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• Hong Kong’s Occupy Central now has its own video game

  By raincoaster on October 22, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Now THIS might turn me into a gamer!

• CIA LSD experiment in 1951 drove whole French village mad

  By raincoaster on October 22, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Zut alors! If they’re still doing this in various locations it would certainly explain the enduring popularity of Ibiza and Goa. Also: I was born in France and my mother, a military wife, was dosed with all kinds of unidentified… Read More ›

• Mondo 2014: An Interview with Ken “RU Sirius” Goffman

  By raincoaster on October 22, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  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 22

  By raincoaster on October 22, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Happy hump day, kittens! We made it safe and sound to a new base of operations in deepest, darkest Kitsilano and are reporting live from our bunker overlooking … well, pretty much all of Vancouver. So if the Gore-Tex vs… Read More ›

• Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals: a refresher

  By raincoaster on October 21, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

    Our post of yesterday, dusting off the dust-up about the Emma Goldman files, reminded me that a lot of people who are now dead were significantly more intelligent about radicalism than many of the (unnamed) prominent radicals of today…. Read More ›

• Censorship Resistance and Decentralization Methods (II) by AnonyOdinn

  By raincoaster on October 21, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Part 1 is here. This is a reprint of an article which originally appeared at Cyberguerrilla.org, reprinted by permission. This is the third contribution by old Cryptospherian AnonyOdinn; the first was Stop the Power; How to Do Business Without Banks on bank-free… Read More ›

• Interwebbed: Cyber and Crypto News for October 21

  By raincoaster on October 21, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  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 ›

• Safety For Sarah: Local 600 Launches Own App For Reporting Unsafe Sets

  By raincoaster on October 20, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Now this is quite interesting. Some of you may know that Hamilton Nolan at Gawker has been writing a long-running series about safety violations in reality television. Now the union is pushing back; of course, most reality shows are ununionized,… Read More ›

• Driver Dead after Two CF Troops Hit by Car in Quebec

  By raincoaster on October 20, 2014 • ( 1 )

  Originally posted on MILNEWS.ca Blog:
  This from The Canadian Press: “Quebec police say a motorist is dead from gunshot wounds and that he struck two members of the Canadian Forces with his car in an incident an MP cited…

• An interview with #GazaRebirth: a New Paradigm for Recovery Activism

  By raincoaster on October 20, 2014 • ( 3 )

  

  After the most recent Hamas/IDF conflict, the people of the Gaza Strip had a heavy job to rebuild, never sure if THIS was the ceasefire that would hold as so many did not. #GazaRebirth, a new initiative by activists both inside… Read More ›

• The Emma Goldman Papers Dealt Bad Hand, May Be Circular-Filed

  By raincoaster on October 20, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  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

  By raincoaster on October 20, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  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 ›

• 1-15 October 2014 Cyber Attacks Timeline

  By raincoaster on October 20, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Originally posted on Hackmageddon.com:
  Here we go with the first timeline of the main Cyber Attacks happened in October (according to my personal evaluation metric). Two weeks very active from an information security perspective. The list of attacks is…

• Numbers: Men’s Rights

  By Curt on October 17, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  “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 ›

• The Story Of Citizenfour

  By raincoaster on October 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  Originally posted on The Dish:
  http://youtu.be/XiGwAvd5mvM Fred Kaplan reviews Laura Poitras’ new Snowden documentary: At one very interesting point in the film, Snowden tells Poitras and Greenwald, “Some of these documents are legitimately classified,” and their release “could do great harm”…

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