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José CanelasInteresting dystopian metaphor for the role of high priests of intelectual labour (and information technology in particular) in keeping the system running. Indocrinated into accepting it as inevitable, taught to rationalize it all the way. "I'm just doing
scifi books ebooks literature politics security surveillance dystopia 1984
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16 Mar 09
Brennan O'KeefeOrder lore was filled with Anomalies, loose threads in the fabric of reality—bugs to be squashed in the data-set that was the Order’s universe. Starting with the pre-Order sysadmin who’d tracked a $0.75 billing anomaly back to foreign spy-ring that was us
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’Cause it’s gonna be the future soon,
And I won’t always be this way,
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away
—Jonathan Coulton, “The Future Soon”
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“Skin,” Gerta croaked. “Collected from the ventilation filters. DNA for every person on campus, in a nice, even, Gaussian distribution. Means we can’t use biometrics to figure out who was in this room before it was cleaned out.”
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Any weapon you don’t know how to use belongs to your enemy.
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Just remember, we’re a noble species, all appearances to the contrary notwithstanding.
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“Better than what? Don’t answer.
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Just knowing how I ate made a gigantic difference
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“I’m a screwup, Posy. Or at least, I was. We all were. Smart and motivated and promising, but just a wretched person to be around. Angry, bitter, all those smarts turned on biting the heads off of the people who were dumb enough to care about me or employ me. And so smart that I could talk myself into believing that it was
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“We’re all guilty of something, Lawrence. That’s how the game is rigged. Look closely at anyone’s life and you’ll find, what, a little black-marketeering, a copyright infringement, some cash economy business with unreported income, something obscene in your Internet use, something in your bloodstream that shouldn’t be there. I bought that sofa from a cop, Lawrence, bought it ten years ago when he was leaving the building. He didn’t give me a receipt and didn’t collect tax, and technically that makes us offenders.” She slapped the radiator. “I overrode the governor on this ten minutes after they installed it. Everyone does it. They make it easy—you just stick a penny between two contacts and hey presto, the city can’t turn your heat down anymore. They wouldn’t make it so easy if they didn’t expect everyone to do it—and once everyone’s done it, we’re all guilty.
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“He was useful because he was so eager to prove that he was smarter than everyone else.”
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