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Defining and describing the population of ISIS supporters on Twitter

2015-03-16T21:36:43+00:00March 16th, 2015|Tags: , , , |

Defining and describing the population of ISIS supporters on Twitter

Based on a sample of almost 20,000 Twitter accounts, J.M. Berger and Jonathon Morgan conducted a study considering the demographics and social media activity of ISIS supporters around the world. The paper offers a preliminary examination of the effects of suspending social media accounts and offers policy recommendations to respond to Islamic State extremism online.

  • Much of ISIS’s social media success can be attributed to a relatively small group of hyperactive users, numbering between 500 and 2,000 accounts, which tweet in concentrated bursts of high volume.

Antiwork – a radical shift in how we view “jobs” by Brian Dean

2015-03-15T23:47:43+00:00March 15th, 2015|Tags: , |

Antiwork – a radical shift in how we view “jobs” by Brian Dean

Antiwork is a moral alternative to the obsession with “jobs” that has plagued our society for too long. It’s a project to radically reframe work and leisure. It’s also a cognitive antidote to the pernicious culture of “hard work”, which has taken over our minds as well as our precious …

CSS SANS

2015-03-14T23:07:16+00:00March 14th, 2015|Tags: , , |

CSS SANS

CSS SANS は、ウェブ上でデザイン・文字組をするためのプログラミング言語 CSS でつくられたフォントです。

The core problem with the NSA

2015-03-10T23:46:16+00:00March 10th, 2015|Tags: , , , |

“By quietly exploiting these flaws rather than notifying Apple, the U.S. government leaves Apple’s customers vulnerable to other sophisticated governments.” – Christopher Soghoian

This is the kind of schizophrenic policy that happens when you have an agency like the NSA operating with an offensive mindset instead of a defensive one. Now, imagine how strong the internet would be if the NSA was out there contributing to our digital defense by helping technology companies strengthen their security operations?

iSpy: The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple’s Secrets

2015-03-10T22:33:32+00:00March 10th, 2015|Tags: , , , , |

iSpy: The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple’s Secrets

Researchers working with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple’s iPhones and iPads.
At the 2011 Jamboree conference, there were two separate presentations on hacking the GID key on Apple’s processors. One was focused on non-invasively obtaining it by studying the electromagnetic emissions of — and the amount of power used by — the iPhone’s processor while encryption is being performed. Careful analysis of that information could be used to extract the encryption key. Such a tactic is known as a “side channel” attack. The second focused on a “method to physically extract the GID key.

”Whatever method the CIA and its partners use, by extracting the GID — which is implanted on the processors of all Apple mobile devices »

I’m a 12-year-old girl. Why don’t the characters in my apps look like me?

2015-03-10T19:35:31+00:00March 10th, 2015|Tags: , , , |

I’m a 12-year-old girl. Why don’t the characters in my apps look like me?

Of the apps that did have gender-identifiable characters, 98 percent offered boy characters. What shocked me was that only 46 percent offered girl characters. Even worse, of these 50 apps, 90 percent offered boy characters for free, while only 15 percent offered girl characters for free. Considering that the players of Temple Run, which has been downloaded more than one billion times, are 60 percent female, this system seems ridiculous.

2015-03-10T03:51:05+00:00March 10th, 2015|Tags: , , , , |

Aid workers need to be tough, resilient folks with a high capacity for hardship. But should they remain unaffected after years of sitting across from people like the young Congolese man who told me through choked tears in 2010 how rebels forced him at gunpoint to watch them gang rape and then kill his mother? If such a person exists, is that really who we want doing humanitarian work?

Rosalie Hughes

There are so many tangible issues to be worried about in these situations that the abstract issues get lost. It can even be hard to measure the impact of the work people are doing when they’re working in aid, let alone measuring how it’s effecting them or their team.

The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee leaves to start her own satirical news show

2015-03-05T22:57:42+00:00March 5th, 2015|Tags: , , , , |

The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee leaves to start her own satirical news show

Last month Jon Stewart announced he would be leaving The Daily Show, ending a run that’s lasted more than 15 years and changed the way we consume news. Today it’s correspondent Samantha Bee’s time…

It looks like they are going to dismantle everything and start fresh the same way they did with Stewart after Kilborn left the show. It bums part of me out, but kudos to Comedy Central for not trying to capture lighting in a bottle twice.

2018-03-27T08:13:13+00:00March 5th, 2015|Tags: , , |

Valve’s early VR prototypes are wonderful.

2015-03-05T17:17:34+00:00March 5th, 2015|Tags: , , , , |

The Matrix is like the Bible of the post-information age.

I compared it like, when the hundred guys come at Neo, those are opinions, that’s perception, that’s tradition. Attacking people from every which angle possible. If you have a focus wide and master senseis like Laurence Fishburne and you have a squad behind you, you literally can put the world in slow motion.

Kanye

This begins in a pretty typical place, but goes somewhere fun and new. Just like Kanye. Keep being you Kanye.

Why Clinton’s Private Email Server Was Such a Security Fail | WIRED

2015-03-05T03:21:17+00:00March 5th, 2015|Tags: , , |

Why Clinton’s Private Email Server Was Such a Security Fail | WIRED

There’s no evidence, of course, that Clintonemail.com was ever actually compromised. University of Pennsylvania computer science professor Matt Blaze says judging its security versus the State Department’s own email servers would require more information. But he notes that the control of the server’s domain is a real issue. “It’s certainly true that the domain State.gov is probably harder to hijack than clintonemail.com,” says Blaze.

This is the kind of thing that sounds real good when you first think of it, but in the end, you realize that being a SysAdmin is not a “hobby” most anyone is capable of handling.

2018-03-27T08:15:24+00:00March 2nd, 2015|Tags: , , , |

Setting aside camera exposure, and white balance issues, I strongly suggest anyone who’s curious to understand more about color to look into Josef Albers. He did a lot of amazing work and research that explored all of these ideas, about 100 years ago.

2015-02-27T18:27:04+00:00February 27th, 2015|Tags: , , |

I traded a stuffed iguana and a gold watch to a crazy russian named Sacha for this bandsaw back in 1991 and I have never regretted the trade.

Adam Savage

2015-02-26T23:34:17+00:00February 26th, 2015|Tags: , , |

There will not be a Singularity. I think that artificial intelligence is a bad metaphor. It is not the right way to talk about what is happening. So, I like to use the terms “cognition” and “computation”. Cognition is something that happens in brains, physical, biological brains. Computation is a thing that happens with software strings on electronic tracks that are inscribed out of silicon and put on fibre board. They are not the same thing, and saying that makes the same mistake as in earlier times, when people said that human thought was like a steam engine. The idea comes from metaphysical problems: Is mathematics thinking? If a machine can do mathematics, is it thinking? If a machine can play chess, is it thinking? There are a lot of things that machines can do, that algorithms can do, that »

Parks and Rec

2015-02-25T21:46:50+00:00February 25th, 2015|Tags: , |

maybe it’s a little silly to find oneself so invested in the fates of fictional characters. But consider the last clip of the end credits, in which we see not the characters but the cast members embrace one last time as the show wraps for the final time. It reminds us of something that is tragically underscored by the dedication to Harris Wittels that follows immediately after. Those last moments remind us of the thin line separating the stories we watch from the people who make them. Sure, Pawnee was fictional. But the care and the love that built it never were, and those are what I’ll miss most.

I’m going to miss this damn show so much. 

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