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• What’s Persona Management?

  By raincoaster on February 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Or, sock puppetry for fun and profit.

• A massive database now translates news in 65 languages in real time

  By raincoaster on February 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Gigaom:
  I have written quite a bit about GDELT (the Global Database of Events, Languages and Tone) over the past year, because I think it’s a great example of the type of ambitious project only made possible by the…

• Alleged B.C. terrorist says attack necessary

  By raincoaster on February 19, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  “BC” and “Terrorist” are words you don’t see together very often. Here’s one in his own words.

• Understanding the AUMF and the 9/11 Attitude by AnonyÓðinn

  By raincoaster on February 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  This is another in AnonyÓðinn‘s ongoing series of essays examining the political and economic underpinnings of our current, and somewhat fraught, situation. Socioeconomic assumptions that lay unexamined for the past forty or fifty years must now be reviewed, tested against current… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Feb 18

  By raincoaster on February 18, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Welcome to Wednesday, kittens! The Jan Brady of weekdays, Wednesday brings the short bus sites catching up on the stories that broke over the weekend, plus more, worse details of pre-existing stories. We’ll try to dig around and find a… Read More ›

• The Theory Of Intersectionality Can Make Cybersecurity Collaboration Real

  By raincoaster on February 17, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Which is not necessarily a good thing, people.

• #Bitcoin and Book Chat with #Anonymous Publications

  By raincoaster on February 17, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  The Parade with the Drums is an unlikely literary document; it’s the first children’s book published by the faceless hacktivist collective Anonymous. Why? Who? How? and Is It Any Good? All these questions and more occurred to us, so we… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Feb 17

  By raincoaster on February 17, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Happy Tuesday, kittens! It’s a happy day indeed in which I’m reunited with my computer and able to get back online. Now let’s catch up on all the news we missed since Friday; it’s been a busy, busy weekend in… Read More ›

• Film Friday: Timestalks presents David Carr, Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Edward Snowden

  By raincoaster on February 13, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  Revered New York Times columnist and media critic David Carr collaped in the newsroom yesterday and died at the age of 58. Shortly before he died, he moderated this outstanding TimesTalks panel centering on the documentary CitizenFour, featuring Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, and… Read More ›

• Tweet o’ the Day: Davos State of Mind

  By raincoaster on February 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  This tweet by Felix Salmon is a few weeks old, but its message is eternal, summing up the wisdom of the kind of jesters the 1% are letting into their courts nowadays. Tom Friedman, in #Davos, proves once again he… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Friday the 13th

  By raincoaster on February 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  TGIF, kittens! All ready for Friday the 13th? Rabbit’s foot at the ready? Crucifix firmly affixed? Four leafed clovers all over? Excellent. Now you’re ready for today’s news links. Military approves hormone therapy for Chelsea Manning (USAToday) Download the first… Read More ›

• Setting the standards for journalists’ safety

  By raincoaster on February 12, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on THE DEFINITIVE SOURCE:
  The Associated Press has joined 25 other news organizations and journalism groups in endorsing an unprecedented set of safety standards designed to protect freelance reporters on dangerous assignments. A document spelling out the safety…

• Video: Bathtime for Barrett

  By raincoaster on February 12, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  Occasionally we at The Cryptosphere feel that the cyberwar/hacktivism world could use a little levity, and therefore we are pleased to present this otherwise news-value-free video by Xylergeist. It is nothing more nor less than a drag king recreation of Barrett Brown’s second most-famous… Read More ›

• Reprints: A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow

  By raincoaster on February 12, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  In our tradition of featuring the defining documents of the internet, today we offer you John Perry Barlow’s A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, reprinted from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. This 1996 Outsider manifesto articulates a philosophy of not simply… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Feb 12

  By raincoaster on February 12, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Good morning, kittens! We’re back to our regular posting schedule, just in time to get in all those juicy Eastern websites before the weekend hits and everyone disappears into a bottle of vodka, a Netflix binge, and series of obnoxious… Read More ›