Happy Tuesday, kittens! Caffeine in hand? Better yet, caffeine in belleh? Excellent! At Cryptosphere Global HQ we managed to screw up the buttons on the new deluxe espresso maker and pour six shots of espresso instead of an Americano this… Read More ›
Media
Thousands Defy French Ban on Public Protest – Demand Liberté and Action at #COP21
This report and the photos come to us from our old friend Joe Solomon, who is on the scene in Paris for the Climate Talk protests, and originally appeared on Common Dreams. The day began at dawn, as Avaaz and… Read More ›
We Spent 72 Hours with weev and Fled to Bosnia
As one does… Everything world’s most famous troll weev does is complicated. Even his hair is complicated (why is it two different colours?). In this episode of weev got news intrepid reporters from bizarre and extremely cool site DSSK meet him… Read More ›
Emma Kelly: The media did cover attacks on *insert country here*. You just weren’t reading it.
We’ve all seen Facebook, festooned since the Paris attacks with both legitimate grief for the victims of the attacks, and with the inevitable and regrettable guilt-shaming coming from those who believe that compassion is some kind of zero-sum game. This… Read More ›
Putting #ISIS on Ice: An Interview with GhostSec of #Anonymous and Ghost Security Group
As France rains bombs on Syria, as states, countries, continents close their borders to refugees fleeing civil war and terrorism, as the world reels from underreaction to overreaction in the wake of the Paris and Beirut suicide attacks, men and… Read More ›
#HoodsOff, #OpKKK Releases 500+ Names #Anonymous Identifies as KKK Members
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 ›
Hack o’ the Day: Replace #Twitter’s Hearts with Your Favourite Emoji!
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 ›
#Anonymous Sub-#Reddit in Entertaining Death Throes: We Interviewed the Assassin
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 ›
The Two Funniest, Most Important Videos from the Canadian Election
As all the world has heard by now, hunky, eloquent dynastic Liberal candidate Justin Trudeau is the new Prime Minister Elect of the People’s Republic of Canuckistan, his (arguably right-)centrist Liberal party having taken the most seats on Monday, October… Read More ›
Hail Amazon, Slayer of Zombies!
On a scale of one to ten, how trusted are Amazon reviews? Well, you should add a star to that number, because the etail giant has taken up arms against professional spam reviewers and launched a lawsuit against over 1000… Read More ›
Trolling Level: Nobel Prize
Presented without further comment: Well, just one little comment: the actual Nobel Prize Twitter account has 165,000 Twitter followers. This upstart has only 17 at the time of posting this article. The real winners were the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet…. Read More ›
Journalist and Accused #Anonymous Collaborator Matthew Keys Awaits Verdict—UPDATE: Guilty!
That was bullshit. — Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) October 7, 2015 Matthew Keys’ fate is out of his hands. Possibly for the next several decades. Keys, a self-made meteor who’d rocketed to significant heights in the social media news desk firmament,… Read More ›
Interwebbed Cyber and Crypto News for Oct 7
Is the week over? Are we there yet, kittens? We at The Cryptosphere Global HQ are somewhat distracted lately. Between hardware crashes and CMS’s failing to M, let alone Control S, we’re about fed up with technology lately, and if… Read More ›
Film Friday Pairing: Battle Angel Alita and the Angel Face Cocktail
Battle Angel Alita is a 1993 cyberpunk anime film with a persistent, eloquent presence on “Most Underrated” lists. It’s due for a James Cameron-directed live action update next year, and we at Cryptosphere Global HQ sincerely join hands and bow… Read More ›
Interwebbed #Cyber and #Crypto #News for Sept 9
I know, kittens, that’s a huge GIF, but that’s a huge message, isn’t it? Rest in peace, Rowdy Roddy, our greatest hero. Next to Rowsdower. Zap Rowsdower. America gets the government it deserves, but Canada gets the heroes it needs,… Read More ›