Month: May 2018

You…are…not…. You are not your Facebook account; you are not the number of twitter followers you have; you are not the Instagram selfie or self-righteous tumblr meme you just re-posted. You are the singing, dancing crap of the world.

Opinion | Michael Hayden: The End of Intelligence

Opinion | Michael Hayden: The End of Intelligence “In this post-truth world, intelligence agencies are in the bunker with some unlikely mates: journalism, academia, the courts, law enforcement and science — all of which, like intelligence gathering, are evidence-based. Intelligence shares a broader duty with these other truth-tellers to preserve the commitment and ability of…

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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder – review

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder – review “The manner in which western populations have broadly accepted the fact of surveillance, and willingly surrendered their identities to social media, has already gone a long way to removing that dividing line between public and private. Snyder counsels extreme caution in rubbing…

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just-shower-thoughts: If you think you fucked up bad, just remember that an ant somewhere brought borax laced food to his queen and killed his entire colony.