Originally shared by Peter da Silva
Via William Gibson.
William Gibson, Clive Barker, Iain M. Banks (1987)
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.
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
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.