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I am an absolutist supporter of isegoria and parrhesia. This means that I believe that everybody has the right to say everything.

I also have this right, which means I have the right to disagree with you.

If you don't like what I say, you can say it here, on this web, at least on pages that are open to discussions. Those includes all my blogs, also my µ-blogs (𝕐 and ), my marginalia on movies and my comments on papers (in the wtps series). At first I restricted this to material that is worthy of discussion—scientific one—but then I thought everything is worthy of discussion. So I chunked 𝕐 in it too. I don't think anybody will comment there anyway.

If you want to comment on something else, you can always write to me; if that is not in one of the above categories, it probably needs to be said to me rather than to the computer.

You can say it anonymously if you want, although if you name yourself as someone, I'll require evidence to print your name by the comment. This you can do by confirming with your email (which identifies you, as well for future comments) or by authentificating yourself through Google. In such a case, following my promise and logic, it means your comments will appear right away, with no moderation, without passing be my. I'll still read them as I get notified, but I won't be part of the acceptation loop. If you submit anonymously, your comments will be moderated, to check that they are not spam or impersonating someone. Of course if you use the above mechanism to shortcut spam-prevention filters, you'll get banned.

Following those rules, you can submit anything, even expletives, even insults, blatant lies or unpleasant truths, fabrications or evidence, anything that you want... It's not my responsibility, it is yours. I only take responsibility for what I say, which, I think, is a lot.

And not even. When I was using 𝕏, my bio description was disclaiming: "Tweets are the responsibility of my old self." We change constantly, we change opinions too. As understood already by Heraclitus, «You cannot enter the same river twice». What I thought last week, last year, last decade, is not precisely the same. It is, hopefully, broadly the same—the river is the same—but the details of the flow have been altered by time, circumstances, more people entering the river. What is important is to have some water in there, not be a dried canopy of cracked crust, but something fluid, transparent, refreshing. If you don't express your thoughts, if you don't verbalize them or don't write them down, they don't exist. It's what I think.

You can also comment if you agree or like something, although I encourage arguments, articulation of some point or impression or thought, as opposed to just appraisal or condemnation.

We'll see how this goes. For a long time, nowhere. Most people have little to say, and almost everybody who has something to say doesn't want to say it anyway. We're in a society of spectators. Fair enough. I enjoy the show of your silence too.

As for us, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.