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{ "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "OrderedCollectionPage", "orderedItems": [ { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1515405273634705424", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1195374038134824967/entities/urn:activity:1515056556197023760", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1195374038134824967", "content": "<a href=\"https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/06/no_author/the-meaning-of-the-rainbow-revolution/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/06/no_author/the-meaning-of-the-rainbow-revolution/</a><br /><br />Across all of human politics, the Western liberal tradition stands out for its ambitions to circumscribe state power. The people, in this tradition, are held to be the locus of sovereignty, and most Western governments are bound by elaborate constitutions which purport to constrain their jurisdiction over citizens, and which many regard as bearing a nearly religious authority. In Germany, an entire government agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, is granted wide powers to hunt down potential constitutional enemies. These constitutions do many things. They extend a wide of variety of rights not only to citizens, but often to all of humanity. They often divide state powers by placing the judicial, executive and legislative branches of government in quasi-independent silos, hoping that each of these branches will defend their respective prerogatives from depredations by the others and, in the process, impose self-interested checks on the reach and the arbitrary exercise of power.<br /><br />This approach to politics has not aged well. Covid was a low point, simply for revealing the steely and actually quite anti-liberal authoritarianism these systems have been nurturing in their innermost chambers for many decades. Western liberal states in the modern era do not behave like limited systems which derive their sovereignty from the people. Every day, they more and more resemble the kinds of unchecked, totalitarian regimes we remember from the Soviet period. If anything, they seem poised to become a good deal worse, for they are able to achieve relatively prosperous economic conditions and to harness popular support far more efficiently, thus evading the harder constraints on the ambitions of the old Warsaw Pact governments.<br /><br />State power wishes to be free, in the same way that water wishes to flow downhill. The problem with liberal checks on power, is that they forced the state to develop novel legal and cultural solutions to overcome them. State politics in liberal systems has thus come to resemble antibiotic-resistent bacteria in hospitals – it has evolved a general resistance to constitutional limitations, in the process becoming an altogether worse and more dangerous animal. The mutual checks and balances imposed on the state by its competing branches, for example, have merely incentivised the political establishment to develop and enforce among its members a uniform elite outlook, which encourages cooperation towards shared goals among erstwhile rivals. This cultural solution has proven wildly successful, not merely releasing the state from many old encumbrances, but even extending its reach across many more facets of society, as ordinary people adopt and enforce the prestige ideology of the regime.", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1195374038134824967/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1515056556197023760", "published": "2023-06-13T16:40:00+00:00", "source": { "content": "https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/06/no_author/the-meaning-of-the-rainbow-revolution/\n\nAcross all of human politics, the Western liberal tradition stands out for its ambitions to circumscribe state power. The people, in this tradition, are held to be the locus of sovereignty, and most Western governments are bound by elaborate constitutions which purport to constrain their jurisdiction over citizens, and which many regard as bearing a nearly religious authority. In Germany, an entire government agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, is granted wide powers to hunt down potential constitutional enemies. These constitutions do many things. They extend a wide of variety of rights not only to citizens, but often to all of humanity. They often divide state powers by placing the judicial, executive and legislative branches of government in quasi-independent silos, hoping that each of these branches will defend their respective prerogatives from depredations by the others and, in the process, impose self-interested checks on the reach and the arbitrary exercise of power.\n\nThis approach to politics has not aged well. Covid was a low point, simply for revealing the steely and actually quite anti-liberal authoritarianism these systems have been nurturing in their innermost chambers for many decades. Western liberal states in the modern era do not behave like limited systems which derive their sovereignty from the people. Every day, they more and more resemble the kinds of unchecked, totalitarian regimes we remember from the Soviet period. If anything, they seem poised to become a good deal worse, for they are able to achieve relatively prosperous economic conditions and to harness popular support far more efficiently, thus evading the harder constraints on the ambitions of the old Warsaw Pact governments.\n\nState power wishes to be free, in the same way that water wishes to flow downhill. The problem with liberal checks on power, is that they forced the state to develop novel legal and cultural solutions to overcome them. State politics in liberal systems has thus come to resemble antibiotic-resistent bacteria in hospitals – it has evolved a general resistance to constitutional limitations, in the process becoming an altogether worse and more dangerous animal. The mutual checks and balances imposed on the state by its competing branches, for example, have merely incentivised the political establishment to develop and enforce among its members a uniform elite outlook, which encourages cooperation towards shared goals among erstwhile rivals. This cultural solution has proven wildly successful, not merely releasing the state from many old encumbrances, but even extending its reach across many more facets of society, as ordinary people adopt and enforce the prestige ideology of the regime.", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1515405273634705424/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1195374038134824967/entities/urn:activity:1515056556197023760/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1515405273634705424", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1195374038134824967/entities/urn:activity:1515056670760243205", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1195374038134824967", "content": "<a href=\"https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/06/lew-rockwell/the-danger-of-propaganda/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/06/lew-rockwell/the-danger-of-propaganda/</a><br /><br />In an interview with the journalist Mike Wallace in 1958, Aldous Huxley warned about the danger of propaganda in leading America down the road to totalitarianism. The danger has only gotten worse since then.<br /><br />In the interview, Huxley responded to Wallace: “WALLACE: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Now the devices that you were talking about, are there specific devices or er…methods of communication which diminish our freedoms in addition to overpopulation and over-organization? HUXLEY: Well, there are certainly devices which can be used in this way. I mean, let us er…take after all, a piece of very recent and very painful history is the propaganda used by Hitler, which was incredibly effective. I mean, what were Hitler’s methods? Hitler used terror on the one kind, brute force on the one hand, but he also used a very efficient form of propaganda, which er…he was using every modern device at that time. He didn’t have TV., but he had the radio which he used to the fullest extent, and was able to impose his will on an immense mass of people. I mean, the Germans were a highly educated people. WALLACE: Well, we’re aware of all this, but how do we equate Hitler’s use of propaganda with the way that propaganda, if you will, is used let us say here in the United States. Are you suggesting that there is a parallel? HUXLEY: Needless to say it is not being used this way now, but, er…the point is, it seems to me, that there are methods at present available, methods superior in some respects to Hitler’s method, which could be used in a bad situation. I mean, what I feel very strongly is that we mustn’t be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology. This has happened again and again in history with technology’s advance and this changes social condition, and suddenly people have found themselves in a situation which they didn’t foresee and doing all sorts of things they really didn’t want to do. WALLACE: And well, what…what do you mean? Do you mean that we develop our television but we don’t know how to use it correctly, is that the point that you’re making? HUXLEY: Well, at the present the television, I think, is being used quite harmlessly; it’s being used, I think, I would feel, it’s being used too much to distract everybody all the time. But, I mean, imagine which must be the situation in all communist countries where the television, where it exists, is always saying the same things the whole time; it’s always driving along. It’s not creating a wide front of distraction it’s creating a one-pointed, er…drumming in of a single idea, all the time. It’s obviously an immensely powerful instrument. WALLACE: Uh-huh. So you’re talking about the potential misuse of the instrument. HUXLEY: Exactly. We have, of course…all technology is in itself moral and neutral. These are just powers which can either be used well or ill; it is the same thing with atomic energy, we can either use it to blow ourselves up or we can use it as a substitute for the coal and the oil which are running out. WALLACE: You’ve even written about the use of drugs in this light. HUXLEY: Well now, this is a very interesting subject. I mean, in this book that you mentioned, this book of mine, “Brave New World,” er…I postulated it a substance called ‘soma,’ which was a very versatile drug. It would make people feel happy in small doses, it would make them see visions in medium doses, and it would send them to sleep in large doses. Well, I don’t think such a drug exists now, nor do I think it will ever exist. But we do have drugs which will do some of these things, and I think it’s quite on the cards that we may have drugs which will profoundly change our mental states without doing us any harm. I mean, this is the…the pharmacological revolution which is taking place, that we have now powerful mind-changing drugs which physiologically speaking are almost costless. I mean they are not like opium or like coca…cocaine, which do change the state of mind but leave terrible results physiologically and morally.”", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1195374038134824967/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1515056670760243205", "published": "2023-06-13T17:00:00+00:00", "source": { "content": "https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/06/lew-rockwell/the-danger-of-propaganda/\n\nIn an interview with the journalist Mike Wallace in 1958, Aldous Huxley warned about the danger of propaganda in leading America down the road to totalitarianism. The danger has only gotten worse since then.\n\nIn the interview, Huxley responded to Wallace: “WALLACE: Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Now the devices that you were talking about, are there specific devices or er…methods of communication which diminish our freedoms in addition to overpopulation and over-organization? HUXLEY: Well, there are certainly devices which can be used in this way. I mean, let us er…take after all, a piece of very recent and very painful history is the propaganda used by Hitler, which was incredibly effective. I mean, what were Hitler’s methods? Hitler used terror on the one kind, brute force on the one hand, but he also used a very efficient form of propaganda, which er…he was using every modern device at that time. He didn’t have TV., but he had the radio which he used to the fullest extent, and was able to impose his will on an immense mass of people. I mean, the Germans were a highly educated people. WALLACE: Well, we’re aware of all this, but how do we equate Hitler’s use of propaganda with the way that propaganda, if you will, is used let us say here in the United States. Are you suggesting that there is a parallel? HUXLEY: Needless to say it is not being used this way now, but, er…the point is, it seems to me, that there are methods at present available, methods superior in some respects to Hitler’s method, which could be used in a bad situation. I mean, what I feel very strongly is that we mustn’t be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology. This has happened again and again in history with technology’s advance and this changes social condition, and suddenly people have found themselves in a situation which they didn’t foresee and doing all sorts of things they really didn’t want to do. WALLACE: And well, what…what do you mean? Do you mean that we develop our television but we don’t know how to use it correctly, is that the point that you’re making? HUXLEY: Well, at the present the television, I think, is being used quite harmlessly; it’s being used, I think, I would feel, it’s being used too much to distract everybody all the time. But, I mean, imagine which must be the situation in all communist countries where the television, where it exists, is always saying the same things the whole time; it’s always driving along. It’s not creating a wide front of distraction it’s creating a one-pointed, er…drumming in of a single idea, all the time. It’s obviously an immensely powerful instrument. WALLACE: Uh-huh. So you’re talking about the potential misuse of the instrument. HUXLEY: Exactly. We have, of course…all technology is in itself moral and neutral. These are just powers which can either be used well or ill; it is the same thing with atomic energy, we can either use it to blow ourselves up or we can use it as a substitute for the coal and the oil which are running out. WALLACE: You’ve even written about the use of drugs in this light. HUXLEY: Well now, this is a very interesting subject. I mean, in this book that you mentioned, this book of mine, “Brave New World,” er…I postulated it a substance called ‘soma,’ which was a very versatile drug. It would make people feel happy in small doses, it would make them see visions in medium doses, and it would send them to sleep in large doses. Well, I don’t think such a drug exists now, nor do I think it will ever exist. But we do have drugs which will do some of these things, and I think it’s quite on the cards that we may have drugs which will profoundly change our mental states without doing us any harm. I mean, this is the…the pharmacological revolution which is taking place, that we have now powerful mind-changing drugs which physiologically speaking are almost costless. I mean they are not like opium or like coca…cocaine, which do change the state of mind but leave terrible results physiologically and morally.”", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1515405273634705424/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1195374038134824967/entities/urn:activity:1515056670760243205/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1515405273634705424", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1195374038134824967/entities/urn:activity:1515057642572091406", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1195374038134824967", "content": "<a href=\"https://thehighwire.com/ark-videos/physicians-try-to-heal-the-doctor-patient-relationship/\" target=\"_blank\">https://thehighwire.com/ark-videos/physicians-try-to-heal-the-doctor-patient-relationship/</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1195374038134824967/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1515057642572091406", "published": "2023-06-13T17:20:00+00:00", "source": { "content": "https://thehighwire.com/ark-videos/physicians-try-to-heal-the-doctor-patient-relationship/", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1515405273634705424/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1195374038134824967/entities/urn:activity:1515057642572091406/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1515405273634705424", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/731726262401245203/entities/urn:activity:1515291724224663566", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/731726262401245203", "content": "<a href=\"https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/trump-vows-go-after-joe-biden-his-familys/\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/trump-vows-go-after-joe-biden-his-familys/</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/731726262401245203/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1515291724224663566", "published": "2023-06-13T09:48:19+00:00", "source": { "content": "https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/trump-vows-go-after-joe-biden-his-familys/", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1515405273634705424/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/731726262401245203/entities/urn:activity:1515291724224663566/like" } ], "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1515405273634705424/liked", "partOf": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/1515405273634705424/likedoutbox" }