OK here's a better story for yas:
Land Of The Free 2.0
@Real_Margaret_Atwood: "Hey, Sally from Saskatchewan here."
@Actual_William_Gibson: "How many times do I have to tell you darn Canadians, I want no part of your military-industrial complex!"
@Real_Margaret_Atwood: "Lol. Nice to see you too. Oh, brother, where art thou?"
@Actual_William_Gibson: "Here and there, you know. Technically, the GPS coordinates of my registered mailing address changes latitude and longitude every thirty minutes or so."
@Actual_William_Gibson: "That's what legal tells me, anyway."
@Real_Margaret_Atwood: "'Legal'? I thought you, uh, 'militant libertarians' were all about taking down 'Big State Coercion', and by extension, those pesky things called laws and regulations?"
@Actual_William_Gibson: "Jobs H. Christ, Sal, I told you not to use red flag-words like the m-word, t****** d***, and BSC is trending on teh social medias, which means it's probably also trending with the alphabet spy agencies of Mordor."
@Real_Margaret_Atwood: "OMG, Ok, I think you might be overreacting just a little. I mean, it's not like you're planning to blow up a skyscraper or something."
@Actual_William_Gibson: "Not at this time. Maybe not literally. And no b-word."
@Real_Margaret_Atwood: "Jesus, Billy. What the hell are you doing over there? You know I'm not going to be able to bail you out again, not with what I have going on here. I've got the solar thing, we're producing megawatts and everything. I've got my slice of the nest-egg all-in."
@Actual_William_Gibson: "I know, I know. 'Big sisters are their brother's keepers,' --said everyone, always. I am *fine*, Sal. Don't fill your pretty greener Saskatchewanian head with thoughts of me being going full-Bin Laden into the Goldman Sachs building or on Mainstream News, burning at the Hague."
@Real_Margaret_Atwood: "I thought you said 'no red-flags', and you're dropping the Bin-Laddy bomb?"
@Actual_William_Gibson: "Nobody gives a shit about Bin Laden. He might be dead, have eternal bad-hair day, and his job was scaring Americans, but he isn't Beetle Juice. 'Bin Laden Bin Laden Bin Laden!' See? Once John Wayne gets his guy, he needs a new boogeyman to chase.
@Actual_William_Gibson: "They're more worried about rounding up and arresting all the social democrats and deporting everyone who doesn't pass a Caucasoid test on ancestry.com in the US nowadays. Just putting them in an M1-Abrams tank and firing them across that giant Wall. Or putting them in a gas chamber- very economical."
@Real_Margaret_Atwood: "Come on, the U.S. Isn't *actually* putting dissidents in prison and killing people without trials."
@Actual_William_Gibson: "Since that Drumpf guy was elected, all bets are off. I give it two years till the U.S. becomes the North American Syria. It's been great for business here, they're jumping the U.S. like rats on a ship, like liberal Vietnam draft dodgers bailing to Canada for the hippy girls and hashish."
@Real_Margaret_Atwood: "I actually have some 'illegal US immigrants' working on my farm... One was arrested for organic farming and the another had a double PhD-Physics and English- worked at a tattoo parlor that closed down. I would lol but too sad to laugh at. Even the Canadian government's 'arms wide open' bleeding heart immigration policies have been tested with the great USAnian exodus."
@Actual_William_Gibson: "Yeah, that would make a great keynote firestarter at your next TedX talk. 'Upstanding Canadian Businesswoman Aiding And Abetting Americans In Gainful Employment.' Do they still do those? Ted Talks? Or has Hitler II drawn all the limo-liberal Hope-n-Change out of the air?"
@Actual_William_Gibson: "So anyway, business. I know we've had our differences over the years, but I have something, something big, coming up. Entirely legal -- in maritime law terms, anyway. 'Disruptive' would be a good adjective."
@Real_Margaret_Atwood: "I thought you said I didn't have to worry, Billy?"
@Actual_William_Gibson: "We have this all under control. I have it under control, ok? This isn't like the last time, with the fire and the international media crews and all of that. That was me being a young and stupid misguided boy doing my Rock n Roll, wanna-be-badass thing. This time it's all about the mission. The Rev- The R-word."
@Real_Margaret_Atwood: "Ok, but if I was your therapist- and I AM NOT. But if I was I might say maybe you're not entirely over the international-camera-crew-drawing phase. I mean, you might not remember how much you loved being in the spotlight at those Nowheresville, Canada punk shows, but I do. I think maybe you crave the celebrity, the recognition more than you want to admit."
@Actual_William_Gibson: "Mom always said you should've been a shrink. Point is, I AM going to need some help, but only just a little. A little spotting, financially, to get this off the ground."
@Real_Margaret_Atwood: "FUCK, Billy!? You know I can't do that! If any auditor or white-knight investigator social-justice type were to get wind that I had connections with... with whatever is going on, then it'd jeopardize everything I have going on here!"
@Actual_William_Gibson: "Look, there are ways, ok? We'll put it through the wash, we have untraceable crypto currencies and fences bigger than American border walls. And besides, after the Global Economic FUBAR? Germany has a 5th-Reich after Merkel was shot down by the New Nationalists. Even those Lights On The Socialist Hill of Denmark, even Finland has an emergent ultra-right with Syrian refugees starving to death on their borders or being shuffled quietly into 'socialization camps' -- euphamism for forced labor. You said it yourself: Canada is losing itself, I just heard the Prime Minister say the words, 'Keep Canada Canada' without irony the other day. There will be no life boats from this global Titanic, except Pirate Ships. Something, something radishal has to be done."
@Real_Margaret_Atwood: "Radishal?"
@Actual_William_Gibson: "I can't say the R-Word. The superintelligences are listening."
@Real_Margaret_Atwood: "Ok, ok. I can't believe I'm going to do this, again. I must be a masochist."
@Actual_William_Gibson: "No, you're just a good sister, that's all. I love you sis!"
@Real_Margaret_Atwood: "Shut up. Ok, send me the amount and the details."
@Actual_William_Gibson: "You're a doll, Sally from Saskatchewan."
@Real_Margaret_Atwood: "One last thing: why are we using these ridiculous fake Canadian author names as handles?"
@Actual_William_Gibson: "Google, Apple, the NSA and friends have algos that auto-ignore crap that gets spit out by fake robot accounts- I have that info from a buddy who defected across all three. He manufactures these, has them spit out spam, Nigerian Prince and penis pill and sexbot phishing scams and rents'em out to Anons and socialdemocrats and such."
@Real_Margaret_Atwood: "So this is a robot account? You're saying I'm a replicant?"
@Actual_William_Gibson: "Exactly. All these texts will be lost in time. Like... tears... in... rain..."
@Actual_William_Gibson: "10 minutes, actually, is the auto-erase setting."
@Real_Margaret_Atwood: "You always were the smart one. Bye, Billy."
@Actual_William_Gibson: "Bye, Sally from Saskatchewan."
***
"Nations Without States, the largest 'floating country' with a population of more than three million residents was hit by a stray North Korean missile this evening, killing fifty thousand, including the Canadian NWS founder, Bill Green, and causing critical fractures in the seastead's hull, which may be unrepairable. With the vast majority being American ex-patriots including progressive thinkers, billionaires, and philanthropists Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Bill Gates, Larry Page and Sergei Brin. Hailed, 'California 2.0', with a post-capitalist sharing-economy foundation and famous 'two-page constitution', the NWS' GDP this year surpassed that of the US with across-the-board advancements in clean nuclear, terrapower, solar, electric vehicles, biotech, nanotech, aerospace, and even two successful Mars Missions leaving the now-defunct NASA in the dust.
"It has been suggested by conspiracy theorists that the missile actually originated from the USS Drumpf supercarrier, currently stationed a few hundred miles off the coast of Japan, and within range of the Nations Without States structure."
"US President Drumpf had this to say, 'I know Elon and Peter and Bill. They're good guys, nice guys. I made a lot of money on the Paypal IPO, let me tell you.' But that NWS, I tell you, it was a losing deal. And now they're a bunch of losers, bailing their little sailboat, unlike America, where we're winning everywhere. Shame about the missile. Real shame, but accidents happen. Elon should know about failed rocket launches."