Watchlist Countdown, Day 31: Thirteen Ways of Being Looked at by a Blackbird SR71” by Paul Di Filippo

      We stopped digging vertically in our pursuit of a life free from surveillance when we reached one mile straight down into the bosom of the earth, and began to excavate laterally. With that single perpendicular shaft the only access to our refuge, we finally felt safe from all prying eyes dominant on the panopticon surface. Now we could begin to build our surveillance-free society.

          from “Thirteen Ways of Being Looked At By a Blackbird...