Free speech means you don't have the right to prevent others from being heard. But you can't force anyone to listen to you, either. This is called the Fallacy of Demanding to be Heard, and people get this wrong a lot. 🧵👇 E.g., Bob can go to a park and give a public speech about his ex wife Alice being awful. Kicking Bob out of the park is a free speech violation because it prevents him from being heard, generally. But Alice can walk through that park and avoid listening to Bob; that's her right🧵

I just finished re-reading Orwell's 1984, and if you haven't read it (or it's been a while), I can't recommend it enough. It has incredibly relevant and predictive elements that describe things we're starting to see in today's culture. Here are some examples (thread): 1/ Note that I’m not saying that the dystopian, totalitarian hellscape of 1984 is exactly what’s happening today. However, the last couple of years have seen some disturbing parallels emerge. 2/

The @HBO documentary "Persona" (mostly on Myers-Briggs, AKA the #MBTI) was disappointing, woke, and poorly researched. Its main thesis appeared to be "using personality differences in hiring is amoral and always leads to bad outcomes." 1/9 Objective reality check: not everyone is equally good at -- or happy doing - -every job. And not every job appeals to every person. Personality variations are an easy, legal, and intuitively understandable way to explain these differences. 2/9

Tools to help you get more privacy/autonomy online: @signalapp for texting; Helm (thehelm.com) to run your own private server for email, files, etc.; @abine DeleteMe to remove your personal info from sites that sell it & Blur to generate masked emails/credit cards 1/ .@ProtonMail for email; Zcash from @ElectricCoinCo for private crypto; @foxyproxy for VPNs/proxy servers; @SubstackInc for publishing; @rumblevideo for video hosting and monetization; @OnLocals for community management 2/

Many things described as "liberal" today mean the opposite of what was historically true and what many people expect, and this disconnect is likely contributing to some of heightened frustration we're seeing in political arguments in 2020.

1/25 Starting in roughly 2013, "liberal" veered sharply from its roots. You'll hear the word "illiberal" used to describe these contradictions, or "far/alt left," simply "not liberal", or "classic liberal" to differentiate that they're talking about basic enlightenment values.

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