Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn (zooko)

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

Okay, folks, I'm leaving identi.ca. It's been awesome. Follow for now on twitter. <3 --Zooko

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To be clear, I don't want the Director of National Intelligence to be fired. I just want you, gentle reader, to know that they are lying.

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“a statement either is or isn’t; there’s no such thing as speaking in a ‘most truthful’ or ‘least untruthful’ manner.”—http://ur1.ca/ea9ki

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So…the Director of National Intelligence perjured before Congress, but the Democrats are pretending not to notice? http://nyti.ms/12kox6e

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This @EconTalker episode was one of the good ones: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/06/kling_on_the_th.html

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Ed Snowden speaks for me. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-interview-video

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Read this now: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblower-edward-snowden-why

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The ending quote from the NSA spokesperson is priceless. http://identi.ca/url/75975959

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This sure makes it sound like the US intelligence apparatus has been lying to its Congressional overseers. http://identi.ca/url/75975959

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Okay, here's what I've done so far: refactor my Python benchmarking utility a bit… https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pyutil/changeset/290

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Incoming new users! Batten the hatches! Polish up the FAQ! https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2013-June/008351.html

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Okay, I can't keep sitting here worrying about things. I'm going to go hack on some software…

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And you know what? This kind of parsing of coded statements is bullshit, like the USSR and China. It's depressing that we've come to this.

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…those companies are being forced, if not to lie, then at least to mislead, and they want USGov to let them out of it.

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I think the plea for "transparency" from USGov in the eerily similar statements from the various PRISM companies mean that …

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So far they appear to be issuing a press release that raises more questions than it answers and then waiting to see if that's enough.

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Remember how Google shook the world by getting all over the Chinese incursion, and then going public with it? Contrast with PRISM.

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I can't shake the feeling that if Google's PRISM denial was true, they would be all over figuring out what the hell is really going on.

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The waitresses at room77.de say that they get about 1 Bitcoin customer per day, and many on Thursdays at the Bitcoin meetup.

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“national security is harmed: not by disclosure…but through the erosion of our commitment to the rule of law”— http://identi.ca/url/75971383