Salon.com > Anthony Cuthbertson http://www.salon.com Mon, 20 May 2013 02:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Mexico, agriculture, wave http://www.salon.com/2012/06/09/mexico_agriculture_wave/ http://www.salon.com/2012/06/09/mexico_agriculture_wave/#comments Sat, 09 Jun 2012 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12935219 A short burst of hail and sleet falling from a cloud over San Diego has caused delays on the subway. Bad organization through social media means that my team exercise drill has been cancelled. It’s actually a relief as I’ve been feeling sick after eating some pork that had a worm in it.

WhoWhatWhyThese three sentences may sound odd for a number of reasons. First, there is no subway in San Diego. Second, even if there were one, the chances of its being affected by hail or sleet would be minuscule. (I’m not even going to go into why I might be eating pork with worms in it.) However, the main reason these few sentences are peculiar is that they contain 17 (seventeen!) keywords that will be picked up by government analysts monitoring social media and online news outlets. Believe it or not, what they’re trolling for are signs of terrorist attacks and other threats to the U.S.

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