Prosthetic Conscience

• Possible Dominionist ties of church shooter
  
• Why Free Software and Apple iPhones don’t mix
  
• Creating the Innocent Killer: Ender’s Game, Intention, and Morality
  By John Kessel
• Orson Scott Card has always been an asshat
  
• When official truth collides with cheap digital technology
  Wrote about this cop-attack earlier, but it’s worth reading this article about it as well.

This is a reference to the machine intelligence “Aineko” from Charles Stross’s novel Accelerando. Aineko began “life” as a toy robot much like this one, but was gradually and continuously upgraded through the years preceding the Singularity, at one point assimilating the scanned brains of kittens that the military had intended to use unethically for smart munitions guidance.