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• A FergusonPoem: Respectability Hasn’t Saved Us

  By raincoaster on November 2, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  In lieu of our regular Numbers column of poetic news commentary, we present this powerful commentary on racism in America via Moorbey.

• Inside the capital of ‘New Russia’: Once a bustling, wealthy city, Donetsk is now a ghost town

  By raincoaster on November 2, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  A fascinating look at how war can change a city’s destiny. Scroll down the main page of The Cryptosphere to see a compelling essay from a journalist embedded with the Ukranian troops at the airport itself.

• This backpack designed for poor kids does so much more than carry books

  By raincoaster on November 2, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  A very clever, very useful do-goodery project that includes electronic components: a solar charger for a lamp, also included, so the children can do their homework even after sunset. We need more projects like this!

• Exclusive: The Legendary #Anonymous Paypal 14 Speak Out Post-Sentencing

  By Douglas Lucas on October 31, 2014 • ( 25 )

  

  Yesterday the famous Paypal 14 hacktivists were sentenced: all their felony charges were dropped, leaving them with misdemeanors and a bill for restitution. The Cryptosphere correspondent Douglas Lucas was the only journalist actually present at the sentencing. Since the conditions… Read More ›

• Faking it: Facebook Fraud Exposed

  By raincoaster on October 31, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  Every big-money corporation attracts fraud, for the same reason Dillinger used to rob banks. “That’s where the money is.” This video will introduce you to a type of Facebook fraud that may, at first glance, appear harmless. In reality, it’s… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for Halloween

  By raincoaster on October 31, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Happy Halloween, kittens! Before you go out a-haunting this evening, it’s best to catch up on your cybernews, for safety’s sake. You never know who you might meet out there in the darkness: A would-be loverboy ready to sell you… Read More ›

• Pro-ISIS hackers Team System DZ take on Sweden

  By raincoaster on October 30, 2014 • ( 6 )

  

  They’re at it again. Or perhaps they never stopped. The last we heard from the Algerian hacking crew of anti-Israeli ISIS sympathizers called Team System DZ, they were exulting in very poor English about a string of over 200 defaces. The attacks… Read More ›

• Omidyar-funded candidate takes seat in new Ukraine parliament

  By raincoaster on October 30, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Yes, two panderdaily reblogs today. Because I don’t see this story anywhere else, do you? To what extent should people who don’t live in a country affect the outcome of elections in that country?

• Freaked out by artificial intelligence? Don’t watch the trailer to “Ex Machina”

  By raincoaster on October 30, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Tron now looks actually retro. Check out this trailer and see what digital artists can do in the scope of cyborglandia. My first interview as a journalist was with John Lassetter of Pixar and he told me, “Right now we’re… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 30

  By raincoaster on October 30, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Welcome to All Hallows Eve Eve. Have you got your costume ready? Which is it to be: InfoSec Taylor Swift or Slutty Jian Ghomeshi? Perhaps an ISIS Social Media Consultant, with burnoose in a QR code pattern. If you’re all… Read More ›

• Social Experiment: Muslims in Canada, post-Ottawa Shooting

  By raincoaster on October 29, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  This is what you call “a learning experience.” Despite Prime Minister Harper predictably using the shooting of Corporal Nathan Cirillo on Parliament Hill to rush through legal approval for spy powers he’s been asking for for years, Canadians themselves reject the notion… Read More ›

• The New Hercule Poirot mystery: The Monogram Murders

  By raincoaster on October 29, 2014 • ( 0 )

  If you like detective fiction as much as I do, which is to say almost as much as detective NON-fiction, you’ll probably need to be buying this. Immediately. And now brb I have to trundle to Munro’s bookstore and get… Read More ›

• Why teaching Kindergarten is among the scariest jobs in America

  By raincoaster on October 29, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Americans are scared of 5 year olds.

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 29

  By raincoaster on October 29, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Happy hump day, kittens! Grab yourself some warming caffeine and settle in for your morning homework. Hey, what are commutes for, amirite? That’s right: they are a carefully socially engineered phenomenon designed specifically to give North America and Europe enough… Read More ›

• Taibbi takes time out from First Look after “disagreements.” Can I publish our emails now, Matt?

  By raincoaster on October 28, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  This media scandale du jour says a lot about an organization that could well be the premiere media outlet of our age, if it ever matures.

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