Around noon Wednesday, publication day of the latest weekly issue, two three armed and masked men dressed all in black walked into the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and opened fire with Kalashnikovs. Twelve people are confirmed dead,… Read More ›
Hello again, kittens! Happy what-is-it WEDNESDAY! That’s it, Wednesday. All day. Happy Wednesday, and truly, were two less-likely sentencemates ever cobbled together to provide a desperately-reaching link roundup intro? I think not. I very much think not. And so to… Read More ›
Well, if you want to be technical it’s set for January 22. For now. The reason Barrett Brown’s sentencing is set for January 22, 2015 instead of December 16, 2014 as it was originally, is that on December 16 the… Read More ›
And by “full” we mean with several minutes of post-arrest porn cut out of it. Yes, this is what happens when you get busted and manhandled by the Federal Bureau of Investigations: people in your chat session upload porn while… Read More ›
“I must be cruel, only to be kind.” – William Shakespeare For this is journalism: X was true, but Y wasn’t, Here a church, there a prison. Instead, Jackie’s in a box, A topological hex, That kills as often as… Read More ›
The Society of Professional Journalists has released a letter sent December 6 by Lila LaHood, president of the North California chapter, to the Mayor and Chief of Police of Berkeley, California. The letter is in response to what the organization… Read More ›
This is a repost of Hamilton Nolan’s article of the same title on Gawker (not a lot of crossover in audiences, I’m thinking). Nolan has long cataloged the crimes of corporate and individual overlords and the economic and security losses… Read More ›
Welcome to Thursday, kittens! Just over a month to go till the holidays; you got my list, right? RIGHT? It’s the one that starts with “pony” and ends with “Julian Assange.” To while away the hours waiting for the happy… Read More ›
This is cross-posted (thanks to CC licensing) from The AntiMedia: a stunningly practical and intelligent list of eight key principles to keep in mind when attending protests IRL. If you and your cohort follow these tips, you’ll dramatically impact the… Read More ›
“What happens when a new work of art is created is something that happens simultaneously to all the works of art that proceeded it. “ — T.S. Eliot “Nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben ist barbarisch.” — Theodor Adorno … Read More ›
Happy Tuesday, kittens! It’s a cyber-and-politico-heavy news roundup day today, so settle in with a cup of something comforting, jack in, and prepare for your mega newsdump. Make These 4 Assumptions about Cybersecurity (JDSupra) Deadline approaching: crime reporting contest (IJNet)… Read More ›
I shall never be silent. Because that’s lousy for hits. Welcome to Tuesday, kittens. In glamourous Scamcouver it’s a moist, drizzly morning illuminated by neon reflected in greasy puddles and tail lights receeding into the distance, desperately questing for the… Read More ›
I know, I know, you don’t have to tell me every journalist from Wired to ArsTechnica has used that headline construction. But it works, because when your accomplishments personified, furthered, documented, and disseminated the defining cultural movement of an age, you just… Read More ›
Happy Monday, kittens! We’re leaping headlong into October’s home stretch and we hope you have put the finishing touches on your Infosec Taylor Swift costumes for Halloween. The atomic clock is ticking, kittens! Don’t want to go as the same… Read More ›
“For this too is the lot of man.”— Siduri the Wine Maker, Gilgamesh If strippers are a kind of walking wounded, Where do all our crippled menfolk go To hide between the worm and green corn moon? The crystal lattices… Read More ›
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