Radicalized: Four Tales of Our Present Moment

by Cory Doctorow

She was forty-five minutes late to work that day, but she had toast for breakfast. Goddamnit.

two pages in and I'm hooked

“So I want you to get all your friends to come to my place, tomorrow, after school. Five p.m. Tell them, anyone who doesn’t come is not allowed to jailbreak anything ever again.” He registered surprise. “You mean that if we come, we can still jailbreak?” She smiled and met Nadifa’s eye. “Oh yes, my boy. We’re not going to stop breaking the rules. We’re just going to be smart about it.”

I recall Pratchett quote, from Lord Vetinari, no less, about how breaking the law in some small, satisfying way on occasion is good for mental hygiene