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The moment of panic in Ilsa’s eyes was like watching a star being born.
Even when I was in Iraq, catching the kinds of monsters who used rape as a weapon, who killed kids, the people I was catching them for weren’t any better. It was rare, fucking rare for me to hunt monsters on behalf of heroes.
they were useful for catching everybody and mostly who they caught were good guys whose only crime was wanting to get rid of bad guys.
If you keep them from spying on you, they don’t get paid. But neither do you. Not getting spied on is a serious job, a second job or maybe a third job, and it’s unpaid work, and you’re not very good at it.
it turned out that this was my truth: you’re all fucked. I’m fucked. It’s fucked.
They were scared. Because you know what’s more powerful than all the crypto in the world? An accountable process.
Your enemies don’t need people to disagree with you, they just need people not to care.”
Carrie Johnstone had a way of saying terrorism that made it sound like Christmas morning, a long-awaited moment of thrilling bounty, sumptuous meals, and vicious fighting around the table.
People who made a dent in the universe without having to become monsters. Could that be me?
It was like a Tonka toy for sadistic assholes.
The words hit me right in the gut. I made a good choice? All my life, I’d made choices that weren’t bad, but they sure weren’t good. They were, at best, expedient. Had I finally made a good choice?
that temporary power boost will be denatured by the powerful as quickly as they can manage it, so the advantage is not enough to make lasting structural changes.
Social networks can connect you with your friends and people who share your principles and interests without commodifying those relationships or ginning up conflicts in order to increase pageviews.
Technology does not have to be extraction’s handmaiden, nor surveillance’s constant companion.
