Sunday, March 9, 2014

Shipwreck in a sandbar


7 comments:

john said...

Here (I think) is the link to the simulcast with Ed Snowden, tomorrow at 11 AM (Austin time?).

I have no idea if the site is open or if you need to register.

If it's open maybe someone could liveblog it.

john said...

Oops. Here is the link:

http://schedule.sxsw.com/search?q=Snowden&conferences%5B%5D=film&conferences%5B%5D=interactive&conferences%5B%5D=music

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

The Free Beacon reported a congressman asking the sponsors to pull the plug.

"In addition to information about domestic surveillance activities, documents leaked by Snowden have revealed extensive details of NSA activities targeting China, Russia, and Iran.

The release of such information has led even voices sympathetic to Snowden to question the “whistleblower” status bestowed on him by allies in the press.

“Certainly he performed a really great public service to begin with by exposing these programs and making the government in a sense publicly accountable for what they’re doing,” said William Binney, himself a former NSA leaker, in a recent interview.

“But now he is starting to talk about things like the government hacking into China,” Binney added. “He is going a little bit too far… He is transitioning from whistleblower to a traitor.”

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

The NYT has a story/documentary called the Boys in the Bunkhouse / Men of Atalissa I think we should all see.

I thought whether I should use that word "should" suggesting I'm telling people what to do... but I'm going to make an exception in this case and say we all should watch it.

I thought I post it, blog it but I'm afraid I would bungle it.

The Dude said...

Is that picture a metaphor? Is that the SS Obama?

edutcher said...

Looks like a bunch of old landing craft from WWII.

rcocean said...

Wow, so you look at a photograph of wrecked ships on a reef and your only thought is to comment about some boring news story.

OK. Different strokes for different folks..

Frankly, I couldn't give a rip about Snowden. And years ago i didn't give a rip about "The Valarie Phlame Affair".