The surreal Bradley Manning transcript published on Wired.com in 2011. The time stamping of the chat messages is interesting, as it shows the pace of the conversation. Fluid, relaxed - yet the content is paramount, and betrays personal conflicts. 

Recently, Facebook launched their Suicide intervention chat tool. Statistics point to people being able to express things online, that they couldn’t express through other means, like the phone. Is that because online chat has a sense of pseudo-anonymity? Or is the pacing, the ability to review and edit information before hitting return, the delete key, giving a feeling of control over the conversation?

(01:54:14 PM) info@adrianlamo.com: is that how you got the cables out?

(01:54:28 PM) bradass87: perhaps

(01:54:42 PM) bradass87: i would come in with music on a CD-RW

(01:55:21 PM) bradass87: labelled with something like “Lady Gaga”… erase the music… then write a compressed split file