i stopped being half-wittted and became sly whenever i took the trouble

Well kittens, it’s Hump Day and we hope you’re humping along just fine this week. If not, we hope this gif offers you solace and inspiration, much like the Julian Assange post from yesterday. Here are some news stories to buttress your paranoia and burst your complacency while simultaneously offering you real solutions to problems certain institutions would like to convince you are entirely imaginary. Your choice: sleeping well, or waking up.

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10 lessons from real-life revolutions (io9)

Jeremy Hammond announced as second Courage beneficiary (CourageFoundation)

Creative solutions to the banking crisis: hire a hitman, not a lawyer, to deal with the banker (FBI)

Oh noes! Twitter allows randos to delete your credit card deets (Techworm)

Ed Snowden makes his Hollywood debut this October (Guardian)

Attack of the Kindles: Malware hacks the Amazon hand that feeds it (Gizmodo)

FREE DRUGS! Crowdsourcing patent-free cancer drugs (Indysci)

Echoes at Sea: The anniversary of the Navy Yard shooting (WaPo)

Download of the Day: Reaping the Whirlwind Gulf State Competition after the Arab Uprisings (CNA)

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Coalitions (FP)

So um…are we at war? (NewYorker)

US vs ISIS, Al Qaeda, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, and now Ebola (NYT)

Copyrighting your genes  (Democracy)

The story of the Zummar Eleven (WarIsBoring)

Hackers-for-hire raided 300 banks, corporates for TWELVE YEARS (TheRegister)

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