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1. Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jan-2016 09:26:55 UTC Danyl Strype

   • Eric Duhamel
   @ericxdu23 do you buy fossil fuel for your car? Does that validate everything the oil industries do?
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) repeated this.
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jan-2016 17:27:34 UTC Danyl Strype

     • Eric Duhamel
     @ericxdu23 we choose from that which is available. Most media is currently ARR copyright, and delivered under DRM, so choice is limited.
     Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) repeated this.
   • Eric Duhamel (ericxdu23@loadaverage.org)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jan-2016 20:10:04 UTC Eric Duhamel

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     @strypey I don't think it's likely, but people could choose to abstain.
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   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Friday, 22-Jan-2016 04:55:42 UTC Danyl Strype

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     • Eric Duhamel
     @ericxdu23 that requires communication, collaboration, organisation, not individual acts of self-denial from a perceived moral high ground
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   • Eric Duhamel (ericxdu23@loadaverage.org)'s status on Friday, 22-Jan-2016 06:02:34 UTC Eric Duhamel

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     @strypey Ah, this hits close to home. I make personal choices to abstain, but I don't presume that my individual choices do much to fix societal problems as a whole.
     Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) repeated this.
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 25-Jan-2016 22:52:41 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     • Eric Duhamel
     @ericxdu23 @strypey I think what a personal choice to abstain does is, it gives us incentive to foster alternatives so others can follow.
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Jan-2016 00:10:20 UTC Danyl Strype

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     • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
     • Eric Duhamel
     @clacke @ericxdu23 and to judge people for not abstaining is to hold them responsible for systemic issues which are beyond their control
     Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) repeated this.
   • Eric Duhamel (ericxdu23@loadaverage.org)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Jan-2016 03:36:08 UTC Eric Duhamel

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     • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
     @clacke I agree whole-heartedly with your point, though. To look at it another way, there are situations in which settling on a product, service, etc. that is not good, but "all we have" can keep me from finding or fostering an alternative.
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   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Jan-2016 08:55:53 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     • Eric Duhamel
     @ericxdu23 I think it's important that we are aware of what we are missing when we are abstaining from things for ideological reasons.
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Jan-2016 08:57:23 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     • Eric Duhamel
     @strypey @ericxdu23 Yes, judging doesn't get us anywhere with most people. It works within our ranks, the whole pragmatist-extremist scale.
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Jan-2016 11:26:02 UTC Danyl Strype

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     • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
     • Eric Duhamel
     @ericxdu23 @clacke like Big Food, proprietary software, DRM, walled gardens etc are systemic issue that requires more than solo acts to fix
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   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Jan-2016 12:15:21 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     • Eric Duhamel
     @strypey @ericxdu23 Oh yeah. You need several different roles to create change. Development, advocacy at the very least. And critical mass.
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Jan-2016 07:49:09 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     • Eric Duhamel
     @ericxdu23 @strypey A provocative article http://costoffreedom.cc/book/opening:freedom/my-brain-on-freedom by https://identi.ca/mlinksva .
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Jan-2016 07:51:07 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
     • Eric Duhamel
     @ericxdu23 @strypey The thesis being that there's a cost to engaging in free culture and free software movements, it makes you stupid.
   • Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Jan-2016 09:49:53 UTC Danyl Strype

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     • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)
     • Eric Duhamel
     @clacke @ericxdu23 great article, but my TL;DR would be that certain strategies and priorities in free knowledge movements make us stupider
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   • Eric Duhamel (ericxdu23@loadaverage.org)'s status on Thursday, 28-Jan-2016 06:39:12 UTC Eric Duhamel

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     @strypey I understand the point. I feel "ignorant" may be a better way to describe it, though.
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   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 28-Jan-2016 16:21:00 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     • Eric Duhamel
     @strypey @ericxdu23 In particular, groupthing, dogmatism and purity, which all make us less effective evangelists.
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 28-Jan-2016 16:24:00 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     • Eric Duhamel
     @strypey @ericxdu23 ... but also specialized knowledge, which alienates us from potential recruits, if we mistake it for common knowledge.
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 28-Jan-2016 16:32:02 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     • Eric Duhamel
     @ericxdu23 @strypey The use of "stupid" is a bit of a http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ZenSlap to steal your attention and twist your mind a little.
   • Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) (clackemovedtoheldscalla@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 01-Feb-2016 02:02:51 UTC Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠)

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     • Eric Duhamel
     @strypey @ericxdu23 Sure feeds and enables them.