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Crypto-Affirmations (or Crypto-Negations) for a Very Monday Monday
if you know what we mean. Today’s Crypto-Affirmations or rather their Debbie Downer equivalent, come to us from our old friend, Professor Gabriella Coleman of McGill University in Montreal. This one has just the right mix of adorable and soul-chilling,… Read More ›
Y2K!!!1!
Thank you, kittens! As of today your clickety-clicks have brought The Cryptosphere to 2000 Likes on Fedbook, 1724 Followers on Twitter (where we are, counterintuitively, @_cryptosphere), three or four retweets from WikiLeaks (swoon!), 260,000 views, mentions in Time, PC Week,… Read More ›
Crypto-Delays
We apologize for the delay in posting. I have found, and happened to move into, the one spot on North America without the Internet. Regular service will return later today, once I’ve pulled a miracle out of my ass. Wish… Read More ›
Crypto-Affirmation for the Day
If you see something, say nothing. And drink to forget. Night Vale Wise words, my friends. Wise words. Featured image Strange by Kevin Dooley on Flickr
Operation Global Media Domination: The Facebook Situation
Well, this was a more-than-pleasant surprise. This was, in fact, a screamingly awesome surprise for a baby website. Thanks to everyone on Facebook, our biggest referrer, and what up, you people at Hacker News?
Stop The Power: How to Do Business Without Banks
Today we welcome a repost of a very interesting guide to going off the Big Bank Grid thanks to our friend AnonyOdinn. Could this be the solution to transaction stacking, conspiracy, and endless fees for using your own money? We… Read More ›
Operation Global Media Domination: The Situation
Well kittens, we’re deep into the Long Weekend. Which Long Weekend we know not; we only realized it was one when we checked our friends on Facebook. But nonetheless this is a long weekend in BC, Best Province of Canuckistan,… Read More ›
Superpower for Hire: Rise of the Private Military
Here’s a really interesting video from VICE (yes, VICE, I know) on the recent rise of PMCs, private military contractors, aka mercenaries. Why now? Who hires them? Who are they ultimately working for? Why would we fight wars with PMCs… Read More ›
What to Do When Someone Steals Your Stuff
This article is just what it says on the tin. How to bring the pain when you find some mealy-mouthed thief has attempted to use your own material on his site, with OR without attribution. Fair use is fair use,… Read More ›
Op/Ed: Anonifamous: The challenges of an idea in the wake of celebrity
Thanks to supporter and international journalist Curt Hopkins for the reprint rights to this meditation on the meaning of Anonymous in an age of Celebrity. We are very glad he allowed us to repost this from his website at MorphemeTales…. Read More ›
Crypto Currently: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and Potcoin prices for July 25
Yes. Yes, my friends, it has come to this. Potcoin. If there’s one thing my IRL friends know about me, it’s that I cannot abide the reek of the weed, so just imagine the depths to which I have sunk… Read More ›
Cryptome Kills the Kickstarter: an interview with John Young
Send us material venal cowards dare not publish — see note below about perfidy of pols, lawyers, journalists, NGOs. You owe it to the fucked over public or shut your shop. John Young, Cryptome.org Who doesn’t want your money? Cryptome.org,… Read More ›
Crypto Currently: Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin and Catcoin
It’s the internet: there HAD to be a cat in it somewhere. Was it Nietzsche who said that when we cease to worship the old gods they die, and whatever we do worship becomes the new god? So now we have cats and Kardashians, I guess.
Sigh.
ONWARD! Here’s the daily roundup of prices for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin, and novelty selection of the day, Catcoin:
Watch: Al Jazeera Investigates Informants
It’s another in our semi-regular series of videos for you to enjoy. This is Al Jazeera’s investigation into the lives of three federal informants, under cover posing as Muslims to recruit would-be jihadis into schemes cooked up by the FBI…. Read More ›
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