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slavin: “This weekend at the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas, Bransfield will debut the next logical step: The “WarKitteh” collar, a device he built for less than $100 that turns any outdoor cat into a Wifi-sniffing hacker accomplice. Despite the title of his DefCon talk—”How To Weaponize Your Pets”–Bransfield admits WarKitteh doesn’t represent a…
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You’ll Never Walk Alone
reblogged for @_stunned, whose artistic practice includes walking. thenewinquiry: If walking is the most philosophical way of getting around, solitary strolls in nature won’t cut it. You have to choose who to march alongside. Ways of getting around come with their own outlooks on the world. Cars, Americans are told again and again, mean freedom…
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kohenari: The photos and information coming out of Ferguson, MO this evening are shocking. SWAT teams clearing out fast food restaurants, journalists arrested, full-scale police-as-military response to non-violent protest. And yet perhaps the most amazing thing is that there seem not to be any elected officials willing to tell this police force to stand down.
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The drug war has long functioned as a full-employment act for arms dealers looking to sell every town and village in the country on the need for military-grade hardware, and 9/11 made things vastly worse, with local police departments throughout America grabbing for cash to better defend against any and all terrorist threats. America Is…