News Defender Gifts

Democracy dies in darkness

Newspaper Threats

Late Stage Capitalism and the Biosphere Engage in Some Meaningful Dialogue...

Robots search for people's personal information in the cloud.

'Now that everyone's street is online, we're mapping interiors.'

"Well the good news is that we did save a little money by not investing in cyber crime protection...."

'Never trust emails. You can't shred them.'

The New Normal

Climate Change

Spammatic blaster - gun to shoot pop-up ads.

"Some trees in New Hampshire hate being hugged."

Privacy - Surveillance

"No coal here, either - but you never know until you look."

'Maybe a firewall isn't enough to protect our computer from worms and viruses. That's why I additionally installed this fence!'

'Well look, here come the hackers!'

'Jeff is a tackle on his online college football team.'

"You see? I told you if we tied ourselves to this tree they wouldn't cut it down. Persistence is the name of the game. Persistence."

"The third leading cause of forest fires."

"What the heck? How are we supposed to roam the plains if men put these things everywhere?"

BREAKING FAKE NEWS

"These targeted ads are getting out of hand."

"Hack back with all you've got!"

Things that go beep in the night.

"Countless observations and calculations based on the scientific method led me to the conclusion that the center of the universe is not planet earth, but. . ."

"I want one that detects intrusions by hackers, then blows their computers to bits!"

"We've updated our privacy policy...it's so private we can't even tell you."

"That didn't work either! I'm telling you, this is one AGGRESSIVE virus!"

"Are you sure you updated the anti-virus software?"

The Cashless Society is Here

'The environment people only worry about endangered species, not endangered individuals.'

"We've got to fix the climate before we run out of trees to print money on."

Quadruple dark hot chocolate. Whoa, everything all right? Sure, yeah, great. I'm a journalist and writer in an era in which the printed word has been totally devalued by free distribution of information on the internet. Can I pay in prose? Point taken.

Greenpeace protestor joining the birds.

Bob soon began to hate his new anti-spam software.

'The staff are healthy enough, it's the computers that keep getting a virus!'