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diff --git a/2024/talks/blee.md b/2024/talks/blee.md index db082d72..7bfa12a2 100644 --- a/2024/talks/blee.md +++ b/2024/talks/blee.md @@ -141,12 +141,12 @@ Previous Talks: <https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/bidi> and thought it would be better to ask. - A: For everybody listening to this conference, the **international** edition is the right choice. - - It features more aggressive stance against intellectual property + - It features more aggressive stances against intellectual property (being linked specifically to the American culture) - There are pieces in the book where the typical American audience might be offended - ...But if your skin is thick enough to deal with reasonable - criticism, the international edition for you. + criticism, the international edition is for you. - Q:Thank you for this talk! How does your perspective interface with works such as Yanis Varoufakis' Technofeudalism? - A: Not familiar with the book. @@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ Previous Talks: <https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/bidi> and - A: The idea is that teaching and learning should be unrestricted, such as the Muslim/Iranian saying: "Passing along the learning is the tax on having learnt". - - "Being used as part of education" + [ The "tax" on knowledge is sharing it with others. زكات علم، آموختن آن به ديگران است. ] - Q:As a specific example of how "ownership is not clean", look at the Star Trek Picard series: they continuously asked Patrick Stewart to come do another Star Trek series but he wouldn't because Star Trek @@ -254,22 +254,21 @@ Previous Talks: <https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/bidi> and - Probably my favourite talk of the event - Wonderful talk! - This presentation gets better and better. -- I don't know if this is a problem with - Capitalism which can be many things to different people to the point - the term might not mean much. I have a problem with people competing - through corrosion rather than compition. For example google is - restricting access to google drive api making everybodys app but - googles worse. Capitilism "not fake Capitilism" predospes a free - market which would limit this - going to go checkout the book later as half way thorugh the talk i got term overload - Great talk, great software. -- Thank you for the presentation Mosen. +- Thank you for the presentation Mohsen. - while this heavy topic is certainly a major critique of capitalism as such, i certainly would not mix in here any sort of religion-related things. hence leveraging "Halaal" for this is quite disturbing. - I skipped the whole thing because I suspected it would just annoy me for no other reason than that one term. (Maybe this was excessively prejudicial of me, but seriously, not my religion, I suspect I'd be unwelcome.) (maybe this is an English-specific thing, Do Not Mention Religion, because last time we mentioned it we had centuries of religious wars.) +- Mohsen's response to the above two bullets. + Halaal is a very sensitive and potent word. + There is an entire chapter titled: "Introducing Halaal and Haraam into Globish" in the book. + In those 10 pages, I clarify that my use of Halaal is philosphical not religious. + Unfortunately the equivalent word for halaal does not exist in English. + Americanists, should first try to understand what halaal really means. - Hard topic, it feels like we are in an era of closing open-source software, eg redhat - YouTube comment: Phenomenal thinking. I will be reading the Nature of Polyexistentials |