I was struck by your complaint that Rand ignored politics in Atlas Shrugged, as it shows that you didn't understand how Rand wrote. Rand did not set out to write a realistic novel; AS can best be understood as a sort of science fiction or, better, fantasy, that explicates a conflict of ideas. 2/18

I read the essay up to the point where you started talking about how to fix Objectivism. I stopped there for reasons that should become obvious. But I'll start with observations on your literary analysis. 1/18

Speaking as an Objectivist: First, I agree with your evaluation of Musk. And that too many Objectivists don't want to see it. Second, there's a whole, valid philosophy hidden in/obscured by Objectivism. Unfortunately, there's nobody with the skill and the ability to discover it.

Is it illegal to shout Schenk! in a crowded political theater?

You're a troll. #blocked for incivility.

I have an empty account on twitter that I occasionally use for testing. For a long time, my "For you" tab was entirely filled by what I assume were posts written using Cyrillic!

Oh joy.

This might be of interest: techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/b... I don't know anything about it beyond this article, but it might allow one to be in both places with about the same time commitment as being in either one.

Bluesky and Mastodon users can now talk to each other with Bridgy Fed | TechCrunch

Bridgy Fed is one of the efforts aimed at connecting the fediverse with the web, Bluesky and, perhaps later, other networks like Nostr.

We probably disagree on the nature of the coming dystopia, but yeah.....

Immunity from criminal charges? Michael Conahan and Mark Ciavarella?