We are Huxleying ourselves into the full Orwell.
Everyone in the browser world is convinced that not supporting Netflix will lead to total marginalization, and Netflix demands that computers be designed to keep secrets from, and disobey, their owners (so that you can’t save streams to disk in the clear).
In the crowd, even more than in the group, the individual assumes an attitude of the most complete submission and conformity.” The power of a crowd can overpower the individual: “All marginal consciousness, all deliberative or restraining factors, and all critical attitudes are inhibited.
For me, having more options rarely works out to my mental benefit, which is in part why I spend so much time thinking about what the perfect single solution is and then limiting myself to only that.
Me too. Ugh. Me too.
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WES (by Alejandro Prullansky)
Burglars Who Took On F.B.I. Abandon Shadows - NYTimes.com
Unlike Mr. Snowden, who downloaded hundreds of thousands of digital N.S.A. files onto computer hard drives, the Media burglars did their work the 20th-century way: they cased the F.B.I. office for months, wore gloves as they packed the papers into suitcases, and loaded the suitcases into getaway cars. When the operation was over, they dispersed
Can’t wait to read the book.
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Pete Nice’s photo album is pretty great for a 90s era white boy MC. (via When Rap Ruled The World: A White Boy MC’s Photo Album, 1986-1991)
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