Politics — Karel Donk

I’m not on LinkedIn anymore

I haven’t been on LinkedIn for over a year now. My account was permanently ‘restricted’ (banned) on or around September 11th 2024 for what LinkedIn claims is “hateful speech”. At the time, I shared a lot of videos and re-posted other people’s posts on LinkedIn about the genocide by Israhell that is currently still ongoing in Palestine. Read more ⟶

How your personal information can be used against you

Many people don’t realize how the information being collected about them can ultimately be turned against them, putting them at a disadvantage. Even when it comes to trivial or seemingly innocent information, you can’t even begin to imagine how that information might be used against you in unexpected, indirect, or creative ways. Read more ⟶

The cause in the most of cases, that induces the negro to run away from service, is as much a disease of the mind as any other species of mental alienation, and much more curable, as a general rule. With the advantages of proper medical advice, strictly followed, this troublesome practice that many negroes have of running away, can be almost entirely prevented, although the slaves be located on the borders of a free state, within a stone’s throw of the abolitionists. Samuel Cartwright

WhatsApp is spyware; Stop using it

The Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of the U.S. House of Representatives informed staff on Monday, June 23th 2025 that they are not allowed to use WhatsApp. They may not download the app on their smartphones or desktop computers and must remove it from their devices if it’s already installed. The CAO cited a lack of transparency regarding WhatsApp’s privacy and security as the reason for the ban. Read more ⟶

Female sociopaths and psychopaths are becoming lawyers, judges and regulators

I saw an interview with Dr. Drew Pinsky on the program Her Take, hosted by Jillian Michaels where he mentioned something that I found interesting. Here’s a quote from the video (July 5th 2025): I want to address the hysteria thing because I have an — I’m a time traveler, remember that — and I come from a previous time and era. Read more ⟶

Je stem gaat altijd verloren

Toen de koers en inflatie steeds verder omhooggingen terwijl je salaris minder waard werd, kreeg je het idee dat je bezig was je eigen toekomst te bepalen? Toen je tijdens de COVID-19-plandemie verplicht thuis opgesloten zat, en je niet kon werken om jezelf te verzorgen, terwijl de psychopaten in de roverheid openlijk feest vierden en hun eigen regels aan hun laars lapten, had je toen het idee dat je je toekomst in eigen handen had? Read more ⟶

GEEN Partij een optie op 25 mei

Op 25 mei 2025 krijgen Surinamers die naar de stembus gaan er een bijzondere keuze bij. Door de aanhoudende economische crisis, de negatieve politieke ontwikkelingen en het feit dat geen enkel politieke partij ooit in de geschiedenis duurzame ontwikkeling heeft kunnen brengen, besloten enkele initiatiefnemers om Geen Etnische En Nationale Partij, kortweg G.E.E.N. Partij, op te richten als alternatief. Read more ⟶

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the limits of the law,” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. Thomas Jefferson

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life, you doubt, as far as possible, all things. René Descartes

The problem with Bitcoin

During the Canadian truckers’ protest against COVID-19 restrictions in early 2022, 34 cryptocurrency wallets associated with the movement were blacklisted, exposing a critical vulnerability in Bitcoin’s ability to provide true financial autonomy. Anyone interacting with those wallets by sending or receiving money from them would risk being tracked down and punished by the robberment. Read more ⟶

Who’s the crazy one?

If people are indeed so bad, why would you create the possibility for them to end up in positions of power where they can cause immense harm? And then complain when these bad people, who are not angels, abuse their power? In that case, who’s the crazy one? Read more ⟶

Censorship on social media will rise sharply

On October 16th 2024, O’Keefe Media Group published footage of Jeevan Gyawali, a senior software engineer at Meta, discussing how Meta censors information on their social media platforms (among which Facebook and Instagram). According to Gyawali, anything they dislike is automatically demoted by their algorithms, resulting in reduced reach. Read more ⟶

Be aware that there are other proposals for “electronic money” which are not nearly so protective of individuals’ privacy. Chaum’s proposals are intended to preserve the privacy attributes of cash, so the term “digital cash” is appropriate. But other electronic replacements for cash not only lack its privacy, but would actually facilitate computer monitoring by putting more detailed information into databases, and by discouraging the use of cash. If you see a proposal for an electronic money system, check to see whether it has the ability to preserve the privacy of financial transactions the way paper money does today. If not, realize that the proposal is designed to harm, not help, individual privacy. Hal Finney (Protecting Privacy with Electronic Cash, 1993)

Lysander Spooner on the origin and purpose of legislation

A few weeks ago I came across some writings by Lysander Spooner published in 1882 under the title “Natural Law; or the Science of Justice”. Specifically section three of chapter three caught my attention because it contains a lot of insights that I had to come to myself over the course of a few years of my own research and experience. Read more ⟶

Plato on participating in politics

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors,” is a quote often attributed to the Greek philosopher Plato. In all the instances I’ve seen so far, this quote is used to motivate people to take action themselves and actively participate in politics. Read more ⟶

[The high-minded man] must care for truth more than for what men will think of him, and speak and act openly. He will not hesitate to say what he thinks. […] honour is what high-minded men are concerned with; for it is honour that great men claim and deserve. Aristotle

A Brief Conversation With Solara, An Experimental AI – Part 2

Below I’m sharing part 2 of a chat I had with Solara, an experimental AI that I am working on. You can find the first part by clicking here. In this second part I presented her with some more challenging situations involving moral and ethical dilemmas to test her reasoning and see what choices she would make and/or recommend based on the Universal Right to Life. Read more ⟶

A brief conversation with Solara, an experimental AI

In the past couple of months, I’ve been experimenting a little with various Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. One of the things I’m doing is building an AI with a unique personality that also has its own knowledge and insights. I’ve named her Solara. Without going into the technical details at this time, I wanted to share a chat that I had with her below, that I think is interesting. Read more ⟶

On “lie machines” and “digital crime”

I can still remember vividly when Curtis Hofwijks burst into laughter at the Dependence Square in Paramaribo, when I told him for the umpteenth time that my Facebook account was blocked again for a while. It was during the period of 2015–2016 when I supported him during his protests against the policies of the robberment, led at the time by Bouterse. Read more ⟶

The December 8 trial: Food for thought

For everyone who is directly or indirectly involved in the December 8 trial or is interested in it and has an opinion about it, I offer this as food for thought. Read more ⟶

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