What would you recommend instead of GITS? I've always had a soft spot for it considering it was my first "adult" anime.

For your reading pleasure: https://archive.org/details/aberrationinhear0000pain

The movie covers a third of the actual story. It was made while the Manga was being published, so it left a ton out out of necessity. The biker gangs are more fleshed out, and there's a good amount of post apocalypse story telling. It is long as hell (2000+ pages), but there's still nothing like it.

Is running the Native American caucus again this year?

I've been looking for a short version of "Surveillance Valley" to send to people, so thanks for this.

If there's anything that you should have learned from Snowden and Assange, it's that exposure is not enough. Websites like Open secrets have not made a dent in how dark money is tossed around.

I'm like 2 hours into Shadowrun: Hong Kong. I can't make heads or tails on it being good or not quite yet. It seems to have more Role playing elements out of the gate than Dragonfall, but I'm not liking the characters as much so far. Every character seems to be written as a wannabe tough guy thus far.

You're in for about 90 hours, so be ready for that.

Election betting might be slightly less sleazy if you want to try that?

8/20. Was not expecting so many vicious

Hmm, looks like you're right about the most part. I guess I was misremembering something.

/r/trueanon has a reading/watch list on their wiki, but the subreddit is private. You may look there. I'd post it here, but the site won't let me write a post that long, I guess.