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I was joking with friends the other day that I was going to start the DLF. The Data Liberation Front. Besides hacking into servers and deleting files we would walk around Montreal with high-powered magnets and wipe people’s hd’s clean. For their own sakes of course.

It has to do with all this thinking about forgetting - how forgetting is it’s own ability, not only a lack of an ability to remember - and it has it’s own function. The systems we’re building don’t have that ability and it makes me nervous.

Sometime I’ll write down my thoughts on my (mostly joke) theory called The Tyranny of Persistent Online Personnas. It has to do with blogs and google and narrative therapy.

I really *do* want to be a pundit, don’t I ;-)

Update: This seems to express that I’m anti-technology. I’m not. This doesn’t conflict at all with the idea of IleSansFil - giving people more access. What I have a problem with is being encumbered by old data.

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