This post is an attempt to explain the Perennial Tradition through quantum entanglement. Your best introduction to perennialism is Aldous Huxley’s The Perennial Philosophy or Plato’s Republic. However, the following is a reasonable description: At the core of the Perennial Philosophy we find four fundamental doctrines. First: the phenomenal world of matter and of individualized … Perennial entanglement
Andrew Auernheimer, security researcher under attack.
Our first meeting is “What is Chiptune?” This will be an introduction to the concept of using video game equipment to make incredibly unique and memorable electronic music. This class will cover existing software and hardware trades and introduce you to some contemporary artist. Afterwards, try out LSDJ and Mssiah for yourself! Chiptu(n)esday – Tuesday, … Chiptu(n)esday – Tuesday, January 24, 2012
From the early days of the public internet: The reflector bomb works on the simple principle that mail sent with spoofed addresses will bounce to the victim. Its particular agent is the BCC line, which enables the mailbomber to list any number of fake addresses on diverse servers for greater inefficiency of routing, leading to … Mailbombing
Remember when the promise of open source software was that it was an alternative to the coercive corporate software that always tried to game the user to fit into its plan? Me too. But it seems those days have ended. The above is Mozilla adopting a page from Microsoft and Apple and trying to confuse … Open Source Software, Inc.
If you could increase your bottom line by squeezing more work out of your wage slaves, who are prone to screw off most of the time because they hate their slave-like jobs (which are essentially day care for drones), why wouldn’t you? Especially if it’s just a little software program. Tens of thousands of programmers, … The paranoid future of work
The internet is created of symbols; symbols often seem more real than reality itself because symbols are more digestible by our minds. This however creates a wetware security hole: people can re-program our symbols by inserting false data. This is a form of fraud which is very subtle and often missed. Trust in information on … False reality
Ever since Neuromancer, people have wanted real cyberspace — a visual display that correlates all the information out there and shows you the underlying patterns, no longer hidden by visual appearance of disunity. Here’s one stab at it: The day Fikri drives to Orlando, he gets a speeding ticket, which triggers an alert in the … Feed your paranoia: Palantir
Hackers of the old-school type used to claim that they hacked to learn, and when they did break into computers owned by others, they left behind no traces. Rather, they said, the hack was a warning, like a canary in a coal mine, that the system was insecure. Corporate America has rarely liked this approach. … AT&T hackers warned of vulnerability, now proven right
From The Guardian: These cables contain details of activists, opposition politicians, bloggers in autocratic regimes and their real identities, victims of crime and political coercion, and others driven by conscience to speak to the US government. They should never have had to fear being exposed by a self-proclaimed human rights organisation. – “Why I felt … R.I.P. Wikileaks