CW-1 was "Sabu," a top Anonymous/Lulz Sec Cracker who was in real life an unemployed 28-year old living in New York City public housing. His sixth-floor apartment had been visited by the FBI in June 2011, and Sabu had been arrested and "turned." For months, he had been an FBI Informant, watched 24 hours a day by an agent and using a government issued laptop that logged everything he did. (more)

4chan is an English-language ImageBoard website. Users generally post anonymously, with the most recent posts appearing above the rest. 4chan is split into various boards with their own specific content and guidelines. Registration is not required, nor is it possible (except for staff). Launched on October 1, 2003, its boards were originally used for posting pictures and discussing manga and anime, as the site was modeled on Japanese imageboards, particularly 2chan. The site quickly became popular and expanded, though much of 4chan's content still features otaku, anime, and other Japanese cultural influences. The site has been linked to Internet subcultures and activism, most notably Anonymous, the Alt-Right and Project Chanology.[3][4][5] 4chan users have been responsible for the formation or popularization of Internet memes such as Lolcats, RickRolling, "Chocolate Rain", Pedobear and many others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan

A couple weeks ago Diaspora's founders announced their new project MakR, which they're developing under Y-Combinator. The site is quite simple — basically, users can overlay captions in various fonts onto photos. Then other users can take them apart, modify and repost them. It has a lot in common with 4chan founder Christopher Poole’s company Canvas. (more)

Collaborative Writing app, (more)

Jon Udell on Teaching Students to Marshal Evidence and Evaluate Claims (more)

Thomas De Zengotita on "Common ground: finding our way back to the Enlightenment" (from Jan'03). It isn't right to assume that anyone who isn't engaged is somehow impaired, corrupted by Propaganda, distracted by sports and sitcoms. That bread-and-circuses stuff just doesn't cut it anymore. Noam Chomsky's 9/11 book got better shelf position at Barnes And Noble than Dr Phil, and basic information about the rape of the planet has been endlessly disseminated. No, let's face it. People aren't interested. They don't care. That's the truth. It's also important to notice that Political Engagement is not a function of education... (more)

model of conditional probabilities of Thomas Bayes (more)

text classification algorithm (more)

the perception of being safe? (more)

The end of history is a political and philosophical concept that supposes that a particular political, economic, or social system may develop that would constitute the end-point of humanity's sociocultural evolution and the final form of human government. A variety of authors have argued that a particular system is the "end of history" including Thomas More in Utopia, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Vladimir Solovyov, Alexandre Kojève[1] and Francis Fukuyama in the 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_history (more)

author The End Of History and the Last Man ISBN:0380720027 (more)

To insistently do/think something ridiculously stupid? (more)

I've used a number of outlining packages over the years: FrameWork, InfoDepot, etc. (more)

Government (City State, Nation-State) whose Citizen-s aren't necessarily physically colocated. (more)

a key USA document, where the government imposed its power upon the previously free states of the Articles Of Confederation. (heh) (more)

Tiago Forte on the combo of Getting Things Done + Personal Knowledge Management (more)

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The Hamilton Hustle (more)

Venkatesh Rao: Software "Adoption" is Bullshit (more)

aka Text Messaging, SMS