Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy This episode of Peoples & Things completely nerd sniped me. On recommendation from Biella Coleman, hosts Lee Vinsel and Paula Bialski interview Ben Collier about his new book Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy (available Open Access from MIT Press. I love ethnographic works on computing history and especially admire Biella’s book Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking.
… and yes I am up at 3am scrolling due to jet lag
But it’s nice to be scrolling in my own bed…
Back in Vancouver 🇨🇦
Landed in Iceland 🇮🇸. It’s cold and foggy here 6°C 🥶 Getting a slice of NY pizza and whatever the hell this guy is 🤷♂️
Thanks Germany 🇩🇪 🙇♂️ I had a wonderful time at my friend’s wedding, was able to meet with someone I hadn’t seen for 25 years, and came to some interesting conclusions about history and the future. Next stop Reykjavik 🇮🇸 then on to Vancouver 🇨🇦
Final day. Did some souvenir shopping near city center then randomly ran into the Frankfurt Grüne Soße “Green Sauce” festival! There was a little jazz band, the mayor, a TV station and they threw bundles of herbs like wedding bouquets! After I walked the old star moat which is a giant park now.
Today I hung out with the German GOAT Goethe at his house, learned a bunch about the Romantics, meditated in a glass prism, and now it is time to say Gute Nacht to Frankfurt. Tomorrow is my last day before I fly back to Canada.
Have some journaling to do. What better pace than the warm platz at Römerberg, just a couple of blocks from Goethe House
A few more shots from Heidelberg 🏰 on a warm sunny day 🌞
Lovely warm spring day at Heidelberg Castle
Made it to the little southern German village where the wedding is happening. Lovely bucolic view from my top-floor (4) hotel window. My ears ring with the sound of music 🎶 but @expede.wtf says she hears the WinXP startup sound 🪟
As part of the pre-wedding I just did a West Coast Swing lesson in German! 🕺🏼 🇩🇪
Made it to Germany!
🤯 At the Frankfurt Airport Train station ⛲️ at the Wasserturm in Mannheim 🍟🌭 vegan currywurst
Off to Germany! 🇩🇪
Thanks London, was a blast.
Wow I got 英語お上手ですね’d by a London cabbie this morning on the way to the train station!
Last day in London. Visited Westminster Abbey. A few fun wide angle shots of the complex interior design. 🇬🇧
Round 2 at the British Museum 🥊
Had so much fun reconnecting with everyone at Newspeak House last night (and meeting some of the other fellow-candidates I hadn’t met before) that I am going to go again tonight for Ration Club to hang out more. If you are in London, come by for 7pm
As is the custom, I got lost in the Barbican
Spending some time at the British Library 📚
The Treasures exhibition is such a brilliant reminder of why books are important, and how they can be such beautiful objects.
Somewhat embarrassing that I got lost trying to find the tea room at the Royal Geographical Society 😅
