Eyes everywhere and the World Cup
[ by Charles Cameron — just keeping a paranoid eye on an old and subtle game.. ]
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You know I’m always looking out for examples of the Matryoshka doll effect, where a large doll holds smaller, nested “child” dolls, one within the other in a diminishing series — theoretically ad infinitum — and more generally of macro-micro, as a pattern always worth pondering?
Well, it’s World Cup time, and The Atlantic just posted a fine run of photos of soccer pitches from around the world — one of which caught my eye:
That’s just a detail, showing you the larger radomes of the Bundesnachrichtendienst / German Intel Service, and smaller versions of the same used to play soccer and — who knows? — pick up signals of my and your interactions around the world and off into near space too perhaps.. Japanese reports of moon tastings, my own poems, your moon-bounced messages..
Here, for your enjoyment, is the whole picture:
Sean Gallup / GettyPeople play football at a field next to radomes of the digital communications listening station of the Bundesnachrichtendienst, the German intelligence agency, on June 2, 2015, in Bad Aibling, Germany.
Photographer Sean Gallup certainly has a strong eye for macro-micro, too.
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When I was first introduced to NSA by somone who knew it better at least than I did after dipping into James Bamford, he explained:
NSA > National Security Agency > No Such Agency > “Nonesuch to you, Mister”
I’m grateful Nonesuch wasn’t named the Bundesnachrichtendienst!
See the rest of The Atlantic‘s soccer fields around the world, including this image:
RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP/Getty Images)
The caption here reads:
Ex-FARC rebels play football in the unarmed zone known as Territorial Spaces for Training and Reincorporation (ETCR in Spanish) “Antonio Narino”, where former guerrilla fighters receive training to facilitate their development, reconciliation and reincorporation to civilian life, in Icononzo, Tolima Department, Colombia, on June 12, 2018
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Next up in an expanding line of intelligent footballs, way out past our friendly moon: the Dyson sphere and matroshka brain architecture ..
