Horizons: Inside the Dark Web is an hour-long interview-based BBC documentary explaining the composition and nature of the scarily-titled Dark Web, previously known as the Deep Web until fearmongers got ahold of it. It features many of the luminaries of… Read More ›
Welcome to Friday, kittens! We made it! Neither hacking attempts, nor lame-o hate mail, nor the NSA, GCHQ, or Royal Canuckian Mounted Police could stop us this first week of September. Having luxuriated in probably the first Labour Day I’ve… Read More ›
Originally posted on The Dish:
by Jonah Shepp Among the many pieces written in memory of Steven Sotloff since the news of his death broke on Monday, a few of them struck a particular chord with me, touching on the dangerous, precarious,…
https://twitter.com/Cy63rp0isoN/status/507265728547147776 Well, as everyone in the known universe knows by now, Facebook was down yesterday for a period of time between 15 and 30 minutes, during which the world collectively lost its shit and dug out its dormant Twitter accounts… Read More ›
Welcome to Wales, y’all. They take security on their golf courses very seriously, as you can see. While conclusion-jumpers may have assumed this is some kind of Ferguson-style overkill in response to the Independence Movement, it is instead simply basic… Read More ›
Apologies for Wednesday’s missing link roundup; it has been run to Earth and put in the stockade until it learns the benefits of promptness. The elision was occasioned by a spectacularly amateurish hacking attempt on our site and associated Gmail,… Read More ›
Golly, I hadn’t thought of HALF of these things. Now that the York Regional Police has come out with this handy-dandy list, I’m going to print up a hundred copies to stick under my neighbors’ doors when they get out… Read More ›
There is no publicly-accessible database of shootings by US police officers. Let those words sink in. While you’re at it, consider that the words “Law Enforcement Officer” and “Peace Officer” are meant to refer to the same thing. This thing…. Read More ›
Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
The United States’ senior counterterrorism official said on Wednesday that there is “no credible information” that the militants of the Islamic State, who have reigned terror on Iraq and Syria, are planning to attack the U.S.…
A startling result in this study. Deporting immigrants with criminal convictions is a high-profile, crowd-pleasing move, but it has, apparently, no real payoff other than placating nervous taxpayers. Will they remember come voting time, though?
We’ve found the first super-warrior of the long-feared Drone Wars. He has taken his first victim. He is RAMBRO! After a youth spent calmly munching grass in the pastoral mountainside of New Zealand, as he turned towards adulthood something in… Read More ›
This is JUST what we need. A fixed-interest financial product ie BONDS based on Bitcoin, and managed by companies with no experience in the field. Well, now we know who will be the first to be slaughtered when Goldman Sachs… Read More ›
Originally posted on Retraction Watch:
A physics graduate student at the University of Coimbra in Portugal attacked a professor with an axe earlier this month after losing a grant. The student, Colin Paul Gloster, attacked physics lecturer Maria Filomena Santos,…
Originally posted on LibertasIntel:
Embry Howell, Sam Bieler, and Nathaniel Anderson of the Urban Institute have an interesting new paper (PDF) based on hospital data from six states. The number capturing headlines is their estimate that, nationwide, treating gun injuries…
Originally posted on The Dish:
by Bill McKibben A reader writes to complain that fossil fuel divestment is a pointless waste of time: What divestment does do is make people feel good. That they’re “doing something”, without having to do…
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