Mind War: Part Twelve — Welcome to the Panopticon

Mind War: Part Twelve — Welcome to the Panopticon

I was a spectator to an incident that involved someone violating someone else’s privacy online and then using the excuse (in public, mind you) “nothing is really private on the Internet anyway.” Now this is interesting because, on the one hand this...
Robin Hood 2018: Thank Your Local IT Geek

Robin Hood 2018: Thank Your Local IT Geek

We interrupt our regularly-scheduled posts to bring you a public service message on security.A wise person once told me to always befriend your company’s admins. They basically run the place and suffer under the yoke of having lots of accountability but little...

Life is Too Short to Eat Shit — Media Edition

As I mentioned before, one of my personal maxims is that life is too short to eat shit. And it turns out that even the Pope agrees with me.So in thinking about self-imposed limits on media, I’ve been subjecting everything to a smell test. If it smells like shit,...

America Eclipsed

This is less a post than a public service announcement.The eclipse is a bad omen (for the country it traverses, for the ruler of said country, for the people who live that shadow). The space weather is terrible specifically and in general. There is a potential for...

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