The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present.

—Terminator, 1984

If a company can own a copyright to the Eiffel Tower at night, then individuals ought to be able to own their own image and likeness, and have that encoded as a fundamental right.

There’s a tragedy in her eyes, a soft whimpering which we were not supposed to encounter again after that war.

We humans are gluttons for suffering sometimes.

Use hardware-based security tokens.

Basically the premise of I, Robot.

This is a “dummy pronoun” and I only know this because this popped up as a TIL earlier this week.