Sara Beining

“Finally, these wars have been largely paid for by borrowing, part of the reason the US went from budget surplus to deficits after 2001,” according to the Costs of War report. “Even if the US stopped spending on war at the end of this fiscal year, interest costs alone on borrowing to pay for the wars will continue to grow apace. . . . Future interest costs for overseas contingency operations spending alone are projected to add more than $1 trillion to the national debt by 2023. By 2056, a conservative estimate is that interest costs will be about $8 trillion unless the US changes the way it pays for the wars.”
― Howard Bryant, Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field

“vast house farms out in the loglo wilderness, a culture medium for a medium culture.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“Our drones, our phones, our algorithms, our virtual realities, and our smart homes have all been built to shuttle around meals and data and other stuffs, turning space-time into an extension of our needs and wants.”
― Angus Fletcher, Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature

“The only conspiracy that exists is the conspiracy of incompetence.”
― C.J. Box, Nowhere To Run