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the world we live in (now)

yrm — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:25:57 +0000

Years ago (18?) I played a pen-and-paper role-playing game called Shadowrun, «[…] set in an imaginary future where huge corporations control the live […]».

Skip some time to now. A corporate security division acts like an (uncivilized) official authority:

«[…] According to ND Daily, Sun Danyong, who had been handling a shipment of 16 iPhone prototypes, was set upon by Foxconn’s Central Security Division after one of the prototypes went missing. Unable to take the “unbearable interrogation techniques,” he jumped from a 12-story building on July 16.
Foxconn has already issued a statement apologizing for the incident and admitting that the section chief of the Central Security Division […] may have used “inappropriate interrogation methods” such as searching Sun’s house, holding Sun in solitary confinement and possibly beatings. […]»

source: shanghaiist

Who need states and countries if you can get the same w/ corporations? And what will Apple execs say?

my eyes releasing tears

yrm — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:56:03 +0000

… by this dark, sad, strong, good music. thanks matt elliott.

go here for the «Howling Songs» album at the iTMS and here for the free «Matt Elliott Remixes» by Hicc.

for my daughter, II

yrm — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:27:49 +0000

כ״ח בטבת תשס״ח
~~28th~~ 27th of Tevet, 5768 (~~yesterday~~ two days ago) : your great-grandmother passed away. 81 years. she’ll be in heaven … flying like a bird … looking down to us, too. now she can have a chat with otfried and a. lindgren — and w/ her (too early taken away) son. in memory forever.

Update: Der Tagesspiegel published a obituary. props to Henriette Dushe, she did the words. Thank you!

for my daughter …

yrm — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:48:52 +0000

he’ll be in heaven … flying like a bird … looking down to us. in memory forever. Otfried Rost, 80 years, artist and more.

to myself

yrm — Wed, 01 Dec 2004 22:45:05 +0000

19th of Kislev, 5765
י״ט בכסלו תשס״ה

my grandfather died. in memory, forever.