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swagaccident··on U.K. demand for a back door to Apple data threatens Americans, lawmakers say
The next step of this is when you realize that these entities are more intertwined than people give then credit for. The line between government, companies, and people gets very fuzzy very fast (especially on the levels below national governments)

Privacy from government === privacy from companies === privacy from anything else. We need not split them into their own distinct groups, we can (and should) create software, policy, etc. to protect from all at once.

swagaccident··on Lifestreams (1996)
I've always found this organizational metaphor interesting and wondered if others had considered creating alternative paradigms beyond the desktop to support modern computer use-cases.

Should we expect to see a new UX paradigm for interacting with computers considering how different a modern workflow is from what the desktop was originally designed to handle?

swagaccident··on Deferred resignation email to federal employees
Has something like this ever happened before? Did it feel this bad last time around?

This seems especially spooky.