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Geekosystem: Encyclopedia Dramatica Is No More: OhInternet Rises from the Ashes
by Robert Quigley | 9:36 am, April 15th, 2011

From 2004 to 2011, Encyclopedia Dramatica was one of the few resources out there for people who wanted to learn about the strange culture of the Internet. The open wiki was always ( Read more... )

From Daily Kos:

From twitter:
#OpWisconsin It's not just you! http://americansforprosperity.org looks down from here. :] #anonymous #wiunion #koch #kochblock #anonops
The Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity astroturf website is now down.  Try and visit and you see:

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University of California, Berkeley: WikiLeaks philosophy under a scholarly microscope
By Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations | 17 December 2010

BERKELEY - While reporters, pundits and politicians write and rail about the latest WikiLeaks revelations of secret documents and the activities of its founder, Julian Assange, an online scholarly assessment ( Read more... )

The Atlantic: The Hazards of Nerd Supremacy: The Case of WikiLeaks
Jaron Lanier

The degree of sympathy in tech circles for both Wikileaks and Anonymous has surprised me. The most common take seems to be that the world needs cyber-pranksters to keep old-school centers of power, like governments and big companies, in check. Cyber-activists are ( Read more... )

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UCLA: UCLA News Week: Nov. 17, 2010

Dead Sea Scrolls scholar Robert Cargill unravels a strange case of academic cyberbullying in this edition of UCLA News Week, the weekly videocast of research and other developments at UCLA ( Read more... )

Emails from an asshole

Art post later. I have one of two videos in mind; the question is which one I'll post first.