Monthly Archives: December 2019

Article note: Security theater with dire side effects? Training children to tolerate ubiquitous invasive surveillance? It's like they're boiling down all the most defective things about the U.S. and cooking the children in it.

Article note: There are a couple interesting points in here that I harp on frequently. The utter, absurd, (and arguably unnecessary and undesirable) complexity of modern computing systems such that no one actually understands the stack. The staggering conditioned helplessness and inability to perform procedural thinking most people have. It's a hard and very fundamental problem.