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Goatse Security actually, but yeah. Him and people from GNAA called it a security firm. Sort of grey hat trolling for hire? I guess it could be considered the template for what got us Cambridge Analytica, Brexit, and Trump. I'm not sure if it's up anymore, but the GNAA public code repo used to be just full of interesting software solutions for mass griefing people.

Here[0] is a DEFCON talk from a GNAA/lulsec affiliate talking about trolling as an art. I think the talk actually has some interesting things going on when looked at through the lens of what weaponized trolling has produced in the now. At one point someone in the audience asks the presenter to read his "funny" slides and it's a racist "joke" comic. He acts embarrassed and says "I don't believe this stuff." He does break down a few of their trolling tools from their repo that they were pretty proud of at the time. So the curious can scope that out if you don't have to browse to any of their official sites or do a risky google. This was before Facebook so it's mostly IRC tools and general troll culture commentary.

They used the ATT dump, knowing it wasn’t really illegal to get hype to sell their services. I think it worked?

Here's a pretty good piece on him with a reporter who followed him around during the first trial. I think it covers a lot of it[1].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHqGV5WjS4w

[1] https://medium.com/matter/the-martyrdom-of-weev-9e72da8a133d

EDIT: DO NOT GOOGLE GNAA or GOATSE AT WORK.…

As someone who purchased a Galaxy S4, I'll _never_ purchase another Google phone. The entire reason I purchased a google phone was to avoid the lack of updates, like I had when I was at the whim of Motorola with my Droid2. I was stuck on 2.3 and never saw an upgrade in the time I owned the phone. I figured that Google would be a better actor and actual push updates, but boy was I in for a wild ride.

When I saw that 5.0 had been pushed, I upgraded, thinking that Google had vetted the release. Instead what I had was wifi that never stayed connected and seg faults ALL over the place in virtually every app that I used on a regular basis, including apps developed by Google (hangouts, photos [which were trapped on the phone unless I wanted to connect external and download them], my SMS app, WeChat, Strava, Kindle ect). They broke my phone, no way around it. It was miserable and I stuck with it, because I paid for a premium device and wasn't about to go blow another $650 on another device. Three weeks ago I got the 5.1 upgrade, just shy of a year after it was released. I'm now a firm believer of the shit phone. https://medium.com/matter/shitphone-a-love-story-a44e66434807

Buyer beware.

This is the same person who just doxxed a journalist who dared write about her negatively [1], and made up a story (quite similar to the current one) about another journalist who wrote about her positively [2].

This person is being assessed for their actions: changing from a far-right racist to a far-left racist/sexist. Their pretending to be a victim was fairly predictable.

1. https://twitter.com/shanley/status/556221414408069123/

2. https://medium.com/matter/speaking-up-every-fucking-time-a61a24aa7629

More on this person: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014/12/10/the-madness-of-queen-shanley/

Edit: from the actual article being posted: "misandry forever". For real.

Elisabeth Spiers (the sympathetic journalist attacked by this person last time) also has a fairly insightful article on the recent revelations: http://www.elizabethspiers.com/on-the-matter-of-weev-vs-kane/

Well, I wrote mismanagement this morning and have spent more time reconsidering the topic since. I'd guess that if people knew then what they know now, they'd do things differently or not do them. Using the word mismanagement is an unfair criticism.

If the coastline changes were significantly caused by climate change/rising sea levels then the other Gulf coast states would have problems too. The link between the control humans have exerted on Louisiana rivers, additional artificial waterways and loss of coastline is fairly well established. If you'd like more information, the below medium work seems a reasonable introduction--I scanned over it and it seems to have the main points, some nice maps, doesn't avoid the problem of sea level changes, and has some human interest stuff:

https://medium.com/matter/louisiana-loses-its-boot-b55b3bd52d1e

> Medium is a blogging platform. The comparison is just plain wrong.

Yes, I'm familiar with the type of work they publish, but I'm talking about those beautiful full-width images they use (https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/215679797-Images), in comparison with the 2-page wide images used in some of the example books. And full-width images have even worked well for longform stories like https://medium.com/matter/who-killed-the-jeff-davis-8-d1b813e13581 ... Just look at those illustrations and consistent color-palette, absolutely beautiful.

> > ... but here on the web you can have ... pages with sections divided however you want.

> Yep, exactly. :-)

The phrase "infinitely long" is important. Without it, it sounds like I'm talking about fixed-size pages, rather than a single page encompassing an entire chapter or even an entire book.

I was hoping I could somehow sap the plant of some or all of its life force to bolster my mother's health. I even knew then it was a bit of quackery, but I was more evenly split between just doing and just thinking. Nowadays, I feel I have strayed to the too much thinking, or 'paralysis by analysis' syndrome.

Years later I read a fringe 'science' book about bioelectricity and limb regeneration. I guess I never kicked the Frankenstein thing (I visited Mary Shelley's grave site in Bournemoth, England in the 80s). It seems to be making a real science comeback. [1]

[Edit] the fringe book I wrote of was 'The Body Electric' mentioned in the article I cited just before.

[1] https://medium.com/matter/could-this-man-hold-the-secret-to-human-regeneration-1e66944f0a8d#.89h4ljiwr