Category: Kent Crispin

I miss the noise.

 

” Since I started working with the Snowden documents, I bought a new computer that has never been connected to the internet…. “

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance

This is a beautiful comic.

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3088#comic

Minutes before the demolition of Warren Hall.   It fell in absolute silence in my telescope view; half a minute later the explosions echoed through. It was a landmark, and the place I met Christina…

News coverage here: http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_23880450/hayward-hillside-landmark-warren-hall-set-demolition-saturday

 

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/08/snowden-leaks-the-real-take-ho.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/28/edward-snowden-death-of-internet

Just finished reading Daniel Ellsberg’s “Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers” — a really great book, and a sad reminder that the institutional bureaucracy of the US government is capable of enormous evil.

There is no meaningful comparison between 2,000,000 dead in Indochina and the NSA PRISM program, but the mechanisms that kept us in Vietnam for 25 years are alive and well, and just as much a concern.

Little Guy and Kaylee, watching us eat…

 

Empire State Building, June 30, 2013

At the bottom of the page, it says: “1/180″… 180 pages of dense legalese.  Aside from the sheer humor value, does this constitute an unenforceable shrink-wrap agreement?