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Commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
Obligatory Piranha Brothers reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fNvi6xG-5Y "He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."...
Commented on Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire
This is a good post about how badly bitcoin misses the point of what make up the majority of the world's problems with banking. https://al3x.net/2013/12/18/bitcoin.html My own takeaway is that bitcoin vs. postal banking is the big cyberfantasy vs. meatspace...
Commented on A deceptively simple question
We're seeing it already with drones. It's the other side of asymmetric warfare. The poor already have fertilizer bombs and suicide belts, substituting labor for the capital invested in infantry platoons & B-52s. Rich nations are increasingly substituting capital for...
Commented on Lies, damned lies, and popular beliefs
Does multiplying parties help? In the US, I've seen that it's easier to take over an existing political organization (the way the right wing has taken over the Republican party) than it is to create a new self-sustaining organization. The...
Commented on Crib Sheet: Iron Sunrise
I think Accelerando may find readers a long time from now, because it's a fantasy that will show how the early 21st century felt to its future-shocked inhabitants....
Commented on Minor hiccup
Given that Mo is, IIRC, Irish (and thus likely to have a certain amount of ... skepticism, shall we say, about the innocence of the British state) the next book could have a very different slant on the Laundry. Eagerly...
Commented on Minor hiccup
Two questions: 1) I love to ask dumb roman à clef questions. Thus, how much of Bob & Mo is made up of you and the missus? Ignore this if it seems impertinent. 2) Green, luminous worms: Not so much...
Commented on Press Release: Stross Uncloaks Secret Media Project
The romance angle is kind of perfunctory -- can you work in Ambrose's estranged teenaged daughter who happens to be a vampire with a boyfriend in the AZ National Guard? (Teen Paranormal Romance for the trifecta!)...

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D.J.P. O'Kane commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
Has this been posted yet? The FBI tried to compile a list of internet slang terms, only to end up with severe EOF (Egg On Face): http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/06/17/the-fbi-maintains-an-83-page-glossary-of-internet-slang-and-it-is-hilariously-frighteningly-out-of-touch/...
Jay commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
I wonder what their entry for "We are aware of all internet traditions" looks like. Which level of irony escaped them?...
paws4thot commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
The FB are USian, and government, and law enforcement, so I'd say "all levels of irony, including ones not even known to the rest of us"....
J Thomas commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
"Even if they get this ludicrous linguistic hard AI, it would drown in so many petabytes of surveillance that it's still futile." Yes, but they don't need something that works. They need something they can claim they believe will work. If they get an assassination attempt that they did not predict, that had internet messages they should have predicted from, that will look bad after it happens provided the public hears about it. But right now they look bad for getting buried in petabytes of surveillance. If they can just get a good excuse to ignore that stuff they will...
JamesPadraicR commented on We need a pony. And the moon on a stick. By next Thursday.
This article seems to fit this thread: The FBI maintains an 83-page glossary of Internet slang. And it is hilariously, frighteningly out of touch. Apparently somebody in the FBI thinks that any acronym used on Twitter must be in common usage....

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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