Subject: Chat with Andrew Stein
From: Andrew Stein <steinlink@gmail.com>
To: barriticus@gmail.com

Andrew: hEY
me: sup
Andrew: did you happen to notice that will wright has a tv show?
me: of Sims, etc?
me: nope
Andrew: of sims, etc
Andrew: every episode is written by crowdsourcing
me: I talked to creator of dwarf fortress for an hour yesterday
Andrew: people submit script ideas after each episode to writ ethe next one
me: was the greatest day of my life
Andrew: is he nuts?
me: I now know DF seekrits
me: no, actually
me: he's a pretty cool guy
Andrew: what seekrits?
me: e
me: oh, just another game he's working on
me: and mechanics of DF that I asked about
me: I'm really into the game
Andrew: what game?
me: oh, also
me: Dwarf Fortress
me: Tarn Adams
me: etc
Andrew: no, what other game
me: I asked him to help run stuff
me: oh
me: sci fi game
me: off to a great start
Andrew: elaborate
me: used maps to create thousands of Earth cities with people roaming around
me: will use a little space shoot game engine they made years ago
me: this is off the record, of course
me: lol
me: it's my most valuable intel
me: now I'll be the coolest of all Dwarf Fortress nerds
me: but yeah
me: Tarn
me: my hypothesis
me: and he doesn't agree bbut will try anyway
Andrew: you lost me again
me: my hypothesis is that he can help us to run tasks involving spontaneous organization, perpetual growing networks, etc
Andrew: oh, there more
me: he's just a certain sort of genius
me: who also made a game called Liberal Crime Squad
me: which I used to play before creating Project PM
Andrew: which was of course one of the great works of inspiration for the movement
me: well, I gotta say
me: in terms of my own end of things
me: I wouldn't be in this were it not for Neuromancer and a few other art works
Andrew: did you ask him about liveral crime squad?
me: not really
me: I did tell him a while back
Andrew: did you ask him to MAKE OUT CUZ YOUR BOTH GAY FAGS AHAHAHAHA
me: that I found it instructive
me: NOOOOOO
Andrew: you're
Andrew: dammit
me: man, I'm stoned
me: my mom's here
me: my gf's here
me: just got off the damn suboxone
me: oh
Andrew: i dont even know what that is
me: Tuesday
Andrew: some sort of rash?
me: it's like methadone
me: except less dangerous
me: anywho
Andrew: tuesday, got it
me: NBC sending down Michaek Isikoff, producer, and film crew to my place
me: going to film me in my command center
me: by which I mean
me: the efficiency
Andrew: anonymous?
me: that and related things, yes
me: I'm sort of in charge of certain aspects
me: and influential in others
me: happened rather quickly
me: was in WSJ again today
Andrew: link?
me: here's from other day
me: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704081604576144540747633976.html
me: and here's today
me: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703803904576152560188524574.html#articleTabs%3Dcomments
me: or yestersay
me: I don'rt know
me: my life is in absolute state of controlled chaos
Andrew: these are both paywalled - can you give me the gist of your contribution?
me: go from Google
me: it goes through paywall
me: that's how it works now, apparently
me: they just wanted their google gold
Andrew: lol
me: anywho
me: basically you wouldn't even believe some of the shit that's going on if I told you
me: oh, see my al-jazeera op ed
me: it's just signed Anonymous
me: and my Guardian op-ed from two days ago
Andrew: i saw it
me: k
me: so, also
Andrew: i think id believe it
me: I should probably let you know that
me: I'm being watched to some degree by federal agencies
me: this was already the case, it turned out
Andrew: OH WOW THATS REALLY SURPRISING
me: jajajajjajajajajaja
Andrew: SERIOUSLY< I HAD NO FUCKING IDEA THAT YOU WOULD BE A PERSON OF INTEREST
me: Just dotting my "i"s here, you know
me: well
me: also I talked to a couple of them
me: talked to NSA chick last Friday
Andrew: start over
me: sent e-mails to mil intel
Andrew: who did you talk to?
me: HBGary Federal
me: Cheryl Peace
me: at NSa
me: had been in discussions with Aaron Barr
me: nothing incriminating, I just talkeed to her when we found stuxnet as a courtesy call
me: we're trying to keep the NSA happy
Andrew: hrm
me: dude
me: you need to check out anonleaks
me: all the cool kids are
me: press loves us now, by the way
Andrew: link
me: http://www.anonleaks.ru/
me: several journalists are getting career-making stories out of this
Andrew: you're a journalist
Andrew: what type of computer are you using? that toshiba you bought?
Andrew: pidgin?
me: netbook
Andrew: ubuntu?
me: nope
me: latest Windows
Andrew: pidgin?
me: about to
Andrew: http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/