I’ll always love “The Needle” #seattle at Seattle Center – View on Path.
Hacker who outed Steubenville rapists could get more jail time than Steubenville rapists
Meet Deric Lostutter, a 26-year-old cybersecurity consultant who also goes by the moniker “KYAnonymous.” Lostutter obtained and published tweets and Instagram photos in which members of the Steubenville High School football team joked about an incident in which a 16-year-old girl was raped.
Lostutter’s actions inspired a group of people to take justice into their own hands. A hacker called “Bobcat” vandalized the Facebook page of the Steubenville football team. Other hackers took similar action.
It’s unclear if Lostutter participated in any hacking shenanigans, but if he’s indicted and found guilty of any, he faces 10 years in jail. By comparison, the Steubenville rapists received one- and two-year sentences each.
Stark difference.
oh for fucks sake
America the Beautiful. *retches*
An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.
—Goi Nasu (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)
(Source: the-healing-nest, via novembersoul)
The Wave Can Mean Only One Thing!
Yes!
Doctor Doom // artwork by Claudinei Ribeiro (2005)
The Borowitz Report: A Letter to Verizon Customers
1. Will I be charged extra for this service?
I’m happy to say that the answer is no. While the harvesting and surveillance of your domestic phone calls were not a part of your original Verizon service contract, the National Security Agency is providing this service entirely free of charge.
—Andy Borowitz imagines a letter that Obama issued to all Verizon customers: http://nyr.kr/1b8oCcH
Borowitz, you cheeky bugger.
(Source: newyorker.com)
Within hours of the disclosure that the federal authorities routinely collect data on phone calls Americans make, regardless of whether they have any bearing on a counterterrorism investigation, the Obama administration issued the same platitude it has offered every time President Obama has been caught overreaching in the use of his powers: Terrorists are a real menace and you should just trust us to deal with them because we have internal mechanisms (that we are not going to tell you about) to make sure we do not violate your rights.
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The New York Times editorial is NOT PLEASED about the news broken by The Guardian about the federal government’s data collection on phone calls through Verizon (essentially everything but the actual conversation). The anger in the editorial is visible and sharp, and is an excellent interrogation of the necessity and effectiveness, as well as the morality, of measures like this one. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
Hold those feet to the fire!
(via shortformblog)
(via maneatingbadger)
