December 2010
13 posts
“Matt damon was in this?!”
– Lady sitting next to me as the credits rolled after true grit
aterrex:
“Every road in Oz is Yellow Brick”
And all roads lead to Oz
Is anyone else...
morbidly excited about how the world is about to change dramatically? I can’t shake the idea that it’ll get worse before it gets better. But it’s happening. I’m not entirely sure what it is yet or exactly where it’s going, but it’s big.
I’m going to suggest that everyone read this article again. It explains why Wikileaks is such a threat to the current...
In this sense, most of the media commentary on the latest round of leaks has totally missed the point. After all, why are diplomatic cables being leaked? These leaks are not specifically about the war(s) at all, and most seem to simply be a broad swath of the everyday normal secrets that a security state keeps from all but its most trusted hundreds of thousands of people who have the right...
[…] the conspiracy’s ability to deceive others through propaganda can also be the conspiracy’s tendency to deceive itself by its own propaganda. So many people genuinely drink the Kool-Aid, after all. Would our super-spies in Afghanistan ever have been so taken in by the imposter Taliban guy if they didn’t, basically, believe their own line of propaganda, if they didn’t convince themselves —...
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A great article about Wikileaks →
Here they explain its goal using HBO’s The Wire
To use The Wire as a ready-to-hand example, imagine if Avon Barksdale was communicating directly with Bodie. All you would ever have to do is turn one person — any person — and you would be one step away from the boss, whose direct connection to everyone else in the conspiracy would allow you to sweep them all up at once. Obviously, no...
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me:NEXT GEN SH%! MOTHERF%@#$ WATCH OUT JOHN CARMACK Asa: GABE NEWELL SLEEPING WITH ONE EYE OPEN me: JULIAN ASSUNGE CANT EVEN LEAK MY STRATEGY Asa: SOMEWHERE, MICHAEL BAY WANTS A FILM DEAL
(I’m learning to program, slowly, humbly)
