dammit.
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 02:23 (ten years ago) link
post-cyberpunk can be kinda uplifting i think so let's hope that's the direction
― Mordy , Tuesday, 2 July 2013 02:27 (ten years ago) link
the snowden archives
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 03:00 (ten years ago) link
Neuromancer?
Putin says he can get asylum in Russia if he stops leaking information.SNOWden must be QUIET: WINTER MUTE.
― StanM, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 03:24 (ten years ago) link
Watching the Greenwald speech from the Socialism 2013 conference--surprisingly full of jokes. Also:
I really do love this conference. There's no conference quite like it in terms of the vibrancy and energy, I genuinely leave inspired each time I've attended. These last 4 weeks have been the most exhausting and intense four weeks of my life, but I knew that agreeing to speak here would compel me to reflect on this time, and I wanted that. But the real reason I wanted to speak at this conference is that unlike a lot of conferences I attend & speak at, this conference is focused not only on identifying political grievances, but also on creating activism that will address those political grievances, which is crucial. The reason I say that is because at every political speech I give, one of the first questions is always "well what can we do about these things?" And I think that question is very much the predominant theme of this conference. The idea that there's really no point in talking about political problems and systemic injustices if you're not also simultaneously grappling with the question of what I as an individual can do about it.
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 03:27 (ten years ago) link
whassup
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 04:02 (ten years ago) link
this been done by a somebody
http://conference.first.org/program/index.aspx
ask a random anonymous private individual some questions
seriously hit it up babies
worst outcome is a little less cowbell than you dreamt
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 04:07 (ten years ago) link
of
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 04:08 (ten years ago) link
Ecuador has washed its hands of him and said he's Russia's problem now. Sheremetyevo's transit lounge isn't somewhere i'd particularly want to be stuck for weeks on end.
― Inte Regina Lund eller nån, mitt namn är (ShariVari), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 09:06 (ten years ago) link
Can you get me a pass to that? I'm a well-travelled out-of-work drone rock database programmer who's looking to join the inside track.
Welcome back Tomboto
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 10:19 (ten years ago) link
dang it, the conference already happened. Still looking for work though...
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 10:26 (ten years ago) link
The requests were made to a number of countries including the Republic of Austria, the Plurinational State of Bolivia, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Finland, the French Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of India, the Italian Republic, the Republic of Ireland, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of Nicaragua, the Kingdom of Norway, the Republic of Poland, the Russian Federation, the Kingdom of Spain, the Swiss Confederation and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
so... which of these states is going to take him? i think it's interesting that he put the prc and cuba on his list.
― dylannn, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 10:58 (ten years ago) link
Boliva, probably.
― Inte Regina Lund eller nån, mitt namn är (ShariVari), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 11:01 (ten years ago) link
Bolivia, even.
Cuba is nice for old school spy scenery.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 11:08 (ten years ago) link
Still confused: couldn't this clown have just driven to Mexico then flown to Cuba? Shouldn't he have maybe lined up asylum first, done a little googlin', before he started leaking stuff?
Also, how does a computer programmer/analyst geek for the gov get an exotic dancer girlfriend in Hawaii?
These are all important questions.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 12:10 (ten years ago) link
I would assume that Cuba isn't his favoured destination. "Defecting" to a communist country, rather than, idk Finland, is nagl if you want people in the US to take you seriously. Obv couldn't have lined up asylum first as the NSA is reading the Finnish embassy's e-mails.
― Inte Regina Lund eller nån, mitt namn är (ShariVari), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 12:12 (ten years ago) link
Regardless, why did he start in Hong Kong? And why did he not work this shit out first? He's not ending up in Finland. One way or another, he's going to end up in a warm place with a horrible human rights record.
Also, sorry, but leaking state secrets before seeking asylum in some other country is "nagl" no matter where he ends up. It's not like his detractors will be all, oh, he's in Finland, that's cool. The people who want him hung for treason likely don't distinguish between Europe and Soviet Russia.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 12:39 (ten years ago) link
I can think of some other reasons why a Ron Paul fan wouldn't want to spend the rest of his life in Cuba
― iatee, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 12:43 (ten years ago) link
thanks for apologizing
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 2 July 2013 12:44 (ten years ago) link
I doubt the people who want him hung for treason will care either way but anyone who is conflicted about the morality of the US spying on its citizens and allies might. It's a lot easier to question his motives if he jumps on the first plane to Havana.
And yes, he seems more of a libertarian than a socialist so Cuba wouldn't exactly be ideal either way.
― Inte Regina Lund eller nån, mitt namn är (ShariVari), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 12:51 (ten years ago) link
he should move to Somalia then badoom-tish
― 10zing blogay (seandalai), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 13:22 (ten years ago) link
No internet access iirc.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 13:24 (ten years ago) link
To do list:
1) Find country that would give me asylum2) Go close to - or even to - that country3) Leak state secrets4) Invoke asylum.
I seem to recall Snowden explaining why originally Hong Kong, but I can't remember why. Clearly it didn't work out for him, or at least hasn't yet.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 13:29 (ten years ago) link
hong kong is the libertarian dreamland
― iatee, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 13:30 (ten years ago) link
^^^
― balls, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 13:30 (ten years ago) link
they got seat belts?
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 13:33 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k68VJnpqJb8
― iatee, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 13:34 (ten years ago) link
HK also has some of the fatest internet infrastructure in the world, and is the "home" of shady web companies like megaupload
snowden was a big poster on ars technica forums:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/04/1gbps-symmetric-fiber-us26-in-hong-kong/http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/01/fiber-fail-hong-kong-booms-as-verizon-retrenches/
http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=177549
― max, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 13:45 (ten years ago) link
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/peter-king-suspicious-of-snowdens-china-connections-he
― dylannn, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 13:54 (ten years ago) link
lol check the anti-democracy comments up top on that HK youtube
― goole, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 14:01 (ten years ago) link
He's the man without a country. Maybe he can get a job in that Russian airport?
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link
If someone like Snowden were in China, say, would he have free and unfettered access to the fast internet? Or would his internet access be censored/monitored/limited?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 14:45 (ten years ago) link
from what ive read the reason he left HK is because he learned he could be jailed during his asylum/extradition process and would lose access to the internet
― max, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 14:57 (ten years ago) link
https://02varvara.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/sergei-yolkin-internet-addiction-2011.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 15:04 (ten years ago) link
idk if everybody already read the interviews greenwald gave abt the initial encounters with snowden but in the socialism talk he says "from the moment he made contact with me he was clear in his understanding that he was relinquishing control of his life, that from here forward he would be pursued, imprisoned, or worse by the most powerful government in the world. i expected to meet a high ranking official at tne end of his career and prepared to live out his final years in defiance. i did not expect to meet such a courageous young man with his whole life still ahead of him, called by conscience to reveal the truth."
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 15:05 (ten years ago) link
prob some hagiography happening there but this is a guy who seems to have gone into this clear eyed, if not entirely accurate in his predictions of outcomes.
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 15:06 (ten years ago) link
"prob"
― big black nemesis, Puya chilensis (DJP), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
His poor father...
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 15:07 (ten years ago) link
He's been so clear eyed and realistic that's it's a wonder he didn't work things out better before he sealed his fate.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 15:10 (ten years ago) link
What You Can Learn from Six Months of Phone Metadata
― This amigurumi Jamaican octopus is ready to chill with you (Phil D.), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 15:49 (ten years ago) link
Wow
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, July 2, 2013 3:10 PM (2 hours ago)
He should have contacted you and then he would be sitting pretty with your pal Josh in Caracas
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 July 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
really though, next time around call ahead first ed, no one likes the drop-in
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link
dad wrote open letter, can't find full post
The father of NSA leaker Edward Snowden, frustrated by his inability to reach out directly to his son, has written an open letter to him extolling him for "summoning the American people to confront the growing danger of tyranny."The letter was written jointly Tuesday by Lonnie Snowden and his lawyer, Bruce Fein.It comes a day after Edward Snowden issued a statement through WikiLeaks ripping the Obama administration for leaving him "stateless" and revoking his passport.Snowden is in Russia and has been seeking asylum in multiple countries.Snowden's father has expressed concern that WikiLeaks supporters who have been helping his son seek asylum may not have his best interests at heart. The father has said he'd like his son to return to the U.S. under the right circumstances.
The letter was written jointly Tuesday by Lonnie Snowden and his lawyer, Bruce Fein.
It comes a day after Edward Snowden issued a statement through WikiLeaks ripping the Obama administration for leaving him "stateless" and revoking his passport.
Snowden is in Russia and has been seeking asylum in multiple countries.
Snowden's father has expressed concern that WikiLeaks supporters who have been helping his son seek asylum may not have his best interests at heart. The father has said he'd like his son to return to the U.S. under the right circumstances.
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 18:11 (ten years ago) link
prob some hagiography happening there
I don't think yer allowed to call anything hagiography unless it rises to the level of giving the Nobel Peace Prize to a guy about to embark on an 8-year killing spree, but meh, semantics.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 18:21 (ten years ago) link
I swear, someone could be talking about croissants and you'd pop up drily wondering how many people Bam the War Criminal had executed by drone strike to get those croissants extra buttery
― big black nemesis, Puya chilensis (DJP), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
i go with my strengths, dude
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link
"strengths"
― copter (waterface), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
http://images.politico.com/global/2012/12/04/121204_barack_obama_ap_605.jpg
"HURRY UP WITH MY DAMN CROISSANTS!"
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 July 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link