New Administrivia
I’m trying to keep this simple. Initially I said I would not email people every time I have a new post. I’ve changed that, since I rarely post more than once a day. For much shorter bits I will use my own website, at maxspeak.net. I also said I would not charge for subscriptions. That remains true, though I won’t turn down donations to my campaign. There are a lot of settings possible here and I have tried not to create different classes of readers, as is possible on this platform, such as limiting some posts to paying subscribers, or limiting the chance to comment on a post. Screw all that. Send me money if you can, and if you find any obstacle to reading or commenting on anything here, please let me know.
I respect the approach and hope it leads to good things.
I recall reading on one of your posts not so long ago that your old content went away with your old website, when you forgot to keep the domain provider funded. I've found some of that old site, anyway, at https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000000*/https://maxspeak.net/ .
If you're unfamiliar with archive.org — I note that I use it frequently for Wikipedia editing: recovering otherwise dead links, finding old movies (e.g. a number of left films by Carl Marzani), borrowing complete books that might not be available, etc. I even posted a pamphlet there myself: SMASH THE CHAINS by Louis E. Burnham, published by the Southern Negro Youth Congress (aka the first "snick"), now available at https://archive.org/details/smash-the-chains . A book that Google Books keeps you from seeing all the pages you want, might be available complete, typically in an earlier edition, at archive.org.