If you're fascinated by this year's mythical narratives like the NSA,...

Julian Bond - 2013-08-04 21:23:01+0000 - Updated: 2013-08-04 21:28:28+0000

If you're fascinated by this year's mythical narratives like the NSA, Manning, Snowden, Assange, Wikileaks, and you like verbal pyrotechnics then you really must read this piece from Bruce Sterling. https://medium.com/geek-empire-1/a1ebd2b4a0e5

"Then there’s Julian Assange. Yeah, him, the silver-haired devil, the Mycroft Holmes of the Ecuadorian Embassy."

I LOLed.

Seriously. Go read it now.

The Ecuadorian Library

Julian Bond - 2013-08-06 20:15:45+0000 - Updated: 2013-08-06 20:21:46+0000

I hope you all read the thoughts of Chairman Bruce Sterling on Snowden, Assange, Manning and Stallman[1]. Well I'm afraid now you have to go and read this. About what the people in the trenches (and his A, B... list of activists) were actually doing while they weren't getting Snowden out of Moscow airport.

http://www.oblomovka.com/wp/2013/08/06/1515/

With a bit of prompting from this, it''s not hard to see the exact moment when Bruce Sterling upset a * lot * of people.

SeeAlso: Cory Doctorow's comments http://boingboing.net/2013/08/05/how-sterlings-the-ecuadori.html