It seems that MayDay.us needs money: https://mayday.us/
(I know it's political, but whoever has seen the documentary or read Aaron's blog can understand the rationale.) ((I would ***love*** seeing the WMF step up in things like this, but I understand it's complicated...)) Aubrey On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jake [and all], > > On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 23:04:57 -0700 > Jake Orlowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The Aaron Swartz Documentary was released this weekend. I don't know > what > > quite to say except that you should watch it, and it's free (cause it's > > CC-licensed). > > > > Watch on youtube: > > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHNNHsycaCY> > > > > Watch on internet archive: < > > https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz> > > > > Purchase from Takepart.com: > > <http://www.takepart.com/internets-own-boy> > > > > Thanks for the recommendation - I'll consider watching it. > > > I don't know what the family or filmmaker would want in contributions, > but > > I know two organizations that would benefit from donations, now as much > as > > ever: > > > > DemandProgress: > > <http://www.demandprogress.org/> > > > > Electronic Frontier Foundation: > > <http://www.eff.org> > > > > Does the EFF really need more money? I remember paying relatively > generously > for all the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humble_Bundle s which raised > 10s of > millions of money for the EFF. I think many other charities (including the > Wikimedia foundation) don't have a shortage of money either, but they do > have > shortage of people's (paid or volunteer) *time*. > > Like I note here - > > http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/philosophy/putting-all-cards-on-the-table-2013/#laziness_vs_productivity > - most people think of laziness vs. productivity backward, because a really > productive person has a lot of free time, while a person without free time > is > underproductive and lazy. This page: > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sarah_Michelle_Gellar&oldid=615139001#Interests_and_activities > > notes that: > > [QUOTE] > Gellar is an active advocate for various charities, including breast cancer > research, Project Angel Food, Habitat for Humanity, and CARE. Of her > charitable > pursuits, she says, "I started because my mother taught me a long time ago > that > even when you have nothing, there's ways to give back. And what you get in > return for that is tenfold. But it was always hard because I couldn't do a > lot. > I couldn't do much more than just donate money when I was on the show > because > there wasn't time. And now that I have the time, it's amazing." > [/QUOTE] > > At the moment, I have a lot of time, but am not self-sustaining and will > accept > offers or one-time donations for support: > http://www.shlomifish.org/meta/donate/ , and am also contemplating such > future > ventures such as Stand-up philosophy: > https://plus.google.com/+ShlomiFish/posts/GUpTuA6641x . > > Government law makers and bureaucrats who prevent really productive > individuals, organisations and even - corporations from "getting shit > done" are > the ultimate in laziness, time wasting, and value destruction, and our > civilisation can prosper incredibly if we simplify the laws, depend more on > computers to do the dirty work for us, and rethink the various > "moral" or "ethical" fashions that we have. > > Stay cool and smashing and become even more so. > > Regards, > > -- Shlomi Fish ("Rindolf"). > > P.S: if you have a problem with my post, please write it to the list or as > a > last resort to me in private. See the story of > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamsa_and_Bar_Kamsa for why an appeal to > authority is antisocial and destructive. If you have a problem with me, > tell me > about it and I'll try to improve. > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > First stop for Perl beginners - http://perl-begin.org/ > > Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. > > Chuck Norris deletes Deletionists whom he considers lame. > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
