el Sistema Operativo GNU
2024-10-22 @ 14:00 p.m.
Ubicación: Auditorio de Casa de la Cultura, Universidad Nacional de Cañete
Cañete, Peru - El Movimiento del Software Libre y el sistema operativo GNU La IA y la estupidez artificial
2024-10-23 @ 11:00 a.m.
Ubicación: Auditorium Villa 2, Universidad Científica del Sur
Lima - Chorrillos, Peru - Free/Libre software and freedom in the digital society
2024-10-24 @ 10:00 a.m.
Ubicación: Auditorio de Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad Nacional de San Agustín
Arequipa, Peru - El Movimiento del Software Libre y el sistema operativo GNU
2024-10-26 @ 18:00 p.m.
Ubicación: Auditorium, Gobierno Regional de Tacna
Tacna, Peru - El Movimiento del Software Libre y el sistema operativo GNU
2024-10-29 @ 11:00 a.m.
Ubicación: Auditorio de la FIIS. Edificio de la Facultad de Ingeniería Industrial y de Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Federico Villareal
Lima, Peru - Por una sociedad digital libre
2024-10-30 @ 11:00 a.m.
Ubicación: Av. Antigua Panamericana Sur km 16.2. Villa El Salvador, Universidad Autónoma Auditorio de la Universidad Autónoma
Lima, Peru - El Movimiento del Software Libre y el sistema operativo GNU - Los sistemas de Aprendizaje Automático
2024-10-31 @ 11:00 a.m.
Ubicación: Auditorio: Celso Alfredo Alva Bravo - FISI Edificio de la FISI Panamericana Sur km 16.2. Villa El Salvador, Universidad Nacional de San Marcos
Lima, Peru
Urgent action items
- US citizens: call on World Leaders to agree on a strong treaty to reduce plastic production.
- I'm looking for a cartoonist who would like to draw cartoons for me once in a while. If you're interested, please write to rms, which refers to me, at the location gnu period org.
- 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
- A pitifully weak attempt to solve a real problem: asking for a federal law that would permit victims of domestic abuse and stalking to demand that data brokers delete information about them.
Data, once collected, will be abused. The way to prevent that abuse is to facilitate refusing to hand it over in the first place.
Here is my proposal for protecting the specific people known to be in particular danger, and everyone else who could be harmed if individuals, businesses or governments use their personal data against them without a search warrant: require services to be available anonymously. - The regulation of toxic chemicals in the US is hamstrung by laws that enable companies to keep their use and their presence in any place secret.
The selfish interest of those who keep trade secrets is rational but antisocial. In many cases the only harm it does is to hold back the general advance of technology. But sometimes it does really nasty things. For digital hardware and software, it often gives companies a way to subjugate their users. Regarding use of toxic chemicals, it endangers public health.
Why would legislators pass laws to "protect" companies instead of protecting the people they harm? I suspect it is partly because these companies are influential and the legislators seek their support, and partly because the legislators ask them for campaign funds.
But it is also partly the result of the mindset of "trickle down", which assumes that the only way to get more funds for the state is to let increase the size of the economy by letting companies have what they want. Unfortunately, what they want is often to be allowed to harm the public.
Most Democrats in Congress got corrupted this way in the 80s and 90s. (The exceptions are the progressive Democrats.) Now in the UK Starmer is guiding Labour into that sort of corruption.
Clearly our laws should say that any public need to know about the presence of toxic substances in a business facility overrides the desire to keep them secret. - *China-owned British Steel said to have requested £600m of taxpayer support.*
Whether the owners are Chinese is a question that there is no need to ask, because the state should never give money to a business "to support it." Instead it should offer to lend money to the company for suitable repayment, or else buy equity at a fair price.
These two ways of supporting a company avoid giving the owners an opporunity to rip off the state -- which the company's owners are likely to try to do, if they can, regardless of which country they are from.
With a policy like this, it wouldn't matter which country the company's owners are from. - California is proposing an interesting approach towardsantisocial media platforms.
It is exciting that SB 976 turns towards restricting recommendation algorithms. But these options should not be limited to minors — every usershould have this choice. (Please do not refer to teenagers as "children"; that feeds the US tendency to treat them like children andretard their development.)
However, I suggest taking a step beyond just choosing to use or not use theplatform's addiction system. Recommendation algorithms should be completely separated from platforms!
If you want to use a nontrivial recommendation algorithm, you should be able to choose it yourself and use it anonymously. You could send it the URLs you want it to base its choices on. These might be some of the pages you had visited, and perhaps pages you had not visited.
Then it should send you its recommendations. You could pass all, or just some, or none of those recommendations to the platform to look at them.
AB 1949 is admirable because it gives a small boost to privacy for users of all ages, not only for children. It isn't enough, though — users should also be guaranteed the right and possibility to access through the Tor network and to use aliases. And collection of a user's data by the state should require a warrant against the user.
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
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New pun
15 November 2024
Coal and oil use continued to rise
15 November 2024
*Despite nations’ pledges at Cop28 a year ago, the burning of coal, oil and gas continued to rise in 2024.*
In other words, the planet roasters have defeated the campaign to save civilization (and your lives) from destruction.
(Satire) Oklahoma ten commandments in womb law
15 November 2024
(satire) *Oklahoma Law Requires Ten Commandments To Be Displayed In Every Womb.*
Big oil fossil fuel warning
15 November 2024
*The Air Pollution Foundation, which was primarily funded by the lobbying organization Western States Petroleum Association, publicly claimed to want to help solve the smog crisis, but was set up in large part to counter efforts at regulation.*
It was informed in 1955 of the future danger of global heating.
Australia lapsed export permits
15 November 2024
* Australia has amended or lapsed at least 16 defence-related export permits to Israel in recent weeks.*
This alone won't make Israel stop committing atrocities, but it can blaze the trail for other countries to do so.
Trump administration health policy
15 November 2024
*Why the Trump administration will be bad for [most] Americans' health.*
The exceptions will be the millionaires.
Urgent: reduce plastic production
15 November 2024
US citizens: call on World Leaders to agree on a strong treaty to reduce plastic production.
Women rejecting all men
15 November 2024
Women in several countries are responding to arrogant right-wing misogynous men by rejecting all men, for sex or for love.
In a place where abortion and birth control are restricted, it is obviously rational for women to reject penis-in-vagina sex with men (except when they seek to get pregnant). This doesn't require rejecting all lovemaking, but that is what these women are doing.
The misogynists will deserve such rejection, but what will happen to the young men who yearn for kind and tender love with a woman? They will well know that life makes that as unlikely as winning the lottery. They may join the misogynists only because no other path proclaims itself as offering any hope.
Sensitive men will see that misogyny is a path to a dead end of twisted hatred, not a path to happiness. But when they reject that path, where could they go instead? They won't see any good path -- only despair.
With women hating them sight unseen, trying to be kind and considerate won't be enough to give men an opportunity for love. Even to learn what constitutes "kind and considerate" requires feedback from someone prepared to appreciate you when you make progress, and misandrists will form a solid wall against that.
I am so sad for the men and for the women.
Israel bombing farms
15 November 2024
*Cattle, crops and ancient olive groves: Lebanon’s farmers "lose everything" to Israeli bombs.*
Republicans and abortion
15 November 2024
Republicans will try to attack abortion rights nationwide, despite their half-hearted pretense before the election.
Democrats gave up on votes of most men
14 November 2024
The Democrats gave up on the votes of most men. An advisor argues that that was a terrible mistake.
Fossil fuel deals at climate summit
14 November 2024
*Cop29 CEO filmed agreeing to facilitate fossil fuel deals at climate summit.*
I see little hope for efforts to preserve civilization and technology fro the danger of global heating, but if it is to happen, the COP conferences as they are are useless window dressing. They mainly serve the planet roasters as greenwashing.
They do provide funds for some useful conservation activities — useful, that is, supposing we do save civilization by preventing global disaster — but they won't help prevent global disaster.
Papua New Guinea has denounced the conferences as a worthless waste of time. Bravo!
If there is to be any chance of replacing this broken process with one that will work, it has to start with an ct of defiance like this one. Then other countries have to follow that lead lead.
Labour's tax increases and regulations
14 November 2024
The complaints from rich people and businesses, that Labour's tax increases and regulations will be have some deleterious effects, show that it would fix problems that vested interests don't want fixed.
In a market-based economy, any change in one variable affects many others. Pulling on one string reshapes the rest of the network a little. Some of those secondary effects are good and some are bad.
The fallacy in those arguments is that they exaggerate the significance of the bad secondary effect, inviting the reader to assume that it will outweigh the primary benefit of the action. Sometimes that does happen, but you can't take the word of the complainers for that.
Foreign political leader's fear of the wrecker
14 November 2024
Fear of the wrecker is leading foreign political leaders to try to alter their past statements.
(satire) Neuralink patient voting for Trump
14 November 2024
(satire) *Neuralink Patient Unable To Stop Hand From Voting For Trump.*
Power to strip tax exemption
14 November 2024
Republicans are trying to create the power to strip the tax exemptionfrom any organization that officials accuse of "supporting terrorists", with no requirement to present any reason or evidence for that accusation.
The group thus attacked would get a hearing, but it is hard to refute an accusation that offers no specifics. Even worse, there may be no limits on what sort of action would constitute "support". Would "End the siege of Gaza" be construed as "support" for terrorists? I wouldn't be surprised if the bully's followers said so,
This attack on the freedom of political association in the US, this attempt to subvert the rule of law by injecting arbitrary power, illustrates the commitment of right-wing extremists to the elimination of the basic principles of human rights, such as "innocent until proven guilty."
I expect the Senate to block this bill, for the rest of this year.
Tuition fees in UK universities going up
14 November 2024
Tuition fees in UK universities are going up, and some students will need bigger loans to pay for that,
The UK student loan system is fundamentally better than the US system, because in the UK system the ex-student who has a low income does not have to repay the loan.
Why Taxation isn't theft
14 November 2024
*No it's not your money: why taxation isn't theft.* Refuting the claim that however much you can extract from the market is a measure of what you deserve.
The wrecker emboldened misogynists
14 November 2024
The wrecker has emboldened misogynists to provocatively shout their contempt for women and demand for power over them.
Some of them will act this out violently. We must expect to see an increase in rape.
"Protected" nature reserves
14 November 2024
Many "protected" nature reserves are not protected very effectively; biodiversity is declining within them, due to causes such as drilling for oil.
Global heating could also be contributing to that decline. Protecting a specific area of land won't preventing from getting hotter, and getting much wetter, much drier, getting burned to the ground, or getting flooded.
The four factors of the apocalypse:
global heating, global hating,
global eating, global mating.
Copy this button (courtesy of R.Siddharth) to express your rejection of Facebook.
E-books
Non-oppressive Commercial E-books
Don't use Facebook
Facebook's face recognition demonstrates a threat to everyone's privacy. I therefore ask people not to put photos of me on Facebook; you can do likewise.
Of course, Facebook is bad for many other reasons as well.
Boycott Harry Potter Books, Movies, etc.
Internet Music EULAS
Business Supremacy Treaties
Countries to Stay Away From
No national identity cards
I'd like to make a list of countries that do not require a national identity card, and have no plans to adopt one. If you live in or have confirmed knowledge of such a country, please send email to rms at gnu.org.
Here's my list of countries with no national ID cards and no plans for one: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK. Australia's previous government tried to institute national ID cards, but the Labor government dropped the plan.
India has mostly finished imposing a national biometric ID number in 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 they have ID numbers that citizens are forced to use frequently. For example, the national ID number is often required to rent a video or use a gym.
Denmark issues non-photo ID cards with a "person number", and many services use this card to identify people.
Norway will impose a nationalbiometric ID card.
Ireland- national ID card by stealth.
ACLU: thefive dangers of national ID cards.
Wikipedia has a list of identity card policies by country.
Borders
Stay away from certain countries because of theirbad immigration policies.
Flight connections
Avoid flight connections in these airports because of theirtreatment of passengers.
The Lifelong Activist
People often ask how I manage to continue devoting myself to progressive activism (such as the free software movement) for years without burning out. The best way I can answer is by recommending a book, The Lifelong Activist by Hillary Rettig.
I disagree with the book on one theoretical point in the last part of the book: we shouldn't think of political activism as_being_ marketing and sales, because those terms refer to business, and politics is something much more important than mere business. However, this doesn't diminish the value of the book's practical advice about borrowing techniques from marketing and sales.
Disclosure: I am friends with the author.
Bob Chassell
Writing (mostly science fiction) by my friend Bob Chassell who recently died.
Solidarity Economy and Free Software
Personal Declaration of Richard Stallman and Euclides Mance on Solidarity Economy and Free Software.
Falkvinge articles
I have reposted some of Rick Falkvinge's articles.As posted on his site, you can't see them in a browser without running some nonfree Javascript code which is apparently non-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 download copies of my book, Free Software, Free Society, 3rd edition.
- A way to recognize misleading political propaganda (July 2024)
- Fight Modern Slavery, but Leave Astronomy Alone (May 2024)
- Let Benevolence Shine (December 2023)
- What I learned about gender and language from talking about the Virgin of Emacs, and how I made use of that in practice (October 2023)
- Many governments invite schools to invite companies to snoop on students (June 2022)
- To Endure, Peace Needs to Weaken Putin But Not Ruin Him (March 2022)
- 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 at Microsoft (September 2019)
- Surveillance Ordinance (November 2018)
- How the Ramayana endorses caste bias (April 2018)
- Better Genderless Pronouns in English (April 2018)
- A radical proposal to keep your personal data safe. (April 2018)
- What Mary Had (May 2017)
- Anonymous internet payments using pay phones (Apr 2017)
- When people areconscripted by the DMCA into the War on Sharing. (Dec 2016)
- If you feel your organization needs a "presence" in Facebook. (Dec 2016)
- How Much Surveillance Can Democracy Withstand?
- Yes, You Have Something to Fear. (August 2016)
- A proposal for resolving the dispute over the South China Sea. (July 2016)
- Is duckduckgo.com partially enforcing the "celebrity threesome injunction"? (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)
- Earthunder 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."
Here are notes about various issues I care about, usually with links to more information. The current notes arehere. 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 aseparate page.
Travel experiences
- How it happened that I planned speeches at Israeli universities, then cancelled them.
- Richard Stallman's travel blog and restaurants reviews
- My visit to Machu Picchu
- Stories about visits to Tikal andGreece
Photos about my travels
- Photos of me working on my laptop at various places
- All 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 othersenjoyed 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 fromPorto Alegre where the Software Livre 2000 event was held.
- my trip to Slovenia
- A photo of me by Blake Livingston (may be used under CC-BY-SA).
Scientific Links
- Homeopathy debunked, and thoroughly, as pseudoscience.
Some humor
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.
Earthunder attack from planet Koch.
On doxing, and how to spell it.
A Spanish cartoon: La Ruleta Española. 
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 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 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.
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.
ESR's favorite programming language: Objectivist C.
No Kludges in Cluj (June 2014)
Fiction
Made for You (December 2012) (local copy) Esperanto translation
A science fiction story: Jinnetic Engineering (in Portuguese,Farsi,Spanish, Armenian,Russian,French, andItalian).
Books
My book of essays about the philosophy of Software Freedom, is available from the GNU Press.
Stallman on Love
Non-Political Articles
Avec des chapeaux French song parody.
My radio program of Music from Georgia, originally broadcast on WUOG in Athens, Georgia on Oct 13, 2014.
Quantum Theory and Abortion Rights
A proposal for gender neutrality in Spanish, suitable for both speech and writing.
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".
Predicting the attack on Pearl Harbor
Links
Thanks
I would like to thank:
- Positive Internet for hosting this web site.
- Graziano Sorbaioli for improving the layout of the main page.
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