” 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
Beyond the grave
This is a beautiful comic.
The demolition of Warren Hall.
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
Charles Stross on Snowden
The Global Internet is Dead
Lessons from Daniel Ellsberg
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…
Little Guy and Kaylee, watching us eat…
Empire State Building, June 30, 2013
Empire State Building, June 30, 2013
At the bottom of the page, it says: “1/180”.
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?
Rereading “The Ballad of Lost C’Mell” by Cordwainer Smith.
Smith didn’t write many stories, but they linger in my mind far more than most. The first one I remember reading was “No, No, Not Rogov!” — I forgot where I read it, or who the author was. “Mother Hitton’s Littul Kittons” was the same — the story burned itself into my memory, but I couldn’t remember where I read it or who it was by.
A couple of years ago the mystery resolved: there’s a book that reprints his complete short works. Some of the titles are so poetic: “The Dead Lady of Clown Town”, “Alpha Ralpha Boulevard”, “Scanners Live in Vain”, “The Colonel Came Back from the Nothing-At-All”.