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 ›
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How to Go to Hell
Cyberpunk? Check. Alt Comix? Check. Burnng Man? Check. Twilight films? Nope. OH THANK GOD THERE’S STILL HOPE FOR ME! Very servicey, 9Gag! How many of these can you tick off? Can anyone fill out their entire card and win a… Read More ›
Video Monday: 60 Minutes Australia’s Kurdish Female Fighters against ISIS – FEMALE STATE
A fascinating subject for documentary indeed: the Kurdish female fighters who have lately captured the interest of the world as well as quite a few ISIS jihadis. This video is a half-hour long, so settle in and prepare to be… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Crypto and Cyber #News for October 27
Happy Monday, kittens! Was your weekend full of good food, good company, and hundreds of thousands of Facebook posts about Jian Ghomeshi? No, just me? Here are a handy bunch of links with which you can stuff your Facebook feed, blotting… Read More ›
Mondo 2014: An Interview with Ken “RU Sirius” Goffman
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 ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 21
Happy Tuesday, kittens, and welcome to your favoritest link roundup of the day! We’ve been a little heavy on the war and a little light on the cyber lately, but we’re going to be very firm with ourselves from now… Read More ›
The Emma Goldman Papers Dealt Bad Hand, May Be Circular-Filed
Legendary anarchist Emma Goldman would never have expected better treatment, but then she was a cynic. As JWeekly reports, the Berkeley offices of the Emma Goldman Papers project are set to close and the fate of the archive itself is… Read More ›
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 20
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 ›
Numbers: Men’s Rights
“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 ›
Communication, Identity, and the Origin of Information by Heather Marsh
This is a reprint of Our Right to Communicate by Heather Marsh, which first appeared April 16, 2013. Marsh is our favorite living political philospher (Zizek is of course a stand up comedian) and favorite ex-WikiLeaker. And some day we’ll… Read More ›
Pitch Different: a Rejection from Bond, James Bond
Oh dear god, this is glorious. T’is fake, but t’is glorious. I’d still give Steve Jobs a yes and Sean Connery a no, but this is glorious. via EsquireUK on Facebook. h/t Percy Perkins
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
Here are a few facts about Ada Lovelace, whose day is today. No, it is not a stat/bank holiday, unfortunately, although if we lived in a just world sysadmins would have the day off at the very least. Ada Lovelace… Read More ›
Tweet o’ the Day: Snowden, Stone, and Recursion
Wait for it, people. Just wait. Dear Oliver Stone, You are not allowed to complain when the Snowden script is leaked. — MysteryTVWritersAsst (@MysteryTVWrtrAs) October 9, 2014
Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 08
And the headlines just keep on coming, kittens! While we were momentarily sidetracked with the buzz around the first-on-then-off tv series based on that Cusack classic Say Anything, the world turned, so did many special agents, and so here we… Read More ›
Interwebbed Part 2: Cyber and Crypto News, continued
We’ve neglected you for too long, and the news as well, so today ONLY we are offering a two-for-one special on our Interwebbeds. Herein lies part deux. Download o’ the day: Business Password Analysis (Trustwave) Cue the DRONE NAVY! (c4isrnet)… Read More ›