Stoya: The redeeming hope for 2015 is that even more of us will have stared into the immeasurable depths of suck that the world holds. We will have come to terms with the fact that things do not magically become better. Fewer will waste time standing around with our hands in the air saying, "My God, how could things possibly be this bad?"
Shikha Dalmia: The mindset that sowed this poisonous fruit will make it difficult to root it out.
Rebecca Brock: People say to me, "Whatever it takes." I tell them, It's going to take everything.
Robert Mendick, and Robert Verkaik: Nursery school staff and registered childminders must report toddlers at risk of becoming terrorists, under counter-terrorism measures proposed by the Government. But concern was raised over the practicalities of making it a legal requirement for staff to inform on toddlers.
Hans de Zwart: Most of us aren't fully aware of how truly all-encompassing the current surveillance infrastructure is and how quickly we are making it larger still. We often don't realize how much the technology can already do today and how we are letting it play a large part in our lives.
Dmitry Kieselev, the Kremlin's chief propagandist: Information war is now the main type of war.
Thomas Ricks: Maxwell Taylor made a habit out of saying not what he knew to be true but instead what he thought should be said.
Mark Ames: The problem was that Pike asked the right questions -- and that led him to some very wrong answers, as far as the powers that be were concerned.
Robert Herritt: Much of Luciano Floridi's work is motivated by the idea that in choosing the rules that govern the flow and control of information, we are constructing a new environment in which future generations will live. It won't be enough, he has written, to adopt "small, incremental changes in old conceptual frameworks." The situation demands entirely new ways of thinking about technology, privacy, the law, ethics, and, indeed, the nature of personhood itself.
Rukhsana Ahmad: Captives
These, who sleep in a house,
of yellow stone
wrapped in sheets of insensitivity
tell them
to rise
and chisel the mountains.
We have to think of liberation.
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