Tag: 4chan
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Art In The Age Of Viral Replication
Dubset are at it again – in another clickbaity scare article, this time from Mixmag. Those of us in the DIY remix, mashup and DJ communities have seen these systems come and go, the same hype and fear cycle. And like so many times before we are waiting for the ‘end of the world’ –…
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Here come the New Atheists
“If you want to prove people you can be good without God, then look in the mirror and start with yourself” Love Jamie Kilstein and his diatribes against the new breed of Dawkins atheists (usually in my experience Men’s Rights #gamergate 4chan dweebs, conspiracy types and general nutjobs). It needs to be said, you can’t…
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John Oliver saves the internet
Well not exactly…yet. But putting Net Neutrality in terms that everyone can understand (Stopping Cable Fuckery indeed) he’s not only boosted the anti-FCC cause, trolls and commenters have melted the FCC servers. Good work! If you want to pile in on the 4chan style scrum, or care that in the supposed Land of the Free…
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Scary adverts
Came across the above advert via 4chan then had a little Google for more. Turns out 1940’s and 1950’s adverts and earlier, while being archaic are also really odd. I mean scary. And really bad for your health…especially DuPont and their frankly psychotic Cellophane ads – were they high on the plastic smell? I could…
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OpBlackout: You Should Have Expected Us, Megaupload raided
It seems Anonymous has called for war, and this won’t be pretty. Reason? The US raided and pulled down Megaupload, on foreign soil (New Zealand – where they passed or close to passing ACTA – don’t worry, if the EU or your country passes ACTA they will come for you too). So Anonymous, who has…
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Denial of Service
No not talking about Twitter (although I have to say, a site that depends on Javascript for deleting or posting but doesn’t disable it in the posts is incredibly negligent and stupid. I mean, security 101 here?!? And make your site not need Javascript too!) but that following the news that the film industry has…