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New Scientist -- How LulzSec kept itself safe during the summer of 'lulz'

'#So what happened next? There were essentially 22 days from when Lulz Security first signed up for the service to when they announced they were disbanding. In that period, the attacks against their website just went through the roof. We were actually able to track what those attacks were and provide better and better security over time to help everyone who was on our network. #How did attacks against LulzSec help other websites? CloudFlare's core value comes from the fact that every website that is part of our system helps contribute data in order to better protect other websites. As one website gets attacked, the knowledge about that attack is immediately shared with the rest of the websites, so that the system gets smarter and smarter over time. #Would you let LulzSec or another branch of Anonymous use CloudFlare again in the future? A lot of websites that claim to be part of Anonymous use CloudFlare, many of the Occupy websites use CloudFlare, but so do a lot banks and Fortune 500 companies. We are a fairly good reflection of the internet overall and we're trying to make the internet overall faster and safer.' -- inb4 honeypot

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12 weeks ago by adamcrowe

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ScienceDaily -- Gossip can have social and psychological benefits

'...heart rates increased when they witnessed someone behaving badly, but this increase was tempered when they were able to pass on the information to alert others. "Spreading information about the person whom they had seen behave badly tended to make people feel better, quieting the frustration that drove their gossip," Willer said. So strong is the urge to warn others about unsavory characters that participants in the UC Berkeley study sacrificed money to send a "gossip note" to warn those about to play against cheaters in economic trust games. Overall, the findings indicate that people need not feel bad about revealing the vices of others, especially if it helps save someone from exploitation, the researchers said. -- "People paid money to gossip even when they couldn't affect the selfish person's outcome," Feinberg said.'

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january 2012 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Anonymous 101 Part Deux: Morals Triumph Over Lulz

'In the beginning, there were lulz, pranks and a culture of trolling just to get a rise out of anyone. But despite many original Anons best efforts, Anonymous has grown up to become the net’s immune system, striking back whenever the hive mind perceived that the institutions that run the world crossed the line into hypocrisy. The fall and winter of 2010 started a pattern that persists; when the use of power gets suspect, people join Anonymous. But this immune response changed Anonymous as well. The lulz had to make room for righteous indignation, and not even a pretend indignation. The voice of the hive mind, though still computer-generated, had changed its tone.'

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december 2011 by adamcrowe

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Wired.com -- Darpa: Do Away With Antibiotics, Then Destroy All Pathogens

'...where “engineered” bacterial threats are concerned, most conventional antibiotics would be useless from the get-go: Genetic tinkering can turn even benign gut bacteria into lethal, untreatable bioweapons. Instead, Darpa wants researchers to use nanoparticles — tiny, autonomous drug delivery systems that can carry molecules of medication anywhere in the body, and get them right into a targeted cell. Darpa would like to see nanoparticles loaded with “small interfering RNA (siRNA)” — a class of molecules that can target and shut down specific genes. If siRNA could be reprogrammed “on-the-fly” and applied to different pathogens, then the nanoparticles could be loaded up with the right siRNA molecules and sent directly to cells responsible for the infection.' -- Micromachines!

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november 2011 by adamcrowe

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New Scientist -- Inside Facebook's massive cyber-security system

'FACEBOOK has released details of the extraordinary security infrastructure it uses to fight off spam and other cyber-scams. Known as the Facebook Immune System (FIS) ... It took just three years for FIS to evolve from basic beginnings into an all-seeing set of algorithms that monitors every photo posted to the network, every status update– indeed, every click made by every one of the 800 million users. There are more than 25 billion of these "read and write actions" every day. At peak activity the system checks 650,000 actions a second. "It's a big challenge," says Jim Larus, a Microsoft researcher in Redmond, Washington, who studies large networks. The only network bigger, Larus suspects, is the web itself. That makes Facebook's defence system one of the largest in existence. The system is overseen by a team of 30 people, but it can learn in real time and is able to take action without checking with a human supervisor.'

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november 2011 by adamcrowe

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Vimeo -- "The rainforest in your gut: A brief tour through your intestinal biome, why it’s messed up, and how to fix it"

'The gut may be considered the mammalian second brain and its maximal function is related to many factors including diet, lifestyle, stress, exercise and a balanced microbial environment. How do we discern the intelligence quotient of the gut and its impact on our metabolic, mental and sexual health? In this neolethal age, factors include: poor maternal transfer, dietary impact, pharmaceuticals (acid blockers, antibiotics, vaccines, hormones), poor water quality, excessive hygiene, heavy metals and other toxicants. Which inhabitants in your rainforest are endangered or extinct? Farming our gastrointestinal terrain to achieve a diverse, robust balance of bacteria, microbes and biofilms not only mends the gut but also fulfills the ever expanding role of the biome: immunomodulation, the brain-gut axis, fermentation, vitamin synthesis, hormone production, and detoxification. Happiness, effortless body fat loss and hormonal health can result when the rainforest in the gut is optimized.'

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september 2011 by adamcrowe

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Truthy

'Truthy is a research project that helps you understand how memes spread online. The data and statistics provided by Truthy are designed to aid in the study of social epidemics: How do memes propagate through the Twittersphere? What causes a burst of popularity? We also plan to use Truthy to detect political smears, astroturfing, misinformation, and other social pollution. While the vast majority of memes arise in a perfectly organic manner, driven by the complex mechanisms of life on the Web, some are engineered...'

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september 2011 by adamcrowe

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Google Search: "Be clear about your source's biases and agendas"
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july 2011 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Autoimmunity

'Autoimmunity is the failure of an organism to recognize its own constituent parts as self, which allows an immune response against its own cells and tissues. Any disease that results from such an aberrant immune response is termed an autoimmune disease. Treatments for autoimmune disease have traditionally been immunosuppressive, anti-inflammatory (steroids), or palliative.'

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july 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Economist -- The end of mass media: Coming full circle

'In January 1776 Thomas Paine’s pamphlet “Common Sense”, which rallied the colonists against the British crown, was printed in a run of 1,000 copies. One of them reached George Washington, who was so impressed that he made American officers read extracts of Paine’s work to their men. By July 1776 around 250,000 people, nearly half the free population of the colonies, had been exposed to Paine’s ideas. Newspapers at the time had small, local circulations and were a mix of opinionated editorials, contributions from readers and items from other papers; there were no dedicated reporters. All these early media conveyed news, gossip, opinion and ideas within particular social circles or communities, with little distinction between producers and consumers of information. They were social media. In many ways news is going back to its pre-industrial form, but supercharged by the internet. The mass-media era now looks like a relatively brief and anomalous period that is coming to an end.'

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july 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- RT: ‪Press Release from Anonymous‬‏

'In the past weeks there have been several attempts to disparage Anonymous. We have been branded as terrorists, traitors, and forces of evil. This forces us to ask you a question: Which is the greater evil, an organization that coerces its members with force and feels the need to steal from them in order to finance its own bloated corruption, or a voluntary group of [otherwise] free people who choose to expose lies told by those in power? -- Anonymous is an inevitable product of the internet. We are Anonymous. We do not forgive. We do not forget. [We have "government" guns to our heads.] Expect us.'

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july 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- How the Internet Makes False Flags More Difficult

'...the Anglosphere elite that surely wishes to undermine the Internet Reformation is going to run into considerable pushback... The elites of the day seemingly could not control the ramifications of the Gutenberg Press no matter what they tried to do, and they evidently tried everything from war, to licensing, to false flag events and social manipulation. It didn't matter; force never solves anything longer term. Indeed, "the pen is mightier than the sword." Now, nearly 600 years after Gutenberg's original invention of mass conversation, a "great shift" – Internet Reformation – has begun anew. ...the parallels are clear. The Internet Reformation itself may prove a great deal more resilient than some now believe. The human hive mind is busy buzzing. The spread of knowledge – real knowledge – continues. The Dark Ages of the 20th century begin to lift and Dreamtime subsides. Information about free-markets continues to spread. Are these trends reversible? Don't think so.'

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june 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Turning Points of Empire's End? by Anthony Wile

'Money Power depends on the myth of infallibility buttressed by an overwhelming sense of fear. In the 20th century, this worked well. The entire mechanism of global government was put in place and people didn't object. In fact, many welcomed it. But today is another story. With the failure of its many memes (thanks in part to the Internet Reformation in my view), the power elite turned to increasingly to violence – as they always do. But what if violence doesn't work either? What then? This is the LARGER "turning point" that Hillary is talking about. THE END OF EMPIRE. If the five or so top Punjabi families do not rout out the Pashtun/Taliban, the Afghan war is indeed lost. And if the war is lost, then 10-20 percent of the world's population once again (as the Brits tried this 150 years ago) escapes the trap of the New World Order.' -- "That which can be destroyed by the truth should be." – P.C. Hodgell

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may 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Yemen Crisis to Block World's Oil?

'The stakes are ludicrously high. As goes Saudi Arabia, so goes the dollar... A destabilized fiat currency could be only months away. Yes, the CIA ripped it! Poor boys. Even a Yale education doesn't help during a technology Reformation. A good idea to encourage meddlesome color revolutions? Not really. Foggy Bottom woke up the youth around the world and provided them with a most unusual and resolutely denied commodity ... hope. It showed young people how to use social media to inform and agitate. Now the result: "Blowback." Serbia, Tunisia and Egypt were all initial victories for one reason or another. But in the era of the Internet, triumphs can mutate inconveniently. Yemen's democratizing, and it will come, will be a setback; Bahrain's likely regime change will pose great difficulties; Saudi Arabia's regime change (whenever it occurs) will be an unmitigated, rolling disaster for Western elites. Oh, heads will roll, not just in Saudi Arabia but also at the CIA, MI6 and Mossad.'

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may 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Spanish EU Protests Spread to France?

'There seems to be a kind of unconscious "hive-mind" at work; how else to explain the kind of unrest occurring now? ...the blowback is considerable in the Era of the Internet. The City of London, with all its deliberate brutality and rigor, is surely provoking the current unrest, or at least deepening it with its absurd policies and insistence on the inviolate nature of banking debt. This is why we present the idea that the old men of Money Power are out of touch and don't know what to do next. Either that, or they are deliberately provoking societal breakdown anent a kind of super-regional or World War. This too is puzzling as the low-key wars that raged after the impact of the Gutenberg Press did little if anything to slow the social change from the spread of its "truth-telling, conciousness-unlocking" information technology. If the Anglosphere elites think they can control events as they did during the past 100-300 years, they may well be miscalculating.'

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may 2011 by adamcrowe

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Rules of The Internet

'100. Faggotry will not be tolerated.'

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may 2011 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- How The Drudge Report Got Popular and Stayed on Top

'With no video, no search optimization, no slide shows, and a design that is right out of mid-’90s manual on HTML, The Drudge Report provides 7 percent of the inbound referrals to the top news sites in the country. Gabriel Snyder: “[He's] the best wire editor on the planet. He can look into a huge stream of news, find the hot story and put an irresistible headline on it.” “Matt Drudge is an American original,” Mr. Breitbart said. “He does not rig search optimization, he does not care about the next big Web innovation, he just has the best nose for news there is. He gives people everything, every single thing, they want to know in a single stop.” ...there is just a delicious but bare-bones headline, there for the clicking. It’s the opposite of sticky, which means his links actually kick up significant traffic for other sites.'

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may 2011 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- The Power of Mockery

'A crucial lesson, he said, is the power of nonviolence: “If somebody is beating you, don’t attack him. Don’t use any violence against them. Just take photos of them and put them on the Internet.”' -- Everyday anarchy

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april 2011 by adamcrowe

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Twitter / Search: You should have expected us

Immune system.

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april 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- RussiaToday: Keiser Report: Virtual Pigs Eat Dirty Cash ft. Alex Jones

Jones: "The internet, as a living breathing system that humans breathe life into, has its own immune system and is getting smarter and smarter as the group collective – the group consciousness of the web – becomes more and more astute at instantly identifying the government robot trolls and the physical individual trolls."

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april 2011 by adamcrowe

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msnbc.com -- Hacker group vows 'cyberwar' on US government, business (Video)

'“It’s a guerrilla cyberwar — that’s what I call it,” said Barrett Brown, 29, who calls himself a senior strategist and “propagandist” for Anonymous. He added: “It’s sort of an unconventional, asymmetrical act of warfare that we’ve involved in. And we didn’t necessarily start it. I mean, this fire has been burning.” A defiant and cocky 29-year-old college dropout, Brown was cavalier about accusations that the group is violating federal laws. He insisted that Anonymous members are only policing corporate and governmental wrongdoing — as its members define it. Brown, for his part, makes no bones about the fact that Anonymous plays rough. “We can expose people. We can go to the media with things, we can give them scoops. We can give them information about companies and their wrongdoing. We can organize protests —anywhere across the globe. We can get the attention of the national conversation if we need to.”'

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Anonymous message to the "New World Order"

"This is a message going out to you, the Holders. We are Anonymous. You know who you are. The men behind the curtain, the overlord pulling at the strings of your puppets. You hide and you plan and you scheme in the dark alleys; in the vehement anticipation that your draconian plans will come to fruition. The dreams of a thousand men crystallized in one moment; one moment that approaches with every hour that passes. The time is upon us. You have shaped the Earth in your image. Shaped its people, its customs, its morals. In your eyes the control is complete, your contrivance beyond absolute. You have poisoned and corrupted this world, turning its people into willing slaves for your own gain. Mass murder, torture, perjury, embezzlement, fraud, deception, treason. These are just a few of your many crimes against humanity. You see yourselves as a higher order, that rules are a concept to which you are foreign. You are mistaken."

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Second Anonymous message to the "New World Order"

“Your propagandic channels are being discarded for real journalism and independent news sources. Your attempts to incite mass violence and rioting in the populace has failed. The ruse of your monetary system has been uncovered, and when it collapses your infinite pool of wealth will be depleted. The domino effect of enlightenment has already begun. A number of us unwilling to sit neutral in the path of your tyranny... The only way that Anonymous will be satisfied with the end of this conflict is the complete and utter triumph of the citizenry. The general populace are now realizing their inherent power. You are instead, beginning to realize your inherent weakness – your inhumanity. It is a pity that you could not join us, as your persistence in reaching your goals has been legendary. It is ironic that your persistence of classic techniques is the reason that you are coming short, as you are unwilling to adapt to a changing world. You are going to lose this war."

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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thestar.com -- The force with no name

'Score another one for Marshall McLuhan, who in 1970 predicted, “World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” -- “I think we’re going toward perpetual revolution,” says Barrett Brown. “The nation-state is an institution that developed in a different environment. That environment has changed very drastically. And it’s changed more drastically in a very short period than any change we’ve seen in human history. “So people need to stop looking at the last 20 years and saying this is what’s possible and this is what’s not possible — because it’s all possible.”'

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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NEWS JUNKIE POST -- Will Anonymous Become the Great Equalizer?

'As their ranks swell, so does the depth of their collective personality. From youthful beginnings Anonymous has matured into a force to be reckoned with. Actions are carefully considered, contingency plans established, and outcomes weighed. The speed and responsiveness of a collective community allows for the simultaneous consideration of a multitude of options, the processing of objectives, and the establishment of action plans, or operations. In each case that the Anonymous collective has arrived at a consensus and executed an operation a full statement of their goals and reasons have been published with a clarity that the governments of the world seem unable to accomplish. Free from authoritarian leadership, and seemingly immune to traditional forms of repression, Anonymous may be the best hope we have of ensuring that the Internet stays accessible for activists, organizers, and revolutionaries. We can all be a part of that support system.'

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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zero hedge -- Guest Post: Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination and the Coming American Rebellion

'XV: Protected By Anonymous: Propaganda doesn’t work as well when you have the Internet, a cyberspace Underground Railroad, a form of mass communication that allows citizens to interact without corporate gatekeepers effectively censoring critical thought. All of these attacks show the desperation of the ruling class, in attempting to maintain an obsolete propaganda system. Just look at how common and accepted unlawful practices have become in pursuit of their goals. It is a strategic imperative that we protect Internet freedom from the forces of media concentration and censorship. Organizations such as WikiLeaks and Anonymous are playing a critical role in exposing information and protecting those who are critical of the most powerful and corrupt elements within society.'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church Website During Live Confrontation

'A source from Anonymous confronts Shirley Phelps-Roper from the Westboro Baptist Church, calling the supposed letter sent to Westboro by Anonymous a hoax, and then proceeds to hack the Westboro Baptist Church website during the interview.' -- Comment: Apoc2K: 'So, god is her personal army?'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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Search Engine -- Podcast #79: The Antisocial Network with Julian Dibbell

'Are they trolls, griefers, hackers, vigilantes, activists - or all of the above? A closer look at Anonymous with journalist Julian Dibbell.' -- Anon: "We are not your personal army." == Universal morality

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Private defense agency

'A private defense agency (PDA) is a conceptualized agency that provides personal protection and military defense services voluntarily through the free market. A PDA is not a private contractor of the state and is not subsidised in any way through taxation or immunities, nor does it rely on conscription and other involuntary methods. Instead, such agencies would be financed primarily through insurance companies, which are penalized for losses and damages, and have an incentive through competition to lower costs and maximize service. This method of social order is advocated by anarcho-capitalism.'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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Times Live -- Anonymous 101 for journalists

'Anonymous works via message boards in which nobody posts under a name. That means that in general whether something happens or not is dependent on whether the basic call being issued is appealing or not. In general if anonymous is after you it is because you are just annoying enough to make going after you a priority for the world hacking community. This is why it is impossible to stop or discredit. Quoting a spokesman for anonymous has exactly as much value as asking a random person on the street. Anonymous is anonymous – that means that no one directs it and nobody speaks for it. What ideals it has are those held by the mass of humanity – these truths that we all hold to be self evident. This is also why one can’t really call anonymous “hated.” Without names there is no identity – so tactics aimed at identities fall flat. Anonymous is immune to ad-hominem attacks. The only real alternative is to try and modify your behaviour or come up with a good argument against anonymous action.'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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Tweetage Wasteland -- I Can’t Turn Off The News

'It’s getting more difficult to know where a global news story stops and my actual life begins.'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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Electronic Frontier Foundation -- Surveillance Self-Defense International

'Introduction: The Internet remains one of the most powerful means ever created to give voice to repressed people around the world. Unfortunately, new technologies have also given authoritarian regimes new means to identify and retaliate against those who speak out despite censorship and surveillance. Below are six basic ideas for those attempting to speak without falling victim to authoritarian surveillance and censorship, and four ideas for the rest of us who want to help support them.'

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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HerdictWeb

'Herdict Web is the first collaborative, real-time map of Internet accessibility. Herdict Web seeks to present a real-time picture of Web site accessibility and inaccessibility. By crowdsourcing data from individuals around the world, Herdict Web allows you to see what is inaccessible, where it's inaccessible, and for how long. You can see which countries have the most reports, and which Web sites are most often reported. You can track inaccessibility by country, by keyword, across regions, and over time. Your contributions are what drive the herd.'

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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RWW -- Your Facebook Activity is Now an Ad

'Facebook is launching a new ad format called "Sponsored Stories," which allows participating advertisers to promote your Facebook activity by turning it into homepage ads seen only by your friends. This activity can include liking a Facebook page, checking in via Facebook Places or sharing content to the News Feed from a Facebook application. With Facebook's Sponsored Stories, your activity is now up for grabs, available to the advertiser associated with the brand, business or app you interacted with. Just checked in to a restaurant? That's an ad. Just liked a brand? That's an ad. Just shared a news story from the Web? That's an ad. -- ...it's unclear what level of control advertisers have here. It's important though, because real personalized recommendations work both ways - they deliver the good news and the bad. Without both sides represented, this is just a new way to spam your friends.'

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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Wikipedia -- Reputation system

'The role of reputation systems is to facilitate trust by making reputation more visible. Reputation systems may also be coupled with an incentive system to reward good behavior and punish bad behavior. For instance, users with high reputation may be granted special privileges, whereas users with low or unestablished reputation may have limited privileges. -- Rheingold inclines that [online reputation systems] arose as a result of the need for Internet users to gain trust in the individuals they transact with online. The innate trait he makes note of in humans is that functions of society such as gossip 'keeps us up to date on who to trust, who other people trust, who is important, and who decides who is important'. Internet sites such as eBay and Amazon he argues seek to service this consumer trait and are 'built around the contributions of millions of customers, enhanced by reputation systems that police the quality of the content and transactions exchanged through the site'.'

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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Electronic Frontier Foundation -- HTTPS Everywhere

'Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site. The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS.'

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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I PAID A BRIBE -- Reporting a bribe just got easier...

'IpaidABribe.com is Janaagraha’s unique initiative to tackle corruption by harnessing the collective energy of citizens. You can report on the nature, number, pattern, types, location, frequency and values of actual corrupt acts on this website. Your reports will, perhaps for the first time, provide a snapshot of bribes occurring across your city. We will use them to argue for improving governance systems and procedures, tightening law enforcement and regulation and thereby reduce the scope for corruption in obtaining services from the government. We invite you to register any recent or old bribes you have paid. Please tell us if you resisted a demand for a bribe, or did not have to pay a bribe, because of a new procedure or an honest official who helped you. We do not ask for your name or phone details, so feel free to report on the formats provided.'

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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msnbc.com -- Want to be popular on the Internet? Be a jerk!

'According to a study by UK research group Statistical Cybermetrics, cyberspace citizens are overwhelmingly attracted to the negative. (Gasp!) "Long conversation threads are overwhelmingly more emotionally negative than short ones, with happiness scores decreasing logarithmically with the number of messages," writes New Scientist. "What's more, long conversations almost always start with negative comments." "If you want a long chat, don't start by saying 'I love this!', at least not online," says Mike Thelwall, head of the research group. Nothing brings people together like low happiness scores, the study found. An avalanche of posts containing negative keywords, emoticons and misspellings will generate a social group from nowhere... "There is evidence that group cohesiveness may be related to negative feelings about others." "Members of an online community might unite around a perceived attack on them or some aspect of their identity."'

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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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Ribbonfarm.com -- Digital Security, the Red Queen, and Sexual Computing

'Matt Ridley’s The Red Queen, a book about sexual selection in biology, explains the very compelling theory that sexual reproduction evolved primarily as a defense against parasitism. It turns out that this is the most general sort of defense known. Why? The reason the bad guys are winning the cyberwars is that they have one major advantage: mass production of computing infrastructure. Diversity breeds robustness. Every bit of information that can be used to exploit a system has less leverage. The problem with diversity though, is that the amount of diversity required to stay ahead of the parasites is far higher than the amount of diversity required to actually accomplish whatever the systems are designed to do. In biology and corporate ecosystems, sexual reproduction provides a true offensive weapon to the good guys. What we want is an architectural paradigm that can churn the gene pool of computing design at a controllable rate, independently of advances in functionality.'

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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Tweetage Wasteland -- The Five Most Endangered Words on the Internet

'Let me think about that. Where does this lead? Do we rebound from this trend and begin to compartmentalize that incoming information which requires deeper thought or does everything get put on the high speed and never ending instant-opinion assembly line? I’ll answer that question with the three most endangered words in the blogosphere. I don’t know.'

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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Nieman Journalism Lab -- Ushahidi in 3G: How media outlets could extend the mapping platform beyond crisis communications

'“Unbounded crowdsourcing” is what we are familiar with: the idea of opening up a platform to the world, and letting the world contribute. “Bounded crowdsourcing” is when you have a specific network of individuals who are doing the reporting. So it’s a known, trusted network of individuals. So what they did is they had their own journalists on the ground, who were texting and tweeting live to the map, but they also opened it up to other residents — people in Gaza — to also submit information. ...you don’t necessarily know whether the crowd is trustworthy, or individuals in the crowd are trustworthy ...if some of these individuals start also reporting the same event that the journalists are reporting, then you know they might actually be more trustworthy. And so it creates this kind of digital trace, or like a shadow of history that allows you to start identifying which individuals in the crowd may actually be trustworthy. And you can sort of assign them a higher credibility score.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- Concern for Those Who Screen the Web for Barbarity

'The surge in Internet screening services has brought a growing awareness that the jobs can have mental health consequences for the reviewers, some of whom are drawn to the low-paying work by the simple prospect of making money while looking at pornography. “You have 20-year-old kids who get hired to do content review, and who get excited because they think they are going to see adult porn,” said Hemanshu Nigam, the former chief security officer at MySpace. “They have no idea that some of the despicable and illegal images they will see can haunt them for the rest of their lives.” Ms. Laperal also reached some unsettling conclusions in her interviews with content moderators. She said they were likely to become depressed or angry, have trouble forming relationships and suffer from decreased sexual appetites. Small percentages said they had reacted to unpleasant images by vomiting or crying.' -- Outsource it to /b/

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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Global Guerrillas -- COERCIVE GAMES

'...[pierce] the organizational and societal veil of anonymity for these individuals by turning them into systempunkts (vulnerable nodes within the targeted organization's network that would cause the most damage if disrupted). Early work on this type of protest can be seen in the work of 4Chan's Anonymous and China's human flesh search engine. Both of these open source movements have shown to be surprisingly powerful at targeting single individuals (and poor at disrupting organizations). By using thousands of contributers, they are able to gather intelligence information on an individual: #Stalking and harassment #Identity theft #Denial of communication ...to really zoom the effort and turn it into a coercive tool, one modification should be made. It should operate as an online game: #Experience points #Quests #Competition -- Think in terms of this game running as a darknet (not visible to anyone but invited players and only those that have deeply enmeshed themselves in the game).'

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june 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Germans Desperate Over EU, Greece

'In the 20th century, when a promotion was launched, the mainstream media reported on it like an echo chamber, each major newspaper and television station reporting the same thing in different ways, until eventually it sunk in. People began to believe it. But the power elite doesn't have that sort of power in the 21st century, thanks to the widespread debunking by the Internet. It's not just the sour economy, for there have been sour economies before. It's the information that is being spread by electronic communications. It's a kind of meme itself – or anti-meme. People are waking up, as if from a bad dream. Many elite promotions are unraveling or at least becoming less convincing. The EU has been built on lies, as those behind it never admitted the final destination was a United States of Europe. Now, thanks to the Internet and the economic crisis, such lies are unraveling and patience is running out. That's what the German leaders are seeing. That's the reason for the desperation.'

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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WWW 2010 -- What is Twitter, a Social Network or a News Media?

It's an immune system: '...any retweeted tweet is to reach an average of 1,000 users no matter what the number of followers is of the original tweet. Once retweeted, a tweet gets retweeted almost instantly on next hops, signifying fast diffusion of information after the 1st retweet.'

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Broader Perspective -- Mobile app concept: Disaster Telediagnosis

'Disaster Telediagnosis is a mobile app idea that takes advantage of the bandwidth and mobility of 4G. It is a massively scalable peer-to-peer clearinghouse application providing live streaming video communication between people injured in a crisis situation and remote physicians for diagnosis and ongoing support until hand-off to local health authorities.'

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RWW -- Boom! Tweets & Maps Swarm to Pinpoint a Mysterious Explosion

'What was the #pdxboom, people wanted to know? Some people said it sounded like thunder. Lots of people said it sounded like an empty trash Dumpster crashing on the ground. They mentioned their locations in their Tweets and Beels quickly grew frustrated that all this data was just streaming into the ether, lost from analysis. So he threw up a Google Map with instructions to put a pin in your location and describe how the boom sounded to you.'

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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TechCrunch -- Unvarnished: A Clean, Well-Lighted Place For Defamation

*sigh* Just another Aspergers kid trying to rid the world of his own social anxiety: 'Kazanjy says all those negative opinions/rumors are already out there, lurking in blog posts and comments. His site, Kazanjy says, merely condenses, organizes, and helps you refute those claims. I disagree, I think it encourages defamation by ensuring a forum.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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Umair Haque -- Unvarnished and the Economics of Antisocial Media

'Unvarnished is a social Ponzi scheme - borrowing reputation from another, to amp up one's own (until one's own gets trashed). Those economics are so 20th century, it hurts. Unvarnished is the endgame of the "social web". I'm going to mark it as the day the "social web" became antisocial. Increasingly, today's "social web" doesn't empower people. It empowers hate, exclusion, and polarization, to put it bluntly. That's as lame and brain-dead as what went on on Wall St a few years back: hurting others to extract value from them. Except, of course, Wall St actually made billions. Social media's as bankrupt financially as it is ethically and economically: a trifecta of lameness.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Psychologist -- Parasites, minds and cultures

'The evolution of anti-parasite defence systems: Mounting an immune response consumes considerable metabolic resources, which may result in temporary fatigue even exhaustion while the parasitic infection is being fought. It has thus been suggested that animals evolved an additional system of defence: perceptual cues (appearance, odour, etc.) ...the detection of such cues may trigger aversive emotional and cognitive responses that motivate behavioural avoidance. This behavioural mechanism offers a first line of defence against disease-causing parasites and hence has been called the ‘behavioural immune system’. ...there is evidence suggesting that the emotion of disgust evolved to serve as an affective signal of parasite infection. ...collectivistic value systems are especially likely to emerge and persist in regions characterised by a high prevalence of parasites, whereas individualistic value systems are most likely to take hold in regions with a relatively low level of parasites.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet

'McConnell: "We need to develop an early-warning system to monitor cyberspace, identify intrusions and locate the source of attacks with a trail of evidence that can support diplomatic, military and legal options — and we must be able to do this in milliseconds. More specifically, we need to re-engineer the Internet to make attribution, geo-location, intelligence analysis and impact assessment — who did it, from where, why and what was the result — more manageable. The technologies are already available from public and private sources and can be further developed if we have the will to build them into our systems and to work with our allies and trading partners so they will do the same." -- Make no mistake, the military industrial complex now has its eye on the internet. Generals want to train crack squads of hackers and have wet dreams of cyberwarfare. Never shy of extending its power, the military industrial complex wants to turn the internet into yet another venue for an arms race.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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ASBOrometer - Measure UK anti-social behaviour on iPhone and Android

They all want locking up! ... In gated communities sold by Phil and Kirstie.

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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True/Slant -- Barrett Brown: Anarchy in the Everyday; The Late, Great Nation State

'A phenomenon of great importance will not necessarily receive the attention it merits, and thus we may conclude that there is perhaps something going on this very instant to which we ought to be paying attention if we care to know what the future holds for us, in which case we should take a moment to examine what is novel today for signs that it may prove common tomorrow. -- Having taken a long interest in the subculture from which Anonymous is derived and the new communicative structures that make it possible, I am now certain that this phenomenon is among the most important and under-reported social developments to have occurred in decades, and that the development in question promises to threaten the institution of the nation-state and perhaps even someday replace it as the world’s most fundamental and relevant method of human organization.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Dimmunix: A crowdsourced immune system for computers

'Termed "failure immunity", this approach begins working the first time a crash occurs. Dimmunix will save a signature of the error, observe how the computer reacts and record a trace (for example, while browsing a webpage, the user clicked on File, then Open, and at that same time the webpage invoked the Flash plugin, and the entire browser froze). The next time the bug appears, Dimmunix will be able to recognise the error, intervene and manipulate the application so it doesn't hit the same deadlock again. It's similar to the human immune system, which can more effectively deal with infections if it recognises them from a previous illness.'

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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High Alert: How the Internet and the Global Power Elite are Causing a Financial Hurricane by Anthony Wile (PDF)

'Free-market thinkers are a relatively new phenomenon, one that Western public schooling, and the “group think” it fosters had nearly snuffed out late in the 20th century. Education is obviously part of what constitutes the power elite’s “information lever”— and is still an effective way of dumbing down children who go into school eager to learn but are soon discouraged by the factory-like atmosphere, the lack of creativity and a rising tide of peer pressure. Into this environment has come the Internet, and with it the first stirrings of change. On the ‘Net, most anything can be located and children are far more apt to find it — truthful substantiations of history, especially — than most adults. The true impact of the ‘Net has yet to be felt, but it is certainly possible that many of the individuals going forward — characterized herein as two percenters —will be free-market thinkers over time. The “greatest generation” is yet to come.'

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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Edge -- 2010: How Has The Internet Changed The Way You Think? -- Yochai Benkler

'TAKING ON THE HABITS OF THE SCIENTIST, THE INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER, AND THE MEDIA CRITIC -- [T]here is plenty of nonsense [on the internet]. We all know this. And so alongside the open mindedness we also have come to develop a healthy dose of skepticism — both about those who are institutionally anointed experts, and about those who are institutional outsiders. Belief formation and revision is an open and skeptical conversation: searching for interlocutors, forming provisional beliefs, giving them weight, continuously updating. We cannot seek authority; only partial degrees of provisional confidence. It requires that we take on the habits of the scientist, the investigative reporter, and the media critic as an integral part of the normal flow of life, learning, and understanding.'

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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Edge -- 2010: How Has The Internet Changed The Way You Think? -- Esther Dyson

'INFORMATION METABOLISM -- I think much of what we get on the Internet is empty calories. It's sugar — short videos, pokes from friends, blog posts, Twitter posts (even blogs seem longwinded now), pop-ups and visualizations…Sugar is so much easier to digest, so enticing…and ultimately, it leaves us hungrier than before. Worse than that, over a long period, many of us are genetically disposed to lose our capability to digest sugar if we consume too much of it. It makes us sick long-term, as well as giving us indigestion and hypoglycemic fits. Could that be true of information sugar as well? Will we become allergic to it even as we crave it? And what will serve as information insulin?'

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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RWW -- Notify Your Neighbors: EveryBlock Launches User-Contributed Announcements

'Today, EveryBlock launched a nifty new feature that allows its users to post stories to the site and notify their neighbors about interesting events in their neighborhoods. The new feature allows users to post anything from news alerts to questions and classified ads on the site. EveryBlock wants to give its users the ability to send out announcements for "every imaginable purpose" and describes this new feature as a "21st century community message board."' -- In a sane world – great. In *this* world – snitch, snitch, snitch.

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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Alex Payne -- Criticism, Cheerleading, and Negativity

'There is the perception, particularly in American culture, that criticism and negativity go hand-in-hand. We understand well the idea of being in favor or something, or against something, but we don’t particularly understand how criticism fits into this dichotomy. As someone with a penchant for criticism, I’ve often found myself misjudged as “being negative” when mere complaint is furthest from my intention. I’m here to explain myself and people like me.' -- '#Criticism Is Not Negativity: The reason a person is critical of a thing is because he is passionate about that thing. Passion breeds critical thinking. #Everyone Wants A Cheerleader: Critics are the most passionate people you can find, but we’re conditioned to assume that critics are negative curmudgeons with nothing more than slings and arrows to contribute. So rather than seeking out critics, employers seek out cheerleaders.'

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december 2009 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Climategate: It's all Unravelling Now?

'What a pity. Global warming, once one of the power elite's most successful promotions, is on the way out. It has lost credibility with the average joe, and when a promotion fails at that significant level it is fairly kaput. ...we are not suggesting that the Internet will have an effect of this sort on every single promotion with this magnitude. (Or even that this meme won't stagger along.) Wars, epidemics, meteor showers, alien invasions - the power elite has dozens of themes to choose from and dozens of ways to frighten people, and the means to do it. But the Gutenberg press, hundreds of years ago, changed the way that people related to the power elite of that time period. The modern variant of the Gutenberg press - the Internet - continues to bite, and bite ever more deeply. And we will continue to follow this conversation - the greatest conversation on earth - the collision of dominant social themes with the Internet.' -- INTERNET SAYS "NO."

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december 2009 by adamcrowe

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Global Guerrillas -- JOURNAL: Parasitic Competition and Social Conflict

'Parasitic competition within a specific host generally increases the fitness of the parasites involved in the competition. Here's three examples of parasitic competition. All three methods use an indirect approach that leverages control of environmental variables to limit competitors: #Exploitation: The ability of the parasite to control host behavior. For example, the control of host hormones (sex, metabolism, etc.) to accelerate their own fitness at the expense of competition.

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november 2009 by adamcrowe

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Scientific American -- Birth Control Pills Affect Women's Taste in Men

'Although no one knows why the pill affects attraction, some scientists believe that pregnancy—or in this case, the hormonal changes that mimic pregnancy—draws women toward nurturing relatives. -- Women who start or stop taking the pill, then, may be in for some relationship problems. A study published last year in Psychological Science found that women paired with MHC-similar men are less sexually satisfied and more likely to cheat on their partners than women paired with MHC-dissimilar men. So a woman on the pill, for example, might be more likely to start dating a MHC-similar man, but he could ultimately leave her less sexually satisfied. Then if she goes off the pill during the relationship, the accompanying hormonal changes will draw her even more strongly toward more MHC-dissimilar men. These immune genes may have a “powerful effect in terms of how well relationships are cemented,” says University of Liverpool psychologist Craig Roberts.' -- Cir-cum-invention

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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Psychology Today -- Understanding the Psychology of Twitter

'I twitter, therefore I am. I matter. -- Dr David Lewis, a cognitive neuropsychologist: "Using Twitter suggests a level of insecurity whereby, unless people recognize you, you cease to exist. It may stave off insecurity in the short term, but it won't cure it." -- Twitter's software designers were clever enough to program in tenacious intermittent reward systems, so you end up like a loser in Vegas, behaviorally trapped at the slot machines of life. -- Perhaps a more enlightened way to look at it is that you're really just enjoying a cyber-zen moment of mindfulness to be present and tweet thyself. We're all interconnected now - each of us acting like a single neuron in humanity's brain, firing bits of electricity at one another, slowly coadunating and collectively struggling toward a great awakening. That awakening could turn out to be the next stage in our evolution, and a single tweet the butterfly's wings that eventually leads to a big bang of global meta-consciousness.' -- OM...

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october 2009 by adamcrowe

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CTheory.net -- Media Dopplers

'When we deal with this condition of outformation, we concern ourselves with rates, flow, vector, flux, and its messaging types [unicast, multicast, broadcast, or anycast]. We deal with paths, closeness, link, connectivity, signaling, entropy, self-similarity, throughput, and latency. It doesn't matter what the content is. Rather, the critical standpoint deals with its entropy, its signaling, its rate, flux density and messaging type. -- The requirement for citizen-actors on reality television reflects not nearly the need for such vocations of entertainment, rather, it is the construct of computer networks and software algorithm attempting and stuggling to learn to mimic the bizarre banality of a society dwelling in the afterburn of failed capitalism. It is not staged idiocy, it is pre-school for the machine screens comprehensively looping the simulation of the western debt class.'

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september 2009 by adamcrowe

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TechCrunch -- FriendFeed, Syphilis And The Perfection Of Online Mobs

'The Internet has proven to be a frighteningly efficient tool to create virtual mobs. But we note two trends that suggest a bleak future: the increase in non-anonymous mob participation and the evolution of online services towards ever more efficient and real time communication platforms that facilitate mob creation and growth like never before. Things are changing online way too fast for society and culture to adapt. Something will eventually break. ...on FriendFeed all the comments are aggregated on one page, and everyone participating sees it all. It’s much more likely to break out into a mob. ...it might be a good idea to slow the mob down a little until actual facts can be introduced into the conversation.' -- This slowing down is a valid point regarding realtime sentiment racing ahead of facts and wider context. #iranelection is a perfect case study. Isn't all this just a 'tragedy of the commons (attentional bandwidth)' problem?

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- The Next Hacking Frontier: Your Brain?

'... the next generation of implantable devices to control prosthetic limbs will likely include wireless controls that allow physicians to remotely adjust settings on the machine. If neural engineers don’t build in security features such as encryption and access control, an attacker could hijack the device and take over the robotic limb. -- ...patients might even want to hack into their own neural device. Unlike devices to control prosthetic limbs, which still use wires, many deep brain stimulators already rely on wireless signals. Hacking into these devices could enable patients to “self-prescribe” elevated moods or pain relief by increasing the activity of the brain’s reward centers.' -- Neurosecurity, barrier mazes, ghost hacks, oh my!

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july 2009 by adamcrowe

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Principia Cybernetica Web -- Memes on the Net

'On the net, an idea can appear virtually simultaneously in different parts of the world, and spread independently of the distance or proximity between senders and receivers. The end result is likely to be the emergence of a globally shared ideology, or "world culture", transcending the old geographical, political and religious boundaries. (Note that such homogeneization of memes only results for memes that are otherwise equivalent, such as conventions, standards or codes. Beliefs differing on the other dimensions of meme selection will be much less influenced by conformist selection.) ...the emerging global network... learns and develops in a non-random way. The network functions like a nervous system for the social superorganism, transmitting signals between its different "organs", memorizing its experiences, making them available for retrieval when needed, and generally steering and coordinating its different functions. Thus, it might be viewed as a global brain.'

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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Physorg -- Why Things Become Unpopular

'...the quicker a cultural item rockets to popularity, the quicker it dies. This pattern occurs because people believe that items that are adopted quickly will become fads, leading them to avoid these items, thus causing these items to die out. ...that beliefs about the evolution of popularity may be self-fulfilling. There is no mathematical necessity that forces cultural items (such as names) that sharply increase in popularity to die out faster, but people’s beliefs have the ability to create this reality, since people don’t want to be seen as following the herd. This effect is an example of how psychological processes shape culture, in addition to the more widely known reciprocal dynamic, that culture can shape thought processes. ...people who want to ensure the persistence and success of particular items should seek to popularize the items at a slow but steady pace.'

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june 2009 by adamcrowe

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Jan Chipchase -- The End of Form / The Beginning of Form

'... is there sufficient pull for mainstream consumer's to turn to some form of nearly-always-worn data glasses? Imagine knowing the tax-bracket of everyone around you - drawing on publicly available tax records and the means to identify an individual in near to real time. Imagine this from the point of view of a would-be lover, a salesman, a charity worker. Extrapolate with mash-ups with Facebook profile, knowledge about your last vacation; previous convictions. Now imagine the advantages you get from access or subscriptions to 'premium channels' - data only available to the select few: from the realtime cop feed; to the wolfpack view of the city; to real-time, real-space casual encounters. A generation hooked on real-time data so compelling that heading out on a friday night just ain't the same without the buzz of a good feed. It'll never happen? How many times a day do you check your email? Facebook? Your twitter stream? People addicted to data? Of course not - it'll never happen.'

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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The 10 Hypotheses of equiveillance

'#1. (techlaw) Sousveillance will become a major force and industry, despite initial opposition. Like surveillance, sousveillance technology will outstrip many laws, and will be another example of technology moving forward more quickly than the legal framework that grows around it. -- #2. (privacy). Over the past 30 years, sousveillance practice has raised many new privacy, legal, and ethical issues, and these issues will become central as the sousveillance industry grows. #9. (differently abled). The space of those considered to be disabled will gradually expand, over time, as the technological threshold falls and the sousveillance industry grows.'

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april 2009 by adamcrowe

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Steve Lambert -- SelfControl

"Is email a distraction? SelfControl is an OS X application which blocks access to incoming and/or outgoing mail servers and websites for a predetermined period of time. For example, you could block access to your email, facebook, and twitter for 90 minutes, but still have access to the rest of the web. Once started, it can not be undone by the application or by restarting the computer – you must wait for the timer to run out." -- From the maker of Freedom

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march 2009 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Digital Overload Is Frying Our Brains

Maggie Jackson: "We are programmed to be interrupted. We get an adrenalin jolt when orienting to new stimuli. Our body actually rewards us for paying attention to the new. But when we live in a reactive way, we minimize our capacity to pursue goals. This degree of interruption is correlated with stress and frustration and lowered creativity. When you're scattered and diffuse, you're less creative. When your times of reflection are always punctured, it's hard to go deeply into problem-solving, into relating, into thinking. ...stillness and reflection are not especially valued in the workplace. The image of success is the frenetic multitasker who doesn't have time and is constantly interrupted. If we forget how to use our powers of deep focus, we'll depend more on black-and-white thinking, on surface ideas, on surface relationships. That breeds a tremendous potential for tyranny and misunderstanding. The possibility of an attention-deficient future society is very sobering." -- *gulps*

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february 2009 by adamcrowe

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BPS RESEARCH DIGEST -- How parasites spread religion

"Although religion apparently is for establishing a social marker of group alliance and allegiance, at the most fundamental level, it may be for the avoidance and management of infectious disease."

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november 2008 by adamcrowe

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Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka -- the trolls, they are us

"I just hit <delete> on my entire flame. I tell you this, because I think more people do that than you'd think. I want you to know that when you next do it, and feel that weird emptyness from having denied yourself the troll-id pleasure of going nuclear on somebody's arse-delivered opinions, the ghosts of a billion other flames are cheering you and welcoming your flame to the blissfully quiet troll afterlife. Some things are better left unsaid... your ascetism has been noted." -- ;^)

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september 2008 by adamcrowe

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YouTube Comment Snob

"YouTube Comment Snob is a Firefox extension that filters out undesirable comments from YouTube comment threads. You can choose to have any of the following rules mark a comment for removal: #Spelling mistakes #All capital letters #No capital letters #Doesn't start with a capital letter #Excessive punctuation (!!!! ????) #Excessive capitalization #Profanity" -- bRILLAINT!!!!!?!!!!!

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Wired -- Internal Bacterial Imbalance Leads to Asthma

"Rising asthma rates may be partly explained by bacterial imbalances in our guts. Organisms we've had inside us for thousands, even millions of years are vanishing. H. pylori is the best example. And when you have an organism with us for a very long time that disappears, there will be consequences."

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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NYTimes.com -- Malwebolence: The World of Web Trolling

The Cultural Logic of Late Trollism: "You look for someone who is full of it, a real blowhard. Then you exploit their insecurities to get an insane amount of drama, laughs and lulz. Rules would be simple: #1. Do whatever it takes to get lulz. #2. Make sure the lulz is widely distributed. This will allow for more lulz to be made. #3. The game is never over until all the lulz have been had."

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august 2008 by adamcrowe

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Matt Jones and Tom Coates -- Polite, Pertinent, and... Pretty: Designing for the New-wave of Personal Informatics

Adam Greenfield: "Everyware must be deniable." -- Linky, laggy, leaky.

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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Danger Room -- U.S. Satellites Snooping on Iraqi Army

"puts the United States in the unusual position of employing some of its most sophisticated espionage technology to track an allied army that American forces helped create, continue to advise, and often fight alongside." -- Who watches the watchmen?

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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Security Matters -- I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch

"Who has the authority to limit functionality of my devices and how do they get that authority? What prevents them from abusing that power? Do I get the ability to override their limitations? In what circumstances, and how? Can they override my override?"

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july 2008 by adamcrowe

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