Today in everyday cyberpunk reality: exposed ethernet cable connectors suggesting themselves as symbols of civilian surveillance pushback — both for the disabled device, and for the implied privacy of wired communication. In my imagination, the shape somehow begins to map to the “house” sigil of the band Negativland, and to the twin snake heads of Christopher Gadsden’s “Don’t Tread on Me” and Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die.” And no, not condoning vandalism. Just pondering the potent emblems incorporated in otherwise mundane electronics.