We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.
Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]
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Samizdata quote of the day – X is a latter-day Radio Free Europe In the UK right now, @X is performing the same function that Radio Free Europe did in the Eastern Bloc. Without this site, or if it still remained Twitter under the control of the American left, our government would be much more able to hide things they don’t want to discuss.
– Peter Hague
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Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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Citation needed.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Elon Musk is the most important human alive today.
Here is a simple fact, he spent $45 billion to save free speech. In doing so he put all his companies at risk, and risked his personal fortune and safety, he did so when the company’s value crashed way below what he paid. He broke the government’s control over speech. He published all the dirt on what the government has been doing on speech, and ever since his actions have lead a cascade of other SM companies stepping up to the plate and also taking their own stand against censorship.
Like him or dislike him, be irritated at all his quirks and faults if you like. But this alone makes him transcendent. Like all heroes he is flawed, but this alone makes him my hero. I am an irredeemable Musk fanboy.
If you are reading this Elon, I’d love to do lunch. I’ll even pay, assuming you like Taco Bell.
Taco Bell: I take it you’ve seen Demolition Man?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-7zED_o62w
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