Everything Is Broken
Once upon a time, a friend of mine accidentally took over thousands of computers. He had found a vulnerability in a piece of software and started playing with it. In the…
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A journalist of Hackers, Bodies, Technologies and Internets. ‘’Useless in terms of… tactical details’’ -Stratfor
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In response to Descent
Hi, there have been so many great responses to this article, and I’ve deeply appreciated them. I haven’t been recommending them, which would make them appear down here, because if I do they will go onto the front page of my >8k follows without much context. I feel like the highly personal experiences people have posted make sense here, but not on thousands of people’s Medium.com homepage. I don’t want to risk endangering or snubbing anyone. Please click “all responses” to see them.
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4chan tells us very little about Ben Garrison, but it tells us a lot about the net.
This is how it goes with the “Id of the internet.” I don’t say this in any way to dismiss Ben Garrison’s terrible experience, the slander he lives with. Rather I say it to point out that many more people are likely to be in for a taste of Garrison’s experience.
In response to The Iceman List
Ahem. Beverly Hills Cop is a a Tao-worthy masterpiece about balance.
It’s totally the point of the whole movie that Foley’s life is falling apart, and the BHP department can’t get a life, because each of them live without balance at the ends of a spectrum of order and disorder. They’re all the heroes, and they’re all failing at the beginning of the movie. Foley’s carelessness will never get the…