May 2013
4 posts
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Barrett Brown Legal Defense Fund Condemns DOJ...
What follows is a statement from the Barrett Brown legal defense team which I received by email – it included an attachment which will be appended to this post, a press release. I wanted to post it here because I think that the exploratory nature… View Post
Special report on the torture method commonly used...
Reblogged from Later On:
Humans are social animals, and solitary confinement deprives the prisoner of a basic human need—-and is clearly torture, leading often to mental breakdown. Mother Jones has an excellent report on the practice in the US, which imp… View Post
Peer review does not mean we can trust a published...
Reblogged from Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week #AcademicSpring:
“The benefit of published work is that if they have passed the muster of peer review future researchers can have faith in the results”, writes a commenter at The Economist. Such… View Post
April 2013
6 posts
“Facts are collected indiscriminately by the naive empiricist, who lives in fear...”
– Evan Eisenberg, The Recording Angel (via talha131)
Update on the Motion to Quash the Subpoena to...
Last night Attorney Jason Flores-Williams informed me a other interested parties of the demise of the motion to quash the US government subpoena for the Project PM site information, brought by Sebastiaan Provost, the website’s administrator. The… View Post
On a perspective after the Boston explosions, on...
This time let’s not wait until later (too late) to insist on having all of the information. Prove patriots can ensure accountability in a time of fear and crisis. The relative standing of our civil liberties versus our disposition to allow the government… View Post
2011-05-24 Dennis Edney, Lawyer For Omar Khadr...
Reblogged from GeorgieBC’s Blog:
“The only crime in my view, equal to willful inhumanity is the crime of indifference, silence and forgetting.”
Dennis Edney, Lawyer For Omar Khadr speaks on Fear, Injustice and his Guantanamo visitsin a Conference on… View Post
The day I received a subpoena...
Reblogged from Sebastiaan Provost:
I was recently contacted by CloudFlare that the Dallas Court handling Barrett Brown’s case has issued a subpoena ordering them to release all information regarding echelon2.org (Project PM Wiki) and also information about… View Post
The day I received a subpoena...
Reblogged from Sebastiaan Provost:
I was recently contacted by CloudFlare that the Dallas Court handling Barrett Brown’s case has issued a subpoena ordering them to release all information regarding echelon2.org (Project PM Wiki) and also information about… View Post
March 2013
2 posts
February 2013
12 posts
Morning News News Roundup – February 11, 2013
The Philadelphia City Council heard testimony Friday on a proposed plan for a city-owned casino. Testifying, along with the resolutions sponsors and various city officials, were representatives from Penn National Gaming Inc., one of six applicants for… View Post
Podcast: Killer Narratives →
newyorker:
This week in the magazine, Patrick Radden Keefe investigates the Amy Bishop case. In 2010 Bishop shot and killed several colleagues at the University of Alabama. In the aftermath of that crime, it was revealed that Bishop had shot and killed her brother in 1986, which Bishop and her parents have always claimed was an accident. Here Keefe and New Yorker staff writer David Grann talk...
November 2012
2 posts
““And now for all of us to do our duty! The clarion call is ringing in our...”
– Eugene Debs
October 2012
2 posts
Musings of a Maté Drinking Woman: A Trolls... →
asshurtmacfags:
I was approached by a writer for the Sydney morning herald to do a follow up to an on air blitzkrieg from butthurt victims of “cyberbullying” I did at 3am CST last week. The article that was published is here: …
June 2012
1 post
SOPA, CISPA, The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 - Tweet... →
theweekmagazine:
SOPA, CISPA, The Cybersecurity Act of 2012… there’s a lot happening in the world of cybersecurity and internet privacy, and it can be a bit daunting to understand it all.
That’s why we’re hosting a panel on Monday addressing any and all of your questions and concerns.
Tweet your questions to us using the hashtag #CyberTW, and our panelists will do...
May 2012
1 post
April 2012
2 posts
Justice Marshall's Dissent - A 1st Amendment...
The Court’s disposition of this case is marked by two related failings. First,
the majority is either unwilling or unable to take seriously the First Amendment
claims advanced by respondents. Contrary to the impression given by the
majority, respondents are not supplicants seeking to wheedle an undeserved favor
from the Government. They are citizens raising issues of profound public
...
http://www.temple.edu/provost/universitycollege/pro...
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March 2012
1 post
best infosec blog ever by @olemoudi (almost) no... →
olemoudi:
Steganography is the science of concealing messages in other messages. You sometimes want to conceal these messages because you don’t want people to read them, but you can also use this hidden information to watermark files for identification purposes.
Why would someone want to do this? Well,…
February 2012
4 posts
This doesn't matter. The price of diamonds is... →
Proposition 8 served no purpose, and had no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationships and families as inferior to those of of opposite-sex couples. The Constitution simply does not allow for ‘laws of this sort.’
— Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt
January 2012
12 posts
Nigeria's Supreme Court dismisses five governors →
dynamicafrica:
Nigeria’s Supreme Court has ordered five of the country’s powerful state governors to step down immediately.
It marks the end of a long legal battle about when exactly their terms in office, which last four years, began.
They were from the ruling People’s Democratic Party, winning polls in 2007 in Bayelsa, Cross River, Kogi, Adamawa and Sokoto and vote re-runs in 2008.
The BBC’s...
fb status yesterday
Activism is made a caricature by both participants and the media at large. Don’t let the personalities connected with a message impeach the facts supporting the message. It’s not even that massive inequities and malfeasance are obscure - examples of mendacity and gross commiseration between trans-national corporations and government agencies are if anything the theme most ubiquitous...
@Melissa_Prosser
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background.
Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
Virginia Woolf
Likely the greatest paragraph of English I have...
In this work, when it shall be found that much is omitted, let it not be forgotten that much likewise is performed; and though no book was ever spared out of tenderness to the authour, and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the...
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes on SOPA [ad hoc]
“[T]he ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas….That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution.”
— Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, dissent in Abrams v. United States, 1919
photo from http://soshable.com/stop-sopa/
J. Edgar Hoover helped spread the view among the police ranks that any kind of mass protest is due to a conspiracy promulgated by agitators, often Communists, ‘who misdirect otherwise contented people’.
Douglas Adams on being a puddle
Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, “This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn’t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!” This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and...
Obama Signs NDAA Bill With Signing Statement...
http://www.ology.com/politics/obama-signs-ndaa-bill-signing-statement-clarifying-indefinite-detention-provisions/12312011
“The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosphies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable.” - George...
