It. Has. Arrived.

[catscradle]

I woke up this morning from a nightmare and discovered that world was preferable to this one. The Information Awareness Office is up and running. I just went to the site and realized we're actually living in 1984.

I'm scared - I mean, I'm REALLY scared now . . .

Information Awareness Office

I like the little paramid illuminating the earth - nice touch for theconspiracy theory buffs out there. In the words of a friend of mine "holy FUCK.........that is very very creepy........it's not even funny man....that is a bunch of rosicrucian/crowley/scowley/apocalyptic scary ass shit.now I am going to have some nightmares................."

Yeah. What she said.

The vision statement seem amorphus gibberish to me and the points highlighted to establish, such as "Biometric signatures of humans", "Biologically inspired algorithms for agent control" and "Human network analysis and behavior model building engines" seem more Orwellian than Orwell. I'm hoping that "Other aids for human cognition and human reasoning" is actually meant for Congress.

My thought for the day is that we should impliment a comprehensive literacy program for the congresspersons and senators that voted for this shit. The word out is that most of them did not even thoroughly read what they were signing off on. Christ.

Comments

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Gotta love the name. Information Awareness. As opposed to "intelligence". Do you think they just got tired of the obvious joke?

And what is with the verbiage? Asymmetric threat? Because if they're all evenly proportioned we don't care?

Truth maintenance.

I gotta make fun of the lingo, because my snark is all that's standing between me and sheer, gibbering terror.

Fuck buying the island. I don't want to be on the same planet with this. Ya think the Russians would give us a group discount?

Mer

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

Gotta love the name. Information Awareness. As opposed to "intelligence". Do you think they just got tired of the obvious joke?

I think they finally figured out that calling something the Propoganda Office or TIPS was hiding just a little too openly in plain sight. Information Awareness seems a little less Nazi. I love the Scientia est Potentia motto. Knowledge is Power. When all else fails, turn to Latin. It looks noble. Or imperialistic depending on your point of view.

And what is with the verbiage? Asymmetric threat? Because if they're all evenly proportioned we don't care?

I found this little link, which you may have already: http://www.darpa.mil/iao/WAE.htm (http://www.darpa.mil/iao/WAE.htm)

I still haven't figured out the asymetric thing. Maybe it's the migraine, but I have a suspicion it's that it really makes no sense. I mean shit, if you're going to make a page for the public to explain what your doing, explain it in way that don't require a freaken PhD. You're addressing a group of people that have to hire other people to do their taxes, you think we're going to understand military diagrams and jargon?

I was thinking of going to Canada. I know, same continent, still not too safe. But the prime minister there called Bush a moron at the NATO meeting (he denied it later, but I don't blame him). I have to support that. Plus no language barrier provided I don't settle in Quebec. I don't think there's a safe place left on the planet, so. . .

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Scary thing? At first I thought it was a parody site.

Canada's not bad. I keep pushing for Amsterdam. M. wants a Carribean island. buffybot wants New Zealand, and if they'll sell us the set for Rohan when they're done with it I might be swayed into that camp, if we can't have the moon.

Why can't we have the moon? Nobody's using it.

The stupid thing is, I love this country. I don't want to leave it. I just want it to get sane.

Mer

[butterfly-soul.livejournal.com]

Information Awareness seems a little less Nazi.

Heh. It actually reminds me a lot of Mao. But then, 'The Third Way' was originally one of Mussolini's phrases... *mental image of Blair as dictator* *oh, wait, that's the television screen*

I was thinking of going to Canada

I think I'd rather like to move to Germany. Lots of meat, but at least the people at the tills in supermarkets are very fast. And you have to love those little cotton shopping bags. So environmentally friendly. And the system of government is much more like democracy and less like franchise capitalism. Besides, it would help me brush up on my German. ^_^

I don't think there's a safe place left on the planet

Probably not. Unless you have money and connections, or are very popular with the general public, of course.

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

*mental image of Blair as dictator* *oh, wait, that's the television screen*

You know, at a meeting today one of the directors was talking about the dictator . . . it took me a while to realize who he was talking about. I'm like "Oh, you mean Saddam Hussein, not Bush, don't you?" He replies "Well, I guess we know where you stand, don't we?"

Oops.