JPB on meeting a partner on an evening when he was due to roast Steve Jobs at a NeXT Expo. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/74/transcript#act3
Ow. That actually hurt.
John Perry Barlow has died
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#112JPB on meeting a partner on an evening when he was due to roast Steve Jobs at a NeXT Expo. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/74/transcript#act3
"UNIX weenies by Armani" :)
EDIT: OK, just made it to the end. Didn't really feel I could leave the above as my entire reply to such a profound story.
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#113JPB on meeting a partner on an evening when he was due to roast Steve Jobs at a NeXT Expo. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/74/transcript#act3
Well, I wasn't prepared for that. Almost skipped over it, so anyone else trailing through who catches this, go and read it.
Thanks for adding that. I was set to skip over that too. Holy crap, that was great. And it might be my new favorite piece of Ira Glass' work.
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#114If Barlow doesn't deserve the HN black bar, I don't know who does. He fought for electronic freedoms tirelessly for decades, fending off companies who wanted to control the Internet or individuals' rights to hack technology they own.
Definitely. Please HN mods, let's have the black bar tribute today.
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#115> without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity
Is there still a living pocket of progressive thinkers like him who would still stand for this in the days of the Daily Stormer (recently, arguably justifiably, coerced into silence?)
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#116JPB on meeting a partner on an evening when he was due to roast Steve Jobs at a NeXT Expo. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/74/transcript#act3
Very moving and sad. He wrote about her here: https://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/...
Thank you so much for sharing this. This, and When Worlds Collide, are some of the most touching pieces I've ever read.
Rest in peace John.
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#117Such a loss. Who is the thought leader today to push back on the huge curtailment of online freedoms happening around the world. Even in the HN crowd, you see people succumbing to nationalism and making arguments to support their government's right to impose their court decisions on foreign jurisdictions in cyberspace. The problem isn't just the Great Firewall, it's stuff like Turkey or Thailand getting YouTube to ta…
If that's really how you feel, then why don't you be that person?
And by "you," I'm not calling out cromwellian, I mean anyone who reads this comment.
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#118If Barlow doesn't deserve the HN black bar, I don't know who does. He fought for electronic freedoms tirelessly for decades, fending off companies who wanted to control the Internet or individuals' rights to hack technology they own.
Yeah, HN needs to put a black bar on for JPB.
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#120JPB on meeting a partner on an evening when he was due to roast Steve Jobs at a NeXT Expo. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/74/transcript#act3
So, someone else who thinks that sometimes they can see souls in the light of beings’ eyes.
At least I know I’m not the only crazy person. Sadly it is entirely unprovable to others. It would be like trying to prove to someone who’s never eaten chocolate before, that chocolate is this totally awesome thing. (And what is chocolate, really, but an entirely subjective sublime experience?)
Funny thing, though, that I can say about it (and which is entirely in agreement with his account)... If you ever manage to see theirs, they will be able to see yours, too.
Rest easy, JPB. You’re hopefully back with your tribe.