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No Future in the Cath Kidston Favela1 comment

yorksranter wrote 3 months ago: I have some problems with “10:10″, the latest timebound big media campaign. The first on … more →

Tags: Socialism, Surveillance, Protest, Energy, Wind power, special relationships, sustainable, Russia, snark

covering the story: a glimpse of the press in action

yorksranter wrote 12 months ago: Ah yes, the summer and autumn of 2004. The beaux jours of rightwing horseshit, back when an actual n … more →

Tags: Viktor, wankers, press

Making sense of DRM3 comments

greyson wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a confession: I don’t really ‘get’ DRM. I mean, I can describe what i … more →

Tags: Preservation, Digitization, Copyright, technology, IP, inclusion/exclusion, DRM, xkcd, Mukurtu Wumpurrarni-kari Archive

John Reid Retroblogging

yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: I am currently reading Antonio Giustozzi’s Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop – The Neo-Tali … more →

Tags: 4GW, british army, Politics, John Reid, Afghanistan, Strategy, Books, Pakistan, cultures of war

Review: Watching the Door2 comments

yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: Says Bryan O’Sullivan in his bookmarks: Kevin Myers, the ne plus ultra of ballbag Anglo-Irish … more →

Tags: 4GW, british army, Politics, History, War, Class, Books, cultures of war, special relationships

Torture Lawyers2 comments

yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: If you can read you should read this if you read nothing else this decade. It’s all about how … more →

Tags: iraq, Updated, Conservatives, Afghanistan, moral horror, Ideology, Crime, cultures of war, Torture

Phorm, how do I hack thee? UPDATE: Blogosphere's "Mr Serious" In Disastrous Brainfart1 comment

yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: Let me count the ways. If you think Phorm – the evil advert-spooking system practically all th … more →

Tags: 4GW, Surveillance, Hacker, Internet, moral horror, Privacy, met, censorship, Computer

The Payback1 comment

yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: This is interesting. Jim Bates, an expert witness for the defence in some of the Operation Ore cases … more →

Tags: Surveillance, Hacker, Geekage, home office, raf, moral horror, Privacy, Crime, met

On the African Internet, no-one can hear you scream

yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: When Pakistan Telecom tried to kill the Internet in an effort to stop the public seeing evil things … more →

Tags: Internet, Europe, Computer, Networks, Engineering, Africa

The Gobbles Have It2 comments

yorksranter wrote 1 year ago: I thought it was Felix Salmon who made a very good argument for a carbon dioxide tax rather than a c … more →

Tags: Politics, Class, Economics, Energy

Finance, mainstay of our economy2 comments

yorksranter wrote 2 years ago: According to Felix “Fishy” Salmon, the volume of lending in the London interbank market … more →

Tags: Economics, Europe


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