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Bruce Sterling
Aug 5, 2017 4:27 PM

Arphid Mark-of-the-Beast fear

*This is truly nostalgic. I haven't seen an RFID moral-panic episode like this in many years.

*Generally they don't go very far unless schoolchildren are somehow involved.

Crank fundie right-wingers at work, but that's traditionally the source area

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