May 24, 2020, 2:59 PM

  1. I have been down with a cold this week, but didn’t want to say anything given present chaos. So sorry for limited visibility. This is the result of taking little old ladies to health care places where I catch something every time I go there.

  2. I reported a WordPress authentication bug, and as a consequence WordPress.com managed somehow to screw up permissions on our site – effectively locking me out of administering the look of it with lovely 403 errors, while still allowing me to post. This appears hopefully to have been corrected. but as usual, after updating the Theme to test if that was the issue, there are menu and navigation errors that will take me some time to correct.

  3. I’m making use of my temporary infirmity to update content. I’ve updated the website with FaceBook post content back to Feb 1, at least for Curt but not Eric. That means the site’s only missing part of Nov-Dec, and some of January. Hopefully I’ll have it up there soon.

  4. Next I’ll go thru the new content on the site and migrate it into (merge it into) the book. Its at just under 900 printed pages at the moment and I expect well over 1000 even after editing it down.

  5. A lot more of the book is up on the site now. Sometime shortly I’ll delete links to existing content and just link to chapters of the book. I created a master document that merges in each chapter and section. This effectively ends my duplication of efforts by working in fb > site > scrivener > word > site, and it means I use the site now as my primary word processing environment (which is quite honestly, better now that WP has the new distraction free editor – and such a deep revision history. It’s just the safest writing environment I can find.)

  6. After that it’s curating, tagging, and removing dupes from the nearly fifteen thousand posts, so that book chapters can link to related content.

  7. Brandon and I are working on ‘launching’ via a Constitutional Convention of sorts. The question is the context: whether we can pull from all sides or not. (we hope so).

  8. I’ll probably start releasing the podcasts but not on youtube as they will be too incendiary. They openly declare the terms.

(SIDE NOTE: I have one on Stefan Molyneux that’s ready but I increasingly feel it’s beneath me (us) now to go there. I might release it if I need a few day’s distraction. But it’s the sort of end of his philosophical project and explains why he fails in debates by depending upon it.)

  1. And then maybe I’ll get back to the course because I love that stuff and can’t wait to turn the content into courseware.

  2. And then I’m going to see if our “Editor” will work on the sovereigntarians vs libertarian book that’s been basically done for almost two years now waiting for my attention.

So much to do… never ends.