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• Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
  Finally, I am struck and frankly slightly suspicious of the uniformity of the comments that go in this direction. Either there is a very limited corpus of arguments that one can build based on the pro-US-government framing of the issue,...
• Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
  It comes to a problem of “True Loyalty(TM)” does it not? Are you loyal to the ideal, or are you loyal to the forms? What do you do if you consider that your country’s guvmint has gopne bonkers, & is...
• Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
  cdodgson wrote: Organizations can change, and big ones are never the same all the way through to begin with. Even treating all this as gospel for the time in which you were actively involved in intelligence, it did end almost...
• Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
  I wonder just how much this is because most of us keep some secrets. Some things aren't necessarily secrets so much as just not really talked about possibly.There is that. I'm Intersex. Born with a body neither wholly male nor...
• Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
  As I said... "Finding good help who will stay stumm over the more egregious illegalities that violate their oaths of loyalty - be it to the Crown, the Constitution or whatever - is hard." There are a lot of Dave...
• Commented on The next moves in the Spooks v. News cold war
  For my sins, it's a part of the public record that I worked on ADCNET - Australian Diplomatic Communications Network - many, many years ago. This carries data from embassies that is fed to analysts, then summarised, pasteurised, bowdlerised and...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Apocalypse Codex
  India. A billion humans. Almost as many cults. I suspect this is already a no-go zone, with its own unique ecology of technomancy and competing factions. My gods can beat up on your gods. A billion humans, written off as...