[chimneypool]

as a final bonus, about halfway through those slides about DTNs, there is a map showing an NSA "mobile wireless testbed."

you HN nerds outta recognize that map. look familiar? see the Lat/Long coords at the bottom. it's the Richmond district in SF. you'd think NSA would be careful to not use US locations as the examples in its surveillance programs, since NSA is not chartered for domestic spying. but you'd be wrong.

'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.

[craigsmansion]

> "We're an empire now [..]"

An exceptionally well written and chilling quote I thought. I looked it up to see what book or potentially movie/series this might be from:

"Karl Rove. American Republican political consultant and policy advisor."

How can creative writers possibly compete with this caliber of actual villain dialogue?

[krapp]

Ah yes, Karl Rove. The Grima Wormtongue of the Bush administration. The man who used "reality based community" as a pejorative, and led the American right towards its current embrace of "post truth" ideology.