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• #HoodsOff, #OpKKK Releases 500+ Names #Anonymous Identifies as KKK Members

  By raincoaster on November 5, 2015 • ( 17 )

  

  OFFICIAL #OpKKK #HoodsOff 2015 Data Release. https://t.co/EQODjs7wpA With Love, Anonymous — Operation KKK (@Operation_KKK) November 5, 2015 Well, it’s finally here: the long-awaited list that Anonymous’s OpKKK has been collating for a year, since the first OpKKK which grew out of OpFerguson, which… Read More ›

• V vs. V: Of faith and treason and #Anonymous

  By raincoaster on November 5, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  This article comes to us from Ted Morrison, a Victoria, BC-based writer, editor, and sometime political blogger. We invited him to discuss and/or review V for Vendetta: the book, the movie, or both. Instead of a regular review, he gave… Read More ›

• Hack o’ the Day: Replace #Twitter’s Hearts with Your Favourite Emoji!

  By raincoaster on November 3, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Another day, another article about the Death of Twitter. Not that they’re wrong, it’s just irritating that a lot of the organizations wailing the loudest have been active participants in the slow murder of what was once everyone’s favourite social… Read More ›

• Watch This Drone Avoid Trees Without Any Pilot Input Whatsoever

  By raincoaster on November 3, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Think of this as a self-driving car, only in 3D instead of 2D. We’re not that far away from a future where every land-based object on most routes will be mapped and autopilot for drones and cars will automatically route… Read More ›

• Robots dream up hilarious cooking recipes

  By raincoaster on November 3, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Do androids dream of electric indigestion? An AI program designed to create recipes does broadly that, with instructions to “lean in microwave” and suggesting ingredients like “chopped beer.”   Help me cook, robot! Source: Robots dream up hilarious cooking recipes

• Inside the CIA Red Cell

  By raincoaster on October 30, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  A very interesting peek inside the CIA’s “alternative thinking zone.” The real question is, if they’re doing things like “what-if” scenarios and brainstorming sessions, what the hell is the rest of the CIA doing? This is pretty basic stuff. Tenet… Read More ›

• The cosy (dollars) relationship between gulags’ lobbyists and Australian Government

  By raincoaster on October 30, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  More on the shocking, dollar-based relationship between the Australian government and the anti-migrant industry, including for-profit incarceration centres. Source: The cosy (dollars) relationship between gulags’ lobbyists and Australian Government

• #Anonymous Sub-#Reddit in Entertaining Death Throes: We Interviewed the Assassin

  By raincoaster on October 30, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

    Ah, Reddit, the text-based wonderland where news is born and shame goes to die. Ah, Anonymous, the once-anarcic prankster of the internet, now turned grim avenger and righteous “moralfag.” When the two of them got together, we knew it… Read More ›

• #Anonymous Stands Up for Higinio Ochoa aka w0rmer of #Cabin Cr3w

  By raincoaster on October 29, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  “One of my first posts on Twitter was that I am not here for drama, and I plan to stick to that the best that I can.” That was before the drama came for him. So said Higinio Ochoa, formerly… Read More ›

• New FEC Website, BetaFEC, Makes It Much Easier to Dig Up Political Dirt

  By raincoaster on October 29, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Not that it’s every been that difficult (the real problem is sifting through the muck, not locating the muck) but FYI: It’s a lot simpler now. Source: New FEC Website, BetaFEC, Makes It Much Easier to Dig Up Political Dirt

• Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Oct 29

  By raincoaster on October 29, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Happy Thursday, kittens! Got your Edward Snowdenhands costume all ready? Or going as a Cyberpunk Senior? Me, I’m digging out my old mouse ears, a 5XL tee, and a lavalier mic, taping a couple of honey buns to my hands… Read More ›

• Australian officials paid human smugglers to turn boat people back, Amnesty claims

  By raincoaster on October 28, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Here’s the most radically horrifying story we’ve seen today: according to Amnesty International, Australian government officials are bribing people-smuggling ship captains to turn their boats around and land on Indonesia instead. Even more staggering: they’re intercepting boats that are not… Read More ›

• Printing Soft Body Tissue

  By raincoaster on October 28, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Hackaday has an interesting article about new technology to do biohacking…AT HOME. Once this is mainstream, I can certainly see that one of the first applications will be home-printed cosmetic body modifications. Can you just imagine what Lindsay Lohan would… Read More ›

• An Impending Beheading

  By raincoaster on October 28, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  More on the cases of the al-Nimrs, uncle and nephew, both condemned to death in Saudi Arabia for speaking out against the powers that be. Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr may be put to death as soon as this week. His… Read More ›

• Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Oct 28

  By raincoaster on October 28, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Well, that’s the Halloween costume sorted. I was going as Edgar Allan Ho, but Edward Snowdenhands takes it. Scissors always beat paper. Now that we’ve got that decided, we can move on to the news roundup for this morning. If… Read More ›