Friday, March 30, 2018
Accidental wisdom
Atlanta's mayor is the perfect Sorosian. Humanoid entity of indeterminate gender and indeterminate race, wearing trapezoidal glasses and trapezoidal mouth. During the "crisis" of the bitcoin ransom, she or he or ve emitted the standard fashionable boilerplate.... with ONE highly unfashionable exception.
I noticed the exception several days ago, but didn't really appreciate its salience until today. When I tried to relocate the quote so I could write this little Bravo, I couldn't find it again. I'm fairly sure I saw it in a Techcrunch article, but now Techcrunch seems to have nothing on Atlanta at all.
At any rate, she or he or ve said roughly: We've been handling city business on paper for many years. The system always worked well. It can still work.
Bravo to the mayor. Even if her UNfashionable quotation has been Rectified, she definitely said it.
Non-digital methods are CRIMETHINK. You're not supposed to mention the FACT that analog or paper methods ACTUALLY WORKED BETTER THAN DIGITAL METHODS.
A separate piece of doublethink: As I was tracing through various aggregators to relocate the quote, I kept seeing the more fashionable parts of the articles through a gray screen. The fashionable messages were saying "All of us need to be more vigilant and increase our cybersecurity." The advice to increase our cybersecurity was obscured by a gray screen saying "Whoops! We notice you're using an adblocker. Please turn it off so you can see the content."
We must increase our security and we must remove our security. We must increase and remove our security. We must incremove our security.
Comrade O'Brien is happy.
Labels: defensible spaces, defensible times
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