No one ever gets credit when contingency planning works. #Irene

Schroedinger's Qaddafi.

Kafka, outdone. RT @propublica: Gitmo detainees "exposed" to classified info; so everything they say is classified http://t.co/EMYMmM55

Class act. RT @timoreilly: Yay, Warren Buffett. Love his @nytimes editorial, Stop Coddling the Super-Rich http://t.co/2HYsTny

@baghdadbrian @acarvin @statedept @monaeltahawy @pangeaworld @usembassycairo Jehane has reportedly been taken to Tora prison. Good source.

Dear Google+: Leaving out Twitter in the contact data section is an especially glaring omission, especially when you make room for... fax?

is still doing. WTF. “@mikko: Turns out Facebook did a sort of a Man-in-the-middle email attack on its users: http://t.co/DSczrnGj”

Our schools can't become militarized, penitential panopticons. The people who insist on weaponizing our society must regulate themselves.

Human Rights by design, w/ @n8fr8, @scobleizer and @monajem http://t.co/ozlAvs8q #rightscon

How your NYT foreign report sausage gets made. A survey of global operations in a digital era. http://t.co/GRjgZh0c

I'm going to tweet this again. Anyone interested in #Syria's activist crackdown, and/or #netfreedom should read this: http://t.co/yxNiL6O

Backdoors, natsec, cybersec, data breaches, surveillance CHINA. What's not in this story?  http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chinese-hackers-who-breached-google-gained-access-to-sensitive-data-us-officials-say/2013/05/20/51330428-be34-11e2-89c9-3be8095fe767_story.html … via @joebeone

Pathetic. Using Boston attacks to justify CISPA's violations of privacy and due process:  http://rt.com/usa/congress-house-bill-cispa-031/ …

Romney: I like Coal. I like Green Energy too. Whatever America likes, I like it.

Fascinating. @ramyyaacoub and @assemmemon: Hemorrhage of hard currency reserves to blame for #Egypt alcohol sales ban. http://t.co/GXLCD4bZ

There's more outrage about Zero Dark Thirty's misleading on torture than about lack of accountability for torturers.  http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/feb/07/disturbing-misleading-zero-dark-thirty/ …

Facebook has replaced all personal emails with FB alias email, transiting all content generated through its contact info through FB servers.

Crossed my mind RT @brianstelter: RT @antderosa: Can I just say I was sort of relieved to hear it was an earthquake and not something else?

Wow, @heif asks the #pdf11 panelists why they are in NYC, not rebuilding Egypt. Public question of an oft-heard private concern.

I'm somewhat moved by the fact that Snowden's statement references "basic liberties for people around the world," not merely U.S. citizens.