We were dancing, lost in the godbeat and the thrash and the screaming--TAKE IT BACK! TAKE IT BACK!
They’d only been here for a couple of years, only employed twenty people all told, their two-year tax holiday was ending. Place
There’s something else, he said. What? I wasn’t going to mention it, but I want you to understand why I have to do this. Jesus, Jolu, what? I hate to say it, but you’re white. I’m not. White people ge...
There was a time when my favorite thing in the world was putting on a cape and hanging out in hotels, pretending to be an invisible vampire whom everyone stared at.
The you that is you is actually the space of things that you might think in response to some stimulus.
The important thing about security systems isn’t how they work, it’s how they fail.
The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.
The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
That’s why you never hear politicians talking about ‘citizens,’ it’s all ‘taxpayers,’ as though the salient fact of your relationship to the state is how much you pay. Like the state was a business an...
That’s what made the panics about huge zero-day security ruptures such a fright: the sudden knowledge that everything might have been auto-pwned by a random crim or asshole who used a skin-detection a...
Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions.
Somewhere, in a distant land he barely knew the name of, people had stopped buying washing machines, and so his city had died.
She was forty-five minutes late to work that day, but she had toast for breakfast. Goddamnit.
Otto von Bismarck quipped, Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
On the one hand, information wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because...
It’s the nature of the beast to believe in bubbles and think you can just entrepreneur your way out. She
It's good versus evil, Dan. You don't want to be a post-person. You want to stay human. The rides are human. We each mediate them through our own experience. We're physically inside of them, and they...
It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.
In short: if I’m wrong, I promise that I’ll be wrong in a well-informed and interesting way.
If you wanted your bug fixed, you should really check it in depth.
