David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'
It’s a long piece of political speech from a guy who knows how to write.
The takeaway: “…there’s always the brick.”
Spies’ Dragnet Reaches a Playing Field of Elves and Trolls
American and British spies have infiltrated online fantasy games, fearing that militants could use them to communicate, move money or plot attacks, documents show.
There are so man levels upon which to be amused/horrified by this. Most of my horror continues to be evoked by the sheer banality the Snowden documents continue to reveal within the NSA culture. ”…come hear Cory tell you why!” My mental vision of the US intelligence apparatus has been permanently shifted from the trope of hyper-focused techno-wizard automata to a reality that I suspect more closely resembles call center middle managers trying to whip their team into a sales frenzy over a new product offering.
My amusement revolves around the sight ping of resonance this current revelation evokes in relation to my book SLEEPLESS. Wherein, using the cover of a gaming gold farm, a drug dealer conducts all of his business within the confines of a fictional massively multiplayer game world.
Despair in the face of modernity is an easy trap to fall into. Laughing in the face of it is so much more productive.
Source: The New York Times
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