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Give me a house of crabby old slavic cousins any day.

Maybe get the desert from the store, though. And be careful challenging any of them to games of skill.

I like a blog that looks like a blog
These are not gods worthy of our veneration. They are demons born of our vices and weaknesses.
Ahhh, not too dissimilar from the greek pantheon of old
Not really, but the Olympians (not to mention the Aesir and Vanir) was that they were human, all too human.

These technological demons born of our vices and weaknesses are avatars of the Moloch figure Allen Ginsberg described in part 2 of Howl[1].

[1]: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49303/howl

Somewhere, eyes closed, sitting on a lotus flower made from PDP-11 listings, Knuth is smiling.

Deep in the underground forge from which internets and androids are made from, Torvalds is fuming, hard at work with his army of assistants.

The Fates of names Cryptos, Opensors and Peertoopiera weave together the tapestry of the future from forum threads.

In high towers or dark cells, oscillating between reflections of spotlights and shadows of untrustworthy authorities, the twins of intertwined fates, Assange and Snowden, exchange anonymously an encrypted token.