“I live in a country generally assumed to be a dictatorship. One of the Arab spring countries. I have lived through curfews and have seen the outcomes of the sort of surveillance now being revealed in the US. People here talking about curfews aren’t realizing what that actually FEELS like. It isn’t about having to go inside, and the practicality of that. It’s about creating the feeling that everyone, everything is watching. A few points:

1) the purpose of this surveillance from the governments point of view is to control enemies of the state. Not terrorists. People who are coalescing around ideas that would destabilize the status quo. These could be religious ideas. These could be groups like anon who are too good with tech for the governments liking. It makes it very easy to know who these people are. It also makes it very simple to control these people.

Snow in the Valley

February 2, 2014

The Winter Lodge made it “snow” on their ice skating rink.

#photo

I Too Have Made My Own Chart To Help — parislemon

January 28, 2014

parislemon:

I too have made my own chart to help explain Apple’s ability to sell things.

Made With Paper

#humor

Mac@30 Panel 3

January 27, 2014

Mac@30 Panel 3, left to right: Moderator Dan Farber of CBS News, Ty Roberts (Super Studio Session), Marc Canter (MacroMind), David Bunnell (Macworld), Adam Hertz (Lotus), ???, Maryline Delbourg Delphis (ACIUS/4D), Jim Rea (ProVUE), and Charlie Jackson (Silicon Beach).

humancode.us

Salvation in Suburbia

Why Surveillance Is Not OK

Snow in the Valley

I Too Have Made My Own Chart To Help — parislemon

Mac@30 Panel 3