Saturday 5th January, 2019 #
- Trump ready for US shutdown to last 'for years'
- Personal information about hundreds of German lawmakers was leaked by an anonymous Twitter account - "Data was published in Advent calendar-style daily releases"
- Hackers release personal data of hundreds of german politicians - "Cyberwar Is More Common Than You Think"
- The Guy I Almost Was - Graphic Novel by Patrick Sean Farley
- Did Salinger Go Awry?
- Open Source Business Models Considered Harmful
- "Oh, you must be new to Edge.org, which for as long as I've heard of it has been home to some of the most egregiously pretentious intellectual wankery about computers and technology and shit -- the kind of stuff that The Guy I Almost Was makes fun of. When some of your most level-headed essays come from Eric S. Raymond, it's time to acknowledge that you haven't just misplaced the plot"