I sat on the sofa in my basement suite, watching the latest tridcasts out of Aztlan. I’d set my telecom’s Sort ’n’ Save program to key in on anything to do with the Yucatán or with the ongoing civil war. But the news bites it had downloaded contained null data—they were just government-whitewashed stories of how the Azzies were dealing harshly and effectively with the "insurgents."