Selfie dissident style: hacktivist Jacob Appelbaum and artist Ai Weiwei.Photography by Heather Corcoran; Image via fusion.net

It’s a Thursday morning in Beijing, and the world’s most famous living artist, Ai Weiwei, is sitting with one of the world’s most controversial technologists, Jacob Appelbaum, in the second-floor lobby of the East Hotel.Appelbaum is drinking a latte and eating a cherry danish with a fork. Ai is watching him.Appelbaum, a Wikileaks collaborator who helped develop the anonymous web browser Tor, is wearing dark, thick-framed glasses and a black shirt that reads “Fuck the NSA.” Ai takes out his iPhone, places it under the table for a better angle, snaps a photo of Appelbaum’s shirt, and uploads it to Instagram. Within a few minutes, the photo has garnered 500 likes from Ai’s 100,000 followers......Continue Reading

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