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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sounds interesting, but this bit is worrying:

"In his _Letters on a Regicide Peace_, written in 1796, Edmund Burke argued that the Jacobins of France and activist movements at home were both England’s enemies. Zamoyski explains: “[Burke] lamented that ‘our constitution is not made for this kind of warfare.’ ‘It provides greatly for our happiness, it furnishes few means for our defence,’ he wrote, revealing a surprising lack of faith in democracy’s ability to defend itself by standing by its own values.”"  Surely _Burke_, of all people, didn't think Britain a democracy, or have any faith in a democracy to do anything whatsoever?]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Utterly expected, and yet, infuriating.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Onion has competition in the online-saitre-can-tell-it-straight department.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I wonder if Christakis & Fowler's (artifactual) claim of "three degrees of influence" had any effect on the choice of radius here?]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Found from Jordan's self-advertising blog post, which included this intriguing bit:

"With limited space to cover all three books, I ended up not really talking about any of the mathematical content.  There was some!  I didn’t get to mention, for instance, that Schneier uses the prisoner’s dilemma as a central organizing principle of his account of trust.  Or that Hawley, the former director of the TSA, asserts that he was strongly influenced by complexity theory, chaos theory, and network theory in his approach to transportation security.  I certainly would have written about that last part if Hawley had given a clearer account of what he meant by this intriguing claim.  But what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence."]]></description>
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    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2011/11/the-time-machine/247516/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I sympathize, truly, but the train service to Pittsburgh in particular is almost maximally inconvenient.  (The Chicago-Washington line comes through once a day, at five in the morning.)  ]]></description>
<dc:subject>trains travel coates.ta-nehisi stupid_security</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:32272d1b0280/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.good.is/post/the-red-scare/">
    <title>The Red Scare - Politics - GOOD</title>
    <dc:date>2011-09-12T22:41:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.good.is/post/the-red-scare/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>stupid_security terrorism_fears ackerman.spencer</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:652b9f5e46b9/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2010/10/31/12037">
    <title>Buddy Comedy Idea § Unqualified Offerings</title>
    <dc:date>2010-11-03T19:28:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2010/10/31/12037</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming stupid_security the_continuing_crises via:orzelc</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:26fc9d24a088/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_continuing_crises"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/">
    <title>A hidden world, growing beyond control | washingtonpost.com</title>
    <dc:date>2010-07-19T15:30:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Shorter Dana Priest and William Arkin: it was a nice republic, while it lasted.
(Also: _this_ is journalism.)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>intelligence_privatization stupid_security terrorism_fears military_industrial_complex episonage_industrial_complex war_is_the_health_of_the_state secrecy_is_the_health_of_the_state national_surveillance_state priest.dana arkin.william intelligence_(spying)</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:964c421a7217/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=8661">
    <title>Warren Ellis » Fortress America, London SW4</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-24T23:42:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=8661</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["the new US Embassy in London is intended to be "a 12-storey cube clad in a blastproof glass and plastic façade" surrounded by a 30-metre blast zone. In the proof image above, it looks not unlike a high-end bunker has been simply dropped from space on London, an impregnable and isolated chunk of America. And while security is an obvious and present concern, I think perhaps this building says a little more than it was intended to.  In fact, let’s admit it. IT’S A FORTRESS WITH A FUCKING MOAT. It doesn’t say "welcome to a little piece of America, one of the best ideas the world ever had and a country that welcomes the tired and poor and afraid." It says "if you even look at us funny we’ll pour boiling oil on you from the roof. Raise the drawbridge! Release the Mongolian Terror Trout!""
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:sad funny:because_its_true architecture london stupid_security the_continuing_crises decline_of_american_character ellis.warren</dc:subject>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2009/12/28/10456">
    <title>This and that § Unqualified Offerings</title>
    <dc:date>2009-12-29T14:15:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://highclearing.com/index.php/archives/2009/12/28/10456</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I want to address all of the criticisms that Obama should have returned to the White House rather than staying in Hawaii after the attempted bombing.  While the readers of this blog know that I am very critical of him, I can’t fault him on this one.  If you were a black guy with close family in Africa and a Muslim name, would YOU get on an airplane while the TSA is on the alert for Nigerian Muslims?"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming funny:sad the_continuing_crises stupid_security terrorism_fears via:orzelc</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:2c5049ec256d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2009/12/28/political-correctness-gone-mad/">
    <title>Political Correctness Gone Mad — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2009-12-28T15:55:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2009/12/28/political-correctness-gone-mad/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:malicious funny:pointed funny:morbid funny:tasteless funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming engineers terrorism utter_stupidity stupid_security farrell.henry</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.hlswatch.com/2009/10/15/%E2%80%9Cdo-i-have-the-right-to-refuse-this-search%E2%80%9D/">
    <title>“Do I have the right to refuse this search?” | Homeland Security Watch</title>
    <dc:date>2009-10-30T21:38:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.hlswatch.com/2009/10/15/%E2%80%9Cdo-i-have-the-right-to-refuse-this-search%E2%80%9D/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>stupid_security tsa creeping_authoritarianism via:?</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:abf719152975/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:creeping_authoritarianism"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/07/false_positives.html">
    <title>Charlie's Diary: False Positives and the Database State</title>
    <dc:date>2009-07-19T19:25:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/07/false_positives.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>utter_stupidity stupid_security data_mining moral_panic to_teach:data-mining stross.charles</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e16077126c04/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:stross.charles"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/layers/secureflight/travelers.shtm#traveling_tips">
    <title>TSA: Secure Flight</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-06T18:05:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/layers/secureflight/travelers.shtm#traveling_tips</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'm sure this seemed like a _brilliant_ solution to the problem of reducing the false positive rate for the No Fly list, by removing ambiguity about whether J. Random Traveler == Jake Traveler == Jacob Traveler == Jacob R. Traveler == Jacob Random Traveler.  And it is brilliant, except for being an intrusive and ineffective patch to a system which is a ridiculous violation of civil liberties in the first place.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>secure_flight stupid_security tsa to_teach:data-mining</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:20276ebc53b5/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/26/AR2008122601120.html?hpid=opinionsbox1">
    <title>Why Can't I Get Off This List? - washingtonpost.com</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-28T22:08:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/26/AR2008122601120.html?hpid=opinionsbox1</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is deeply shameful.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>stupid_security creeping_authoritarianism terrorism_fears via:? gomez.juan_fernandez</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1237dff3b6fb/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:terrorism_fears"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:?"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cracked.com/article_16849_7-dumbest-things-ever-done-by-airport-security.html">
    <title>The 7 Dumbest Things Ever Done by Airport Security | Cracked.com</title>
    <dc:date>2008-12-14T17:51:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cracked.com/article_16849_7-dumbest-things-ever-done-by-airport-security.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>creeping_authoritarianism stupid_security terrorism_fears via:? funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:fd6deaf20db8/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:?"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa584.pdf">
    <title>Effective Counterterrorism and the Limited Role of Predictive Data Mining</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-29T14:40:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa584.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>data_mining stupid_security counter-terrorism creeping_authoritarianism via:shachtman.noah to_teach:data-mining</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:eae007862ba4/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:counter-terrorism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:creeping_authoritarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:shachtman.noah"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_teach:data-mining"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://failblog.org/2008/01/03/fail-camera/">
    <title>Fail Camera « Failblog.ORG</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-23T14:01:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://failblog.org/2008/01/03/fail-camera/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>surveillance funny:malicious to_teach:data-mining stupid_security photos</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:88d91804d7e2/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:photos"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2008/05/get_a_grip.php">
    <title>Uncertain Principles: Get a Grip!</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-08T14:29:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://scienceblogs.com/principles/2008/05/get_a_grip.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If we could stop seeing terrorists at every ticket counter, pedophiles in every YA section, and baby-snatchers in every hospital, we'd be much happier and healthier as a society."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>stupid_security magical_thinking decline_of_American_character orzel.chad risk_assessment</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:969452ae5be2/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:magical_thinking"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:decline_of_American_character"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521605878">
    <title>The Cost of Counterterrorism - Cambridge University Press</title>
    <dc:date>2008-05-01T12:38:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521605878</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>terrorism_fears stupid_security creeping_authoritarianism books:noted</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:713d092e3c30/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:creeping_authoritarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:books:noted"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2008/04/strange-culture.html">
    <title>Strange Culture, the commercially available DVD | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-27T01:55:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2008/04/strange-culture.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>terrorism_fears stupid_security utter_stupidity bedwetting art genetic_engineering the_continuing_crises freedom_of_expression kurtz.steve</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3390e2d96c39/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:stupid_security"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:utter_stupidity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:bedwetting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:art"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:genetic_engineering"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:freedom_of_expression"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:kurtz.steve"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103655.html">
    <title>Administration Set to Use New Spy Program in U.S. - washingtonpost.com</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-13T13:05:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/11/AR2008041103655.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Happy happy joy joy.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>creeping_authoritarianism stupid_security national_surveillance_state</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9279a47f3b9f/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.thespywhobilledme.com/the_spy_who_billed_me/2008/04/three-claps-for.html">
    <title>The Spy Who Billed Me: Three Claps for Clapper: CIFA in the Crosshairs</title>
    <dc:date>2008-04-06T23:59:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.thespywhobilledme.com/the_spy_who_billed_me/2008/04/three-claps-for.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Good riddance; assuming, that is, that the program doesn't just start up again with a different acronym on a different budget (cf. Total Information Awareness)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>creeping_authoritarianism CIFA intelligence_privatization stupid_security corruption intelligence_(spying)</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b440b642d17d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:intelligence_privatization"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:stupid_security"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010103.html">
    <title>Making Light: The photograph that terrorized London</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-31T18:05:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010103.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This makes me want to wander around taking pictures of everything.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>utter_stupidity stupid_security photography nielsen_hayden.patrick london</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:fdd91dfaf080/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:stupid_security"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:photography"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:nielsen_hayden.patrick"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:london"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://armchairgeneralist.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/03/rad-cops-on-the.html">
    <title>Armchair Generalist: Rad Cops On the Job</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-29T15:31:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://armchairgeneralist.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/03/rad-cops-on-the.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Yes, I certainly feel safer that there are cops on the interstates scanning for terrorists who might be transporting "dirty bombs" and stolen Pakistani/Russian nukes. It's a good thing that they are out there, looking for phantoms and busting the occasio
]]></description>
<dc:subject>stupid_security terrorism_fears nukes funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming to:blog to_teach:data-mining hypothesis_testing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:0852dd18e3db/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:nukes"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to:blog"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_teach:data-mining"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:hypothesis_testing"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://jetlagged.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/the-airport-security-follies/">
    <title>The Airport Security Follies - Jet Lagged - Air Travel - Opinion - New York Times Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2007-12-30T15:36:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jetlagged.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/28/the-airport-security-follies/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I agree with all this and have said as much for years - but I get in line and take off my shoes and stick my toothpaste in my checked bag with everyone else.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>stupid_security terrorism_fears via:alevin</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:bb8c640e4333/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/12/welcome_to_america.php">
    <title>Welcome to America (Yglesias)</title>
    <dc:date>2007-12-21T02:11:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/12/welcome_to_america.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This sort of thing makes me ashamed of my country, and hence angry...
]]></description>
<dc:subject>america terrorism_fears bedwetting stupid_security decline_of_american_character</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ebe1a11291e0/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:terrorism_fears"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:bedwetting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:stupid_security"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:decline_of_american_character"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.opendemocracy.net/media/article_1720.jsp">
    <title>'This machine kills fascists' | openDemocracy</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-18T02:17:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.opendemocracy.net/media/article_1720.jsp</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>vaidhyanathan.siva stupid_security creeping_authoritarianism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:42efa8577f1f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:stupid_security"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:creeping_authoritarianism"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/taking_pictures.html">
    <title>Schneier on Security: Taking Pictures from a Train</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-08T21:21:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/taking_pictures.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[My reaction to stories like this is: they can't do that, this is America!  But I guess I'm wrong.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>creeping_authoritarianism stupid_security the_continuing_crises bedwetting utter_stupidity</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:3b9711243964/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_continuing_crises"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:bedwetting"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:utter_stupidity"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&amp;docID=hsnews-000002620892">
    <title>CQ Politics | FBI Hoped to Follow Falafel Trail to Iranian Terrorists Here</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-07T17:45:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&amp;docID=hsnews-000002620892</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[One of the commenters is right: the weirdest part of this is that the FBI didn't bother to learn anything about Iranian cuisine.  (Their loss.)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>data_mining stupid_security terrorism_fears to_teach:data-mining food iran the_continuing_crises utter_stupidity creeping_authoritarianism via:? FBI vast_right-wing_conspiracy</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9e7e1293295b/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:data_mining"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:stupid_security"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:terrorism_fears"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_teach:data-mining"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:food"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:iran"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_continuing_crises"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:utter_stupidity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:creeping_authoritarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:?"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:FBI"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:vast_right-wing_conspiracy"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://amygdalagf.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-it-works.html">
    <title>Amygdala: How it works</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-02T18:31:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://amygdalagf.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-it-works.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Watch the scope of legislation change before your very eyes!
]]></description>
<dc:subject>terrorism_fears stupid_security crime creeping_authoritarianism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:53fd9f111a3d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:crime"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=our_ballooning_terrorist_watchlist">
    <title>Our Ballooning Terrorist Watch-List | The American Prospect</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-01T17:41:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=our_ballooning_terrorist_watchlist</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>stupid_security terrorism_fears creeping_authoritarianism</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:33ce697a561d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:terrorism_fears"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:creeping_authoritarianism"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2007/11/watercoolered.html">
    <title>Watercoolered: The CIA's Double Secret Probation</title>
    <dc:date>2007-10-27T01:31:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2007/11/watercoolered.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On sex discrimination and the like, and using security as an excuse to evade the issues.  "'What I think is wrong is an entire fucking security structure that is obsolete and needs to be changed,' says one retired senior officer. 'Not just for the goddamn"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>cia stupid_security sexism institutional_discrimination our_decrepit_institutions rozen.laura intelligence_(spying)</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e9d46ab1674c/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:cia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:stupid_security"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:sexism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:institutional_discrimination"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:our_decrepit_institutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:rozen.laura"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/009484.html">
    <title>Making Light: Making Us Safer Every Day II</title>
    <dc:date>2007-10-20T18:54:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/009484.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Homeland Security confiscating hard disks (!) from musicians
]]></description>
<dc:subject>stupid_security creeping_authoritarianism terrorism_fears the_continuing_crises</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:91b06efde8c4/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:stupid_security"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:creeping_authoritarianism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:terrorism_fears"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_continuing_crises"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/10/i_was_a_teenage_terrorist_the.html">
    <title>I Was a Teenage Terrorist: The Star Simpson Story</title>
    <dc:date>2007-10-13T16:12:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/10/i_was_a_teenage_terrorist_the.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>stupid_security bedwetting terrorism_fears jenkins.henry</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ebe8ad574561/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:terrorism_fears"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:jenkins.henry"/>
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